I'm 31, and I grew up with 8tracks. My mother drove a 1970s Lincoln Continental, and always had a box of second hand country and classic rock cassettes rattling around in the passenger footwell. It as a junker, and when it got to be too expensive to maintain, my father took it out to a demolition derby, and kicked all kinds of ass with it. Heck of a car.
Finally got around to finishing this up - hell of a ride.
Gotta say, though, that there was more Dan Simmons in this series than I remembered. Hyperion was obviously a very heavy influence on ME2, but I had forgotten exactly how much Fall of Hyperion there was in ME3.
@asherrd:In entomological circles, it actually goes the other way. "Bug" specifically refers to an insect of a particular order (hemiptera), with piercing and sucking mouth parts. It is an example of a single word that has both a common usage as well as a scientific usage, which are effectively opposite in meaning.
I know literally no one else will give even the tiniest of shits about this, but it was fucking cool to me.
During the Bioware segment, the background was a shot of the Edmonton river valley featuring the Walterdale Bridge.
I WORKED ON THAT BRIDGE!
Technically, I now have had some of my work displayed on Giant Bomb!
As I said, I know I am absolutely the only person who cares, but this was actually a real pleasure. I am proud of my work on that bridge (even though my contributions were really minor, I was still a student then), and I am glad that it has become one of the more common Edmonton landmarks.
Late to the party here, but this is important so I'll say it.
Indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery. Both may be called slavery, but they are in no way equivalent. When an American hears "slavery", they associate it with chattel slavery, but the distinction matters. If you don't maintain that distinction, you are agreeing with the altright assholes who argue that whites were also enslaved in the American South.
That Asari at the beginning of the episode CANNOT be compared to an American slave trader.
For those few wondering, Abby's opinion of The Gone-Away World is flat out wrong disagreeable to me. The book is a wonderful bit of weird SF fantasy, and while not as good as the author's Angelmaker, still absolutely worth reading.
The scent of dads is a real thing. My father was a rig worker, and frequently worked away from home for weeks and sometimes months at a time. When he came home, the (fairly tiny) house would smell of crude oil for several days. Even today, in my thirties and over a decade after he has passed, the smell of oil is extremely comforting to me as a result of a childhood filled with that positive association.
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