She has personality. Even if it’s a deeply flawed personality - space racist and all - at least she has one. That’s why.

My only problem with this so far is that hyperdrive is not a recent invention in the Star Wars universe. Like, not even a little bit. Even from what little we know about the new canon. So... this town has survived for tens of thousands of years after hyperdrive was invented? And after all these countless millennia…

The requirement is that your car be no more than 10 years old and in good working order and cosmetic shape at the time you apply. So if you were to apply today, your car would need to be no older than a 2007 model.

Considering the conversation happening right now, in this comment and in others, the agreement is clearly not so wide. There is absolutely no consensus, and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous. Though you are of course certainly welcome to your definition.

No. Star Wars is most definitely science fiction. There’s no hard definition for science fiction, but one of the most commonly identified traits of science fiction are futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Star Wars has…

Team Fortress 2.

Not really, no. He’s a fairly major character in the books as well. He is more “minor” in the books simply because he hasn’t murdered his father and taken over Winterfell for himself yet, but that’s a matter of the show outpacing the books rather than him being a lesser character.

It doesn’t take any sort of scientific literacy to figure that out. You can see it happen with any common liquid; you can know that it will happen without having the faintest clue as to why. Any character who has ever steeped tea or added honey to a liquid would have an idea that this is something that can happen.…

Two things.

First: this article, and my original comment you’re replying to, is 2.5 years old.

Second: in my replies to responses to my original comment, I clarified that although I’ve never played a 4e game - as in, a full campaign - I HAVE played starter scenarios, multi-session dungeon runs, and drop-in games. I…

...I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or if you’re being serious.

If the latter... what? You can make that much by being a CEO of a medium-sized corporation, not some mega-corp. Or just by getting lucky with investments. Or a combination of both. $2 million is a lot of money, but it’s not “the only way you could…

Well, he has an internet connection. Everything you need to know to hack you can learn online. It’s mainly just knowing the ins and outs of code and how to manipulate it - and basically every language has online courses for it, usually free (always free if you’re a marginally competent pirate and can torrent coding…

No. They’re not using your internet; they’re using your hardware to connect to a separate service. It’s not even the same service - it’s much slower. Point being, though, that the public access point is separate in every way, including assigning its own IP addresses.

The Comcast wifi sharing is completely separated from your internet. Yes, they’d connect to your router... but they’d be be assigned a different IP address. They’re not sharing your personal connection.

“Even for GoT?” I dunno, I think sibling sex is considerably worse than aunt-nephew sex. Pretty certain it still wouldn’t clear the Jaime/Cersei bar.

For what it’s worth, I’m pretty certain the pile driving from io9 users isn’t because they don’t think you haven’t learned your lesson or something, but mainly because Kinja is fucking terrible and I for one couldn’t see that you had responded to anyone... until you replied to mine and I saw that you had replied…

...were you expecting something else from an episode openly and publicly titled “The Winds of Winter”? And if so, what were you expecting?

The longest someone went without sleep was six months before dying, and this was due to them having a disorder called fatal familial insomnia. (Dude’s name is Michael Corke, if you’re curious.) They’re still not sure what exactly was the ultimate cause of death, as FFI has several complications attached to it, but…

Also, after a certain point without sleep, you just flat-out die. So this show has a hard-coded terminus, at least if they keep that element.

Well, you certainly could in HoI2 and HoI3. I don’t know if that functionality exists right now, either through official converters or mods, but I suspect it will in the future.

Well, no, not precisely. It’s not specifically set up as an alt history game. It just can easily go that direction. Just like any other grand strategy Paradox game.