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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 08:12
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Andrea: I heard that Guillermo del Toro (dir. of Blade II, Cronos, Mimic, Devil's Backbone, Hellboy) may do "At the Mountains of Madness" as film. Also, if you like Illuminatus, be sure to check out Shrodinger's Cat also by RAW. In fact, you may wanna check some of his other work, they are more philosophical, less fiction, but still mind blowing. Dirk Gently was so fantastic!!! A funny book that I don't think was mentioned (may have been and I've forgotten) is: "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchet. There are a couple of non-fiction books I read recently which were good: The Hot Zone (it scared the jeebee jeebees out of me!) Fermat's Enigma about Fermat's Theorem. Very interesting. -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 08:04
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With BoE you have tons and tons of awesome scenarios, and people are still making stuff for that editor. It's true that BoA may explode and we may see some amazing things in the near future, maybe by December of this year we might have a neat tasty chunk of stuff. With the Nethergate demo you get to play it twice, and since it's only the demo, you won't get to visit places again (I think), so you get to play two for one. It's a very nice game. But a bit on the short side. A3 (or E3) as far as single games go, is the longest, so if you like to just wonder around and do a lot of unconnected stuff, that's fine. However, many frown down on it. You may wanna try the demos for Genforge 1 and 2. They are shorter than the Exile/Avernum but you may enjoy them. I'd personally recommend BoE. There probably more than 100 scenarios for it, and at least 30 or 50 of them are solid. Salud! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
| What if Batman and Captain America Fought? in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 07:58
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Captain America: Steve Rogers was subjected to some experimental drugs way back during WWII so he is very strong, agile, and so on. Not to mention that nifty shield and his heroic will to never, ever, give up. The man is relentless. I remember that Marvel vs. DC series. . . that was so lame. I don't recall if there was any good fight. I've no idea why Super Heroes ever fight each other. As it was pointed out, Marvel likes to do it, I think it's just a matter of getting more people to buy some title by putting some famous hero in it. First they fight. Then they team against some bad guy. I think Batman would win even w/o the utility belt. Cap is stronger. They are both relentless. And I think Batman is meaner and smarter than Cap. But it's a close call. Hulk vs Broken Toaster. . .? Broken Toaster. Imagine: Hulk steps on it, goes OUCH with pain and starts jumping willy-nilly, crashes against a mountain and is buried underneath. Hmmm. Maybe not. Pancake vs. Hot Dog. Tough. The pancake is slippery with the jello on it, the hot dog, on the other hand, can divide into bum and sausage and even throw the tiny french fries thingies with incredible speed, though the pancake would just absorb them and throw them back. I doubt being hit with a sausage would bother the pancake too much, it can just cushion the blows. Hmmm. Tough indeed. Cheers! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 23:16
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(I may be too new to start an asinine, dumb and not even worth it for eight-years-old topic, but here it goes) If Batman and Captain America had a fight who would win? If that's not good enough, how about: Terence Mallick vs. J.D. Salinger. Or, Hiram the Fly vs. Atom Ant. Or, Ash vs. Whoever! Or, Heisenberg vs. Murphy Or, Shrodinger's Cat vs. The Atomic Cow. Or, Ricky Martin vs. Enrique Iglesias in a rotten jelly competition. Or, a handful of dust vs. a fitful of rye Or, Flaming Carrot vs. the entire multiverse. Or, Christina Aguilera vs. Britney Spears in a sack race over the Gobi desert. -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 22:21
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Hey! Anything by Jack Vance. If you like fantasy: the two Cugel books: "Eyes of the Overworld" and "Cugel's Saga" are Brilliant! Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon and the rest from the series (Quicksilver, Confusion, soon System of the World) The George R. R. Martin Song of Fire and Ice (bloody good!) Flashman! Specially the first, Flashman, The Great Game, Flash for Freedom! Flashman and the Red Skins, etc. By Fraser too: McAuslen trilogy, you can find an omnibus for those. Jolly good read! A Series of Unfortunate Events is funny, but expensive. His Dark Materials is also a good trilogy. Alt. History (sort of) a series by William Forstchen, the Lost Regiment. If you like Burroughs, there's a Vance series called Planet of Adventure (4 books, available in omnibus format) which has a bit of a Burroughesque flavor to them. If you like Lovecraft: Strange Eons by Robert Bloch. On the same subject, there is a series of four books by Bryan Lumley that take place in the Dreamlands which is fun. His Titus Crow series is also good. A quartet by J. Gregory Keyes called Age of Unreason is, though not perfect by far, a fun read. The Alienist and to a lesser extend The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr are good. Two difficult to find but rather worth series/authors: Avram Davidson. He is a genius (for me, anyway) Any book by him is good. You sometimes can find him in used bookstores. A shamefully forgotten author. Kim Newman: his trilogy (so far, unless there's a fourth one that slipped my radar) about Dracula is really GOOD. The first one is Anno Dracula and it mixes different characters from real life and fiction from the time of Bram Stroker's book. The story deals with Jack the Ripper under a new light. Anything by Robert Anton Wilson (but that's a different thing completely) Oh, and anything by Rabelais. I'll stop now. Edit: Lenght. [ Saturday, July 10, 2004 22:27: Message edited by: Blind Samurai Clown ] -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 21:49
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Please. Lovecraft CRPG. Please. Please. The Greek game would be nice. Maybe it can go nuts and bring all those old philosophers from the time of Talos, make it an rp about ideas and concepts instead of fighting. What would happen if the world was truly like the precepts behind those philosophies? What would happen if you could affect the world according to those dictums (think of it as philosophical magic, if you will)? A game based on Hindu mythology would be great as well. That is so rich. Specially if it follows something like the Book of the Dead. There were a couple of old games from way back in the late 80's early 90's that were inspired by Victorian time lit. They mixed and matched characters from writers of that time (a bit like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). These were Martian Dreams and Space 1889 (check here to see what I mean: http://www.the-underdogs.org/ I think that a game that mixes characters from different works/real life might be fun. And, just in case I didn't mention it already (right) anything that is even remotely Mythos oriented. Please. Take care! [ Saturday, July 10, 2004 21:49: Message edited by: Blind Samurai Clown ] -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 21:31
