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LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:23 AM

Greetings and salutations, my friends. Welcome to the 158th edition of the Random Banter Thread. Be sure to have fun. Today, we are serving some copy/pasta.

Rule List
Yay for rules?

1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.

2. This isn't the Play by Post or Town forum, nor is it the Silly Message Board Games or Structured Games forum. Please avoid continuous roleplay or mock battles and fights such as the "competition for control of the universe".

3. If it's already a thread, don't bring it to RB. RB has such a huge range of subject matter even restricted to the little snippets that probably don't warrant their own thread, it doesn't need legitimate thread topics cluttering it up as well. The exception to this is to bring something that is off-topic from one thread, but on-topic for RB and the subject doesn't warrant a thread of its own.

4. Don't advertise other threads in RB. Just because these new threads move at speeds more appropriate to a message board than an IM session doesn't mean you need to come over to RB and brow beat people into posting in your latest brainchild.

5. Please don't post single line posts alerting us to your current status -- as in "I'm back." This is Random Banter, not "How to stalk Random GitP forum members."

6. Don't poke, kick or bump the thread. It will move at whatever pace it wants to. Also, please refrain from Captain Obvious comments akin to "My, the thread is fast today."

7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.

8. As this is a public forum, where the current topic is nicely recorded for you, and not a conversation where you could have missed the beginning, please refrain from asking something to the effect of "What's the topic?". Please take the time to read up a bit first.

9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. Try to be concise as well.

10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.

11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details.

12. Whenever a new thread is created, all "first post", "first page", and all posts of that nature will be deleted by the administrators. Please avoid doing this, as it is frustrating for them to deal with one-lined posts like this.

13. Double-posting is not your friend. We have edit buttons for a reason.

14. Once you have made a Random Banter thread, you must wait 50 threads before making another one.

15. If you can avoid dibs calling on making the next thread, that will avoid people needing to wait if the thread hits 50 pages while the dibs-caller is asleep.

Past Random Banters

So many topics :smalleek:

Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8061505#post8061505)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)
Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10628978#post10628978)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 ( http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)

And with that, let us commence the boogie-ing. Hope I did this right :smalltongue:

KuReshtin

2011-05-11, 10:26 AM

Aaaaahh.. I love that 'New Thread Smell'™.

I'm guessing there will be a whole host of people who won't recognise me now. :smallwink:

rakkoon

2011-05-11, 10:28 AM

You're the Scottish Stig, right?

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:28 AM

I recognized the name, but you are no longer the enigmatic race car driver I know you to be. Now...you're a thing. What is that avatar of, anyway?

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 10:28 AM

You look like you want to break a few backs, Ku.

Fredaintdead

2011-05-11, 10:29 AM

*breathes in the new thread smell*
Yep, that's a new thread.

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

Haruki-kun

2011-05-11, 10:31 AM

Personally I prefer constant avatars, or at least a constant character in my avatars. Otherwise people forget me. :smallfrown:

I usually make the avatars based on something that happened in real life or... or something that I just felt like doing. :smalltongue:

Archonic Energy

2011-05-11, 10:32 AM

Amongst many others.
Interobulosity; Interbobby; Interterry and many others all for the same person; Cassie Lassie; Cyssy Myssy; Fifty-Fredded; and well, the less said about me the better.

*waves hi*

ION:
Wow. Troll finally got his RB, it's been what? Twenty times since he first tried?

IOON:
Sweet holy muffins Rose Tyler is such a whiny little brat! Never has there been a companion who got on my tits more than she.
Ever.

OMG CKG's home! yay!

Also: Rose was the worse thing to happen to Dr Who for a while... the Doctor shouldn't fall for his companions.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:35 AM

Oh Dr Who. I really don't think I can get into you. To expansive and scary, for one. On the other hand, I saw an episode involving the robot dog, and it seemed to take place in the same world all british shows tend to take place in. A weird, slightly over saturated with light place, where everyone sounds like they are in a comedy, but the lines don't match up with how they sound, and generally it just feels weird.

I've always been more a trekkie, myself.

KuReshtin

2011-05-11, 10:36 AM

I recognized the name, but you are no longer the enigmatic race car driver I know you to be. Now...you're a thing. What is that avatar of, anyway?

It's the avatar I used back during the Super Hero/Villain week.
It's The Violator from Spawn. I like it beccause it's deliciously gruesome.

You look like you want to break a few backs, Ku.

It probably wouldn't hurt.... much. :smallwink:

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

The Stigatar has been put on the back burner for a while. I'm sure it will arise again when the inevitable discussion comes back with someone asking who The Stig is, and only gets a load of cryptic Stig Facts™.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:41 AM

Ahh, a Spawn villain. Awesome. Spawn is pretty cool.

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 10:43 AM

It's the avatar I used back during the Super Hero/Villain week.
It's The Violator from Spawn. I like it beccause it's deliciously gruesome.

It probably wouldn't hurt.... much. :smallwink:

Couldn't remember the name. I used to have a toy of a four-armed version whose name meant it broke backs. I think it was the Violator's brother or something. Never really read Spawn; my older brother had the original comics but he wouldn't let me look at them.

Thufir

2011-05-11, 10:45 AM

I do remember really enjoying the origin book for those green spikey dudes (can't remember their name at all.)

Hork-Bajir, and yeah, that's a good book.
I really need to read the whole series sometime.

Also: Decided on the only avvie that I don't have as a mini in my sig. :smallbiggrin:

You should probably change the avatar credit in your sig to go with the avatar.

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

Ku isn't the Stig anyway. Edge is the Stig.

Also: Rose was the worst thing to happen to Doctor Who for a while... the Doctor shouldn't fall for his companions.

The falling for his companions thing is not actually an inherent trait of Rose.
Also, I don't feel you can really say Rose was the worst thing to happen to Who for a while, since she was part of restarting the series. You can say it could have been better with a different companion, but her happening was part of going from no Who to some Who, which was definitely a good thing.

KuReshtin

2011-05-11, 10:49 AM

Ahh, a Spawn villain. Awesome. Spawn is pretty cool.

He is in deed. The comics were good, but the movie was absolutely terrible.
I reaffirmed that at the time I got the avatar by actually watching it again, and i simply cannot understate the terribleness of that movie.

Even the Dolph Lundgren incarnation of The Punisher was positively brilliant in comparison.

Couldn't remember the name. I used to have a toy of a four-armed version whose name meant it broke backs. I think it was the Violator's brother or something. Never really read Spawn; my older brother had the original comics but he wouldn't let me look at them.

I haven't actually read the comics for years and years (not since before I moved to Scotland, in fact), so I can't remember whether Violator had a brother or not. Then again, he is a lower-level demon, so the four-armed version could have been another demon, I guess.

Edit to add:

You should probably change the avatar credit in your sig to go with the avatar.

I don't know what you're talking about... :smallwink:

Ku isn't the Stig anyway. Edge is the Stig.

Some say his tongue is a digital thermometer and that he sleeps with a Norwegian accent. All we know is...

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 11:09 AM

Elfangor was right to not kill those yeerks, by the way. As mediocrely written as the end to the series was, it brought a very interesting point with it:

The yeerks only really wanted to be free of their own pitiful existence. Sure there were the evil ones who wanted to stop at nothing to control the galaxy, but for the most part those were the ones in charge and they got there by being ruthless jerks, so it's unsurprising that they're, you know, ruthless jerks.

It's kind of a commentary in a way: who rises to the top? The ones that want power. Then it turns out that the morphing technology that the Andalites were hiding desperately is the solution to the entire war: offer terms of peace, allow the yeerks to become nothlits in bodies they prefer, and BAM. Yes, you've caused mass extinction of a sentient species but on the other hand you've managed to make that entire species happy.

They didn't want war: they didn't want to be trapped.

Friggin' love Applegate. If there had only been 10 books that were each 400-500 pages long, we'd all be saying "Harry who?"

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 11:12 AM

You wanna make a thread and start that argument again or somethin'? :smalltongue:
I'd really, really like to see them compiled into about 5 good-sized books with all the repetition and stuff edited out.
I think I got into RA Salvatore shortly after starting the Animorphs line, which kinda sucked up all my time. I do remember really enjoying the origin book for those green spikey dudes (can't remember their name at all.)Hork-B- Aw, beaten to it :smallfrown: Hork-Bajir Chronicles, specifically, anyway.

Ranger Mattos

2011-05-11, 11:26 AM

Haruki-kun

2011-05-11, 11:30 AM

I just had a massive "I want to kill him" moment with a teacher. He sent us this e-mail saying "remember your exam is on Tuesday, May 12." I felt like my insides suddenly disappeared and I bolted upright. I missed the final Exam? What?

Then.... "Wait.... Tuesday May 12?" Checked the calendar. Tuesday was May 10. The exam is tomorrow.

He nearly gave me a heart attack! :smallmad:

grimbold

2011-05-11, 11:37 AM

Aaaaahh.. I love that 'New Thread Smell'™.

I'm guessing there will be a whole host of people who won't recognise me now. :smallwink:

AHMIGAD
you changed you avvy!!!
*Head explodes*

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 11:47 AM

You wanna make a thread and start that argument again or somethin'? :smalltongue:
I'd really, really like to see them compiled into about 5 good-sized books with all the repetition and stuff edited out.Hork-B- Aw, beaten to it :smallfrown: Hork-Bajir Chronicles, specifically, anyway.
A very beautiful book imo. I loved the way it took the simple Hork-Bajir and gave them... a tradition. A depth that wasn't ever intended (from their design standpoint). That story really hi-lighted that the possibility of being a Seer wasn't something that you gain but rather the symbolism of losing whatever it is that prevents their intelligence.

Which is awesome.

Plus it was amazingly well written and brought together the storylines amazingly.

And the Ellimist is just friggen' awesome. One of my favorite characters in a story ever from a design perspective, if just because every time he's accused of being omnipotent he says, "Maybe from your limited perspective."

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 11:52 AM

Justifies every not-infrequent deus-ex-machina, too :smallbiggrin:

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 11:52 AM

Yay new thread!

ION: Ugh. I'm at least two days behind on my rat dissection in bio. Everyone else is already on the digestive system, I still haven't gotten the respiratory system out. Now I'll have to come in 3 times per day for the next two days :smallyuk:

Is that because it is difficult, or because it is really really really really gross and ew and bad? Because I can get behind both of those. I'm lucky to have never had to dissect anything in my life other then plots of video games.

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 11:56 AM

I've dissected:
- A bunch of rats.
- A trout (it was delicious P:)
- Various sheep bits, including eyeball.
- 2 or so flying foxes (both female, although I was meant to do one of each)
- an earthworm
- A pigeon
- Cane toads
- Whatever else I've forgotten.
I have pictures online, too :smallamused:

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 11:58 AM

Serpentine you scare me now =(

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 12:00 PM

For your viewing pleasure: flying fox and rat bits.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/serpentine16/IMG_0002.jpg
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/serpentine16/IMG_0001.jpg
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/serpentine16/IMG.jpg

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 12:02 PM

Why did I loooook ;_;

Atleast it wasn't real life pictures. If it's real life pictures I'd literally be throwing up right now.

Ranger Mattos

2011-05-11, 12:02 PM

Is that because it is difficult, or because it is really really really really gross and ew and bad? Because I can get behind both of those. I'm lucky to have never had to dissect anything in my life other then plots of video games.

Just because it's difficult.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 12:02 PM

Justifies every not-infrequent deus-ex-machina, too :smallbiggrin:
I'm trying to think of all the times that the Ellimist actually deus-ex'd them. Like straight up deus-ex'd them.

There was Book 7 where he went all tricky-tricky on Rachel to show her where the Kandrona was? That was flipping awesome. But it was so shrouded what his actual goal was... I dunno I don't really count that as Deus-Ex.

He intervened in the free hork-bajiir, but the extent of his intervention is... unknown.

In The Attack he was just an over-glorified Transporter from Star Trek.

It *is* revealed that he masterminded the entire team coming together which is pretty bad-ass but that's not so much "deus-ex" as it is the chess match between Crayak and Ellimist. Which is so bloody cool.

Like I said from a design perspective the Ellimist is probably the single greatest character I've ever encountered.

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 12:06 PM

The main one that comes to my mind is when he froze time to "give them an alternative reality"/(give them time to think of a way out).
Didn't he also bring back their memories in the super-timetravel Megamorph?

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 12:16 PM

In Megamorphs 4? Or the one where they get the time matrix? When they get the matrix I'm pretty sure that they were given back their memories as part of the deal between Crayak and the Ellimist: neither wanted Visser Four running around with the Matrix and the only solution they agreed upon was reverting history to its normal state. The best plan they could agree on was to let the Animorphs go after Visser Four.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 12:24 PM

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 12:26 PM

Ah yes. That was... interesting. it was also interesting to see how many problems that caused for Tobias later on.

