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

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

What about Tomb Raider: Catalyst. Though that is for 2027.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQy0w...

Legend of Atlantis is a reimagining of the very first Tomb Raider game. Catalyst is a continuation of the reboot series.

Has anyone tried https://neonichiban.com started this year by former co-founder and former CEO of Comixology, David Steinberger.

It looks promising and has a load of free content.
https://neonichiban.com/carousels/fre...

It may be a good replacement for Comixology, which now that it is owned by Amazon has become crap and is totally useless for those of us outside the US.

Those kids sure have grown in the 4 years between S1 (1983) & S4 (1987) 🤔

Trike wrote: "Tassie Dave wrote: "I have never seen Root beer for sale in Australia.

I have a feeling that it is vaguely similar to sarsaparilla"

Nah. Root beer is sweet, sarsaparilla tastes like poison."

I love sarsaparilla. But I have a feeling that Aussie made Sarsaparilla would taste different than US style Sarsaparilla. To me ours is very sweet.

The worst US soda I have tried was Dr. Pepper. I describe the flavour as what I imagine floor polish tastes like. 😜

I have never seen Root beer for sale in Australia.

I have a feeling that it is vaguely similar to sarsaparilla

Alien: Earth is really good.

The fictional Zhu may have been asexual, but the real Zhu was anything but, and had 42 children.

7, maybe, with Ma and the rest with his concubines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_...

Trike wrote: "What about RDJ in Tropic Thunder? Or Nicholas Hammond in Ladies in Black?"

RDJ. No. I haven't seen Ladies in Black, but Nicholas has lived in Oz for the last 40 years and might be able to do a passable Aussie accent. I think I could still tell. 😉

John (Taloni) wrote: "And! Yahoo Serious in Young Einstein! WAS THAT REALLY A TASMANIAN ACCENT?!? He even says "Oi'm uh Tasmanian!" BUT IS HE REALLY?"

It wasn't a Tassie accent. He's a New South Welshman.

On the subject of accents. I've never heard a non-Australian do a good Aussie accent.

If I hear a good Aussie accent on a foreign TV show/Movie, I am never surprised to find they are an Aussie.

We read that before Marion's horrific crimes were revealed.

Safe to say that we will never read another of her books for S&L

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_...

I too support the use of S&L funds to bypass the Patriarchy 😜 and watch Murderbot. 😊

I have read just about everything Joe has written.

I haven't read this yet. Looking forward to more Abercrombie.

I'll start off by saying, I'm against AI narration as a replacement for humans. It's going to happen, but I'm not happy about it. I will always buy the human version versus the AI. If given a choice.

But will the AI be bad. It is now, but it's only going to get better and I would assume the best companies will still have a human sound editor tweaking the audio to remove any 'Uncanny Valley' oddities and to smooth out the quality. I expect it will be indistinguishable from humans within a few years.

AI does have its use. For books that will never sell enough to warrant the cost of a human narrator.

Also for better, on the fly, narration for the blind community.

It continues, an expands on, an already great masterpiece of literature.

Apparently 6 Volumes (36 Issues) until it comes to its conclusion.

Stephen wrote: "The thing I like about Kindle books is the ability to highlight a word and go to dictionary for the meaning, In the old days had a note book and looked it up the old way."

The dictionary is a well used feature for me, but the feature that I love the most is the translate feature.

Most you can guess from context, but it is nice to have an exact translation.

The wikipedia and Google features are also handy.

No they Gen Alpha or Gen Beta Falcons 😜

They are 3rd Millennium Falcons. 😎

Philosophy hasn't been part of my training in the 40 years I've been in mining, weirdly 😜

It is good policy to put spoilers inside spoiler tags. Especially this early in the month.

Putting (spoilers) in the title isn't enough, some members receive their posts in a daily digest. Titles can be missed.

Thanks.

As it should and Pot Pie has pot in it. 😜

From Chris K's spoiler question. (view spoiler)[I can't remember what was hinted at in Book2 (I have read the first 5 books).

But what is going on in the wider universe is featured in the books I've read and are major plot points in the Carl and Donut world and are forecast to continue to be important to future books. (hide spoiler)]