The funny thing is everyone knows this. We are all aware that games are just games. No one will care tomorrow that you won at Starcraft today. But we get caught up.
There are so many awesome tales we could delve out of Tolkien's universe - and we don't need ANY of these stories to focus on the main characters. Here's three I've seen people online come up with. ...
In March 1944 was the last eruption of Vesuvius (so far). Clinkers & rocks rained down. Among other things, over eighty B-25 bombers were destroyed by the blast. So I guess the Roman gods (or at lea...
Sandy Petersen 推荐两部经典科幻恐怖片《Quatermass and the Pit》和《Planet of the Vampires》,称后者曾让他童年观影时吓得躲到座椅后面。两部电影标题有误导性——前者没有"pit",后者没有"vampires",但分别涉及撒旦起源和外星寄生虫设定。
Rivalries are forever in international relations. Politics are ephemeral. Who today cares about the deadly quarrels of the Guelphs and Ghibellines? Or the Blues vs Greens of Byzantium? People died for...
Roddenberry wanted the political equivalency of two strong powers opposed. This wasn't unique to the Cold War era. Before that we had France vs. Britain; Spain vs. France; Catholics vs. Protestants; ...
“we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you'll never be rid of the Dane.” Rudyard Kipling 引用 NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (@NYCImmigrants): 🧵1. It...
Modern media creators act like "deconstructing" film genres is some bold new amazing concept. Chaplin winked at the camera in 1915. Keaten climbed INTO a movie screen in 1924. The Marx Brothers told t...
There’s an abandoned car place in town that is so old, it still boasts that it services Edsels. I’m sure it’s now haunted, cursed, or the secret meeting point of a terrible cult. In the other picture...
Phantasm was so amazing. Horror built solidly on nightmare logic. I can’t offhand think of another movie that did the disjointed dream so well. Even things that make no sense in the real world hang to...
Reggie’s finally crossed over to the afterlife. The Tall Man needs to beware. Reggie Bannister, at age 80, has sadly passed away. He was of course the great "sidekick" for five of the Phantasm movies...
I was just now keeping company with my mom, watching streaming TV, and an ad came up for some drug. It caught my ear when the ad proudly claimed that their product had effects “similar to a placebo”....
Remember how Age of Empires made your life easier... without asking? Here's some of the sneaking little techs & systems that did that. 1) We added the Spies research in Imperial because we hated the ...
I hate comparisons which make orcs bigger than humans. Orcs in Lord of the Rings are really clearly shorter than humans. The "huge" Uruk-Hai are described as "nearly as tall as a man" with "straight l...
I had a friend at MicroProse who'd formerly worked at Origin Systems. Now this friend loved loved loved Gauntlet, to the point that he often spoke in Gauntlet-speak. (Calling him Fred because it's not...
In 1974, and for several years afterwards in Dungeons & Dragons, we raw dogged our characters' stat rolls. Straight 3d6, STR up through CHA. You know what? It worked just fine, because what happened ...
In America you can’t find “hare” in a restaurant, but “rabbit” sometimes turns up. In Germany I’ve only seen “hare” on menus. Never “rabbit”. At least that’s what the English translation says.