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Mannahnin replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.A great example of how subjective tastes in art can be. I first sampled Jordon's WoT in a novella included in the 1998 Legends... -
The whole discussion about book length - my personal stance is that it depends on the book, if it can hold my attention for 1000 pages...
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A couple of weeks ago I was having a chat with a neighbour from my floor about reading before bed and I mentioned that I had a copy of...
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I cannot imagine such a life. You must be blessed to never be confronted with persons - writers or not - who are babbling on and on...
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Mannahnin reacted to Marc17's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with
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I played it and I liked it. We played it instead of BX and BECMI and even had arguments with others about it. (we did use Mystara as a... -
Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
Azeem: "And now you know how I feel." Is it just me, or are Azeem (Morgan Freeman's character in RHPoT) and various similar Saracen...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
And the bit is that “Rhydderch ap Euffydd" is the spelling, but it's phonetically "Robin Hood."
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with
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“What’s your name, heroic outlaw?” “Rhydderch ap Euffydd.” “Rhy… rach… sod it, we’ll call you Robin.” -
Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
I don’t think she’s actually bending the bow? The string is apparently made of elastic. Worth noting that Robin using a longbow...
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with
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Obligatory reference to Once and Future again, when some English nationalists summon Arthur (who’s undead) and he kills them all because... -
Mannahnin reacted to Dioltach's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
Have you ever read Lachamon's Brut? He goes on for 16,000 lines about "the Britons", and King Arthur, and in the very last line all of...
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
Any Robin Hood does have to thread the needle between the various versions. He kind of started out as a generic criminal and robber (it...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I still have my 1984 copy of Richard Erdoes' and Alphonso Ortiz' American Indian Myths & Legends, and it's pure gold. And one of the...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.The placebo effect is a thing, of course, but yeah. Chiropractic actually does real physical things, and certainly seems to help some...
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Mannahnin reacted to Pale Violet Light's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Fair enough. But the lack of listed side effects does not necessarily correspond to a lack of side effects in general.