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Ten hours on Pool of Radiance

12 October 2026 at 02:05
Sweet Pelor! MrEdders123 on Youtube has a review of the first reasonably-complete computer AD&D adventure, Pool of Radiance from 1989. the first of SSI's classic Gold Box D&D games. It's comprehensive in its discussion, enough so that it's almost ten hours long. But there is a long list of shortcut links in its description to get to whatever part of it you might find most interesting without having to go the long way around.

"The thing just got bigger and bigger and bigger"

26 September 2026 at 07:07
What's Opera, Doc? is a film of "angular settings, gargantuan shadows, rapid cuts, odd colors and dramatic camera angles," in the words of Charles Solomon. And every shot of it required Noble's touch. "Without Maurice Noble, who excited, moved and stimulated us all," Jones wrote, "that film could not have been made."

Four Beluga Whales Die Weeks After Major Rescue Mission

25 September 2026 at 18:20
The belugas were among 30 whales transferred to aquariums in the United States and Spain from a closed marine attraction in Canada.

Β© Rachel Mittelstaedt/Shedd Aquarium, via Associated Press

A beluga whale named Osiris at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in August. It was one of four belugas to die after being transferred from a closed marine park in Canada.
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