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#61
Posted 16 February 2009 - 07:29 PM
Careful. This link is DANGEROUS. Do NOT click it. This one, however, is fine.
I had the meaning of life in my signature, but it exceeded the character limit.
#62
Posted 16 February 2009 - 10:02 PM
#63
Posted 17 February 2009 - 03:43 AM
Realistically, I can understand your reasoning, Vort, though I still don't agree with it.
Gemmell? Troy? Who? and, wha....oh, I know what Troy is!
#64
Posted 17 February 2009 - 05:20 AM
So go and hit:
- Elfquest (Vol.1-20 only, the original quest) by Richard & Wendy Pini
- The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller. The really dark one, Sin City style. It's Frank Miller after all.
- The Sandman, all volumes (1 to 100something), by Neil Gaiman. Modern Fantasy with a gothic, dreamy twist. Very fine storytelling, intriguing characters. GOGOGETIT!
Oh, before i forget. Anybody know A.Vachss? Well, even if you don't, ThisIsABlast! (free pdf).
Edited by Sûlherokhh, 17 February 2009 - 05:27 AM.
Axed Head and A.I. Coder for S.E.E. and ... stuff
".. coding is basically boring. What's fun is finding out how things work, take them apart and then put them together in ways that were not intended nor even conceived."
#65
Posted 17 February 2009 - 11:44 AM
Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far away". That's not the future. Also, the Skywalkers live with a bunch of freaks in a cave in the middle of a desert. How futuristic is that? In all honesty, every time I hear about Star Wars it makes me think: this was George Lucas' childhood fantasy. What a freakin' nerd. I wonder if he had any friends whatsoever... I suppose in a way he kinda showed them, but he's still the one who went running around the playground with snot hanging out of his nose making 'vwing' noises and trying to lightsaber people while they played football at lunchtime.
I would also like to recommend Bagenders. It's a hilarious LotR spoof in which the Fellowship were granted immortality for saving Middle-Earth and eventually ended up living together in a house in Yorkshire that was far too small for all of them, but they try anyway. Sadly it was never completed, but there are two and a half complete series and a few random slashy interludes. As fanfiction goes, it's some of the best I've read.
#66
Posted 18 February 2009 - 10:18 PM
Futuristic means "like the future," not the future itself.It's supposed to be futuristic!
Soooo, if you lived on a planet-wide desert, how advanced would you be able to get? 'Cause there's only two resources that aren't rare: sand and heat.
Ha! That's what you think. You were wrong about that whole "childhood fantasy" thing. He was interested in cars and racing during his childhood and teens (which later manifested itself in his movie American Graffiti). The only thing in his childhood that came close to Star Wars was a TV series called Flash Gordon, a regular staple of the childhood of any man of his age (I remember my grandfather, who's about the same age as Lucas, talking about watching that show as a kid). The script of Star Wars didn't come into existence till 1973, after he made Graffiti.
Here's the Wikipedia article I've been referencing for the past two minutes, if you should seek to dispute me.
#67
Posted 19 February 2009 - 12:20 AM
#68
Posted 19 February 2009 - 01:00 AM
My political compass
There's a story that the grass is so green...what did I see? Where have I been?
#69
Posted 19 February 2009 - 03:28 AM
I'm mostly laughing when I see the Empire's "best legion" get beat up by a bunch of kids in fuzzball suits.
Are you saying that there was absolutely nothing good in the prequels, Yoda? Cause you and Ed seem to have a little mod going about the Clone Wars.
#70
Posted 19 February 2009 - 09:56 AM
It's just that Anakin is annoying. He's the main character, but other characters (like Obi-Wan) are more interesting in these films.
Einstein: "We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
#71
Posted 19 February 2009 - 12:11 PM
They also all sucked because the storyline was terrible, and the Gungans are the single most loathsome alien race ever created. Why could they not learn to speak English properly? I appreciate that in Episode 3 they had to figure out a way to make Anakin into Darth Vader and I was OK with that, it was just everything else that was utterly preposterous.
#72
Posted 19 February 2009 - 04:20 PM
#73
Posted 23 February 2009 - 04:09 AM
#74
Posted 23 February 2009 - 04:26 AM
#75
Posted 23 February 2009 - 04:38 AM
#76
Posted 23 February 2009 - 05:47 AM
#77
Posted 23 February 2009 - 08:28 AM
I really don't do requests and my Arnor Soldier is not fit for BFME. Don't ask me for either.
#78
Posted 23 February 2009 - 12:30 PM
#79
Posted 23 February 2009 - 04:37 PM
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