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  • Stargate: Worlds

    I really wish Stargate: Worlds had not crashed and burned due to financial mismanagement. I was in the alpha(I’m not sure if the NDA is still valid, but hey, it’s not like anyone is left to sue me), and that game really was shaping up to be something cool. Combat was at about the right…


  • The Minister of War

    In Episode 4 of Doctor Who Series 9, “Before the Flood”, O’Donnell mentioned a Minister of War. There’s been a lot of speculation as to who it could be.  My theory?  John Frobisher, the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office in Torchwood: Children of Earth. We’ve had a callback to Caecilius already, but Peter Capaldi…


  • The Pentagon Has A Zombie Apocalypse Emergency Plan -What about aliens?

    Unlikely this plan would ever be used, though some aspects are probably useful for general civil disorder. I wonder what contingency plans exist for alien invasion? While we can’t be certain, that might actually be a possible threat. It would be hard to plan for. Zombies can safely be assumed to have some subset of…


  • Blizzard Announces World of Warcraft: Legion

    Blizzard Announces World of Warcraft: Legion. Meh. Granted, the Burning Legion would certainly still have Azeroth on its hit list- multiple failed invasions, including one that turned the Orcs from their subjects to one of their most vicious enemies, and also the Scourge split off from them as well here.  They’d come back eventually for…


  • Warlords of Draenor LFR impressions

    The first couple LFR raids in WoD aren’t bad. Fairly easy, with mostly standard raid mechanics for DPS- don’t stand in fire, run like hell if the boss chases you(for DPS/heals), kill adds first, the basics any raider needs to know. There are a few interesting ones, like one boss that spilts in two when…


  • Salvaging Star Trek: Enterprise “These Are The Voyages”

    I wonder if, using publicly available materials, it would be possible to reedit Star Trek: Enterprise – “These Are The Voyages” to remove the framing story, or failing that, rework the framing story as time travel rather than the holodeck? The holodeck angle ruined the episode IMO. And the idea of Riker needing a holodeck…


  • Marty McFly was captured and tortured by Libyan Terrorists

    So, this came up in a Facebook thread a while ago, figured I should put my theory here. So, we should all know that at the end of Back To The Future, the Libyan terrorists that Doc Brown got the plutonium from shot Doc Brown at point blank range with assault rifles, and Marty returns…


  • X Factor New Zealand SACKS Natalia Kills and husband Willy Moon after ‘completely unacceptable’ conduct – Mirror Online

    X Factor New Zealand SACKS Natalia Kills and husband Willy Moon after ‘completely unacceptable’ conduct – Mirror Online. Harsh comments on performance is one thing, but this is a bit over the line. Even harsh comments on dress- if she had tied it to him needing to establish a brand for himself, and a suit…


  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer controversy

    Racist jackasses going apeshit over a black stormtrooper. While the EU was jettisoned for the purposes of the new movies storyline, it’s not like they can’t take a few elements from it that work, and expanding the recruiting pool of stormtroopers to normal humans is certainly one I’d see them taking. The Battle of Endor…


  • The Five Defends Chris Rock’s 9/11 Jokes: We’re Not the ‘Comedy Police’ | Mediaite

    The Five Defends Chris Rock’s 9/11 Jokes: We’re Not the ‘Comedy Police’ | Mediaite. I’m OK with the way Chris Rock handled this.  His jokes expressed some empathy with the victims, laid bare his own fears, and criticized the trend of commercializing holidays.  I don’t think any topic should be automatically off limits to comedy…