Climbing those impact factor rankings...
I've read somewhere that maybe more than anything else, "Red Nails" is the ur-text of the old-school D&D dungeon crawl. Overcoming obstacles with clever plans that make use of the environment, ancient ruins seeped with history settled by factions with their own goals, it's all there.
The scene in Fellowship of the Ring when there's a wide shot of Moria and you see exactly how expansive it is. Never in my teenage Dungeon Master brain did I conceive of such awesomeness.
Yeah, it really impressed me at the time but then a few years later my university anime club screened a fansub and I saw how superior the unedited version was.
When it happens to me, I call this "tabnesia".
The deeper point is that an enormous part of why the Romans were so successful is that they were unusually good at employing diversity and running a multi-ethnic polity. Roman power declined when they lost this habit. For more, read this series: acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c... /end
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…
"Wow, I can bend this more than a tone!"
Darcy and Jane were the first women in the MCU we saw do goofy banter like the guys did. Before them every female character was written as a mother hen, no-nonsense professional, or both.
Awesome. I first learned about this event from a Korean sci-fi/alternate history thriller I picked up on DVD years ago: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009:_L...
Update! The creators of ReBoot (1994) found the D1 tape deck they needed so now they can transfer and remaster the original series and do a home media re-release! bsky.app/profile/wolv...