Teddy

2011-05-11, 12:38 PM

Phew, I'm finally getting the hang on differential equations after some lessons of doing it by strictly following each step in the example (without understanding anything), and another few hours of hard study. It feels so good when math suddenly start making sense after not having done so (a somewhat rare occurence to me).

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 12:47 PM

I think he also gave Tobias his body back, by putting his falcon form into the past, or something like that, to absorb his human form. Which likely is why he picked a falcon for his flight mode anyway.Hawk. And that was... weird, but oddly enough it fit Tobias better than what Tobias THOUGHT he was gonna get.

The Ellimist is my... third or fourth favorite character in the series after reading his book
Also, I can't be the only one that liked the robot dude, right?Oh, i liked Erek. Particularly that moment when he gets his non-violence programming removed, and the book explores the reason they had it in the first place (namely, they can't forget it)

The Chee themselves, on the other hand... i really don't know. They seemed... scary uber, even considering that they technically couldn't fight.

Ah yes. That was... interesting. it was also interesting to see how many problems that caused for Tobias later on.
Particularly since he actually prefers life as a hawk to that of a human and has the most obvious romance of the series. (namely, his with Rachel)

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 12:55 PM

grimbold

2011-05-11, 12:57 PM

It feels so good when math suddenly start making sense after not having done so

isnt it just magical?

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 12:58 PM

Ah, sorry, I get hawk and falcon mixed up some times. And I really want to see the scene where Erik actually fights. Though from my understanding "fight" isn't the right word for the sheer devestation that happens.

It works best as something that's never shown.

Why? Because it's supposed to be so utterly inherently brutal and horrifying that even Rachel starts crying, and horror works best when the thing you're scared of remains a mystery.

Note: this is the woman who attempts an assassination, ransacks a library, a news station and a beauty parlor, attacks a community center with five polar bears, and crashes a plane into a holographic building all in ONE book. The one Marco refers to as 'Xena, warrior princess.' The only member of the Animorphs who LIKES the war.

Teddy

2011-05-11, 01:02 PM

isnt it just magical?

It is. I love the feeling of understanding everything, of seing everything clear. :smallbiggrin:

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 01:14 PM

Half-Tan, I was not aware they don't actually show the fight. I was expressing my desire to read the book it is in, that is all :smalltongue:

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 01:20 PM

Particularly since he actually prefers life as a hawk to that of a human and has the most obvious romance of the series. (namely, his with Rachel)
Second most. Cass and Jake

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 01:31 PM

Ah hello everyone. I fell asleep at page 49, just missed the reopening. LaLa, do you remember when you were all excited that RB 155 was opening, and you were all like

EDIT: Oh man, 50 pages. I'm excited!

and now you're opening up your own RB.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 01:34 PM

Yup! I've basically been running around the house all day, hyped up on the thrill that I uploaded a random banter thread! I feel like I finally belong *runs around some more*

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 01:38 PM

Yup! I've basically been running around the house all day, hyped up on the thrill that I uploaded a random banter thread! I feel like I finally belong *runs around some more*

When you're running the DnD RB campaign and have an established nickname
I'm pretty sure you belong. Now I suggest you stretch yourself and post outside of RB and neighboring threads *gasp*

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 01:47 PM

Woo, new thread!

Also, I'm kinda disappointed. I found out a little music video had been made for one of my favorite songs (http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/43525/exclusive-online-debut-dave-redas-horror-our-love-short-film) by one of my favorite bands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqNKz1wBgM) but the video was way too comedic for the point of the song I find, didn't like it at all.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 01:50 PM

I'm considering it MoonCat, but I don't really know where else to post XP

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 01:56 PM

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 01:59 PM

You technicaly have a nickname Woof, and you are running an RB DND thread as well, so yha =P

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 02:00 PM

What'll it take for me to belong? :smallfrown:

Your debit card and PIN.

Also, I wouldn't really worry about it, I may be fairly new but I don't see any reason to think that you don't belong/fit in/etc.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 02:04 PM

According to the atm my pin is ****

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:08 PM

I'm considering it MoonCat, but I don't really know where else to post XP

You read OoTS, right? There's a whole forum there to talk about it.

What'll it take for me to belong? :smallfrown:

You belong! you're just so shy that you worry you aren't, so you don't post, so you don't get as well known, so you think you don't belong, so you worry that you don't belong, and you don't post...

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 02:09 PM

Yha, I read OOTS. I think next update I'll join the discussion. That sounds like a good idea.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 02:11 PM

Your debit card and PIN.

Also, I wouldn't really worry about it, I may be fairly new but I don't see any reason to think that you don't belong/fit in/etc.

You check out those Metal (genre) Sonic songs?

Also, what is it with the lack of BOOGIES in these last two threads? Hmmm? :smallconfused:

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 02:12 PM

I'm considering it MoonCat, but I don't really know where else to post XP

Well there's also the 4e sub-forum on the RPG board, can't say I've done much there since it's the edition I know the least about.

If you do homebrew there's the homebrew boards.

And the Silly Message Boardgames are fun.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-11, 02:12 PM

First, the christening:

*BOOGIE!*

And now, oh my, to quotestorm. From the previous thread:

Originally posted by Thufir (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10964974&postcount=1434)
*geeking out over Curly*

*is squished to bits* Kind of expected that. As far as hallucinations go, I think I prefer a mass hallucination, they're so cosy.
And if Fifty-Fredded isn't a nickname and/or verb, it is now. So nyah.

Originally posted by Vonriel (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10965017&postcount=1437)
Ok, apparently you're weird enough that statements like this don't draw any attention from the regulars, but it did make me lol a bit. I haven't heard that expression before, and my 11th grade english teacher was just full of expressions like that one. Also, Rose Tyler didn't strike me as that whiny, no more than Donna at least. In fact, I'd say Donna was way worse than Rose in the whine department.

It's a pretty common phrase around here. Not the 'sweet holy muffins' one! The other.
As far as Doctor Who goes, hey, I've been marathoning the new series over the past ten days, and that much Rose is horrible.
Take in mind I've only seen the first two series, so pretty much her entire run bar the odd episode and endless finales.
She's very callous. Her first episode ends with her telling her boyfriend "Thanks."
M: "For what?"
R: "Exactly." before running off with the Doctor. This is minutes after calling her mum just after the auton attack and then hanging up on her, leading her mother to think she's dead.
And then the Bad Wolf thing (which was mostly okay, but Doctor Who is about the Doctor); but what really narked me was her last two-part episode.
"This is the day I died." Stop whining you little brat! She some darn character development! You're alive. Both your parents and your boyfriend are still alive. You're living in a world which is going through it's golden age.
And you're all depressed because of the Doctor.
Grow up.
Did any of the other companions act like this months after the Doctor left them? NO!! Not even Sarah Jane (R.I.P) who was literally abandoned on the wrong side of the freakin' country with no goodbyes whatsoever! She had to wait thirty years to get her goodbye.
And she's so clingy. Remember when she met Sarah Jane and was all 'but I thought I was the only one abloo hoo hoo'? Or then (and I've not seen this episode since it was first broadcast) when Martha was contacted by the Doctor and Rose was all 'but I should have been first'.

Originally posted by Coid (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10965547&postcount=1454), factotum (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10966566&postcount=1458), DD (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10966686&postcount=1459), Teddy (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10966714&postcount=1461), Fifty-Fredded (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10967305&postcount=1464) and Ku (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10968142&postcount=1477)
Yay! Koorly's back!

*hugs to all*
Yep. I missed everybody.

And the current thread:

OMG CKG's home! yay!

Also: Rose was the worse thing to happen to Dr Who for a while... the Doctor shouldn't fall for his companions.

I can tolerate the existence of Rose if only because it brought Doctor Who back. And brought us 'The Empty Child'/'The Doctor Dances', some very good episodes and two brilliant Doctors.
I am however, undecided on whether a Doctor should or shouldn't fall for his companions, each Doctor is different, although each is still similar to the previous ones. I remember Word of God being said somewhere that Four and Romana were in love . . .
It really depends on the Doctor and companion in question. Ten and Rose? No. Just no. From what little I saw of Ten and Donna, that was fun. They were friends, and the chemistry was good. You don't need a love interest to have a good working team.
One of the reasons I love the Eleven-Amy-Rory setup. It's awesome.

Oh Dr Who. I really don't think I can get into you. To expansive and scary, for one. On the other hand, I saw an episode involving the robot dog, and it seemed to take place in the same world all british shows tend to take place in. A weird, slightly over saturated with light place, where everyone sounds like they are in a comedy, but the lines don't match up with how they sound, and generally it just feels weird.

I've always been more a Trekkie, myself.

Doctor Who's a weird show that exists whenever, wherever and however it wants in any universe it wants.
If it helps, I'm a Trekkie too. TOS and TNG mainly. Can't stand VOY or ENT.

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:15 PM

So laughing my ass off at this post of yours LaLa.

Thanks. Eh...I'm thinking of leaving the forum already anyway. I have trouble with forums. But we'll see, I'll give it a day or two.

Koorly's back! When'd that happen? How are you?

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 02:18 PM

Curly, about Twilight...pray for their poor souls. Or organize some riffing/jokes you can make.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 02:20 PM

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

Not go. That's what I'd do, but I'm a bit of an ass about getting my own way. Alternatively, if you're actually nice, you can sit through it and make a snarky thread about the experience later.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:21 PM

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

Agree to watch it, but spoil it by pointing out every error and problem and necrophilia and teenage marriage and all other crap that got passed off as a story. somewhat dickish, but if you're watching a **** movie based off a **** story, I think it's within your rights to point out everything wrong with it.

LaLa, I just thought of something. Pity it wasn't called LaLa's Laughably Lax RB

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 02:25 PM

You check out those Metal (genre) Sonic songs?

Also, what is it with the lack of BOOGIES in these last two threads? Hmmm? :smallconfused:

I did indeed, it was cool enough, what was really cool was from there I found a bunch of metal songs done in an 8-bit style.

Also, I'm unsure as to the purpose of the boogie, but ah well, *boogie* and for good measure *woogie*

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

You do two things. First you explain the a wet hen is as I've never heard of that before. The second thing you do is either not go or go and MST3K it hardcore the whole time.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:28 PM

I did indeed, it was cool enough, what was really cool was from there I found a bunch of metal songs done in an 8-bit style.

Also, I'm unsure as to the purpose of the boogie, but ah well, *boogie* and for good measure *woogie*

You do two things. First you explain the a wet hen is as I've never heard of that before. The second thing you do is either not go or go and MST3K it hardcore the whole time.

Wet hen is a term for a doormat type of person, someone who's kind of...fluffy. And I haven't read that trope yet, but I think that's pretty much what I said.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 02:30 PM

Wet hen is a term for a doormat type of person, someone who's kind of...fluffy.

Ah, thanks

And I haven't read that trope yet, but I think that's pretty much what I said.

Yeah, it was, you ninja'd me. MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) was a TV show that used to do that to terrible B-Movies.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 02:32 PM

Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!
Put up or go home ;-) Bring your A game and watch the movie like a champ!

... I recommend copious amounts of Jim Beam or Jack Daniels.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:34 PM

Put up or go home ;-) Bring your A game and watch the movie like a champ!

... I recommend copious amounts of Jim Beam or Jack Daniels.

No, she needs to save her friend from the horrible brain poison that is Twilight, she needs to at least try to make them see sense.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 02:34 PM

LaLa, I just thought of something. Pity it wasn't called LaLa's Laughably Lax RB

Ahh, I should of called it that XP

Oh well. XP

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:35 PM

Ahh, I should of called it that XP

Oh well. XP

Well, you can change it if you want.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 02:37 PM

Eh, it's ok. I'm fine with what I've got.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-11, 02:43 PM

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 02:48 PM

Welp.
You all hate me.
Watching Twilight sober, with riffing at the ready it is. Complete with a very agonised, snarky rant in this thread coming up late Saturday night (UK time).

Thank you so much.
I'm ecstatic. :smallannoyed:

Although to be fair I probably would've gone anyway because I like my friends, and so my riffing begins.

Pray for my brain.
Oh dear. Doubly pray because I've got portfolio work to hand in this term! Double your prayer strength people.

@Pentachrom:
'a wet hen' is basically another way of calling someone a 'wet blanket' or a doormat. I know I picked it up from PTerry's stuff, so I don't know if people actually use the phrase; but they definitely should.

