Me too, Doran. Me too.

Lots of great suggestions here. One movie I’d like to highlight is Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, which I found to be fun, clever, and utterly charming.

Would you believe, there was a Dark Water English remake?

Didn’t it take Stephen king something like 30 years to finish his dark tower series?

I may be wrong about this, but I believe the ward cost becomes part of the the casting cost of the spell, and if you don’t have any creatures, you aren’t able to cast the spell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English-language_operas

Thank you all. This was very helpful.

I live in one of the states that required a prescription. I drove across state lines last week to get my booster shot. Looks like if I had waited a little longer I could have saved myself a three hour round trip.

Forgive the pedantry. It’s me hearties.

I recommend the book On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Sounds like it’s exactly what you’re looking for.

You mean to tell me that 2008 was 17 years ago? This makes me deeply unhappy.

Honestly? You’d be surprised at how helpful it can be. I’ve sent routes with a slight buzz that I never could have done completely sober. It helps take the edge off the fear, and it helps you stay loose and keeps you from sapping all your strength from tensing too much. Every advantage helps when you’re pressing your limits.

Climbing while excessively drunk is of course a terrible idea.

I loved the first one! I’m on board for a sequel. More than likely it will be a case of diminishing returns, but if it’s even half as clever and fun as the first was I’ll be satisfied.

Yosemite national park, for me.

Forgive the pedantry. It’s *taut.

Fun fact: This was actor and contortionist Doug Jones’s first role.

I believe op is referring to Bakshi’s Fire and Ice, not martin’s books. The rest of your point still stands though.

Something like this happened to me once before. I sent a pm to the tracker staff to ask about it; they responded that a leecher had a borked client causing it to repeatedly download the torrent again. I suspect something like that is what is happening here.

I enjoying it well enough to keep watching. I’ve found it a slight improvement over the first season, but I’ll reserve judgment til it’s finished airing. I don’t mind most of the changes made to the story so far, or at least the ones that have stood out enough from my hazy recollection of the book for me to notice, but a few have been unnecessary and have the characters acting out of character. I find rand and perrin irritating, but the other characters are fine. I agree that it is fun seeing this world brought to life and visualized. That’s been the most enjoyable part of the show for me so far.

A.A. Attanasio’s The Last Legends of Earth. This book is absolutely bonkers, and I don’t mean that as a slight. It has, among other things, a race of sentient spiders called the zotl which feed off of the pain of sentient creatures. It’s a wild ride.