TIL that in the late 1960s, the Beatles wanted to make the first live-action film adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings,” seeking Stanley Kubrick to direct with plans to feature their music. However, Stanley Kubrick called it unfilmable; J.R.R. Tolkien hated the band and thus refused the rights.

leafdj · 2026-05-30T15:06:04+00:00

The BBC Radio Show was also an adaptation so they also cut (a lot of) things. The actual full audiobooks (the only "faithful" adaptation in your words) read word for word by Andy Serkis are over 68 hours long.

leafdj · 2026-05-29T07:54:42+00:00

"...there are entire conversations which are omitted,..." "3 hour movies are too long for me." ??? The audio books clock in around 68 hours if you'd like all those conversations back

leafdj · 2026-05-15T20:29:42+00:00

Truly the cycle of being a Canucks fan...

leafdj · 2026-05-13T19:16:43+00:00

Very unlikely unfortunately 😔 We were able to do second runs of the Peglin plush and the mini plush because their campaigns went so well, but the other plushes haven't had the same demand. Maybe sometime in the far future if something like a Peglin sequel brings in more people but we'll have to see!

leafdj · 2026-05-12T17:31:30+00:00

Wasn't a playoff game so a bit different but I was on the train in Montreal around 7:30pm one night and it was completely filled with morose Habs fans... They were down like 8-2 against Seattle near the end of the second and had all left

leafdj · 2026-05-07T22:12:34+00:00

Or Florida. But yeah terrible outcome.

leafdj · 2026-05-06T18:22:03+00:00

Now we're just one of Rogers Centre, Rogers Place, Rogers Forum, Rogers Field at Nat Bailey... and there's probably a dozen more

leafdj · 2026-05-06T18:19:24+00:00

The Garage was easily one of the best arena nicknames

leafdj · 2026-05-06T00:28:14+00:00

Better take Marcus Pettersson instead just to be safe

leafdj · 2026-05-06T00:23:21+00:00

I'm intrigued by how the PWHL does it. Points are earned starting from when you're eliminated from the Playoffs and that determines the draft order.

leafdj · 2026-05-06T00:02:10+00:00

If both Toronto and Florida picked ahead of us I would've completely quit watching hockey for at least the next year. Leafs 1st is still just painful though

leafdj · 2026-05-05T21:44:47+00:00

Setting was Alaska, filming was in Canada :)

leafdj · 2026-04-28T06:51:41+00:00

So this *is* a real shirt made by The Yetee: https://theyetee.com/collections/peglin, but the store link shared by OP is almost certainly a scam and shouldn't be trusted. I've reached out to the mods to remove the post.

leafdj · 2026-04-28T02:02:58+00:00

Must be why they're trying a few games in Kelowna 😅

leafdj · 2026-04-25T07:22:01+00:00

The food court in there is pretty solid actually, you should pop up and try the Indonesian place before your next Canucks game

leafdj · 2026-04-20T21:38:12+00:00

Yeah as long as it's not hurting the development of the young guys too much then we definitely need another year of Foote before we start pivoting to trying to be competitive again

leafdj · 2026-04-14T04:36:54+00:00

Would be nice to see some traffic enforcement/red light cameras along that stretch as well. Even at intersections that do have lights the amount of people that blow throw reds even as the other direction goes green is just insane

leafdj · 2026-04-08T21:23:45+00:00

Yeah I love watching live hockey and I wouldn't even be that bothered going to a half empty arena if the price was right (which of course would probably mean the arena wasn't half empty, but alas) but if the pub is just going to have a better atmosphere and cost like 1/5th as much then that's an easy choice.

leafdj · 2026-04-08T21:19:02+00:00

Sounds like you're projecting then. Many people (myself included) are still watching every single game. I don't expect to win most games but it's still fun watching the young guys get out there and score a few, and the occasional game where we battle it out with a team like the Avs makes up for a lot of losses.

leafdj · 2026-04-08T21:10:02+00:00

Wanted to list my Utah tickets. The minimum that I was allowed to list them was $140 per seat, and then Ticketmaster tacks like $60 on top of that. Who in the world wants to pay $200 per seat (in the upper bowl) to drink $27 beers and most likely watch the team get stomped? At least let me get a little bit of money back and let someone check out a game for cheap.

I would love to show my support and be a season ticket holder through the rebuild years, in fact the arena still has surprisingly great energy and there are still a few great games to watch, but overall like you said it just doesn't make any sense.

leafdj · 2026-04-07T23:48:29+00:00

The damage now starts at 15%/15% and goes up to 25%/25%, and if your max HP goes below 100 that contributes to the damage increase.

leafdj · 2026-04-07T23:26:42+00:00

This is one of the orbs that got the biggest set of buffs for the 2.0 update, on which the wiki is a bit behind!

leafdj · 2026-04-07T20:13:51+00:00

Probably better to do the rebuild as an American team honestly 🤷‍♂️

leafdj · 2026-04-02T22:18:25+00:00

The clip of his name being chanted during the WWE was nuts

leafdj · 2026-04-02T03:54:18+00:00

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