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The hardship (which was much more severe for Monroe - Rowling's accounts are demonstrably exaggerated and self-contradictory, and...

Yes, I’d mostly agree, including the fact that said mean girl (or superficial girl who wasn’t very introspective or empathic) also...

And yet a wholly correct one! It's right to stand by it! My unpopular HP opinion, also not one to bring up in casual conversation...

It was good fodder for a WEG Star Wars campaign but not great reading. Honestly, that’s a pretty good summary of the whole EU.

Okay here's one: When Kaladin decides not to do a legit slave revolt because his vile, wretched bootlicker of a Spren emotionally...

An online friend of mine was asked to provide music for a theater’s Halloween airing of the great silent horror movie, Nosferatu.*...

I’ve seen many a creator who lost the ability to listen to constructive criticism.

I read Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (the first book of his Thrawn trilogy), and came away unimpressed. While I understand a lot of...

Yes, I generally am much more generous about allowing power stunts - usually you need to do one Red, one Yellow, and one Green in...

Quite right, I stand corrected. Love imagining the sessions in that campaign. “Imma knock those missiles out of the sky with my ice...

Not according to the book. The baseline of ice generation is ranged damage. Advanced MSH, Player's Book, p80. "Ice Generation: The hero...

It’s worth noting that assuming Jean and Bobby start with no power stunts, she can’t fly (and will have to spend a lot of Karma to get...

I'm on a superheroes kick but wanting to explore prose novels so I'm reading Soon I Will Be Invincible. It billed as a defining novel in...

Yes, went to see that a couple of years ago - first thing we saw at the Rio.

Love the Rio. Went to see La Dolce Vita, Saturday morning breakfast cereal cartoons, and This Is Spinal Tap there in the last few...