Oh the affirmative action attack is strong, I remember my roomates using that to try to get me to shut up. As if! Ooh the rage on their faces when I told them about all the academic merit scholarships I had was priceless.

Why do people think affirmative action means “just hire a minority”? You must be qualified also! They don’t accept you with sub par grades or requirements. And these people also fail to realize is that question their skills or intelligence is one of the reasons that we have affirmative action in the first place.

Somewhere down the line it became the rule that “Lois + Dead = Superman Go Crazy.” It makes no sense given he’d already proven twice that were that to happen he’d keep it together in her honor, staying the man she loved.

There’s definitely a subtle note of sadness. He’s not super choked up but you can definitely hear a little regret in his tone. And you know he probably doesn’t want to get emotional in front of his grandkids and on camera.

MS sold Asheron’s Call to Turbine, the studio that developed the game, years ago. The problem is WB turned Turbine into a Mobile game studio and is selling off the other MMOs they created while shuttering AC.

“It’s stories like his that punctuate the ephemeral nature of the virtual worlds we play in. No matter how strong the bonds we form or how much time we invest, eventually the servers are going to go down. All we’ll have left is our memories and, if we’re lucky, the friends we made along the way.”

I had an online friend…

:(

Plus, in Nova #2, Richard Rider finally meets the Champions and it’s hilarious.