And wasn’t the Winter Soldier very overtly spy genre?

Call me crazy, but the CW shows just feel too compartmentalized (by camp, low-budgets, crappy wardrobe, not-great acting in general) from films for them to seriously be roped into that bigger realm. Hell, even the the Netflix-run Marvel shows (with way more resources and talent clout) were at best tangentially related…

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr...or Dune, I suppose.

To be clear, it’s a good look. And also, you look like you. I shouldn’t reduce you to a lookalike...I’m a John Reynolds fan, if that counts for anything.

Looks like Kevin has put some thought/energy into being a John Reynolds doppelganger...haircut, mustache, glasses frames...it’s a match.

Great piece, thanks for writing. In my own D&D group we’ve talked about how the word “race” is flawed, though we avoided “species” as well, since it lent real-world scientific categorization to an other-worldly fantasy game. We landed on using “creature type” in lieu of race in that particular discussion.

Hahahaha thank you. You just nailed this and it made me smile and giggle. Spot on.

Ask any soil scientist and they’ll tell you that the soil is both an organism (in a sense) and an ecosystem. Regolith is basically razor sharp dirt (“soil” minus erosion action, life and nutrient cycles). Once it’s got living microbes, mycorrhizal (fungal) networks for nutrient exchange and other organic matter, it’ll…

Fair, fair. This makes logical sense to me, well-said. Out of morale obligation, I must now adjust my point of view to align with your on this particular point. :P

Gross, sad, and heartbreaking. I am so discouraged by the intolerance and hatred of conservative privileged, ignorant turds. I’m saddened even more by the marginalized and impoverished ones who are lacking other-exposure and/or education, or are too bubble-packed to learn and grow. The south is f’d up. Actually, who…

I’m with Lord Burleigh on this one. The book is the source material. Things are based on source.

Personal/nostalgic/biased: Mark Hamill’s Joker 4EVURRRRRR

Just, no. Laced weed, underlying mental illness, other addiction-related stressors or effects, chronic or acute causes/contributors to high stress/anxiety might all lead to something like this while getting super f’d up on a lot of drugs (for a tiny portion of humans). Just getting really baked? I call correlation,…

Dang, got me there, then. 

Perhaps the Neptune comparison is for mass, not size/diameter. For instance, our moon is about a quarter the size of Earth, but it’s mass is only about 1.2% of Earth’s mass.

Ughhhhh, I’m sorry in advance for “well, actually”ing you...But it’s Fremen, not Freman. This is Dune we’re talking about! I’m sorry, it’s just...I know. I’m sorry.

Super happy you asked/offered this :)

I’ve seen most of these, enjoyed them. Queen of Black Magic was a great, tasteful update to a 70's (I think) classic. Tigers are not afraid is more a coming of age drama/modern fantasy, definitely not horror. Not that it doesn’t belong on Shudder (I love the scope and range of the service). I agree with Andy Synn’s…

“PC load letter”? WTF does that mean?

This is a good example of the scientific credo: “correlation is not causation”. The acknowledgement “With our cross-sectional analyses, we can only speculate that these findings may be related to an unknown consequence of repeated cannabis exposure alone or may be a reflection of other underlying sociodemographic or…