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Well, in my time zone I was asleep at the time of the attacks, and I distinctly remember waking up and thinking 'there's been a plane crash with lots of debris'. To be fair, I thought it was on one of the hills around my house, which is nowhere near America. But I didn't find out about the...

Well, humans can do some fairly odd things; does anyone have a good explanation for why certain people in my family kill battery-powered watches just by wearing them? Or various other electromagnetic phenomena I've observed. Precognition, on the other hand, does seem to be unlikely, except as...

To my knowledge: No. The closest you can come is drawing the attention of poster Tonguez, who should be along any minute now, and seems to have a well-developed world along such lines. Of course, as a fellow New Zealander, if he were to consider publishing to sate your specific needs, I'd have...

Buy software, buy anything I really want (really, really want I've already got) in the way of games and magazines (I desire that New Scientist subscription), maybe get a better processor for my computer (hey, it runs Doom3 fine, I have NOTHING to complain about). Then save the rest, maybe feed...

Right now, variant 1 of an exercise in anatomy drawing that turned into a full-blown manga-styled bishoujo picture as I was pencilling it. I finished it last night and immediately decided to exhibit it to myself. One of the benefits of being artistically inclined - and with enough practice under...

With regards to my current setting, Riftsea (I'm not playing it with D&D, but I aim to have the option available when it's done): An eclipse? If it's scheduled, that's all good (eclipses happen every 24 hours, for 12 hours, except for every third such period - it's how night happens). If it's...

The Shorter Oxford indicates that Orcus means 'hell' in Latin, and Orco can refer to demons in Italian. It also indicates the use of 'orc' as ferocious sea monster from the 16th to 19th centuries, when it was transferred to the Whale Killer (a dolphin whose name got scrambled to Killer Whale)...

To veer slightly off-topic: That's very much the modern Lex's approach to Superman in the post-Crisis comics, actually. Lex isn't 'hahaha I'm an evil genius'; he's a businessman who thinks he's the best person to run the world, and if that means breaking a few laws, well, he can get away with...

My webcomic, based on a campaign I ran years ago, isn't dead yet: Dungeon Damage. Not so good for Teh Funnay, as I'm doing it seriously (and as close to the bleeding edge of my artistic ability as I can go - strip 1 is a fuzzy sort of obscurity, strip 165 is laboriously painted by hand). I'm...

Very 'early Kirby' Thing, indicates the costumers really were paying attention. And the photos are just good enough to see Reed's gray sideburns... or that's what I think I'm seeing, anyway. He does look eerily Johnny-like in the promo shots, but I'm sure that on-screen they'll be different...

He lost once, but that was because Kaiba threatened to (effectively) kill himself if Yugi attacked him (which would have won the game); when Yugi didn't pull off the attack, Kaiba retaliated with his own gameender attack. That is to say, Yugi can lose when he wants to. The rest of the time...

In the interests of possible explanation, I've experienced strange interference with transmissions before. I've seen odd images superimposed over my TV programs, and heard voices on phone lines that had nothing to do with the people I was talking to. Unfortunately, the images on the TV were...

While the day be past in me time zone, some o'ye may yet have the chance to talk like brave buccanneers. In that vein, I give ye my contribution t'the day. And if that don't get ye t'talk the way ye should, there's no hope for yer lubbery hide.

There be another pirateblood on the boards? I be related (not directly, another supergrand-uncle-type relation) to ol'Cap'n Morgan. His legacy has no film, just rum. I'll not take the task of sayin' which be better.

In D&D, I've thrown in relatively few anachronisms; mostly things like pants and the ability for females to go adventuring without comment. In my homebrew, the best term is panchronism. There's a region that's supposed to be fairly medieval in flavour, with swords, dragon riders, and the...

I always thought Megatron's lackeys just considered human-level entities to be like ants. (I even detect patronisation in Optimus Prime's voice whenever he talks to humans, and the Decepticons are quite the opposite of his outlook.) Throwing a spirit with a mad-on for humans into them is both...

It's not a perfect impermeability field; I suspect the costume's made of fine threads, which can sink through the field and settle on his skin, which in and of itself is probably extremely tough - the field is just icing on the cake. It's the same reason he can breathe, talk, etc - the field...

Nope, abbreviation, like in "don't". As a diehard linguistic pedant on some issues, I'll more frequently refer to it as "All Hallows' Eve" (the night before All Saint's Day, which at one point was New Years' Day; thus, the preceding night was a "hole" between years, when supernatural villainy...

And this is why the Wizard magazine Hallowe'en contest is a good thing.

Magic: the Gathering. Little collectable card game, got some company called Wizards Of The Coast a chunk of money, enabling them to rescue D&D from economic death. Still going strong, last I heard. It's not exactly an RPG, but it hits most of the same geek buttons. Now, things I'd predict for...