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2024-05-29, 01:39 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsMy definition of fantasy nonsense is both expansive and non-perjorative. All the fantastic stuff is nonsense and that's fine. Realism and "implied...475 replies | 21100 view(s)
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2024-05-29, 12:25 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsI don't read fantasy for the realistic history, I read actual history for that. I read fantasy for fun fantasy nonsense, i.e. what actual history...475 replies | 21100 view(s)
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2024-05-28, 11:09 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsYeah, but Soul of the Fire is the one with the murder-suicide STD*, and Stone of Tears has "sex this demon and it's barbed junk to death" scene that...475 replies | 21100 view(s)
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2024-05-28, 10:05 AMFinished Illusion, which was quite good and also quite different from the fantasy norm. This is mostly down to the protagonist, who is 100% useless...869 replies | 104765 view(s)
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2024-05-25, 06:35 PMRight? Everybody knows a katana will cut straight through a lightsaber. It'd be a total mess.656 replies | 32443 view(s)
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2024-05-24, 10:02 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing 10: Ten Builds, Zero Progress in Gaming (Other)The thing I appreciated about Chaos Gate was the degree to which it took the XCOM template and removed a bunch of the weird and annoying rules...93 replies | 4712 view(s)
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2024-05-23, 06:51 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing 10: Ten Builds, Zero Progress in Gaming (Other)So by "play less Age of Wonders," I clearly meant "keep playing Age of Wonders." Or at least that's what happened. The last game was rather odd...93 replies | 4712 view(s)
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2024-05-22, 11:28 AMAnything you do with the blue wizards, Harad, etc is going to hit the Rings of Power problem but even worse; there's simply no source material to...45 replies | 3400 view(s)
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2024-05-21, 03:01 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing 10: Ten Builds, Zero Progress in Gaming (Other)The paralysis that comes from building a character from a giant list of options, combined with the lack of context for the choices and the bit where...93 replies | 4712 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 06:42 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Seconded, this is a good one. Thanks! I only did a very little work in rose gold for the engagement ring, which had a gold setting poured into a...1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 03:38 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Either that or "What Are You Playing: Build Really Takes off Aver Level 10"1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-19, 09:23 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Not a lot of game time this week + weekend, final wedding prep is getting under way, and a couple of setbacks making the rings ate my entire weekend....1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-16, 11:06 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)The Age of Age of Wonders continues. I'm doing Mystic Elves again. This is a very natural combination, as elves get default bonuses to accuracy...1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-16, 09:03 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread The Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power Season 2 [airs August 29th] in Media DiscussionsIf it had been either a bit better - less mystery box, less LoTR coat tail riding, less filler - or a lot cheesier and just gone whole hog on high...79 replies | 4582 view(s)
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2024-05-14, 04:56 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread The Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power Season 2 [airs August 29th] in Media DiscussionsParticularly because they already did that plot in the first season. "Find the Sauron" was a bad plot once, there's really no reason to repeat it. ...79 replies | 4582 view(s)
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2024-05-14, 10:04 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread The Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power Season 2 [airs August 29th] in Media DiscussionsI vaguely enjoyed the first season while watching it. Then it ended and the whole thing was revealed to be six episodes of nothing happening,...79 replies | 4582 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 11:53 AMStar Was is by design pretty generic, it's just a generic version of a genre of sci-fi that, outside of Star Wars itself, hasn't really existed in 50...656 replies | 32443 view(s)
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2024-05-11, 10:16 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Wrapped up my dragon lizard velociraptor AoW 4 game with a Magic victory. The two remaining AI empires actually put up a credible fight at the end,...1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 09:59 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsI just don't find Batman interesting, like, even for a superhero he's boring. I liked the Matt Reeves/Robert Pattinson Batman pretty well, because it...475 replies | 21100 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 01:42 PMI suspect a few reasons. 1) If all you can do with the Tolkien liscence is remake LoTR every 25 years, it's not worth as much as if you can make...45 replies | 3400 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 11:56 AMI can't say I need or want this - we have 3 perfectly good LoTR movies already and the further from the source the adaptations get the worse they...45 replies | 3400 view(s)
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2024-05-09, 12:33 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)That's a brilliant idea, next game I'm absolutely going to set my leader up as Raistlin. Honestly Laurana would work pretty well too, but I haven't...1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-08, 11:48 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Won a somewhat anticlimactic Seal victory in Age of Wonders 4 wolf game. I had figured once I pulled ahead on Seal points my ally would declare war...1473 replies | 118671 view(s)
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2024-05-04, 02:49 PMOblivion has one of the better constructed openings around in my opinion. The story gets rolling ASAP, the tutorial does a decent job of introducing...111 replies | 4351 view(s)
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Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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