All right, Matt, so I am in the midst of Book Six (I am not hooked, of course I am not).  :P  I hope that you continue your book reviews.  I appreciate being introduced to a series that I might not have heard of until one of my own children would have brought the book home.  I have been very pleased with the characters so far, and how the author has shown us how they fight both the demons within themselves and outside of themselves.  I so particularly enjoy Alice in particular, and I hope that this series will not disappoint after a 13 book investment.  A little worried about that number....

You made me laugh Thiago by saying that you "simply might not grasp c0da," as I am probably in the same boat then! Could the controversy simply be about perspective?   Are we talking about a meta-gaming perspective, where the lore you established in your game through the actions of your characters is different from the lore that I have established in my games?  For example, is this a way for an individual to explain multiple dragonborns, again from a gaming perspective as a person acting outside of the game?  From that perspective, open source makes total sense.  It seems to bring the TES gaming experience which is traditionally single player into a collaborative experience.  Kind of like the concept of social media brought to TES.  Should it be canon?  Not in my opinion.   Yet I still think that it is necessary to have a framework, canon lore if you will.  Certainly we can interpret the ambiguities the way that we wish (and we may do it differently for different playthroughs and characters) but in order to "read between the lines" and have "wiggle room," the lines have to be there in the first place. I have created my own head canon in that all of my characters actions create a larger narrative.  Not just in Skyrim, but over all of the ES games.  Some characters are related by blood, others by other events or relationships.  So I only have one Dragonborn or one Champion of Cyrodiil or one Archmage, etc.  I do not expect anyone to understand it or consider it canon lore.  It is my personal gaming and story experience that I have created for myself.  If I blog about it, then I have shared it.  But it is simply an interpretation that I formulated through the dynamic experience of gaming (and a slightly obsessive interest in lore!)    It is essentially a novel in my head, and not something that I consider other people to be responsible for in their interpretations.  For example, my Dragonborn is a Shezzaraine, and I look forward to exploring those implications in the next installment of the single player TES game, wherever it may be. Canon is easy.  In game books and events and dialogue.  Simple.  Interpretations can vary, and I am totally fine with that.  Everyone has a right to create their own lore in their gameplay experience.  Gaming is a creative process in the Elder Scrolls.  But when discussing lore, we have to have a common language somewhere.  Canon should be that, in my opinion. I guess that is all I have to say about that.

Mason, when that Nemesis photo popped up on my computer screen, I literally jumped up and away from it...sounds like you could scare more than little kiddies with that thing... Champagne??  Between that and Lex's zeppole, I think I would plop myself on the corner with my loot and be very, very happy! Your number 4.....  That is all that can be said to that...

Popcorn balls??  I cannot believe I forgot about those!  I think I usually pitched those, as the one time I had it, it tasted pretty stale (and that was before all the razors in candy scare).  Your costume Ben, sounds udderly amoozing!  How could you only have a "little fun" in that??

Guy, that is an awesome picture...psycho surgeons, psycho clowns...for some reason I am hearing a Talking Heads song echoing in my brain!    Seriously, you both look like you had a great time! Wow, you all getting money for treats is pretty amazing...definitely worth trudging around the neighborhood for.  And it seems you have the evil laugh down just perfectly, Guy!  Have you all decided what it is going to be this year costume-wise?