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Martha Benedict They explained it to her. The things that she took for manifestations of the love of God were unusual talents of her mind, a legacy of her heritage as part of the scheme of a madman. She listened to their explanations, and calmly refuted them. "Who made my mind, then?" she...

The Anachronic Argonauts While the disaster -- some might even call it a crisis -- began on 21st century Earth, it has quickly expanded beyond there, and not just in the four dimensions of space-time, but the fifth and sixth as well, affecting parallel realities and tangential dimensions. The...

Were you expecting them to abruptly develop competence? That they might acquire a Holy Grail and wish for competence or something? When I toasted "confusion to the enemy" last New Years, this wasn't quite what I had in mind, but I'll take it.

<gentle> Was.

Edit: Never mind, that translation only dates from 1996 and can't have been available to Mr. Grubb.

I suspect Star Wars and Howard the Duck would be tied for first place, with Explorers, The Princess Bride, The Ten Commandments and The Sound of Music filling out the rest of the top five spots. The latter two were annual family watches, not something I personally sought out. The rest of the...

Needs a third option.

D&D BECMI Master Set/Rules Cyclopedia; on the one hand it gave it to both Clerics and Magic-Users, but specifically stated that you had to be 36th level MU*/36th level Cleric and have Int/Wis 18+ to cast the thing. * 33rd-36th level in the Master Set.

... you are talking about a story from 1994, described here. And getting a pretty important detail wrong. ... y'know what, forget it.

What. In the world. Are you TALKING about? The original Namor comic, a story in the anthology Marvel Comics #1, reprinting a story from the ashcan Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, portrays Namor as having been the product of a liaison between a surface human male and an Atlantean princess ...

... I don't know what that is. And please don't try and explain.

And we have fourth-wall-breakage.

Now this is more like it, but I was deceived by the Multiverse of Madness trailer, so I'm only a bit less hesitant than I was.

B: Everything that's not Phantom Menace. C: Phantom Menace.

Eh. With that level of impact, it's more of a 'notice me senpai!' gesture than that. If they really wanted to make sure we couldn't see them, they'd have sent something on the scale of Chicxulub.

This has already been discussed, a lot, here.

FTFY. Elves have three.

Steven and Wong in Doctor Strange. "Okay, what did you do to this?" "Emergency repair procedure number one." "You kicked it?"

I still think it's regrettable that we're not getting her perspective on these events, however contemptible I think these acts were.

Wisdom describes perception and insight. Insight: Many Mountain Dwarves rarely interact with other groups except though the lens of defending their citadels; Hill Dwarves have had to learn to understand their neighbors better. Perception: Also, living in a world where darkvision is not...