Flarstux

It's not outside the realm of possibility that in the 15 years the Earthlings have had since the first Martian attack they might have learned a thing or two from studying Martian technology.

I find it most ungeekly that no one here has yet said, "Allons-y, Alonso!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_war_of_the_worlds
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."

The Fouke Monster, of course.

You mean people here actually watch that... that... wackiness?

I thought I was the only one.

Here be some of my 2010 Bests:

Bestest TV show of 2010 (including reruns on Sleuth): House.

Bestest Musical Discovery: Talk Talk. Was only vaguely aware of them in the 80s, when I was mostly listening to The Doors, R.E.M., and Let's Active.

Bestest Comic Book: Power Girl. Good writing, good art, and I have not needed to buy any other book to follow the story. I'll take self-contained titles that only reference the comic book universe at large on rare occasions over ones prone to multi-title big event crossovers any day and twice on Sunday.

Bestest Personal Moment: Yelling at the neighbors on the north side for shooting bottle rockets in my yard after the neighbors on the south side set the fence row on fire with a Roman candle. Runner up: three very loud blasts from an old cow horn Blowing Horn out the front door to greet 2011, which brought about a full 15 seconds of stunned WTF silence from the north side neighbors before they carried on with their firecrackers.

I suspect most, but by no means all, and possibly not even half - depending on which way the all but inscrutable non-forumites lean, of course - of the players playing this game would quite likely anticipate the bolded parts of your statement to most accurately reflect the potentially unhappy situation, as suggested by historical review and regardless of any inherent refragability, should the previously postulated application of diminishing returns be applied to PVE.

DooOOOooOOoOoooOooOoOooOOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooOooOoM !

They could still do High Chaparral or The Monroes (the 1966 TV series, not the 1995 one).

Ultimate Run Dry: a remake of the Gunsmoke spin-off, Dirty Sally.

That's why I generally fly everywhere I go. It carries over, see.

And this time around they will use ACTUAL MANNEQUINS instead of flesh and blood actors, as the latter, even at their most soulless and sterile, exhibit too darn much emotion.

The Dun dun duuunnn!!! from the Black Lagoon!

Doing things correctly is no impediment to a determined dev team!

It's TD: Teammate Diversification.

Isolator! ISOLATOR!

Let the reward nerfage begin!

Just in case anyone else did.