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- Wed May 12, 2010 5:31 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: Leer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8068
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!
- Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:02 pm
- Forum: Comix!
- Topic: Comix Casting Call
- Replies: 57
- Views: 48049
Re: Comix Casting Call
Hey, why not? It's not like he doesn't have experience portraying kooky super-villains.
- Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Post Your Desktops!
- Replies: 126
- Views: 75774
Re: Post Your Desktops!
It's a boat... it's a plane... it's ugly and Russian!
(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!)
(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!)
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 730
- Views: 421484
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...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:20 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: Ominous Rex
- Replies: 31
- Views: 28874
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...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Beliefs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9778
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...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Beliefs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9778
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...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:53 pm
- Forum: Literature
- Topic: The Shadows of Stalingrad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15533
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 ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:11 am
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: Un-Innocent Bystanders
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12095
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...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:01 am
- Forum: Literature
- Topic: The Shadows of Stalingrad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15533
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...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:25 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: The Seven Serpents
- Replies: 80
- Views: 69921
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...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: MAKS Mikoyan
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10869
Re: MAKS Mikoyan
Oh yeah, forgot about him or just confused him with someone else.
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:49 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: Un-Innocent Bystanders
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12095
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...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:14 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: MAKS Mikoyan
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10869
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...
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:48 pm
- Forum: Tech & Society
- Topic: The Guns of America - The Firepower of Freedom!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10507
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...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 730
- Views: 421484
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 ...
- Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 730
- Views: 421484
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...
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Eternal Game
- Topic: Swimming in the Zodiac
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11332
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...
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A Happy New Year FROM THE FUTURE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7285
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!
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Birthday thread
- Replies: 528
- Views: 316596
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...
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Birthday thread
- Replies: 528
- Views: 316596
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.
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:46 am
- Forum: The Eternal Game
- Topic: Swimming in the Zodiac
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11332
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...
- Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: Heroes & Villains
- Topic: Dojo Dan
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8677
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.
Which I guess would be oddly appropriate given the characters Will Ferrell usually plays.
- Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:16 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: Felis Navidad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6259
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.
- Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:48 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: Felis Navidad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6259
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...