ThaOGDreamWeaver

Soy la Tejedora de Sueños, y apruebo este mensaje. ¡Viva Machetelrond!

I don't know what D+ is like in the US, but in the UK it has the Star section. That's the likes of AHS, Walking Dead, Y:The Last Man, Sleepy Hollow (fun gore but still gore), Pam & Tommy, and a surprisingly fine selection of cult movies that would be educational for kids - like Ready Or Not (survival horror), OneHourPhoto (Robin Williams on fine supercreep form), The Omen (parental relationship issues), Borat (abuse of Americans), Grosse Pointe Blank (abuse of a high-end TV) and The Favourite (abuse of Rachel Weisz and a sponge. If you know, you know.) On top of all that, they're doing Moon Knight. ....so, yup, their parental controls are pretty good. Individual passworded profiles with individual ratings settings. I would have added a log to the kids' profiles and login history to all of them, but that's just me. EDIT:At the risk of an "actually", Disney has had side gigs like Touchstone for edgier stuff for years, and added FX, Searchlight, and 20th Century Fox in the News Corp buyout. They also had... Miramax. Which did make some fine movies. But the business part of Whollyodd wasn't family-friendly, probably never will be. I'm not thinking of trying my luck again there - one asskicking like that is enough for one lifetime, and one less creep to deal with doesn't clean up Burbank. Though at least I'd feel a little safer in one sense.

Propellorheads & Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

Rush - Cygnus X-1

I re-registered after reading this thread, found they still hadn't created a Mac client, left again.

Bravo! Mine's not quite as good, but I'm enjoying being Harvey The Wonder Hamster. (Rad/Titan tank. Huge body shape, min height and legs, max most everything else including head scaling. And if there's any suggestions for scaling his head up to be more proportionate, let me know.) And yes, he does have a bio: having been bitten by a radioactive human, Harvey rapidly developed in size, strength, intelligence, phenomenal powers, and a paranoid fear of accordion players. Strange aversion, but there you go. The Righteous Raging Rodent Of Rhode Island is rapidly making a name for himself in his quest for peace, justice, and jumbo-sized millet sticks.

It's kind of an underused sandbox for writers, since, well, comic books kinda do the job pretty well. However, being a Squirrel Girl nut, would recommend picking up her "origin story" novel Squirrel Meets World - which I would very, very much like to see filmed. It's a "new girl in new high school" YA-ish thing, but heavy on the comedy, Pratchettesque footnotes and asides and multiple perspectives. People might actually be put off by it being a Marvel tie-in, but very much not a knock-off for the money. In the Serious Novelist category, you don't get much more serious than Salman Rushdie. Or do you? I'd never read the guy's stuff, only the news about him - and still haven't read any of his more contro stuff: not really the kind of thing I like relaxing with. But a friend recommended that Haroun And The Sea Of Stories would be up my street... and it is. Think Neil Gaiman rewriting Yellow Submarine for a bhangra crowd and you're close. From there, I went right back to Midnight's Children - only his second book. Without saying much - more than a bit X-Men, but I suspect Sens8 owes a lot to it. Something that may be somewhat familiar to users of this board right now... Bob Rodi's What They Did To Princess Paragon is about writers and their fandom. PP is a fairly obvious WW knock-off, and sales of her books are falling. So, as per usual, she gets re-imagined with a new style, new plotlines, and a new girlfriend. (The book's from 1994, btw, so it's before Straczynski's take on the series, New 52, etc etc). While the reboot reinvigorates the series and grabs headlines, one "traditional" fan - the wonderfully named Jerome T Kornacker - is more than a little upset. You can guess what happens next, but it's a fun once-and-done, and confirms a few of the things you darkly thought about writers and editors. It's also not aged that well: given what's happened with Reddit, Twitter, and armchair culture warriors generally, it'd need a reboot of its own. Finally, if you're a WW fan, you might well have run across Jodi Picoult's Love And Murder arc. If you'd like to move across to her less capey stuff, Leaving Time might be a good place to start.

John Parr - St Elmo's Fire

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

Blue Man Group ft Venus Hum - I Feel Love Still need this outfit btw...

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peekaboo

Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Duck Dark (Live at Fortaleza, Brazil)

Weird Al Yankovic - Harvey The Wonder Hamster

Iron Maiden - Writing On The Wall

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

They had to do it. It was the law. But whoever took that or was there at the time and didn't leak it must have had either the willpower of the Gods or one of Feige's robot cybertanks parked on their lawn. Probably both.

Video's been nuked off the thread - what was it?

Random thought: I often judge a book by how fast - or if I replace it, how often - it gets stolen. Multiple Pratchetts and two copies of Cyrano have gone missing over the years. As has this one - clearly the work of a miscreant fiend of some kind... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soon-I-Will-be-Invincible/dp/0718152913 ...which tells the interwoven story of newly-minted bionic hero Fatale, recruited to join a famous and famously dysfunctional group of supers, and the rather more entertaining Dr. Impossible, an evil g... sorry, Malign Hypercognition Disorder sufferer. Who is as much puzzled and fascinated by his own self-destructive compulsion to take over the world as he is a slave to it. (Oddly, I wrote a similar psychological paper at college referencing Pinky And The Brain, amongst other things.) The flipping of perspectives isn't a new device by any means, but works well in this context, and there are clear moves in tone and style that set our two narrators apart. And clearly, it's a lot more fun being bad, even if you wind up trying to do the same thing every night...

