Ironik
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A shot of Providence... I see a lot of resemblance to buildings in Steel and Founders.
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Quote:Where are you? I'm just on the border of Bedford near Horace Greeley's house.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
NH represent!
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Quote:My cousin lives in OK and Saturday posted a picture of her kids flying kites in shorts and today posted a photo of the two inches of snow/ice they just got. That kind of whiplash season change I couldn't take.Originally Posted by sleestack
Well, here in Austin is was about 80 yesterday. Today it is 35. I'd appreciate it if all you "ha ha I walk around naked when it's 2 degrees outside" folks would kindly keep this "cold" stuff away from me. I mean, I had to PUT ON A COAT!! HAVE YOU PEOPLE NO MERCY!?!? I actually get SOMEWHAT CHILLED when I go outside for a smoke! This is an OUTRAGE!!
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Quote:"Go ahead and use the officer's latrine, Radar."Originally Posted by Johnstone
I prefer "privy ledge"... Not as a way to spell privilege, mind you.
"Oh boy! National Geographic!"
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I went to the movies this afternoon and it was 12 here in NH. They're calling for 18-24 inches tomorrow. Even with all the sunshine we've had this past week, I think we still have a good 2 to 2.5 feet of snow on the ground, so that should be interesting.
Edit: here's what the snow looks like now. We'll see how much it's changed by Thursday. That's a regular table, so that's about 3 feet tall.
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I'm losing interest in this show. I don't know what it is, but it's just not clicking with me.
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I use Image Shack to host my pictures, but any free hosting site will do.
Host your picture somewhere, then copy the URL, then paste it between the [img] and [/img] tags.
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Superb show. Excellent double-cross and complicated plan reversal, being true to the characters the entire time. Also quite possibly the most perfect and most hilarious Jeffster performance to date.
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Quote:A Fire/Dark Tank would truly be super. It has two +heal powers, two +end powers, two +damage powers, a decent PBAOE damage aura and the thematically-appropriate Fear powers. I always wanted to make one as a villain but never could until now.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Fire/Fire Tanks dish out damage better than you might think, and have a definite edge over Brutes as far as "take damage" and "feel awesome" go.
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I'm a behind-the-lens kind of guy. This is me filming a half-marathon and rockin' a hoodie.
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Quote:I agree. I mean, how would Superman get a weightlifter's muscles? Bench press oil tankers? Sure, it worked for Mr. Incredible, for comic effect, but a more "realistic" Superman wouldn't have that training montage or the time to constantly keep in that kind of shape.Originally Posted by Lothic
Of course there'll be people (like me I guess) who'll argue that Superman would not have to be a super-huge Hercules looking guy to be believable. It's his "powers" that make him super-strong, not his basic muscle mass.
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Quote:Aside from the Durrance thing, I agree with all of these points. I've never liked Donner's Superman because of the lame single entendres ("How big are you?") and the goofy campiness of Luthor and his crew and the dumb plot and terrible, terrible special effects. Even as a 13-year-old I never believed a man could fly.Originally Posted by Local_Man
The first film was great . . . until the end of the Helicopter scene. As soon as the "comic" elements of a goofy Lex Luthor and a horrible Lois Lane were added the film went down hill. The main problems were a dumb plot, a goofy villain with his goofy henchmen and the "deus ex machina" plot device of going into the past to save Lois . . . but nothing else and no consequences.
The second film was both better and worse. Better because it had real super villains, with good actors to play them. But it wasn't just things like "throwing the S" or telekinesis finger spray. It was the core of the plot . . . giving up his powers "forever" to boink Lois, and then getting them back with no consequences. And then re-wiring the Fortress to de-power Zod and friends? Zod and company were 2-dimentional villains. Lex was still goofy. Both movies were just plain bad writing. I think most of those decisions were made before Donner left the project.
And as bad as the plots were for those two (and I still like the movies mainly for Christopher Reeve), Superman Returns was even worse. I strongly disliked the "super kid" and the "stalker Superman" and the "lets redo the same plot as the first movie." I went from "Dislike" to "hate" for that film when Singer put in the "look at me, I'm Christ" moment as Supes fell back to Earth. Cheesy, manipulative and just plain bad.
