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Courtesy Scientific American.

While I may be reading too much into Morena Baccarin's performance as Anna, it seems like she brings a sort of "Wait, I thought I debugged that?" confusion to scenes where people don't swallow her "I'm a friendly alien here to help" act. Where John in the original series brought a sort of blustering politician's BS to things, underlying it was a fairly human set of emotional responses. With Anna, it feels like she's running a human emotion emulator instead, leading to mild confusion and internal bugfixing when it misfires, rather than to an intensification of blathering. A brief pause where she's not quite there in the conversation before she patches her script and starts running it.

The Fury of Fearswoop, if you have the original molds don't bother unless you're a big Hooligan fan.

( No Books of Note. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "So that's Venus' old boss? At least the ancient freak speaks perfect English." "It speaks 'god.' Everyone can understand it." - Ken Hale and Namora, Assault on New Olympus Prologue

I broke down and got the Superscience Booster, which let me make the radically different body types of the other four Autobots in TF:A Optimus Prime's crew.

( Original Peaceseeker, as a reminder )
( Bulkhead (my favorite of the four new ones) )
( Prowl, second favorite )
( Bumblebee turned out so-so )
( Ratchet has a slight paunch, but otherwise not too happy with the results )

For now, Peaceseeker has only three costume slots, so he's using Bulkhead and Prowl as his alternates.

ETA: in the same catalog, they offer an F-105B Thunderchief model but show an A-10 Thunderbolt model.

Coherent Super Stories #18 - "The Black Buddha of Bhutan" featuring Jack of All Trades: Jack Ripley's travels in search of the odd and unexplained have taken him to an obscure corner of China where darkness dwells.... Written for High Concept Challenge #4.

In moderating the Monsterpocalypse boards, I've noticed that spambots tend to be groupable into three bins based on how they set up accounts.

1. Bare minimum. Just a username, a fake email, and whatever other information the board requires.

2. Spam the mods. Any fields that are open, like interests or location, will be filled with more spam messages.

3. "No, I'm a human, really!" These actually recognize what the fields are for, presumably because they're tuned for the defaults of a particular board code. The fields are filled in with random elements from some list, but usually end up looking fake anyway (i.e. since when is "customer" an occupation any real person lists?) and they don't seem to realize that listing your location as Nigeria or Russia is itself a red flag.

Additionally, the postings fall into three basic categories as well.

1. One post per disposable ID, on whatever the default board is (usually a General Discussion one).

2. One post per accessible board per disposable ID, never return to that ID on the assumption it'll be deleted and it's easier to just generate a new one.

3. As per 1 or 2, but check back a few hours later to see if the mods have noticed. If not, repeat posting.

I've never seen any that just spam until some circuit breaker kicks in, I guess they assume that excessive posting will be noticed faster. One or two per board are more likely to reel in suckers before a mod notices the spammer.

( Book of Note: Hercules #137; Other-media: Astro Boy (2009) )

   Dave Van Domelen, "I think the little girl's creeping me out." "That's only 'cause Layla was before your time." - Darwin and Madrox, X-Factor #50