Was that the one with Time traveling whales?
That's IV, which I personally can't stand but was very well received.
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I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Matrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.
Was that the one with Time traveling whales?That's IV, which I personally can't stand but was very well received.
I loved 4! but i was quite young, still who doesn't love Spock, McCoy and Scotty dealing with late 80s-early 90s culture:-) "One damn minute Captain!"
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Matrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Get out of my brain, DrDeth. You're not paying rent, as far as I know!
I don't like Harry Potter, i think Rowling should've killed Ron off, he was a D-Bag.
Also i've never made it past chapter one of book one, so my opinion of Ron is based entirely on the 5 movies i've seen (i haven't seen the last 3)
Kryzbyn. OMG. Have you played Portal yet?Nope. For pretty much the same reason.Seems awfully silly to deprive yourself of a good experience just because someone can confirm that it is, in fact, a good experience.
My brother used to be the same way. I'd say "This is good" (or someone else would) he'd say "I'm not interested". Or give it a token "try".
"I read the first page and I didn't like it. Meh."
Thankfully, he grew out of that around the time he turned 15.
Really all you're doing is hurting yourself, in a sense, so it's really not something to be proud of.
Anyway, I don't enjoy puzzle games much, either, no matter how much it's hyped (or over hyped).
Things tend go get over-shared, so there's nothing left to enjoy or explore.I'm not depriving myself of anything. I jealously guard my free time, so with less out there to "OMG YOU GOTTA.." there's less time soaks for me.
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4 was good, just as long as you were happy with a comedy.
Get out of my brain, DrDeth. You're not paying rent, as far as I know!Matrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Sorry, it's being this whole Evil Dark Lord thing, you just can't stop reading peoples minds, they're like peanuts... in many ways....
;-)
I think Robert Pattinson is a decent actor.
Kryzbyn. OMG. Have you played Portal yet?Nope. For pretty much the same reason.Seems awfully silly to deprive yourself of a good experience just because someone can confirm that it is, in fact, a good experience.
My brother used to be the same way. I'd say "This is good" (or someone else would) he'd say "I'm not interested". Or give it a token "try".
"I read the first page and I didn't like it. Meh."
Thankfully, he grew out of that around the time he turned 15.
Really all you're doing is hurting yourself, in a sense, so it's really not something to be proud of.
I think some of it depends on where you get your recommendations from. There are people that suggest movies to me that I am sure do not know anything about me despite having met me and talked to me for years.
Sometimes you find a happy gem in the suggestions, but often I find myself very displeased with their recommendations.
It's a little bit of this.
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Get out of my brain, DrDeth. You're not paying rent, as far as I know!Matrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.Sorry, it's being this whole Evil Dark Lord thing, you just can't stop reading peoples minds, they're like peanuts... in many ways....
;-)
Mmmmmh ... peeeeanuts!
*Homer-Simpson-Donut-Drool*
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I love new feats and new classes.
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I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)
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I don't like Harry Potter, i think Rowling should've killed Ron off, he was a D-Bag.
Also i've never made it past chapter one of book one, so my opinion of Ron is based entirely on the 5 movies i've seen (i haven't seen the last 3)
One of the nice things about the Harry Potter series is that you could actually see JK Rowling becoming a better writer in each book. The first one was (IMO) not very good -- but by book 3 they were well worth reading. There are a lot of things I think went wrong with the last book -- but last books are hard, especially when everyone in the world is reading over your shoulder.
I mean, she's no Ursula K LeGuin (whose Earthsea books remain my favorite YA), but she's no Stephanie Meyer either.
I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)
see I don't know why people don't like psionics its awesome!!! mind powers!!! I know the some of it feels overpowered but its easy to make any class feel overpowered
I don't like Harry Potter, i think Rowling should've killed Ron off, he was a D-Bag.
Also i've never made it past chapter one of book one, so my opinion of Ron is based entirely on the 5 movies i've seen (i haven't seen the last 3)
One of the nice things about the Harry Potter series is that you could actually see JK Rowling becoming a better writer in each book. The first one was (IMO) not very good -- but by book 3 they were well worth reading. There are a lot of things I think went wrong with the last book -- but last books are hard, especially when everyone in the world is reading over your shoulder.
I mean, she's no Ursula K LeGuin (whose Earthsea books remain my favorite YA), but she's no Stephanie Meyer either.
I can understand this I was not into HP when I was a kid but when I began to date my now wife she convinced me to read the books and yes the first one is mhee but you have to realize the first to the third books are more of kids books and the last four are YA she did get better as they continued but the final battle I the movie was WAY better then the book
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I actually think Lovecraft was a pretty awful writer. All of the ability to create interesting mythos and world settings that could possibly exist don't make up for a lack of basic readability. Everything I've tried to read by him was unfinishable, and audio books put me to sleep or get tuned out.
