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Seems hard to get characters who only have a hair color and maybe one other trait described (and most of the women are "Ageless" due to magic) wrong, but they basically only got Rand, Al-Lan, and Thom Merrilin even close, though I did like their choices for Perrin and Moiraine and not much else.

Interesting example. I met a guy who was in Japan when the first issue of Yu-Go-Oh came out and he became friends with at least one of the guys behind it. It was MEANT as a parody of Pokemon but with the monsters in cards instead of balls. The first issue sold out so quickly, they had to make...

This is not exclusive to books. Compare the music (or just about any art form, really) of 30 years ago, or 50, or 100 years ago to what comes out today. There is a lot of good stuff out there, but there is also a lot of simplistic trash - and there is so much MORE stuff out there, it is easier...

The Invasion of the Bishonen...

Unique? No - most of my character traits are my own spin on older characters. Jack Diamond has the same inability to take anything seriously except his current assignment as his forebears, Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe. In another story I have not posted anywhere yet, the initial MC is a...

Think of AI as more of an amplifier - if you put something good into it, you have a chance of getting something much better (but will definitely get something much louder). If you put something half-hearted in, you could get just about anything - from people with badly bent or misnumbered...

Before I had a chat with someone who helped developed Microsoft's Co-Pilot AI (though their division was gutted when ChatGPT beat them to market), writing the prompts for AI is as much an art as writing. The better the prompt, the more likely the "word salad" will be edible, maybe even healthy...

Fun Fact - in, IIRC, 1973, more humans died from beatings received from swan wings in the US than from snake bites across the planet.

Ankh-Morpork has never been a fan of hygiene, as anyone who comes within a stone's through can attest through the smell alone. Still, he can be a noble, honorable soul - as long as you don't try to take advantage of him, because he is very quick to anger. He also tends to eat and drink a lot...

That's just to discourage tourists, becuase EVERYTHING in Australia wants to kill you. Everything. Kiwi birds? Yep. Crocodiles? Obviously. Koalas? Well they WOULD but they fall asleep halfway through the attack... Wombats? Well, except for that one that was struck by lightning and just...

If I don't get my hands on a USB CD-ROM drive so I can install my old graphics software I may have to go to AI myself so hope there is nothing wrong with it.

Favorite to read was the one in Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series (A world of anthropomorphic animals needs a magic-user but can only find enough magic to summon one from another world rather than create their own; for some reason the determine that, on the world they can reach and draw...

Never considered the memory loss arc before (despite it being one I've liked reading versions of - first time I encountered it was in an episode of the original Fantasy Island series, and my favorite version is probably the one in Sartre's novel "Les Jous Sont Faits"). Never liked the arranged...

When I was little, I read a few comic books in French and one other language - Spanish maybe. Couldn't do that now - too rusty. One of the French books was a translation FROM English (Always loved the irony of reading "Captain America and The Falcon" in French...), the other was French native...

Just to clarify do you mean a real world one like Detroit or Chicago, or an established/known fictional one like Rivendell or Ankh-Morpork, or one of our own creation?

Kelly Morgan Pierce would have the male "spirit" extracted and "boosted" to be a toxic male, predatory and driven by lust as much as anything else, but retain the powers and becomes Warhawk, a ruthless vigilante. The female body becomes excessively feminine, but retains some of the fighting...

Bulbasaur - that is the one who's name I can never remember.

Really? Huh. Only kind of got into the thing just as Gen2 launched and first I heard of MewTwo was in the movie which I thought launched Gen2 in animation? Dropped out as Gen 4 was coming out.

I think so, Had a roommate read the section that went over it out loud, after he stopped laughing the first time, so I may have missed something (this was a fairly early edition of the rules and may have been changed later, or they may all have a single, different, common ancestor but now be...

One possibility - her power may be tied to some sort of astronomical or geological phenomenon and be more powerful at times, but stripped down at other times (i.e. when the moon is full during the winter her power has its greatest range, but during a new moon in the height of summer she barely...