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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 29, 2024 14:30:12 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 28, 2024 17:02:02 GMT -5
Judging from the trailer only, Mr. MacKay does a very credible job; he sounds as if he's quite comfortable with the language. Like, say, Queen Elizabeth.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 28, 2024 12:11:02 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 27, 2024 21:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 27, 2024 14:34:06 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 27, 2024 8:48:28 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 27, 2024 8:11:32 GMT -5
Big Bertha
(That's what we called the quadratic equation when we were kids. No idea how widespread the name was).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 26, 2024 11:57:23 GMT -5
I didn't even know there had been a remake. Now I hope to forget the fact as fast as possible!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 26, 2024 10:14:45 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 26, 2024 9:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 26, 2024 5:37:32 GMT -5
huh... you're right... I just tried a few random things and the answers are all good. interesting I wonder if there are other knowledge gaps, or just comics? It's absolutely awful about old French songs. I'd say that any material that is not very present on the internet (even if it's common in printed material) won't give ChatGPT enough ammo to come to a satisfactory conclusion about what word should be next in its answer.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 15:12:46 GMT -5
Now... What did everyone think of the final episode of The Prisoner? I found it very frustrating the first time around, but it might simply have been too unconventional for me. When I later read a few reasonable interpretations for the confusing conclusion, I thought it was pretty clever. Not outright explaining things and leaving the reality of certain events up in the air is something Dean Motter and Mark Askwith also did quite successfully in their Prisoner comic for DC. All in all, I think the ending fit the series; we were left in the dark, and the story really didn't go the way we expected! Be seeing you.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 14:59:52 GMT -5
Probably a good thing that there isn't a politics thread today. Agreed. That's a thought I've had pretty much on a daily basis for a year, too!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 6:42:22 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 5:54:07 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #189, September 1991 Cover by Ovi Table of contents Eye of the storm, in which Conan meets the wizard Zukala again. Featuring a cameo by Elric of Melniboné! (sort of). What can one do, in which Conan faces an army. In the letters page, the editor states that “Barry Windsor-Smith was the first artist to draw Sonja for comics, in Conan #24”. That was of course in issue 23, “The shadow of the vulture”, which adapted the Robert E. Howard story that introduced Red Sonya of Rogatino, the model for Red Sonja. That issue #24 is the one that gets reprinted all the time shouldn’t keep an editor from getting such basic facts straight. But hey… any editor who brings Roy Thomas back to the Conan mags must be a good person deep down (see the announcement at the end of this review). I don't know if this ever got mentioned when you wrote this review so long ago, but i think this story was retconned out of the Conan canon in issue #241 on the top-left panel of page 11. Karanthes mentions that Conan had been to Zukala's castle twice and Conan corrects him, telling him once was more than enough. That is so cool! I love the way Roy would sidestep other writers' continuity errors not by flatly claiming they were wrong, but by dropping a suggestion that they might have been. He did the same after the disastrous "year one" story arc, the last issue of which saw Roy's return under the pseudonym of Justin Arthur; he had the whole thing be a story told to Prince Conn by his dad. Queen Zenobia, overhearing, just said "that's not exactly the way you told me of those events" or words to that effect, leaving the veracity of the tale left in doubt but not outright negated. That shows, on Roy's part, both attention to continuity and respect for the work of his colleagues.
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