Nope. You act as if the “body of science” that an SF story relies on is as known or knowable to every reader and thus doesn’t need to be explained, built. Not true.

No. Not really. Some science fiction relies on just 2 minutes in the future science or technology. A ton of it relies on Speculative extrapolation or takes place in such far away places or so far in the future that the author still needs to do world building. It’s of a different nature, yes. And requires some…

Her work. Hiromu Arakawa is a woman.

I love to bring the salt out of the grays from time to time.

Rape is some serious shit. I wouldn’t make the joke “lol, he’s going to get raped.”

“I’d rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day .”

...but the majority of pre-modern “priceless artifacts” are artifacts of religious cultures, so if religion categorically “fucking sucks,” it looks like ISIS is doing you a favor!

The best way to understand where ISIS came from and why it exists is this Der Spiegel article.

except that run was awesome, interesting. Bucky was arguable a better Captain America. there was no reason to bring Steve Rogers back but they did as soon as the Movie $$$ made it relevant.

It says: “I don’t care about basketball, but am watching the playoffs just because I like Harden.”

Unfortunately, the part of basketball he forgot was “how to win basketball games without having the best players on your team”.

Tony Allen is First Team All-Defense on both ends of the floor.

the Grizzlies had the 23rd best three-point shooting percentage in the league this year, and the 29th three-point attempt rate

Uh, The Wire??

And of course...

I point you to ODY-C. A genderbent, psychedeliclly-colored scifi comic.

“Funny but too nice all the time.”

The successful raptors stretch of the early season was based on spreading the ball and hitting jumpshots that were coming from a lot of different capable players. This led to a crazy offensive efficiency (Dallas and Toronto were at historic paces as late as January). When Derozan went down with the groin injury, Lowry…

If you want to get technical...this is the Joker.

“YEAH! THE WAY I HAD IT WHEN I WAS A KID IS THE ONLY WAY EVER, BECAUSE F*** CREATIVITY!”