Zompist Bboard Again

Greetings, fellow returnee!

Not sure if there were any high profile movies coming from Hollywood in that genre at all before the early 2000s LOTR Trilogy, except The Wizard of Oz . Seriously, Excalibur anyone? (It was the #12 on the list of top-grossing films of 1981--right above Time Bandits , which as you may recall had a f...

You certainly can be an ultraviolent cyberpunk if you want to... but you don't need to. In particular, while the attractiveness of some amount of chrome is obvious, there is no pervading sense of being totally helpless if you're not massively chromed and loaded up for "the old ultra-violence&q...

Delighted to see you all!

Cheers! Pleased to meet you.

Hi, and thanks for the long-ago responses everyone! Jeebus, what even is time, huh? I had no idea that it was like two and a half years ago when I put this up and hadn't posted really anything since. But I am back now. Proof? I've got a post up arguing with Mark over something. A very minor somethin...

Currently reading: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. A subversive crime novel set in 1964 Harlem that really brings the setting to life and explores a complicated boundary between being "straight" or "crooked," legitimate or criminal, for its main character. Enjoying it quite a...

Many thanks!

If using Verdurian to render the name of a past event that means something like "The Casting (of Stones)" -- in roughly analogous fashion to "The Fronde" in French history -- how does the declension of the definite article work and what form should the verb "arelir" tak...

I was formerly known as "ils" on these boards before I took a long hiatus. A bit of nostalgic mood moved me recently to reach out to Mark about popping back in to talk about... well, things and stuff, and stuff, and things and... things. (I also have a con-langery type thing that I've been...