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Cruelty may, perhaps, be in my nature. In all honesty, I've heard that there's been several Tolkien fanfics that came out very impressively. I just... haven't really read them. LotR didn't scratch very many of my literary itches, for whatever reason.

Now, the old starcraft LotR custom maps...

I'd probably recommend trawling through thrift shops and places like goodwill and hunting down ones that sell used books for a quarter and just pick up everything fantasy and see what comes out well. Sometimes you hit something pretty impressive, and considering you get like 20+ tries for the price of a normal commercial book nowadays...

Or scumming around ebooks that were released for free. Might find something, there's a good body of text out there, even avoiding the more dubious collections.

It's finally cold enough here to wear a long sieve shirt.

... what... what does a sieve shirt look like? I know of long sleeve ones, but I've never actually seen someone turn a sieve into a shirt. Wouldn't... wouldn't it be cold? It'd be sorta' like a really fine mesh, wouldn't it?

Massive chunks of mountains, crap like black lung, huge bodies of water, gods know damming has caused problems above and beyond what nuclear's done to any particular city...

It's a pretty accurate statement. Yeah, nuclear's had its problems but, comparatively, it's been doing pretty well.

I know that's what it looks like, from our end, but... does it actually have an arse? Or, for that matter, one of the same sort and in the same area our kind would have it? I mean, that eye-looking thing. That could be its arse. Alien physiology, people! It could actually be hiding its excretionary areas out of decency.

I... I'unno. EoM was a bit better at things than Palpi until th'EoM got stuck to the golden toilet, I think. Post toilet he didn't really have much to do with much beyond being that glorified GPS thing.

Palpi was... actually pretty on the up and up, iirc... depending on the writer. Palp's level of competence varied wildly based on authorial competence, heh.

So, yeah. Taken as a whole neither are particularly good choices... but at their best, yeah, s'pretty good critter to mimic. Though they were dealing with pretty wildly different metaphysics (compared both to us and each other), so...

... did you call them back and ask them how?

I'm gonna' go ahead and pre-emptively blame any damage that occurs on living on/near the coastline of a meteorological active ocean. It's what I do whenever a hurricane uproots a tree and lands it somewhere unpleasant down here in Florida, so... yeah. Not sure why people feel the need to blame it on something else, unless they're trying to avoid the white elephant in the discussion... [/pseudo-faked cluelessness] More seriously, any blame that's to be partitioned for disaster damages is better placed on people in the past (building construction and maintenance, preparedness, etc.) than anything reactionary, imo. Though borking things up as badly as Katrina went doesn't exactly help things, I'll give that.

Am kinda' suddenly curious, though. Any election historian buffs know if major weather stuff-things have gone down previously on or around voting periods and if there were any notable impacts 'cause of it?

UNIVERSES INCHES, PLEASE.

610x790, according to paint. E: At 72x72 dots per inch resolution. Good point from Ak that that's a thing.