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    List of All the Different Types of Elves

    Elves are fantastic, they create fantasies Elves are glamorous, they project glamour Elves are enchanting, they weave enchantment Elves are terrific, they beget terror I like Terry Pratchetts presentation of Elves as cruel beautiful parasites, a half step out of reality and with no...
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    Your Favorite Holiday Special

    Batman Returns is absolutely a christmas movie, but I'd dispute if its "more" so than Die Hard!
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    New Year's Cultural Traditions

    its funny where I come from pork and cabbage boil up is a standard weekly meal (daily in some houses) whereas sauerkraut would be one of those weird pickles aunty keeps trying to make. personally I love it with a nice bratwurst and mustard
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    New Year's Cultural Traditions

    Pork certainly, sauerkraut is a regional preference
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    D&D 5E (2024) Where Would You Place A Bastion?

    Stag Lords Fort - its fortified and has lots of room for expansion
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    New Year's Cultural Traditions

    Can I ask which old country?
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    New Year's Cultural Traditions

    Glazed ham Boil a pigs head to make brawn Fall asleep around 10 then wake up around 12.30 and say "did I miss it again?" Make my annual "I havent seen you since last year" joke
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    That's SIR Idris Elba

    Knighthoods are awarded for Service to the Community. So not just actors but rather actors who have made some kind of contribution to that community - hence the need for high Charisma :)
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    D&D General Best D&D Setting?

    Karameikos (Mystara)
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    I would get a full armor suit with closed visor (so no one sees my face) Then sign up as a Government Asset in return for protection of my family/loved ones. Then invoking Superman is a genius develop a whole slew of other identical suits with flight, strength enhancement and lazer eyes to...
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    That's SIR Idris Elba

    heh I always thought Gary Oldman was an American - oops
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    When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?

    NZ is different due to the amount of foreign content, since there are no domestic quotas and too small a market to support a broad industry. NZ Content is 20-25% rarely going over 30 unless you count the joint NZ-Canadian productions. This contrast with Australia with its 50% local content and...
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    When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?

    yeah its mostly Nezha and Sun Wukong these days:) Thor and Loki via MCU and Percy Jackson ropes in the Olympians Robin Hood and King Arthur are evergreen
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    When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?

    Disney did shorts featuring Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Pecos Bill in the 1950's. Alongside their adaptions of Robin Hood, King Arthur and "Mickey and the Beanstalk". After thinking about it I think a lot of my early exposure to these tales may have been via Disney. Its interesting to see what...
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    When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?

    What about the tales of Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit stories of Uncle Remus? People tend to forget that they have an African origin via American slave culture. Ive also wondered how much American people hear about Loa and similar 'Voodoo' myth - which make an appearance in a few early zombie...
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