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This is a good point. What even were the Space Rangers? What was their purpose? Clearly it's not colonization, or Buzz would have decided Mission Accomplished before they even started experimenting with ways to get off-world. But then, you might as well ask why there are thousands of civilian...

Is that the one where the packaging is all just plain yellow with giant Helvetica text? I remember that one making the rounds on social media because it's basically this XKCD comic but in real life. EDIT: Yep, found 'em through ExplainXKCD. For bonus yuks, here is their website.

Oh, and also I can't get past this nonsense: Jumping into hyperspace causes relativistic time dilation as just a normal consequence of how it works, but not only do they use it as their sole means of traveling between habitable worlds despite that, a lifetime spacer like Buzz went his entire...

I think the biggest problem with this movie is that it is a Buzz Lightyear movie. Pixar simply can't seem to avoid turning everything they touch into a Pixar Movie™ with Big Themes and such (well, not since Cars 2 at least), and that feels like 180° off from what I'd expect Buzz Lightyear's...

I doubt it. I was using the term "store brand" in the more general sense of "generic brand", but even generic brands that are exclusive to one store chain or another sometimes have their own name instead of using the chain's name—Walmart's is called Great Value, for example.

Splatoon was pretty much the perfect version of itself from the get-go. A lot of franchises take a few installments to find their groove, but a lot of franchises aren't made by Nintendo. They also allowed their developers to make balance tweaks post-launch, so they pretty much ironed out the few...

Ha, not if they're still insisting that their CEO be put in charge of the entire parent company that buys them out! Microsoft wants to stay in business, after all.

Me, about to unfold that tag: Oh hey, Trish Forstner—the artist behind Stray Dogs who also did some My Little Pony covers back in the day—said she'd been tapped to do a Gargoyles cover recently. I wonder if one of these is it. And whether I'll be able to tell which one. Me, after reaching the...

Good to know there are limits. ...Now watch Sony make a counter-offer.

I thought it was already pushing it to make the initial Switch release a sequel in the first place, for a number of reasons: Anyone who was suckered into buying Nintendo's worst console ever and got Splatoon for it was now stuck buying a new game and a new console if they wanted to keep playing...

So, is this Nintendo just pulling a Call of Duty and rereleasing the exact same game under a new name to get people to buy it again? I realize it's been five years since the last one, but Nintendo usually doesn't pull this until a new console is out. Besides, people went apeshit over Blizzard's...

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Marble foxes are, if I'm not mistaken, one of the results of the fox domestication program that started in Russia in the '70s. Which is something worth reading about in its own right, both because domesticating more cute critters is something I can get behind in general and because it's...

I remember reading about this ages ago when it was stuck in development hell... now I'm wondering if "development hell" was code for "they couldn't get the rights to use the name because of that Matt Groening show, but then they bought the company behind that so they were finally able to go...

Relevant quote: It kinda sounds like Trump refuses to accept legal counsel from anyone who won't agree to do actual crimes on his behalf. Thaaaaat explains why nobody wants to represent him anymore.

I don't think I've seen Charles II either. The first one was pretty unforgettable, though, if only for what happens at the end (no spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it yet).

Me every time I try to do anything from the command line.

I'm not sure it's all that unrelated, actually. Dude writes like the Time Cube guy. Why can't they all be this easy to pick out?

A pox on her for a lot of things. Remember that she's the one who first gave Jenny McCarthy a platform for her "vaccines cause autism" conspiracy theory.

History buffs, I must ask: Is this the shortest length of time they've gone between getting a new prime minister and getting a new monarch?