Wait, why do we hate you? Think about the opportunity! Pointing out every stupid sick, idiotic, moronic thing in the movie. also, for more fun, talk about what Forks used to be like, I live closer to there than most people, prepare to tell them about how it was a dingy old logging town where there were loads of accidents and there used to be a habit of nailing of spotted owls on doors to protest environmentalists saying that you shouldn't log away trees an endangered species lives in.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 02:48 PM

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 02:50 PM

Sorry Curly, didn't mean to doom you like that. You'll be in my prayers, good luck.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-11, 03:03 PM

Wait, why do we hate you? Think about the opportunity! Pointing out every stupid sick, idiotic, moronic thing in the movie. also, for more fun, talk about what Forks used to be like, I live closer to there than most people, prepare to tell them about how it was a dingy old logging town where there were loads of accidents and there used to be a habit of nailing of spotted owls on doors to protest environmentalists saying that you shouldn't log away trees an endangered species lives in.

But it's That Film Which Must Not Be Mentioned.
But hey, two and a half days to plan my contempt. Ans really? Forks nails owls to doors?
Dude.
Mean.

We all gave you our honest opinions. We aren't don't hate you, we just like to watch the world burn.

Cruel, cruel people. :smalltongue:
Don't worry though, the world shall burn. It will be glorious!

Portfolio of what? I didn't think you were an artist.

Portfolio can be used in the general sense to mean simply 'a collection of work united under one theme or project'.
In my case, a portfolio of essays and commentaries on the history of the English language from c. 200AD - c. 1770AD. Give or take.

Sorry Curly, didn't mean to doom you like that. You'll be in my prayers, good luck.

Is all good though.
I've sat through sucky films before. But normally they were so bad they were awesome. Clash of the Titans and that blue Avatar film. That last one I nearly got a clip round the earhole because I couldn't stop riffing and my friends were cheesed off. The former was in a cinema, so it was quieter riffing.
Oddly, I was one of only three who enjoyed that film. The other two who did also riffed it.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 03:06 PM

Half-Tan, I was not aware they don't actually show the fight. I was expressing my desire to read the book it is in, that is all :smalltongue:....

Ah :smalltongue:

Second most. Cass and Jake

Cassie and Jake is never really played out, though =/ it's hinted at constantly, and it's the first mentioned, but not the most obvious.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:07 PM

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 03:10 PM

Clash of the Titans is a movie you watch because it's cheesy, and so you can make jokes about it.

Avatar was a horrid movie and the graphics where not only unimpressive, but I noticed some graphical errors. Screw that movie, so hard.

Which Clash of the Titans? The old version was fun (it had a robotic owl)... the new one was just graphics.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:10 PM

Avatar was a horrid movie and the graphics where not only unimpressive, but I noticed some graphical errors. Screw that movie, so hard.
Avatar or The Last Airbender, because Avatar was AMAZAH!!

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:13 PM

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 03:15 PM

The old one was kind of cheesey but you don't need to make jokes you can just sit back and watch it. Assuming you can enjoy 80s fantasy movies without cracking jokes.

The new one was too bad to even joke about.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 03:15 PM

But it's That Film Which Must Not Be Mentioned.
But hey, two and a half days to plan my contempt. Ans really? Forks nails owls to doors?
Dude.
Mean.

It used to do that. Then I think they ran out, or it became less popular, but they certainly used to do that. The whole place was just kind of sad, except for the beaches, which were beautiful. My favorite was Ruby Beach, they had enormous rocks and tidepools filled with anemones and starfish. In other words, the nature is beautiful there, but everything human made is rather depressing, and most of the loggers are getting rid of the trees. Now it's filled to the brim with trashy shops covered in posters and sells all manner of Twilight junk.

Riff to makes on the story (haven't read it, there is much more if you've read the books I assume), teenage marriage and pregnancy, stalking, looks (or smell) are much more important than personality, here'shttp://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight some more ideas from the Oatmeal

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:17 PM

I'm less disturbed by the themes of the movie. Fundamentaly, it's "true love wins" but it's so horribly, horribly written it wouldn't be aloud on Fanfiction dot net.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 03:17 PM

Welp.
You all hate me.
Watching Twilight sober, with riffing at the ready it is. Complete with a very agonised, snarky rant in this thread coming up late Saturday night (UK time).

Why sober? I do not understand...

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:18 PM

I mean Avatar the blue man group, not Last Airbender. Airbender was pretty crap as well.

I..really don't know how you could enjoy Avatar XP. Also, sorry for the spelling error.

Because it gave people who wouldn't be caught dead watching Dances With Wolves the opportunity to see a truly mind opening work with out being criticized as tree-hugging hippies.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:20 PM

Because it gave people who wouldn't be caught dead watching Dances With Wolves the opportunity to see a truly mind opening work with out being criticized as tree-hugging hippies.

Avatar doesn't open any eyes. I quite enjoyed Dances with Wolves, but Avatar is just bad.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:22 PM

Avatar doesn't open any eyes. I quite enjoyed Dances with Wolves, but Avatar is just bad.

No, it didn't open your eyes. Doesn't mean it lacks the capability.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:23 PM

Ok, good point, I worded that incorrectly.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 03:24 PM

Why sober? I do not understand...

Harder to snark as ruin a movie if your drunk I bet.

And Avatar was, for me, just another movie. Same old Hollywood story, somewhat nicer graphics which I enjoyed, no big deal. I ended up watching it on an airplane, not because I had no choice (you could actually choose the movie), but because I figured I'd know what everyone was babbling about then. My basic feeling were "meh."

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 03:28 PM

Why would the animals evolve something that only serves to make them controlled by the natives? They weren't bred for it. They weren't genetically engineered. They were wild animals...

I mean if they had said the world was genetically engineered it would have made sense, but one of the scientists should have mentioned that in a basic briefing of the world. That it was flat out impossible to occur in nature.

That was my thought throughout the movie. It was a rather over-hyped hollywood blockbuster, nothing more, nothing less.

Fredaintdead

2011-05-11, 03:29 PM

Harder to snark as ruin a movie if your drunk I bet.

And Avatar was, for me, just another movie. Same old Hollywood story, somewhat nicer graphics which I enjoyed, no big deal. I ended up watching it on an airplane, not because I had no choice (you could actually choose the movie), but because I figured I'd know what everyone was babbling about then. My basic feeling were "meh."

Same. My Dad thought it was absolutely amazing sheerly because of the visuals, and to be honest, while I didn't particularly find Avatar to be that brilliant, I know he's quite impressed with visuals most of the time, and I understand that Avatar had some of the best visuals of most movies to date. Hence, I can understand why he liked it so much, it ticked all of his boxes.

But yeah, Avatar isn't really anything special. The visuals are stunning, but the story is just same ol' same ol'.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:30 PM

If you consider that the planet is alive, it's making the situation the Na'vi live in so simple and easy, without any troubles, that it stagnates them and makes them unable to advance. It's basically insuring it has someone to worship it.

EDIT: Worth repeating, I've seen better graphics in movies from before it was released.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:32 PM

Why would the animals evolve something that only serves to make them controlled by the natives? They weren't bred for it. They weren't genetically engineered. They were wild animals...

I mean if they had said the world was genetically engineered it would have made sense, but one of the scientists should have mentioned that in a basic briefing of the world. That it was flat out impossible to occur in nature.

Because it's mutually beneficial, that's why. Why do Clown Fish live in Anemones? (RHETORICAL QUESTION.)

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 03:37 PM

Because it's mutually beneficial, that's why. Why do Clown Fish live in Anemones? (RHETORICAL QUESTION.)

For the flying creatures it wasn't, actually it wasn't for any of them but the na'vi. Now if the na'vi had just developed an ability to hack the brains of the natives, it would have made more sense seeing as how they ultimately were rather parasitic towards them. The only time it was mutually beneficial was when the entire world was in danger which is far from a normal thing.

This has also reminded me of cynical things I feel about how humans treat the environment, and animals.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 03:40 PM

I mean Avatar the blue man group, not Last Airbender. Airbender was pretty crap as well.

I..really don't know how you could enjoy Avatar XP. Also, sorry for the spelling error.

Zaydos: both of them. I've seen neither so I'm just going off of what I heard.

TBF, Airbender had two main faults.

First: It's director. Just a bad choice for this movie.

Second: They had to compress a story around 12 hours long into 2 hours without actually removing anything.

Ranger Mattos

2011-05-11, 03:42 PM

So now I just came back from another 45 minutes of rat dissection (I went to bio during study hall) and I'm still two days behind. How do the other kids do this? :smallmad:

I would be tempted to think that I was taking more time because I'm trying to be careful and precise, but that's kind of shattered by the fact that my rat looks like it was dissected with scissors rather than a scalpel. >.<

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:42 PM

Yha, those two things crushed it pretty badly. For a so called fan of the series, he sure made the dramaticly different fighting styles look like the same dance. Trying to put an entire season's worth of episodes in one movie was simply stupid though.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 03:45 PM

I'd argue that the issues with pronunciation rampant throughout the film were also a contributing factor to the Last Airbender's lack of popularity.

Teddy

2011-05-11, 03:47 PM

I found Avatar somewhat okay, but then I should note how I want the plot in my different media:

Books: Thought through and dominant. Scheming and drama, please. I wouldn't read "I Bashed a Million Orcs". I want plot.

Games: Just as my books, or let me shape my own plot. That's why I like grand scale strategy games: I get to set up my own goals and schemes, and dominate the world just the way I like.

Movies: As little as possible. Seriously, if there's too much drama, I'll feel itchy and lose my interest. Still, if you manage to make a deep plot while still combining it with what otherwise would be brain-dead action, then I'd probably be interested. And impressed. :smallwink:

EDIT:

So now I just came back from another 45 minutes of rat dissection (I went to bio during study hall) and I'm still two days behind. How do the other kids do this? :smallmad:

I would be tempted to think that I was taking more time because I'm trying to be careful and precise, but that's kind of shattered by the fact that my rat looks like it was dissected with scissors rather than a scalpel. >.<

When dissecting squid in upper elementary, I found the scalpels to be so dull that you'd actually make it cleaner with a scissor. And much more efficient as well.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 03:49 PM

Woohoo! Finally got my book of Good Omens in the mail!

I had given my copy of night Watch to my English teacher last year in October. When he hadn't gotten past the first page a year later I had him give it back in November. I gave him Good Omens, hoping that his interest in Neil Gaman would spur him to read it. I leave the school in January, where he has still not read past four pages. I see him again on April 29th, where he hasn't touched the book since the last time I checked. I tell him he now owns it, and go home to order a new one. It turns out that the one I had had the only cover I could even stand to look at, so I want to get an identical copy. It also turns out that that cover is very rare. It's nowhere on amazon on my computer, but for some reason my dad found it instantly. I order it (desperately hoping that the image is the cover for all the books), and wait for it to come. It's late, and arrives today. Woohoo!

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 03:51 PM

Yay for Good Omens! Enjoy MoonCat, I looooved that book.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:53 PM

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 03:58 PM

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 03:58 PM

It's an excellent one, and I enjoy pitting a Neil Gaman fan against a Pterry fan and watching them both loving the same paragraph and claim their writer wrote it. I personally think that it was brilliant, and I like Pratchett better, but I see the places where Gaman was writing notably, the worse paragraphs :-P

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 03:59 PM

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 04:00 PM

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

I liked the Flash and Darkseid. :smallbiggrin:

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 04:01 PM

Spiderman is cool,but unfortunatly most of his movies suck =(

On a side note, the Ironman movie was perfect. The second one was good too.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 04:03 PM

Spiderman is cool,but unfortunatly most of his movies suck =(

On a side note, the Ironman movie was perfect. The second one was good too.

Yeah, Iron-Man was good. But I hate Spidey, he's an immature wimp.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 04:04 PM

Meh, superheroes. I've never seen any films, comic books, stories, and I don't really see any attraction either.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 04:05 PM

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

X-men are probably among my least favorite Marvel properties (barring the random obscure ones) Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, are more of the ones I'm really into.

Out of DC, Superman I find to be kinda lame. Batman is my favorite super hero ever. Green Lantern I think has a lot of potential as a character to be cool, but for a ring that can do nearly anything you can think of the writers of the comic tend to be very uncreative as to its uses.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 04:13 PM

Green Lanturn is supremly under utilized. Wish there was a super hero DND game so you could show just how kickin awesome and over powered the Lanturn Corps can be.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-11, 04:18 PM

Which Clash of the Titans? The old version was fun (it had a robotic owl)... the new one was just graphics.

New. It was stupid, with adequate graphic; but if you know your mythology, so much fun to be had. Plus I find mocking things easy.

It used to do that. Then I think they ran out, or it became less popular, but they certainly used to do that. The whole place was just kind of sad, except for the beaches, which were beautiful. My favorite was Ruby Beach, they had enormous rocks and tidepools filled with anemones and starfish. In other words, the nature is beautiful there, but everything human made is rather depressing, and most of the loggers are getting rid of the trees. Now it's filled to the brim with trashy shops covered in posters and sells all manner of Twilight junk.

