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Hi. I'm Larry, this is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl. In all seriousness, welcome to all the new members!

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind This is a must-read for all fans of human history and sociology. The author (Yuval Noah Harari) introduces/explores many ideas about what caused humankind to spread from the cradle in Africa to virtually every part of the Earth. And he does it in an easy-to-read manner.

There's a fine line between mental illness and genius.

I've had dozens of lucid dreams. But I have learnt that knowing you're dreaming and being able to control your dream are two very different things. In most of my lucid dreams I feel like I'm watching a movie, and I have no control over what's happening. This is particularly true of nightmares, which I realized a long time ago were not anything to be afraid of. To me, most of them simply felt like I was watching a horror movie. As a kid I might have been afraid of horror movies, but as an adult, not so much. Still, lucid dreams are interesting and entertaining.

"Could you direct me to the correct way to reach Moony? There's something important I want to provide to her."

You lucky bastard. And, yes, they are f*ckin' awesome.

And the always-awesome "Don't You Eat That Yellow Snow Suite":

Fuck, I've missed this place.

@Doom_Dude: "Burger Xing" - ha, ha! I am still grinning at that one.

Technically (even un-technically, for that matter) it's a goat. [:wink:]

@BaileyTW: I take it you have an opossum as a pet. Good for you.

I don't say this much, about anything, but that is ghastly. Princess or no princess, I ain't kissing that thing!

A Pup Tent with a Jerry theme

Orange penguin imagining it's trying to light up a hot dog, believing it to be a curved cigar Ninja-ed by @Artman2004

Not quite so menacing now, eh?

@Rince-wind: "Duck Nukem: 4 Feathers" "requires Doom 3". F*ckin' hilarious! Good one!

@BaileyTW: If I had to have a rodent as a pet, I suppose it would be an opossum. [I know, I know. An opossum is a marsupial, not a rodent. But tell me that the animal in that picture doesn't resemble a large rat. A cute rat, but a rat nonetheless.]

On topic: I'd say the toughest boss (not the same as the scariest) was the massive, building-sized fellow at the end of Serious Sam.

I once worked for this fellow that had a double chin that would have put The Goblin King to shame. Now he was scary. Oh, wait! Your question really wasn't in an employment context, was it now? [:wink:]

Arachnid More specifically, Daemon Aranea or Daemon Arachnis

I'd say my general music tastes are adequately documented in this thread. To summarize: Rock/Rock & Roll from the period between 1967 and 1978 (what some might call "Classic Rock"). Motown from the late 1960s to mid-1970s. (Arguably, this genre falls squarely within Rock/Rock & Roll.) Funk (which somewhat overlaps Rock & Roll and Motown) Contemporary blues (even though, for me, Robert Johnson remains the king despite playing early Delta blues on a ratty hollow-body guitar). Jazz: Big Band/Swing, Bebop (and, yes, the music from Cowboy Bebop), contemporary. I'm not a huge fan of avant-garde jazz, however. European/American classical music. Indian classical music (both Hindustani and Karnatak) My guilty additional pleasure is listening to disco music, which I despised when it was at its apex of popularity. I also now appreciate the musicality, especially the layering, of Britney Spears' Toxic, which I detested when it was a hit. In a similar vein, I hated The Police when they were big (even though I dragged myself to one of their concerts) but I quite like them now. Guilt? Kublai Khan knows no guilt.