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This funny. Plush Cthulhu Adventures! http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 21:26
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Seventh. Not bad. Some room for improvement. Nine would've been too much too soon, what else would I have had to live for if I had achieved something like that. Cheers! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 9 2004 15:25
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Hello Demonslayer! I don't really know you, but I wanted to express my sympathies. I hope you're able to find out what happened, may not make you feel better, but maybe a reason will at least explain something, sometimes being left in the dark in such a complete way makes a bad situation even worse. I hope your life recovers from this and your future is as good as is humanly possible. Slainte Mhath! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 21:35
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This is a tough subject. Did I understand right? Is the WTO forcing Australia to import, that is to buy, the fruits which may affect with fire blight? If that is the case, WHY? And How can they force a country to accept a product which carries such a danger? Where's this product coming that makes it so imperative to Australia to buy it and not buy it from somewhere else? Thuryl, as to the other point in your post: the problem is partly a spin-oof of McCarthyism, in such cases paranoia may run rampant and people who have absolutely nothing to do with the problem may be caught and forced to be confined. That shouldn't happen. However, where do you draw the line? How do you measure the degree of suspicion you have about a probable carrier of the desease, SARS in this case, and the actual fact that the person may indeed be carrying it? I have no answer for that. But, do you risk it? Puff. I'm going to carefully say no. Don't risk it. At least make the accommodations as comfortable as possible and treat those who are there with respect and care and have them there only as long they have to. Once tested, they can leave, and as long as the area is clean. Going back to your example about Australia. I'm flabbergasted, if I understood right, because I cannot comprehend how an organization can force a country to buy a product which may have such a desease in it. How often, I wonder, this happens and people like me are absolutely clueless as to its existence. -------------------- "Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 21:02
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I have a question. I know that if we're talking about religion this may a difficult thing, but bear with me for a sec. Excluding the holy books, as well as God, please answer me this: Why, exactly is homosexuality bad? Besides the practical aspect that if we all had sex with members of our own genre the species would cease to exist rather fast, why is it wrong? -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 20:52
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Disclaimer: I'm not from the U.S. instead I'm from a country (Venezuela) with a dictator with a very spurious veil of democratic president. Also, I haven't seen this film. However, I've seen all of Moore's stuff since Roger and Me. I've disagreed on a number of occassion with the way he presents truth, and how he manipulates to fit his predetermined ideals. Nevertheless, I'm glad he exists and that he still puts his work out there. Because what he is doing is stirring people to dialogue (however that dialogue occurs) I wish more people did this. I wish I could see more reality shows dealing with a more, shall I say pertinent, view of reality than what the immense majority of those shows depict. I like the fact that in a forum for a series of computer games that exist under the radar I can see something like this taking place. We (here in Venezuela for sure, I am not going to include any other countries, that's up to you) are in the hell we are because there's no political culture. No desire to involve in the political process, apathy and comformism have possessed us. Vote for whoever you please, but do so. By not doing so, by abstaining, one contributes to the neverending mediocrity that has taken hold of so many countries. On the other hand, this movie may not change anything. I have a feeling people went to see it because his prior work won at the Cannes and he gave that anti-Bush speech at the Oscars and due to the subject matter, etc. Maybe all it will do is be the flavor of the month. It seems I've just babbled incoherently and have added nothing of use to this topic. Hmmm. Take care! -------------------- "Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 20:25
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YUC (that okay for your name?) I'd love to post some of my writing somewhere, just because once in a while I feel the extreme urge to be ridiculed. But. Have no website. Where do I do this? spy.there: they aren't SW game, but sometimes in the class I bring short rp games. Basically characters I make on the spot and distribute. It forces them all to talk (which is an excruciating thing to do sometimes) and something new for many of them. -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 20:18
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I so wish Greece wins and I am able to say that they are the best Football in Europe. If I can sell my soul to the gods of football right now for that to happen I'll do it. I'll have to wait since it is leased to some other higher power for some other asinine request I made, but it being eternal it doesn't really matters. -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 20:06
