Thursday Next

Not as popular as Facebook != failed. Twitter has 302 million MAU.

Ok, so Batman Returns isn't too bad, but Revenge of the Sith is also not *that* bad. If we're talking about a great franchise with some lacklustre films, then a revival, Batman totally fits that mould. Star Trek is another good candidate for picking up an ailing franchise. If you are looking for a set of three ok films, followed by a set of three worse films then everyone being hyped for another three films, well, there aren't many franchises that release in trilogies and fewer still that have done it twice and even less that are on to their third trilogy. You may need to relax your parameters a bit.

Totally, no such thing as plot armour here.

There were at least six bad FF movies in a row. What about batmans? Returns, Forever and & Robin were bobbins. Nolan trilogy was good if not great.

300 Million Monthly Active Users is pretty taken off imho.

Nolan's worst film is pretty decent. I really enjoy the prestige. *shrug*

While I think I may be in a minority here, I wish they would stop doing Stan Lee cameos.

Asymmetry? It's curved on both sides now. Perhaps they should name it "EdgeS"

I too like the G+.

Nothing. If this went to court, and for some reason the judge skipped over that fact that there was: 1. No actual plaintiff. 2. No actual defendant ("the gays" doesn't count). 3. No cause of action (e.g. a broken contract or similar). 4. No damage to the plaintiff who is after all omnipotent. And banged his gavel and said "I find in favour of the plaintiff." nothing would happen, other than the judge losing his/her job. The woman (from my brief skimming of her obtuse handwriting) hasn't actually asked for anything other than for the judge to agree that this sort of thing is Not On™. Now, knock on effects might be more severe, if the decision wasn't quickly overturned, buried, dug up, set on fire and buried again in the hopes that no one ever remembered that time the judiciary lost its mind, as it would establish in law that being the gay is a cause of action all by itself. You could have people arguing that they don't have to repay loans because someone in the bank is the gay and this is a Bad Thing™, but we're so far outside the realms of what is sensible now that it's all kind of pointless.

Harumph.

I dies. A can give me the item.

@Kenshi: Up for some co-op this evening? After your help I unlocked the shortcuts, Oh, by the by, when baddies drop loot in coop, do you get it too?

Are we cool to be spoilertastic in here?

Yeah, though that doesn't really explain why they shut off his electricity. If npower did that to me, and I was a multi billionaire who had just been robbed, I can't imagine many of the properties I own would be using that utility supplier ever again.

0 surprises that dean is the first (and/or only) person to like that.

Me either actually...

Yeah, for me IM3 should have spent more time on developing Stark's character and less on coming up with umpteen different Iron Man variations each more flimsy than the last.

Yup. Haha, sorry, it's difficult to explain (or rather, I find it difficult).

Are we still calling them Isis? I thought we'd gone with I.S. these days?

Yeah, I was waaaaay too cautious. Also struggled to get my cane to transform so felt under-ranged vs. Ludwigs. (Ludwigs is a cheap weapon to PvP anyways so fair play I says).

It's weird that Hulk is one of my fave characters in ensemble films, but seems to suck donkeys on his own.

Yeah, public Bruce Wayne is a knob. The only time we see a remotely sympathetic Bruce is when he is alone with Alfred or Fox. If you only watch the Alfred and Fox interactions, he's quite likeable (imho), he's respectful of Fox's intelligence and strong moral convictions, and also of Alfred's worldly experience and treats him as an equal despite Alfred being a servant and in theory waaaaaay down the social ladder. When he's around anyone else, he's a tool. Since he is mostly around other people, he is mostly a tool, therefore you think he is a full-time tool, even though he is a pretty cool guy. Eh has no parents and doesn't afraid of anything. Sorry... After I wrote "pretty cool guy" I felt I had to follow through...

Formally, the government writes a speech that the Queen will deliver upon appointing a new government. This speech sets out the policies of the government for that term. Before this speech is delivered to the Queen to be read out, it must be voted for by a simple majority of the 650 elected officials forming the "House of Commons" or "Parliament" ("MPs"). Clearly, if your party has 326 MPs, it's a slam dunk. Your speech will get the necessary votes, and your party is invited to form a government with you at the helm. If you have say 300, and the third biggest party has 30, then you can agree to form a coalition, they will add their votes to yours, and your speech is voted in etc... If you form a minority government then there is a chance your speech will be voted down and you will not be able to form a government. There's then another period of negotiation while everyone tries to get a set of policies together that can achieve a majority.