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As in 60 billion double dollars? Nawh, no way, a small town boy like me with a price like that on my head?

So with the new revision process...will there be fewer drafts that go more quickly than the original? This wait is getting Really long.

I started reading this comic about a month ago. I'm around strip 250. So far it's been really good

So I just saw it. Wow, Worst Audience Ever. Seriously, the most obnoxious audience I've ever been in. Laughing at odd points, loud whispering, it was super distracting. I'm definitely going to have to watch it on dvd by myself in quiet before I make my final verdict, but right now...meh. I really liked the first film, and I loved Inti Darkness. I thought the trailers for this film looked awful, but the things that were bad weren't what I was expecting. The action scenes... They were just hard to watch. Shaky camera, too zoomed in, repetitive fist fights, they just disengaged me. Elba's villain and the fleet should've been terrifying in their power and destructive ability. They weren't. Like the previous two villains, Elba's characters development felt lacking. There didn't seem to be a lot of development among the good guys either. But I may have just not been able to pay enough attention due to annoying people. The humour was pretty great. I really thought it was spot on most of the time. Jaylah and Scotty were cool, I liked their time shining. Bones being more involved was good too. There were a Lot of hand waved solutions to problems..... Like... A LOT of Handwavium. I know im being overly critical, the people were really distracting and I just couldn't get into the movie so the negatives were what I could focus on.

I'd take both Delightful's and Twi's at the same time as well as you can. Trying to help her personally is great! But involve adults if you can. Some kinds of decisions really just shouldn't be made by teens if responsible adults can be involved instead or in addition to.

Oh yes, Guards!Guards! Is fantastic, one of my favorites. It is one of the books I normally recommend people read first as well . Finally started Good Omens, it's FANTASTIC!

Isn't the rule to do two points of damage and give one health point?

I do think I'm understanding this better... And I definitely agree with you. I guess I'm just left with, will your words positively affect her safety? (That's something I'm going to be thinking about for a while anyway and not primarily directed as a retort or rebuttle).

@Delightful that sounds exceedingly harsh to me. I totally get if that's partially just me misreading your intent, but it reads very critically and harshly. I thought Skaa sounded like he got what he's done was bad and is just trying to fix things now, inexpertly as his attempts might be. While your hypothetical response might be appropriate ( personally it feels just slightly over kill, but it could be entirely justified, I don't know enough), I guess it bothers me that you had to share it on here. It feels needlessly hurtful on a thread that's usually for supporting folks. I'm sorry if I've come across as rude, I really tried to make this as polite as I could while still being clear. Maybe pm me so we don't hijack the thread?

I would argue that most of the casting was fair to fantastic. My problems were with the plot, side stories, and a lot of the action. In particular, the elf-dwarf romance, Azog's lack of charisma, the Lord and Steward of Laketown( my gosh, I wanted their heads smashed in), a lot of Radagast's screen time, and the ridiculous Elven and Dwarvish stunts like the Barrel Chase or Legolas's stuff with the Bats in the Battle of Five Armies.

I finished the series just the other day, and I LOVED IT. I really loved it. I loved how it payed homage to its inspirations without just copying them. So many good things about this show.

I'm well into Demons by Dostoyevsky. It's different... It's readable... Maybe it's good? I'm not sure what the plot is. I got Children of the Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay from the library. I've never read one of his books but I've heard his name a lot so I thought I'd try it out.

My best friends are finally back from their camps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its been a rough couple weeks without them, so I'm REALLY excited to have them back. Had long phone convos for the past like 6 hours, and we're planning s huge all day thing next Saturday so that'll be great!

....Sounds like some bad rule 34 to me ......

Maybe a good question for Sanderson would be if the Seons and Skaze embody parts of their shards intents as closely as sentient Spren do. Depending on the answer it could make this threads question easier or a Lot harder to answer.

I feel like there's enough wiggle room that saying that Trell is someone new doesn't go against any facts we know of. But it feels like it's stretching things beyond reasonability... I'm in the Trell=Dominion or at least Selish shardic interference camp. There is a really good case for Trell being tied to Autonomy and Bavadin obviously, but i personally just don't like that option as much. The Odium theory has seemed odd to me from the beginning... I guess I rank it as being about as likely as Trell being an unknown member of the 16. The two theories just seem to stretch so little so much, and don't sound cool to me for whatever reason. Ive definitely enjoyed this thread though.

I finished The Gift of Asher Lev. I really can't explain how much I've loved reading Chaim Potoks books. In the four I've read, I've just found so much to relate to. I feel like he writes about me, even though I'm not very like his main characters at all. I think that takes a real gift. Is anyone aware of a Muslim author similar to Potok? I've gained a lot from reading great Christian and Jewish authors, and I'd love to try some from the third Abrahamic faith.

So I finished Darksiders, and I loved it. Mum trying to motivate myself to start either the original Deus Ex or Jade Empire.

Ahhhhh.....Subtext..... I don't enjoy it. In order to hang out with my best-best friend you really have to have a masters degree in subtext. I've been getting better at it, but it's definitely hard.

Storm it! They realized the truth! We were quite happy quietly being everyone else's Buckeye Overlords.

Only You can Save Mankind. A non-Discworld book by Pratchett.

Huh... So I had a massive headache last night, so I went to bed really early. Then I woke up at 1:30 this morning and haven't been able to go back to sleep since. Now I'm visiting Ohio State university. I think I'll watch one of the HunterXHunter films when I get home tonight. I'm really hoping we stop somewhere nice for dinner....

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. It's the name of the the trilogy by Tad Williams I was talking about above.

It does have many tropes, because it honestly started a lot of tropes. Yes Tokien, Eddings, and one other guy started a lot of the tropes, but Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy was another early influential fantasy writer. GRRM cited Williams's work as inspiration for GoT. I absolutely love the books, after the first two thirds or so of the Dragon Bone Chair. The first part of Dragon Bone chair, yeah, it'll feel very trope ish. I think that if you keep reading the series there's a great chance you'll really like it, and that you'll see that since Williams helped create the tropes, the series is also actually quite different from formulized books that copy the tropes.