Orlion Blight

Finished The Orchard Keeper by Cormac Mccarthy. Currently reading Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal.

Well, that's two new Disney movies in a row that I've enjoyed thoroughly. And the soundtrack is probably the best since Hercules.

Nobody has a Border's near them anymore I'm hoping to find The Jade Legacy soon.

But I wanna be a consumer whore! *stomps foot*

Maybe I'll have a PS5 by then...

The main issue with dogs is that they have no concept of personal boundaries. Add to that that dog owners tend not to understand that not everyone wants to be slobbered over and knocked down by excitable canines, and they just aren't fun to be around. Of course with smaller dogs, it's kinda cat territory with regards to personal boundaries. But obnoxious dog owners tend to want big, energetic dogs they have no business owning.

Yeah, that last one was pretty slow... but that's in part because Royal Assassin was just amaze balls

Us curmudgeons do provide the necessary spice to keep this place interesting! We can also warn you whippersnappers not to waste time on the Dune series and then gloat when you ignore us and complain that the Dune series gets really weird!

And maybe we just wanna say the author's name! Speaking of which, I'm excited for next year when we get The Last Metal by one Brandon Sanderson! Maybe we'll get more news soon!

Finished Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente. It's about apples and the comfort they bring in the face of horrifying, overwhelming love. Now I can focus on A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger which if you're not reading, you are robbing yourself of happiness and your future self will never forgive you.

Nothing puts one in a western mood like a whistling, boomer Swede.

You only had to wait one more day! This song has been stuck in my head the past few days, so now it gets to be your problem too.

Oh, I've enjoyed far more Asimov than Herbert. Doesn't mean Asimov isn't a bad writer (that's also his opinion of himself, it isn't just me being pretentious). Like, one of his best work is The Gods Themselves, and the final third (that he was proud of because he claimed it showed he could write sex. Spoiler: he could not) any way, the final third is garbage. In either event, my original point (that modern SF authors are waaaay better than both) still stands, and no one should have to feel that they HAVE to read the "classics".

Better than Asimov is a low bar

That bad, huh?

It's quince season, you know what that means! It's time for some Prester John, obvi!

The important thing to keep in mind here is that he did beat the Balrog. That is very rare, particularly in a fight to the death. That alone shows that Gandalf the Grey is a formidable warrior. It's hard to say what the equivalent of a Balrog would be in the Potterverse, if even one exists. So it's hard to argue that Dumbledore has done an equivalent feat. So, this is also to say that Gandalf typically does not fight because he's taken on an advisory role, one that is sacrosanct to his mission. He's not in Middle-Earth to resolve its problems with Sauron, but to help them defeat Sauron. This partially explains his behavior in the Hobbit, but it's mostly because the Hobbit was originally envisioned as its own thing and lots of stuff got retconned to fit the Legendarium.

I mean, when Gandalf was "beaten", he took the Balrog with him and came back stronger than before.. Dumbledore mostly dumbled about his door and caused most of the problems in his series, soooo....

To be sure, it's only the 2nd edition of Mansions of Madness that has the software interface (or made for it). Might be a concern when buying used. Fantasy Flight also makes a couple other board games that use similar setups. Journeys in Middle Earth and Descent (3rd edition? Some other title? It just came out and some folks like it though I've never played it).

Ah, R Scott Bakker... good stuff, though I feel the magic system is more based on the "power of creation" you see in far more classic treatises on magic. The logic/creativity are just methods to wield it if you can access it. (That's my interpretation, anyway) As far as further suggestions, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N K Jemison is pretty good and has an interesting magic system. Some science fiction can give you ideas as well, since sometimes you can have bonkers stuff happen based on physics interpreted for the sake of story. Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem trilogy is really neat for this. Well, the last book, Death's End, is for your purposes, but you should really read the entire thing anyway! I've only read the first book so far, but The Poppy War by R F Kaung might also be of interest

Well, it's done! Maybe we'll never have to see Annoying Thor again! Overall, it was fine. Very much in the spirit of the comics it was based on: just cheap, sometimes enjoyable fanfiction. That's also technically canon.

Dude, each episode starts with the Watcher narrating to us. Why is he doing that? Or in (multi)universe, who is he talking to and why? Is Ultron not powerful enough to percieve the One the Watcher is talking to?

Woooo! Starting my October reading AND double posting! This is truly evil of supernatural dimensions! So I started and completed a horror manga by Junji Ito called Remina. It's cosmic horror, so it is naturally cheesy, even if you leave out the terrible crowd dialogue (pro tip: no one should ever say "yahooooo!" if you want the work taken seriously) and Flash Gordon technology. Overall, it gets a shrug and solid "meh" from me!

Yeah, but if my "bold" is having fluffy kittens in a story that shouldn't have them and yours is dogs getting kicked, any discussion of "bold" is incoherent. Even a spectrum is defined so that one could identify what is part of it and what lies outside it.