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Lago PARANOIA
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Going back to Starship Troopers, my favorite non-violent moment in the movie was when the sergeant was literally handing out toys to the troops to boost their morale. I mean, that's just so blunt that it actually becomes nuanced.
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
It actually took me a bit to remember the toys scene. I'm assuming he meant the scene where he handed out footballs and such.erik wrote:showerscene.jpg
And you preferred the toys?
I actually prefer the scene just after-
"Rico, get your ass out here now. ...who's in there with you? *sees the chick* Ok, make that five minutes."
Plus NPH as an SS-esque psychic was pretty cool.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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My favorite parts are the news segments; they're hilarious, especially the one at the end.
Also this quote, which (I feel, at least) made the satire obvious even in the middle of the film:
Also this quote, which (I feel, at least) made the satire obvious even in the middle of the film:
Sky Marshal Dienes wrote:We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Lago PARANOIA
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I'd find that comic funnier if SMBC didn't recycle the 'ha ha, humans love sticking stuff up their asses and it grosses out the aliens' gag from not too long ago.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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AH turned me on to these, and now I feel like sharing, because sharing causes Hypsibius dujardini to have epic rock concerts. In space.
http://spacemullet.com/
http://spacemullet.com/
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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You choose that over this?
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Oh Laser cows, thank you for the laughs.
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Eclipse tonight! Go look at it!
FrankTrollman wrote:I think Grek already won the thread and we should pack it in.
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The eclipse last night was pretty cool! I almost missed it because it was listed as the 15th on my calendar.
Also: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/upwo ... nothing/1/
Also: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/upwo ... nothing/1/
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Putin-Palin '16! That'll scare the fuck out of... everyone... everywhere.Avoraciopoctules wrote:http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-st ... t-ano.html
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The Imp
It's a fairly interesting essay on Jack Chick, but the real gem is the dictionary at the end.
It's a fairly interesting essay on Jack Chick, but the real gem is the dictionary at the end.
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).
You could do worse for a fantasy or CoCesque RPG than to repurpose his art. There is a lot of it and with a consistent style. HehDarth Rabbitt wrote:The Imp
It's a fairly interesting essay on Jack Chick, but the real gem is the dictionary at the end.
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Captain America 2.
In 616 Cap's one of the best fighters in the world. Previously the MCU has mostly shown him brawling. They showed him fighting with slightly more finesse against Loki, but he still wasn't that great. Apparently he's been training since then, because his fights in The Winter Soldier are fantastic. He completely wrecks a ship filled with pirates in the opening scene and it was glorious.
The actual plot is really good, and there are plenty of supers, but it is difficult to rave about them without spoiling the movie.
In 616 Cap's one of the best fighters in the world. Previously the MCU has mostly shown him brawling. They showed him fighting with slightly more finesse against Loki, but he still wasn't that great. Apparently he's been training since then, because his fights in The Winter Soldier are fantastic. He completely wrecks a ship filled with pirates in the opening scene and it was glorious.
The actual plot is really good, and there are plenty of supers, but it is difficult to rave about them without spoiling the movie.
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Yeah, Winter Soldier might have the best action scenes of any Marvel movie so far. They don't quite answer the verisimilitude question of why the bad guys don't just shoot Captain America from far away. But they're really well-done.Sir Neil wrote:Captain America 2.
In 616 Cap's one of the best fighters in the world. Previously the MCU has mostly shown him brawling. They showed him fighting with slightly more finesse against Loki, but he still wasn't that great. Apparently he's been training since then, because his fights in The Winter Soldier are fantastic. He completely wrecks a ship filled with pirates in the opening scene and it was glorious.
The actual plot is really good, and there are plenty of supers, but it is difficult to rave about them without spoiling the movie.
Overall, the movie was great on a scene-by-scene basis, but I found very little of it memorable. It did take a take a problem I thought I would have with the movie, based on the first half, and subvert that problem altogether, which I appreciated.
Out beyond the hull, mucoid strings of non-baryonic matter streamed past like Christ's blood in the firmament.
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Just saw Winter Soldier last night, and loved it.
I do, however, keep watching literally every scene with the shield and think "It absorbs vibrations, that shouldn't work that way" (like when Cap is stumbling back when Batroc kicks his shield)
But then, I never took a physics course, so my understanding of Newton's Laws is sketchy.
I do, however, keep watching literally every scene with the shield and think "It absorbs vibrations, that shouldn't work that way" (like when Cap is stumbling back when Batroc kicks his shield)
But then, I never took a physics course, so my understanding of Newton's Laws is sketchy.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
except that it is inconsistent with how it worked when Thor hit him with his hammer in Avengers. There were several times in Winter Soldier where I was left thinking "that's not the way they said it's supposed to work".Prak_Anima wrote:Just saw Winter Soldier last night, and loved it.
I do, however, keep watching literally every scene with the shield and think "It absorbs vibrations, that shouldn't work that way" (like when Cap is stumbling back when Batroc kicks his shield)
But then, I never took a physics course, so my understanding of Newton's Laws is sketchy.