I've never read anything by Lovecraft, tho I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that before :-)
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I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)see I don't know why people don't like psionics its awesome!!! mind powers!!! I know the some of it feels overpowered but its easy to make any class feel overpowered
Psionics isn't overpowered it's just better.
Oh and I will also be buying Occult Adventures
I have never read Lovecraft ether I love the mythos but I just cant get into the books...
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I've been a Lovecraft fan since I first heard of the Mythos in the original 1e Deities and Demigods book. I'm reading his complete collection on my Kindle for the second time, with some stories having been read many times. I also loved the Harry Potter books, and I give them a great amount of credit for getting kids to read when they might not otherwise have done so.
I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)
I'm a huge Psionics fan and am greatly looking forward to Occult Adventures. In my two decades old homebrew world the two will dovetail perfectly.
Confession: more and more everyday I would like an Ignore feature. Or an unlike. Or a bomb.
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I can understand this I was not into HP when I was a kid but when I began to date my now wife she convinced me to read the books and yes the first one is mhee but you have to realize the first to the third books are more of kids books and the last four are YA she did get better as they continued but the final battle I the movie was WAY better then the bookI don't like Harry Potter, i think Rowling should've killed Ron off, he was a D-Bag.
Also i've never made it past chapter one of book one, so my opinion of Ron is based entirely on the 5 movies i've seen (i haven't seen the last 3)
One of the nice things about the Harry Potter series is that you could actually see JK Rowling becoming a better writer in each book. The first one was (IMO) not very good -- but by book 3 they were well worth reading. There are a lot of things I think went wrong with the last book -- but last books are hard, especially when everyone in the world is reading over your shoulder.
I mean, she's no Ursula K LeGuin (whose Earthsea books remain my favorite YA), but she's no Stephanie Meyer either.
HP has the unusual distinction of being a series that very noticeably changes tone as the series progresses. In #1, the protagonists are innocent kids, and the tone and conclusion are 100% rated-G. A few books later, the climax of the book is a good kid dying right before teenage-Harry's eyes. And of course #7 ends with beloved characters being killed in the very first chapter, and things don't get any softer for the protagonists as they're forced to grow up all too quickly.
And at the risk of triggering Kryzbyn...
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Confession: more and more everyday I would like an Ignore feature. Or an unlike. Or a bomb.
Where do you get your explosives, I've been using Acme for years with no results, I'm starting to think maybe they're the problem with catching that a!&+%*& bird....
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Matrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Yeah, I understand that old folks usually go into nap mode when confronted with things that take a little energy to grasp. :p
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I watched the first Matrix in a religion class, because the professor loves gnosticism. I think I've also been part of philosophical Matrix conversations, but I can't remember any specific themes. What are your favorites?I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.It's interesting to see their treatment of the allegory of the cave. Some of the subtext regarding purpose was also interesting, though I never really bought into it.
Edit: I also liked the conversation in the train station at the beginning of the third. Talking about the difference between words and the thoughts they are meant to convey. I'm going to be picking up a book on general semantics in the near future which goes into greater depth on the subject.
...Ah yes, I can see the allegory to the allegory of the cave.
Cave = Matrix
Freed Prisoner = Neo
Reflection of Sun in Water = "Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!" (?) "I'm sorry kiddo, but you're not the One." (?)
The Sun Itself = "The spoon isn't really there." (?) Neo's death, resurrection, and Smith-dive?Well, I can sort of see it, I guess. What's your take on it?
I think you're going a little more specific than I would.
Cave = matrix
People looking at shadows = all the connected humans
Freed prisoners = everyone being freed
Pain from the sunlight = rejecting the real world as real
Return to the cave = finally accepting the real world then returning to the matrix to free more minds
The whole Neo/Smith connection is pretty standard good and evil are two sides of the same coin, balance is the ideal state trope. If you played Ultima 7 - 9 it was easy to see coming.
Then the whole purpose in life and cycle of death and life thing is almost straight up Hindu philosophy.
Yeah, I understand that old folks usually go into nap mode when confronted with things that take a little energy to grasp. :pMatrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper!
I have never read Lovecraft ether I love the mythos but I just cant get into the books...
Try The Dream Quest.
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I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)see I don't know why people don't like psionics its awesome!!! mind powers!!! I know the some of it feels overpowered but its easy to make any class feel overpowered
I know I am going to be shunned when I say this, but I was so scarred by the Munchkin horror that was AD&D Psionics, I still cant get myself to want to play it. I know recent versions are much better balanced, but it's like a snake phobia, I have a terrible and unfair knee jerk reaction.
