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"In front of you is a small, 4-acre park. In the middle of the park is a statue of what appears to be a wizard."
"OK, we enter the park and slowly approach the statue.
*Dice roll* "With a grinding of stone on stone, and a horrible moaning that seems to echo from the depths of hell, the statue begins to come to life! It blasts a cone of greyish energy at you!"
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Quote:Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Agreed.
Then again, take a 10+ inch tablet, give it a screen mount with a corresponding keyboard and mouse. Stick it on the desktop of your average office worker or (non-gamer) home user. That will be capable of doing a good bit of what these users have come to expect from their computer-- particularly when a MS OS gets into the fray. They get all that PLUS the ability to "grab and go" to undock from that mound and take the tablet with them to the office meetings or offsite work. That, for roughly the cost of what the next round of PC upgrades is going to cost.
It won't be EVERYWHERE, but if enough people say 'this meets our needs' and spend their money there rather than a better PC then you have a market shift that WILL impact whether a developer decides to spend $60m on a new game that will cater to the shrinking demographic of PC users with capable PC's... or cut the budget to $30m.... or keep it at $60m, but design it in a way that the lower-end systems can still access...
I expect tablets to supplant PCs to some extent in the future, largely because of what Chase posted above. As tablet hardware becomes more powerful, the tablet will become the PC, and you'll have a docking station with keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) attached to it. Perhaps even a docking station with a dedicated video card, to beef up the graphics capabilities while docked without burdening the tablet's battery when it is undocked. Use it for graphics-intensive programs, or activities that just work better with a KVM setup (word-processing, spreadsheets, etc.), but keep the portability for when it's needed. Win/win. -
I saw GL on Saturday with the family, and we all loved it. It wasn't as strong as Thor, but I too can't see what all the critics are raging about.
As my son put it afterward, "The critics were right about 'The Last Airbender' but they were wrong about 'Green Lantern'".
Will definitely pick this up when it comes out on disc.
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My favorite scene is when Parallax is attacking the city, and GL is holding him off with a force field. Parallax is spouting a monologue ("Your powers are weak, I will destroy your world, blah, blah, blah"), while Hal is reciting the GL oath:
"I can feel your fear..."
"In brightest day"
"You will fail and your world will die"
"In blackest night"
Yeah, that was the defining "Hal's a GL now" moment, and it worked quite well IMHO.
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She reminds me of Jane Doe from DC:
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Quote:Oh wow that is indeed quite amusing.Originally Posted by Demobot
Also, a high-larious reaction to Episode 9. NSFW for strong language.
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Sean Bean is such a great actor. After Ned "confesses" his treason, and then realizes Geoffrey is going to kill him anyway.... The look on his face as he bows his head for the cut, you can see him grasp the knowledge that he spent his honor for safety for his family and the realm, and that coin bought him neither. Fantastic acting, with just a facial expression that is shown for only a second or two. Bravo! -
That is cool, saw it yesterday.
a long time ago, a good friend of mine and I were hanging out with one of my friend's acquaintances one day, and my friend put on a Les Paul album. After a while, the acquaintance says, "This music is pretty good. Who is this?" My friend hands the acquaintance the album cover, and the acquaintance says, "Man, how arrogant is this guy! Naming himself after Les Paul guitars!" I started to say something, but my friend spoke before me and said, "Yeah, that is pretty arrogant, but he plays well." I went along with it, and to this day I like to think there's a guy out there somewhere who still tells people about the arrogant guitar player named Les Paul.
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I sincerely hope your chosen collection of overpaid multimillionaires beats the opposing collection of overpaid multimillionaires in the sporting event.
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Hey, thanks SO MUCH for the spoiler RIGHT IN THE ******* THREAD TITLE!!!
I mean, **** anybody who might actually be READING this, right? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf
* quote of previous post in case someone may have missed it
* arguement in support of TonyV
* misguided attempt to argue point
* declaration of frustration and subscription cancellation
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*One-line post telling how 6-paragraph post was eaten by the Forum Logout Bug.*
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I like chocolate milk!
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Quote:You're talking about science, and the drug that makes the apes intelligent was developed with SCIENCE!Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
the more I read about it, the more stupid this movie seems and that the original actually makes more sense.
unless the drug they exposed Caesar to is a virus, they'll have to keep making more to expose newborn apes/chimps/etc to.
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I call shenanigans! Shouldn't this be filming in Gotham City? Oh wait, I'll bet The Joker or The Penguin or somebody like that threatened the production, so they had to move it. Curse those villains! Why must the be so entertainingly evil?
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Quote:OK, this made me LOL. Heck, I think The Flash has even died in a couple of Marvel crossover events.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
WW: Okay, what do you have in mind?
