Jesus, Archmage, what do you do, pull some Jekyll and Mr. Hyde trick whenever you run any old-school dungeon crawls? Or does the party make it through the Tomb of Horrors with less than 50% casualties?

Sabbat and early or mid-period Skyclad do wonders for me - Martin Walkyier is one of the angriest-sounding singers I can think of (you can hear the spittle fly!)
 Opeth, Messugah, and Strapping Young Lad also work.

I love those Tony Martin Sabbath albums - Tyr qualifies as great, as far as I'm concerned, and as you say there are great tracks in all of the other ones (even Cross Purposes - there, I said it!). That being said, I've made the mistake of listening to some of Martin's other projects…

If they're aurochs, shouldn't they be giant cow monsters?
 I guess it doesn't sound quite as cool, somehow.

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Beyond the fact that it was truly awful, you can't bring up the book to defend it - they just used its title and basic premise!

Wow. Of all the spambots that could appropriate this comment, it had to be one for a dating site.
 Amazing.

I lived in Argentina for more than fifteen years, and I can confirm that every other building in some areas of Buenos Aires is an awesome atmospherically run-down building.

It's pretty good. It's actually three games, the first of which made the mistake of having some truly horrible combat. They're a lot more plot-driven and not quite as pant-shitting scary as Amnesia.

Anti-Bender movement? Damn robophobes…

It's just a movie that is a lot more fun to talk about than watch - there's a lot to be said for awesome, over-the-top idiocy, but the movie never really pulls it off with any sort of style or imagination (though it tries so very hard)
 It just looks like a really bad, really japanese video game.

I liked that it felt like the closest anyone would ever get to nailing the feel of Robert Anton Wilson's writing… but yeah, I agree with you.
 Except on that David Lynch slam.

Getting Neil Armstrong's suspended sack caught in your eye can be quite painful.
 Or so I hear (ahem!)

@avclub-077634601aceeca8f23d118414476e0d:disqus - No idea, though it doesn't look like it. I came across it, obviously enough, by reading a playthrough of a bird dating sim game.

I'd flag it because it's nonsensical - the laser beams would breach the astronaut helmet, thus rendering it useless… the poor shark would suffocate!

Sharks on spindly spider robot legs!
 Oh, wait… http://www.youtube.com/watc…
No astronaut helmets, though.

It does! But Torque was also kind of awesome in paper, but soulless and a bit grating in practice…

So now, if I watch this, I'll be wondering all the time why there AREN'T any sharks in astronaut helmets in this movie.
 Damn you, Scott Tobias!

Pommel horse: the horse that pummels (tm)

+1. Really great read, really great interview.