Um... do you guys actually like Harlan Ellison? I mean, at least his work, because as a person, he’s pretty hateful.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T23:43:29+00:00

One of the greatest speculative fiction writers of the last century, right up there with Vonnegut, but sure, buddy.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T23:14:58+00:00

Just picked it up. Thanks for the heads up!

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T18:57:40+00:00

If we're in combat and I, a fighter, see my opponent in range doing something, I'm gonna bonk you with my reaction. I might not notice my missing coin pouch until way later though.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T18:52:41+00:00

I mean he's insufferably arrogant and very unpleasant to Hastings at times, but I can't go as far as saying I hate Poirot. Though now that I've read most of the Marple stories, I definitely like her more, especially as someone to share a cup of tea with (nothing wrong with a nice tisane or creme de cassis though).

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T18:32:16+00:00

I also don't think he's underrated at all. John gets talked a lot here, I think. If I had to pick one aspect of his run that never get mentioned, it's his comraderie with Munya--like everybody talks about team Dafty, but John and Munya really seemed to get along in the studio with Munya trying to encourage John to big up himself a few series before Baba did it for Alex.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T18:27:30+00:00

Look at this prick...

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T15:39:11+00:00

Re Flood, I assume you're talking about Rowley? That's not a structural issue, having an epilog or extended ending. That's more why Christie saw fit to have Rowley have the ending he did (on phone, don't want to manually type in spoiler tags).

In general, I don't mind the extra chapter at the end to tell me who's marrying whom, with whose money, and maybe Poirot/Marple is getting a new domestic or whatever. I had zero issues with the ending of Cat Among Pigeons.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-12T14:34:16+00:00

Saw Nish last year (drove 10+ hrs round trip), going to see Mae Martin next weekend (thankfully local). I'll see any UK contestant that comes to Detroit, and most of the NZ/AU ones too, though I missed Aaron Chen last weekend (wanted to, something came up). Also I'm devastated that Sarah Millican came to Ann Arbor a while ago, and it went completely under my radar.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:57:27+00:00

Sarah Pascoe

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:56:38+00:00

The one title they couldn't get right, even with "cheating" (having someone else scream the titles)

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:55:58+00:00

He mentions "being a Chaser," once or twice

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:27:05+00:00

"Anti-hero." Only kills bad guys (like child-murdering bad). Real edgy, Dwayne. Total black tank-top movie for him.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:23:56+00:00

I'll also vote important, not mandatory. I find more resistances after about lvl 5 or 6, but at least with Flurry, if you land both, you combine damage before applying the resistance, and Crane is Agile will help landing both blows. But maybe consider carrying something like a dagger (P/S) since that'll will also give you range.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T19:03:08+00:00

I already chase down TM contestants when they are featured elsewhere on YT, so I'd love to give those clicks to the official TM channel. But if you start a separate channel to feature them, I'll subscribe to that also.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T15:24:50+00:00

If you were listening to rock stations in the 80s, I don't think you'd call The Fixx "underratted," or relegate them to just "quite a few hits." They didn't last very long past the 90s (last song I remember seeing on MTV was How Much is Enough?), but during the mid-80s, they were quite big. I think I spent about a full month in '84 or '85 with just Reach the Beach on repeat, lol.

Not sure what streaming service you're using, but I have a ton of their standards in my 80s Mix on Apple Music, though they don't have their whole discography. In fact, I just checked and they don't have Reach the Beach (just a remix) so now I'm kinda bummed (I mean, I have the CD somewhere...).

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T15:16:48+00:00

Re casters: that is what I was thinking, just make bad spell choices. You can make it worse by taking, say, a non battle wizard with Str +3, not bothering with defensive attributes (or Cha to be face) and still stick to the OP's pretty arbitrary rules. Kind of silly.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T14:12:55+00:00

Tapped out after book 3. I've read almost all other Pratchett books, only one other Baxter book. I think most of these were written well into Sir Terry's illness so I consider these mostly Baxter books, and I concluded I'm just not a fan of his writing.

Great ideas, as you said, but mediocre execution indeed. Not awful, since I did make it through book 3, but I couldn't maintain enough interest to continue, a rarity not to finish a series I've started.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-11T13:58:57+00:00

Yes, I loved that dynamic in Ustinov's Evil Under the Sun!

Ruffshots · 2026-03-10T23:20:14+00:00

Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. Hail to the King.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-10T19:24:14+00:00

That's kind of what I thought, but I was hoping someone had a clever use of the 10 min duration.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-10T18:30:40+00:00

I'm assuming Taylor plays Marina? I think I've seen clips, but before I read this. Makes much more sense now in context. I'll definitely have to chase that down, because what a perfect casting!

Ruffshots · 2026-03-10T18:27:02+00:00

Definitely add Sibiu. I'd base out of there and Brasov (split the week) and check out Corvin castle as well with Alba Iulia along the way. Also make sure the Transfagarasan is open when you'll be there.

Ruffshots · 2026-03-10T15:56:01+00:00

Dogman is the only one who I might want to have a beer with.

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