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  1. Hey, it's nice to see one of my scenarios break at least one top ten. For what it's worth, here's my list:

     

    1) Mad Ambition

     

    2) Imagine This Scenario

     

    3) Echoes: Renegade

     

    4) Adrift

     

    5) Lord Putidus

     

    6) HIM

     

    7) Rats Aplenty

     

    8) Kill Them Dead

     

    9) Tales from the Tabard Inn

     

    10) Frostbite

     

    Bottom line: I like TM scenarios. I like them a whole bunch. I also like Lazarus's scenarios, because they're like TM scenarios. Also, Imagine This Scenario is almost perfect. The above are pretty fluid, but they're about there. They are all excellent.

     

    Also, I guess to rate my own stuff (can I do that? Do I care that it's crass??) I 'd say The Eternal is my nicest scenario. The atmosphere is plenty thick there. Then Twilight Valley, Discord, and TENG.

  2. I mean, I think something like The Abyss aimhack would work really well. Base it around existing settings, factions, and characters, and have a story in an isolated part of the world.

     

    Leaves plenty of room for follow-up series, while delivering good quality stuff.

  3. Hannibal - Honestly, I haven't been able to force myself to carry on with it. Season 3 starting out being duuuumb, and I gave up halfway through e03. If I wanted to hear uneducated crap about morality and philosophy and all this other stuff I'd read one of those SW threads.

     

    And when the hell is Sherlock coming back :(

     

    Sherlock has an episode out this Christmas, I think.

     

    As for Hannibal. Yeah, season 3 didn't start off all that great, and the constant sophomore philosophy had ALWAYS grated on me, from right back in season one. That said, if you can force yourself to watch until episode 4 or 5 it starts getting really good. Like, not quite season 1 good, but better than season 2 good. I really enjoyed it until almost the very end.

     

    Oh, and uh...

     

    I recently saw Merlin, which was fun and silly. I've also watched all of Futurama this year (even the disappointing last season), and we're slowly working our way through Buffy the Vampire Slayer - me for the fourth(?) time.

  4. As a Morrissey fan, I've suffered more than most for following a flawed artist. With increasingly less frequent flashes of brilliance in his musical career, I kind of hoped that Morrissey's literary career would recapture some of the old Smiths' magic. Alas, no.

     

    List of the Lost is a turgid slip of a book. One almost wishes it didn't exist, filled as it is with unedited garbage and ham-fisted language. As cutting as Steven Patrick can be (and last was circa 1995), the only thing you'll feel whilst reading this offering is the neutering snip of a Mancunian lad struggling with the big boy's thesaurus. I won't bore you with details - this review is already in danger of being longer (and more coherent) than the damned book - but for somebody so adroit at weaving fantastical lyrics of longing, List of the Lost is less full of wist, and more the self-absorbed (edited because I thought the autocensor would have my back) of a talent squandered and increasingly out of reach.

     

    Read Autobiography if you must - it's at least finish-able - but I'd stick with listening to The Smiths (and a slim handful of his solo work) whilst reading something more wholesome.

  5. I'm very close in age to Jeff and I find the old man routine quite over the top. While I am certainly not as physically capable as I was in my early 20s, I can still do everything that I want to do as long as I am smart about it. If I made an effort to truly get into shape then I could do a lot more.

     

    Hey, it's like you're taking the words right out of my mouth - and I'm only in my late 20s!

  6. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

    Liked it. Recommend it, if the subject interests you. This is the Studio Ghibli documentary. It was interesting, but it's not exactly a documentary about Studio Ghibli. It is not much concerned with the history of the studio, or every movie they've made, or anything like that. Rather, it's a look at how the studio works today, the production and release of several of their more recent movies, the personal life and character of Miyazaki and a few other employees, and a little bit about the future. It's contemplative and melancholy.

     

    Almost as melancholic and haunting as the best that Ghibli has put out. I found it more watchable than some Ghibli movies - and I'm probably this forum's greatest fan of these movies (I concede that Slarty is probably a bigger Spirited Away fan).

     

    Definitely watch it if you can.

  7. Yeah, creatures picking up stuff is definitely an Avernum thing.

     

    Also "Avernum 3 was my favorite, but only because I was too young to know quality."

     

    Avernum 3 IS quality, friend. Third best SW game.

  8. So, there are quite a few machines contacted to our network (my housemates all have phones and computers, and two have tablets), but I don't know much about those. My stuff includes:

     

    Nausicaa, my iPhone 5S. Previous phones were Kiki and Chihiro. I picked Nausicaa for my most recent one because it fit the Ghibli criteria I previously had, plus the naming convention I currently use for computers.

     

    Nikki's Nook, a 16gb rooted Nook HD+. Not the tablet I'd have chosen for myself, but it was a prize from university for writing the best dissertation in my graduating year. I mainly use it for reading, and for streaming movies/netflix.

     

    Athene (who was cannibalized), my first custom PC. It had a 3.1ghz i3, 8GB RAM, GTX 650, and 1TB HDD. I had it running OSX 10.8 and Windows 7. Once this machine saw me through university, I decided to upgrade. I kept my case, the ram, and my optical disk drive,

     

    Bia, the machine that grew from Athene. Another custom-built desktop computer (3.4ghz dual core i5 / 16GB RAM / GTX 970 / 2TB HDD, 128GB SSD).

     

    Lissa, an old HP laptop I don't use anymore. It has a dual core processor, 3GB RAM. Not sure what else. Or if it even works.

  9. I'm still trying to figure out why the central meetup happened in Carlisle. There is not much of anything there and it is not near a major airport.

     

    My recollection of it might be pretty skewed, but I think it was pretty much because I was visiting Nicothodes. Nico lived close enough to Tyran, in Carlisle, that a trip made sense - they might've even met before then, but I'm not sure. Anyway we decided to visit Tyranicus, and invited lots of people to come. Grimm made it, and I persuaded Dikiyoba to come from Oregon to see us too.

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