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He does do a great cheesy evil hacker in Leverage across multiple episodes as well.

Since Corman's has been mentioned... Blastr - Roger Corman's Oral History of his Fantastic Four

I shall say that the first season is generally more dire then the rest. The introduction of Q is really the high point, but once the 2nd season starts and Riker has a beard, the rest of it all starts to gel quite nicely. Also, as Marina Sirtis was fond of saying "the intelligence of Deana Troi's dialogue is in direct contrast to the amount of cleavage her costumes display" - One of the reasons she fought to have Troi put into a normal Star Fleet uniform several seasons in. In general they did manage to cut down on having the "I feel great aaaanger" type of lines she had to pull out. Wesley does get turned into a general deus ex machina for awhile, but they do send him off to Starfleet Academy at some point.

It's all about getting the best view... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzTdFyCJcqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNGiSQu9hkA

Well the time frame makes sense. Mafia saw the story of a guy returning from WW2, Mafia 2 was a vet returning from Korea if I remember.. So Mafia 3 being the vet from Vietnam sounds about right...

I really need to find the time and enthusiasm to sit down and finish the final couple of planets for my Trooper. Then I'll have all the class stories wrapped up. For some reason I've just stalled on landing on Belsavis and haven't been in the right frame of mind to push on.

I'm entertaining the thought of GMing an Alpha Legion-centered Black Crusade game at some point in the future. Think any of those could be useful as an inspiration for that? Legion is very good at showing the attitude and mindset of the Alpha Legion and how they don't play by the same rules as other legions. Plus it throws in a nice potential twist on why they went with Horus.

The Eisenhorn W40k mix is usually pretty good. Ravenor is a spin-off from that. Also, I will admit that I found chunks of the Horus Heresy entertainin - notably Legion and to a lesser degree Prospero Burns. - To be fair, that might be coloured by how much I'm biased in favour of Alpha Legion and Thousand Sons stories..

Out of curiosity I tried Dan Abnett's Tomb Raider: Ten Thousand Immortals. Supposedly a bit of post-Yamatai fiction to help lead into the Rise of the Tomb Raider. Now while Abnett has done some quite decent Warhammer books, I have to say this one didn't really work that well. A central theme being that Lara has PTS and panic attacks throughout the whole story. Also, regardless of how capable she became on Yamatai and how many people she killed to survive there, the moment she's back in civilisation she loses all of that. So when she's got a couple of rough guys chasing her, kidnapping her, and all of that, she generally deals with anxiety and goes along until she can escape. There's no real explanation for the bad guys, just a lot of hand-waving and secret society names without any depth to them. A large chunk of the story is meant to be about Lara trying to find the Golden Fleece to cure Sam from some left-over Himiko possession issues, but that also gets hand-waved in the final two pages. I know video game to book adaptions don't tend to work out that well, but I do wonder what crippled Abnett's writing for this. How much of it was to just lay teasers for the next game, which is why they don't really provide any answers? Ah well.

Mark Hamill on signing Star Wars cards.. Edit: Hm, and then the picture squished..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N38a5ja26xY&

For the random Drone news.. BBC - Facebook builds its own Drone

Since we seem to be having a lot of grim, dark or generally depressing news and related matters of late... I thought we could go for some random "aww" factor... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySURk6yw9rE

Okay then... ‘American’, ‘Freshman': 12 Words That the University of New Hampshire Has Deemed ‘Problematic’