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    It’s kinda hard until one hits the Silmarillion proper. Even that does read more like history in many places.

    It’s not a very personal book.
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    So, is anyone else watching Revolutionary Gundam Utena?

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    I'm glad that Dragon Quest: Adventure of Dai finally has an English dub, even if it is currently being streamed only in the UK at the moment. Apparently, Ocean Group Media decided to circumvent SAG-AFTRA by hiring VAs from ACTRA in Canada, which have their own union laws. 1/4th of the anime has already been dubbed into English. The English intro also slaps as hard as the Japanese version:

    Ichigo: What even *are* you?!

    Kenpachi: Some say my mother was a train. Some say that I'm a rejected Godzilla monster too strong for the series canon. But everyone says: I'M THE KEEEEENPACHIIIIII!!!!

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    So, there's apparently going be an event happening in 68 days involving Berserk. The most likely possibility is that we may be getting a new anime, whether it will be a continuation of the 1997 or 2016(god forbid) anime or if it will be a complete remake. I just pray that it isn't another CG disaster.
    Ichigo: What even *are* you?!

    Kenpachi: Some say my mother was a train. Some say that I'm a rejected Godzilla monster too strong for the series canon. But everyone says: I'M THE KEEEEENPACHIIIIII!!!!

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    So... yeah. Death Battle is doing an... interesting battle for next time.

    spoilers:
    Spongebob Squarepants vs Super Friends Aquaman.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dog View Post
    So... yeah. Death Battle is doing an... interesting battle for next time.

    spoilers:
    Spongebob Squarepants vs Super Friends Aquaman.
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    ah....yeah.....right. Interesting or running out of ideas? Not sure which.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    ah....yeah.....right. Interesting or running out of ideas? Not sure which.
    Running out of ideas, probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Len Ikari145 View Post
    So, there's apparently going be an event happening in 68 days involving Berserk. The most likely possibility is that we may be getting a new anime, whether it will be a continuation of the 1997 or 2016(god forbid) anime or if it will be a complete remake. I just pray that it isn't another CG disaster.
    I very much doubt it, but I wonder if they'd adapt the Lost Children - Rosine and the Land of the Elves - Arc as a miniseries or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dog View Post
    So... yeah. Death Battle is doing an... interesting battle for next time.

    spoilers:
    Spongebob Squarepants vs Super Friends Aquaman.
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    spoilers:
    I mean the movies and the TV show both reinforced the massive scale differences between SpongeBob and humans. IIRC Spongebob turns into (and is the size of) a dish-scrubbing sponge when he's out of the water. Aquaman doesn't need to have the lamest super powers to win this, he just needs to have the physical capacity to move his body.
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    And Truss’ ungovernment have cancelled the tax cuts in a complete u-turn.

    What a load of shambollocks.

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    Working on the RPG system some more; had to rework how magical/esoteric type damage works to balance it and have tweaked things to make speed a little less of an aggressively important stat.

    Despite shooting for a busted system, it's starting to resemble something kind of balanced.

    If I get to a point where I'm happy enough with it, I might put out a sign-up/stress test thread so people can try building some characters since I don't know what you're likely to come up with and how that might impact the system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beadle View Post
    And Truss’ ungovernment have cancelled the tax cuts in a complete u-turn.

    What a load of shambollocks.
    Hilarious. I guess they realized said cuts wouldn't do anything but make the rich happy and everyone else massively upset.

    I mean, the former was the goal, but the latter would further destroy them, if that's possible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beadle View Post
    And Truss’ ungovernment have cancelled the tax cuts in a complete u-turn.

    What a load of shambollocks.
    And all it cost us was a mere 60 billion pounds :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nik Hasta View Post
    Working on the RPG system some more; had to rework how magical/esoteric type damage works to balance it and have tweaked things to make speed a little less of an aggressively important stat.

    Despite shooting for a busted system, it's starting to resemble something kind of balanced.

    If I get to a point where I'm happy enough with it, I might put out a sign-up/stress test thread so people can try building some characters since I don't know what you're likely to come up with and how that might impact the system.
    I'd be very happy stress-testing it. I like that kind of thing. ^_^
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nik Hasta View Post
    And all it cost us was a mere 60 billion pounds :/
    Oh, so this was some stupidity that actually had an impact before they canned it?

    *facepalms*

    So sorry, guys.

    Edit: *reads story* Oh, gawd, it's worse. They're not even saying it was a bad idea, they're saying 'all the bad stuff that started was because of international reasons, not because tax cuts on rich people doesn't help at all'.

    Jeez.
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