You are correct. Such are the perils of using one's phone to make a post. Autocorrect is a bit carp.
I don't believe that. It sounds fishy.
Nah, fish is nice, fish is good. Its just rather hard to catch with a sword.
The Black Company is amongst my preferred fantasy series along with the Malazan Book of the Fallen and The Fitz and the Fool series, when one likes dark and gritty.
"But as a precaution I'd not inhale the sword." - AndiTheBarvarian "People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think." - Peter Watts
Nah, fish is nice, fish is good. Its just rather hard to catch with a sword.
The Black Company is amongst my preferred fantasy series along with the Malazan Book of the Fallen and The Fitz and the Fool series, when one likes dark and gritty.
Broken Sword by Poul Anderson is like LOTR but with incest and gore.
Nah, fish is nice, fish is good. Its just rather hard to catch with a sword.
The Black Company is amongst my preferred fantasy series along with the Malazan Book of the Fallen and The Fitz and the Fool series, when one likes dark and gritty.
Broken Sword by Poul Anderson is like LOTR but with incest and gore.
I prefer Andersons SF stuff, the light and the dark stuff. Dominik Flandry is so funny to read. My favourite author is Tanith Lee, followed by Abercrombie, especially the "Shattered Sea" trilogy. But everything with the "bloody niner" or his world is also read veeery often! Holger likes Abercrombie as well, and mainly Howard, Wagner and Leiber from the older stuff. He is a MAJOR Alan Dean Foster fanboy; half of his bookshelf is from this guy...
“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!” - Alan Alda
"We must remember that absence of surviving physical evidence is not necessarily evidence of their non-existence" - Craig Johnson (Arms & Armor)
"I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart." - Roland of Gilead
Broken Sword by Poul Anderson is like LOTR but with incest and gore.
I prefer Andersons SF stuff, the light and the dark stuff. Dominik Flandry is so funny to read. My favourite author is Tanith Lee, followed by Abercrombie, especially the "Shattered Sea" trilogy. But everything with the "bloody niner" or his world is also read veeery often! Holger likes Abercrombie as well, and mainly Howard, Wagner and Leiber from the older stuff. He is a MAJOR Alan Dean Foster fanboy; half of his bookshelf is from this guy...
I like Anderson's The High Crusade, in particular. It should be required reading around here.
Darn, I trained for the Third World War, but what I got was War in the Third World. "Specialization is for insects" -- Robert A. Heinlein “Do not draw, do not force others to draw. Do not cut, do not force others to cut. Do not kill, do not be killed. Even if one encounters the greatest of sinners, one should kindly offer sermon and show them the path of good men. If the worst occurs and they do not conform, then without hesitation apply kesagiri and send them to Buddha.”
I prefer Andersons SF stuff, the light and the dark stuff. Dominik Flandry is so funny to read. My favourite author is Tanith Lee, followed by Abercrombie, especially the "Shattered Sea" trilogy. But everything with the "bloody niner" or his world is also read veeery often! Holger likes Abercrombie as well, and mainly Howard, Wagner and Leiber from the older stuff. He is a MAJOR Alan Dean Foster fanboy; half of his bookshelf is from this guy...
I like Anderson's The High Crusade, in particular. It should be required reading around here.
Is that the one where the medieval people turn an Alien into an arrow pin cushion?
Broken Sword by Poul Anderson is like LOTR but with incest and gore.
I prefer Andersons SF stuff, the light and the dark stuff. Dominik Flandry is so funny to read. My favourite author is Tanith Lee, followed by Abercrombie, especially the "Shattered Sea" trilogy. But everything with the "bloody niner" or his world is also read veeery often! Holger likes Abercrombie as well, and mainly Howard, Wagner and Leiber from the older stuff. He is a MAJOR Alan Dean Foster fanboy; half of his bookshelf is from this guy...
I liked King of Ys best out of all Poul Anderson's books that I have read.
Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Mar 2, 2020 17:56:50 GMT
So you think you have the ultimate LOTR/HOBBIT collection ? Some people have more money than they know what to do with. " But honey we don't really need a guest room, let them stay in a motel ".
Would hate to be the one who has to dust these collections off every week or so.
I like Anderson's The High Crusade, in particular. It should be required reading around here.
Is that the one where the medieval people turn an Alien into an arrow pin cushion?
Yup, and then charge up the gangplank and seize the starship. Through a series of picaresque misadventures they wind up with an interstellar empire. Both chivalric conventions and modern politics/diplomacy are broadly lampooned. One of the funnier parts is where they manage to deliver a tacnuke on a target with a trebuchet, and one of the English calls the small nuclear warhead "Even better to throw nor a dead horse!".
Darn, I trained for the Third World War, but what I got was War in the Third World. "Specialization is for insects" -- Robert A. Heinlein “Do not draw, do not force others to draw. Do not cut, do not force others to cut. Do not kill, do not be killed. Even if one encounters the greatest of sinners, one should kindly offer sermon and show them the path of good men. If the worst occurs and they do not conform, then without hesitation apply kesagiri and send them to Buddha.”