Hooray consumerism.
At least it's by the sea, everything's better beside the sea. Except floods. And tidal waves. But you get my drift.
I miss the sea. I had so much fun rockpooling at home.
I'd make some comment about my home being famous, but it's not. Except for that the Admiral Benbow is in my town.

Riff to makes on the story (haven't read it, there is much more if you've read the books I assume), teenage marriage and pregnancy, stalking, looks (or smell) are much more important than personality, here'shttp://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight some more ideas from the Oatmeal

Ooh. *goes to check out*

Why sober? I do not understand...

I'm not much of a drinker, I am extremely difficult to even get tipsy, and also because I don't want to spend potloads of money.

TBF, Airbender had two main faults.

First: It's director. Just a bad choice for this movie.

Second: They had to compress a story around 12 hours long into 2 hours without actually removing anything.

Pretty much this.
Knew it wasn't going to be good. Didn't see. Saw and read a lot of reviews about it though.
Very glad I didn't see. I enjoyed the cartoon a lot, and now it's unruined.

Woohoo! Finally got my book of Good Omens in the mail!

I had given my copy of night Watch to my English teacher last year in October. When he hadn't gotten past the first page a year later I had him give it back in November. I gave him Good Omens, hoping that his interest in Neil Gaman would spur him to read it. I leave the school in January, where he has still not read past four pages. I see him again on April 29th, where he hasn't touched the book since the last time I checked. I tell him he now owns it, and go home to order a new one. It turns out that the one I had had the only cover I could even stand to look at, so I want to get an identical copy. It also turns out that that cover is very rare. It's nowhere on amazon on my computer, but for some reason my dad found it instantly. I order it (desperately hoping that the image is the cover for all the books), and wait for it to come. It's late, and arrives today. Woohoo!

Good Omens woo!
Adore that book. One of my favourites. Can't give a Top [Blah] because it would go Top Ten, No Wait, Twenty, But What About, Oh Fine, Top Forty. But No, What ABout Those? Fine. Top One Hundred. STILL TOO SMALL A LIST!!!!!
And then I'd end up singing about opera deaths taking too long.
I had a similar experience to you actually, I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.
She is now in India somewhere.
I have to buy a copy to replace it. A hardback copy with the right cover.
So glad you got your version of Good Omens. May you read it to pieces in peace.
I've done that with both Good Omens and Night Watch (PTerry, not Sergei); they're literally fraying and falling apart at the bindings. Might need to replace my paperbacks of both.
Argh.

It's an excellent one, and I enjoy pitting a Neil Gaman fan against a Pterry fan and watching them both loving the same paragraph and claim their writer wrote it. I personally think that it was brilliant, and I like Pratchett better, but I see the places where Gaman was writing notably, the worse paragraphs :-P

But.
But.
But I love both authors.
Hey! That means I'm doubly blessed. Or doubly cursed.
The only part I know for certain was written by Gaiman alone was the bit with the maggots in the call centre. because PTerry said so.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 04:27 PM

Hooray consumerism.
At least it's by the sea, everything's better beside the sea. Except floods. And tidal waves. But you get my drift.
I miss the sea. I had so much fun rockpooling at home.
I'd make some comment about my home being famous, but it's not. Except for that the Admiral Benbow is in my town.

Ooh. *goes to check out*

Good Omens woo!
Adore that book. One of my favourites. Can't give a Top [Blah] because it would go Top Ten, No Wait, Twenty, But What About, Oh Fine, Top Forty. But No, What ABout Those? Fine. Top One Hundred. STILL TOO SMALL A LIST!!!!!
And then I'd end up singing about opera deaths taking too long.
I had a similar experience to you actually, I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.
She is now in India somewhere.
I have to buy a copy to replace it. A hardback copy with the right cover.
So glad you got your version of Good Omens. May you read it to pieces in peace.
I've done that with both Good Omens and Night Watch (PTerry, not Sergei); they're literally fraying and falling apart at the bindings. Might need to replace my paperbacks of both.
Argh.

But.
But.
But I love both authors.
Hey! That means I'm doubly blessed. Or doubly cursed.
The only part I know for certain was written by Gaiman alone was the bit with the maggots in the call centre. because PTerry said so.

My town's this totally awesome seaport, the buildings on one side of the mainstreet is on the water. Literally. We had to move the police station because it was in danger of falling in. There are all these little mini beaches in between two buildings, and there are always tidepools to play with in some spots.

Very fond of Good Omens, a shame about that book and your friend. The one my old teacher now has is covered with marks of loving read (and lemon juice), I'll get to start all over again!

I'm okay with Neil Gaman, I haven't read much of his work. I've liked most of what I've seen of his though, with the exception of Coraline, where the movie was much much better.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 04:39 PM

Ok suit yourself! I'm not the one who has to suffer through Twilight sober :smallamused:

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 04:41 PM

LaLa, just so you know, when I suggested the OoTS forum, you should know, everyone argues and get's along similarly to cats there, in comparison to FB, where everyone is friends, it'll be a shock.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 04:42 PM

Kinda figured that. Don't worry MoonCat, I'll be fine :smallamused:

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 04:43 PM

Oh Rebecca... why are you hailed as a classic? My eyes doth bleed just when i remember thy red cover with golden letters... And i'm not talking about tears.

That book single-handedly ruined all desire i have to read books solely about romance.

Thus, I never read Twilight.

absolmorph

2011-05-11, 04:50 PM

So after the Dark Knight Rises, they're going to REBOOT the Batman Franchise. Why? So that this new Batman franchise have a Batman for a new JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. SUCK IT MARVEL!!

Best of all, it's going to be PRODUCED by Nolan!

EDIT:

I guess that explains the Green Lantern Film ... Though, my once high expectations for that has fallen greatly after seeing a trailer.

Theirs also a Flash and Wonder Woman movie in the works.
Captain America is Marvel, and I haven't seen anything exciting about the Wonder Woman movie. The Green Lantern movie looks interesting, but I haven't seen anything about a Flash movie.

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.
I am really excited about Captain America and the Avengers movie.

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.
A movie where the heroes don't struggle purely because they don't use their full abilities?
That's always been my issue with DC stuff. The supers are just so powerful that the only problems they can run into are not using their powers to their full effect (-coughSupermancough-) or... Actually, they basically just never use their powers fully.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 04:52 PM

Well Absolmorph, when The Flash does maximum power, he kinda gets absorbed by the Speed Force, so going MAX power isn't safe for him.

Everyone else should be able to freely go to max power, truely.

absolmorph

2011-05-11, 04:56 PM

Well Absolmorph, when The Flash does maximum power, he kinda gets absorbed by the Speed Force, so going MAX power isn't safe for him.

Everyone else should be able to freely go to max power, truely.
Full effect, not max power.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 04:57 PM

I kinda figured one would imply the other.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 05:03 PM

Kinda figured that. Don't worry MoonCat, I'll be fine :smallamused:

I got accused of trolling once because I had asked someone to add spoilers, be prepared! (spooky sounds)

Oh Rebecca... why are you hailed as a classic? My eyes doth bleed just when i remember thy red cover with golden letters... And i'm not talking about tears.

That book single-handedly ruined all desire i have to read books solely about romance.

That's the one about the dead wife, right? I was fine with the book (from what I read, I misplaced it shortly after I got halfway through), hated the Hitchcock film, and loved another film version made after that. My biggest problem was
That the murder was justified because she wanted him to kill her. Except that he didn't know that, he was just killing her from anger. It wasn't an assisted suicide

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 05:15 PM

I got accused of trolling once because I had asked someone to add spoilers, be prepared! (spooky sounds)

I'm more hesitant because in my experience most of the section is just random theories and guessing about things that'll be answered in approximately 2 strips from whatever point the thread is being made :smalltongue:

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 05:24 PM

That's the one about the dead wife, right? I was fine with the book (from what I read, I misplaced it shortly after I got halfway through), hated the Hitchcock film, and loved another film version made after that. My biggest problem was
That the murder was justified because she wanted him to kill her. Except that he didn't know that, he was just killing her from anger. It wasn't an assisted suicide

Nothing. Happens.

For the ENTIRE book. Until the last two chapters.

That's inexcusable in just about any medium i can think of.

It didn't help that it single-handedly destroyed my English grade...

She was a total witch and deserved to be barren. Whether or not the murder was justified gets into morality issues that i wouldn't want to get into even if it wasn't banned on the forum.

Also i hated the book so i didn't really care by the end. I just wanted it to F*****G end!

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2011-05-11, 05:25 PM

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!
I have had this experience. I MSTd my way through the whole thing to the great appreciation of all. There's a lot to tear into. :smalltongue:

I had a similar experience to you actually, I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.
She is now in India somewhere.

Oh, the irony! :smallamused:

ION:
My flatmates are, as ever, supremely irritating creatures who are currently making my floor vibrate due to the bass on their invidious speakers playing godawful noise that can only barely be termed music. I very much need to sleep tonight; I'm in a production of Wyrd Sisters (since we were invoking Pratchett...) tomorrow and Friday. I also want to revise for exams, but am currently having to resort to music of my own through my headphones to drown out their horrible shouting. Their turpitude is audible.

I cannot wait to move in with my friends for next year, and abandon these vile people.

/Rant.

(Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I hate them for much more than merely being loud on this particular evening...)

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 05:26 PM

Just wait until you have to read the Great Gatsby :smallyuk: That book was something awful.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 05:28 PM

Just wait until you have to read the Great Gatsby :smallyuk: That book was something awful.

i liked that book, actually =/

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 05:29 PM

Nothing. Happens.

For the ENTIRE book. Until the last two chapters.

That's inexcusable in just about any medium i can think of.

It didn't help that it single-handedly destroyed my English grade...

I didn't mind the lavish descriptions of luxurious English country life actually. A bit repetitive, but it didn't make my eyes bleed. And I'm sorry about your English grade, I've always had good luck with the books I've got assigned, exceot once, when I had to do Red Badge of Courage. :smallsigh::smallsigh::smallsigh::smallsigh:

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 05:32 PM

I didn't mind the lavish descriptions of luxurious English country life actually. A bit repetitive, but it didn't make my eyes bleed. And I'm sorry about your English grade, I've always had good luck with the books I've got assigned, exceot once, when I had to do Red Badge of Courage. :smallsigh::smallsigh::smallsigh::smallsigh:

(i also responded to the spoilered part)

Maybe it's because i'm not english but hearing about the rich life of a woman who thinks she's hated by everybody isn't my idea of a 'classic'.

'Classic' to me is something that does the unexpected, defies the norm, and challenges the mind. Rebecca does the unexpected exactly once, and it's hailed as a classic?

No.

You do one good moment in all that long boring drivel? You get an internet meme. You don't get hailed as a classic of literature :smallfurious:

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 05:33 PM

Huckleberry Finn.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 05:34 PM

So I got banned from the IRC I go to. That's kinda bothersome XP

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 05:38 PM

So I got banned from the IRC I go to. That's kinda bothersome XP

What'd you do to get banned?

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 05:39 PM

(i also responded to the spoilered part)

Maybe it's because i'm not english but hearing about the rich life of a woman who thinks she's hated by everybody isn't my idea of a 'classic'.

'Classic' to me is something that does the unexpected, defies the norm, and challenges the mind. Rebecca does the unexpected exactly once, and it's hailed as a classic?

No.

You do one good moment in all that long boring drivel? You get an internet meme. You don't get hailed as a classic of literature :smallfurious:

To me it was another 'meh' book. The movie (not the Hitchcock one) you might like better, since there isn't half as much pointless drivel to slog through.

Huckleberry Finn.

What about it?

So I got banned from the IRC I go to. That's kinda bothersome XP

Oh I'm sorry! Why?

Tiger Duck

2011-05-11, 05:39 PM

I really want and need to sleep, but my throat hurts to much. And there aren't any more painkillers in house :smallfrown:

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 05:40 PM

I did an all caps comment when all caps was not aloud. I'm proobably going to be unbanned when they lift the rules (It's only on due to the DND being played on the associated stream) but it's still kinda embarassing XP

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2011-05-11, 05:43 PM

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 05:46 PM

Can't tell if that's a pun or not. You hurt my brain Fred.

Also, unbanned now, hooray.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 05:48 PM

Aloud is occasionally spelled allowed when referring to rules.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 05:51 PM

...ah, right. Uh...I think it's spelt allowed all the time, when dealing with that type of phrase.

I really derped hard XP

Coidzor

2011-05-11, 05:53 PM

Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

Bribe a third party to hide all copies they possess of the movies. Alternatively, supply the movies yourself, only Rifftrax'd.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 05:56 PM

It's ok Zodi, you're aloud to spell allowed however you please.

I'm just aloud to tease you allowed whenever you do :smallwink:

AsteriskAmp

2011-05-11, 05:59 PM

Bribe a third party to hide all copies they possess of the movies. Alternatively, supply the movies yourself, only Rifftrax'd.

