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I just decided to watch Thunderbolts on a whim and that movie was MUCH better than I expected.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a different game with a very different story, but I also think it’s one of the best storylines in any...

I also have a soft spot for The Shackled City AP. It was the first 'AP' from what became Paizo in Dungeon magazine. It's a little...

The outstanding example for me is Shiki (Four Seasons) for Sengoku, a series of four adventures based on the four seasons which takes...

You see the youngling’s mistake right there. “Management Trainee? MANAGEMENT TRAINEE? I’m C-Suite now!”

Yeah, I’d have to agree. Solo knew the brief and while it overdid explaining where he got his kit (he’s allowed to just buy his blaster...

I think Solo is actually my favorite Disney era Star Wars movie. Was it "necessary"? Not remotely. And yeah, I get that people found the...

I haven’t read The Book of the New Sun, so I was parsing the statement as given, and it does indeed sound like an ideal - of Severian...

Hope you like her work. I think I always have, coming back to her ever since we read a passage from Black Hearts in Battersea in class...

That’s true. But I also don’t think the statement is particularly true - people don’t believe what they’re forced to believe, and they...

Wolfe isn’t holding it up for unqualified admiration, either. But the language is so good. Sounds like I need to read some Aiken.

That’s really not an ideal I’d care to live by. Read Joan Aiken’s The Five Minute Marriage, which is like Jane Austen or Georgette...

Kang is generally said to be descended from Reed’s dad Nathaniel, but it’s also been implied he’s descended from Doom and from Kristoff...

Sadly Qui-Gon did not strike me as someone who reads his mission brief closely, but Obi-Wan probably did, so I’m just going with “there...