NamerOfStars

Production costs have risen, and the general wealth of the populace has fallen (especially in the past four years), so people are reluctant to part with their money. This means original ideas are... Entertainment & Arts

1100 PSI isn't particularly impressive, in light of the fact that the common Norwegian rat has a bite PSI over 10,000. It's a measurement of pressure , not force. Come on, this is basic physics. Entertainment & Arts

Babylon 5, every couple of years. JMS, the show's creator, was the second person in the history of television to write an entire season himself- someone else had written an entire 8-episode season... Entertainment & Arts

For better and worse. I'd say "except without the dying part", but I didn't change much even in those times when it looked like I was. Entertainment & Arts

No. I want my games to be GAMES, not Skinner boxes. Entertainment & Arts

Depends pretty strongly on the game, no? You can probably get away with it with the likes of Fortnight, but I wouldn't suggest it with Planescape: Torment. Entertainment & Arts

I think people just love good movies- and Predator definitely qualifies. Entertainment & Arts

You might want to give the Vorkosigan saga a look, then; it's far more character-driven space opera than flashy tech porn sci-fi. Entertainment & Arts

Because for most parts of most books, it's not necessary. Adding it in would up your page count to a ludicrous degree. Far better to just put in indicators of who's speaking, or add in things to... Entertainment & Arts

I'll still be gaming when I'm too old and feeble to move a mouse, and have to have my attendants control FTL for me. Being able to shout "fire all guns! Target their bridge!" and have it actually... Entertainment & Arts

Let's just say that if *I* was President, the migrants we'd be planning to deal with wouldn't be the humans, but the geese. I'd have them rounded up and bussed back to Ottawa. Entertainment & Arts

Of course not. A person's culture influences them, but it doesn't define them; if anything, it's the other way around. Tomatoes are native to Mexico, and were unknown in the old world before... Entertainment & Arts

Initially. Then, after they've paid psychologists a small fortune, they call it "rediscovering their youth", and it's suddenly wonderful. Or, instead, you can choose to just not stop doing the... Entertainment & Arts