Very good point about Boromir’s death being handled in such a minor way in the books. I mean, yes, okay, Aragorn and Legolas compose a song about it. And it comprises basically two entire chapters, one of which is titled “The Departure of Boromir”. But that’s nothing. And I mean, okay, the death is also not just one…

I think the fact that the same guys got sweaty-upset over the She-Ra revival, a reboot of a thirty-year-old cartoon aimed at preteen girls in the ‘80s, should tell you everything you need to know about their critical faculties.

“...and their network routers with all traffic logs”.

First pig, then lamb, next up duck.

Sorry, I misunderstood. You mentioned Star Wars, and I thought you were still talking about that. If I’d actually thought it through it would’ve been obvious that you weren’t, since Disney owns Fox and Episode IV is indeed on Disney+, even if it’s The Maclunkey Edition™.

It was a total flop. And we should be clear, the first issue of Howard the Duck was arguably the first comic to suffer from market speculators; 275,000 copies was a lot for a fringe supporting character from Man-Thing, of all places. Sales dropped off pretty sharply from the first issue on...and after two years, when…

I own what is probably the most recent blu-ray of Howard The Duck and it is a Universal release.  Interestingly though, it doesn’t says Lucasfilm anywhere on the box, just “George Lucas Presents...” at the top.

It was my understanding that usually in voice acting, you have the animators work to the work of the voice talent because it’s easier to lip sync that way vs. the other. Is that not the case?

They almost did. Per Wikipedia:

It’s not so much speed, I think, as much as coordination. Williams and the puppeteer needed to be in sync, they needed to have the same comic timing, they needed to be an extension of each other. Williams wasn’t just fast, he had a very specific pacing to his delivery and was a notorious ad-libber.

I remember watching it as a kid, and I really liked the song they performed, and Lea Thompson awoke some things in a young me...

So the plan is to revert back to this?:

Of course they sit on a small stock of cards.  A percentage of these cards are going to have defects and if they don’t have cards on hand for RMA requests it would reflect poorly upon them.

I gave you the hex code of his skin colour and showed it independently of its surrounding. It’s brown. End of discussion. You need to be colour blind to not see the difference between purple and brown.

That is brown. As per color picker, his skin is the shade #8d5c40, the browniest brown that ever browned.

I’d suggest there’s room for stuff to be “other races” when they’re legit a different species.

The reviewer for the NYT’s SF column referred to the BH/KJA novels as Frank Herbert’s Dune Babies and I’ve never been able to think of them as anything else.

As a PoC, it never occurred to me that the Drow were evil *because* of their skin color, and any gaming group I’ve been in since 2nd edition has always thrown non-evil Drow in here and there. To me, the Drow were a culture, not a “race”.

They’d be absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hadn’t read the books.

FWIW, cilantro is an optional addition to chimichurri. Parsley and oregano are the essential herbs for chimichurri, and many (most?) of the recipes online do not include cilantro. So if you are among the unlucky percentage of the population who genetically cannot enjoy cilantro, there are lots of recipes out there…