The fall of the Roman Republic is full of examples of a system not designed for the size and scope of what it was facing a hundred or two years later, and people breaking unwritten norms to address immediate struggles between conservatism and liberalism without considering the long-term effects.

Not that it could ever happen here.

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(other poster) Yeah, all of [Grant] Morrison's stuff is gold ( Read more... )

I haven't kept up with things D&D, so to speak, in years; my last solid point of contact was looking over the new books and noting the irony that, in an attempt to recapture market share, they were transforming the mechanics to make the game play more like the massively-popular computer games which were originally inspired by it. (Very snake-eating ( Read more... )

It sounds like their category list is having some... problems tonight ( Read more... )

Seen on a message board - tw: tolkien nerdery ;)

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No one else is gonna step in here? Okay ( Read more... )

Overheard from a passing group of fellow bikers just now:

"Eugene* has two seasons, Winter and Construction."

(* and by extension, the rest of the Willamette Valley)

Me, I tend to describe them as Cold Rain, Cool Rain, and a month or so of OH GOD THE BURNING.

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So, the latest episode of Star Trek Continues, "Embracing the Winds", is up, just in time for the anniversary. And aside from it trying to explain the whole "lol, a woman as a starship captain?" thing - which is embarrassingly dated a mere 50 years later, to say nothing of hundreds - I was struck by the span of time represented by the guest stars ( Read more... )

Thought of the day:

MAME is now, itself, as old or older than the classic arcade games were in '97.

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Me while reading: Noooo! My poor sweet babies! AUTHOR, WHY MUST YOU TORMENT YOUR CHARACTERS SO?
Me while writing: This character has been orphaned, whipped, sentenced to death, thrown overboard by pirates, captured by enemy soldiers, near-fatally poisoned, put on trial for his life before an angry mob, tortured in front of his best friend, and ( Read more... )

The first screening of Shin Gojira (aka Godzilla Resurgence), the new Japanese Godzilla (written by Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno) was shown in Japan yesterday, and since then a lot of news has started flooding in... with some of the movie's alleged details being really weird.

This is my utter lack of surprise.

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