I read it. I devoured it, much like I did with anything anyone involved said in the run-up to the launch of vanilla Beyond Earth and Civ V Brave New World (vanilla Civ V didn’t really jazz me until after Gods & Kings so I wasn’t quite as excited for that one until it got really close to launch).

No. Bad Moffat. Bad.

Like, it’s gone beyond saving the universe, right? I mean, I think it has. I assume “all space and time” is a higher stake than simply “the universe”, right? It sounds like a higher stake.

It’s much easier to understand a small kitten in danger than the universe.

If the history of adding poison to alcohol as a deterrent to drinking it is at all interesting to you, I highly recommend Deborah Bluhm’s The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. It’s a positively fascinating look at the earliest days of using science to successfully aid…

It’s especially disconcerting when we stop to recall the optimism and somewhat satirical elements of the serieses while Gene was in charge, from fighting racism to railing against the Cold War, and then stop and consider Pegg’s very cogent points about these big dumb spectacle features serving to distract from current…

Beyond Earth just got its first expansion announced!

He may, but the people who have the power of the purse on that project probably won’t let any of that make the final cut:

That’s fine. I didn’t have any plans in the fall anyway. Or… well, a $30 expansion is way cheaper than a Trans-Atlantic plane ticket for my cousin’s wedding.

This graph from xkcd is the reason I bought KSP. I haven’t really spent nearly enough time with the game to have gleaned any real understanding of orbital mechanics yet…

Yeah, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to change it or just quote accurately. I opted for accuracy (though it just now occurred to me that the better fix would be “just to be the man who’ll walk a thousand miles to drop rings in Mordor.”

I really don’t get the impression that we’re meant to believe that Littlefinger expects Roose to be an ally. At his dumbest, he expects to be able to play Roose, not to be able to trust him. Hence, selling him out. He’s essentially just pitted House Bolton against House Lannister (although, rather a long way off given…

Sad, but probably true. Also, I believe the phrase you’re looking for is man-child, the plural of which, I’m not entirely sure of. If you have more than one man-child, are they “man-children”, “men-children”, “men-child”. “men-childs”?

If his math is accurate, it’s more like a third of the way through the second refrain: “But I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks a thousand miles just to fall down at your door.”

Maybe they’re just that hungry that they make sure to lap up every little drop of blood like some sort of six-foot kitten. Or they cut the cow free and hunt it around their tiny little enclosure for a little bit.

I know, it’s like, can’t you at least product place something that looks like it could have driven to that setting rather than something that probably had to be dropped in there by a crane…

Hey, screw you, Ian Malcolm. My plastic Jurassic Park lunchbox was awesome!

It would have been dark and fairly brutal and quite gory and just f**king epic....

Given the source material and what I saw in the trailer, I would have been much more okay with this being a six-and-a-half minute trailer than I was with that length for the Supergirl Rom-com trailer. I’m so ready to see everything in that trailer expanded from the half-second jump-cuts we got of all the magic effects…

As I understand it, though, a big part of why the residential use annoys so many people suffering from the drought (speaking from very far away where I’m getting rained or snowed on pretty much every day) compared to the agricultural use is that the agricultural use, in theory, contributes something to the economy.…