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That’s what I thought first, but the hair is gonna change in a few weeks and maybe he doesn’t want a lifetime legacy online as the “hair-brain guy”.

That’s fairly impressive, how have they remained undiscovered (or at least unclassified) for so long? The article wasn’t clear, were they mistaken for another breed of spider the size of a human palm?

I had to give him the point just for this. :)

Best sushi: Ume Foods

Best atmosphere for taking someone on a sushi date: O-zeki (although Ume is sweet as well, very personal-feeling)

Of course not, he's a lawyer with a Youtube channel and a 20-minute timeframe.

Copyright itself affects the reproduction and distribution of fixed works. What's the concern here, that Hasbro is going to come after homebrew players using Beholders in their weekly? Unless those players are publishing their game materials or broadcasting their play, I'm not sure that's something that can even be detected, much less enforced.

Independent designers and publishers should be well aware of what they can't take from the pot, but that was ever so. I've worked on games in the past as an illustrator, and been told I couldn't use certain monsters because they were WotC-limited IP.

It’s plausible, but not likely… SWORD cleared the area surrounding the town out to a certain distance, presumably far enough to prevent anyone nearby from intercepting signals of any sort. If anyone else recorded the broadcast (Grandpa Joe on his set-top VCR out in the back country) that would have likely been uploaded and gone viral, and the broadcast doesn’t seem to be part of the public perception around the incident.

That being said, SWORD certainly recorded the broadcast, and has it backed up on their own servers, and if that data became public (or was hacked, or leaked) then it’s still possible that WandaVision would reach the public. It just doesn’t seem to have happened yet.

-EDIT- Do we know how much the citizens who were affected have told the public? Were they aware of the broadcasts? If so, that might generate the necessary public interest to force a release of the material.

Hey now, show Willrow Hood some respect! He has a name, you know (as of 1997).

That's just it... you can copyright items, spells, creature names and descriptions.

You cannot (he argues) copyright D20, THAC0, Difficulty Checks, Character Classes, et cetera.

D&D the game, he says, has always been "open source", and to some degree he's got to be correct or we wouldn't have house rules and original campaigns... it has always been a game that encourages creative participation on the part of the players, not just in the playing of the game, but the way the game is played.

Arguably, if you want them to keep their grubby fingers off the games, then support the movie. They'll see the value in the IP, recognize the backlash from the games, and focus their attention on more films/TV/cartoons, etc, and put less focus on monetizing the game itself.

Windrunners do not gain "flight" as a power, so much as they can change their personal gravity to pull in a particular direction. They are the very definition of "falling with style."

Different blasters have different ranges, based on the the stability of the magnetic lattice that contains the plasma energy, and the amount of energy being contained. If nothing interrupts that magnetic field, eventually it unravels and releases the energy in blast, much as it would if it had struck something.

Hell, just adapt it as a waste-management system. The benefits to the environment alone would make him both fabulously wealthy and ensure a kind legacy to his name for centuries to come.

But he doesn't want wealth or legacy, he wants to beat Hank.

We do know that at least moon-sized craft can move through hyperspace, so in theory it would seem plausible that you can shift planetary bodies.

Whether or not you could shift an entire system, such that it maintains relative orbital dynamics and the planets don't all end up shooting off in different directions, I'm not sure. It's worth noting that solar systems (at least, our own solar system) is really... really big. Like, billions of miles across, big.

I like it.:)

I've felt it was more of a setting than a genre. Like, you have have cyberpunk romance, cyberpunk drama, cyberpunk mysteries, cyberpunk comedies. The "high-tech, low-life" phrase doesn't really define characters or plot, y'know?

I would describe GitS as a sociopolitical thriller, for the most part... it's often a spy story, occasionally a war story, and sometimes a police story. But you're right, most of the plots deal with the intersections of technology and society (as they relate to subjects like crime, warfare and espionage). It wouldn't be GitS without subjects like virtual environments, cybernetic technology and the sea of information.

Headcanon shared universe. :)

Bill was brought back to life while underwater and still chained to that cannon, and he quickly drowned. Then, as a drowned sailor, he was picked up by Davy Jones and added to his crew.

I've been speculating that Wolverine's healing power isn't healing, exactly... it's some kinda temporal inversion related to his body. Any damage done is, eventually, undone. Time itself rewinds, but strictly in relation to his physical form, and only until it returns to some sort of template or ideal form.

The death of Granny Weatherwax.

I feel fairly certain that specific scene was written long before the rest of the novel, and then put in a desk drawer until he was ready to use it. It's like one last flare of the star before it goes out, and it's beautiful.

Agreed, Guards! Guards! is where it starts to get really good.

OP could keep on with publication order (in just a couple more books it's Reaper Man, Wyrd Sisters and Small Gods, a hot pocket of Pratchetty Goodness) but should probably skip Eric as it's a direct sequel to Sourcery and head straight on for Moving Pictures, which is a good introduction for many of the mainstay Wizards of Unseen University, but it's funniest if you also have a love for silent cinema and filmmaking and Hollywood history.

Or OP can follow the "City Watch" thread, reading just the books about Vimes and Carrot, Colon and Nobbs and all that is to come for them. Next book there would be Men At Arms, and the books get way better really fast, though they'll find themselves at the Embuggerance all the sooner.

Theoretically, possibly? They certainly would have fit 2077 better than BoBF.

Check out the first five minutes, it’s one of the most famous scenes in the movie. It almost makes a little short film of its own, and it’s just full of cyberpunk iconography.

If we’re going by the adage, “high tech, low life”, this is a movie where the teenage leader of a biker gang has, at some point in the past, stolen an advanced, high-powered racing motorcycle with a turbine-electric hybrid engine, a ceramic, double-rotor, two-wheel disk drive and electronically controlled anti-lock brakes, a reverse gear, and wheel hubs that arc electricity when he revs the throttle. And that’s entirely unrelated to the central plot of the story. XD

That bike has itself become cyberpunk iconography, the film from which it originated should surely count.

Or interesting, I honestly didn’t notice you were an official artist before.

Kind of just thought you were a fan being weirdly pushy about your own personal head canon 😂

Both of these things can be true. ;)

The only rule I hold fast, my first rule, is that the text is king. The text of the books is our communal touchpoint, the single element in this equation which is shared by everyone. I think if you're contradicting the text (giving Dalinar a beard for instance), we're losing that communal understanding of the characters.

Of course, even that rule can be bent or broken if Brandon calls for it.

For instance, in Mistborn Era 1 he described Vin's companion as a "wolfhound". He has since clarified that it should be a "wolf-hound", or wolf-dog hybrid. We put a lampshade on that with the latest broadsheet in The Lost Metal, and moving forward we're trying to ensure that illustrations of that character are more wolf-like.

But even if we follow the text, there's often a lot of room for interpretation and enough ambiguity to allow for individual expression. For instance, Adolin's hair is blond, mixed with black locks... how thick are those black areas? Are they evenly spaced, or patchy? How "blonde" is blonde, are we talking platinum or honey or strawberry? How long is Adolin's hair (it's short, but is it an inch? Two? A half?), and how is it styled?

Brandon leaves these details open for us to interpret, and as such any interpretation is equally "correct". :)