Does it count if it's a non-surprise flop? I mean, is anyone outside of the studio expecting "the purge: anarchy" to do well?

I was about to post exactly that. What the heck is up with the lack of Pern dragons? They even come in several sizes, iirc.

If there's an overlap between folks who worked on her optioned novel and people who may have seen other stuff she wrote related to it after publication, and the people who worked on the movie, I think she's probably got a good case. It's a closer link than "Terminator" and "Demon with a Glass Hand", for instance.…

I'm only sort of concerned about climate change - between us fucking up the oceans with trash and overfishing and such, plus antibiotic resistant diseases, I figure we'll be completely fucked before the climate change gets too out of hand.

I thought HL2:E2 was a little weaker in spots than HL2 or HL2E1 (but better than the original HL). It felt like there were a few too many "monster hallways" and the final battle was a little too difficult for the lower difficulty levels. Still a good time, though. But I don't find myself going back to it as much as…

I've spent so much time playing Half Life games over the years. Also, now, Portal games.

It was probably just sick/old. (I like the other possibilities better, but that's the boring likely-true answer.)

9F/-13C is positively tropical compared to space, though. Is it still *producing* heat or is it static from a nuclear standpoint and just radiating old heat, now?

Not just slaves. There have been pushes in the 20th century to lower the education requirements for, eg, children of immigrant field hands. (Source: "A Different Mirror" by Ron Takaki)

... whaaaaat? I do not think this is measuring what I would expect it to measure, because these results would seem to be kind of ... uh... orthagonal to my expectations. But perhaps I'm living in nerd hell and don't know it?

I have seen "Sleep Dealer" and it is very good!

That makes a lot of sense. And I suspect if you're ending up with a culture of "oh, okay, we can break this rule" you end up diluting the effect of other policies and introducing some fuzziness and "well, i'll tell on you if you tell on me" brouhaha.

Yeah, it's like a couple of episodes into season 1 they decided that - fuck it - they're gonna do an art show disguised as a crime procedural.

Those are both my favorites, but I'll take Bad Blood over Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' because it does a great job of mocking both agents in turn. Humbug is a close third for funniest ep.

I love the ears on that front-most cow. Something about the expression is just amusing.

I would love to see people try to bring back the heath hen ( wikipedia article ). It's close enough to still-living species.

I love that narrow band showing where I-90 is in South Dakota. And you can see some state boundaries in the census blocks - the northern borders of New Mexico and maybe Arizona, I think, and also North Dakota is quite clearly outlined.

I think 90% of Canada's population lives within something like 100 or 150 km of the border with the US.

Looks like we went with a similar kind of design for PAVE PAWS.

HHGTTG, when an entire battle fleet was eaten by a small dog.