Recent content by galaktar

Apothecary. Alchemy skill always went up to 100 way before anything else. I was disturbed by the sheer number of dead alchemists in the game however. Damn spriggans always popping out of the woodwork.

Two Steps from Hell playing through my alarm clock, followed by coffee.

Gyrojet. Trust me.

A caveman porterhouse is the only true argument against any other kind of food.

Codex Alera - good mix of ancient rome and elemental magic Sword of Truth - Standard fantasy fare but really well done. Song of Ice and Fire - YES... Wheel of Time - I think if you take all of the pages written you will literally have a pile about 3 feet tall. Leviathan by Scott...

Exercise - The more muscle you have, the more energy you use, leg exercises do tend to put on the most muscle mass in the shortest amount of time. Try different things and see which ones don't irritate your legs. Lots of muscle is possible in the back as well, so there's another good place to...

Heat death of the Universe: Eventually every source of energy everywhere will be expended into the infinite void. Leaving a legacy will not be possible even on a planetary scale. Also, every single male on both sides of my family for at least four generations has gotten prostate cancer...

Dunno, if I heard a bunch of people referring to themselves as "intelligent altruists" I'd run as fast as I could away from them.

The depressing part is that since majority rules, even though the intelligent/benevolent people may invent those things, everyone else (of whom 50% are, by definition, below average in every measurable thing) get to decide how those inventions are used/not used.

Colonel Bagley from "The Last Samurai." Captain Algren ends up respecting Katsumoto because of his unwavering obedience to his leader, the emperor, despite the his corruptibility, but despises Colonel Bagley because of his unwavering obedience to his leader, the US Government, despite the its...

put: spoiler and /spoiler inside these [] on either end of the stuff you want to hide.

Then Ashtar Command: Dead Man's Gun ...salt in the wounds.

Bit obscure, but Crest of the Stars... Also, Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Blarg honk, blarg blarg honk Honkity Blarging Honk Blarg Sincerely, Crunchbite.

Oh jeebus, I hope I didn't create a thread that is heading in this direction.