Alternatively, alter the hue, balance and saturation of your television to make the movie a lot brighter/darker, lighter and you make albino jokes, darker and it will look like kabuki theater, were only the faces are visibly since the movie has an horrible composition that makes everything but the faces dark.

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 05:59 PM

I'm just aloud to tease you allowed whenever you do :smallwink:

FWIBDIBIBTRIBBLIPQUIPNYIPMAH! That was awful!

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-11, 06:03 PM

Nothing. Happens.

For the ENTIRE book. Until the last two chapters.

That's inexcusable in just about any medium i can think of.

It didn't help that it single-handedly destroyed my English grade...

She was a total witch and deserved to be barren. Whether or not the murder was justified gets into morality issues that i wouldn't want to get into even if it wasn't banned on the forum.

Also i hated the book so i didn't really care by the end. I just wanted it to F*****G end!

How did it ruin your grade?
Because you had a strident opinion, or because said opinion meant you couldn't care at all about doing any work about it?

Out of all the du Maurier books I'd recommend Frenchmen's Creek, seventeenth-century pirates, minor noblewomen having affairs with said sexy pirates, sex and fun times!
I've also heard The Jamaica Inn's pretty good, but I've not read much by du Maurier sadly.

I have had this experience. I MSTd my way through the whole thing to the great appreciation of all. There's a lot to tear into. :smalltongue:

Hooray!

Oh, the irony! :smallamused:

True, but it still cost me a book.

ION:
My flatmates are, as ever, supremely irritating creatures who are currently making my floor vibrate due to the bass on their invidious speakers playing godawful noise that can only barely be termed music. I very much need to sleep tonight; I'm in a production of Wyrd Sisters (since we were invoking Pratchett...) tomorrow and Friday. I also want to revise for exams, but am currently having to resort to music of my own through my headphones to drown out their horrible shouting. Their turpitude is audible.

I cannot wait to move in with my friends for next year, and abandon these vile people.

/Rant.

(Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I hate them for much more than merely being loud on this particular evening...)

These the ones who're always making noise? And wasn't there something about drunkenness you mentioned back before Christmas?

(i also responded to the spoilered part)

Maybe it's because I'm not English but hearing about the rich life of a woman who thinks she's hated by everybody isn't my idea of a 'classic'.

'Classic' to me is something that does the unexpected, defies the norm, and challenges the mind. Rebecca does the unexpected exactly once, and it's hailed as a classic?

No.

You do one good moment in all that long boring drivel? You get an internet meme. You don't get hailed as a classic of literature :smallfurious:

You want to hear about classic literature?
Well, the problem is that, like 'literary canon', 'classic literature' and the term 'literature' itself are about as concrete as air.
There are some things that are agreed upon as being 'canon', 'classic' or 'literature', the most obvious one for fulfilling all three being Shakespeare's entire oeuvre, as well as the usual suspects like Dickens, Milton, Homer, Virgil, George Eliot; you know, most Victorian novel writers, but aside from that . . . eh.

To be honest, one of the things that goes hand in hand with the term 'literary classic' is: well known in the Western hemisphere (primarily Europe and Trogland), quickly followed by 'has lots of things written about it by academics'. Also: age or being the story/series/author everything thinks of when told the genre.
I have written honest to Io essays on this topic, it's lengthy indeed.

There's this one author whose works are considered great literary classics: D. H. Lawrence. I have expounded my opinion of this man's odious little works repeatedly. I shall merely say that Sons and Lovers is one of the most uncomfortable, dull, horrid, torrid, tawdry, Edwardian pseudo-erotic, pseudo incestuous piles of drivel it has ever been my sheer displeasure to read!
It's maybe four hundred and twenty pages long and it took me more than six weeks to force my way through in preparation for working on it in classes for coursework in (Britland) college. Compare to the other book set for coursework that year. It was around two hundred and fifty pages long and took me two hours to read.
And yet I still have to give that miserable book credit for some of its nature descriptions, notably the last three pages, it actually does dirty and torrid fairly well; and the atmosphere (claustrophobic and uncomfortable) is done very well. And if one has even the vaguest passing acquaintance with Freud you can laugh your face off.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 06:08 PM

How did it ruin your grade?
Because you had a strident opinion, or because said opinion meant you couldn't care at all about doing any work about it?

Ok, i admit, that was uncalled for. TBFAPH, it wasn't the book's fault. The teacher graded on a college level, I was a freshman in high school unprepared for that.

THAT screwed up my grade the entire time we read the book :smallsigh:

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2011-05-11, 06:16 PM

You hurt my brain Fred.
I take that as a compliment.

These the ones who're always making noise? And wasn't there something about drunkenness you mentioned back before Christmas?

The very same. Beyond that, they were incredibly controlling, particularly one of them (Supreme Moronic Devil Queen) who tried to prevent me from walking in and out of the kitchen, or up and down the corridor in a particular manner, from letting my door shut of its own accord, from going to ASDA at 4am, etc, etc...
Naturally, I ignored her completely (Protip: I'm far too independent to be controlled like that). As of last term we came to a comfortable arrangement by which I completely ignore the existence of my flatmates, often not seeing them for several days at a time. We get by if we leave each other well alone. I've been either in my room or out with people I like, and it's been fun and very liberating.
However, their social activities and insipid 'friends' (of which they seem to have hundreds) do still encroach upon me sometimes, as with tonight.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 07:06 PM

FWIBDIBIBTRIBBLIPQUIPNYIPMAH! That was awful!
Oh admit it you loved it :smallamused:

Thufir

2011-05-11, 07:19 PM

Woo, exceeded the multiquote limit.

*is squished to bits*

*Continues hugging*

"This is the day I died." Stop whining you little brat! Show some darn character development! You're alive.

Oh, yeah. That was rather stupid. Officially declared dead due to being in a parallel universe doesn't really justify talking about 'the day you died'.

And she's so clingy. Remember when she met Sarah Jane and was all 'but I thought I was the only one abloo hoo hoo'?

Well, naturally. Because finding out a guy you like has ever liked anyone else is, like, totally tragic.
Even more so when said guy is over 900 years old and somehow didn't realise he was supposed to be waiting for you all that time before he knew you even existed.
I mean, seriously.

(Though it must be said, I love that episode. Because it has Anthony Head. Sarah-Jane is good too)

I am however, undecided on whether a Doctor should or shouldn't fall for his companions, each Doctor is different, although each is still similar to the previous ones. I remember Word of God being said somewhere that Four and Romana were in love . . .
It really depends on the Doctor and companion in question. Ten and Rose? No. Just no. From what little I saw of Ten and Donna, that was fun. They were friends, and the chemistry was good. You don't need a love interest to have a good working team.
One of the reasons I love the Eleven-Amy-Rory setup. It's awesome.

Romance with the Doctor can work, but it has to be believable. Doctor/Rose? Not overly convincing. Doctor/Reinette? Doctor/River? Believable.
Doctor/Sarah-Jane is also believable.
Actually, to be fair, Nine/Rose wasn't so bad. After he regenerated was when it seemed not to work so well.
That said, I was still OK with Rose while she was there. It only got really frustrating when she was gone and they were still making it sound like she was the most perfect person ever and no-one could ever match up to her.

Okay, now a major problem.
Some of my friends like Twilight. We are having a movie night on Saturday. So far I'm the only one saying 'no'. Reason being three like the series, two are horribly fascinated about the series, and one's a wet hen.
What do I do?!

I would've made the watch and mock suggestion as well.

First you explain the a wet hen is as I've never heard of that before.

What is it with americans not knowing perfectly normal phrases?

So after the Dark Knight Rises, they're going to REBOOT the Batman Franchise. Why? So that this new Batman franchise have a Batman for a new JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. SUCK IT MARVEL!!

This serves as a take that to Marvel how? They still have the upper hand by a long way, since The Avengers is already specifically scheduled to come out next year, plus they've had considerably more good movies than DC in recent years, and all this Justice League stuff is still nothing more than talk.

I guess that explains the Green Lantern Film ... Though, my once high expectations for that has fallen greatly after seeing a trailer.

Was that the teaser trailer where he looked like an idiot? Because there's a more recent one which looks better.

It's an excellent one, and I enjoy pitting a Neil Gaiman fan against a Pterry fan and watching them both loving the same paragraph and claim their writer wrote it. I personally think that it was brilliant, and I like Pratchett better, but I see the places where Gaiman was writing notably, the worse paragraphs :-P

In my case you'd need to split me in half to have that argument.
Also, I've seen it somewhere that apparently pretty much wherever someone thinks something was written by one of them, they've been wrong. And of course it's all mixed up with input from both sides.
Also also, I see your white text. It is sacrilege, not to mention wrong. Good Omens has no 'worse' paragraphs.

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

I disagree. Justice League doesn't particularly interest me, for reasons quoted below.

Spiderman is cool,but unfortunately most of his movies suck =(

:smallconfused: You what? The first two are generally regarded as being very good.
The third one not so much.

I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.

I leant mine to a friend immediately after I read it. Got it back a couple of months ago when she finally started reading it and decided it was so good she had to buy a copy of her own.

I'm okay with Neil Gaman, I haven't read much of his work. I've liked most of what I've seen of his though, with the exception of Coraline, where the movie was much much better.

You what? (Again)
The film of Coraline was very good, yes. But 'muchmuch better'? Just no. The book is amazing, and the film is mostly just an excellent adaptation of it, a brilliant representation of the already existing story, with embellishments.

That's always been my issue with DC stuff. The supers are just so powerful that the only problems they can run into are not using their powers to their full effect (-coughSupermancough-) or... Actually, they basically just never use their powers fully.

This is my issue with DC.

Full effect, not max power.

I kinda figured one would imply the other.

Well, I'm guessing being absorbed by the speed force would not be particularly effective to whatever he was trying to do, so no.

As of last term we came to a comfortable arrangement by which I completely ignore the existence of my flatmates, often not seeing them for several days at a time. We get by if we leave each other well alone. I've been either in my room or out with people I like, and it's been fun and very liberating.
However, their social activities and insipid 'friends' (of which they seem to have hundreds) do still encroach upon me sometimes, as with tonight.

Ah, this reminds me somewhat of my time in student accomodation last year. Messy Ex-housemate, how I really don't miss you at all...

ION: Dress rehearsal for HMS Pinafore went pretty well. I am rather excited for this. It's going to be a very interesting production.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 07:21 PM

I hereby declare Thufir criminally insane for making THAT many quotes :smalleek:

I don't CARE if i'm not a psychologist!

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 07:25 PM

Thufir, good point. I must of not been thinking. I forgot that I actually really liked Spiderman 1 and 2. Spiderman 3 was the proverbial ass munch though.

Thufir

2011-05-11, 07:28 PM

I hereby declare Thufir criminally insane for making THAT many quotes :smalleek:

I don't CARE if i'm not a psychologist!

That wasn't even the first time I broke the multiquote limit.

Coidzor

2011-05-11, 07:33 PM

I dunno, why do you dismiss perfectly legitimate questions? :smalltongue:

Especially when google is useless and only yields a redneck expression about someone being madder than a wet hen.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 07:37 PM

*rolls eyes*

Marvel is just jealous because Batman could take any of their heroes on a 1 on 1 fight. [/overstatement]

Thufir

2011-05-11, 07:38 PM

I dunno, why do you dismiss perfectly legitimate questions? :smalltongue:

Especially when google is useless and only yields a redneck expression about someone being madder than a wet hen.

This makes more sense after your edit, but really, you should quote things sometimes, especially when responding to something in a quotestorm.
And what question did I dismiss? It was already answered, so for me to answer it again would have been superfluous.

Also, you reminded me. Curly, you should go see the video at the end of this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10924434#post10924434) post I made in the You thread. It will probably amuse you.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2011-05-11, 07:39 PM

Ugh, I have a essay that's worth 20% of my final mark for high school due soon. Well, the first 'good draft' is due tomorrow. And she won't accept it if I don't get it in tomorrow. Uuuugh. :smallsigh:

Coidzor

2011-05-11, 08:11 PM

This makes more sense after your edit, but really, you should quote things sometimes, especially when responding to something in a quotestorm.
And what question did I dismiss? It was already answered, so for me to answer it again would have been superfluous.

Ah, finally found it after searching even more pages back. You still were needlessly harsh in your criticism of others for not having the same background as yourself.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:15 PM

*rolls eyes*

Marvel is just jealous because Batman could take any of their heroes on a 1 on 1 fight. [/overstatement]

Batman could beat just about anybody because he's always in Gotham, where he has nearly unlimited resources.

Also villains never kill you the first time they win. It's quite perplexing.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:18 PM

Batman could beat just about anybody because he's always in Gotham, where he has nearly unlimited resources.

Also villains never kill you the first time they win. It's quite perplexing.

