Think of it as a kind of live-action role-playing game (or LARP for short) in which you’re going through situations and pretending that you deserve to be there and know what you’re doing. As an audience member at my Penguicon talk said, “I’ve been LARPing as a competent person for over five years. I’ve only broken…

I’ve heard and liked some of their music on Youtube but geez, it must be the early stuff, ‘cos they didn’t look that old.

That’s probably the most exciting thing that ever happened in Leichtenstein.

Ahem...

...that is the most uncoordinated dog....

Easily concealable type-1 phaser for when it’s not appropriate to be wearing weapons, such as diplomatic events................ Ohhhhhhh, no-ones cares...

I take it that the plan was originally a minor support detachment established at RAAF Tindal (a couple of spares, some techs, some practice bombs, a couple of liaisons, etc) and Tindal becomes a destination for B-1s to fly to every couple of weeks. There’s a decent air-gunnery range near it so that’s the cover. It’s a…

Anyone find that bit a little off-putting?

For a sense of scale, I’m imagining that the little flashes you see around the base of the explosion are artillery shells going off.

Only police commissioner because he was “too good” for sanitation inspection. But the right guy ended up in that job so no harm, no foul.

Could they line the deck with asbestos or a non-poisonous-asbestos-substitute (“I can’t believe it’s not asbestos!”)?

There is no doubt that North Korea’s test launch of a SLBM is a potential game-changer, but just because the missile shown in the photos appeared to safely clear the water and climbed out through low-altitude doesn’t mean that the missile is fully capable of traveling thousands of miles to a specific target.

Sorry, who was the model?

I love how they charge in, the orcs start to feel dread and then the music just stops as they collide with a sickening crunch.

What’s written on the canopy at 5:15?

I thought Grodd was projecting fear into Joe’s mind. I figured the surgery imagery in Barry’s head was something similar.

Bad format juju. Paragraph four.

Not the whole thing but perhaps some lesser known parts like the Babylonian Captivity. That could work.

I thought that was a plague going through the room..