I’ll give them this much, having the MacGuffin be some sort of time machine allows the villains to be Nazis without trying to explain how older Indy is still fighting them: they’re Neo-Nazis who want to use the device to travel back in time and allow Hitler to win.

Car Wars isn’t a tabletop roleplaying game, it’s a wargame. Linda Codega exclusively writes about tabletop roleplaying games. When you see the “Games” tag on an io9 article, it’s either a video game or a Linda Codega article about tabletop roleplaying games. I don’t even have a problem with tabletop roleplaying games,…

That’s the thing, unless there’s something very weird going on, this graphic novel isn’t new at all, it’s been available for nearly three years. It’s possible this is actually about Volume 2 getting released, or something else in the same setting (there’s already an audio drama in the same universe as Volume 1 of the…

Is this the same or different from the edition published in limited release on August 17, 2020 and wide release on May 18, 2021?

And “the one I am supposed to kill I will instead protect with my life” (which is what the trailer suggests happens here) feels very familiar to me, though to be fair I cannot place another example off the top of my head.

I would bet that both Blue Origin and SpaceX have winches in their designs, but winches have downsides too: if you’re not offset from the vehicle you can bang into it, and it can be awkward to clip yourself in and then unclip yourself at the end. Plus the winch motor is potentially another thing which could fail…

Because then you don’t need Orion and could just have crew go up and down in Crew Dragon.

Actually, Blue Origin’s plan very explicitly did not include an elevator, and expects astronauts to climb a 32-foot ladder in spacesuits. I think there may be a winch system (can’t recall if it’s automated or manual), but it’s a far cry from SpaceX’s actual literal elevator (which presumably has a winch system for…

I agree that 8-12 is realistic, but if one fails to launch they don’t need to start over, they just need to have an extra launch which they otherwise didn’t think they’d need. Sure, this imposes a slight increase in program cost, since they need to have an extra Tanker lying around ready to launch which isn’t needed…

The order of launches you suggest is wrong: first the [DELETED] (read: depot) will launch, then over a period of around six months (one launch every 12 days) another 14 Tankers will fly up, refuel the [DELETED], and then land, and only once the [DELETED] is full will the actual HLS launch, get refueled off the…

The one you can get other people to play with you. Which means D&D or maybe Pathfinder.

The one you can get other people to play with you. Which means D&D or maybe Pathfinder.

This is worse than the time-traveling fetus theory.

*ancestral castle

I was referencing this:

Would you fight side-by-side with an orc?

Honestly, I wouldn’t even consider the Satanic Temple to actually be Satanists. They’re more humanists who protest Christian violations of the separation of church and state by saying “if the government is allowed to support Christianity directly, it has to also support something called the ‘Satanic Temple.’”…

You say that like villains can’t also be charming. To quote the original website promoting this theory:

To be honest, they’re better than both College Humor and The Onion these days...but yes, that’s the model they’re following.

So you think for everyone other than Harry, the hat is predicting what their future will be and is placing them into a House based on that? As I mentioned previously, future-predicting magic doesn’t seem nearly reliable or commonplace enough in the Harry Potter universe for that to be likely, especially when “just…

There’s no reason to think that Harry Potter magic works like that, no. The only future-related stuff we see is prophecies, and those are rare and treasured: if it was as easy as using an artifact which can reliably predict what will happen 15 years in the future, for dozens of students in one sitting, why would…