Recent content by MarkB

And even words that do seem to have similar roots seem to drift in all directions. "Ough" is the one I always think of. Bough Cough Though Thought Through Enough Thorough

It annoys me every time that autocorrect will always change "its" to "it's", despite both being valid spellings.

There are very few English spelling and pronunciation conventions that are more than vague and occasionally-followed guidelines. Emu Emulate Female Feminine Feline Felicity Meta Meter

I think the Rebels episode you're thinking of features a different person - Master Luminara, Barriss's master, who was also Mirialan.

That may be how he looks at it. He mentions that defeating the Toymaker "tore him in half".

It felt like a near-constant stream of winks-to-the-audience (sometimes literally) which made it very difficult to not be knocked out of the fiction and try to take any of the events seriously. This is the first time in a very long while, perhaps ever, that I've watched Doctor Who and thought...

The Inquisitors, as an organisation of powerful Force users, were always a potential threat to the Emperor. They would only be left in place until they had outlived their usefulness - which would be when the remaining potential Force-users in the galaxy had been whittled down to a level that...

It would most reasonably work at the same time as the Rebels episodes in which they were having to deal with Inquisitors taking Force-sensitive children.

Unwise wizard, elemental goes mental.

And how much more characterisation can they stuff in there, and still be consistent with the Gollums we see in The Hobbit and LotR? His journey doesn't exactly scream "transformative character arc".

That's still kinda rude to do in a meeting, though. At least, that's what HR told me.

I came up with a campaign world which took place on a mostly-desert continent with more verdant settled areas near the coast, the main idea being to have trade between nations being carried out via sand-skimming ships that plied the desert. To answer the question "why not just have conventional...

At the Council of Elrond, the Wise debate the news of Gollum's escape from the Misty Mountains, and the forces mobilised by the Enemy to pursue him. Ranger Ryan, having given the briefing, pores through the scrolls while the debate rages, until he finds something startling. Ryan: "Son of a...

Or Yondu.

Probably shouldn't have %@#&ed it, then.