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2024-04-04, 03:55 PMAs seen at Ars Technica , one Andre Freund was working along in his job as a security engineer at Microsoft with the intent of troubleshooting a 500...4 replies | 498 view(s)
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2024-04-03, 01:57 PMWell, Sauron created the Black Speech. Sauron, remember, was a student of Aule, the forger, before he fell to evil, and he's always been better at...18 replies | 1353 view(s)
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2024-04-02, 06:36 PMOne of James Clavelle's less popular books, King Rat is an almost-autobiographical barely-fictionalized account of his time in a Japanese POW camp....23 replies | 2445 view(s)
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2024-04-01, 07:41 PM"Ante bellum" is "Before the war". "Gone with the Wind" or "Song of the South" are antebellum movies which romanticize 19th century southern...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 12:00 PMSo apparently there are a lot of complaints about Christopher Walken's portrayal of Shaddam IV, Emperor of Humanity, in Dune II. Here's One Rebuttal...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 08:50 AMEverything I've written comes from the first book or its appendices. In the Appendices, we learn that the founding battle of the Empire was the...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 12:30 PMWe demonstrated that in-movie when Feyd-Ruatha took over the military campaign against the Fremen and started actually hitting them where they live,...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 09:08 AMIt's not a Fremen revenge; water is too precious to waste on Dune and in the books the fate of all dead, friend or enemy, was to be rendered down for...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 09:14 AMMostly agree but some comments. On the contrary, what we're supposed to take away from this interpretation of Dune is that the Corrino...76 replies | 6105 view(s)
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2024-03-24, 09:58 AMDon't forget that in their world demon status comes solely from their mana count. The Demon King, therefore, must have had more mana than any other...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 07:35 AMI don't think they finished interviewing them all; I know I didn't see Danton, for one, in that list of mages who were rapidly interviewed and...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 01:57 PMShe told Frieren not to neglect her training and marked her down in her test because, while Frieren is overwhelmingly powerful compared to the other...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 11:03 AMWhy does everyone assume the Paladins will accept their surrender? Miko Miyazaki could seemingly get away with killing anyone , provided they pinged...317 replies | 30129 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 11:17 AMWatching the interchange between Serie and Frieren, I am reminded of what is maybe the best line from the hobbit movies ... I think Frieren...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 10:58 AMpendell replied to a thread Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes". in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyFWIW, I also refer to our sun as Sol and the orbital body as Luna, because that is common usage in SF, even if the official names are still "The...45 replies | 1729 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 10:44 AMAr Tonelicos' Hymnos is a work of art, a blend of several different modern languages to produce the language which -- in their world -- is used to...18 replies | 1353 view(s)
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2024-03-17, 03:49 PMI have been experiencing very slow performance from the forums, but not from the web site itself. When the site times out I get a little diagram...1 replies | 512 view(s)
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2024-03-16, 09:53 AMIndeed. Those who use the words "cultural appropriation" have a point, in that we shouldn't mock or insult other cultures. But there's a big...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-16, 09:47 AMIndeed. Those who use the words "cultural appropriation" have a point, in that we shouldn't mock or insult other cultures. But there's a big...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 12:20 PMSo Episode 27 airs tomorrow. Three's 28 episodes in the season, so there's only one more after it. I'm curious how they're going to wrap it up,...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 09:00 AMCheck me on this, but fighting an adult dragon in D&D is much like fighting a wizard. A wizard which doesn't have the usual balancing issue of being...519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 08:08 AMWell, there's at least one more kind -- "Folk magic". Little spells to make ordinary life easier. A spell to create a flower bed. Or clean a statue. ...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 11:55 AMVery cool! I will consider this. ETA: The fact that "maou" has connotations of both demon and magic shows the inflluence in Frieren, where most...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 11:29 AMI do NOT have ten hours to respond, but I wanted to recognize and the you for your efforts in writing this post. I hope the person it is written to...519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 07:01 PMWell, what would be the basis of a deal? "Surrender, and I'll fight Team Evil?" But why would we trust Calder to honor that deal, as opposed to...519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 03:44 PMThis made my day; thank you. Respectfully, Brian P.519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 10:48 AMHere's an interesting writeup Akuma = Devil, a personification of evil. I remember this from Street Fighter as , essentially , an evil...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 06:43 AMOkay -- so "mazoku" ( 魔族 ) = "magical family" or "magical beings" (= "creatures of mana", as proposed by -D-, which is why they disappear in...89 replies | 6792 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 04:26 PMIt's not so much an issue now because I work from home, but I want it light as early as possible. First, because I have to drive on those roads....519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 04:00 PMAnd yet we still flippin' do it every year. Everyone I know .. {scrubbed} .. they all HATE daylight savings time . And yet we're still doing it. ...519 replies | 41967 view(s)
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"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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