Recent content by Dioltach

Rome's not unique. Have you ever been to Athens? But even where I live, in the Netherlands, it became law perhaps 25 years ago that every civil project has to be overseen by an archaeologist. Just laying new pipes for a heating grid or the sewers will uncover finds from hundreds of years ago...

Sad news. I loved Black Moon Chronicles and 666.

I feel I'd get more genuine laughs from watching the originals.

I saw this mentioned a few weeks ago in a high-brow discussion among some professors of Old and Middle English. Their response was very favourable.

In NL, t-shirts have tag in collar showing the size and brand and some other information, and another one sewn into the seam on the left side with more detailed product information.

They could parody Rogue One with some eerie CGI faces.

Back in the day, I was a big fan of Murdoch. Not so much his weekly schtick, but his general randomness and his spontaneous impressions. Nowadays, I'd say Hannibal from the movie version. "Give me a minute to plan, I'm good. Give me ten minutes, I'm great. Give me six months, I'm unstoppable."...

Maybe tomorrow I'll make it into my office and look in my Benson Benson & Ibsen Dictionary of Word Combinations.

The wife and I are both language professionals, and we've noticed it in the last few years. Apparently it's used for announcements on at least some trains in the UK: "We're arriving to Manchester station", for instance, according to one credible source.

This always struck me as weird. It's a built-in premise in the world that every story is just a retelling of something that's happened before, in a different age. And yet the biggest fans of the books happily ignore that.

And the vampire was played by Ian McKellen.

We have Disney+, Prime, Spotify Premium, Audible... and that's it, I think. I'll occasionally take one of the sports channels for a month or so to watch the rugby, but I cancel it as soon as the M6N/W6N is over (and the Dutch commentary is atrocious). I used to have Kobo Plus, but I have too...

What I'm not following is your reasoning. You complain about how LW was brought into TSR, then when I point out that it's nothing out of the ordinary you complain that she only managed to keep the company afloat for 12 years after saving it. What does that have to do with how she and Gygax came...

How is this a bad thing, or even relevant? That's how business is done. "Hey, I need something. Let me ask around to see if my circle of business contacts know someone who can help me out." If you end up regretting who you pick, that's on you.

It happens all the time in the corporate world. "We need an X type product, which sister company A makes. So even if it's not the best one on the market. we'll use it." It's a form of synergy.