Recent content by puzzle

Sadly, I was not a blank sheet when I went to the cinema - I already knew that navigators needed spice to avoid losing their way in folded space, and that spice had no synthetic alternative, so civilization would collapse without it. I did catch a glimpse of the likely appearance of a...

As many of you might already know, part 2 is out there in cinemas by now. :) I watched them "almost together" (with a delay of 1 month). I had not read the books, but I did feel the need to read the Wikipedia article about "Dune" before going to see the movie. Spoiler rating of my post...

Hello, nice to see you. :) Thanks for the idea, I'll check out what local libraries have and can. :) I know of a library that started lending tools and instruments, but their multimedia departments are unexplored ground to me. One friend visits libraries to study, but I visit them to configure...

P.S. Interesting - after a while has passed, it's no longer possible to edit an old post, is is supposed to be like that? Also, I educated myself about forum software - apparently you managed to migrate the database to a different forum engine, congratulations! :)

Thank you for the reviews, folks. It's nice to know that there is something new out there to be found and seen. I know I won't find time to watch it anytime soon. In fact, I don't have a TV these days, preferring to read news and consuming little entertainment. My laptop no longer has a DVD...

So after all these years, the forum engine is still maintained and published by someone? Wow. I knew that free software lives forever (but gradually degrades towards unmaintained), but for a piece of commercial software to outlast such a period is a miracle. :)

I wouldn't think anyone can be born with a taste for some form of art... at most a slight predisposition, maybe... ...I guess that much depends on what a person finds. If they read or watch poorly done sci-fi, or go looking for something entirely different, it may disappoint them and they'll...

Sad to hear. As much as I could deciper from what I saw and read, Mira changed things for the better - both around her, and further away in the world. I appreciated and continue to appreciate her contribution. For me, her performance in Babylon 5 (and also her songs and some interviews) were a...

Well, everything is physical.. including stuff we don't know about. :) And these critters sure seem to be at the far end of physical... ...especially when angered. That's the point where I recall the assassination of the second Vorlon ambassador by B5 staff, at the point when open war with...

Re: How does one poison a being capable of passing through material obstacles, or leaving part of themselves, capable in some way of functioning, into another creature's mind? Well, maybe the answer is: "how does one shatter vapour with a hammer"? Maybe by waiting until it turns to water and...

Not only positions, mind you. :) He bothered to build an almost usable Elvish language (and broad swathes of history to accompany it)... just to support the books, and then used only tiny bits. :D Must have been quite a pass-time. I guess he needed a distraction and found a good one in this...

Apparently, I'm going around in circles. But this time I took a detour and went off the previous track. I'd tried reading the Lord of the Rings a while back, and it never clicked... as for the Hobbit, it's a children's book and it never clicked already way back in Soviet times (in primary...

Sad to hear. :( And even more so, because it probably could have been avoided (somehow). But statistics tends to be so that avoidable things also happen eventually... :(

There was a fanfiction story I once read that simply presumed that those critters knew how to safey evacuate a consciousness from its physical medium, and would have likely offered such insurance to a productive and esteemed employee, in case they got beheaded by barbarians, or met other...

...compared to other communicatons channels, I rather like forums, but yes, this forum is next to abandoned, and forums are (relatively) high-maintenance because somebody has to keep the software up-to-date and keep an eye on how successful spambots are at registering... ...so of course I...