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Listening to a Fort Romeau set on the Boiler Room channel.

10/10, that's badass. Succinct without being one-dimensional. "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." - Rabindranath Tagore

The sensible and more historically astute answer would be something like Magna Carta or having withstood the might of Germany during WW2. But my actual and more honest answer would be Brian Blessed. Let's do the same question for the next poster. They might have a more intelligent response.

^ I just like the idea of a cyber metal band being named after a village in Yorkshire...

^ You people never cease to amaze me with your taste in just about everything. Do yourself a favour and never search for "ed, edd and eddy" on Tumblr. It isn't worth destroying what little tattered fragments of your childhood you still have.

^ Reginald D Hunter... :3 x3

1. 31% Petroleum oils, crude 2. 26% Petroleum gases 3. 22% Coffee, not roasted 4. 3.1% Self-propelled bulldozers, excavators and road rollers 5. 2.9% Telephones Glad I could be of service, It seems like you are implying that Jackie Chan is a theoretical third gender... :3

+1. :3 Given that I'm a gigantic lightweight in regards to drinking, I'd probably just end up trading my alcohol supplies for obscure literature and a fleet of swan pedal boats. Then again Brian Blessed might drink it all before I can do that. Could I convince you to join my New Zombie Mercian retinue? You could be the last line of defence in the unlikely event of a zombie horde/enemy faction breach of my castle. You could be codenamed "sniffles".

Always gives very strange, left-of-centre, mildly sarcastic but unfailingly amusing responses to people.

I'm not re-reading by Aeschylus books as so to appear to be a giant smarty pants on the internet again, Scott, you're just being paranoid.

6/10 I'm slightly suspicious that due to Drake's involvement in some morally indefensible endeavours (was yielding "true glory" his lofty aim during his slave trading excursions?) this quote was more of an excuse than some higher-minded sentiment. The Tudors were undeniably great rhetoricians though. "Grief is a wanderer who visits many, bringing always the same gift." - Aeschylus, Prometheus Unbound

I appreciate a good 4x4 beat, but I have a real soft spot for wonky and somewhat "off" percussion or bass/synth hook. Syncopation it is. German history or Polish history?

I always liked this type of thread game, whenever it appears on forums. There's nothing quite like an excuse for some half-arsed creativity :3 I really liked the picture, luckily. It was rife with shoegazer miserabilist potential.

Just don't get a piggyback from your clone and you should be fine. :3

Excellent and enlightening as always, Mr. Scott. Thank for answering my two weird and admittedly detailed questions in a purposeful way and not simply brushing them aside. I was secretly hoping you would give At The Mountains Of Madness the point n' click/graphic adventure approval. Lovecraft is at his best when he allows his horror to forebodingly creep towards an inexorable and utterly desolate vision of a universe that is callously indifferent of humanity. It's a sentiment he has mastered better than most authors, even those writers of a subtler and arguably "better" quality of writing or conceptualisation. His shorter works can be rather weak in comparison to his longer pieces such as Herbert West-Reanimator or The Whisper in Darkness, which sometimes have the unfortunate feel of a moribund punchline better suited to a writer like Ambrose Bierce or even an literary-provocateur like Félix Fénéon, The Statement of Randolph Carter being a somewhat sorry example of. In regards to my questions about periods of history that interest you, I appreciate your points about historically-inflected fantasy and your later comments about the importance of theme in individual games. I often feel that the fantasy genre over-relies on certain pseudo-medieval and eurocentric tropes, which can be excellent if played with a degree of stylisation and imagination (I don't play them, but the Dark Souls franchise really pushes the envelope in regards to this facet of fantasy) and in doing so may or may not appropriate one-dimensional cultural stereotypes in regards to foreign cultures in a given setting. I'd love to see writers and developers hybridize our collective cultural heritage a little. Just as a deliberately obtuse sample of what fantasy could potentially do, how about some kind of world set in a Nordic-cum-Philippines-pan-Dutch Afrikaans-neo-Kemetic type culture in which sacrifices to chthonic and utterly aberrant equivalents of ancient Greek gods are commonplace, there's a simultaneous and paradoxical form of Gnostic nature veneration, and humans and elves AREN'T the predominate mortal races. I don't even mind the presence of "core" races like dwarves or orcs at all, it would just be nice to see them in more diverse and different roles other than arbitrarily lumped into good and evil camps. ----- Am I right in assuming that we can post questions for the next video chat here? If no, tell me to skedaddle and I'll stop bothering everyone. 1. Forgoing any modesty on your part, if you could have any artist (dead or alive, any medium you please) capture your likeness in a portrait, who would you pick? 2. I recently started watching Grickle's wonderfully weird videos, due to your RGD episode about Puzzle Agent. Which is your favourite video of his, and why? Also, what do you think of his recurring character known as Principal Skeleton? I like to think he's a pretty decent guy despite being an unspeakable aberration against nature.

