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Sorry to hear that. When I broke my ankle the morphine didn't completely kill the pain for me either and it was a very, very sucky first few days.

To be fair, it was - I think the fifth Covenant novel that began to annoy me and the sixth that drove me off. I did like the original trilogy pretty well, but have never went back to reread.

I'm not saying that the Inhumans trailer isn't a disappointment - it is on several levels for me. But it also looks a lot like the last few seasons of Agents of SHIELD, to be honest.

There's also a certain degree of repetition in the Thomas Covenant books. I never completed them because after the umpteenth time Covenant ran the words "Leper! Outcast! Unclean!" through his mind while doubting himself (or similar; I read this years ago) I just couldn't take more of it. Not that it isn't true to life, I guess, but it just grated after awhile. YMMV, of course.

I think you'd be better off comparing Inhumans to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD or, say, Legends of Tomorrow, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Gotham, etc, than the cable and streaming shows you list.

Eh, its a TV show with a little more money thrown at it to show the first two episodes on IMAX screens; I don't think it was going to ever look like anything other than a TV show. Its still sad to see Medusa's prehensile hair (she's defeated Venom with it!) so reduced. Wonder if they'll explain why she's not using it regularly...

Apparently Cinderella Man made Max Baer into a villain who enjoyed his reputation as a man killer, whereas the real Max Baer was torn-up over Frankie Campbell's death and almost quit boxing over it, so I've heard its historical accuracy challenged a bit.

Public Libraries are great; spent a lot of time checking out books from them growing up (and our HS library wasn't bad for mainstream books and classic literature). But I don't remember a time where books were hard to buy growing up. Within driving distance there was a mall with a Waldenbooks, a bit further away was a mall with a B. Dalton. But really close was a great used book store where I got plenty of books for under $1 (until it closed down when I was a teen) and a great newsagent that existed up until about a decade ago or so.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster from 1978 was the other early Star Wars book. It came out a year before 1979's Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley. The Daley book was the first of a trilogy (Han Solo's Revenge and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy being the other two). Anyhow Splinter of the Mind's Eye is an interesting artifact of the pre-Empire Star Wars (and in fact exists as a 'might have been', as Foster's book was developed to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars should the film have failed at the box-office) and shows how in-flux some things were at the time (Luke and Leia's relationship, Han Solo's return)

The continuance of Nintendo eStore, PlaystationsNetwork and XBoxLive is probably tied to the existence of the stand-alone console market that they support. Similarly, something like Origin will probably last as long as that publisher wants their in-house system. Steam and GOG are pretty diversified, so can probably withstand a lot of change in the market. Unless the majority of publishers want their own Origin, a Steam or a GOG should do well without the intervention of a better competitor. I'm not sure worrying about the long-term future of these really makes sense. Its about like worrying whether my PST, BG, and IWD discs are going to suffer CD rot. Odds are, eventually, they will. And I won't have access to the data on them.

I was just thinking about reading my collection of the HHGTtG. “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” Don't really have time atm, too many other things to read. ... I hate those oddball questions in interviews. Thankfully only had one: "What kind of bird do you see yourself as?" Couldn't think of any bird at all except the damn albatross because of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Finally said it, and the interviewer kindly said "so you see yourself as being able to stay aloft over sea for long periods of time" which I guess was a better interpretation than "results in curses for sailors who shoot them".

A picture is worth a 1000 words.

The internet says they're supposed to be okay to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. No clue if the internet is right, though.

Its been republican since 1979 when they first elected Newt Gingrich, IIRC. That said, it used to not have North DeKalb in it but instead part of Walton County.

Pretty sure the 6th district avoids Atlanta's city limits. Its North Fulton, North DeKalb, and East Cobb counties. Eh, he lives a mile and a half from the 6th district while his girlfriend is attending Emory medical school. Supposedly he grew up and lived previously around Northlake, which is currently part of the 6th district but wasn't part of it until 2013, I think.

Fixed that for you.

There's a long running gag* that we're all alts of about 12 people. *or is it? dun dun dunnnn

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Reverse vampires? They walk around in the day giving blood transfusions to the unsuspecting?

Wonder Woman - good film, well made; Director Patty Jenkins gets a lot of good work from the cast and the story hangs together better than most big budget action films.

MODERN version of comic book Black Widow is, essentially, a USSR super-soldier (albeit not in the same exact way as Cap). But she was physically and mentally enhanced to be at peak human condition (and iirc is in her 70s - she was a small child at the beginning of WWII).

The Mummy (2017) I liked it. I'd say it's a good, but not great film. It has a few genuinely creepy moments, and actually keeps the scale down a bit more than I expected. I think there are at least one potential plot problem, but to be honest it really didn't detract from enjoyment. So some spoiler discussion ahoy: Overall it may not be the box-office winner start Universal wanted to restarting their monster franchises, but I'd argue its a pretty respectable, if flawed, beginning.

Been a couple of decades since I read it; my memory was that there was implication of great powers if not demonstration of such (but again, the memory cheats, if not outright lies at times).

So...apparently CD Projekt Red has apparently been given a ransom demand to pay money or face leaks of Cyberpunk 2077 design documents. https://mobile.twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/872840969795899394/photo/1