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I could turn that argument around. Because the PCs are often given special status as adventurers, it makes sense that they have special access to weapons, just like private security or mercenaries in the real world. That doesn't mean that every man off the street can walk into a shop and...

I was looking through Mongoose's Core Supply Catalog for Traveller, and I noticed that various medical treatments cost a fortune -- thousands or millions of credits. This reminded me of my wife's first experience with American healthcare (she grew up in Korea), and how shocked she was at the...

Having worked with the government, I assumed that they picked the body swappers based upon the needs of the mission on Destiny and only considered Young, Chloe and Eli as afterthoughts. That would be very in line with how government workers of any stripe think. "Let's accomplish the primary...

Also, we need to narrow the field a bit. There are an almost infinite number of villains from which to choose. Agent Smith (The Matrix) Lex Luthor (Superman -- almost any incarnation) Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) Dracula (many, many, many) Hannibal Lecter (Silence...

Well, how are you judging success? If it is most people killed, for example, then it is hard to beat Emperor "Superweapon of the Month Club" Palpatine. If it is motivation -- technically he loses, since he had the excuse of prepping for galactic invasion. The Joker has a wonderful motivation...

My copy is in the mail. I'm hoping this will be my next addiction now that I've finished Fallout 3. (By finished, I mean "seen absolutely everything included in the game and all of the DLCs, up to and including the room filled with plungers, the recording of the Flatbush drunk insulting the...

This link to a Hellforge blog post: Hellforge | Forging a Passion for Video Games was posted via Digg. Somebody from Bioware voiced an opinion on the Mass Effect forums that was less than thrilled with the implied criticism. The blogger then acts with a "What's the big deal?" response...

You're assuming that they've thought through all of the ramifications of having untrained civilians using ancient technology in an unexpected and high-stress situation. The original plan was probably not to use the stones for R&R purposes by non-military personnel.

Watch it again, just around the 31 minute mark on Hulu. Chloe is crying because her "best friend" is obviously banging her ex, and she feels pretty useless. Eli tells her that no hot girl was ever interested in him (because pretty girls love guys who lack confidence, right?), and she tells him...

He got more than just an eyeful...he was effectivley raped. Before you argue, what if Chloe had reconciled with her ex and started to have sex, only to suddenly swap out with the female scientist? How would she have felt if she suddenly was in her own body, having involuntary sex with a...

Am I the only one who was caught by surprise by the implied very inappropriate relationship between Young and TJ? Frankly, between Young and Rush, I can understand why the brass would want them off the ship as soon as possible. Add in the fact that the only IOC person there is obviously not in...

Have to say that this was a better episode than the previous.

We always seem to be predicting things before we have them. H.G. Wells and Jules Verne predicted tanks and nuclear submarines, among other things. I see no reason why that trend won't continue. Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a...

Probably. The M16 was introduced into service in 1962, and it was based on the AR-10, a design from 1954. Design work on the AK-47 began in 1944, and started service in '47-49. The upgraded and rechambered AK-74 was introduced in 1974. The two most popular service rifles in the world are...

Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant had a lightspeed travel mechanism that converted an object (like a ship) into encoded light patterns. Somehow (I forget the details), the light waves would be resolved back into the object at its destination (typically another star system). I mention it...

Diverging momentarily from the sci-fi zone...that describes Robert Jordan's bale fire from the Wheel of Time series. A consequence was that the fabric of reality started to unravel when it was used on whole cities, retroactively erasing their existence. The consequences were dire enough that...

This actually exists, and is used in the meat packing industry. High pressure water can cut like a knife. It also reminds me that I forgot a whole bunch of weapons in the form of cryo or freeze rays. Ah-nold forgive me. Since these are much less explanable in terms of real-world physics...

Oh, well there's something I forgot...weapons designed to target other weapons. :) Of course, in simplest form, that includes off-hand dueling blades designed to trap your opponents weapon, but triggering the other guys nukes is more dramatic. Maybe the las-gun/shield combo from Dune counts...

So, having thought about it, I was thinking about what qualifies as a weapon. Technically, anything that causes harm to an opponent could be considered a weapon...so what can cause harm? At relativley low energies, weapons magnify force by concentrating it on a small area (slicing or...

So what you're saying is that all of society would fall apart, with the exception of Congress? *ba-dump-ba!*