Blessed Shall Be He Who Takes Your Little Ones And Dashes Them Against The Rock by Saturn's Husk

^ The last four posts have made my week worthwhile, I'm deathly serious. It's been a long week.

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I like the idea of a Dungeons & Dragons franchise Skyrim-esque open world RPG, set within one or more of the planes of existence. I particularly fancy the idea of Acheron, or The Infernal Battlefield, a lawful neutral/lawful evil aligned universe of giant multiple-sided masses (colloquially called cubes, despite rarely being perfect examples thereof) of metal and battlefield detritus that range in size from gargantuan continents to tiny islets, and each "side" of these cubes has it's own subjective gravitational pull. These innumerable artificial landscapes crash into one and ring with the sound of combat for eternity. It is also home of many notable gods, namely the god of war, massacre and tyranny Hextor and the goddess of death, vanity and magic Wee Jas - not to mention the racial gods of the orcs and goblins, Gruumsh and Maglubiyet, respectively. For me the most interesting aspect of this plane is the many monstrous inhabitants who could potentially be player races, in lieu of the usual humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, etc - who may yet appear in the game as murderous bands of adventurers or the occasional planeshifter. As a player you could just as easily be an orc, goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, spiker, duergar, maugs, zenythri, etc. There's also no shortage of potential enemies and allies in these plane of existence, what with the different strongholds and deific realms to join or conquer, as well as a teeming populace of horrible abominations to battle such as rust dragons, baatezu devils, various giant invertebrates like siege beetles and bone spears, mad constructs such as the divinely exiled anaxims, tiger-like rakshasas, harshly moral justicators, time manipulating chrontyryns, giant eagles with steel feathers, etc.

For being a reliable regular and keeping the forum alive.

Yesterday I visited a marvellous Dan Flavin exhibition at the IKON Gallery in Birmingham, entitled It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else. Whilst I was there I picked this book whose title it is what it is [sic] (edited by Paula Feldman and Karsten Schubert) draws from the same statement of the artist in question, that in understanding his minimalist artwork was to experience the materiality and properties of his signature neon tubes in of themselves. It contains a huge body of written material relating to Flavin's work by various writers from 1964 right through to 2001, and refreshingly open to praise and criticism of the late artist. It traces how his reputation and his reception shifted over the decades of artistic discourse and interpretation. "When he shifted from junk to newly purchased and functioning objects, he did as other artists were doing, moved from an expressionistic urbanism to a more highly structured style. But though Flavin's style changed, two constants remained. He moved from found objects to new objects, but preserved his interest in ready-mades. Also, he preserved his custom of dedication - to friends, to artists, to victims; a persistent memorial intention suffuses his work, in contradistinction to the new age/new media slogans of some light artists." - Lawrence Alloway, Art, 1970 "In retrospect, it seems almost unbelievable that an oeuvre of such visual richness and diversity is based on so few parts, yet Dan Flavin's entire work consists of a total of forty components. [...] From 1963 until today some 500 works have been realized. [...] From a distance, the stripes of green, pink, green and blue create something new, for which I am lacking a word. It reminds me of painting, of course, but it is so very far away from that." - Marianne Stockebrand, Pink, Yellow, Blue, Green and Other Colors in the Work of Dan Flavin, 1996 Dan Flavin, Untitled (in honour of Harold Joachim)

From P.T., or the tragically cancelled Silent Hills. "Interesting fact, folks, DreadZone started over two guys fighting over a breakfast burrito, and the rest is history!"

1. Ava 2. Eva 3. Iva 4. Ova 5. Uva Whilst there is well established correlation between national socialism and root vegetables, I refute the claim that I accused you of being a Potato sapiens. :3

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