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Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. They don't do evil deeds, they're quite cheerful in fact, but they did create Marvin, so are singlehandedly responsible for the biggest concentration of suffering and anguish the Universe has ever seen. (Several times.)

Hm. The trailer looks interesting, and it's at least paying lip service to the Laws. I get a good buzz from it (the trailer's nicely constructed), but it's too early to tell.

http://www.lostskeleton.com Find the trailer. Watch the trailer. Hope to high heaven that this film comes to New Zealand so I can watch it. This will be one of the highlights of the year.

It's always seemed illogical to me that you have a society which has had 9th level spells since forever. (And, presumably, steel weapons, plate armour, and large swords.) You can compare fireball to MAD if you want, but we've only had MAD for 50 years, and fireball's been around for how long...

I took the simple expedient of saying 'clerics cast magic like wizards' and thus severed all absolute ties with the outer planes. Which is a good thing, because my homebrew campaign is set in medieval Europe, where there are at least three religious factions: Christians, Muslims, and Grecian...

For your enjoyment, I present An Artillery Scene, excerpted from The Goon Show, written by Spike Milligan. The scene: Unknown. The characters: Unknown. I'll assume it's Seagoon and Major Bloodnok. ... *Distant sound of artillery firing* Seagoon: Duck! *Buck-awk-awk-awk!* Bloodnok: That's no...

Your restraint on not mentioning 'yolk' is commendable. Can I borrow that restraint for use on some of these other people? They're scary.

Does Grand Moff Tarkin's decision to wipe out Alderaan count? It's a well-reasoned decision, of course ("Dantooine is too remote to serve as an effective demonstration"), but it's also frightfully cruel. ... and I can't think of any more. I thought that was obvious... she'd obviously been...

Consider that an adventurer with a bucketload of hit points may have built up some natural immunity to, well, just about everything (and it's known that you can build up an immunity of sorts to radiation - not a blocker so much as a quick-DNA-repair molecule, but childhood exposure can indeed...

Who doesn't? I've got to throw a Digimon game together sometime... better improve my X-mon-fu first, though, I can barely name the hero characters. (Also... which continuity? Season 1/2, where you can legitimately throw in Cthulhu, like that Season 2 episode? Season 3, where I'm allowed to...

Not bad. I'd throw some more veins and tendons onto his arms (grab an anatomy atlas if you haven't already got one, those things are priceless), just to extend detail over all of his body. But overall, yes, nice detail, nice burliness.

Before my time. I must therefore seek out this 'Dragonslayer' and observe it, for I am indeed a slave to dragons.

Dragons in the cinema suck. That's the disappointing conclusion I've come to. You'd think it would be the other way around - I'm a dracophile, and I'll see movies simply because they have scaly wings in 'em. But out of the three recent movies I've seen featuring prominent dragons (Dragonheart...

Yes, six or eight hours of prep time is needed before going into the movie. Because it's not a movie, it's the last part of a much bigger one. Going in to see it an hour before the end would be just as ill-advised. Other than that, there really isn't much that needs explaining. Hobbits are...

A question regarding the 'lack of background' critique: Where are the iconic characters standing? In front of a shining white castle that would put Disneyland to shame? Upon the windswept wastes of a sunblighted, dying world? By the King's Arms tavern? In the creepy old woods, under the...

If I were the artist in question, I would check the fine print of our agreement, then tell you what exactly I thought. Most of the time, I sell single-project-use exclusive rights (which I'll abbreviate XR), but sometimes I sell single-project-use nonexclusive (NXR). Both types would mean I...

Hm. Interesting. I wonder if there'll be a stark, leafless tree with creepy branches somewhere in this film? Because I'm not sure I've seen any Burton without a stark, leafless tree. I also wonder if the vermnicious knids will make more than a cameo appearance. (They were mentioned in the...

Come, holiday in scenic New Zealand! You probably won't die! ... loses something as a slogan, doesn't it? I don't watch the news, sorry. I'm more a newspaper man. And they've been filled with Oscars coverage the past few days 'round here. (Apparently, we won. Except for Keisha, who'll just...

Who's to say it didn't catch on? In your Eberron, of course. Hey, if I'm allowed to posit a Europe where all the Germans have pointy ears, then you're allowed to posit an imaginary world where things make sense to you. I might not agree with the concept, but you don't have to get my signature...

I'm sure there's a better one somewhere... but I did one, you can find it and some musings on the topic of summoning at http://dungeondamage.keenspace.com/summon.html Anyone else got a better list? (Or like any of the ideas on mine?)