Recent content by Fnord

If she's a keeper, she not only won't mind, but she'll appreciate it. Complete sentences are a lost art, after all.

It really comes down to something being a store of value, easily transported, easily measurable, and sufficiently "scarce" enough not to disrupt the price system. But even precious metals have their pitfalls; after all it's not the hunks of metal you want, but the stuff hunks of metal buy. The...

"Yes, yes. . . please tell me more about this Nyan Cat."

Fantasy is about the only fiction I tend to read anymore. The vast bulk of my reading time is spent in nonfiction.

There's a can of worms waiting to be opened. In all honesty, I sort of groan whenever some expert or another comes out and says we have hit the limit of "X" in regards to humanity (whether X = population limits, civilization, intelligence, resources, wealth, innovation, etc) because people...

I don't have a specific shelf per se (being an anal retentive, my library is arranged by subject), but there are certainly a few books I've re-read many times. The Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends series. The Dark Elf Trilogy. I, Strahd. The Conan stories. The Lord of the Rings. All...

Ain't that the truth. If you need a more civilized, modern picture just look at how some of the citizens in countries like Greece have handled some cutbacks. And of course, Greece is a good example of the inevitability of such systems taken to extremes: people became very good at tax avoidance...

If you take out the swords and sorcery, what's left to talk about? ;)

Speaking of books I'm ready to give up on: The Infernal City. I probably should have known better than to buy a book based purely on the fact that it is written in a setting that was designed around a video game franchise (The Elder Scrolls, in this instance), but I was pretty hopeful given...

I went back and found the thread about it. It's too bad, really, because I'd probably be fairly sympathetic to his political viewpoints. But that sort of agreement just doesn't save boring writing. Of course, I couldn't get into "Atlas Shrugged" either even though everyone who knows me and my...

I haven't bothered with the Spellplague business. I'm actually a huge fan of the 4th Edition D&D (mostly because it made my life so much easier as a DM) but I did a cursory thumbing through of the Forgotten Realms campaign book and found little interesting. Of course, I've never been a fan of...

I've actually enjoyed the show a lot more than I suspected I would. And I don't even *mind* the plot deviations all that much--though so far the deviations have mostly been the sorts of things I didn't care for in the books anyway (like Stannis' daughter and Patchface). I also realize that...

I'll jump onboard the RA Salvatore/Terry Goodkind bash because they were going to be the two authors I was going to mention when I saw the title. I liked the Icewind Dale Trilogy. I liked the Dark Elf Trilogy. I liked a few of the books that came after. . . and then it seemed like there...

I suppose when we're debating such a broad topic (especially concerning good, evil, and morality in general) that's kind of an inevitability. That seems, in itself, as something that is not very benevolent. And while it's certainly not unique to Christianity (or Abrahamic religions in...

Indeed, and this seems to be where the concept of free will had to be introduced in order to make all four "consistent".