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I agree that it probably was the Toonami slot that got Outlaw Star out of obscurity, even if it wasn't able to avoid falling back in. Despite Cartoon Network airing Cowboy Bebop late at night, and despite airing Trigun years after the other two had finished (I had to watch that one on bootlegged subbed VHS)... it's Cowboy Bebop that's near-universally beloved (for good reasons) and Trigun that got a reboot anime (somehow?? hot damn). And I think I might have seen the finale episode to Outlaw Star, like, maybe once on American TV. It was that show I always wanted to go back and figure out. Maybe now that I'm out of high school they'll even let me watch the uncensored version. You think if they'd aimed the show at adults rather than censoring it for kids, it would've taken off more?

Krom would never give us gold stars, he breaths life into humans, and gives them the ability to die heroically, and that's it, any help he gives you would detract from your honorable struggle.

Man, when the time machine gets invented, I'm totally gonna show this series to HP Lovecraft

This video was going along fine for the first 8 minutes or so until the host engaged the woke thrusters and rocketed off down the politically correct spiral. The fact that expressing his indignity was more important than getting basic pronunciation correct was quite telling.

I checked these books out so often from my school's library that they tried to make me read other stuff like Deltora Quest, Harry Potter and this one book series I can't remember the name of but remember that the main gist was that the villains were named after days of the week and had 3 subordinates named after the dawn, noon and dusk of said weekday. The books were titled things like Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday.

Stories about cats written by a series of apparent cat ladies...got it. 😏

I read the 5e Curse of Strahd module book back to front.

I had like 40 of these books as a kid and maybe read 4 of em all the way through

I still have all my Blood Wars cards. I only played it once, but I break them out every once in a while just to look at Tony Diterlizzi's sick art.

About the movie Brain Jacques may have did not what his series turn into one i hear

I don’t like some of the changes made to existing Dark lords. Especially Harkan Lukas

He has the right to his creations, but i like ideas of complex stories well made no vermin

Loved Chronicles & Legends. Hated Dragons of Summer Flame, Next Generation, and War of Souls. The time jump was dumb.

You gotta do Wings of Fire, the history there is absolutely insane

I've only made it 1:21 into the video and heard the phrase "problematic". Let me guess; zoomers and their ilk found the Belgariad and are OFFENDED. Ohhhhh nooooooooo.

There is nothing in darksun that is not present in some way shape or form in all other d&d settings.

Just downloaded it on audible gonna check these out I always loved D&D art as a kid even though I’ve never touched a D&D game

The original modules would be an epic tv series. “Test of the Twins” would be perfect as a follow up movie trilogy

I remember loving that series many many years ago. Waiting for the next book to come out etc.

It was soo good until it wasn't 😢

Ageless fantasy. The books are perhaps a bit juvenile/teen fantasy...but loved the books as a child...still do. Not sure why the legal woes and problems are an issue for the story. Today, i have no shock if any popular author, actor, musician are crappy people. In fact, it's expected. I never saw.the divisions of "race" as an issue. It kept groups easy to understand...and when a character breaks "norms" of their culture, it's much more interesting and creates an arc that we want to follow. Notice, i see this as CULTURAL divides..not racial ones. In fact, most people are tired of the UNENDING need to see everything in a race lens. As far as the women, they are diverse, written well, and significant to the story. Not sure what is wrong with that. 😊

Literally yesterday I my boss complimented my use of penultimate. Thank you Lemony for over half my vocabulary 😂

yeah a long time ago i picked up a game with redwall vibes called tooth and tail which pushes the setting to the world war era. its a great lil strategy game.

New subscriber here 😁

The "race/gender" criticism falls flat for me. The most important character start to finish is a woman (Pol) and some of the other female characters are thin because they're simply minor characters. The author specifically elevates female characters at a time when that was not at all the standard. And you have to lean way too hard into modern obsession with race to have an issue with these books - it's not earth, these aren't "races", these are groups of people specifically created by different gods to be different from each other. They aren't sterotypes, they're actually types, and intended to be that way.

It was somewhat formulaic but much less an obvious copy-paste of LOTR as Terry Brooks' Shannara books. So it stands on its own pretty well. Pol is the center piece that holds it together.

Garion didn't win by stabbing Torak, he won by refusing to submit to Torak's attempt to dominate and enslave him, as the dark god had dominated and enslaved his people: "Hear me, maimed and despised God," he grated from between clenched teeth. "You are nothing. Your people fear you, but they do not love you. You tried to deceive me into loving you; you tried to force Aunt Pol to love you; but I refuse you-even as she did. You're a God, but you are nothing. In all the universe there is not one person-not one thing-that loves you. You are alone and empty, and even if you kill me, I'll still win. Unloved and despised, you'll howl out your miserable life to the end of days." Garion's words struck the God like blows... ...This was why Garion had come to this decaying ruin-not to fight Torak, but to reject him."

