The Old Hack

Let the Geek flow! It is your destiny.

I was just as happy that the forum did not devolve into a rage fest over the bloody midichlorians. (I hate that idea so much.)

Thank you, Prof. It helps.

How is it possible to spend way too much time in game designer mode? *scratches head*

AT&T Bell Labs on line two. Something about stolen credit. Borland Software one line one, something about first to market on non UNIX platform. Zortech Software on line three, something about first full ANSI compliance for non UNIX platform. Who do you want to talk to first? And along those lines, a similar event on the last panel of this comic.

I hate 2016 so much. While not a celebrity, my close friend struggling with cancer has just been informed that the chemotherapy isn't working and that they are stopping it. As a result, it is now only a question of how much time he has left. Three weeks, three months, who can say. *sighs* No, he is not a celebrity. But he is a damned good schoolteacher, he loves his kids, and it is so unfair that they have to lose him. I am really unhappy now.

Good.. I hope you feel better soon

I have spent some time wondering why religious authorities would make such a ban. Then finally it came to me. Clearly these OOP language functions were created by the Uryuom equivalent of Microsoft, and accordingly the religious authorities pronounced anathema on them.

Yes. This means even nuclear devices will have much smaller areas where they inflict damage. In the Babylon 5 movie In The Beginning, Sheridan managed to increase the destructive effect by placing his nukes on asteroids -- the demolished asteroids effectively turned into shrapnel and as a result utterly destroyed the Black Star.

You could still do it! All you need is to put a real laser into a fake microphone, and voilá!

I disagree. It's hard to imagine that they didn't put fake lasers into everything.

Yes they could. Get into a cargo aircraft with a big enough hold, and voilá. You can't tell me that a Hercules couldn't easily carry them.

Nonsense. The fake laser microphone wasn't invented until years later.

And how would they have used all that marvelous technology without the invention of microphones?

Don't be ridiculous. They used real microphones. Without them, Star Wars would have been a silent movie.

Don't be silly. They didn't have laser microphones in 1977 when the first Star Wars movie was made. Not on that budget, anyway.

Their schedule is kinda vague, though. Precisely when are the stars right? Your astronomers got any idea of that, Pharaoh?

Actually, Star Wars borrows from a LOT of genres. It has Wild West elements (gunfights, harrowing chase scenes, greedy gunslinger hero (Han Solo) and bounty hunters), classical martial arts (Betrayal of the Old Masters, Loss/Retraining/Confrontation, a lone avenger against those who pulled the Shaolin Monastery/Jedi Council down, the purity of spirit against the corruption of the heart), space opera (spaceships, big battles, superweapons), fantasy (old wizard mentors young apprentice, magical swords, swordfights, rescued princess). The one thing I would say is hardest to justify is science fiction since even soft sci fi usually tries to maintain some of the tropes (sound does not travel in vacuum, for example.) Still, space opera is occasionally close to soft science fiction, so maybe.

Darn it, JML, I've warned you about that! Elder Gods aren't good for you! Or any of us!

Precisely. Parsecs have nothing to do with time. They are purely a measure of distance.

Yeah! And the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in just twelve parsec! ... ...what?

May you rest in peace, Muhammad Ali. Thank you for the inspiration you gave.

GAH! I would never live it down.

Yes they have. Ellen was clearly speaking of Fallout: New Vegas.

I am personally utterly against being referred to by a neutral pronoun. It has to be either an evil pronoun or not at all.