I remain completely convinced that this movie only exists because Shatner thought up the “what does God need with a starship?” line and tried his best to develop a film around it. As it stands, it’s a far more clever line than the movie deserves.

Pretty sure that Red Dwarf wound up using a similar plot. Although, in that version, it was a time traveling future JFK who shot his younger self from the grassy knoll. Sadly, this all happened before Lister could ask him if he knew of any good curry joints in Dallas.

Eh. I understand liking the gameplay, or the style, as I’m roughly the same age as Optimus_Mike and I do feel nostalgia for the era. But the actual graphics? Unlike the the sprites of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, which have a certain minimalistic, stylized charm even to this day, the low-polygon, blocky graphics of the…

For the sake of pedantry, it’s unlikely that very many people had the 49 star flag beaten into their heads in the first place, since it was only in use for 1 year, and it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that once we added Alaska we’d also be adding Hawaii in short order.

The recent Fire Emblem games have classic/casual mode, yes, but they also have more traditional difficulty levels that govern the challenge of battles. You can mix and match the two as you please, so that you’re playing casual mode on the hardest difficulty, or classic mode on the easiest, etc.

He’s been building to this since the moment we’ve seen him. He DOES need someone watching over him.

The thing is, let’s assume that the Avengers had already been under international oversight during the events of Age of Ultron. What would have changed? Would Tony still have created Ultron? Well, it doesn’t really seem like the Sokovia Accords would have prevented him from doing so. Having been created, Ultron would…

More to the point, when Tony is first talking to Peter, it’s clear that Tony doesn’t know the extent of Peter’s abilities. He assumes, for instance, that his wall-crawling is a product of his suit, and doesn’t suspect anything about his heightened senses.

I agree with you, but I would argue that War Machine was doing more than just following orders. He had the best argument in favor of the accords at the beginning of the movie, and he restates his belief that they were the right thing to do when he’s talking to Tony at the end. Frankly, he’d have been a much better…

No, I thought it was rubbish. Rubbish with a very nice theme song, mind you, but rubbish nonetheless. I liked the 90's Spider-Man cartoon, but the X-Men one had all the flaws (boring character design, stiff, lifeless animation, highly variable voice acting), and none of the redeeming characteristics, like semi-decent…

I’m okay with this. Hopefully the movie version doesn’t end with such an abrupt whimper. The comic ending was clearly rushed when Mark Waid realized he didn’t have the time to devote to it any longer.

It’s not that they can’t ever let anyone use the mark, even with permission. It’s that if they just hand out permission to anyone and everyone, it calls into question why they’d be wasting everyone’s time trying to claim an exclusive right to the mark in the first place.

It’s not that simple with trademarks. Copyright, sure, they can issue a blanket license to any and all comers. It’s their call. But trademarks need to be protected against genericization. If they just allowed anyone to use the mark, even with all the proper paperwork, that would indicate to the courts that they’re not…

It doesn’t really matter if you buy it or not. Legally, trademarks must be defended. You can’t wait until the mark is on the verge of becoming genericized: if you’re aware of a violation, it needs to be addressed or it can (and most likely will) be dredged up down the line and used against you when you are trying to…

Wasteland 2 was developed by inXile, which was founded by Brian Fargo after leaving Interplay. Over the years, he’s bought back the rights to many early Interplay games from EA, including both Wasteland and The Bard’s Tale. EA doesn’t have anything to do with it anymore.

The Dark Knight, while it has its detractors, is a film that works because it’s a film that examines Batman’s no-killing rule... and for most of the film, he doesn’t break it.

Well, you’re right (and probably far better versed in this than I am: seriously, I’m learning a lot from your comments to this article), but I didn’t actually mean to equate cosmic inflation with the Twin Paradox, just to point out that there are multiple ways in which the speed of light can seemingly (but not really)…

Well, sure. But so is cryogenics and suspended animation. If it were easy to get to other planets, we’d already have done so, right? :-)

Mm, yes and no. Expansion isn’t travel in the sense we mean when talking about the speed of light, so it doesn’t apply in the way people think it does. The same thing applies to Alcubierre drives and other supposed means of “FTL” travel.

You said this much better and more concisely than I did. Kudos!