I want a good story, without huge plot holes and good dialogue -- a little bit of suspension of disbelief is OK, but no more "WTF" moments. I want a good Lois Lane -- Erica Durrance has been the best so far, with the other TV versions a little bit behind. I want a villain with interesting character and understandable motivations who is not an idiot -- Braniac would be a good choice, but we have had too much of Lex Luthor. I want some good action that is going to challenge the Man of Steel. I have some confidence that Chris Nolan and Zack Snyder can deliver these things better than previous film versions. -
Quote:George Reeves started filming The Adventures of Superman in 1952, age 38.Originally Posted by StarCrusader
YEY another boy to play the MOST powerfull man around...MAAAAAN not boy.
It's gonna be one of those teen girl's wet dream casting....sigh !
Christopher Reeve filmed Superman in 1977, age 25.
Brandon Routh filmed Superman returns in 2005, age 26.
Tom Welling started filming Smallville in 2001, age 24.
Henry Cavill is filming the new Superman movie and he is 27 years old now.
According to DC, Superman's official age is 29. -
Quote:It was even better when swimming with Sprint on, because sometimes it would appear as if you were water skiing.Originally Posted by CyWolf
I like the bug that was on test when they were testing the prestige powerslide power to be live. It made you do the powerslide animation while flying.
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Quote:Yes. My dog Weenie calls it "No-freakin'-way-am-I-going-out-in-that-chill. I'll hold it till April, dude."Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Eesh. Did you get any windchill?
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Quote:Who's the most jaundiced person here?Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
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Quote:MY awesome?Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
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Quote:Either you're being deliberately obtuse (my bet) or you are casting too wide a net when you say "cultural references."Originally Posted by Arilou
LOTR actually has both very specific cultural references (although Th Hobbit has many moe of them) there's a couple of times when Tolkien's "narration voice" explicitly compares things to the "real World"
It gets less comon as the show goes on though.
And even so there are still a ton of cultral references there: Farmer, innkeeper, steward, king..
If Tolkien had put the same sort of cultural references in The Hobbit and LotR that we're talking about here -- puns referring to other fictional works and real-world brands -- then he would've done things like have a monster who kills by sucking things in and called it Hoover or called the sage elf Cronkite or named Tom Bombadil "Mr. Guinness." Beorn would've been from the village of Paddington. He would've named Elrond "Alfred" whose house sits at the top of treacherous Thirty-Nine Steps and the address would been Number 17. He would've said Sauron is the man who would be king who killed the "courageous Captain Kim" or instead of "Strider" Aragorn would've been known as "The Red Primrose." And so on. But there's none of that. -
Quote:It was -20 here last week. Single digits sounds good to me.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I don't care about snow, I am tired of having single digit weather for the past few weeks. Don't make me get out my winter coat.
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Quote:I've done that, too. I generally get confused when the two different printings of the same book have different covers.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I've bought the hardback of a graphic novel, and then a few months later bought the paperback version, not remembering that I had it already until I finished reading it and figured out why the story was so familiar....
I've done it on purpose a couple times when they've released premier hardback editions with more stuff in it, like concept sketches and interviews. I think Squadron Supreme was like that and I switched over to the giant hardback versions of Invincible after buying the first few TPBs, so there was some duplication there. -
Smoochie-woochies and tubby-huggies to all.
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Cool beans.
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Quote:I don't see why. The official picture posted on Facebook last week prominently displayed the new canine head as the focus of the photo. The Beast Run power description is available for anyone to see by typing it into your chat window in the game, and it's the exact same thing we've done for pretty much every previous booster pack and Issue release. It's part of the fun.Originally Posted by Shadow State
It's the weekend, most of the staff is off, I don't expect anything as harsh as bans, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of these posts disappeared come Monday.
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I only shoplifted it for the pictures.
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Quote:They invented this thing called weightlifting. It's kind of amazing in that it makes your muscles bigger.Originally Posted by Divus
He's too damn skinny!!!!
Check out a pic of him as Theseus in the upcoming film Immortals. He's not huge, but he's freakin' ripped.
And while filming the new Bruce Willis flick Cold Light of Day. I think he's got the look.
