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    Recent monster art - want some?

    Ferret: That's computer colour all the way. Pencil and ink are done physically, the other dozen layers of an image are all done in The GIMP. I've got some commentory on my site if you're interested in the processes. Tsunami: I disturb myself with this stuff sometimes. I figure that means I'm...
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    Miyazaki's Spirited Away

    I just watched it last night, and I liked it. It has the real feel of an old fairy tale to it (none of this 1930s-remoralised-America effluvia we thing of as fairy tales today - Disney is good, but the studio's roots are set in a cultural era I have objections to), and the animation's great. Not...
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    Request: Art for ongoing experiment

    Well, I drew a marilith some months ago for the board... I suppose it makes sense that I loan it out to the board. No reselling. Fair warning: There are no conveniently placed arms in this image, so I'm not using IMG tags to display it here. You have been warned...
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    Recent monster art - want some?

    Recently I've been doing some artwork for DaemonEye Publishing (through not having much else to do), and because they're only buying right of use (no exclusivity, no nothing), I'm free to show the stuff around and see if anyone else wants rights too. Failing that, I reckon it's a good chance to...
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    Roger E. Moore - the split-off Bond discussion

    Brosnan is Bond, and Sean is Connery. If you see what I mean. Mr Connery is immensely charismatic and stuff, I have no complaints about him as Bond, but Brosnan is, hm, suaver, more stereotypically Bond than the original. I've never been fond of Moore's Bond. To me, he's a smug fellow who does...
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    Aid my quest for a forum

    Well, except insofar as ENWorld is stocked with polite, knowledgable people who care, such as yourself. (Nobody who didn't care would have such questions.) It may require a fist of adamant to make my own forum this nice, but we'll see.
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    Fantasy Webcomics

    If it helps, I'm getting a forum soon, so I can survey my readership and see if they want to buy merchandise, thus prompting me to keep up the webcomicking. Right now, I can make more money doing other things... but there's a good chance I can squeeze a little money out of DD once I get...
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    Aid my quest for a forum

    Upon investigation, I've found http://www.talkaboutcomics.com to look pretty on-target. I'll contact them within the next 24 hours if nothing else springs to mind; the board style looks clean, the community's webcomic only, and the price is right... I haven't heard any horror stories either...
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    Aid my quest for a forum

    You may know me as the creator of the D&D-themed webcomic Dungeon Damage. Well, recently I've been devoting more of my time to commercial illustration, and the comic has suffered, because it doesn't put food on the table (being both free and time-consuming). One of my goals for the future is a...
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    How much do you prepare for a homebrew?

    A good amount. I've got pages of 'filler plots' that'll never see the light of day. I've detailed the ecological niche and global distribution of every creature in two Monster Manuals. I've figured out the military strength of individual countries (probably inaccurately). Most of this stuff...
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    Star Trek vs. Babylon 5

    This could indeed be the case. I do not know. Of course, torps do most of their damage through radiation release (as discussed above, with reference to antimatter and engagement ranges). If one were to actually hit a cube... well, it'd probably breach a couple of compartments before the energy...
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    Is it just me or does Paypal not feel "real"

    Strangely, perhaps because I'm vaguely paranoid, it seems far realler to me than just getting cash out of a machine and spending it in shops. I suppose that's going to go away once I get confident enough to make more than 2 purchases per year and go without the week-long parental consultation...
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    ROTK oscar humor

    Nerd riots? New Zealand would declare war on California! If I remember correctly, the world premiere here in Wellington was attended by over a hundred thousand people. (Very few of whom got to see the movie, they were just here to see the people seeing the movie. Not bad for a multicity province...
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    Star Trek vs. Babylon 5

    Grr. Network ate my post. Retyping. Not so. Bombers have historically been useful in naval engagements. I'd cite examples if I knew the names of the battles... the primary difference between a bomber heading for your ship and a fighter heading for your ship is that the bomber can carry a much...
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    Appleseed trailer

    Quite. The future will not belong to English-speakers...
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    Origin of Wizards Tower in Legend and Literature?

    If you want to go tentative, try the Tower of Babel. Perhaps not the traditional image of a tower, more the 'big pile of rock' that evolved into step and slope pyramids if you follow some sources, but nevertheless, a big tower in Babylon or thereabouts. Possibly used for astronomy, but who...
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    Season's Greetings

    Merry Christmas from Time Zone 13, everyone. Despite having been fairly quiet around here for a while, I thought I'd nevertheless invite people to view my contribution to the season (linked remotely so as not to destroy your connection without warning)...
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    Star Trek vs. Babylon 5

    We can have Q dressed up as Santa, a big party on B5 where Londo mistakenly believes he's at a funeral until G'kar tires of the joke, and massive CG celebrations in the streets of Coruscant where nobody knows what they're celebrating because it hasn't happened yet. Merry Christmas.
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    poll: What has most influenced your conception of fantasy?

    I voted 'modern fiction', because I've read so much more of that than of anything else. My first exposure was Tolkein, Lewis etc, but the field continued to evolve since then, and I'm interested by all the directions it's gone. D&D, of course, is a big influence. But so too is everything else on...
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    Why don't spawning undead take over the world?

    Didn't someone come out with rules for those a while ago...? Anyway, that aside, I see no reason not to have a Mighty Undead Blight sweeping the landscape. These things aren't natural; they're not supposed to be part of an ecosystem. They didn't evolve alongside other species and find a niche...
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