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Chapter 1
"Unhand me, you lout! Unhand me I say - you are manhandling a princess! Release me at once!"
What had been a relatively silent and dim dungeon cell was suddenly intruded upon by a high-pitched shrieking of outrage in the distance. The shrieking was cut off briefly by a sudden sound...
Has anyone here seen Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky?
I just watched it tonight - I've never seen a film where the inciting incident for the plot - the female lead getting abducted by government agents in this case - happens off-screen before.
By the end of the film I don't think they ever...
This is the kind of thing that makes me ask how old you are, because what the characters wear in Street Fighter wouldn't be out of place in a real-world UFC match. Real female athletes who don't juice often have very pleasing figures.
I would understand this a bit more if you were playing...
I've actually read Robinson Crusoe, once upon a time, and it's more of a survival story than an exploration story. Moreover, the prose is pretty dense and dated for my tastes. I much preferred The Swiss Family Robinson.
I also read the abridged version of Call of the Wild around the same time...
The Long Dark doesn't really qualify for this, since that's more about a survivor of an apocalypse picking through the ruins of an inhabited world (or at least that's what I get from the gameplay I've seen).
It's not that I'm looking for survival settings, really - I'm looking for exploration...
That's the walking simulator game about the temp park ranger in Wyoming?
I watched a bit of a LP back when the game first launched. Thanks for the reminder - that might actually fall under this heading.
This might sound strange, but there's a concept in fiction that I really like but don't get to see very often, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any other examples of it besides the few I'm familiar with.
The concept is that there's a wild landmass - a big island, a continent, or even a...
Just a reminder that every indie writer on Amazon with a 'harem' tag on their entire bibliography is a better writer than this person.
If the only way for you to win is for your deceased competition to be excluded from the market, you're doing something wrong.
Just finished It Takes Two with a female friend of mine - rarely have I ever got my money's worth out of a game so quickly. I paid $40 for it - I would have easily paid twice as much. 14 hour single playthrough and we're already scheduling our next game.
If you have a SO or a close friend...
[Turns and looks at the 40 volumes sitting on his shelf - the first of which he purchased in 2001]
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
The release of a new volume was usually one of the highlights of my year. And now it's never going to happen...
In spirit, I suppose.
Actually, on the subject of Starship Troopers 3 - one thing that threw me for a loop was near the end, when its revealed that the intelligence chief left the Sky Marshal to die because he was an insane traitor, rather than out of a desire for power.
It wasn't until I...
Aaaand since this year is just full of bizarre shit, here's a heavy metal music video that seems to have been produced by the Azerbajian military. For... propaganda in their conflict with the Armenians? I have no clue.
It's pretty good. It's got a Sabaton feel to it.
I explained it in Cambrian's thread somewhere, but it's from a French cartoon called Miraculous Ladybug. Never seen it - just thought the image was cute.