I really need to watch the extended versions again this month. Crazy how the extended cut takes 3 3-hour movies and spans them out into 6 2 hour movies that flow much, much better. No filler at all. Still waiting on a Tom Bombadil mini-series though
I really need to watch the extended versions again this month. Crazy how the extended cut takes 3 3-hour movies and spans them out into 6 2 hour movies that flow much, much better. No filler at all. Still waiting on a Tom Bombadil mini-series though
Just wait for my spicy Old Man Willow Slash Fic.
"Everything in moderation, including moderation." -Oscar Wilde
I really need to watch the extended versions again this month. Crazy how the extended cut takes 3 3-hour movies and spans them out into 6 2 hour movies that flow much, much better. No filler at all. Still waiting on a Tom Bombadil mini-series though
Just wait for my spicy Old Man Willow Slash Fic.
I would be so down to read that. "Do you hear something?" "No, it's just the trees." "Oh, nothing to worry about then..."
I really need to watch the extended versions again this month. Crazy how the extended cut takes 3 3-hour movies and spans them out into 6 2 hour movies that flow much, much better. No filler at all. Still waiting on a Tom Bombadil mini-series though
I have the extended version of the Fellowship but still need to pick up the other two movies in extended version. The first movie only added 29 minutes, Two Towers added 56 minutes and Return of the King added 63 minutes. There's was a scene where a horse rescues Aragorn at the river that I wondered who the horse was and why did he show up to save him. This scene on the extended version explains it.
Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Mar 3, 2020 19:21:00 GMT
Not as good as LOTR but I still think it was pretty good. Definitely didn't do as well in the box office numbers and awards. I think they got carried away with some of the looks of the dwarfs, some look normal just short others looked real strange.
nerdthenord: Hi, I'm still alive. Doing well again all things considered
Apr 15, 2024 3:10:36 GMT
samsthe1: Uhlan, thank you for the information.Derek.
Apr 9, 2024 15:25:37 GMT
samsthe1: Uhlan, thank you for the information,
Apr 9, 2024 15:24:56 GMT
mrstabby: Mine gets pressed to the top as well, but that way the tip gets ground of, don't like that either. Unfortunately I'm an edge-perfectionist. Also one wrong move when unsheathing and the throat nicks the edge on either side.
Mar 31, 2024 19:02:10 GMT
AndiTheBarvarian: Perhaps I've got one from the batch for Matt Easton ?!?
Mar 31, 2024 18:22:59 GMT
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AndiTheBarvarian: When I draw the saber it's automatically pressed with the spine to the scabbard so there's space for the edge to not touch the scabbard. When the false edge starts it's released but can be carefully draw completely without touching the scabbard.
Mar 31, 2024 8:10:26 GMT
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AndiTheBarvarian: Too little gap for a needle, so also I see no way to get the glue in.
Mar 31, 2024 8:02:34 GMT
mrstabby: I was easily able to poke through the glue on all of my Windlass swords/daggers, then it just seems to wick in forever, it never was thick. I can't imagine how there isn't any dulling though, unless yours is less wide or the scabbard is bigger.
Mar 31, 2024 7:04:12 GMT
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AndiTheBarvarian: There's not really an opening on mine, very good fit of guard and blade and some glue or epoxy in it. Since my scabbard doesn't dull the edge too I seem to be on the lucky side with Windlass this time.
Mar 31, 2024 1:25:54 GMT
mrstabby: Maybe it screams in pain now, but I like it..
Mar 30, 2024 20:35:26 GMT
mrstabby: PSA: Give your Windlass swords some superglue, they appreciate it. My 1796 drank 4g through the opening between guard and blade, now it rings much louder and vibrates much less.
Mar 30, 2024 20:34:25 GMT
AndiTheBarvarian: Not easy to smell without a nose...
Mar 30, 2024 3:17:59 GMT
mrstabby: "Sorry Mr. Johnson, I need to store my sword for a few hundread years until someone worthy comes and gets it, mind if I stick it here?"
Mar 29, 2024 18:54:11 GMT
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AndiTheBarvarian: First you have to try getting it into!
Mar 29, 2024 14:52:50 GMT
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mrstabby: What now, pulling a sword out of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? Intriguing!
Mar 29, 2024 12:49:08 GMT
AndiTheBarvarian: Dwayne Johnson disagrees!
Mar 28, 2024 19:38:14 GMT
rschuch: As anyone who's seen Excalibur knows, getting the sword INTO the rock isn't the problem, it's getting it back out again.
Mar 28, 2024 19:13:13 GMT
durinnmcfurren: Movie turned out better than it had any right to be considering how many times a blade was shoved into rock. Yes, even once would be too much, but it was way more than once.
Mar 16, 2024 22:36:55 GMT
Ramses1079: Yeah me too, which is a shame because he’s a good author. I guess that’s like when your favorite band releases a new album, and there’s always one or two tracks that you’re like “what were they thinking?”
Mar 16, 2024 19:12:10 GMT
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