I grew up with dogs. I swept several cubic metres of dog hair every spring and autumn for years. I’ve been on many several hour long trips in a car with a dog and no air conditioning, in the summer. (And I mean dogs, not those pocket abominations bred by people who obviously enjoy causing lifetime suffering to innocen animals.)

Yeah, if I meet a dog that hasn’t been too badly trained and I have somewhere nearby to wash my hands and I don’t need to keep my clothes clean and not covered in hair and drool I’ll pet it, and tell it it’s a good dog, and if I’ve got time and space I’ll probably toss them a ball or a stick for them to catch for a bit.

But otherwise? Yeah, I can do without dogs. Too much work, too much brainless need for attention, too much stink, too much hair, and drool, and grease, and noise. And pain, when they go and die on you (I had the misfortune of living with a boxer for a few years; lovely animals, drool aside, but the way they suddenly explode into a ball of tumours at around five to six years old is just not right).

Cats are cleaner, smarter (sure, some dogs are smarter, but they’re work dogs, and have no place in a house unless you can dedicate 150% of your time to them), much less needy (though they still do need attention, which is why I can’t have one either, poor critter would spend most of its time alone, which is no life for a pet), live significantly longer, and you actually need to earn their love instead of them biologically having no choice but to love you.

These colours were chosen specifically so we wouldn’t notice the nicotine coating everything.

Am I actually allowed to sit on this park bench?

That’s the twist they went with?

Yeah, Gunn went with the old Twilight Zone plot, but the message got damaged in the crash so Clark thought “to serve man” meant to be helpful, and never learnt to cook.

(Plus, after growing up with the best versions of Ma and Pa Kent I’ve ever seen he wouldn’t for a second have accepted the real message and he’d still have acted exactly the same way as he did when he believed it told him to help; Lara and Jor-El might be his biological parents, but his real parents, the ones who educated him, were always the Kents.)

That’s the twist they went with? Isn’t that just the plot of Dragon Ball?

Dragon Ball Z.

The plot of Dragon Ball is Journey to the West / boobs are fun / Toriyama forgot, let’s do fights.

that makes things almost filmic

His early books literally started with a visual description of the reader’s imagination “camera” gradually focusing on Great A’Tuin, the Disc, whatever region the action was going to happen in, and so on.

Filmic is exactly what he was going for.

From world war II (photoshopped).

I can’t find the exact original image, but this appears to be an image of actor Christoph Waltz portraying Standartenführer Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds, photoshopped to make fun of Nintendo’s notorious asshattery.

Help! Help! We’re being repressed!

Too late.

in like sg1 which is more realistic to use, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to conceive on our own.

Excuse me, we stole, I mean salvaged, most of that tech by ourselves, and we used it to kick goa’uld ass all over the galaxy (and, to be fair, they had stolen it first).

Sure, some aliens did give us some tech, but only because we saved their scrawny hyper-advanced asses from their own hubris because, unlike them, we could conceive of hitting things with a big stick, or shooting small but fast metal pellets at them using barely controlled explosions (you know what, disregard the metal pellet and controlled explosions part, just throw C4 at the problem until it goes away!).

Damn, I miss that series.

They ain’t safe for seven or older people either.

Well, some of it might manage to go out the window.

Most of that will probably hit another building, or a tree, or the ground, or something, and get absorbed (and permitted), but some of it might not hit anything solid and carry on into the atmosphere… where a good part of it will end up hitting a cloud, or a nitrogen atom, or a pigeon… but some might end up in space. And carry on for aeons, into the cosmos.

Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).

Meh, just upload a dick pic.

Dude, spoilers.

That’s stupidly dangerous. People a) lie, b) are idiots, and c) continuously forget the most obvious things, like where we placed the glasses we’re currently wearing. Often all at the same time.

Especially when stressed, for instance when about to get an MRI and being asked embarrassing questions, possibly while being high on whatever drugs they’ve got you on.

I’d expect them to at least use metal detectors.

Wouldn’t want a doctor or nurse to get a prince Albert to the eye just because the patient was too embarrassed to mention it.

As long as they pass regular competency tests to prove they’re not a danger to society (e.g., intending to run for president or some nonsense like that), yeah, sure, why not.

Otherwise, though, it’s Soylent Green time.

I wouldn’t trust people to tell the truth. People are idiots. I hope they also use metal detectors.

Wouldn’t want a doctor or nurse getting a prince Albert to the eye because the patient was too embarrassed to mention it.

why isn’t it an electronic lock that prevents operation of the machine if it’s not locked?

Why not make it simpler and make it a magnetic lock that simply locks the door by being pulled towards the machine? (With a mechanical override so you can get in if you really want to and have the key.)

They’re just like us!