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by Peregrin
Wed May 12, 2010 5:31 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: Leer
Replies: 4
Views: 7790

Re: Leer

He's existential anxiety given shape... or lack thereof. I think he's a pretty interesting concept sounds like the kind of metaphor mid-century existentialist philosophers would come up with stoned. It helps that his name means "empty" in German!
by Peregrin
Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:02 pm
Forum: Comix!
Topic: Comix Casting Call
Replies: 57
Views: 47286

Re: Comix Casting Call

Hey, why not? It's not like he doesn't have experience portraying kooky super-villains.
by Peregrin
Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Post Your Desktops!
Replies: 126
Views: 75512

Re: Post Your Desktops!

It's a boat... it's a plane... it's ugly and Russian!

Image

(to be exact, it's the rusting remains of the Caspian Sea Monster ekranoplan which I think looks like something from a particularly demented 1960s sci-fi flick!)
by Peregrin
Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417626

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

Law Abiding Citizen sounds rather unintentionally hilarious, what with taking a totally preposterous concept and presenting it with utmost seriousness sorta like the vigilante revenge thriller version of Final Destination complete with the convoluted schemes to kill people and no apparent higher re...
by Peregrin
Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:20 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: Ominous Rex
Replies: 31
Views: 28285

Re: Ominous Rex

This is gonna be five parts? Goddamn, this is fucking huge . There's enough material for a 'verse of its own just in the prologues to Ominous Rex' profile... I guess the intent is to make him the ne plus ultra of "dark overlord"-type fantasy villains. I can't wait until the man who would l...
by Peregrin
Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Beliefs
Replies: 11
Views: 9685

Re: Beliefs

It's not some fictional work making people think its real, because that's just stupid. Neither is it a fad introduced by the media or through pop culture. This stuff is more like, I don't know, some pervasive cultural thing that's existed for a very, very, long time from the days when Filipinos wer...
by Peregrin
Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Beliefs
Replies: 11
Views: 9685

Re: Beliefs

Well, in Denmark the whole ghosts and astral projections and ouija boards thing was a fad a handful of years ago but I'm not sure it ever was that commonly accepted. It's not something I hear people I know talk about on a daily basis, that is for sure. Here, the commonly encountered information casc...
by Peregrin
Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:53 pm
Forum: Literature
Topic: The Shadows of Stalingrad
Replies: 16
Views: 15153

Re: The Shadows of Stalingrad

Eh, I can understand that because there's a few of my SOTS characters I'm giving OZC! analogues too. Hell, the Orionian Greys are already implied to be ancestors of the Apexai. Oh yeah, and those birds in my garden seem to be surviving. I gave them some more bread and seeds this morning and there's ...
by Peregrin
Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:11 am
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: Un-Innocent Bystanders
Replies: 8
Views: 11735

Re: Un-Innocent Bystanders

That's actually not a reference to To Kill a Mockingbird as much as to a Flash animation parodying it , which helpfully bears the title How to Kill a Mockingbird . It's one of the weirdest things ever created, and I have no idea how many people have seen it but apparently at some point it was the in...
by Peregrin
Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:01 am
Forum: Literature
Topic: The Shadows of Stalingrad
Replies: 16
Views: 15153

Re: The Shadows of Stalingrad

Wow, this is just unbelievable. A total out-of-the-blue home run . First, there's how it takes characters of Kamin's creation (out of everyone here) and does something truly interesting with them. Then there's how it's a mostly serious work of Malchus', this is something truly unique. It's a World W...
by Peregrin
Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:25 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: The Seven Serpents
Replies: 80
Views: 69297

Re: The Seven Serpents

Ye gods! Though the Serpents already counted an Inca god and a centuries-old Fu Manchu-type dude among their ranks, it seriously caught me off guard that the American Serpent is in cahoots with those Reptoids whom David Icke is always going on about to the point of having become one himself. (which...
by Peregrin
Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:50 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: MAKS Mikoyan
Replies: 10
Views: 10555

Re: MAKS Mikoyan

Oh yeah, forgot about him or just confused him with someone else.
by Peregrin
Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:49 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: Un-Innocent Bystanders
Replies: 8
Views: 11735

Re: Un-Innocent Bystanders

Excellent that you reposted these, incidentally has either profile been changed since their last posting on the old board? For some reason Earl Makeson now reminds me of a superpowered Hunter S. Thompson only without his fetish for weaponry and hallucinogens... :lol:
by Peregrin
Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:14 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: MAKS Mikoyan
Replies: 10
Views: 10555

Re: MAKS Mikoyan

I think it is interesting with a Soviet, or well ex-Soviet superhero who isn't a Communist. I imagine there's much less of a generation gap between him and the younger generations in Russia than, say, Comrade Felix. However, I gotta wonder about things like the Vladimir Putin administration's less-t...
by Peregrin
Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:48 pm
Forum: Tech & Society
Topic: The Guns of America - The Firepower of Freedom!
Replies: 7
Views: 10215

Re: The Guns of America - The Firepower of Freedom!

