Recent content by bz316

I would like to see traditional power sets used in more utilitarian ways. For example, one of my favorite bits about the Avatar/Korra-verse was the fact that the primary advantage of having benders in your society had less to do with war and more for the fact that they could be used as...

The idea that Ayn Rand's message is that "special people are good and shouldn't be held back for the sake of the mediocre" is a vast over-simplification of Rand's philosophy. The core of her philosophy was fundamentally the idea of "radical selfishness," i.e., that one's actions should, in all...

Ouch. It hurts because it's true :(

So far, we've encountered the Skrulls twice. Once in Captain Marvel, and once in Spider Man: Far From Home. In both cases, the Skrulls proved to be weirdly incapable at the whole "science" thing. In Captain Marvel, a pair of Skrulls (one of whom was a SCIENCE OFFICER for fuck sake!) who had...

It's cool that Disney can now include the X-Men in the MCU, but how exactly is that going to work? And I don't mean from a movie logic standpoint, I mean thematically. I mean, the whole point to the X-Men was that they were an (admittedly pretty bad) metaphor for racial prejudice, in which the...

I think an easy way to fix this would be to just say that mutants existed for a long time, but in relatively small numbers until like the 1940's. At which point the population of them started to increase because "radiation" or "Hydra" or something, but at this time SHIELD was around to cover it...

The main balancing act one always tries to deal with when using a term as ambiguous as "magic" or "the force" is the issue of what can be done with it. Hypothetically, all is possible through the force. However, I like the idea that the use of the force is limited through the lens of how one...

They'd probably fuck it up, but I'm going to say the Sengoku Jidai era of Japanese history.

Holy shit. The "Homeworld" games would be amazing to play on something like this!

This is a doomed plan if the porno involved a man. Low gravity decreases blood pressure and circulation, so its probably not even possible for a man to get an erection in space.

This question is insane. The most powerful spell in the wizard world kills ONE person. Vegeta can blow-up entire planets with his mind, fly, move at the speed of light, and is physically powerful enough to lift continents. What the hell kind of contest is that?

Damn. Seeing Erin like this is really depressing. After years of seeing her so full of life and uncontrollable id, watching her just shut herself off from the world seems so wrong... :(

That was the most touching, beautiful, disgusting thing anyone has ever done. Godspeed Erin, you magnificent bastard. Godspeed...

I didn't much care for Dragon Age 2, but it did do two things I liked. 1) It continued the trend of not making elves into all-wise, perfect beings beyond reproach (something I absolutely loath about all fantasy post-Tolkien). And 2) it showed just how delicate the seams holding together the...

This is cool. I had no idea the UAE had a Space Program advanced enough to send probes to Mars. More power to 'em I say!