So, this is not an issue so much as an observation, but toward the end of MoI, which is where I am on the re-read now, Dujek and Whiskeyjack have a conversation before heading to Coral...it basically resolves the majority of "imperial tension" issues in the whole series, if you can just re...

He's hard to describe is what he is. He's the Magi of High House Shadow is what he is. :D ...and kicks their ass with a wooden sword That was the other one, the big one...Leoman has the flails. (Ok, I'm approaching the end of MOI, (I don't usually skim much, but there are parts I find boring after ...

Really? I'm curious, why? To be fair I haven't tried the remastered ones...but I grew up with TNG and even then ToS just looked cheesy to me...and it's only gotten worse as things have progressed. I don't have the nostalgia factor to fall back on...apart from TMP and WoK I don't think I'd even seen...

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LOL, I better look and see if I can find an old copy of his Edgetar...

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Can't speak to the phone thing...I see post counts. WGD...uh...the bottom fell out of the market and we left them behind on the old forum. Nobody has any anymore...total crash I'm afraid.

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There were tentative plans with Romeo for a potential meet during Covid lockdown, nothing ever came of it. Yet.

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I meant to mention that the end of GoTM gives us our first indication that Erikson struggles with the difference between "flail" and "flay." (Always annoys me when I see him get it wrong, although he doesn't always. Maybe it was his editor.

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Well, I'm finished DHG. I'll save any comments here for when SB has progressed a little. Onto MoI now.

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And we all know how well making the purchase of something illegal works in curbing it...

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LOL, it would be a guess, so let somebody else give it a go.

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I don't play MMORPG's for that exact reason. Anything open-ended is a death-trap for me.

Anyway, proceeding a bit, forgot this is where Icarium turns up, and of course Iskaral Pust.

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peter wrote: ↑ And the little dog! Don't forget the little dog!

LOL, I forgot about the little dog.

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I never assumed we were. But then again...your enemy is never evil in his own eyes.

Everybody thinks they're the good guys. And from somebodies perspective, nobody is.

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Well, it might take him as long to find it as for you to read DHG. :D (I know that look...mine is split between reading 24x7 and gaming 24x7 so I have it twice as bad. ;) ) Anyway, I'm a few chapters in...won't say much...met Kimloc, (I do love the Gral impersonation) and we learn a little about Kal...

Holsety wrote: ↑

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Also, Paran was a little clueless of what was going on in the prologue of the book...

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I mean, he was like 12 years old...

Yeah, anyway, I see Fist answered the Rake question...a lot of questions tend to end up answered in the books by subsequent (or sometimes earlier) books.

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And I'm reading Deadhouse Gates as of a couple days ago.

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I remember as a young man, collecting an out of print series that, without the benefit of the internet, took me years to gather from random flea markets and charity shops. Haha, I have one of those. :D (Adrian Cole, Omaran Saga). Book 5 is the ultimate examples of this. Entirety different character...

The drone attacks, while making a good display for the Iranian domestic audience, seems to have been more designed as theatre than a serious strike. I was thinking the same thing. It's possible that this could be face-saving. They have now responded to the bombing of their embassy, honour served as...

So, the GF is busy watching this even as I write, having started the series last night. My effective inability to prevent myself from explaining the surroundings and back-story makes it impossible for me to watch with her really. :D (She knows nothing about the games.) Have caught a bit here and the...