Is it possible that the designers of the Valley Forge wanted it to look like the Sulaco ? It was built in the late 1980s after all... also, could fit into how the real-life space shuttle Enterprise was named after the ship in Star Trek so it's not that unlikely I would say. On a more serious note: W...
by Peregrin
Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417626

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

Yeah... on the originality front I think Avatar is of course not unexplored territory for the genre period, but in the context of James Cameron's career it very much is. The fact that its sensibilities are very different from the Heinlein-on-heroin Aliens even though the style is familiar is what I ...
by Peregrin
Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417626

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

Because Shroomy's been cajoling me to review Avatar over the last couple of weeks but exams have prevented me from, I guess I finally have to present my thoughts on this movie which I of course saw in 3D: Avatar feels like it was based on a forgotten and somewhat obscure comic book from the 1970s. I...
by Peregrin
Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:50 pm
Forum: The Eternal Game
Topic: Swimming in the Zodiac
Replies: 8
Views: 10926

Re: Swimming in the Zodiac

Okay, because of how insanely complicated the plot is I've figured that this needs at least 6 chapters to finish. Maybe even seven. Swimming in the Zodiac Chapter 5: Oaxaca, Part 1: Ciudad Rosa The skies above Oaxaca are a light turquoise blue. Enthroned upon zenith, the sun Huitzilopochtli illumina...
by Peregrin
Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Happy New Year FROM THE FUTURE
Replies: 7
Views: 7217

Re: A Happy New Year FROM THE FUTURE

I can report that the European quadrant of nature's harmonic time cube has now rotated into new year of 2010, which I hope will be a nice year where there will be potato!
by Peregrin
Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Birthday thread
Replies: 528
Views: 314790

Re: Birthday thread

I'm gonna see it tomorrow, just reserved a ticket. In the trailer Pandora looks like pretty much a 1970s acid rock album cover come to life (a favourite aesthetic style of mine, might I add) so to continue that analogy would it be accurate to say that in 3D it looks like a hologram version of that i...
by Peregrin
Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Birthday thread
Replies: 528
Views: 314790

Re: Birthday thread

How was the 3D stuff? This is supposed to be the movie that brings 3D back in style so when I'm gonna see it next week I'll see if I can do it in 3D, and I'm curious to know how that experience feels.
by Peregrin
Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:46 am
Forum: The Eternal Game
Topic: Swimming in the Zodiac
Replies: 8
Views: 10926

Re: Swimming in the Zodiac

Better late than never... next week I shall not only finally finish Swimming in the Zodiac , because it's Christmas and it started as a Secret Santa! If I didn't get arsed to do it in the summer, then I will do it in the winter. Most of the fifth chapter has been written and I've had an ending plann...
by Peregrin
Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: Heroes & Villains
Topic: Dojo Dan
Replies: 4
Views: 8386

Re: Dojo Dan

Great, now I imagine Dojo Dan looking like Will Ferrell in a kimono with a huge moustache and 1970s haircut.

Which I guess would be oddly appropriate given the characters Will Ferrell usually plays. :lol:
by Peregrin
Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:16 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Felis Navidad
Replies: 7
Views: 6167

Re: Felis Navidad

Maybe you should make gratuitious Rabbi appearances, and references to Orthodox Judaism in general a part of your signature style but then again I'm not sure if that's a good idea if you're not actually Jewish. :lol:
by Peregrin
Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:48 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Felis Navidad
Replies: 7
Views: 6167

Re: Felis Navidad

As I begun re-reading this re-post it struck me how similar it is in tone to the infamous and now-departed Jaded Chronicles , which for those who don't remember was a verse of Shroomy's that kinda played like Warhammer 40k with most of the grimness swapped for an even higher level of derangement, ev...