Risk involves diplomacy? Not that I've ever witnessed. The closest I've ever seen to it in any game I've either played or watched was goading along the lines of "Oh, my, would you look at (insert threatening situation). You should totally attack him/her."

Did he forge his armor out of a German automobile?

So at all the various Toy Fairs (Germany, UK, and NYC), it was reported (and photographed at NYC, since The LEGO Company wasn't allowing photos at the other two) that the Captain America LEGO set from the upcoming Avengers movie was just Cap on a motorcycle, since the villains weren't even out on display. And about a…

A deep, clangy ring, on the hour, every hour, equal to the number of the hour?

Just waiting for a large, long-legged bird to try to squeeze in the middle...

But isn't that always the way it is? Every species in Australia was fit to survive, except when rabbits and cane toads were introduced, many of them suddenly aren't anymore. Lack of genetic diversity has probably only killed a tiny handful of species over the entire history of Earth, as any species that gets close…

I fail to see how that has any bearing. A cat with toast on its back that lands on the toast is a cat that lands on its back. A cat that has toast on its back that lands on its feet is a cat that lands on its feet. In either case, the cat lands. In only one case, the toast lands. Since the cat prevents the toast…

By "tail", they might be referring to the back half of the body. If you watch slo-mo video or a string of high-speed shots, when a cat is falling with its legs pointed up, it will whip one half of its body around, and then do the same with the other half, such that both sets of legs are pointed downward. Though…

Not Shirley. Shirley can sing.

How does it make me a hypocrite? _I'm_ not reading any specific religious dogma into it. Heck, I've still got four episodes to go at this point, and all I'm expecting out of it is that they'll find a new Earth and a couple of not-humans will have a conversation about inevitability and that whoever they work for…

Because atheist-fundamentalists can't get all in a snit over someone trying to cram God down their throats if it's some other unnamed god or godlike being. And because of that weird quirk of the ancient Hebrew culture where they had a name for their god but refused to actually speak it, anytime you hear someone say…

Worf, son of Mogh, son of Worf, son of Mogh?

If the toast lands butter-side down, the cat lands on its back where the toast isn't covering it. If the cat lands on its feet, the toast never lands, thereby preventing the toast from flipping over to land butter-side down. Theory disproven.

There's a bit over a 58% chance that it'll land right-side-up.

"...they should have survived." The fact that they didn't begs to differ. If they were unable to survive on the mainland until the point where this pocket population died out, we can take that to mean they weren't fit to survive on the mainland at the point where they died out, or they should have been able to…

Must be related to the phenomena that results in always blaming PTEN's demise for the "premature" ending of Babylon 5's Shadow War, when in fact PTEN didn't fold until well into the 4th season, long after they had broadcast the conclusion of the Shadow War and moved on to the next part of the story. If it _had_ been…

My secret ending to A.I. is the one where the audience realizes there's absolutely nothing "happy" about the idea of being given one last chance to be with the one person you actually cared about, and then consign yourself to the idea of subsisting for however long those super-advanced robots can keep you properly…

It's not a tumor!

It was _adopted_ by most media outlets, because it saved a crapton of time over developing their own stylebooks, and it suited their needs just as well as it did the AP's. You see this sort of thing in OSHA rules all the time, where they refer to various other organizations' definitions because then they don't have…

In my Complete & Unabridged hardcover of the entire trilogy (all five books and the short story), Adams' introduction clearly states that, "(He) wrote a fourth and last book in the trilogy, 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'."