The Scar, China Meiville - It’s an epic journey and the clear best, in my opinion, of the Bas Lag novels. It has such weight and magic to the journey. Mystery too. It’s a book that leaves you feeling like you want to feel more.
The Wild Girls, Ursula K Le Guin - a tale so emotional that I was broken for two days after reading it. Couldn’t bring myself to read, or really do much except think about what I’d read.
Its about a slaving raid on a village near a city state, family, love, and gender.
This is the real rule. “No backsies” just improves the game play.
Watching:
Recommend: Motherland - all you people saying there’re no good modern sitcoms need to check out British TV more. Though obvioisly we’ll never produce as many episodes as a Fraiser or Friends does, but still good quality stuff.
Moves Like Jager, a song which I can not stand.
Thankfully not played everywhere anymore.
All three of these are songs that, I probably on paper should enjoy, but I think through over- (and mis-) use have come to despise them.
Top choices if limited to genres I listen to.
I remember that deck from standard with all the sacrifice.
Fun to play against once you got it’s number. And also just KoS the priest.
Edit: great, evocative, art too. Gets much creepier once you notice the bodies. The middle one looks to be wriggling to me, so I always think that’s where oppo’s creature goes.
The Talking Parcel - I don’t think I’ve found anyone else who’s seen this. Girl finds a singing parcel washed up on the beach, opens it up and a parrot comes out and leads her to a magical world that’s been conquered by cockatrices. She and the parrot need to save the land, and go on a magical quest.
Had it on video, taped off of the TV. Watched it regularly in childhood. Also episodes 1-3 of Terrahawks.
Ah, that’s it then.
To me, “drek” is low quality, high output stuff. Interesting difference of definition.
No, no one can. And we can both not like it together.
But I do think that the distinction between “I like/enjoy this” and “this is poorly made/low quality” (and also “I hate the obnoxious ever-present fans of this”) is of value to maintain.
Maybe we just use drek differently. Frisky Dingo, is, I think, drek to some degree - but I liked it when I watched it.
I’m probably being overly pedantic and picky. Sorry. Hate away.
Spice of life and all that, but I’d rather play a handful of 1v1 or 2HG games and then sit and chat with a beer after playing for the remaining 2 hours.
Maybe that’s just me being competitive?
Or national security spy thrillers.
I’m not a Downton fan, and think shows about the travails of the set upon landed aristocracy are, at best, blasé. (Edit: and how perfect and good the lords are, understanding, forgiving, getting along with everyone and removing social systemic strife… It’s frustrating and I dislike it.)
But Downton was not “drek” it was well acted and shot at least and was made with care. Not for me nor do I agree with it overall, but it wasn’t a “bad” show.
Yes, over 12 years.
In addition to what OP said in their reply to you. There was also a willingness to break status quo, which helped the longevity.
Possessive pronouns don’t use apostrophes.
Israel exists due to US support for Heganah and similar groups, and global guilt following the public awareness of the Holocaust.
Britain being defeated would probably led to a loss of empire, and with Palestine outside British control the “memo to aid in creation of a Jewish state” would cease, there’d still be Jewish terrorists groups, but it’d go very differently without US power projection and Nazi sphere of influence.
How about Churchill was forced from government along with Chamberlain after the catastrophe in Norway at the start of the war, and doesn’t end up Prime Minister?
But they didn’t even follow the scientific method or produce decent data.
We know perhaps marginally more from them, but the poor note taking and lack of systemisation make both Mengele’s, and Japan’s Unit 731, “experiments” close to useless.
And that’s disregarding all the ethical issues that modern non-fascist people of ethics have.
Probably the italicising of “sovereign”, and the way you seem to be conflating zionism with banking.
The IDF, and Israeli government is ethnically cleansing Palestine. They have nothing to do with the banking system or how you share money though. So it looks like you’re spouting antisemitic and far right gook.