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clash_bowley
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I'm in. Rolled a 19.
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(Quote) <3 >:)
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(Quote) Like Cortez burning his ships...
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) The Gradual, as you recommended up thread. "We can do The Gradual instead, which would solve this issue: 3.99BP on Amazon.co.uk."
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Richard? Where is this 'mild' geekiness you spoke of? ;)
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(Quote) Hahahaha! :D
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(Quote) Better than the Plague Continent here
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(Quote) Perhaps I am daring fate because I secretly want him to declare Dune the Slow Read Book of 2021, and this is a small price to pay... Perhaps also the world really is flat and we have just been mistaken all this time...
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Bought all three
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(Quote) Brag, brag, brag! :D
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I would say yes!
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Do you really want to go with Dune? I was happy with and ready to buy the Islanders, but now I hesitate to pull the trigger. Dune would be fine too.
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Yeah, he changed the name of the 'Gnomes' to the 'Noldor' after passing through a phase of being 'Ñoldor'. There have always been several different branches of elves, as you said, but their names change over time.
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I'm in for that too! But really, the paperback Dream Archipelago is less than fifteen dollars. It's cool. I meant that as a general statement, not this particular case.
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It would make it awkward, but not sink it. If the available print copies are not absurdly expensive, I can deal.
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The circular writing was one of the best points of the film for me. Excellent visually as well as logically.
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That's a writing device? I thought it was a magic device! (Repetition Reinforces)
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(Quote) Thank you, Neil! :D
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(Quote) Yes! I dealt with scientists all the time in my working life, and these scientists ring true.
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I hate listening to stories. I can read so much faster and experience it so much more directly. I have no idea if the stories work better with rhetorical devices, as I can't see them. I would have to work with someone who does notice them to correl…
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I found it fascinating that both versions had errant apostrophes...
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I am with Apocryphal. These things fly over my head like a three year old overhearing sexual references. I don't get 'em, I don't see 'em, as far as I'm concerned they aren't there.
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If the written and spoken language are for different purposes, and they are, why make them the same?
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_didn't read any of the other stories, but probably will, given I really liked this one. Hey! I had an album to get out!
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Nothing I would ever game, but some concepts might be brought in as background.
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I preferred the story all the way. I agreed with some of those changes for the film version, but many of them left me puzzled. Why change the way the child died? The whole military standoff thing never worked for me. I thought that a bad decision.
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I had no problem following the math arguments or the linguistics elements. Then again, I worked as a technical writer for decades with physicists, explaining what they meant to newbies in a form they could understand - and my game writing partner is…
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Funnily I felt the book's handling of time was better and more believable than the movie. In the movie there were all these teams working on things, but the only one that did anything was the team with the stars. In the book, all the teams were expe…