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Quote:Awesome suggestion.Originally Posted by Du Hast
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I noticed a couple trends recently at Wentworths. The first was a slew of toons inspired by Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I wasn't able to to grab screenies of them before they ran off, but I saw 2 Spikes, 1 Willow, 1 Zander (styled from the comics) and a Buffy herself.
The second was gorillas. Usually you see one here and there, but I saw four in pretty rapid sequence. Here are the three I managed to capture:
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Know why they call him "Mad"? Because Photon X just PUNCHED HIM IN THE NARDS!
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Future Shock versus The Honoree!
Whoever lands last, dies!
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Quote:Then he should shut the **** up about finishing the next book. Stop getting your fans' -- your PAYING CUSTOMERS -- hopes up and then have a failure to launch. Take some Author Viagra and get back to work. This isn't an impatience thing, this is a "he will die before he finishes the series" thing. Me, I don't care any more, I'm done with it. One good book out of four isn't enough to keep me interested.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
I think a lot of people (not including you on this), need to remember: George R.R. Martin is not your *****.
Hell, just get Dragon Naturally Speaking like David Weber. The guy's words per minute jumped up to something on the order of 130 and he's churning out 3 massive tomes a year. A couple of them are even pretty good. -
Quote:I agree. As to the green tiles, though, I'm actually reminded of the asphalt shingles on the sides of my grandmother's old house. (Said 80-year-old shingles allowed it to burn merrily when the new tenants improperly vented the wood stove.)Originally Posted by UberGuy
Aesthetically, I dislike the new textures. They have a higher-quality look about them, but, IMO, they look nothing like a warehouse. They remind me of the basement of old institutional buildings from the sixties and seventies, like hospitals.
Actually, the fact that the blocks are green makes them look like public washrooms you would see in a state-built public rest stop.
As textures in an isolated sense, they're nice. Visually, I don't find them appropriate for purpose. -
As of last night, I believe I have 8 shards across all four of my 50s.
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Quote:If there is a shiny pink heaven then she is surely in it... and no doubt giggling maniacally that her last two words on this forum were "cheap turd."Originally Posted by Ramification TM
Never had the pleasure of knowing Malibu Sally. But I'm sure she's smiling from a wonderful place for being remembered.
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We've lost a number of people over the years, all of them too young. From Kiyotee (Coyote) to Malibu Sally, it's not easy to lose members of even a virtual community.
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Quote:The first came out in 1996, and he's claimed to have "finished" the fifth one (really #4 part 2) at least 4 times on his website over the past 5 years. There are so many other books to read -- my current pile of just SF & Fantasy books is about 15 tomes high -- that I've completely given up on this series. I'll watch the show, though, whenever it hits Netflix.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I don't think fans of the Game of Thrones series really worry about the quality of the books. They just want them finished. I just went and looked it up. I know a singer/songwriter and author who has put out 3 albums, 2 albums of B-sides, and two novels since A Feast of Crowns came out.
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Are they paying him or is he paying them?
If he's paying them, it's a scam. The stuff he's asking for sounds like that. If he's going the self-publishing route (a la Lulu) then he's BSing you. -
Quote:I can fully appreciate both but when a movie sinks to a level that's SO mind-numbingly stupid that even a brain parked in neutral suddenly stirs to life and goes, "Hey WTF was that?" -- well, *that's* when you have a problem, and the Transformers movies do that.Originally Posted by Zikar
Heaven forbid people sit back and just enjoy a spectacle. I consider it the movie equivalent of watching a fireworks display. Sit down with a drink, some popcorn, watch pretty explosions for 90 minutes and just have some fun.
I think there's room in this world for both deep thought provoking films and films that are just explosions and stuff. No reason people can't have and enjoy both.
Besides, why must it be either/or? Die Hard is an awesome action movie, but it's also smart. A more recent example is The Marine, which anyone might dismiss as a vehicle for the latest WWE pretty boy, but it's actually a well-crafted (and at times extraordinarily funny and smart) action flick. Same with the Steve Austin flick The Condemned, which is essentially an updated version of The Running Man except set in our reality TV present. There's nothing especially inventive or original about it, but it's extremely well-crafted and nothing in it makes you feel stupider for having viewed it. No Michael Bay movie can make the same claim. -
I can't get it to work at all.
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Quote:That's what I've been doing since my second time through.Originally Posted by JKCarrier
Don't waste a Mission Complete on that one. You're not required to fight the Time Echoes. You can just head straight to Ramiel, click on him, and you're done.
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The second book in Michael Carroll's "New Heroes" trilogy keeps up the momentum of the first book. It also maintains the "Young Adult fiction in name only" theme by tackling tough choices and not flinching from the logical progression of the characters he's set up. There's nothing graphic about the violence, but it's there in spades. It does suffer a bit from "middle chapter syndrome" as many second installments to trilogies do, but it sets up the conflict for the final conflict quite well, with battle lines clearly drawn. Unfortunately for the New Heroes, despite a few wins all the cards are held by the bad guys. I did have kind of a hard time believing some of these characters were only 13- to 16-years old since they acted like little adults sometimes, but that's a minor quibble for me.