Please try to forgive an Old Grognard for this and don't shun me too much. ;-)
But if you played that version you'd understand.
I would like to run one game, just one game, where I do not get embroiled in a discussion of the nuances of stealth, concealment, and sneak attack
Run a game where Rogues are banned
No tears will be shed
Problem solved
I have never read Lovecraft ether I love the mythos but I just cant get into the books...Try The Dream Quest.
Also, check out August Derleth. He picked up the mythos after Lovecraft died and wrote quite a few stories.
Get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper!Yeah, I understand that old folks usually go into nap mode when confronted with things that take a little energy to grasp. :pMatrix I was a great special effects action film, as long as you didnt stop to think about the silly concept.I loved all three, but I'm willing to admit that they were only slightly above average as sci-fi movies go. That being said, I'm a philosophy buff and the underlying ideas that the movies are based on elevated them for me.I can't make it more then 5 minutes into the Matrix before I have to shut it off.Can't really shun you for that. I've seen it precisely once, when it first came out on VHS. I wasn't impressed.
Remember, I still game with my 70 year old father. The rest of us take a little break at nap time until he comes back around.
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I actually think Lovecraft was a pretty awful writer. All of the ability to create interesting mythos and world settings that could possibly exist don't make up for a lack of basic readability. Everything I've tried to read by him was unfinishable, and audio books put me to sleep or get tuned out.
Audiobooks depend on the reader. A good reader can make a bad book bearable, and a bad reader can make the best books flop.
Jim Dale is a talented reader. Try listening to an audiobook read by him, doesn't even matter which one.
I would like to run one game, just one game, where I do not get embroiled in a discussion of the nuances of stealth, concealment, and sneak attackRun a game where Rogues are banned
No tears will be shed
Problem solved
And Ninjas, and Slayers, and Vivisectionists,and Arcane tricksters, and Sandmen, and Master spies, and Bushwhackers, and....
Also, check out August Derleth. He picked up the mythos after Lovecraft died and wrote quite a few stories.I have never read Lovecraft ether I love the mythos but I just cant get into the books...Try The Dream Quest.Now that suggestion will get you shunned. :)
I'm not really surprised people don't like Lovecraft. The prose is painful fairly often and the racism and prejudice are hard to get past. He's an idea man and a seriously screwed up one. I love it, but it's easy to see why people wouldn't. It's really easy to make fun of his ... squamous prose style.
I'm not sure I actually read anything by Lovecraft, but I did read a collection of short stories by Derleth which I thought was pretty good. As long as you're ok with the feeling of being left hanging.
If memory serves, that was the studio's fault. The original explanation for the matrix was processing power, not electrical power.
Oh, hey, you ninja'd me. I blame the lack of avatar.
And Ninjas, and Slayers, and Vivisectionists,and Arcane tricksters, and Sandmen, and Master spies, and Bushwhackers, and....I would like to run one game, just one game, where I do not get embroiled in a discussion of the nuances of stealth, concealment, and sneak attackRun a game where Rogues are banned
No tears will be shed
Problem solved
IME none of those care quite as much about getting Sneak Attack, since they have other class features, so there's no real discussion beyond "Can I Sneak Attack?" "Yes/No." "Okay."
I can't remember the last time my Slayer legitimately got Sneak Attack. I think the last time he got it at all was when I made an off-hand remark about surprising an invisible enemy with my ability to see Invisible things and KC was like "Sure".
I keep forgetting I have it, even.
I actually think Lovecraft was a pretty awful writer. All of the ability to create interesting mythos and world settings that could possibly exist don't make up for a lack of basic readability. Everything I've tried to read by him was unfinishable, and audio books put me to sleep or get tuned out.Audiobooks depend on the reader. A good reader can make a bad book bearable, and a bad reader can make the best books flop.
Jim Dale is a talented reader. Try listening to an audiobook read by him, doesn't even matter which one.
I don't think Lovecraft is a good subject for audiobooks, actually. Lovecraft is a great writer to "skim"—you can look over a paragraph, determine if it's rambling about penguin mating habits or Florinese queen-preparation customs, and decide whether or not it's important to the overall text. If it's not, you move on.
Audiobooks, though? Hoo boy. You're in for the long haul. :P
And Ninjas, and Slayers, and Vivisectionists,and Arcane tricksters, and Sandmen, and Master spies, and Bushwhackers, and....I would like to run one game, just one game, where I do not get embroiled in a discussion of the nuances of stealth, concealment, and sneak attackRun a game where Rogues are banned
No tears will be shed
Problem solved
IME none of those care quite as much about getting Sneak Attack, since they have other class features, so there's no real discussion beyond "Can I Sneak Attack?" "Yes/No." "Okay."
