Ah, Duolingo...

I was always a bit annoyed that they don’t feature more prominently throughout, and I never got to see a swarm of the little guys taking down a Hell Knight or two — at least until I cobbled together a basic custom map and staged it up myself. They are truly devastating in numbers.

Scary stuff, but the AHA cautions that the study only points to observational connections between diet drinks and these outcomes, not a causal relationship.

I wonder if China’s latest censorship spree has anything to do this move, given how desperate many a content provider has become to secure that huge advertising market. The irony here being, of course, that the result of Tumblr’s decisions will almost assuredly be very little surviving content to keep users and drive…

I have the first edition, myself, and recommend this tome for anyone with a deep love of the technical and production design of the original trilogy — but a word of warning: it is an archive of various blueprint illustrations, often incomplete and rather sketchy in detail, so don’t expect this to be a comprehensive…

I have the first edition, myself, and recommend this tome for anyone with a deep love of the technical and…

I would think Frosty more of a snow golem. But that “old top hat” — clearly a cursed item with an entrapped souls, yup. 

John McCain was one of the very last hold-overs from the Old School Republicans, and thus, in comparison to what supplanted that respectable instituion, is automatically elevated to a higher standing than his reckless successors.

Much as I enjoyed the article, I have to nitpick about one little detail: the distinctive Rocketeer soundtrack is by James Horner, not Howard Shore. Sadly, like the film itself, the delightful thing has become rather obscure.

Sadly so. Of course, one could argue that the latest SW films do not exist to innovate, just regurgitate — for easy profit.

He might almost be good enough to survive an proper Unreal Tournament match. Maybe. ;)

America will endure. Even in this face of this.

The civilized states would join in an instant, I expect, though that tact does tend to lead to civil war — but then, any firm action to preserve some modicum of progressive decency in the face of this travesty does seem to do that, at the moment...

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”...