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The SSD length isn't what I was contesting. That's minor trivia either way, compared to the absurdity of any ship that is less than tens or hundreds of kilometres in length being a major expenditure for a civilization that built multiple death stars. IIRC, that was from Darksaber. Admiral Pellaeon ...

You know, I suddenly wonder if translations of Trump's babbling attempt to clean things up to make what he says not come across as a shit translation or if they try to stay true to his particular... linguistic style. And how often people end up concluding that the translations were done by an imbec...

Over 300 school systems will be issued a 3 day emergency kit for each student in September. And this is a problem because....? Hell, if they're issuing the kits based on number of students September would be the ideal time for it because that's the earliest month you'd have an accurate head-count (...

The same account has also said that there is no physical on/off switch on the XBox One... which probably explains why Microsoft is still being bullish on having the Kinect as a requirement, they literally have no other way for the box to be turned on. In addition to the other potential problems alr...

For instance, I wonder if Order 66 is merely a short-term command - like "kill the Jedi that's leading you" or "kill any Jedi in the immediate viscinity", and I would be very surprised if a Clone Trooper could just as easily return to base, encounter another Jedi, and converse w...

Were the commandos specifically designed to be commandos, or did they just pick the most commando-like clones from regular batches? I've read it both ways as far as the standard clone commandos (sometimes referred to as Republic Commandos to more clearly differentiate them from the ARCs). Some sour...

Are you sure you don't find this 'intruiging' because if you could decide they had no free will because SPACE GENETICS it would make it ethically easier for you to accept how they were used? Is there any actual evidence they were genetically engineered to have no free will, or is this just somethin...

amigocabal wrote:Apparently, in-story, the scientists managed to save the right arm.

Maybe that's a callback to the scene in the original Robocop where the scientists mention being able to save one arm only for Morton to insist that they remove it anyway because he wants to RC to go full-body prosthesis.

The problem is that I don't believe ME writers actually did this to signify a change in her character due to her new status, responsibilities of command, dealing with loss of friends etc, but as a way to make her hotter for the fanboys. The new Art of Mass Effect book specifically states that the h...

No Obama in court, no ‘birther' ruling A hearing on whether President Obama should be removed from the November ballot in Georgia ended Thursday without a ruling -- and also without Obama. The president’s lawyer boycotted the proceeding -- triggered by citizenship challenges brought by a group of s...

Georgia judge orders President Obama to appear in court over 'birthers' suit A Georgia judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta Thursday for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president. Orly Taitz, the California attorne...

You get more xp for non-lethal, and more xp for melee takedowns. It's the tune of 20xp though, it's not a big deal unless you're taking down every single guy in the game (which isn't very stealthy). You also get two special bonuses for making through entire areas without turning anyone hostile (Gho...

Simply put, if a competent superior officer showed up, all indications are that she'd be happy to hand the reins over. But setting that aside as it's not really in the spirit of the OP... Different Era - this is wank-but-still-idiot-Daala with her wank fleet from the godawful Darth Caedus arc. Even...

So, Thrawn's old friends on the Chimaera stage a mutiny and join him, perhaps supported by some hacking from Thrawn. Thrawn wins. It wouldn't even have to be that dramatic. Daala only began her guerrilla war against the New Republic because she believed the Empire was effectively destroyed. She gav...

In the episode the outrageous okona , "Captain, they are now locking lasers on us." "Lasers!?" "Yes, sir." "Lasers can't even penetrate our navigation shields. Don't they know that?" And yet in the episode "Loud as a Whisper" Picard refuses to bring...

Yeah. The fight choreography of Palpatine was terrible in the movie. At leas the novel explains two of the deaths as a sort of trick move. In the movie Palpatine just waves the lightsaber around and Jedi Masters fall at his feet. IIRC from my recent listening to the ROTS audiobook adaptation of the...

Now it remains to be seen where Pocket Books' editorial and writing staff is taking the Pact. Since one presumes they're going to have Hobus go kaboom in 2387 to fit Abrams-Trek, we'll see if they have the Pact survive that long or if something else brings it down beforehand. They might not have th...

Hank McCoy also appeared briefly, and completly human in appearance, in X2. If you blink you may miss it, he's on the tv discussing mutants in the scene where Mystique drugs a guard and shoots his ass full of iron. It was fine when he was blue and furry in X-men 3, because we could easily believe h...

Another factor is that the Tok'ra refuse to use the sarcophagus. Martouf said, "We believe that to use the sarcophagus would drain the good from our hearts," and given how quickly Daniel Jackson started developing a Goa'uld-like personality (megalomania, paranoia, callousness, etc.) after ...

If you recall the episode when that Bejoran officer appears the first time and the one with the Klingon civil war when Data refuses a direct order and does his thing you will remember Picard almost explicitly saying quite the opposite. I'm sure the military members of the board will correct me if I...

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Recolored Xena armor would work better.

There was a live-action version of a costume like that on Smallville. Lois Lane wore an "Amazonian" costume to a comic con while doing a report there. You can see a picture of it here (scroll down to the second one).

One thing of note- doesn't entering or leaving FTL break the stones communications? It only interrupts for the brief moment of the transition time. So the kidnapped Langarans would have returned to their bodies when the Destiny dropped out of FTL, but only for a couple of seconds. Not enough to rai...

There was a novel? Am I right in my suspicion that the writer uses conspiracy-theory-logic? For the most part, no. In fact, Watts does a fairly good job of at least wallpapering over a lot of the more illogical elements of Crysis 2 mentioned earlier in this thread. But more specifically regarding t...

According to wikipedia; Watchmen had a budget of $130 million and Gross Revenue (Worldwide) of $185 Million. So factoring in Ads and then DVDs, possibly in profit but hardly raking in the cash. I've read on various occasions that between production costs, marketing costs (which for a big studio rel...

"Well, a part of the phaser beam hit, but a microsecond of dwell time translates to zero damage. It couldn't track the changing angle at that speed..." (though the angle would change a lot less at longer ranges, you then have the problem of being a fraction of a degree off means you still...