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Mindwalker reacted to a post in a topic: Dogs III - the return of the furbaby thread
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Dogs III - the return of the furbaby thread
Galactus replied to Which Tyler's topic in General Chatter
My old dog (13 year old, completely deaf) has a nasty udder infection, it doesen't seem to actually hurt her (other than being annoying) but it's basically a fist-sized lump on one of her teat (as well as some smaller ones in the other ones) vet was basically "Well, she's too old to operate on, so just leave it as it is, try to keep it clean if it bursts (which it has once) and if she starts suffering we'll put her down." So that's sad. -
There's a big expansion of citizenship in the late republic with the Social War, and then in the mid-empire everyone gets made a citizen. (though in the meanwhile there's been a steady increase in the number of citizens from manumission, legionary service, etc.)
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Where it gets complicated is that a lot of these changes; Economic, cultural and such. Start well before the empire "falls" and often continue afterwards. So eg. population decline is a hard one to judge, did population decline because the empire fall or did the empire fall because population declined? (or both)
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Tad Williams - The Witchwood Crown / Empire of Grass spoiler thread
Galactus replied to kuenjato's topic in Literature
This feels a bit of a retcon, since at the end of TGT this is pretty much exactly what Simon says? (in general I feel like the sequel series kind of regresses a bunch of characters in order to create drama in the intervening period) -
Tolkien 4.0 (A dark and hungry sea lion arises)
Galactus replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Literature
While I think it's not *entirely* fair, Tolkien's kind of conservative-catholic ecologism has certain touchpoints with certain types of fascism, so that charge largely depends on how far you stretch "crypto-" -
Tolkien 4.0 (A dark and hungry sea lion arises)
Galactus replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Literature
Psychologically the characters change significantly. Frodo goes from an adventure-hungry youngster into a PTSD-scarred survivor. Merry and Pippin grow from rowdy troublemakers into leaders of hobbits. Sam grows into a hero. And people got he other way too, Denethor, Boromir, even Saruman (though his fall is on a bigger timeline) Gollum changes significantly, etc. -
Tolkien 4.0 (A dark and hungry sea lion arises)
Galactus replied to Ser Scot A Ellison's topic in Literature
Yeah, *characters* in LOTR change significantly. (and I don't think Moorcock even disagrees) -
Ah, Horace :p He's pretty much what you mean when you talk about a "literature snob".
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So, is this where we wait for DP's evisceration of Tigana?
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To be fair, that's kind of the beast of romantic nationalism. (which Tigana absolutely reeks of)
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In one of those Weird Things they cant actually do that. I mean, they can refuse to attend meetings and such, but membership is for life, once you're in you never get out.
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I considered making a Richard Rahl character in COV, ("I once kicked a girl in the jaw so her teeth fell out.") but I don't know what AT/powerset he should have (villains don't have swors, alas, except ninja swords)
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Awesome: (Not neccessarily in that order) Jubilee Spidey Iron-Man Dr. Strange Thanos Nova (Both of them) Dr. Doom Silver Surfer Super-Skrull Cyclops Emma Frost Nightcrawler Lame: Jean Grey Jean Grey Jean Grey & Jean Grey Psylocke (at least the ninjafied asian version, the original was pretty cool) Green Goblin (though Hobgoblins was cool)