...which really should be renamed "Hey! Humans are YUMMY ( Read more... )

For adventure, pulp and comic characters, personal time largely stands still; even if the events of the outside world may advance, their age will largely stay the same, oftentimes deliberately undefined.  But I became curious as to how old various characters would be if the timeline advanced for them as well as the world at large. This list is the ( Read more... )

I watched Braveheart tonight for the first time. As far as historical accuracy and the writing went, well, I kept waiting for Ash and the Deadites to show up, but they didn't, and so eventually I lost interest and wandered away.

Case in Point: Shadowjack Recaps Sailor Moon, Ep. 1-13
(From the snarky and fun "In which Shadowjack Watches Sailor Moon" thread on rpg.net

( Part 1: Our Heroine, Usagi )

When I was in college the first time, we had a neat ecological simulator that ran on the primitive Mac's we used. It charted the ecological balance between deer, wolves, and the carrying capacity of the area, and it was really tricky to find parameters that resulted in an even set of population increases and decreases, not a population explosion ( Read more... )

"Tonight on a Very Special Episode of THE PRISONER, Number 6 learns the True Meaning of Christmas* from his fellow prisoners.  Meanwhile, a young boy is sacrificed for the benefit of all, his lithe, nubile body maimed for the good of society.  Really.  "

*(Which is to buy stuff, and thereby defeat Communists, Homosexuals and Muslim Democrats!  So go ( Read more... )