Recent content by Janx

Because Keanu Reeves did a movie as a white guy in Japan, and we all that that was interesting. It's very telling then, when a Black person is doing it, we zoom in on the slavery angle.

This is a fundamentally flawed concept. A character is interesting because they are interesting. Yasuke is a person, just as Masamune is. Without slavery, Yasuke is still a person. Still African. Still a samurai. He just got there for a different reason in that timeline. What you're doing here...

We finished it last week. never read the sillymarilly thing. don't care. Ork homeland plan seems contradictory. A) there's someplace else the evil elves have that they wanted to take NotSauron to. B. Volcanotizing the land is unsustainable. One reason you can't just walk into Mordors is because...

little f, big F. Having faith that iteative research and experimentation will figure out the reason isn't a leap of faith. Attributing something you can't explain to your Faith ends that discovery. Thor did it. Let's go get pancakes!

These are good points. And they align with my general policy to avoid trying to convert someone to/from a religion. But there's a big but than you even alluded to. If somebody believes in something that truly isn't real (and there's a worrying lot of that going on these days), they don't have...

I see where this interview is going.

I'm sure there's some kind of relative positioning going on. Or just like how the light from my flashlight doesn't fly off spinwardly but hits the wall.

Once upon a time, at the turn of the century, my mother was in hospice in the land of ice and some snow, for it was only November. I traveled up there and spent the week by her side. On one of those cold days, I spotted a monarch butterfly flying just outside in the some snow of freezing...

Star Gate. My point is, somebody in power is gonna send teams in to explore.

um, isn't this exactly why we send a squad of knights? It's the core of D&D. :) Heck, it's the premise of a TV series with 10 seasons, plus spin-off and made for TV movies, all based on the original film.

that was alright, but after Deadpool, all Ryan Reynolds films seem like "movie about X with character played by Deadpool"

Conceivably, the repercussions of being in the night spaces at dawn needs to be commensurate with level. Imagine 1st level party wipe simply because a quest ran long. Maybe time freezes, so it's simply continuous night because the day gap is like a blink. Or they shift back to their plane so...

Marketing. If you're old enough to have been powerful AND alive back when other species were primitive, you got god status. If you got popular amongst advanced species, not so much.

I believe that is the next step of my evolution. Later, I'll realize that since nobody cares what I think, there is no point in posting what I think. Later still, I might just stop thinking. We'll see.

I did not comment on the thread about the thing that I don't care about. Because I don't care about the thing. And nobody cares what I think about the thing I don't care about. And that's all I have to say about that.