Posi: Well, if the players say "endgame", they probably mean what everyone else has - high-level raiding dungeon stuff. So that's what we'll give 'em.
WW: But comics aren't based around a whole bunch of heroes all going to fight one big guy!
Posi: What about those big crossover events? Like, there's an Infinite Crisis on Blackest Worlds, or whatever, and all the heroes and villains have to team up and fight the threat, and there's terrible writing and the Flash dies.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Scythus
Example of a manly superhero that wears a skirt.
Magnus, Robot Fighter.
And here's another example of the manliest of men:
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Hehe, I just ordered the 4-book boxed set, and pre-ordered book 5.
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Quote:I think that's the exact "problem", from DC's perspective. Much of their sales are to older customers. Now that's not a bad thing per se, but it does pose the question, "What happens when our older readers start dying?" That's why the focus on a younger audience: they're trying to build that new readership that is attached to the characters. Are they going about it the right way? I don't know. But complaints from older readers like us aren't likely to carry much weight here. We say we're going to stop buying DC comics if this happens/isn't done well. DC knows that we are all going to stop buying their comics someday, when the Big D puts us in the ground. No amount ot crossover events or reboots will get us back to buying after that, so they have to go after a younger audience for simple survival.Originally Posted by SuperOz
I'm sorry to disappoint DC, but the older fans is where your bread is buttered. We are the ones who buy trades, we are the ones who buy merchandise, and we are the ones who buy collectables because of the long-term connection we have to these characters and their stories. To ignore that fundamentally is to do just that; forget the fundamentals.
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Quote:Same here, except it's those 2 plus Image, Vertigo and BOOM! Studios for me.Originally Posted by Veritech
Hope for the best that i'll still be collecting DC by the end of the year, or plan for the worst and stay hooked on Dark Horse and IDW titles. :P
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Quote:That's what she said.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
The cigar, red eyes, black skin and horns will be present of course, but beyond that, anything goes.
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Quote:That's just his way of showing how smitten he is with you. Kind of like punching you in the arm or yanking your pigtails.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Whereas Recluse has had a bounty on my head every since I made him sing and mosh in one of my videos... some men just can't take a joke.
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Pocket D: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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Quote:*Puts on scientician goggles*Originally Posted by Leo_G
....
How does that even work?
I've never seen something like that...
Anyone want to put on their science cap and explain this to the class?
Being at the lower (longer wavelength) end of the visible spectrum, red and yellow light are absorbed by water droplets in a cloud. Blue and green are at the upper end (shorter wavelength) of the visible spectrum, and are scattered by water. Actually blue light is scattered by raindrop-sized water droplets, while green light is scattered by ice crystals. Thus, a cloud with a greenish tint to it has ice crystals at its upper reaches, which is an indicator of a strong thunderstorm.
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Quote:I kind of figured you were, but there were two posts saying about the same thing, so I want all Internet Pedant and when I came to the post was already there. No intention to "call you out" or anything.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You do realize I was being facetious right?
Also, I wonder if the guards force the prisoners to consume Cheetos and Mt. Dew while they are gold-farming, as these two substances in combination are scientifically proven to increase gaming skills by 358.4%? -
Quote:In all fairness, the Chinese think some of the stuff we eat is disgusting. For example, name a Chinese dish that has cheese in it. You won't be able to, because the Chinese consider cheese to be what it actually is: rotted milk.Originally Posted by The_Larker
Another feather in china's cap as far as I'm concerned about a government out of control, most people are afraid of terrorists.
Not me China is too silent about what they do and alittle too cold about human rights violations for my tastes.
The rest of my post would go too much into politics, borrowing money from them, buying the cheap *** junk that comes from (yeah you walmart), and some of the disgusting crap they eat.But, I won't go there.
Quote:Originally Posted by starphoenix
If you were in a prison, would you prefer playing WoW for 12 hours each day or working in a quarry, mine, factory, or any of the other hard labor that prisoners do? Doing hard labor for a few hours each day keeps the prisoners fit and playing WoW for a few hours each day keeps the prisoners from collapsing due to physical exhaustion.Yeah, this isn't a day spa we're talking about here, or even pumping iron in the exercise yard. These Chinese prisoners aren't getting a "workout", they're being "worked out". That is, they're being worked to death. They aren't getting "fit", they're being physically broken.Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I don't want fit prisoners. Screw the hard labor. That only means that they'll be in shape to commit more crimes when they are released.
I want fat flabby out of shape prisoners that can't walk 5 steps before they need to catch their breath. They won't be in any shape to break the law when they finally get released. -
In some history course I took way back when, I remember hearing that one of the Spanish conquistadors was captured by native Central Americans, and was killed by having molten gold poured down his throat, so "he could have his fill of gold". I've been Googling about it and it may not be a true story but still...ouchie.