Nobody ever talks about supervillian fatigue.... <sobs into pillow>
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Read about the Sepoy Mutiny, the Raj was anything but boring. Just because the colonizers had English accents and high tea, doesn’t mean is wasn’t chock full of horrible behavior. A sociopath could find plenty to entertain themselves in a consequence-free colonial society.
Symbiosis is usually used as the most generic case of ecological relationships. Mutualism = both parties benefit, Commensalism one benefits, one neutral Parasitism = one benefits and one has a cost..
i work with a ton of evolutionary ecologists (and am married to one) and everyone I’ve ever talked to about symbiosis pronounces it “sim-BYE-aught-ic.”
The correct answer is nobody, nobody can replace Ernest Borgnine.
Gee, the only jungle on earth without vines everywhere.
Hey, anything that shows off what huge idiots the monkeyboys are, am I right? By the way, are we still doing that thing with Tom Cruise over at Xenu’s next Thursday?
The problem wasn’t so much “Denise Richards as a physicist” as “woman scientist wearing hot pants for field work”. Pretty people can be smart, but smart people tend to wear appropriate clothing for the job. Short shorts do not seem like a reasonable choice for crawling around a nuclear weapons site in a desert.
The author of the Culture books try to do this a bit without painting himself into a corner. The Player of Games spends considerable time explaining what the Culture’s regular people do for fun.
Living in a post-scarcity utopia apparently leads to garbage art / pop culture. The crew on the TOS enterprise spent their spare time playing cards and 3D chess in the world’s most utilitarian lounge. By TNG, they’d upgraded to a fern bar.
Exactly, pulp culture references is service to the story or character development is no crime. I think an excellent example is The Venture Brothers where the weird references to 70s, 80s, and 90s pop culture underscore how out-of-date our protagonists are. Everybody in that world is living in the past to varying…
Hey now, there are plenty of places where Trump is just another jackass. No reason to kill everyone.
As I get older, a nice custom clone body like in the Altered Carbon series sounds better and better. Or even a full cybernetic body as in Ghost in the Shell. Basically any body that isn’t slowly falling apart.
The Assembly Gates and Transfer Gates in Glasshouse by Charlie Stross. The A Gates are basically molecular 3D printers that can make anyting. The T Gates are wormhole doors, step through one and you could be anywhere. Throughout the book Stross has a lot of fun thinking of crazy ways to use each. One simple one is a T…
No ski resort ever closes with skiable snow on the ground and patrons available. The best have around a six or maybe seven month season.
In the real world ski patrollers always get the last ride and then they ski down all of the runs making sure there aren’t any patrons with broken legs or lost gumbies left on the runs.
No Flaming Carrot, no deal.
true enough.
That’s deflection. We’re talking specifically about mass shootings and anyone who is at all familiar with firearms knows that a semiautomatic rifle is far more effective than a handgun.