I was going to mention Reign of Fire until I saw your parenthetical insert.

Guess I’ll go back to my physics-based MMO.

Sounds to me like you lost your mind about this.

TV tropes? There goes my day.

That’s an awesome TV.

Has she now learned the rest of the alphabet?

But what temperature?!

FWIW, my reference was to H2G2 and the Heart of Gold.

If a highly improbable spaceship had to dedicate all of its processing power to making a cup of tea, I suppose I can forgive an end user for having to think about it.

When I think of him, I think of Fight Club, not The Hulk.

Whether that makes him more or less appealing is up to the reader. I’m not even sure which way Helena Bonham Carter would lean.

It’s not irrational at all. Falling from heights hurts. I’m afraid of being hurt (including from heights). It makes perfect sense.

Perhaps you could compromise?

Personally, I initially saw a version of it in Sluggy Freelance.

Sorry, it didn’t occur to me that that might be a problem. Yeah, cysts of any kind are pretty gross. Pilonidal cysts are near the butthole, so grossness is not reduced. Unless you have an interest in such things, I agree, don’t look them up.

Back when bash.org was functional, there was a quote that went basically like this:
“Sex in space sounds epic.”
“You need to have regular sex before you can be choosy.”

This isn’t any kind of commentary on you, I just miss bash.org and the replacements that have popped up since are challenging to search.

edit: accommodating markdown.

I far prefer it when someone refers to themselves as the parent of a pet over when someone refers to the pet as a kid.

Ideally neither, but one is less off-putting than the other, IMHO.

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My first three surgeries were for the removal of a pilonidal cyst. According to the doctor who operated in my tailbone, this and similar events are common causes of panic.

It’s concerning that all of those words are past tense.

You should make sure to say T. Hanks.

Presumably, that movie was made on a Tuesday.

That is certainly inappropriate, but does explain 2/3 of your username.