Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

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Maybe he meant this one ;-)

https://swfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Pales...

I'm fairly sure it's fan boy satire, but who knows with the amount of SW EU stuff out there.

Mark wrote: "Which clone should voice a S&L intro?"

Meathead ;-)

I bought the Orphan Black series after hearing the ad. Using the code of course.

It's cool it gives you both an audio and text version for the one price.

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "I'm going to go rogue and say it's only for people super interested in what happened 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale. "

It will be interesting to see how they adapt it to TV. As the TV show has gone way past the events of "The Handmaid's Tale"

I will watch it, as I "enjoy" the current TV series. Though enjoy is probably the wrong word, as it can be a hard show to watch at times :-(

Rob wrote: "I'm sorry..you lost me when you argued that Die Hard wasn't a Christmas movie.."

I'd go so far as to argue, that it's the only decent Xmas Movie.

Trike wrote: "Oz might have the most poisonous snakes in the world, but the Southwest has got them there rattlers. They’re no joke, bucko."

I try and avoid all snakes ;-) Tasmania only has 4 species, but they are all deadly, even the babies.

I'd rate our Tiger Snake as scarier than a Rattler. They can be up to 8 feet long and as thick as an arm, with venom many times more deadly than any rattler. Plus they don't give any warning sound if you get close.

Snakes don't scare me. You learn really quickly living in the country how to avoid snakes and if you see them, give them plenty of room to slither away.

The animals that would scare me in the US are the large predators like grizzlies and cougars. We have nothing like that here.

I assume that's the Black Mesa mentioned in the book. Cool.

Those are the parts of the US I want to see. The less cityfied, scenic areas. Like Monument Valley, Grand Canyon etc

Am I the only one that smiles every time "Black Mesa" is mentioned? :-)

Nerds ;-) I expect both Tom and Veronica react the same as me. Both being gamers.

(view spoiler)[Black Mesa is a science technology company in the Half Life game series. It is a rival to Aperture Science. It is also mentioned in the Portal game series. (hide spoiler)]

I keep waiting for "Aperture Science" to come into the story and Portal guns .

It can be either annoying or fun when books have these unintended references.

Older books also have differences in word or phrase usage. Like older classics having their characters "make love". Which they use to mean flirting or courting, but to us it means going all the way.

Trike wrote: "So even more of a thirst trap than previously imagined!"

Pure hotness ;-)

This was my Facebook profile pic for a while. No-one guessed it was a pic of George. They thought I'd had someone draw me :-)

The background is my hometown. (Queenstown)

Trike wrote: "Pictured: Tassie Dave consulting the S&L histories: https://images.app.goo.gl/...."

I might think I sound like Hugh, but I'm often told i look like George Costanza ;-)

Do I really sound like that?

I thought I sounded like a slightly older, sexier Hugh Jackman ;-)

Hugo Award winners we read before they won:
The Windup Girl. We read it starting May 2010. It won in September 2010
Redshirts. We read as an alternate pick in July 2013. It won in September 2013
Ancillary Justice. We read in November 2013. It won in August 2014.
The Fifth Season. We read as an alternate in April 2016 (It tied to win March Madness) It won in August 2016.
The Calculating Stars. We read in February this year. It won in August.

I used to re-read a lot when I was younger. I still do occasionally, but I have such limited reading time that I want to find new books to love.

Mark wrote: "Well, you definitely should never re-read if it stops you from reading one of my books! :D "

Wow, the author of my favourite series I've read this year :-)

Great work Mark :-) I loved Red Sister, Grey Sister, Bound and Holy Sister

Everyone here should read your "Book of the Ancestor" series :-)

Go for it Trike you will love it

I love Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers.

No not weird. :-) This is one of the friendliest forums I have been a part of.

Even as moderator I do very little moderating. I delete the odd bit of spam, move threads to the right section.

Coming here is always fun and cheers me up if I've had a bad day.

Trike wrote: "I don’t hate it but lawdy he do go on and on."

I liked the first 2 books in the series, but Geez did Book 3 drag on forever :-?

With a bit of editing, it could have been condensed into 1 really good book ;-)

Don't mention the war! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6L...

The war atrocity sections are confronting in TPW, but they need to be to (view spoiler)[make Rin's actions believable. Whether we agree with her massacre or not, we can understand how she got there. (hide spoiler)]

Monkey was a popular cult hit in Australia in the early 80s. It was just weird enough to be good.

I quickly look through it, but as I check the forum regularly, I am aware of all the information it contains.

Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "I find that section on the forum a little irritating, as so many are pinned that nothing new from anyone else shows up on the main page ."

I have thought the same thing. With so many pinned, anyone trying to start a new topic will end up off the main page and as we all know, if you're not on page 1 you don't exist.

My suggestion would be to unpin all the "Local Group Meetups" topics. Busy Groups will keep their topics on page 1 and new topics will also get viewed.

I will leave that up to Rob (and others) to decide as I don't use that section.

True dat grandpa ;-)

I must be getting old, none of those new names are familiar :-?

With a bit of Googling I do remember the indigenous Aussie actress Madeleine Madden. She was good in Aussie alt-history series "Tomorrow when the war began".