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I had a big flashback to some of those early arcade games that used physical elements like models, projections, film etc

It can get worse (or better, depending on your definition ...)

I recycled most of my old game boxes to carry my collection of 10mm miniatures. An army will fit in one or two boxes, of course it did end up biting me in the rear bumper as some less than bright idiot wanted to know what the game was all about and recklessly picked up a full box, turned it over, heard it rumble and…

The EU was the best of times and it was the worst of times. You had some interesting work that added to the canon, but a lot was either fluff or badly conceived ideas that returned to bite the EU's Hutt-sized ample backside. What I hated most is that every single character who ever as much as partially appears in a…

Brusslels Town Hall much ?

The difference between this and waiting for a bus for an hour in the cold rain is that you can look forward to the bus arriving.

Lots of people troll if the conditions are right. But they don't make a habit of it. A segment will troll because they are "natural born bullies" and feel reinforced by internet anonymity and the ease with which they can pick targets. They then go down the spiral, because there is no corrective feedback that would…

Superheroes have the same problem. Superman, Wolverine, Spider-Man or Batman can take on any enemy solo, but as soon as they appear as the Justice League, Avengers or X-Men the same enemy puts the whole team on the defensive ...

The answer is very simple, the current dogma is that "Audiences hate female superheroes, remember Catwoman and Elektra ?"

Phil Cool, before it was ...

Saw it and it felt a lot like "Just look what those little yellow people are doing ... ain't it funny ? I'm appropriating it right now, just like I convinced the planet I invented punk rock ..."

I wanted to make a point that good chain armour could give considerable protection in combat. Many people have this hierarchal belief in the value of armour, possibly stemming from D&D and other RPG's, with full plate being top tier, while chain is only average at best, but the gap is much less than many would think.

Actually there are documented instances where knights in chain were showered with arrows but were not significantly harmed. Chain it itself is a good way to protect yourself against cutting and slashing attacks, less so against direct blows or piercing weapons, but medieval knights would often wear heavy padding…

A lot of skilled artisans died in WWI, which meant that what they made became unavailable after the war or so expensive nobody could afford it. Stuff like the big naval guns on battleships is another example of lost technology. We might be able to replicate it given enough time and money, but we'd have to start…

Steel is pretty hard to make if you don't have the right equipment. A skilled smith can tell temperature by colour and knows how to work a certain amount of carbon into the metal to make it hard, but not brittle, but reliable, high quality steel is a fairly recent invention and current steel is light years ahead of…

But, but they BAYTTERIFIED it !!!!

Odd, a while ago I read that they tasted horrible due to the conditions of the deep and their adaptations to it, making them less than palatable.

Those videos are made 10x worse by those fast head movements and fish eye lenses. Our eyes and brains work differently from a camera so it looks very jerky and confusing, adding to the terror of the experience.

In every apocalypse three very distinctive things happen :