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It's rare, but it happens, that a character gets killed twice by the same opponent; and one of my own characters has been killed twice...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The Prestige Moonrise Kingdom Captain America: the Winter Soldier

People have brought up so many great films. I may not rank them as high as jurassic Park but they'd be close (I'm sure it's just my love...

I agree, I think it's unequaled as a Christmas movie, and is an excellent movie generally - it should have got the 2019 Oscar for best...

Yes, the OCG as super-villain thing is just a terrible trope and needs to die in a fire. No UK-based OCG could pull off anything on that...

When I still had netflix, Klaus was always on my Christmas viewing list, has to be one of the best Christmas movies I've seen.

I thought that was Henry II of France?

For me, I guess perfect means “feels perfectly executed the first time you see it, no notes; it then holds up very well if you rewatch...

I think the word “lance” covered a wide range of options from cavalry spears (definitely meant for more than one use) to medieval heavy...

(Reads plot summary for Hijack) WTAF?

Basically this yeah. Usually too busy occasionally trying to look busy. Currently an awful lot of my work is chasing people to do things...

Add in logging what you did, in 3 different places, and then prep reports on the logs to send to managers high up enough not not...

I think the main difference is that they’re not designed to engage in wars with other polities, either to defend a position or to invade...

And chaebol were basically created by the Park dictatorship in Korea in the 60s, and they did what they were told to do (make steel...

Of course the great myth of Zaibatsu is that they were these powerful dynasties who could act with impunity. The reality of post-war...