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Pennance Stare. Specifically the version presented in this clip: link Following this experience, Galactus decided to let himself starve to death rather than deal with the guilt of his actions. He only came around again after a plan to send him off to feed on planets without intelligent life. The tar...

There's a fundamental logic problem with that last bit. Either you accept that we have a right to do with them as we see fit or you do not. If you do accept that we have that right, there's no moral imperative to stop eating them in the first place. We could let them die out instead just as easily u...

While there's no formal alliance beyond the Dominion War, why would there need to be? There does seem to be some sort of informal understanding. How many times has the Neutral Zone been violated by one or the other party with nothing coming of it? The Federation violates the treaty prohibiting the d...

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...this tells me all I need to know about you.

Yes, yes. Burn the witch and all that.

A sutblety lost on people who've gotten far too used to treating the Kardashev scale as something other than the blunt tool that it is. Power generation and consumption tells us some things, but it's not nearly so useful when trying to define "technologically superior" when comparing two s...

All right then, first order of business is to confirm the state of the station's power, life support, and defensive systems. Once our immediate security is confirmed, we can then take an inventory of our new tech base. The First Ones were always deliberately mysterious about what they could and coul...

Which is the more technologically advanced artifact? A solar powered digital watch, or a sufficiently large pile of gunpowder?

Okay, if Patryns are out, I suppose I'll take up your offer in the OP to style my abilities after the great Tamrielic wizards. I will be able to get ahold of spell tomes, soul gems, and the like, right?

From a defense prospective, what options do we have for dealing with posession? Sith Force Ghosts, Goa'uld, and the like are almost certain to be gunning for our "high magic potential" bodies even ignoring the potential to infiltrate and aquire our tech. If there's no First One tech on han...

Do the hero factions of these respective universes actually exist in this universe, or are we dealing with just the villains of all these franchises with potential original character allies?

I don't think this board has an automatic multiquote. Just open two quote reply windows at the same time and copy the text of one into the other window.

Parents do not automatically know what is best, I agree completely. But by declaring what is and is not important, Alyrium is putting himself in the position of being the arbiter of what is and is not of value. In that sense, he is no better than the parents he doesn't think are worthy to make the ...

Way to build your own strawman and set it on fire. It is simply not the parent's choice to make. If you want to say you're not bowing to the will of the Flying Spagetti Monster, then give me an explaination that doesn't rely on "you can't change someone from the state the Flying Spagetti Monst...

Hm, you know, I've always been fond of the Patryns from the Death Gate series. Language-based magic bound up in runes tatooed on the skin, spoken words, and drawn sigils. Patryns are a non-human race. A human offshoot, yes, though humans in the series have been able to learn and utilize Patryn and ...

So are we to treat this as a "obey the will of nature/God/the universe/Great Cthulu/Flying Spagetti Monster", then? Way to build your own strawman and set it on fire. It is simply not the parent's choice to make. If you want to say you're not bowing to the will of the Flying Spagetti Mons...

Hm, you know, I've always been fond of the Patryns from the Death Gate series. Language-based magic bound up in runes tatooed on the skin, spoken words, and drawn sigils.

I'm curious, if it is to be an agreed upon truth that not being able to hear is not intrinsically worse than being able to hear, why should we not allow deaf people to destroy the hearing ability of their children surgically? Because in both cases, parents do not own their children and unless the m...

I'm curious, if it is to be an agreed upon truth that not being able to hear is not intrinsically worse than being able to hear, why should we not allow deaf people to destroy the hearing ability of their children surgically?

I've never once heard a Deaf person make any kind of comment about language use like that, even in jest. Why would they, given that they have their own language, you idiot ? The point is not that they want their children to be deaf. My fiancée's parents didn't puncture her eardrums so she'd be deaf...

It's also possible that the degree of specificity required for someone under slaver wasp control varries as much as the degree of obvious mindlessness. So people like the first non-zombie revenent we see could be one of the type that has to follow the spirit of an order, while Klaus can stick to lit...

Indeed. When Westly's super-nanites started running amok, the episode's guest star just radiation sterilized the area they were infesting. Painful as it may be to contemplate, a similar tactic worked just fine on borg nanoprobes in Enterprise.

The fact that some crazy guy is unlikely to have hundreds of years of hat-based obsession behind his design of the hat, and thus will overlook the fundamental essence of what made this hat the absolute proof of Gil's identity that it is. It'll be hard to top the Jagers in pure hat-based knowledge.

I think he was being quite reasonable when he demanded the hat be locked up someplace secure and never spoken of again. That thing is a huge security risk.

Is this a joke? The Emperor gloating to Luke in dialogue is now acceptable evidence, despite rather obvious evidence that it was not, in fact "fully...operational"? I mean, it didn't have functional shield generators, so the idea that it's fully operational is ridiculous. English is appar...

That depends on if they decided to land or not, don't you think?