Tiny thing: interviewer for Picard just asked Sir Pat if that's his voice in Dr. Strange. [stares straight to camera] [eyes shift slightly right] [back to camera] "...who's Dr. Strange?" The Feige is strong with this one. 😂

One more note on this before I hit the hay: one of the things that worries me about it is the expectations from its funders. Going sideways for a bit: there's a very old (and partially true) story about the guy who turned down the Beatles. He rued his mistake, and once yelled at his A&R guys "don't bring me these damn hippies, get me the next Beatles". At which point either Bowie, Bolan or both were kicked out of his office, depending on who you believe. Ever since Dinklage first said "I drink... and I know things", studios have been looking for the next Thrones. Not just high-fantasy, but epic, eye-catching, oh-goddess-help-me "high engagement" stories that grab eyes and ears. On top of working and reworking a legendary IP, that's a lot of demand for a writer or showrunner to hold up to, and I hope they don't pander to it. The only way to make a series people think is good is to MAKE A GOOD SERIES, not throw tricks and references and meta things in. The only good thing about working for Amazon or Netflix, is that once commissioned, they tend not to interfere as much as a network. There's some back and forth, but it's usually fairly well reasoned. Anywhere else, and that writer's room would have needed an army of Rohirrim to stop a slavering orchorde of producers, studio execs and hangers-on waving toxic Post-Its. For there may come a day, a terrible day, when we may submit to your suggestion of extra sex scenes or comedy dancing Hobbit troupes. BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY.

I was just given a copy of Unfinished Tales (partner's sister works in a bookstore: slightly scuffed cover means the whole thing gets pulped, so I get the odd rescue for free). I daresay that it's not going to be quite like that, because JRR is going full Beowulf in some of these passages, and unless you're going to have your actors declaiming at each other that they're Tuor son of Guor son of Haldor son of Locknstore (etc), you'd need to adapt the dialogue for a modern audience. Heavily. I have a concept I like to bore other writers with called the Believability Curve. No matter what you want to set up, no matter what actor you cast, what twists you want to throw, you can do it, as long as you bring the audience along with you. Throw them into a 90 degree wall, they stop dead: throw them through too many loops and they throw up on you. The question here is can the writers take what an audience knows (including some very very deep fans... nerds... nerds in the deep... they are coming), acquire and preserve the style and tone, and make something new with it. Audiences know Galadriel and vaguely know she's a leader, quasi-immortal, wise and powerful. They don't necessarily know how she became that way. In Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and the notes to Road Goes Ever On, there are stories and notes that she participated in the flight from Valinor as a warrior. But regardless of whether that source material fully supports it - can you as a writer (and Morfydd Clark as the actress) sell it to an audience and their expectations? Right now, I'm a little doubtful, but keeping an open mind, and it's going to depend a lot on that opening episode pulling people in. In any case - speaking as someone who was at risk of being birthnamed Galadriel (it was the 70s, and Mum and Dad were superfans) - even though they are playing with Big Material, it's still not the worst thing that's ever been done with that material. And definitely not the weirdest.

Came up with a random concept for a 'toon - Wizard Of The West - decided to try Staff/Fire, and tbh I'm a bit addicted now. Would like some advice on where to go next with him. I'm on Level 42, so not every slot is used yet... ...and I haven't got the readies to fancify everything. I go through minions and LTs like Hell's Own Lawnmower*, though bosses & EBs are a bit rougher if I'm not teamed. END is often a problem, less so now I have some slotting and Physical Perfection. I'm playing it for pure fun rather than powerlevelling, but if anyone has suggestions for where to take it from here or what recipes to save up for, feel free. I also don't have Mids or Pine handy and my corporate antivirus doesn't like it, so slightly manual readout here: please feel free to mock as necessary. PRIMARY: Precise Strike - Acc, 2xDam Guarded Spin - Acc, 3xDam Eye Of The Storm - Scirocco [AccDam + AccRch], 2xDam Staff Mastery - N/A (usually Form Of The Mind) Serpent's Reach - Devastation [AccDam + AccDemRch + AccDamEndRech + Hold Proc] Mercurial Blow - Acc (mainly use this to keep chains going) Innocuous Strikes - IceMistral [AccDamEnd + AccDamEndRech + DamRch (will get Cold proc and DamSlow later)], Dam Sky Splitter - GladStrike [AccDam + AccDamEndRch + DamEndRch], Dam SECONDARY: Fire Shield - GladArm [Res + ResEnd + TP/Def], Titanium [Res + ResEnd + End] Healing Flames - Preventive [Heal + HealRch + HealEndRch + RchEnd + Absorb Proc] Temp Protection - Res x2 Plasma Shield - Steadfast [Res + ResEnd + Res+Def], Aegis [Rs + RsE + Psi/Mez] Consume - PerfShift [EMoRc + EMoRcA + RcA + EndProc], EnergyMan [Stun Proc], Rch Burn - Scirocco [AccDam + AccRch + DamRch], 1xAcc, 1xDam Fiery Embrace - 2xRch INHERENT Swift - Run Hurdle - Jump Stam - 3 x EMo POOLS Boxing - 1xRopeADope AStn (rarely use) Tough - 1xRes (almost never use) Weave - Reactive [Def + DfE + Scaling], Def, End Mystic Flight - Freebird [Stealth] EPIC Focused Accuracy - Gaussian [THtE + BuildUp Proc, 2xE] (I love this but it's an END hog) Physical Perfection - Synapse [EMo + Emo/Run] TEMP POWERS FOR LOWBIE SURVIVAL AND FUN Revolver, because cowboy Coyote, because cowboy/wizard Steam Jump, because steampunk/cowboy/wizard Hand Grenade, because, well, handy Anything else I can scrounge from missions, Safeguards etc Questions: What IOs etc should I save up for? Is Tough worth slotting up a bit? Do I really need Blazing Aura or Taunt? As this isn't strictly a farm/total invuln build, what would be some good choices for 44/47/49? *Feel free to steal that name if you like...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes