I feel like the pregnancy plot is there to give Jamie a reason to stick around and not betray Cersei just yet. You could see him yo-yo back to her when she mentioned it, and then away again when she showed her crazy. It keeps him waffling between being repulsed by how insane and bloodthirsty she’s become and how…

I can’t see a way that Gendry survives that mission though. A Baratheon heir is too big a loose end for the show, and they have to take casualties or the setup is weak. I feel like there’s even odds the wight they bring back south ends up being Jorah, and the only character that seems certain to survive is Jon. As…

Okay, so he’s not the most unreasonably powerful telekinetic in the modern EU, he’s just the most unreasonably powerful mind-controller in the modern EU.

I dunno. I think it’s entirely possible that that mask isn’t as easily removed and reset in real life as it is in the movie. I don’t have any doubt that there’s a lot of touch-ups that were done to get a random photo up to the on-screen quality though.

As best I understand it, a lot of those places that ban special characters do so because their database or UX software can’t tell when you’re using then in an input from when you’re using them in code as an escape. So basically they need to sanitize inputs or get better architecture. Likely both.

What you’re describing is the tension between more security and more usability. A good password manager has methods and tools to make sure that the “single point of failure” is orders of magnitude harder to crack than most passwords; that’s literally the lifeblood and sole product of these companies. Furthermore,…

If you listen to Burke’s introduction of Gorman, it seems very clear that he’s personally selected an undermanned unit led by a green Lieutenant on purpose; anyone more senior or experienced would be harder to control, and a larger team would mean more oversight and require a more senior officer. It’s possible that…

Gorman’s grenade causes Newt to fall into the sewer, but it also gives Ripley and Hicks time to not only escape the oncoming swarm, but find Newt again and nearly rescue her. It’s not a clear negative, because without that blast and the swarm retreating, it’s not certain at all that the three of them could have…

To be honest, in this fantasy land where horses will charge through twenty foot flames, burning a hole in the center of the enemy’s line isn’t a terrible shock weapon, especially if you aren’t dramatically faster than the cavalry you’ve presumably been escorting. She switches to enfilading fire on her second or third…

That’s not a railgun, it’s a coilgun. A railgun uses the Lorentz force to throw a conducting shuttle down a pair of superconducting rails. That completed circuit is critical to meeting the definition of a railgun, so suspending liquid metal would require some manner of coupling to the rails, which would expend an…

The plot armor of needing to kill Cersei later due to prophecy? Could be a red herring for sure, but surviving getting dropped in a lake that’s at least 30ft deep while wearing plate armor is a surefire recipe for death. It’d be damn hard to even rescue someone from that if you wanted to.

I found Rihanna was one of the better parts of the movie, acting wise. That is decidedly not saying much though.

Sadly, it doesn’t reach anywhere near the level of Fifth Element in terms of compelling performances. The plot is whatever and the cast is mostly generic, and the dialog is really stilted. The visuals are some of the best ever, but that’s pretty much all it has going for it.

Its creative success reveals a truth: That the most successful Japanese role-playing games succeed because they embrace strangeness.

You should definitely check out Promethea then. It’s even more of Alan Moore’s grand insanity, and it’s wonderful for it.

Possibly the curse of a former TV lead?

Absolutely. That’s most of why it’s not crazy for them to not want to throw a billion dollars at a project without a predictable pattern of success. Finding those patterns is inherently super difficult, and I think a lot of times what they latch onto is wrongheaded (see: DCU) but betting that much money on something…

Groot doesn’t have human skin.