To quote Martin Niemöller —

The tragic part is seeing Trump’s loyalists blithely electing the very same kind of abusive, self-serving elitist sort who has exploited them — and kept them poor and disenfranchised — in the past, and knowing it follows the trend that has launched so many doomed movements and elevated so many terrible leaders across…

Hitler? You give Trump too much credit.

A sign of a truly excellent scam is that the victims fleece themselves with enthusiasm, and all the better still if it exploits their baser instincts to overwhelm any inconvenient doubts or questions.... but that does not exactly aid any ethical arguments for doing so in the first place.

And current computers in movies don’t? I suppose it will be more obvious in couple decades... ;)

And they even brought Donny! ;D

He has donned a Red Shirt — I suppose whatever doesn’t kill him might make him stronger, and he’s going to facing a lot of attempted redshirticide this way...

Alternately titled: “How To Look Cool Before Being Hacked To Bits By Even The Most Novice Swardsman”...

I expect Bruce will descend back into the darkeness eventually, probably as a result of a fresh, devastating, life-shattering tragedy, just as before. The present departure is just a set-up to make the fall sufficiently meaningful.

So — Warcraft or Space Marine? ;3

Loosen up, Red 3! If you clip another wingmate, we demoting you to cleaning Admiral Akbar’s private toilet!

I encountered a aerospace engineer’s theory not too long ago that the Buran program was doomed by its expense versus the (relatively) cut-rate US orbiter system. According to this theory — which was based upon the by-then available specs of the spaceraft — even had the Soviet Union not crumbled, Buran would likely…

This really takes me back — reminds me of all the crazy tricks we used to do to get warthogs where they weren’t supposed to go in Halo CE. You haven’t truly played good old “The Silent Cartographer” until you take one all the way to the bottom. ;D

On of the tests I use is to see how long an open position has been, or will be, listed as open. All too often, there are listings I encounter that appear to posted purely due to legal obligation and vanish after the absolute minimal required interval: too short for anyone to actual apply or an applicant review to be…

A controversial ship named "America" that is fundamentally flawed despite being purpose-built and requiring costly improvements just to work as intended while facing doubts if it is worth all the effort at all? Somehow, this seems a rather apt metaphor for something... ;3

I was going to say that these sorts of dumb cash-in cross-overs of incompatible franchises effectively degrades and demeans all involved...

There is little “gorgeous” about the uninspired production Covette presently available: a bland mismash of geezer-pleaser “classic” elements and the worst stylistic carry-overs from the 80s. This Stingray was jsut too radically progressive for the staid Vette purists whose weighty opinion holds the whole line in…

God, but this is meldramatic twaddle — like something out of an 8th-grader’s notebook-margin fan-fic. How far Halo has fallen...

Amazing that a "best versus worst" list could be compiled before this stupid day is even actually over. I suppose that may construe a prank unto itself...

All I can say is : "Yup, that pretty much sums it up".