Didn't do much in the way of pop culture this weekend. I did spend Saturday in a marathon session of Dead Space 2, but I didn't really enjoy it as much as the first one. The gameplay basics were still mostly the same as the first game (save for the fact that when I first accessed a store at the beginning of the game I…

You're thinking of Apollo 13. Apollo 18 had Guy You've Never Heard Of, Other Guy You've Never Heard Of, and Guy Who Looks Like That Guy That Was In The Thing Or Maybe Not I Dunno.

Can I be the guy that reads the minutes of the previous meetings? I'd ask to be treasurer, but I'm no good with money.

Apollo 18 would've been much improved by beauty pageant winners, methinks.

I never came to a decision regarding the nature of Curtis' visions. Even though I don't entirely believe they were "real", I do like that interpretation, as it reformulates the movie as an exploration of the loneliness of a Cassandra figure.

Professor, would you say it's time for our readers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

Don't bother with that garbage, @avclub-d009e8b6ce98ad61a7b7a69cd1ad10d9:disqus . Sure, it's the new hot-shit piece of technology and Cory Doctorow raves about them all the time, but all they are is $2000 out of your paycheck, a three-day hospital stay for the installation, and about a 40% chance of contracting…

No sale, Sam-I-Am.

Okay, this confirms it, @avclub-df80f70f60b1c678f8c91696f4a54f5f:disqus is really Michel Houellebecq.

According to Memory Alpha, the Dominion was uninvolved in the Ennis/Nol-Ennis situation, but their fate sounds like exactly the sort of Old Testament justice the Dominion likes to mete out to people that piss them off. Hell, there's a later episode the Dominion dealt with by infecting the populace with CancerAIDS.

Wait, the guy who can go from vague uncertainty to full-blown phobia to crippling neurosis in 24 hours as the Storyteller? Oh god.

Immortality is one of the side-effects of being one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

(VAGUELY SPOILY IN A THEMATIC SENSE AND IN A LITERAL SENSE)

On Sunday I finally got around to playing Dead Space, which I bought along with the sequel for only 10 bucks on Steam a few weeks ago. Took me a few minutes to get used to the over-the-shoulder third-person perspective and the limited mobility, but once I got the hang of it the game turned out to be a lot of fun.

I, for one, am looking forward to The New Adventures of Sad Boy.

I'm nested in the…wait, you're planning on hosing me down with Raid, aren't you? Almost had me there.

Question guys: I am actually a hive consciousness made up of dozens of individual spiders that have infested and interfaced with a computer in a UPS office in Duluth. What should I put down for my age? As near as I can tell, my mind has existed since at least 1780 (I didn't really leave the burrow much before then, so…

You know, speaking as someone who's a pretty solid geek but has never been seriously part of any fandom, I sometimes find the idea of a whole bunch of people getting together to create these massive satirical alternate versions of franchises entirely based off a one-off reference to be simultaneously astounding and…

It is a puzzler, no doubt about it. I think it's safe to assume that, thanks to the simple fact of time, network demands, and whatever random ideas Lynch and the writers came up with, it would probably only have resembled the movie in broad outline. I've always kind of felt when Lynch turned Mulholland Drive into a…

Um…"Bieber Slashes Four, Dies In Cocaine Brawl", perhaps?