It was never a fair fight between fundamentalist Christianity and D&D. One was a dangerous system full of dark mysticism and threats to warp a young mind beyond repair, and the other was a tabletop RPG.

And sentences are just like, lines and scribbles on a page man. Did you just discover philosophy or something?

Funnily enough, the composer, Leonard Rosenman, ended up reusing a lot of his music (including the main theme) in his score for Star Trek IV.

Don't agree at all. The Bakshi Lord of The Rings had it's time and place. It's an inconsistent film, and severely truncated in regards to the source material... But it was an awesome slice of dark fantasy for it's day. And there are a couple of moments in that film that it pulls off better than the PJ trilogy. The…

Everytime I mention this film to my Dad he always mentions that just once during the original theatrical run that because the film only goes up to helms deep they summarised Return of the King in about 10 mins in the same style of the rest of the film. I've never seen this with my own eyes but he swears it exists. …

Gilsdorf gets into this in the Boing Boing article that I linked to, but the upshot, in Bakshi's words, is as follows:

In the linked article, Bakshi says he wanted to give these scenes a different look because they are recounted from Gandalf's memory — much as you might put vaseline around the lens when shooting a flashback. Apparently he couldn't quite get what he was aiming for and decided to go the still-frame route at the last…

Just curious, but conceptually, both Gandalf and the Balrog in these clips look nothing like they do in the actual Bakshi film.

Lemming Suicide Is a Myth That Was Perpetuated by Disney

Loved this! Never thought of combining cel animation with 3D. Time for a new Cool World or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Do you have kids? Have you ever had a child who ended up with a terrible life-threatening disease? If not, do you think having one would change your mind on this? If so, I'm sorry, and also why do you still think that's better than avoiding it?

Because nature "doing its job" in the case of mitochondrial disease means severe disability and/or death. They are a gruesome cohort of genetic diseases. Spindle transfer allows a fetus to escape this fate by using a donor's mitochondrial DNA (actually by using a donor's cytoplasm, period, including the…

Said by a woman using a computer to communicate further than she can physically shout? what?

because parents don't want their kids to grow up to have Lou Gehrig's Disease?

Plus the lobbying and pressure from the textile/paper industries that felt threatened by hemp. All politics and money for why marijuana's illegal :/

Yeah, your right. But save some of the blame for Tricky Dick Nixon who I believe was the guy who allowed it to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug. That effectively made it impossible to continue research on this drug. Now, 50 years later, the states are taking on this battle. No one in the executive branch wants to be…

You know, you could smoke pot all you wanted in the US until the early 1900s, when it was made illegal in order to lock up more african americans and latinos. Then we had a huge misinformation campaign, which lead to the fearful War on Drugs, which allowed us to lock up a record number of minorities, while also…

I thought never get into them. My sister bought it for me because its (a few letter short) of being my name.

Take this to heart everyone.