Recent content by Dioltach

I have Roar on DVD. One day it will be worth money.

And you'd have a much harder time marketing "single-origin Guildford greenhouse".

I grew up with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I'm the youngest of four, and our dad would read to us every night all through autumn, winter and spring. So we had Tolkien, but also Earthsea, The Dark Is Rising and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. And probably more that I can't remember right...

A positive recommendation: Nemesis. It's perhaps a little removed from the more traditional "RPG" boardgames, but it feels very narrative, very cinematic. It's essentially "Alien". My character died in round three, but I watched my friends play for another hour and a half and wasn't bored for a...

Duck: "Don't eat those ones, they're foul!" Slug: "Look who's talking."

I'll make a negative recommendation: "Journeys in Middle Earth". I wanted to like it. I really did. I played it several times with my friends, just to make sure. But I hated it. You have a whole table-top board game, with tiles and cards and miniatures and dice... And none of that matters...

Yep. It's like how any town or neighbourhood that's called Buena Vista is almost certainly a slum.

"The game became weird when Tom failed his save vs. polymorph."

Does anyone remember The Persuaders? Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as a pair of crime-fighting playboys. I saw it in the 1980s and adored it. I was probably about 10 or 12 at the time. I wonder whether it retains any of its charm.

Has anyone mentioned Miami Vice yet? I rewatch it every ten years or so.

Docteur... Qui?

Rome's not unique. Have you ever been to Athens? But even where I live, in the Netherlands, it became law perhaps 25 years ago that every civil project has to be overseen by an archaeologist. Just laying new pipes for a heating grid or the sewers will uncover finds from hundreds of years ago...

Sad news. I loved Black Moon Chronicles and 666.

I feel I'd get more genuine laughs from watching the originals.

I saw this mentioned a few weeks ago in a high-brow discussion among some professors of Old and Middle English. Their response was very favourable.