My pledge:
I solemnly pledge to continue the long slog in working on the Epic army. I do not care for it but I will finish it before I leave my current home. In that vein, before all you lot reading this, I will devote my painting to the task at hand of smaller scale torture *sob weep whine moan*

Inspirational stuff from the time:

Anime I would sat The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Excel Saga and Last Exile. All of them had great stories which hold up with time. The animation has gotten better with time but they still hold their own in the way good stuff from earlier still can as well with digging in. For comics I would go to the work produced by Guy Davis with “The Marquis”. A great bit of dark fantasy where a perceived agent of his faith turns out to have been in the wrong the entire time and, in order to save himself from suffering damnation, act in the interests of the other side. Definitely a fine short run series for the style and solid story. I give nothing away because it is better to be walked into blindly.

Gaming/hobby releases of the era:

Deus Ex! A change in the way storytelling was done for FPS with multiroute puzzle solving that incorporated RPG leveling for skills. A major shift in how mature narratives could be delivered for what was seen as kids entertainment.

Albums of the decade that I enjoyed… hmmm

Speaking of The Matrix series… look at who did quite a bit of the music

To create a location on a table without restriction of time/resources? I think that something like the ruins of Angkor Wat or Machu Pichu with all the overgrown trees and moulering stonework would be cool. Its been a longstanding idea to build a Blood Bowl arena for a lizardman team using those elements and have detail stonework for demarcation of end zones and wings. Along the sides you could have inset dugouts for your team reserves, Kos and injuries/dead. For last there could be a great temple “scoreboard” for trackers of points/rerolls/rounds. With the advancement in 3D printing this might be a reality I’d just need to work with somebody to get the designing down and then produce it. Definitely a setting for the Atzlan Cup as a convention tournament.

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@sundancer Convenant! Great choice

@dawfydd Agreed on Ghost in the Shell as a great choice. The music for that was spectacular for the atmosphere.

@robert I see more metal making its way through the lists. I’ll get to this after running about in the evening.

@woldenspoons Cash covering Hurt was great. I’ll add that Kermit the Frog video as an alternative was disturbing to see how it was plausible from the lyrics.

@blinky465 A time of ska/punk for you? Huh. I was introduced to some of that only at the tail end of ‘99 and hit over the head with things from The Dwarves, The Aquabats and NOFX from a guy in my military unit. Good listening to break the genres.

@mage *blink blink* Right. So we now know what gives with the Mechanicus avatar. All hail the Machine God and long shall we live by embracing the Word of New Flesh by transhumanism.

Speaking of which Laibach just put this out

Dammit.. missed this one for last decade. I heard it a year after it came out.