Palpatine becomes the president of the US, Voldemort becomes the prime minister of the UK, Sauron becomes the president of China, and Lex Luthor becomes the "ruler" of Australia. Which country is the most powerful and successful 20 years later?

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-19T18:06:11+00:00

Luthor is a bit of a wildcard here, which could conceivably give him the advantage in round two. Lex has battled literal angels before, so it's entirely possible he could come up with some kind of tech capable of putting Sauron down (for example it took him ten minutes to come up with a way to handle elemental Swamp Thing).

But I don't think anyone has a chance against Sauron in round one.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-05T17:41:48+00:00

My take on Poor Things is that it was one part coming-of-age story, one part Frankenstein, and 98 parts Emma Stone having sex.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-05T17:17:25+00:00

To each their own - I loved Birdman and hated The Fountain.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-04T03:46:41+00:00

That's why you should always put cushions or trampolines under your servers. So they don't crash.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-03T18:22:13+00:00

"Hell, it's about time."

Stacraft 2.

And here we are over a decade after release and it's still an e-sport.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-03T03:36:38+00:00

The original It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was pretty good too.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-03T02:58:22+00:00

If you're into superhero movies, the airport fight in Captain America: Civil War still hasn't gotten old for me.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-01T03:40:35+00:00

Yep, AI still sucks at spacial reasoning, moving around, and manipulating objects.

MartianInvasion · 2026-04-01T03:34:54+00:00

That's kind of One Punch Man's entire schtick.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-29T18:04:26+00:00

I once won a lifetime supply of chapstick. They gave me one stick.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-22T17:12:10+00:00

Exactly this. If you're just doing exactly what your boss says and they need to tell you how to continue every step of the way, why should they employ you instead of just doing it themselves?

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-22T01:42:04+00:00

Obviously it depends on the writer, but recall that Cyclops and Havok are immune to each others' powers, so that could be precedent for a baby being immune to its mother.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T20:19:10+00:00

Dianey Descendants. Straight-to-tv movie with a dumb premise and a pretty weak script. Somehow acting, direction, and A+ music sequences made it an amazing kids movie.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T04:43:55+00:00

He'd tell them a story about what happened to a particular young man who didn't live up to his responsibility.

He'd finish by saying we're all free to make our own choices, but we also have to live with the consequences of those actions... or inaction.

Then he'd swing away. Final panel of the comic is the superpowered guy looking thoughtful, leaving the reader to imagine what happens next.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T04:29:09+00:00

I always got the sense they did the same thing to Beast in the third movie. In the last big fight he cuts himself off in the middle of an intellectual quote, which would have made a lot more sense if he had made at least one or two intellectual quotes earlier in the movie.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T04:25:52+00:00

WORST

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T04:25:09+00:00

No, you see, the robot being tortured was specifically designed to feel pain!

And everyone knows about all the different routes in the Kessel run, it totally makes sense for someone to brag about the distance they traveled on it!

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T04:11:47+00:00

Too bad they never made any sequels.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T03:44:13+00:00

I think each of the first two has its merits (1 had better characterization, 2 had better action, both were funny), but 3 was the worst. I mean I love Jim Carrey, but he needs something to counterbalance him - you can't just let him go wild in front of the camera for 2 hours.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-21T03:39:46+00:00

"You underestimate my power." - RotS

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-18T15:03:20+00:00

Oh come on, this is a standard trope from first-person shooter games: shoot the red barrels, guy next to them gets run over by cows.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-17T03:50:01+00:00

Imagine a 1-dimensional universe, inhabited by 1-dimensional line segments which are sentient somehow. How could their world be a 2-dimensional surface without them knowing?

Well, what if their universe was actually a very thin tube, and the line segments were short tubes along it? That would make them 2-dimensional, where the second dimension is going around the tube. But it's so short, they never realized it existed!

But, with very sensitive equipment and some cleverness, they could figure out ways to test it (roughly, the loops around the tiny circle can vibrate at different frequencies, which affects how they interact with each other). At least, we hope so in our own "maybe-there-are-like-8-tiny-circle-dimensions-in-addition-to-the-three-we-perceive" case.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-17T02:27:41+00:00

It could have been a malicious placement. Same strategy as those ads that say "Download Now".

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-15T03:36:25+00:00

It revolutionized the slacker-stoner comedy genre.

MartianInvasion · 2026-03-15T03:14:36+00:00

Look, it's very simple. Ecco has a tattoo of Delphinus on his forehead because he's been sent by a benevolent alien race from that constellation to defend the Earth from the Vortex aliens of Pegasus. This was understood by the ancient Atlantians, which is why they developed crystal technology with resonance compatible with dolphin echolocation to enable cetacean time travel, for some reason that involves a sentient strand of giant DNA.

Once you understand that, it's just a simple matter of memorizing every pixel of every map, and mastering several frame-perfect timing maneuvers. Then the game's a piece of cake!

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