"we had to make our own enchantment" is pun perfection.

They use the spare minutes that boardgame companies throw out when they put estimated playing time on the box.

Put numbers on them and use them to roll White Dragon breath and Cone of Cold damage.

Oh yeah, she definitely did. But Frank Skinner seemed to be enjoying himself, and David Baddiel was affable in (usual) defeat. It's not a 100% rule, obviously.

He's got a bit of "this is beneath me" energy, which is the next box over.

Actually, he's got quite a lot of that.

Is this canonical? I always assumed he was a Protestant, being German. But I'm happy to be corrected.

I may be the wrong kind of nerd for this question but: Reed Richards, and I'd spend the whole evening asking him to explain weird-ass physics like how the Negative Zone works. To be fair to me, I think that would be his idea of a good time too.

That would be a hell of a twist!

I thought Wolverine was the mutant? Are there two?

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Were

Were those the only two options

Surely a Star Wars character with that bio should have a name like Piloti Noodleloveriano?

Yeah, the Iranian President was clearly enjoying speaking up on behalf of Jesus, a thing any good Muslim should do.

And one or two cases don't invalidate your general point, which I think is right.

Oh, I agree contemporary settings don't count. I was thinking of some of her earlier work: I think it's The Lescar Revolution series.

Stool of a Took!

I think Juliet McKenna has written post-revolution political fantasies.

I like you! But not like that.

Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Livable:

1) Music.
2) Boardgames.
3) Maths. (Can't do it, love to read about it.)
4) Running.

Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Livable:

1) Music.
2) Boardgames.
3) Maths. (Can't do it, love to read about it.)
4) Running.

Maybe you'll be lucky, and they'll just produce flags of all nations and a baffled rabbit.

Maybe qualify as "on planet Earth"? Because I would 100% spend a week going to the moon and a week coming back for, say, a three-day visit. (Landing, not just going round it in orbit.)

It's a very formalist, break-the-fourth-wall idea. I loved it, but your work always seems immersive and emotionally engaging, not so concerned with the medium, so that tracks to me.

Sorry Wexford.

I know some people hate the juggling scene in a jump-the-shark sort of way. I thought it was a very deliberate statement about how exceptional Vetinari was

"Please allow an additional delay on reply of up to three seconds owing to finite light speed."

You've seen his teeth, haven't you?

Heliogabalus finally using their powers well.

I think in his fiction he is always exploring, not insisting. So maybe he did have a personal coherent ideology on that? Not important, though, because he got to the right place and stuck his marker there.

A park bench with spots of rain and a small soft toy fox (five inches?) sprawling casually on it. I have never seen it before.

I quite like living in a town with urban foxes, but they're getting a bit cocky, occupying human spaces in broad daylight.

I think I might be a dwarf.