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A corporation should be responsible for taking all the necessary precautions to insure that any harmful effects do not permeate the external world. If a corporation deals with exotic experiments of any kind they must do so under the highest security. Period. If there's an outbreak they are responsible for it. Responsible because it is they who were undergoing the experiments in the first place. However, as any corporation works within a state, and an state should be aware of such experiments taking place, the state is also responsible to insure that laws exist to protect those who live in that state. A state should have regulatory commissions that work to insure this doesn't happen, as well as laws which restrict certain experiments or make sure those which are being done are being done under the proper protections. If an outbreak takes place, I do not think you can be protective enough, and this may lead indeed to trouble. I am not very familiar with the mad cow disease or the repercussions this had in Britain as well as Europe. To name an example of such a case. -------------------- "Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 07:26
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Yeah it was short. Even playing two sides. I like the fact that it is the only "one-shot" game from SW. The others have sequels, even editors. I was hoping that JV´s unknown project was something along the lines of Nethergate: another stand alone game with a revised engine, although the current engine is fine. Here´s hoping more people pick it up and play it again, or for the first time. Besides: how many RPGs allow you to play Romans? -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 06:41
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Hello! FBM, same BSC, I think. What I meant about quantum singularities was something like this: Sometimes life seems to pull you without you wanting to and you seem to lose control over it. Also, you seem to lose perspective of things, kind of the same way as if you were trapped in a black hole. Time and space lose meaning. Perspective and point of view become the norm (drastically). Also depending on where you are in the b.h. time may lose its essence so it seems like you are trapped in a moment. So in this very forced context I was wishing Cav that the b.h´s of life worked in her favor: that her moments in life seemed eternal in the best possible way, that when she was trapped in a moment it was the best, or that when she was in a situation that seemed to be pulling her without her wanting to she could escape it before it swallowed her (or vice-versa that she was pulled by good things) and so on. That´s kind of what I meant. Pick any quantum singularity you want and apply it to real life in the best way possible, that was my wish. Cheers! [ Saturday, June 26, 2004 06:47: Message edited by: Blind Samurai Clown ] -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 20:03
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Hello. I do a fair share of writing, though all of it is the unpublished kind. Maybe some day that will change. That´s about it. Can´t draw beyond stick figures. Can´t play anything but the radio, which at least makes me happy. Cheers! -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:43
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Coincidentally I grabbed it today to play again. It's been a few years. I'm gonna go for Romans. Love magic, but something about the Romans I like a lot. I think it's the cool way that Jeff captured the Roman spirit without romantizicing them. I've admired the Romans (part of the Romans, not all!) since I was a kid. Anyway, were244, you're not the only one still interested in this game. Glad to see I'm not the only one either. Cheers! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:37
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Whyte Shadow, I'm never looking at a fruit in the same way ever again. Thank you! Hetero is for you know what as well as homo is for you know what. What prefix is worthy of adding here? Is this killing neurons, re-arranging them or changing a paradigm in such a way that the world will tremble if this ever becomes public? -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:32
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Hey! I like it. Keep it up. The "you" question. I don't mind it. "you" is weird to read as the main character of any story, but in rpg you do see it, as pointed earlier, in Choose Your Adventure kind of literature (word used loosely for some of those books. . .) However, you may want to think about using "I" or a name, any name, if you want to sell it. Since the "you" will get into many people's skins. Good luck! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:32
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Hey! I like it. Keep it up. The "you" question. I don't mind it. "you" is weird to read as the main character of any story, but in rpg you do see it, as pointed earlier, in Choose Your Adventure kind of literature (word used loosely for some of those books. . .) However, you may want to think about using "I" or a name, any name, if you want to sell it. Since the "you" will get into many people's skins. Good luck! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:26
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Hello!!! You help the rebels and they vanish. Fine. But are they anywhere? I've searched and haven't found them. If they're gone from the game, that sucks. Why bother going through all that trouble to help them only to see them gone? A little more with them would have been nice. Also, as to the possible endings: Is there one where it doesn't end with you being chased by the authorities? If there isn't, then that too sucks. In fact, generally speaking, is it me or is this the most incomplete of the four adventures that come with the game? I enjoyed it, but if you can't do anything with the rebels, nor can you find a way to dispose of the vampire and prove that the lord was corrupt, then. . . where's the fun in that? I mean, maybe I'm asking for too much, but if the kernel is sown, then heck let it grow! I'll stop before I have to change the subject heading for this to "diatribe about DwtD" -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:17
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Welcome back!!! I'm glad you're back and I hope your extra-forum activities went as well, nay better, than humanly possible! May all the quantum singularities have worked in your favor! -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 16:14
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Alorael, it's interesting what you mentioned about multiple melons. Yoga may help you limbering more your extermities. Your comment also inspired me to think about a world where melons and other fruits were our only companions. If so we should prepare for it, right? Maybe training in two occupations may help. a) Become a fruiter (or whatever is the official name for someone who sales fruits, besides fruit vendor) This way your knowledge of fruit will be intimate and comprehensive. b) A circus acrobat. Limber limbs. Plus the added ability to juggle, always important. Cheers! -------------------- "I like traffic lights, but not when they are red." [Abridged] Monty Python Song. Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |