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  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    No :c



    Well, not that I know of.
  • edited 2012-05-31 19:05:44
    You can change. You can.

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Has anybody else ever had that thing where it's like, four AM, and then you suddenly notice that you're awake, and you can't tell how long you've been awake for?

  • You can change. You can.

    that's how my naps go, except with more nightmares and headaches

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    all that scares me is the thought that i might not have slept at all and I just kinda laid there thinking I was asleep but I was really awake


    which would explain my current tiredness

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Yeah, I do that.
  • Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    Spent the entire afternoon walking around Chicago with a friend. My feet are really sore. And wet. Can't forget the wet.


    Dude. Why didn't you say you were in my neck of the woods?

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Really busy. And my parents are here, and wouldn't want me meeting Internet people.
  • edited 2012-05-31 20:07:52
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    "You're so beautiful when you hate the world."



    "I don't hate you."



    "I don't hate you too."


    -kiss-



    SWOOOOOOOOON SO ROMANTIC
  • You can change. You can.

    avatar?

  • Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    yes
  • Has friends besides tanks now

    Picked up a Nile album, and my most prevalent thought at the moment is: did Karl Sanders really put a smiley emoticon in the liner notes?

  • Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.


    I love Azula.


    She's this evil hyper-competent military supergenius badass, but she's also pretty much completely socially retarded. 


    terrifying and adorable at the same time

  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Her lack of social acumen proves part of her slow descent into madness.

  • Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    That, combined with her mommy issues...

  • You can change. You can.

    So I just read both "The Last Stand of Johnny Storm" and "The Death of Captain America" and I feel like discussing superhero deaths with you for a minute.


    You see, one of the most infamous aspects of the superhero genre is that in a universe of gods, time travel and cosmic anthropomorphications of concepts such as Death or Destiny, death is simply not the end of all things. People die and revive constantly in the Marvel and DC Universes, because of...well, multiple reasons. For example, Green Arrow died back in the 90s in order to open up for a new hero who was supposedly more in touch with the 90s sensibilities. Of course, Connor Hawke proved to not be as popular as his father, Oliver Queen was and he was revived. To contrast this, Hal Jordan, the first Silver Age Green Lantern died after destroying the Corps leaving only one Guardian of the Universe and one ring, which was taken by Kyle Rayner, who people actually took a liking too. Notice that it took around ten years for Hal Jordan to resurrect considering how well liked Kyle was and it took Geoff Johns to pitch one hell of a story and concept to DC, which ended up making Hal Jordan and the Corps much more relvant to the DCU and arguably for a couple of months even upsetting the standard Batman/Superman flagship titles' sales.


    But I digress. My point is that superhero deaths are often if not always reverted, provided the character was well liked in the first place. So it's kinda interesting that these two stories tackled the death of two of the most iconic characters Marvel has produced and the contrast between each one of them is interesting.


    You see, Johnny Storm's death was never implied by Hickman to be permanent, much like, say, Batman's death way back in Final Crisis. It was meant simply as a catalyst of the plot Hickman's concerned with, which is specifically the future of the Fantastic Four as explorers and hopefully researches who will, theoretically, solve all of the problems mankind and the superhero community suffer as well as Reed's own very personal conundrum in terms of "solving everything" and its cost (Which is, well, "everything")


    In comparison to Steve Rogers's death which is, while a catalyst to Bucky's plot and his ascension as Captain America, mostly shock value for the sake of shock value as well as Millar's way of making certain the there won't be any anti-reg plots post Civil War. It cheapens the character and weakens his value, regardless of how sweet are the mourning scenes by Iron Man and Thor, who get to give both some really magnificent speeches (Admittedly, the second one should be the screen caps from the actual comic itself but I can't seem to find it and I read that quite a while ago) One of the most damning aspects is that the editors said that Steve Rogers wouldn't be resurrected. The fact that there's an story called Captain America: Reborn should speak volumes, really.


    The thing is, I'm not against this. I don't believe that death should be something eliminated entirely from comic books as so many would say, simply because death is one, if not the most universal topic. Everyone fears or accepts death, some even welcome and rush to it. But the fact is, that death is a topic everybody knows about and that resonates the most with people. What I'm against is the pretension that someone like Steve Rogers or Clark Fucking Kent is not returning when their names and alter-egos tend to cause sales almost singlehandedly.


