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- 2024-05-09 03:06am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
Although the books have been getting progressively larger as we go along so this could end up a thousand pager for all we know.
- 2024-05-08 03:23am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
Dragon really doesn't like thinking that he's not the villain. Well he's certainly 'a' villain but more of a last minute speed bump to ware down the party a little before reaching the final boss. So far I'm not sure narratively what his function is. He could be showing off how powerful the team is ...
- 2024-04-15 03:11am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
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Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
I assume that recipes in the book were aimed at the fairly well off or did the spices 'trickle down' to the peasantry?
- 2024-04-10 03:27am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
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Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
I should have put more effort into watching the 1999 one, I was well placed for it but working in a Salmon Smoking factory at that time. Most of the staff popped out to see it but I spent the entire time in a large freezer stacking boxes of fish instead.
- 2024-03-28 12:21pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Haiti collapse
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2710
Re: Haiti collapse
The UN stepped in as a result of the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. This is no different conceptually. Do I expect anything to happen? Probably not. I don't remember the UN being much use during that 2004 mess. I could be wrong. Either way, I do not see the UN going in with "peacekeepers" in a...
- 2024-02-19 04:01pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
I don't think throwing a T-rex at a dragon is every going to not be cool
- 2024-02-09 03:10am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148916
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
This almost sounds like this war has drained out the military capacity of Russia and most of Europe. That's, not a good thing. I don't know, it doesn't seem that terrible that no one seems to have enough weapons to casually kill millions of people. Both sides having to stop due to running out of su...
- 2024-02-06 03:04am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2315
Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
This would probably be a very good time for someone in government to ascertain whether or not William actually wants to take over the family business, and give some thought to what to do if he doesn't. I suspect that discussion was made around about the time the queen died if not further, given his...
- 2024-02-05 04:38pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2315
Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
Even if not a funeral it may well speed up an abdication.
- 2024-01-08 01:54pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
A dragon also seems anti climatic really it doesn't even look all that big to me.
Not all that powerful a magic circle to keep it in either if it could just cast dominate monster or similar across it.
Not all that powerful a magic circle to keep it in either if it could just cast dominate monster or similar across it.
- 2023-12-12 02:58am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
I do feel they're sort of treading water at the moment, maybe all the set up will be useful but I think we need to get along to the presumably final confrontation soon.
- 2023-10-28 06:48am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148916
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Make what you will of the fact that Homeland Security, the department whose responsibility is among other things to prevent the US from needing to go down this list due to enemy action, comes dead last. I make of it that they are the most recently founded department and the succession is in the ord...
- 2023-09-08 02:04pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 128823
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Or Immigrant Song in it's 'original' Old Norse
- 2023-08-27 04:23am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Wagner Thread (Was Russian Coup Thread)
- Replies: 123
- Views: 14996
Re: Wagner Thread (Was Russian Coup Thread)
There's also the matter that having Prigozhin arrested or shot seems like a direct link to Putin, while with a bomb it's probably easier to list the people who didn't want Prigozhin dead and have access to explosives then to list those that did want him dead (and have access to explosives). This is...
- 2023-08-26 03:54am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
The last place anyone would expect a gate is right next to another gate? Not sure if I buy that. Or does it mean that the first gate they destroyed was actually Serini's gate and the real first one is still out there somewhere?
- 2023-08-15 02:57am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
I think pretty much anyone given a chance to talk to their younger self would probably end up quite furious with them, and probably visa versa as well.
- 2023-07-20 03:08am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7567
Re: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border
Either that, or they don't know what the fuck they want to do with him yet. Or they haven't found him yet, or he stepped on a mine or fell off a cliff or something. He' s only believed to be in custody and I don't see anything which says why this is believed just that he crossed the border and hasn...
- 2023-07-05 03:15am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Indiana Jones 5 SPOILERS!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1696
Re: Indiana Jones 5 SPOILERS!
* Why bother with mentioning the moon landing at all? It wasn't the only thing going on in 1969. I assume it was highlighted to show that Indy's day was done, that the world was moving on to other fronters, on one was interested in Archeology because people had just walked on the moon! Also it gave...
- 2023-06-26 02:46pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460261
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
Really showing her Chaotic Good alignment there.
- 2023-04-08 03:53am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
- Replies: 106
- Views: 23551
Re: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
I know he's got a character sheet out there but really in my head he's more a 'rogue who took perform' rather than a bard.
- 2023-04-03 03:11am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
- Replies: 106
- Views: 23551
Re: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
Given the Spoiler
reaction to the party we can surmise than none of them are particularly blessed in the Intelligence department.
- 2023-04-02 12:57pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
- Replies: 106
- Views: 23551
Re: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
I felt that Doric get let down a bit when it came to character development and background, she had a number of fun action sequences but tended to be just following around in the background for the middle half of the movie. Not really a complaint, there is a limited amount that you can do in the dura...
- 2023-03-28 05:28pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148916
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
WWW2-vintage or not, still capable of killing people.
- 2023-03-14 04:13am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148916
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Not as dangerous *IF* they've had their shots, but still a massive drain on resources. Which they probably haven't. Did Russia even have an anti-COVID policy? Because from what little I've heard it seems like they did not. They created their own vaccine Sputnik 5 and started to roll it out from Dec...
- 2023-03-10 02:13pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148916
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Ukraine LIVE: Russians nuclear panic as they are ordered to rush to bomb shelters Russians were urged to immediately take shelter and wear gas masks in a later-confirmed cyber attack on state media channels as the nation's war continues to rage in Ukraine. TV and radio programmes were interrupted i...