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Dang, George Takei got us real good.

Fire at that explosion!

Admit it, you really really want to see this movie.  And you read the whole post in George Takei's voice.

I know I did.

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My God...

There has to be a way to fake your IP to make the Internet think you're on the ISS.  That, or it just registers as being from a NASA ground center.

The Imguraffe - at least, I assume it's a joke.

HA! Square Enix is in on this?!
Sweet.

I didn't even notice, but it makes sense.  It looks just like Dragon Quest (Enix) and Final Fantasy 1.  I'm betting it was somebody at Google, and they then licensed the likeness.  Nobody who still works at SquareEnix would recognize NES sprites if they were bitten by a cartridge.

Yeah, it does look more like Dragon Warrior than anything, but there's some Zelda 2 and Civilization in there.

I wish zooming in close enough to see minor highways showed more city detail.  Like, at least buildings instead of grass.

Las Vegas shows up as a castle.

Unless, of course, you are a locally licensed attorney yourself.

Something something an attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client.

I for one find it a little appalling just how readily anything and everything you say around a police officer can be used to build a case against you, regardless of any other circumstances.  I suppose that's what the whole "Miranda Rights" thing is about, but never once have I heard an officer say during questioning (or an arrest), "You don't have to answer anything."  Heck, when I was arrested, they used every sentence construction they could think of to make it sound like I was required by law to give a written deposition, without actually saying it was required by law.

I keep coming back to the classic "there ought to be a law..." thought, but the only thing I can think of would be some mandatory statute against an officer trying to 'trick' you into making statements.

So has the fallout from this hit the cable news yet?

Surprisingly, I flip around cable news fairly often during the day, and I haven't seen it once.  Of course, since it kinda surfaced this morning, most of the day's shows were already written without it.  I'm expecting it to show up around primetime.  I'm sure a blowhard like Ed Shultz will get it on MSNBC before the night's over.  If not, expect to never see it again after the week is over.

I kinda want to see Lord English take over narrating the comic. It'll be like the Doc Scratch segment, except due to the ruthless nature of the guy he shows more action scenes and less exposition

Also with 72 Point glowing font.  Oh boy, that'll be fun.

But yeah, Hussie has himself in a weird position here.  He can write... uh, himself to safety, proving he's an invulnerable author insert.  Or he can not, and make the story exponentially weirder.

I mean yeah, it's all silliness anyway, and I got sick of these author-inserts long ago, but at least it's an interesting take on the idea.  And I bet I know which option he'd prefer.