    That is not to say that "The Death of Superman" or "Death of the Dream" are not great stories, because they are (Well, Death of Superman's really just a good piece of visual storytelling, really) but that editorial/publicitary and handling was rather poor. And herein lies a big issue and it's the way comic editorials handle their audience through condescension and appereances. To be honest, as much as the writing is sweet, it's really annoying to have an editor tell me what I like or what I don't like, as well as dictaminating their whole universe around this. And I'm not talking about "statistics" or what scores well with most people here, since personally that doesn't bother me. But when an editor forces something like a character death for the sake of shocking me and then pretends that this is what people want, when even their own mailboxes contradict them as well as the dropped sales, both in the present and the future, then I must wonder how high are they


    Obviously, you needed to know all this

  • Definitely not gay.

    reading "Mils College Anime Club"


    This is worse than some of The Swing's shit.

  • Definitely not gay.



    Chapter 2:

    Gracie raised her hand from the back row. “Umm, yes, you! With the really thick glasses!”  “Will we be watching yaoi?” Another collective groan came from the audience. “I don’t plan on it. However, it doesn’t mean you can watch it on your own time.”  “See, I told you,” whispered Mike to Gracie. “Anime clubs tend to have more mainstream interests in anime to please a larger amount of people.”  “But…but…I want…YAOI!” She started crying. “Life is nothing without my sweet bishies doing it on a bed of rose petals!”  “Would you excuse us? She’s having a moment,” Mike said as he guided Gracie out of the room. “She’s having more than a moment”, Alistair muttered under his breath.






    Okay, I think it's time to issue a formal apology.



    Nick, your writing was bad and your attitude prissy, but at least you listened to criticism...sometimes.



    Major Tom, your novel which was pretty much giant robots duking it out for no good reason was still more interesting and believable than this.


     

    33 Pencils dude, you were...in retrospect, you were probably a troll. But regardless, you made us all laugh, so there's that.


     

    Guy who came up with Aainaru Rothage...well, your shitty Mary-Sue was infinitely more interesting than these sacks of shit.





    start of chapter 4:

    Randy was, to say the very least, bad with languages. Even though his parents emigratedfrom Mexico, Randy didn’t pick up a word of Spanish besides the names for foods hismaternal grandparents prepared for him whenever it was his family went to Mexico. He also had trouble reading English due to having a learning disability when he was younger- he could speak it just fine, but reading it was hell.





    oh no


     

    you did NOT just go there.

     



     

  • Juan: To be fair, Hal wasn't dead at the time, just being an evil, angry god of greenness. 

  • You can change. You can.

    Murr, I'd say it still counts if only because with him, the other Green Lanterns die. and I'd also argue that sometimes, even certain incarnations of a character (Changed names in particular come to mind) also count as "shocking alterations" designed to shock and awe the reader into reading.

  • One foot in front of the other, every day.

    and then juan was the alex

  • You can change. You can.

    I only did it once for I secretly am preparing a Malkavian summoning ritual.

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Hey, everyone. Remember how I asked everyone to sign that petition for gay marriage in Australia a while back? Well...


    Just yesterday, New South Wales- the state I live in- has called on the federal government to allow gay marriage within Australia.


    Thanks for the support, guys.

  • Another cube draft sealed, this time I played what looks like a U/G/W EDH Edric prototype, with a bunch of evasive creatures with handy enter-the-battlefield abilities, things that put lots of tokens in play, Edric himself, Tandem Lookout and Beastmaster's Ascension. Went 2-1, though we stopped it midway so I'll play another match some other day.


    And Pristine Angel is love.

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    At the airport for the flight home...which is delayed to 11. So...I'll just sit here for a couple of hours...
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Has anyone here played Explodemon?


    If you have, is it worth the $3.99 price tag?

  • Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    So the Humble Indie Bundle V has Psychonauts, Amnesia, Limbo, Sword & Sworcery, and Bastion.



    Those are some games.
  • edited 2012-06-01 09:58:17
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    So the Humble Indie Bundle V has Psychonauts, Amnesia, Limbo, Sword & Sworcery, and Bastion.



    Does a Seto Kaiba impression:


    "I have the weirdest boner right now"

  • edited 2012-06-01 10:00:47
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    >That is not to say that "The Death of Superman" or "Death of the Dream" are not great stories,


    >"The Death of Superman"


    > great stories



    Death of Superman was a story where Doomsday and Superman punch each other until they both die. 


    I agree with the rest. It's the nature of the beast that goes all the way back to Sherlock Holmes. I mean there's a reason a comic ending with Hellboy dying said 'Next: Hellboy in hell'. The strength of these characters is their literal and metaphorical immortality.

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    >Sword & Sworcery



    Only one I don't have. What's it like?
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