There's a real life Jean Dujardin?  If there's ever an X-Com movie he could play himself.

Eugene Victor Tooms is a much more recognizable credit than "former Lost actor".

I used to collect that stuff obsessively. I have 4-track demos from most of the songs off the first 5 albums, plus a few that were unreleased (a "No Life 'Til Leather"-era Diamondhead cover, maybe some more.)

Carice van Houten was also the lead in Black Book
I didn't even recognize her without the curly blond hair.

Slaughter of the Soul was the Reign in Blood of the 90's. Just when you thought thrash was dead…

Napalm Death does indeed own. They and Slayer are in a class all their own for continuing to put out relevant music over such a long period of time.

Horrible pricing
Who spends $50 a month going to movies? Even when I was regularly watching a lot of first-run movies (before having kids, etc.), I doubt I ever spent $30 a month on tickets.

Descent came out at least a year or two before Quake, that was the first true 3D engine shooter that I can remember.

DNF is not nostalgia
The original Duke was goofy. After playing all the ID games up to that point in time, DN3D was striking for not taking itself seriously. It's obvious that they were going for a lighter tone — referencing camp classics like Army of Darkness and They Live, for instance.

My son is watching it these days. One of the things that struck me was how much Max actually talks like a toddler boy (of ~2 years or so). Girls talk in complete sentences a lot sooner, from everything I've seen. My son went through this stage, where he had good pronunciation and vocabulary but little or no…

Speaking of nice establishing shots — there were two in this episode, the one of Robb's army crossing the Twins was pretty great as well.

Another nice touch: the icon next to each cast member's name in the opening credits is the sigil of their character's house.

He is described as having the "personality of a lobster", and having never learned to laugh. We are also repeatedly told that men do not love him.

I liked the apocryphal tone of The Scar, the idea of lost knowledge being sought and rediscovered. The reveals were imaginative and spectacular; it never failed to impress me whenever one of the big setpieces came around.

I expect Dany and Drogo's conversation that night was something like "That all sounds great honey, but could you do it with a little less rape and slavery?" Recall her conversation with Jorah about why he was exiled.

I never quite understood all the hate for Load. The Black Album was their big calculated commercial push, yes, but Load was not that. They'd made their mint, and that gave them the freedom to do whatever new stuff they wanted to try next. Whether you like that or not is a matter of taste, but I don't think of Load…

Gormenghast is a masterpiece; it has perhaps the strongest sense of "place" of any work I've read. The characterizations of the castle and its inhabitants are colorful, grotesque, and simply a joy to read. As others have said, the first two books are the story, the third really has nothing to do with the rest.

As for the "world breaking" request — don't worry, the shit will hit the fan soon enough.

Everything about the Peake family in the books is a reference to Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. I think there are Lords Gormen and Titus Peake, and their home is Starpike.

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