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Same. But that is.... most definitely a way to make her unexplained.
Of course I'd be just as OK with the alternative.
One of the great things about GC is how well it understands the themes that underlie both fantasy and science fiction; it knows exactly how to make something mysterious and enticing, but it also knows how to give something the impression of a "known factor", even if it's entirely fictional. Many of the supernatural elements of the Court simply exist without solid explanation, such as the inhabitants of the forest. Others are semi-successful attempts at the quantification of magic through technology, although it's clear that such forces are only understood through imperfect comparison to existing technologies. There's just this sense of organic being to the entire setting that many works of fiction can never hope to achieve.
Yeah, GC is pretty great.
You know, “The Deadly Art of Science” is seriously one of my favorite arcs in the history of arcs.
Normally, I hate origin stories but it’s just great to see Robo being such a massive dork and then have Tesla and Edison shoot electric rays at each other while Tesla is wearing an Iron Man suit under his dapper-as-fuck suit.
In conclusion: Read Atomic Robo. Just
read atomic robo
now if only we had a thread for this shit
i really
really
hate
being in a country where i dont speak the language.
Alex
here's a chance to redeem yourself:
use your wordvomit skills to tell me of Otton the Third.
I'd love to, but everything I know about Otto III fits into a matchbox.
He was, of course, a 10th century German monarch who didn't fuck up relations with the Vatican and was nice to Eastern Europe, and therefore probably fictional. Blah blah crowned at three years of age blah blah went from "just" being a king to an Emperor blah blah and so on and so forth. Went to Italy, caused a ruckus, executed some dudes here and there, we all know the story. He put his cousin in as Pope, who was then succeeded by a guy named "Sylvester", empirically proving that the Middle Ages are the most amusing years of history.
Il-y-a une manire the remèdier cela.
Hmm, I haven's studied in ages...
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir/un mouton/un chien/un vache quirie
It's all you need, really.(sits in messy living room due to French roomie not cleaning up after dinner party, so might have some resentment behind it)
In more personal news, went to literal dead baby comedy play, and goodbye party for tangentially known highschool bro. Drank way too many drinks through each other, was the only one who took the Jersey Shore joke theme seriously(pics will follow), and flirted with a gal who had a great pout, complained about not having enough parties in me hometown, was annoyed that I not remembered from party half a year ago and apparently is in a relationship with a band lead singer(Google Fu reveals this: http://www.myspace.com/oospunkrock) and after a quick listen I don't care a flying shit if our interaction constitued flirting.
Whelp, no arrowtexting for me today. Brb, stomach contents have an appointment with toilet.
So, for an English presentation, I need to relate Poe's works to a recent political movement (well, I don't have to do Poe, specifically, but when I suggested this to my group after we read "Ligeia" for the class, one of them liked the idea, and the other . . . hasn't really said anything. At the time, I didn't remember the exact format of the presentation, and it might be a bit late now). Does anyone who knows Poe better than me have any suggestions?
Compare the Cask of Amontillado to the Tea Party, because of all the needless spite and
stonewalling
Oh god, Bastion just reminded me of something.
Does anyone still have the "Rose eyebrows" gif? You know, the one I used during the Portal 2 episode?
Went out with my family today. My brother, my father, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's two sisters.
Went out for lunch, then watched Dredd. (I'm still not sure what the point of Dredd was.)
Came home for a bit, then went back out for dinner, then bowling, where I proceeded to piss everyone off by being really really ungainly and awkward, but still winning three out of five games (at one point getting three strikes in a row).
Now my legs and hands are really sore.
Going out to a golf driving range tomorrow. Gonna hit some golf balls for forever or something.
Also, things that annoy me:
The night was described as "Disco bowling night", between 8:30 and 11:30.
But the music was a horrid combination of pop and dubstep.
So people could say some of it was filmed on location in South Africa!
Maybe this is the new 'hip' description of disco that has escaped all of us.
I want to see Dredd. I'm a fan of the comics, and my uncle (also a fan of the comics) tells me it's both good and feels a lot more like the original comics did.
I don't know if it was good.
It might be, but it also felt kinda pointless. Like, there was no message, or anything (as far as I could tell, mind you, not there wasn't one in general).
It was just one cop dude and a rookie against a drug-dealing army, and he killed like fifty people because.
It wasn't bad or anything, I just can't tell if the movie was trying to have a message or if it was just trying to be a fun romp.
(I'm also probably biased because there was too much gore in the movie and I had to stop watching at several points.)
Dredd's message is told through its setting.
Namely; "THIS IS WHAT YOUR WORLD COULD BE LIKE"
"WHERE THE THIN BLUE LINE BETWEEN ORDER AND CHAOS BECOMES A BLOODY RED RAZOR WIRE"
"JUSTICE AND MERCY DIED YESTERDAY; ALL THAT IS LEFT IS THE RICOCHETING BULLET"
It's not a nice message, but it's a message.
It kinda seemed to be mocking the concept of a completely dystopic world to me, but whatever.
Sounds about right; Judge Dredd the comic was very black comedy satire.
>squeezing Batman's ass
Sounds like the best part.
Just finished Cowboy Bebop.
Man, even if I knew it would happen it was still sad.
No, not yet.
I'm planning to.
Nova - Dredd was more just a straight adaptation of the comics. And like Kraken said, the message of Dredd is more backed into the setting than actual characters. Hence why the movie felt more like a pilot for a TV show than an actual movie. But generally the theme with Dredd as a character is what sort of things wouldd rive a man to support and enforce a horrible system? We know Dredd is no saint, he does horrible things often, but he is not a completely evil man. He is just a guy working as a cog in a fascist system to try to keep things from getting even worse.
is "falling into debauchery" an idiom or am i making shit up