Expecting a book written in 1982 to have the same values as people 42 years later is absurd. As far as race = good/evil, this was directly addressed and disproven in the sequel, the Mallorean, which is all about our original heroes and heroines discovering the Angaraks are actually decent people. Urgit, Vella, Yarblek, Cyradis, Toth, Senji: all good people. Even in the Belgariad, Belgarath makes this clear when he says there are good people in Cthol Murgos, but that Garion should be careful around any Murgos he sees in Sendaria, as those ones were sent by their government as spies.

I actually preferred the Elenium and Tamuli.

Let's face it. Raistlin was to Dragonlance, what Darth Vader was to Star Wars. Once they were gone, the series lost its bite.

The aesthetic is really like nothing else

would you ever cover Robin Hobb's realm of the elderlings series? It's some really unique and incredible fantasy that (in my opinion) doesn't get the love it deserves

Eragon has my favorite magic system

5Easy is kiddy funland. I prefer my original box sets where Strahd is an eternal prisoner in his own hell and can never really be defeated. Where the land itself is the true evil. Instead of a theme park with fun jump scares this should feel more like an old school horror film. Madness and death I should definitely be on the table. To a much higher degree than any other lands you may play in. With the possible exception of the Dark Sun setting. I watch a lot of dungeons and dragons I always see the dark Powers playlist some fun little addition to your character to play around in enhance yourself with. But I think the truth fun is when those powers are played as an evil that will eventually consume you.

Meh, keep your woke snowflake sensibilities out of our classics ( I mean this in the general sense, not personal). Was and still is one of my favourites and I have all the books on my bookshelf. Yes the authors might be horrible people but what does that have to do with their work? Cancel culture at its worst here. And the racial differences does make sense in that world. Having all the races made by different gods mean that they are each made in the image of THEIR particular god. The sensibilities of that world are therefore different from our world, and having that gender difference amplified absolutely makes it more relatable. So what if the women are focused on getting married and having children? It is entirely in keeping with the time period - women were not as educated in that world, and therefore the traditional gender roles are more ingrained. It is only in the modern world with more educated women that they are able to break out of the gender roles and make their own way. But for most of history, women’s main goal in life WAS to get married well and have children.

In Australia we had to wait and for Goosebumps merchandise and over all availability I have my my own collection of merchandise and love ❤ it giving me a comfort safe place with the abusive childhood but it helped get be through and I loved shivers brand books too also for me Goosebumps was part of school for those struggling to learn how to read

Much preferred Forgotten Realms, but enjoyed DragonLance too.

It’s Pol-gar-a. 😊

Oh god I remember trying that video game and just getting frustrated by it.

I love every book in these series.

i love wings of fire

IIRC there is one way out of Athas. You’d have to find the ruins of Kalidnay, which was taken to Ravenloft when the sorcerer king murdered half the people in his city. This implies that the ruins are connected to the other plane where the city still exists. In theory, you could use the mist to reach the Kalidnay in Ravenloft, then escape the city and travel to a different land, defeat the big bad there, and then return to that land’s original plane.

that second comic, is actually super terribad,

It's a shame that we are in a culture that views 'once guilty, always guilty' and it does not matter how they may have changed after certain events occurred. Say the N word in 1970's and you get cancelled regardless of the fact that the word was just common use then, and that the person does not use that word today. I met the Eddings back in the mid-80's at a book signing in Renton, Washington, I was in my early-mid 20's. Maybe part of the attraction of the books was that it was a simplistic fantasy series, and one could understand how isolated people ruled by their god would have been raised with those traits. And any child that displayed traits otherwise maybe were punished or eliminated so that there was a certain cultural purity.

If you put the entire Core is actually really small, if the entire thing is the size of Germany I'd be surprised. It's like Dark Sun, the entire campaign setting is around 250 miles square.

Am I the only one who pronounces it more like Rasslin, and Raystlin?

Except for The Belgariad, I have all the books as first edition in hardback. I also have The Belgariad, The Malleorean, and The Redemption of Althalas on CD. I'm not going to throw everything away because of the authors past.

welp i had to go digging to find my old feralfront rpg account XD oh god....the cringe is still so strong!!!! still love warriors tho <3

Damn this is crazy. Ive been cooking up a fantasy world in a head for years, and here it is already made. City states ruled by Sorceror Kings dotted across a large wasteland, terrible conditions, no gods. I even thought of the idea of a sea of shifting sands in the middle of the map with a hidden glorious city in the middle. This is a brief comparison, the similarities go deeper, but man there is nothing new under the sun lol

I am 2 months late but I am sooo freaking happy this fandom is still alive