Shame I missed the initial question but a couple of mine: we spend weeks of Thursday night sessions exhaustively preparing for an Antarctic expedition, checking list after list of supplies and finding suppliers for pemmican and generator spares. Excitement abounded.

But dying horribly is part of the fun in Cthulu. My favourite RPG story ever is from when I’ve taken enough sanity loss to get a mental problem, the GM tells me he’ll tell me what it is at the appropriate time. We’ve averted the end of the world (great!) but one of the party is dead, one committed suicide after…

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itunes? any way to buy it that doesn’t involve itunes? I still have a residual dislike of itunes from the olden days.

70% of the fleet launched, and 70% submerged. There’s no guarantee that anything like 70% is capable of surfacing again.

Hunt for Red October.

I once knew a man who was good with children. They called him: Children Man.

Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle is (are? there are three volumes) well worth a read too. It’s semi-historical but Stephenson himself described it as science fiction, and there are chunks of it that cover the development and growing power of modern banking.

Well, every time she’s actually good and someone gets convinced to watch the film, that’s one less time the conversation needs to be had. All she has to do is keep being decent at her job and people will come around.

Be careful, the fact that you’re inland, miles and miles from the nearest shore, is going to make it incredibly difficult for the coastguard boats to reach you.

He’s having such fun. He even says “WAH-HEEYYYYY!” at one point.

He’s a giant six year old with no attention span and no work ethic. It was amusing to watch his antics for a while, but now it just seems like a sad waste of potential. Liverpool were specifically warned off him by contacts at Man City though, so the massive waste of money (not to mention the waste of a chance to sign…

there’ll be a Joruus of disapproval for that pun

it took me a moment to get that, and then I laughed. So I must be a slow twelve.

Have you watched Tongan Ninja? You should watch Tongan Ninja. It is terrible, but also good.

Less versus fewer is a fairly specious distinction.

You missed “face twitches, giant drop of sweat rolls slowly down cheek”

More large predators means less teeming colonies of small rodents.

Pretty sure he didn’t call anyone “me ducks” anywhere in that clip.

So the main difference is that the Austrian flag is horizontal, and the Latvian is slightly diagonal?