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Inspired by this lovely BBC Documentary of a lizard escaping a (literal) nest of snakes : What's the closest you've come to (violent or sudden) death? (Try to avoid anything involving cars, those aren't as interesting). In my case, (not counting yanking a friend away from a car that sped through a z...

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2022-02-24 05:39pm PM Ace Pace, Dartzap, Phongn or TimothyC. They'll send you an invite code.

Here's one that's good for a week. You can also pm me if need

https://discord.gg/U8Dawezh

My Spoilery Peace talks thoughts (repost from my reddit post 2Y back, before BG came out): I liked it, but I was REALLY bothered by a number of very egregious cases of Harry doing/not doing things purely out of plot dictates. I was expecting a reveal along the lines of mind control (as was the case ...

Plus her being picked as an Einherjar despite being a devoted and faithful Catholic who probably wanted to go to a Christian afterlife and not fight forever really strikes a wrong note to me. Then again maybe this means we will see her again? She’s not supposed to return until everyone’s forgotten ...

I didn't like it. Stupidly slow, writing wasn't great, and lots of circumventous bullshit to get 1/4 of the way towards halfway through the comics' opener.
The "Superbastards" animated series was excellent though. (Animation really should be the way to go with these things)

1. Loved it. It's just fun, great characters, music, comedy (I LOLd a few times).
2. Go watch Peacemaker.

The finale: 1. It really annoys that the infinity gauntlet working/not working between universes is inconsistant. (The comics addressed this also - there, infinity gems only work in their own universe. Thus solving the question of "Why haven't we seen Thanos/Doom take over the multiverse")...

I really felt like not enough was done to: 1. Show Abuella pressuring others, not just wassername the main. (Sing, don't show = as bad as "tell, don't show"). (Sorry, a 0.1 second of her straightening hair flowers is not enough) 2. Comeuppance for Abuella's gaslighting. I did read people f...

Hogfather is amazing, and I am not at all ashamed to say, I actually prefer the MOVIE to the book. The pacing works and feels so much more fluid, and there are two key moments with DEATH as the Hogfather that got swapped around that I think add a lot more weight and emotion to those moments. Heresy...

I reread some old "issues" lately (blame tv tropes), and it is crazy to think that the first fight with Xylon was around ~100 issues in, and Azure city around 2003-2005. The comic has slowed down a fair amount :0 (both plot progression and literal rate of publishing. (Yes I know he had an ...

Anyone have a link to his "The Fallen Giant Holocaust"? (Google fails ne)

Sent, even if it is post-hoc

I present for your consideration... Open article, read title, read authors, hmmmmmmm that name looks familiar :) Top job! [/quote] Thanks very much! :) Nice find. :lol: No find. He wrote it ;) Guilty as charged. My challenge now is what can I do to top that, in terms of sheer overwhelming nerdity :...

I present for your consideration, a peer reviewed, NLP, deep learning and proteomics article that cites Cthulhu & Moriarty. The Language of Proteins: NLP, Machine Learning https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037021000945 Beat that :D A good English language model should score ...

I don't feel we have the atmosphere of cooking individuals quite the same way this place did 10-15 years ago... Yeah. So much less regulation back in ye olde dais... Now, they all need to be "organic" and "free range" to be deemed fit for consumption. There are only few left who...

Fresh meat? :0

I should see if the RAM tweaks get me anything. I have it on mostly high, with volumetric clouds, fog and raytrace lighting on medium and DLSS on balanced. (Volumetric clouds and fog are the biggies for performance). I tried the RAM tweak, can't tell if anything changed. That said, the biggies for ...

Summary: Invisible structures generated by gravitational interactions in the Solar System have created a "space superhighway" network, astronomers have discovered. ScienceAlert: By applying analyses to both observational and simulation data, a team of researchers led by Natasa Todorovic of...

That sucks .
I always found his works and stories to be interesting and insightful.

RIP

RIP

The past couple of years of DC animated movies have just been crushingly "okey-ish". NVM the ones that messed up (e.g. Killing joke, and it's 55% of filler content). The rest have been nice, but just feel like they would have worked out better as multipart JLU episodes (give or take the an...

My thought, and massive spoilers for peace talks : PS - I really liked it, can't wait for the next. I liked it, but I was REALLY bothered by a number of very egregious cases of Harry doing/not doing things purely out of plot dictates. I was expecting a reveal along the lines of mind control (as was ...

Re Starborn : Removed the quote from me so your spoiler will show. REMEMBER: Quote + Spoiler means Spoiler don't Work --Lady T There' no reason not to assume that the starborn thing only applies to Wizards (+- maybe "Gifted" (i.e half fey/half/quarter/eighth anything that isn't human). Giv...

Man, the series has been treading water a LOT for the past few years. Worse than a manga!