Unless they're anime villains. Then they beat you to within inches of your life before you remember your friends.

Pheehelm

2011-05-11, 08:21 PM

Also villains never kill you the first time they win. It's quite perplexing.I like to think of it as a sampling thing. As in, most villains will kill you the first time they win, but we never hear those stories because, well, the hero died too early in the narrative. Or at least someone else takes over as hero.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:23 PM

Unless they're anime villains. Then they beat you to within inches of your life before you remember your friends.
No, those guys usually do that too.

Or they refuse to kill you because you reminded them they have feelings.

:smalltongue:

I like to think of it as a sampling thing. As in, most villains will kill you the first time they win, but we never hear those stories because, well, the hero died too early in the narrative. Or at least someone else takes over as hero.

Then how come so many villians DO let the hero live?! Repeatedly?!

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:26 PM

No, those guys usually do that too.

Or they refuse to kill you because you reminded them they have feelings.

:smalltongue:

Oh you know you love it. :smalltongue:

Then how come so many villians DO let the hero live?! Repeatedly?!
They're incompetent.

Zaydos

2011-05-11, 08:27 PM

New. It was stupid, with adequate graphic; but if you know your mythology, so much fun to be had. Plus I find mocking things easy.

Nice to have you back.

The old was fun without knowing mythology; and once I did it's fun to joke about.

The new? Why'd they even use the name? They ended up further from myth than the original, and took out the 80s narm charm. Then again I watched it on a plane so the screen was small and the sound was off so that might have poisoned me against it. That and it was late and somewhat uncomfortable.

Ranger Mattos

2011-05-11, 08:27 PM

Pheehelm

2011-05-11, 08:28 PM

Then how come so many villians DO let the hero live?! Repeatedly?! Because there are so many more that don't. It's actually a very small percentage that do, but it seems like more because those are the ones we hear about.

That or villainous overconfidence. You think they'd learn from the other villains, but I guess a key part of villainous overconfidence is the inability to learn from the mistakes of others.

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:29 PM

I listen to my Music way too loud ... I love it.

Heliomance

2011-05-11, 08:29 PM

When you're running the DnD RB campaign and have an established nickname
I'm pretty sure you belong. Now I suggest you stretch yourself and post outside of RB and neighboring threads *gasp*

But... but... that means I don't belong! :smallfrown:
I don't have a nickname, and I'm not in the DnD RB campaign, and I've never made an RB thread!

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:33 PM

But... but... that means I don't belong! :smallfrown:
I don't have a nickname, and I'm not in the DnD RB campaign, and I've never made an RB thread!

Who are you again? :smalltongue:

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:35 PM

Oh you know you love it. :smalltongue:I wasn't the one who implied it sucked :smalltongue::smallbiggrin:

They're incompetent.

These same villians create weapons capable of continent wide or planetwide devastation!

Because there are so many more that don't. It's actually a very small percentage that do, but it seems like more because those are the ones we hear about.Let me rephrase. The ones that everybody LIKES do that and for some reason everybody in their universe refers to them as geniuses...

That or villainous overconfidence. You think they'd learn from the other villains, but I guess a key part of villainous overconfidence is the inability to learn from the mistakes of others.

There's a fine line between overconfidence and blatant stupidity -_-

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:37 PM

I wasn't the one who implied it sucked :smalltongue::smallbiggrin:
I didn't either >.>

These same villians create weapons capable of continent wide or planetwide devastation!
Because those weapos works oh-so frequently.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:43 PM

I didn't either >.>Yes you did :smalltongue: :smalltongue: :smalltongue:

Because those weapos works oh-so frequently.

They would if the villian showed an ounce of the intelligence he would have needed to build them in the first place *twitch*

ShortOne

2011-05-11, 08:44 PM

Then how come so many villians DO let the hero live?! Repeatedly?!

Okay, this may not've been a villain, as I can't remember the movie, but there was a movie a few years ago where it was all going really well, and then the President survived a bombing. Boy, was that an awful ending. :smallmad:

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:45 PM

Okay, this may not've been a villain, as I can't remember the movie, but there was a movie a few years ago where it was all going really well, and then the President survived a bombing. Boy, was that an awful ending. :smallmad:

Well, the President would have a bomb shelter. =/

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:47 PM

Well, the President would have a bomb shelter. =/
He does...

It's hard to lose a friend. :smallfrown:

Eruantion

2011-05-11, 08:48 PM

Then how come so many villians DO let the hero live?! Repeatedly?!

I think the Joker addressed this in the Dark Knight. Like, if they have no one to oppose them, there's no fun in doing what they're doing.

Also, if you really want to get into it, the superhero is the main character and has plot armor :smallwink:

It's hard to lose a friend. :smallfrown:

What's happened? :smallfrown:

MoonCat

2011-05-11, 08:50 PM

But... but... that means I don't belong! :smallfrown:
I don't have a nickname, and I'm not in the DnD RB campaign, and I've never made an RB thread!

No, those were just two things I could use to show LaLa she was involved

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 08:51 PM

He does...

I know, that was the point.

Also, wut? You lost a friend?

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 08:56 PM

I know, that was the point.
OH!

Also, wut? You lost a friend?
Sort of. Excuse me while I head to the depression thread.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2011-05-11, 08:59 PM

What class?

English. IB. Higher Level. Gah. Comparative essay comparing the role of the Messenger in Euripides' Medea and Anouilh's Antigone.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 09:08 PM

I think the Joker addressed this in the Dark Knight. Like, if they have no one to oppose them, there's no fun in doing what they're doing.

It's a tad unfair to compare any standard villain to the Joker, however. Seeing as he's a friggin lunatic.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 09:11 PM

It's a tad unfair to compare any standard villain to the Joker, however. Seeing as he's a friggin lunatic.

How about the Creeper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkoMQZjCHY)?

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 09:15 PM

How about the Creeper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkoMQZjCHY)?

I wouldn't consider the Creeper to be a villain, at his worst he's an anti-hero, often he's just a full on hero.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 09:23 PM

I wouldn't consider the Creeper to be a villain, at his worst he's an anti-hero, often he's just a full on hero.

True. But the Joker calls him a lunatic, that's gotta count for something

AtlanteanTroll

2011-05-11, 09:26 PM

True. But the Joker calls him a lunatic, that's gotta count for something

Yeah, bad writing. :smalltongue:

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 09:27 PM

True. But the Joker calls him a lunatic, that's gotta count for something

Sure, and he is a lunatic. However, I was just suggesting that just because the Joker holds a viewpoint that perhaps it's not the best idea to ascribe that viewpoint to all villains.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 09:30 PM

Using any Batman villain as the norm for not killing their hero is wrong. Notice how none of his villains go to jail, but an INSANE ASYLUM. That's sort of a hint that they aren't..sound. Bane gets the closest, and he doesn't kill Batman because that's his MO. Break them, and let them live knowing that they weren't strong enough for him.

Speaking of anime/manga villains, this is were I bring up Dio Brando. He knocks the hero off a clock tower, riddled with knives. The hero, by rights, should be dead. However, he did not die. Dio goes down there and, without getting close to the body, goes to listen for his heartbeat and breathing. The hero stops his breathing and heart beating. So as far as Dio can tell, he is completly and utterly dead. Any lesser villain would leave, or gloat.

Dio picks up a stop sign and goes to chop the heros head off with it. The only reason he doesn't succed, in a situation where he really should of, is because he gets sneak attacked by someone that basically does nothing but give our hero time to not get killed. Dio Brando, a good villain,

ShortOne

2011-05-11, 09:31 PM

Well, the President would have a bomb shelter. =/

No bomb shelter, as he was out in the open and was in the area that got bombed. Or something? Movie was Vantage Point, by the way.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 09:34 PM

Using any Batman villain as the norm for not killing their hero is wrong. Notice how none of his villains go to jail, but an INSANE ASYLUM.

No so actually, Arkham is the common destination, however many go to Blackgate Penitentiary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackgate_Penitentiary#Known_inmates). Note: Your point is valid, though, I just wanted to educate.

Eruantion

2011-05-11, 09:37 PM

Using any Batman villain as the norm for not killing their hero is wrong. Notice how none of his villains go to jail, but an INSANE ASYLUM. That's sort of a hint that they aren't..sound.

I'm aware of this, but that's because Batman is generally not a "superhero," just a vigilante badass. He lives in a comparatively more realistic world than say, Spiderman, so most of his bizarre opponents are going to be insane rather than infused with special powers. But a psychopath isn't going to refrain from killing his enemy.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 09:57 PM

Yeah, bad writing. :smalltongue:Shush :smalltongue:

Sure, and he is a lunatic. However, I was just suggesting that just because the Joker holds a viewpoint that perhaps it's not the best idea to ascribe that viewpoint to all villains......... What does that have to do with what we were talking about?

No bomb shelter, as he was out in the open and was in the area that got bombed. Or something? Movie was Vantage Point, by the way.

... Ah.

absolmorph

2011-05-11, 09:58 PM

This is my issue with DC.

Well, I'm guessing being absorbed by the speed force would not be particularly effective to whatever he was trying to do, so no.

ION: Dress rehearsal for HMS Pinafore went pretty well. I am rather excited for this. It's going to be a very interesting production.
Although I do have that issue, I have to admit that I do actually like JL- I just find the Marvel heroes more interesting.

I kinda figured one would imply the other.
Not necessarily.
Here's an easy example:
A meteor is going to hit the Earth. Superman decides to be the one to save the Earth. He could punch the asteroid as hard as he possibly can and shatter it into a bunch of smaller pieces. This is using his strength to its maximum power. The larger chunks of the asteroid would cause mingling sonic booms, which would be... messy.
Alternatively, he could use his flight and strength to deflect the asteroid into... Let's go with Mercury.
Which is using his powers to their full potential?

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 10:01 PM

........ What does that have to do with what we were talking about?

Were not we discussing the merits of comparing how other villains feel about killing heroes to how the Joker feels about killing Batman? That's what I was discussing.

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:01 PM

Neither, actually. Using his power to his full potentional would simply be stopping it and putting it into the asteroid belt.

absolmorph

2011-05-11, 10:09 PM

Neither, actually. Using his power to his full potentional would simply be stopping it and putting it into the asteroid belt.
That leaves it as a danger to people passing through the belt, though.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 10:11 PM

That leaves it as a danger to people passing through the belt, though.

If you get hit by an asteroid while perusing the belt you're doing it wrong.

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 10:13 PM

So I'm in love with the show Workaholics. It's a source of oh so many hilarious lines.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2011-05-11, 10:27 PM

If you get hit by an asteroid while perusing the belt you're doing it wrong.

That happens to me all the time. I'm minding my own business, ooh look, this one has some nice leatherwork, oh, but that one has studs... when alluvasecond, BOOM! ASTEROID. What can ye do?

Also, finished my essay. Working on my physics lab. Ignoring my math homework. Yay.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 10:29 PM

If you get hit by an asteroid while perusing the belt you're doing it wrong.

You've forgotten this is the realm of fiction, not reality :smalltongue:

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 10:31 PM

That happens to me all the time. I'm minding my own business, ooh look, this one has some nice leatherwork, oh, but that one has studs... when alluvasecond, BOOM! ASTEROID. What can ye do?

Have you tried... dodging them?

You've forgotten this is the realm of fiction, not reality :smalltongue:
Never tell me the odds!

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 10:33 PM

Never tell me the odds!

Honestly, I want to know what method 3PO was using to calculate those odds.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 10:38 PM

Probably has a database of how many pilots have traveled through asteroid fields and how many came back.

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 10:38 PM

Also, I can't be the only one that liked the robot dude, right?Erek was one of my favourites.
...but then, pretty much all of them were one of my favourites <.<
I was expressing my desire to read the book it is in, that is all :smalltongue:It is a good one, very intense and with its own set of moral dilemmas. I recommend it.

What are we talking about? Asteroids? I don't think one more asteroid in an asteroid belt is going to increase the danger of the asteroid belt by anything terribly significant...

Pentachoron

2011-05-11, 10:41 PM

Probably has a database of how many pilots have traveled through asteroid fields and how many came back.

Yeah, but then you'd have to actually have a database of how many pilots have traveled through asteroid fields. I can't imagine that being something every pilot would report. Though I guess if you had a sample size large enough you could just extrapolate. Crappy study to be a part of, I'd think.

absolmorph

2011-05-11, 10:41 PM

Erek was one of my favourites.
...but then, pretty much all of them were one of my favourites <.<It is a good one, very intense and with its own set of moral dilemmas. I recommend it.

What are we talking about? Asteroids? I don't think one more asteroid in an asteroid belt is going to increase the danger of the asteroid belt by anything terribly significant...
It doesn't increase the danger, but it means that the asteroid is still dangerous, which was my point.

