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I heard that it pretty much "got pandemic'd" in that Jemisin by her own admission totally lost enthusiasm (not because she didn't believe in the story, but pandemic blues, totally understandable), but felt she had to finish it, and combined the manuscripts from the two next books in the "We...

I do think "Mangetout" - "eat everything" would have been another very on-the-nose name! To be fair to the Maginot line btw, whilst the cultural valence in the English-speaking West is as I describe, the French designers did actually understand the Germans could go around it, they just thought...

Man the stick I'd get for Cargill-84 lol! At least you dropped the S to disguise it slightly! I once made up the name "Agadir" for a major dragonborn antagonist (not quite badguy) in my D&D campaign only to find out a week or two later that it was the name of a city in Morocco and the way I...

Oooooh I like this

It's not. It's the first thing you see in the show (IIRC) It's foreshadowing what's going to happen more broadly. It's irrelevant that it's a ship, it's irrelevant that it's collecting specimens. It's a theme, if we're going with the "EXTREMELY ON THE NOSE" approach the show seems to be taking...

This was fascinating because the spells I got, the vast majority of them were just very very much too high level. Like, level 3 spells with level 1 or even cantrip-tier effects. A level 7 spell that would have been bad at level 5. A level 5 spell that was kind of objectively worse than upcasting...

One way is to just give everyone a token they hand in after their go, and then next "go" they get it back so you know a "turn" has passed for them. Personally I probably wouldn't run D&D with full-on DH initiative because of stuff like that, but if I ever run it again I'll definitely do...

There's some weirdly very "1980s Judge Dredd story" about that concept!

Honestly it's shockingly easy to picture the Empire of Man's customs enforcement, a very bored looking guy in a dirty uniform standing next to a parcel scanner the size of a semi-truck, with gothic spires like it was a cathedral, multiple tech-priests attending it, waiting for one of the...

I think the idea is that the name is foreshadowing - i.e. all the defences they have against these aliens will fail, not that the ship itself is literally the Maginot line. The "on the nose" name would be to call it The Pandora (or any of a million names for hell). However, given how incredibly...

Wait wait I got another: Sorry I'll stop now!

The Maginot line was a massive line of forts and defenses that were built to protect France from invasion by Germany after WW1, but Germany just went via Belgium, which the line didn't cover. Thus presumably it is a reference to all your careful defences be completely worthless when you get...

That's right! Churl vs churl action! I did check and apparently Ripley being in 3 and 4 was indeed entirely due to The Studio insisting (virtually every proposed script for Alien 3 wanted to be separate to Aliens - though often more Aliens-like than Alien-like), and I feel like Fincher and...

I mean, they do explain that at some length. She says her emotions are all muted, and they explain they're trying to simulate them in her software because she doesn't have an endocrine system or a nervous system or actual physical brain full of chemicals or the like, but might need to turn them...

I'm not familiar with it sadly. I suspect there are edgier/punkier MtG settings than that but I'm also not an expert on MtG. That said, BG3 is considerably more "punk" and "risky" (and risque) than that I daresay. Yeah which is a much bigger problem with Dark Sun than anything else about Dark...

a) isn't special to the proposed scenario. It's absolute constant of all customs operations through time and history. It's been an issue in 1000 BC and will be an issue if there are customs in 40,000 AD. You fight it via enforcement. That's how you did it in 350 AD, or 1950 AD or now. If you...

I thought that was a little odd myself, I feel like there's probably some behind-the-scenes reason for it, like they tried it and it looked stupid as hell, or endangered the actors/stunt people, or was technically doable but would have been pushing what I suspect is a pretty pushed budget even...

Oh for sure! There's some pointless stuff (primarily the above). Just make the city-states incredibly oppressive and like serfdom and/or indentured servitude and like wildly unfair working conditions/horrible deals the norm instead of slavery (YA novels and anime are full of this stuff, I...