I can't remember the last time my Slayer legitimately got Sneak Attack. I think the last time he got it at all was when I made an off-hand remark about surprising an invisible enemy with my ability to see Invisible things and KC was like "Sure".
I keep forgetting I have it, even.
Oh, come on, you get it all the time! Whenever you get a flank, that is. Which would probably happen a lot more often if you weren't always bashing poor monsters into walls.
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I can understand this I was not into HP when I was a kid but when I began to date my now wife she convinced me to read the books and yes the first one is mhee but you have to realize the first to the third books are more of kids books and the last four are YA she did get better as they continued but the final battle I the movie was WAY better then the bookI don't like Harry Potter, i think Rowling should've killed Ron off, he was a D-Bag.
Also i've never made it past chapter one of book one, so my opinion of Ron is based entirely on the 5 movies i've seen (i haven't seen the last 3)
One of the nice things about the Harry Potter series is that you could actually see JK Rowling becoming a better writer in each book. The first one was (IMO) not very good -- but by book 3 they were well worth reading. There are a lot of things I think went wrong with the last book -- but last books are hard, especially when everyone in the world is reading over your shoulder.
I mean, she's no Ursula K LeGuin (whose Earthsea books remain my favorite YA), but she's no Stephanie Meyer either.
HP has the unusual distinction of being a series that very noticeably changes tone as the series progresses. In #1, the protagonists are innocent kids, and the tone and conclusion are 100% rated-G. A few books later, the climax of the book is a good kid dying right before teenage-Harry's eyes. And of course #7 ends with beloved characters being killed in the very first chapter, and things don't get any softer for the protagonists as they're forced to grow up all too quickly.
And at the risk of triggering Kryzbyn...
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LOL no trigger...
I've read them all.
A better author rewriting Lovecraft's works would be a nice idea.
...I don't know, do they do literature reboots, remixes, or whatever the novel/novella/short story equivalent would be?
Because conceptually, it's not bad - I'd the man just wrote an outline and handed it to a ghostwriter, that would've been a solid improvement.
World building and great concepts do not make a good writer. Good writers require actual good writing. It's why Hickman needed Weis (I haven't seen if he has any solo stuff, but their annotations make it clear he's the world man and she's the writer - and besides her solo stuff is well written, if lacking in grand schemes), and it's why for all of Greenwood's innovation, if Salvatore and the later contributors to the world never came along, then Forgotten Realms would've faded into obscurity long, long ago - because every single Elminster book is just plain crap, and it's hard to put aside unreadable drivel to read between the lines at the concepts and innovation masked by bland prose.
Oh, come on, you get it all the time! Whenever you get a flank, that is. Which would probably happen a lot more often if you weren't always bashing poor monsters into walls.And Ninjas, and Slayers, and Vivisectionists,and Arcane tricksters, and Sandmen, and Master spies, and Bushwhackers, and....I would like to run one game, just one game, where I do not get embroiled in a discussion of the nuances of stealth, concealment, and sneak attackRun a game where Rogues are banned
No tears will be shed
Problem solved
IME none of those care quite as much about getting Sneak Attack, since they have other class features, so there's no real discussion beyond "Can I Sneak Attack?" "Yes/No." "Okay."
I can't remember the last time my Slayer legitimately got Sneak Attack. I think the last time he got it at all was when I made an off-hand remark about surprising an invisible enemy with my ability to see Invisible things and KC was like "Sure".
I keep forgetting I have it, even.
"Whenever I flank" is a pretty rare occurrence. Usually maneuvering around things is dangerous.
I've never been a fan of Psoinics or stuff like it, however I am genuinely interested in Occult Adventures and will most likely get it as soon as it's out :-)see I don't know why people don't like psionics its awesome!!! mind powers!!! I know the some of it feels overpowered but its easy to make any class feel overpoweredPsionics isn't overpowered it's just better.
Oh and I will also be buying Occult Adventures
It's one of very, very few things I flat out ban in my games. And it's not because it's overpowered. It used to be, back in the veeeery old AD&D-days but with 25+ years to fix the balancing system, it's actually okay nowadays from everything I've seen, heard and read.
It's exclusively a flavour-thing.
Psionics, in my mind, does not belong in the fantasy-section of RPGs. If I want psionics, I'll play a sci-fi game. For the same reason, I find magic in sci-fi settings to be equally odd and uncomfortable.
Example: I've played Warhammer 40-RPGs pretty extensively, and I love their take on psykers. But then there are chaos sorcerers and I've got to make all manner of mental gymnastics to cope with that.
Is this logical? Certainly not. Is it even rational or justifiable? Probably not either. But it's a matter of personal preference. Sci-fi=psionics, fantasy=magic ...
I've just gotten too old to change that, I think.
I'm not that bad, am I?
:)