Coidzor

2011-05-11, 10:45 PM

Have you tried... dodging them?

Never tell me the odds!

Going around is generally easier due to the way that the solar system is all weird and on a single plane more or less.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-11, 10:48 PM

Going around is generally easier due to the way that the solar system is all weird and on a single plane more or less.
One of the major criticisms I heard of Freelancer was that it was mostly 2D. "You do realize that the Solar System is more or less... 2D... right?"

LaZodiac

2011-05-11, 10:54 PM

Watching Green Hornet. It is infact half over. It's really good.

Seth Rogan, or whoever his name is, the guy who plays the Green Hornet himself, is a disgrace to the series and it's serious content and I hate him. But it's Seth Rogan, or whoever his name is, and as such he does this to everything he is in so that's understandable.

Kado kickass with his Kado Vision though.

Serpentine

2011-05-11, 10:59 PM

It doesn't increase the danger, but it means that the asteroid is still dangerous, which was my point.But it's now in a place well known to be dangerous already, instead of hurtling towards the planet.
A murderer is still dangerous when he's in a prison, but less of a risk than if he was elsewhere and he's unlikely to make the prison significantly more dangerous than it was before.

HalfTangible

2011-05-11, 11:35 PM

Honestly, I want to know what method 3PO was using to calculate those odds.

I always assumed he calculated the numbers of ways it could go right over the number of ways it could go wrong.

MoonCat

2011-05-12, 12:25 AM

Hey, is the DnD game this Thursday?

Vonriel

2011-05-12, 01:06 AM

What are we talking about? Asteroids? I don't think one more asteroid in an asteroid belt is going to increase the danger of the asteroid belt by anything terribly significant...

You know, you say that now, but when you're flying along and that asteroid happens to be the one that your ship crashes into, you'll be singing a different tune.

Well, no, you won't, because you can't sing in space, but you get my drift.

absolmorph

2011-05-12, 01:30 AM

Hey, is the DnD game this Thursday?
Next Thursday, the 19th.

grimbold

2011-05-12, 02:40 AM

dear god
i went to sleep and we were on page 2
now we are on page 7?
what is this madness?

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 02:41 AM

Mandess? This. Is. PLAYGROUND!

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! *kicks monitor off desk*

... ooops! :smallredface:

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 04:12 AM

One of the reasons I love the Eleven-Amy-Rory setup. It's awesome.

suddenly i'm thinking of the RND mini episode "time"

Amy-Amy-Rory
*slap*

Doctor Who's a weird show that exists whenever, wherever and however it wants in any universe it wants.
If it helps, I'm a Trekkie too. TOS and TNG mainly. Can't stand VOY or ENT.

There is no TOS... :smalltongue:

grimbold

2011-05-12, 04:17 AM

Mandess? This. Is. PLAYGROUND!

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! *kicks monitor off desk*

... ooops! :smallredface:

sigh
i suppose this is indeed the playground

Thufir

2011-05-12, 08:14 AM

dear god
i went to sleep and we were on page 2
now we are on page 7?
what is this madness?

I went out to a rehearsal when we were on page 1, came back and we were on page 5. It happens.

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 08:39 AM

wishing your old unrequited love happy birthday on FB for the 4th year running... yay or nay?

polity4life

2011-05-12, 08:49 AM

wishing your old unrequited love happy birthday on FB for the 4th year running... yay or nay?

It isn't a bad thing to offer well wishes on their birthday. But for clarification, are we talking four years of unrequitted love or four years of saying happy birthday?

LaZodiac

2011-05-12, 09:06 AM

I believe it is the latter, though either way it's ok, I feel.

Teddy

2011-05-12, 09:34 AM

He could punch the asteroid as hard as he possibly can and shatter it into a bunch of smaller pieces. This is using his strength to its maximum power. The larger chunks of the asteroid would cause mingling sonic booms, which would be... messy.

You know, sonic booms will be the least of your problems in that case. Whereas a regular ordinary meteorite will hit the earth as a large, hard chunk of stone, a smashed meteorite will turn into an enormous pillar of fire that scorches the Earth and may turn the surface into glass (depending on the size of the meteor).

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 10:04 AM

It isn't a bad thing to offer well wishes on their birthday. But for clarification, are we talking four years of unrequitted love or four years of saying happy birthday?

I believe it is the latter, though either way it's ok, I feel.

4 years of ONLY wishing them a happy birthday... we don't hang in the same circles any more. and haven't for 3 years or so...

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 11:02 AM

So is she still an unrequited love? Have you ever asked her out?

Because if you've never confessed to her, the correct answer may be to wish her happy birthday by offering to buy her lunch/dinner.

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 11:17 AM

So is she still an unrequited love? Have you ever asked her out?

Because if you've never confessed to her, the correct answer may be to wish her happy birthday by offering to buy her lunch/dinner.

maybe i do and that's part of the problem...

asked.
rejected.
4 year or so gap
she got married earlier this month.

you know what. the more my brain thinks about this the more it thinks i should quit this strange ritual of digging out a 4 year old message thread with yearly updates...

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-12, 11:24 AM

Suddenly I'm thinking of the RND mini episode "time"

Amy-Amy-Rory
*slap*

That would be amazing!
I'm such a pervert.

Don't know why, but after the Amy-Rory-Amy bit my favourite part was THE WIBBLY LEVER!!

There is no TOS... :smalltongue:

But you can't have TNG being TNG without TOS. And if TOS didn't exist, TNG would be called TOS, and that means TNG!TOS doesn't exist at all!
You are now only left with VOY, ENT and DS9.
Poor boy.

ION:
Archie, love your sig quote. Loved that game.

IOON:
People, I have passed a landmark in nerdery today!
Ten(ish) months ago I played my first tabletop RPG, and today, I painted my first mini.
Oh yeah.
Problem is, I went to Games Workshop, so I was hoping to find some more DnD related stuff; but I still got a chat with a lovely man, a mini painting lesson in painting minis (plus a free mini) and a very quick game of Warhammer40k.
It's pretty fun actually.
My space marine is now standing guard on top of my books for my next essay.
And I got to see part of a fantasy Warhammer game played out.
This is is the closest I've come to gaming since December.

Now to actually find a DnD shop. That or get the Koorlykin into splitting the cost of a starter box of Warhammer. As it is the boys already have two or three armies between them.

I'm so proud of myself.
Four hours of the history of the English language, some girly-type shopping for girly things; and then hanging out with a bunch of dudes painting minis and playing tabletop games.
I love my life.

polity4life

2011-05-12, 11:25 AM

This may have a better home in the relationship issues thread, but might I interest you in a machete with which you can use to cut that bridge?

Pentachoron

2011-05-12, 11:25 AM

maybe i do and that's part of the problem...

asked.
rejected.
4 year or so gap
she got married earlier this month.

you know what. the more my brain thinks about this the more it thinks i should quit this strange ritual of digging out a 4 year old message thread with yearly updates...

I would recommend only doing so if you can actually do it as innocuously as a happy birthday wish should be. If the reason you're doing so is because there's still some feeling there I would let it go.

LaZodiac

2011-05-12, 11:30 AM

Yay for land marks in nerdyness. I just walked an hour to get Mortal Kombat. I can't move anymore.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 11:34 AM

IOON:
People, I have passed a landmark in nerdery today!
Ten(ish) months ago I played my first tabletop RPG, and today, I painted my first mini.
Oh yeah.
Problem is, I went to Games Workshop, so I was hoping to find some more DnD related stuff; but I still got a chat with a lovely man, a mini painting lesson in painting minis (plus a free mini) and a very quick game of Warhammer40k.
It's pretty fun actually.
My space marine is now standing guard on top of my books for my next essay.
And I got to see part of a fantasy Warhammer game played out.
This is is the closest I've come to gaming since December.

Now to actually find a DnD shop. That or get the Koorlykin into splitting the cost of a starter box of Warhammer. As it is the boys already have two or three armies between them.

I'm so proud of myself.
Four hours of the history of the English language, some girly-type shopping for girly things; and then hanging out with a bunch of dudes painting minis and playing tabletop games.
I love my life.
... how would one go about finding a girl like you?

Thufir

2011-05-12, 11:41 AM

... how would one go about finding a girl like you?

According to legend, you must first read the entire Discworld series. Then you must undertake a quest for the 7 great tomes of myth, befriending any cats you meet along the way. By this means, you may enter the Plane of Books.

If you wish to get any further than just finding her, there is a complicated gauntlet of trials involving literature, nerdery, and duelling each other for her amusement.

Alternatively, I hear a number of similarly nerdy girls hang out on this forum (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/).

HalfTangible

2011-05-12, 11:41 AM

... how would one go about finding a girl like you?

You trace their IP address, then buy a plane ticket and a telescope and-

...

Oh, one LIKE her...

Hang around a shop for miniatures. Also roll a natural twenty on your survival check for tracking :smalltongue:

Or find a girl who seems receptive to tabletop and introduce her to the game.

...

And finally, take no advice from me :smalltongue: i don't have a clue what im talking about

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 11:44 AM

This may have a better home in the relationship issues thread, but might I interest you in a machete with which you can use to cut that bridge?

I would recommend only doing so if you can actually do it as innocuously as a happy birthday wish should be. If the reason you're doing so is because there's still some feeling there I would let it go.

Thanks... damn didn't check Gender signs... if i say "Guys" you'll understand right?
Thanks Guys.

resuming "normal" Archonly self...
Mark.

That would be amazing!
I'm such a pervert.

Don't know why, but after the Amy-Rory-Amy bit my favourite part was THE WIBBLY LEVER!!

But you can't have TNG being TNG without TOS. And if TOS didn't exist, TNG would be called TOS, and that means TNG!TOS doesn't exist at all!
You are now only left with VOY, ENT and DS9.
Poor boy.

ION:
Archie, love your sig quote. Loved that game.

the thing i thought they should have done is when the Doctor ran through the door shouting "The Wibbly Lever" is the doctor by the controls then work out WHY it was the wibbly lever, so that there wasn't a "thought paradox" his future self gave himself the clue he needed to solve the problem.

you can probably scratch Ent too... DS9 TNG & Voy were cool.
like a Fez!

as did i. good times.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-12, 11:49 AM

Yay for land marks in nerdyness. I just walked an hour to get Mortal Kombat. I can't move anymore.

That's a pretty good landmark in nerdiness, certainly devotion to a franchise.
Next stop on my nerdiness metre: attend a con. Probably.
I've already got the 'cult sci-fi' sticker, the 'internet meetup(s)', 'tabletop RPGs', 'anime (subbed; dubbed)', 'cult fantasy', 'internet forum', 'webcomics', 'in-depth knowledge of obscure things (books; English language; mindless trivia) and 'internet reviews'. . . . Fine. And 'fanfiction'.
Yeah. A con of some sort would be next wouldn't it? That or running my own campaign or taking part in a long-lasting one.
But here, where I am currently, the only campaigns that seem to last more than one session are LARPing ones.

... how would one go about finding a girl like you?

Hang out on this forum?
Go to college (Trogland) or uni (Britland)? People are more willing to be 'odd' there than in a secondary school (Britland) or high school. Um, ask at local hobby shops?
Mostly sheer luck though I'm guessing.

Now I wish to gloat and complain at exactly the same time.
Just watching the series three opening episode of Doctor Who, it's fun. Martha looks interesting already.
I am armed with a chicken salsa tortilla wrap, a quarter of cherry bonbons and a quarter of milk bottles. And my first fizzy pop four months.
Sadly, I dropped some salsa on my calf and had to lick it off. And it stained my bedspread.
Luckily, it washed off quick.
Double luckily, I'm marathoning Who and have nummy things, and no work to do until tomorrow because my main book for the next essay has to be hauled out from the depths of the Bod.
There're only three copies of this book in the entire university! And one of them's been taken out, one can't be accessed except by members of a specific college; and the other one's . . . in the Bod. Which is very big.
Point is: I can gloat.
Today has been awesome.
You know, except for getting salsa on my leg. And that annoying person I was stuck behind in a queue for five minutes.
:biggloat:

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 11:53 AM

According to legend, you must first read the entire Discworld series. Then you must undertake a quest for the 7 great tomes of myth, befriending any cats you meet along the way. By this means, you may enter the Plane of Books.
The thing about quests is that there's always a back door. "Accidentally" shoved your sword up Vivec's nostril for arresting one of your friends? That's ok! Just head down the corpusarium and talk to the last remaining dwarf about activating Wraithguard. Sure, it's risky and might end up killing you but hey. Such are the risks in life :smallwink:

If you wish to get any further than just finding her, there is a complicated gauntlet of trials involving literature, nerdery, and duelling each other for her amusement.
Just as long as I don't have to like The Great Gatsby :smallyuk:

Alternatively, I hear a number of similarly nerdy girls hang out on this forum (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/).
I've had no luck conversing with most of them :smallfrown: Besides they tend to be, well, on that forum and not, say, in my general geographic region :smallwink:

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-12, 12:02 PM

According to legend, you must first read the entire Discworld series. Then you must undertake a quest for the 7 great tomes of myth, befriending any cats you meet along the way. By this means, you may enter the Plane of Books.

