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Old by 24 days, still I'm gonna post it.
 
WoW players just solved one of the game's oldest mysteries
http://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcraft-mysteries/

For what it is worth, I love Smallville from S1 to S10. It is the first version of Superman that I could identify with and like.

For what it is worth, I love Smallville from S1 to S10. It is the first version of Superman that I could identify with and like.

For what it is worth, I love Smallville from S1 to S10. It is the first version of Superman that I could identify with and like.

@ Hugh: Ant-Man is a classic heist film...with supers.

Doesn't Archdemon Jeff sound MORE awesome?

I was thinking "Miss Extreme." Or maybe "Ms. Extreme" would be more politically correct.

So.. not Extreme Miss?

This film has so much promise! Hope Marvel makes it. 
 
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Pepper should have been invited to join the Avengers. Extremis powers would be quite useful to a superhero team, and she's proven capable in a fight. And the Avengers could really use more gender balance.

I'm sorry, I realize it's just my opinion, but I have a lot of trouble characterizing Tony Stark's reaction to seeing his parents brutally murdered before his eyes, with the guy who did it standing right in front of him, being protected by the man who knew the truth about his parents and kept it from him, as being "batshit insane." IMHO almost anyone in that situation would have reacted that way.
 
I see a clear arc in the development of Tony's character and views to where he is now, which is logical and understandable, as I see a clear arc in Steve's. No question, this incarnation of Tony Stark has major character flaws, which have been with him in one form or another from his first film -- massive ego, self-centered world view, need to control his environment, and more recently a savior complex -- but he's come a long way from where he started. He's fallen more than once, but picked himself back up, which to me is far more heroic than being some paragon of virtue and self-confidence. He genuinely wants to do good, help people, and protect his friends, and is willing to make major sacrifices to do so. From his perspective he's bent over backwards trying to bring Steve Rogers on what he considers the right side, only to keep being rebuffed. His biggest problem is he keeps making decisions for others "for their own good," which torpedoes his efforts.
 
I consider this Tony Stark a hero. Just a flawed one. Which makes for good drama IMHO, YMMV etc.

Almost like they planned it that way.

6 Substances That Wipe Their [donkey] With the Laws of Physics
http://www.cracked.com/article_20735_6-substances-that-wipe-their-ass-with-laws-physics.html/
 
Graphene aerogel is seven times lighter than air, can balance on a blade of grass
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/153063-graphene-aerogel-is-seven-times-lighter-than-air-can-balance-on-a-blade-of-grass  

I miss my C64. Such good times were had, with the tape deck and all.

I've always appreciated your contributions on The Wheel.  It's been really helpful to mankind. 
 
And thanks for Fire, also.

The demands & publishing aims are different between a feature cinematic film and a monthly comic book. The film realistically will be produced a limited number of times, eg a trilogy. A monthly comic book needs 12 issues a year in perpetuity.
 
Thus: villains in a feature film can be killed off as another can take its place. The villains can be memorable. Trying to come up with 12 new villains each year to sustain publishing a comic book is a tough ask, eg over a decade that is 120 new villains. So writers "cheated" and let the villains "go" so they could return later, thus cutting down the burden of creating so many new villains for the heroes to defeat.
 
Basically the trope of returning villains was created as a necessity of publishing so many issues of a title with a feature character. Films don't have this issue (pardon the pun).

The demands & publishing aims are different between a feature cinematic film and a monthly comic book. The film realistically will be produced a limited number of times, eg a trilogy. A monthly comic book needs 12 issues a year in perpetuity.
 
Thus: villains in a feature film can be killed off as another can take its place. The villains can be memorable. Trying to come up with 12 new villains each year to sustain publishing a comic book is a tough ask, eg over a decade that is 120 new villains. So writers "cheated" and let the villains "go" so they could return later, thus cutting down the burden of creating so many new villains for the heroes to defeat.
 
Basically the trope of returning villains was created as a necessity of publishing so many issues of a title with a feature character. Films don't have this issue (pardon the pun).

so both would die with a smile on their face.

The thing is, The Winter Soldier IS a Cold War political thriller. It is directly modelled/ inspired by that genre, especially 3 Days Of The Condor, which started Redford.
 
As Redford was eager to be in a big budget Marvel franchise film as it is a new way to make movies and his grandkids asked him too, his appearance in the Winter Soldier is a tip of the hat to him & Condor.

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