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Quote:I'm a big fan of Dinklage (no pun intended) and have been ever since I first saw The Station Agent. He really has had a decent career, his size apparently no real impediment to getting work. It didn't hurt that he had a scene-stealing turn in Elf, which was a huge hit and is now taking on a life as a modern holiday classic.Originally Posted by Local_Man
Peter Dinklege is probably the only "little person" actor who could pull off Tyrion, an amazingly complex character whose physical limitations are a huge part of his character. I also think that Tyrion is probably the best acting role for a "little person" possibly ever, other than maybe Willow.
Dinklage was born to play Tyrion, no doubt about it. He has both the charm and the sense of darkness about him to pull that role off. -
Quote:The second novel was easily one of the best Fantasy novels I've ever read; fast-paced, cool characters, interesting world with intriguing politics.... then the 3rd one came out and it was just lame. The fourth one is easily one of the *worst* fantasy novels I've ever read. The series was a best seller by that point and apparently Martin's editors decided to just let him have his way, which was a huge mistake. I suspect the reason #2 is so good is because they made him tighten up the prose instead of just vomiting everything all over the page and repeating himself over and over again. He could've excised 400 pages from #3 without an issue.Originally Posted by Veritech
i got my hands on the first 3 books after hearing they were making a series out of it. i am less enthused for the project now after reading Game of Thrones, though i will admit that at least Sean Bean was well cast. while HBO does decent adaptation, they tend to deviate from the source material pretty quickly, and given how grim the series is, im interested in seeing what's going to end up being changed.
That said, the story has good bones so the streamlining necessary for a televised adaptation can only improve it. Unfortunately, it seems like every character in that preview actually says what they're thinking and half the dialogue shown was completely on the nose. -
Quote:Yes, I'm logged in properly to both CiT and TS. It kind of looks like TS is hung up trying to update. That's probably the issue.Originally Posted by Diggis
Which site are you using? The Sentinal is only for CiT. Assuming you have entered your log in details correctly?
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Quote:I was wondering about that, too. I'm not even sure where the Alpha Slot *is*.Originally Posted by Flarstux
Yes, they are.
More I19 feelings forthcoming. Ahem.
A week or so ago I unlocked the Alpha Slot on my electric/ice tanker. No problems getting through the arc. Today I finally got around to doing a respec on him to take advantage of inherent Fitness. Whee. Then I decided to run a couple of missions - the last two in the revamped Hero's Epic - to see if I could get lucky with some shards.
I didn't. But that's not why I'm posting.
The main thing I noticed was, my tanker after unlocking the Alpha slot plays just like my tanker prior to unlocking the slot. Which isn't slotted yet, as I only have the one shard. Which I guess means the Alpha Slot, unslotted, does nothing. Right?
I mean, if you take, say, Quick Recovery, it does something for you even before you slot it.
Shouldn't the Alpha slot, even unslotted, do something to let you know, "Hey! I'm an Incarnate now! Well... sorta. Kinda. Almost. Maybe."
Or does it do something and I just didn't notice? My tanker didn't seem any tougher. His enemies didn't seem to fall any faster (yawn/Dominatrix/yawn). His powers didn't seem to recharge any faster. He still ran out of endurance if I forgot to fire off Power Sink every now and again.
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Quote:Hmm, that's what I did, but it's not capturing anything.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
I think with Sentinel running you have to do a /info command in CoH in order for it to capture your badge information etc?
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Quote:And that's what keeps me up at night.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
You're explicitly told that you've done nothing but delay their plans until they can build a new portal. Explicitly. The exact line is "Neuron's tower has been disabled, preventing Cole from launching his attack before we're ready for it." You bought Primal Earth time, and you know it's nothing but that.
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Quote:You claim it for Maine? Dude, weird.Originally Posted by Lord_Apollon
Me ME mE me!
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Quote:I for one welcome my robotic Leandro overlord.Originally Posted by Leandro
Certain friends of mine would expand the previous statement to imply that said program is running in the computer that resides inside my cranium. Because I am apparently a robot, I just don't know it.
Edit: according to one of them: That's about it. You've been programmed to not know you're a robot. You already have goals of world domination, and your creators fear what will happen when they realize you can take over all governments computer systems from inside your head. -
Quote:Avatar in IMAX was awwwwwesooooommmmme. Bright, pretty, shiny. Story? What story? Giant cat people flying on dragons! Ooh!Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Do you have any idea how long I waited to watch a decent copy of Avatar without watching it in a confusing, colourless mess?
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Right up until you see "From Director Michael Bay" it actually looks like a cool movie.