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OK, fair enough. Those two are going to be fairly effective (even though lightsabers have a fairly good track record against mechanical entities). Again, I'm led to question whether that's due to torpedoes or phasers/disruptors. And Sisko? To memory, he actually used the torps, but they were...

Just for the record, I believe that Dead Alive is known as Brain Dead in its native New Zealand. And I want to see it - I've only seen Bad Taste from Jackson's early years. That's pretty classic. Now to make this post worthwhile, they actually made a stage play out of that film a couple of...

I'll put Dragonheart and Willow onto my list. Got my little sisters hooked on exploding trolls at an early age... Starship Troopers - for all that it's derided by some, I know it's got precious little to do with the book, and I still like it. Star Wars Episode II - some don't think highly of...

I'd guess Vader and Tarkin are working together, Vader as the Emperor's watchdog, Tarkin as the guy who has the administrative skillz to keep that monstrosity operational and the tactical smarts to use it. Remember, for all that Vader's bad, he's not needlessly cruel - you could make a case for...

If we're going to go down that route, B5 gets Lyta and Kosh, while Star Trek gets... uh... Help me out here, people. Oh, I just thought of one. Bashir, who's so genetically superior he needs to cheat at darts to lose. Um. Not a very good supercharacter, for all that I love DS9.

Good on ya mate. Revel in your nerdity. Join us. Hhhh... hhh... I'd imagine that a full fleet of SDDs would be pretty nasty, indeed. Especially if they had an SSD with them, which is officially longer than B5 itself and well-shielded. (Just how long is unknown; argument persists over the ratio...

I tend not to get 'normal' things, which (for the purposes of argument) includes 'reality' TV. The more unrealistic explosions, weird technology, strange vistas of another time, etc, the better. Otherwise... I've already got it, being both human and alive. Maybe I'm easily bored by the things...

Big surprise, whenever I take these quizzes I come out as Optimus Prime or Angel or people that are far too nice for their own good. (Except that one time I got Frieza.) My grammar, however, is flawless. And I'll duel anyone who says otherwise. <img...

I've never run a session where the goal was to go to a dangerous place and take whatever you can find. I have run dungeons along the following plots: - Vengeance/pre-emptive strike - Teleport spell gone wrong segues into rescue-the-princess - Get out and find where you actually are, then go...

It's not really centric on any one race. The breakdown goes like this: Warm oceans: Merfolk, tritons, etc Tropics: Gnolls, halflings, humans Subtropics: Humans Temperate steppe and open: Orcs Temperate rough terrain: Elves, dwarves Arctic: Elves, dwarves Goblins live anywhere. Of course...

Well, if we're going to allow Geordi and Wesley on Starfleet's side, we have to include some of the more useful personalities available to B5. It's only fair, right? So we're probably looking at a nuclear minefield through G'Kar's connections to Narn weapon caches; Sheridan's tactical and...

It's not a formal band, but... http://www.cthulhulives.org has two Cthulhu-based CDs out (A Shoggoth On The Roof and A Very Scary Solstice, of which I own the latter and am greatly pleased).

OK, trailer acquired. Wow, that looks pretty cool. If occasionally cheesy. I'm suddenly reminded of why I love Finland, despite having never left the South Seas in my life. But really, why does the Excalibur not utterly obliterate the Sovereign when it fires the main gun? Anyone? That thing's...

1 - I guess because there's something deep inside certain people that leads them to do things that would be deemed 'heroic'. It's a species-survival instinct. If something's out eating your kind, and you do nothing about it, your kind gets eaten. Doesn't matter whether it's a cave bear or a...

I've always been fond of the AC +10 (or +15, adjusted by critrange adjustments?) becoming an auto crit. It makes killing goblins much easier when, instead of doing most of their HP with one hit, you almost always do more than their HP with one hit. Area effects, I think, would have to be...

I don't know if I'd say the Feds have all the advantages... to memory, Earthforce has things like point defence (whups, there go the quantum torps) and really big warships; according to the starship dimensions page, more specifically the 2m per pixel section, Earthforce destroyers are much...

My point exactly! Stop all that pointless bickering between elves and dwarves, that ought to make the neighbours happy. The iron fist of peace.

Or weirder still, an entirely new form of coherent light that's self-maintaining/generating on a quantum level (the only place it could semifeasibly work), and contains its own networking protocols and computing systems. But that's a whole new bundle of eggs...

I'm fond of the concept of noir, although I haven't seen too much on screen, truth be told. I've mostly picked it up from parodies. Y'know, like how you don't have to have seen Psycho to know what That Music means.

Let's see... Mortal Kombat: Anihilation - I was first able to see this when it screened at 2am one Saturday morning on TV. It's so utterly nonsensical. I still make jokes about Liu Kang's hair. "Space! Infinite empty vastness, the dust of millenia undisturbed by atmospheric motion. Life cannot...