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Yeah, he was supposedly an elf. D&D elves tend not to be bulky 6'4" individuals with popeyes and a large nose. I love the bloke, but it really was a daft casting.

@Snarf Zagyg: I pretty much agree with you, although I might quibble with your order of preference. But I'd say those leprechauns have been taking their vitamins since Marvel started getting serious about superhero movies.

Ok, most of you have poor judgement if you can't see that Memento is one of the best movies of all time. ;)

Read Stephen King's "Later". Straightforward, well-written horror/thriller, with an ending that works. All in less than 250 pages - for King, that's a short story! I often find Kings larger works lose focus towards the end, and end unsatisfactorily. This was quite satisfactory.

Just finished reading Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. Solid positive SF of the Hal Clement and Asimov school, where the problem and solution are based on logic and science, and the protagonist is basically a good person doing their best, depicted better than Asimov or Clement ever did. Much like...

An alternative solution would be to provide more opportunities to add damage to attacks. Getting above something might add falling damage when you attack it, swinging from a rope might add damage based on your movement - just a couple of ideas after a moment's thought. Another thought: let the...

Do you read at least some pages of each of these every day, week, or month? Or are all these books just bookmarked, and you just read a few to completion at a time? To contribute: I've put aside Garrett: PI after the second book for now. I'm reading Glen Cook's Port of Shadows, a fixer-upper of...

I thought it was funny. Clearly the writers are saying "we don't care" about actual history, they're just writing what they thought was fun. Until it started getting heavy and angsty.

A comedy can take it's premise seriously (Guardians of the Galaxy) or not (Spaceballs).

Thanks. Yeah, it's annoying, but the vocab is part of the genre he's using, or rather mashing with the fantasy genre. The actual treatment of characters is sort of improved in the second book, but I don't think the term "fridging" had been coined at that point. Because of that improvement, and...

It is getting slowly better. I'm in the second book.

I've started reading a compilation of the first 3 Garrett PI books by Glen Cook. Entertaining mostly, but yeesh, the sexism/misogyny! These were written in the late 80's, it looks like he decided Heinlein wasn't sexist enough. So far though it's mostly background. He's not here to write about...

I recently read Fifth Season by NK Jemesin. It is rather intense, and an examination of justified repressed rage. And even when justified, the results of giving in to that rage are always harmful.

I'm having trouble with the idea of watching a series where the protagonist straight up murders a random guy in the pilot. Any signs of this being some sort of sleight-of-plot?

I think prisoners. IRL they could be ransomed off to their families, or maybe to the fey who's eye they've caught? The fey may be very cross to have been dragged into affairs with something like Xvarts. The PC's will have to earn the fey's forgiveness. I figure the fey are a bit like the mob...

I'd make saving Patrina (as Kasimir's partner, not sister) somehow magically linked to restoring the fertility of the dusk elves. That way Kasimir isn't looking at her becoming a baby factory.

I've read four of the Murderbot series, slight but enjoyable. I re-read Peter Watt's Blindsight, followed by Echopraxia. They're both intriguing, but the second isn't as meaty as the first. His exploration of ideas is great, though. From one end of the positivity spectrum to the other, I'm close...

Even for a post-scarcity society, some projects are so big that they may require more resources than they have to hand. Building a dyson sphere around the black hole in the centre of the galaxy - maybe to generate energy?

They were goblins, Gumps lot.

I did like one of 4e's takes on halflings: itinerant boaters, who trade up and down rivers.