The burps from the turps

Defeated "Watchword" on Insane difficulty, which Steam says less than 2% of players have managed. Some of the remaining achievements are daunting, though. I can rack up points in the millions, but scoring 10 TRILLION?

The work of a single talented writer, this old-style annual (imaginative articles, jokes, quizzes, puzzles, etc.) is a fun, easy and appropriately nostalgic read for fans of a certain age. It's defo getting me hyped for the upcoming fifth and final season of the program. Shame it's missing any original fiction or comic strips about the Hawkins crew.

"H:T/C/M" felt like a telemovie. No, like three telemovies inexpertly spliced together, i.e. v. clunky plot. I don't think much of the new Hellboy actor. On the other hand, Adeline Rudolph, the actress who portrays his sidekick, was the star of the show. Not without artistic flair, but more reminiscent of a rambling "Call Of Cthulhu" game than a slick supernatural-action blockbuster. Coulda been heaps better, even with the limited budget.

I'll watch almost any new ancient-history documentary. However, many of them turn out to be dry and overly repetitive; lacking in intellectual thrills or substance. Not so with "Cleopatra's Final Secret". Ignoring the fib of a title, it presents us with a maverick investigator (lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez), her against-the-odds successes, her infectious passion, and what appears to be significant progress in both understanding a neglected ruin and maybe *eventually* uncovering the resting place of Egypt's last queen.

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Memory modules, Part 6

Was it JH who bought these or MD? Or did they buy one each? I'm pretty sure it was J. who ran them for our group. They were full of surprises, from the mass battles (even the random encounters are farqin' tough!) to the magical ladder up to the moon! I remember an exchange along the lines of... DM: "In the distance, you spy a host of what must be 100 bandits." Me: "100? That has to be a misprint." DM: "Nope." But my strongest memory is that the Mujina (faceless humanoids who put on disguises to steal a party's gear) were altered to make them like Raston warrior robots from Terrance Dicks masterpiece "The Five Doctors" - and none of us minded :-)