If you wish to get any further than just finding her, there is a complicated gauntlet of trials involving literature, nerdery, and duelling each other for her amusement.

Alternatively, I hear a number of similarly nerdy girls hang out on this forum (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/).

Also L-Space. Prior knowledge of at least five hundred years of literary history would help in the Riddle Section. Also grammar nazi.

You trace their IP address, then buy a plane ticket and a telescope and-

...

Oh, one LIKE her...

Hang around a shop for miniatures. Also roll a natural twenty on your survival check for tracking :smalltongue:

Or find a girl who seems receptive to tabletop and introduce her to the game.

...

And finally, take no advice from me :smalltongue: I don't have a clue what I'm talking about

That's some good advice there.
You may need a good Bluff skill too.

The thing I thought they should have done is when the Doctor ran through the door shouting "The Wibbly Lever" is the doctor by the controls then work out WHY it was the wibbly lever, so that there wasn't a "thought paradox" his future self gave himself the clue he needed to solve the problem.

Well, it was a Comic Relief special, so it's not like you needed sanity - remember 'The Curse of the Fatal Death'? I think the only way you could work out the Wibbly Lever Paradox would be to assume that the first Doctor in the sequence pulled the wrong one, ran through the Inner TARDIS, shouted at that Doctor "Not the X Lever!", then when that TARDIS started to blow up Eleven!2 ran through to the Inner TARDIS shouting "Not the X or Y Levers!" and so on until it got right?
That or call it magic.

You can probably scratch Ent too... DS9 TNG & Voy were cool.
like a Fez!

ENT doesn't exist. Never has. After DS9 ended there was no Trek until the reboot. Which was okay.
And I couldn't stand most of VOY. Argh.

as did i. good times.

*awaits the next meetup with glee*
Will there be more bikini wearing Wookies? More insanely complicated 'simple diplomatic meetings' involving poisonings and a country and species that never existed?!
Tune in next time for!:
UK Meetup VII!!
Awesome. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YyTfxeJxvQ)

Just as long as I don't have to like The Great Gatsby :smallyuk:

Can't stand that book, so you're in luck.

I've had no luck conversing with most of them :smallfrown: Besides they tend to be, well, on that forum and not, say, in my general geographic region :smallwink:

Pretend they're all guys.
Seriously.
Even I pretend I'm a guy. Because I am. Actually, I'm an amalgam of all the other Britlander Playgrounders who are male. Like Cassie.
She's not a she either.
All female Britlander Playgrounders are actually run by males. It's like a massive RP session.
Disclaimer: I am probably not male or female. The above may or may not be a joke. And I may or may not be talking rubbish. Anything you take as serious is your decision, and yours alone.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 12:06 PM

I was actually joking about the "no luck" thing myself, so we're even :smallwink:

I think I'm finally going to finish off Fallout: NV. This game is... amazingly fun and I've put it off for so long because I just wanted to keep playing.

You can tell when I hate a game: I finish it as fast as possible. You can also tell when I love a game: I put off finishing it for as long as possible, even taking a few-month sabbatical from playing it to savor it.

ZombyWoof is one odd duck...

Archonic Energy

2011-05-12, 12:09 PM

I think I'm finally going to finish off Fallout: NV. This game is... amazingly fun and I've put it off for so long because I just wanted to keep playing.

You can tell when I hate a game: I finish it as fast as possible. You can also tell when I love a game: I put off finishing it for as long as possible, even taking a few-month sabbatical from playing it to savor it.

ZombyWoof is one odd duck...

new DLC is soon...

can't wait. i hit something of a wall in my long term time sink and till i figure it out it's kinda off limits

Pentachoron

2011-05-12, 12:09 PM

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 12:10 PM

I loved TNG. TNG is, was and will probably always be one of my favorite TV series of all time. ENT was ok. I liked good chunks of it. VOY sucked, DS9 was boring, and TOS was too hokey for me.

HalfTangible

2011-05-12, 12:24 PM

That's some good advice there.
You may need a good Bluff skill too.

Alternatively you can start confusing your dreams for reality

Zaydos

2011-05-12, 12:34 PM

Am I the only person that didn't think ENT was bad? As far as the other Trek series, TOS and TNG were okay, I don't care much for watching either of their shows but their movies were good. DS9 and Voyager I hated though.

I'm more of a Star Wars and other Sci-Fi (love me some cyberpunk) nerd, though.

I liked what I saw of ENT except for the Temporal Cold War. I've been watching TOS, the 3rd season is meh but the acting was actually good through most of the first 2 seasons. Spock's Brain is the big ham episode for Kirk of the ones I've seen, but seriously that episode hurt my brain (it contradicted itself). Haven't seen TNG or DS9 and only ever saw 1 or 2 episodes of VOY. I've seen the movie with the borg attacking Zephram's time and Wrath of Khan, haven't watched any of the other movies.

I've read most of the Star Wars books that take place within 10 years of Endor. Love Aasimov, Heinlein, Philip K **** (could be said to have inspired cyberpunk), and I could list more but those are probably the top 3. Oh and fantasy, (good) cosmic horror (not Derleth, not Derleth), and myths (especially the Norse kind, but those read pretty close to Sword and Sorcery).

Teddy

2011-05-12, 12:48 PM

Alternatively you can start confusing your dreams for reality

This doesn't sound especially hard. I do it all the time (or rather, I get confused because I dream alot, and my dreams are not the reality)

ION:
Die, Soviet, die! I finally got bored by not doing anything with my nuclear power Sweden, so I built a smaller army, invaded Finland, nuked Moscow and anexed the previously invaded Finland. After fending off constandly growing Soviet armies and nuking Leningrad, I did a tactical withdrawal back to Torneo and Kiruna, where it's easier to defend. Now I'm aiming to retake Rovaniemi and starve out the Soviet troops that are positioned in northern Norway, whereafter I can try and move the front forward again.

CurlyKitGirl

2011-05-12, 12:49 PM

Huh. 'Smith and Jones' just finished.
How does a bendy straw break skin?
How did CPR bring someone back to life after complete and total blood loss?
Wonderful technobabble though. And nice characters, especially that anonymous doctor dude. Not the Doctor, just a doctor. Good CGI too.
Also, isn't Martha's actress the same person who was upgraded in Torchwood the previous series? They even lampshaded it.
I like Martha. SHe's cool. Even if she reacted to the kiss kind of goofily. But then again, Tennant's a pretty handsome Doctor, and it looked like it was a good kiss.
Then again, I'm judging it from one's who's never kissed or been kissed.

Also: funny parts:
"Crossing into established timelines is never to be done. Except for cheap tricks."
Mouthing along to the 'it's bigger on the inside' thing.

Oh my giddy aunts no!
That whiny little female Rose was mentioned. Ugh.
At least Martha's said she doesn't do humans. Wonder how long that's going to last.

o.O
'The Shakespeare Code's' next! How many in-jokes can I detect?!
Double o.O!!
This series has 'Blink' in it doesn't it?!
Happy days! No Rose, amazing theme tune, a fun appearing companion, Billy Wobbledagger, the Weeping Angels.
Sweeties and fizzy pop and laziness. What more could a girl ask for?
And I've only seen barely the last half of this series. And I know who's coming up later.
Cadfael.
Oooooh yeah.
:smallcool:

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 12:56 PM

I love Old Republic star wars stuff. Rule of Two is the dumbest thing ever.

LaZodiac

2011-05-12, 01:03 PM

Holy crap, Mortal Kombat is a completly legitimately difficult game so far, and I'm only on chapter 3 of the game.

Of note, Scorpion is awesome as heck.

DraPrime

2011-05-12, 01:04 PM

I love Old Republic star wars stuff. Rule of Two is the dumbest thing ever.

Wasn't it done for intelligent reasons though? I thought that whenever there were large amounts of sith it just caused massive amounts of infighting. I'm not too knowledgeable about Star Wars outside of the movies, so I might be wrong here, but that doesn't seem like too bad an idea.

Fredaintdead

2011-05-12, 01:10 PM

HalfTangible

2011-05-12, 01:12 PM

I love Old Republic star wars stuff. Rule of Two is the dumbest thing ever.

Well, it sorta makes sense given the Sith Psyche. If they have more, they will constantly betray each other to gain power, which means you have to watch EVERYBODY in your organization for treachery. If there's only one other force user in your organization, everybody else is pretty much ignoreable.*

---

*With the exception of those who actually KNOW how to fight Jedi.

ZombyWoof

2011-05-12, 01:15 PM

Wasn't it done for intelligent reasons though? I thought that whenever there were large amounts of sith it just caused massive amounts of infighting. I'm not too knowledgeable about Star Wars outside of the movies, so I might be wrong here, but that doesn't seem like too bad an idea.

Well, it sorta makes sense given the Sith Psyche. If they have more, they will constantly betray each other to gain power, which means you have to watch EVERYBODY in your organization for treachery. If there's only one other force user in your organization, everybody else is pretty much ignoreable.*

---

*With the exception of those who actually KNOW how to fight Jedi.
Except that the Sith are trying to kill the Jedi, who vastly outnumber... 2. And there's still betrayal and infighting in the sith organization. Really it only served the purpose of letting Lucas get away with Yoda's line, "There are always 2, a master and an apprentice" without it sounding really weird.

DraPrime

2011-05-12, 01:17 PM

Well, the Rule of Two was replaced with the Rule of One by Darth Krayt, where all Sith were under one banner under a single Dark Lord of the Sith. Which essentially worked through the Sith being taught blind obedience and absolute loyalty via fear of the Dark Lord (at the time, Krayt).

That sounds like it would ultimately come down the same problem that plagued the Sith before the Rule of Two. They always have seemed to me to be way too eager to betray each other for any sort of heirarchy to function. Unless the Dark Lord is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more powerful than the rest, I don't see this lasting long.

Zaydos

2011-05-12, 01:17 PM

Except that the Sith are trying to kill the Jedi, who vastly outnumber... 2. And there's still betrayal and infighting in the sith organization. Really it only served the purpose of letting Lucas get away with Yoda's line, "There are always 2, a master and an apprentice" without it sounding really weird.

They lost to the Jedi in open combat so they needed to use stealth and secrecy. The more people who know a secret the harder it is to keep it.

Fredaintdead

2011-05-12, 01:20 PM

That sounds like it would ultimately come down the same problem that plagued the Sith before the Rule of Two. They always have seemed to me to be way too eager to betray each other for any sort of heirarchy to function. Unless the Dark Lord is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more powerful than the rest, I don't see this lasting long.

Generally, Darth Krayt was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more powerful than the rest, and was only killed when his constant attempts to cheat his own death led to tactical mistakes which allowed about seven people to ambush him, wound him with a very special weapon and push him off a cliff, where his second in command "finished" him off with force lightning. But he comes back, fully regenerated and more powerful than ever.

DraPrime

2011-05-12, 01:23 PM

Generally, Darth Krayt was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more powerful than the rest, and was only killed when his constant attempts to cheat his own death led to tactical mistakes which allowed about seven people to ambush him, wound him with a very special weapon and push him off a cliff, where his second in command "finished" him off with force lightning. But he comes back, fully regenerated and more powerful than ever.

Ah. And I assume the Sith are just hoping that the force just tosses them another Dark Lord near that power level who is also a competent leader? :smalltongue:

Fredaintdead

2011-05-12, 01:39 PM

Ah. And I assume the Sith are just hoping that the force just tosses them another Dark Lord near that power level who is also a competent leader? :smalltongue:

Meh, they're all trained to be obedient to the Dark Lord, so I don't think the Sith is too bothered about being fully united under the banner of one of their strongest leaders.

Pentachoron

2011-05-12, 02:05 PM

I've read most of the Star Wars books that take place within 10 years of Endor. Love Aasimov, Heinlein, Philip K **** (could be said to have inspired cyberpunk), and I could list more but those are probably the top 3. Oh and fantasy, (good) cosmic horror (not Derleth, not Derleth), and myths (especially the Norse kind, but those read pretty close to Sword and Sorcery).

Philip K **** is fantastic, I have most of his collection. As far as Star Wars books I tend to prefer things during the Old Republic, though the Rogue Squadron books and I, Jedi were pretty good too. William Gibson is probably my favorite Sci-Fi author, Neuromancer is crazy good. I like the others you mentioned, but Cosmic Horror is the only one of those that I have an especially strong fondness for. Lovecraft is just...so good.

One thing I've never been able to get behind is the Warhammer/W40K stuff.