Very informative—and surprising—to hear about "fair trade." I was always skeptical about it, but my friends are always very serious about it and thought I was being very un-PC.

So, are you also denying you know how to kill a man 32 different ways?

You probably don't want to talk about global warming either, I bet.

...or, "can you design a logo for me? I know it'll only take you five minutes."

It's you I have to get over. I shouldn't give trolls the satisfaction.

I love jokes. When they're funny.

Not up to my level or what I expect from them, although it is yours.

As parody and satire, it's not as funny as a lot of the other stuff the Onion does. (I know what the Onion is; I used to read it when it first existed as a newspaper.)

Conflict might arguably be a part of life, but war is not merely another form of conflict; it's the failure to resolve that conflict. Interesting that you mention using simulations to fight war—that was the premise of an old "Star Trek" episode:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/A_Taste_o…

I thought I had read elsewhere (maybe even on io9), that in a conscious departure from the original "Planet of the Apes" movies, the decision was made to not have the apes be clothed. That would pretty much leave just leave markings, like warpaint, for the apes to distinguish and decorate themselves. I thought this…

It isn't controversial, it isn't parody. And it certainly isn't funny.

Lots of swear words is not film criticism. And his self-parody is not entertainment.

These advisors are soulless; they probably don't laugh or even know how to smile. I wouldn't trust their advice.

If flying has advanced so much, and airlines want to save space and weight, why not just use a trained chimp to fly the plane? Or why even have anyone on board? You pilot all the planes from a central remote location, as if the aircraft were drones with passengers on them. Think of all the money you could save.

No. The first pic looks awesome, out of this world. The rest look either like "we're so self-absorbed, we don't care what's going on in the world around us," or "don't we look awesome in the fire we just set/took advantage of?"

Final two seasons of SG-1, opposite Beau Bridges. But that's OK, because you're probably gonna say how you stopped watching by that time anyway.

Lexa Doig makes any show better. From Andromeda to Stargate, her effortlessly understated grace is a pleasure to watch.

Very perceptive.

Sometimes the best ad libs don't use words.

"Nowadays it would be very easy to fake a moon landing, and we seem to have forgotten how to do it for real."