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You forgot to conjugate the verb and decline the direct object. Black Omega, you might consider using 'truth' instead of 'knowledge' (veritas noctem illustrat). There are more idiomatic phrasings you could use, if anyone who's going to see this might know the difference.

This might pique my interest. I read comics for about 2 years in the early 90's, but before and since, nothing. Part of the reason is how utterly unbelievable some of the premises are, among them this one: thou shalt not kill. A story just isn't interesting to me if it has no feel whatsoever for...

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

This will never happen--it's not how the human brain works.

Maybe we need to define obscure. I'm pretty sure fewer people have read Harry Potter than haven't, even just in the western world. The ratio probably balloons negatively after that.

None, but they've all seen Ravenous and encountered the basic "eat human flesh go bestial become immortal" shtick before. Lots of Robert Carlyle fans. Certainly true in my case, but I'm not relying on myself here. That's certainly possible, but the Jersey Devil can't be a good example. I mean...

Looks like. I can't do anything about the amount of exposure other people have to this stuff. I can say that I've never been on any sort of gaming network, like Battle.net or MtGOnline, where a variety of spellings of the name weren't in use. I can also say that when I asked my class of 26 if...

If you reread my post, you'll find that "balanced" systems are incompatible with the kind of game I want to be playing. So no, it is in fact a contract between me and the system, or would be if I played D&D. Balance certainly doesn't encourage variety, although I'm sure you're right about appeal...

If you're playing an RPG like it's Monopoly (unless the RPG is designed specifically to have winners and losers, zero-sum competition between players, etc.), you're already in a world of hurt. I mean, not really, since obviously you can play the game however you want and it doesn't affect me in...

Says you. D&D's lackluster attempts at balance are actually some of the primary reasons I don't play it (ditto d20/modern RAW). A lot of the balance mechanics, like x/day, just make no sense from a flavor standpoint. Of course a lot of groups need rules to enforce balance, but a lot is not all...

Or from the World of Darkness, or from Warcraft, or from any number of other sources that have coopted the word and reimagined the story in some form or other. And there are a lot of them because, like vampires and werewolves and zombies--just one tier down--the basic concept is fairly well...

Hey man, unless they actually put the title on screen while the episode aired, there's not much chance of me seeing it. Which is good for them, actually, because I might've just skipped last week's ep and returned for this week's if I'd known what was coming. The effects of cannibalism in the...

We could even acknowledge that the whole reason BSG is so interesting is that it's never as black and white as all that. I rather think genocide--let's estimate ultra-conservatively (I don't recall ever hearing death figures, someone fill me in if we have them) and say 5 billion per colony...

It is, in the context of the epigraph.

The anima sola is only superficially similar to what we've seen (i.e. similar in terms of very basic imagery). I think Umbran was more asking how what we've seen has anything to do with a spirit in purgatory, a matyr, Catholic iconography, etc. It also does nothing to explain what you called the...

I liked the first better, just because it was less obvious. After the opening sequence, my exact thought was "please don't let it be a Wendigo, and while we're at it let's never have vampires or werewolves or any of that crap on this show unless it's a totally campy spoof episode, like when...

They were from his dad's journal.

They shouldn't have needed to. Angel, fresh from feeding on Hamilton, should've been able to take the whole mob out solo. If the story is ever picked back up and they gloss over that, I'll be severely disappointed.

Didn't even have to think about it: Firefly. I still watch BSG every week, but it doesn't even compare.