@Mark 2000: agreed. I'm a product designer. You can always tell the old timers in my job . They're the one's who look confused when I walk into the room dressed to the nines and remove my fitted tweed sportcoat and rolled up my tailored shirt's sleeves to reveal an arm covered in tattoos.

@max: well done sir!

@Captain_Tripps: good answer and really the only reason necessary for something to be on io9 IMHO.

Where is that WWII crit you mentioned. I googled it but only got back to here.

@FrankN.Stein: IDK. While I was never a fan of Dawn and understood fully why she joined the show, I thought the way she was written in was probably the most clever execution of that particular trope. Granted I haven't seen the afforementioned supernatural ep yet.

@hurbieta: didn't they also paint that thing with thermite?

@java.android: ROFL...and I have to toss mine over my shoulder when I take a shit.

@all oiled up: How am I supposed to know that? He/She/it (what is the correct pronoun for a Thai ladyboy anyway?) won't be born for atleast another 15 years.

live to 100. Fuck that! My 401K is down 20% from last year. At this rate I can barely afford to live to 70.

@Chris Braak: I have a fascination with people who's last name is Rambo. I stand around expecting them to suddenly shoot down a Hind or machete a guy in half, but they always turn out be like accountants or editors...

@uptonogood: Well, thats not really what I said. What I was trying to get at is that where it goes from not bad to really good I think, is when it becomes more about the larger narrative (S2). The standalone season 1 episodes are Ok, but you can't really just skip them because they're the foundation of the rest of…

@Cash907Censored: You have to make it though the first season before you can get it. The entire first season is mostly standalone episodes. S2 & 3 is where it really shines, but if you try to start in the middle it won't make much sense to you..

Man, I love Octavia Butler, but Kindred for beach reading?

@EnderKiller: super strong vampire remember? I'm sure his erection can just rip through the front of his pants.

@TheFirstBardo: Is that the secret?

@nachtwulf: "a Trekkie never called an enmass beat down on a non-Trekkie"

@mordicai: I thought the justification for war against the Iridians was that if someone didn't oppose them they would just keep exapanding. If I remember correctly The Culture could have just ignored the Iridians because the Iridian mentatality was to occupy planets, whereas The Culture don't even use planets, they…

@Ett: Consider Phlebas to me is the least Culture of the Culture books, probably because the main character is pretty atagonistic towards The Culture.

@Ash (Not From Pallet Town): Just go ahead and add some kind of architectural clitoris and they've got my vote.

@aquajaws: No San Francisco love?