Pan's Labyrinth is ten times the movie that Hellboy, Blade or any other del Toro film is that I've seen. Probably the only way he could maybe top P's L would be with The Hobbit, but last I heard, Jackson's back in that driver's seat.If you hvent seen it, Del Toro's The Devil's backbone is fantastic.
It's on my netflix que. :)
I liked Pan's Labyrinth, but I couldn't escape the thought I was basically watching fantasy torture porn starring a little girl.
Geeze, HD!! You read deeply into EVERYTHING!!!!
Tisk, tisk. As the cashier at my local gaming store put it it is more accurately Avatar = Ferngully in space.Avatar = Dances with Smurfs.
I loved Ferngully and Dances with Wolves, so I found Avatar interesting/amusing. Tis but a movie.
As for things that would yank my geek card . . . .
I dance. West Coast swing, waltz, two-step, cha, salsa. Yes, I'm good and I have the trophies to prove it. Dancing was (is) a great passtime. For three minutes, I get to put my hands pretty much anywhere on a woman, and she thanks me afterwards. I lead and I follow (hey, when you're teaching this stuff, you gotta know both parts). And I've been told I wiggle better than some women. That's quite a feat for someone 6'4" and 250 lbs.
One of my best friends got into dance a few years ago. He's a tall, musclar guy, and women love to dance with him. If it were not for my last lingering shreds of more childish macho manhood and my missing black people dance gene, I'd get into it too.
I find renaissance festivals incredibly dull and boring except when they're called "October (Beer) Festival".
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I actually was born a bit before'78, I started playing with basic and 1e, but I just like 2e better.Prefer 2e to 1e, vastly.But, if you're a D&D player Born after '78 or so, chances are 2e was your first. And your first is always special.Right on. :)
But, I hope my summation of why 2e is under represented in the OSR was helpful.
I do. I can find deep meaning in the ingredients list on the side of a cereal box.I liked Pan's Labyrinth, but I couldn't escape the thought I was basically watching fantasy torture porn starring a little girl.Geeze, HD!! You read deeply into EVERYTHING!!!!
"Why is there so much sodium in this Captain Crunch!?!?!??!!"
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* I hate anime and I don't understand the Japan obsession.
* I don't like comic books. I enjoy the movies, but only if they are good movies.
* While I like Star Trek TOS, I still don't understand the obsession that trekkies have. My fiance is getting me to watch all of them. We've finished TOS and are about to start TNG.
* I find talking about computers incredibly dull and cannot follow it. Same goes for any other type of electronic/mechanical things.
* I didn't like Star Wars.
* I don't get the fascination with zombies.
* also, there are a lot of geeky movies & interests I haven't seen or done.
* and I don't care for Magic.
I think that's it. The more I think about it, the more geek things I like or am curious about than not.
Liking Deep Space 9 over other Star Trek stuff is worth geek cred, in the right crowd. Plus, Jadzia Dax. Mmmm.
I loved DS9. So much so, that I got "DS9" engraved on the inside of my high scool class ring, which is unfortunately now gone forever thanks to a thief who broke into my wife's car.
We'll agree to violently disagree about Babylon 5 (which, granted, didn't get good until seasons three and four, and then fell apart again for season five). :)
Actually, Season 1 is by far my favorite of that series, though I love the whole thing.
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"Why is there so much sodium in this Captain Crunch!?!?!??!!"I do. I can find deep meaning in the ingredients list on the side of a cereal box.I liked Pan's Labyrinth, but I couldn't escape the thought I was basically watching fantasy torture porn starring a little girl.Geeze, HD!! You read deeply into EVERYTHING!!!!
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"I wonder who won the Battle the named the Creek..."
I find renaissance festivals incredibly dull and boring except when they're called "October (Beer) Festival".
Agreed, except that I don't drink so yeah...I'm not even into Oc Fest.
I have a few non-gamer friends who religiously go to Renn Faire every summer, usually multiple days each summer, but I was totally nonplussed after my first time. I haven't been there in about five years, and I'm pretty sure if I were to go again next summer it'd be pretty much the same. *shrug* I think it's the brawling men in mud that they like.
* I would like to take a 20 pound sledgehammer and beat Peter Jackson over the head for not translating the Lord of the Rings to the big screen with the creative license he took doing so, AND for the cretive license he's going to take with the upcoming Hobbit films.
Wait, you think Jackson used too much creative license with LotR or too little?
* Massive Multi-Player On-line games are NOT RPGs!!! They're a video game!!!
My left eye twitches every time I hear FF, WoW or any video game referred to as an RPG. Gods, I love 'em but they're really not.
Though I'm sure that a fair number of LARPers and career actors scoff at the idea of "role playing" around a table and several pounds of dice, so I usually keep my scorn to myself.
I find renaissance festivals incredibly dull and boring except when they're called "October (Beer) Festival".
Agreed, except that I don't drink so yeah...I'm not even into Oc Fest.
I have a few non-gamer friends who religiously go to Renn Faire every summer, usually multiple days each summer, but I was totally nonplussed after my first time. I haven't been there in about five years, and I'm pretty sure if I were to go again next summer it wouldn't be noticeably different. *shrug* I think it's the brawling men in mud that they like.
* I would like to take a 20 pound sledgehammer and beat Peter Jackson over the head for not translating the Lord of the Rings to the big screen with the creative license he took doing so, AND for the cretive license he's going to take with the upcoming Hobbit films.
Wait, you think Jackson used too much creative license with LotR or too little?
* Massive Multi-Player On-line games are NOT RPGs!!! They're a video game!!!
My left eye twitches every time I hear FF, WoW or any video game referred to as an RPG. Gods, I love 'em but they're really not.
Though I'm sure that a fair number of LARPers and career actors scoff at the idea of "role playing" around a table and several pounds of dice, so I usually keep my scorn to myself.
Thought of a couple more while I was out:
I hate self-doubting heroes. Hate them with a passion. A hero should be brash, bold, and confident. Angsty heroes aren't more real or believable, in fact, it's quite the opposite - they're less believable. Inner turmoil is as dull as mud.
I also hate the "against type" crowd - good drow, magic-loving dwarves, intelligent orcs - blah. Give me heroes presented to type any day.
Tisk, tisk. As the cashier at my local gaming store put it it is more accurately Avatar = Ferngully in space.Avatar = Dances with Smurfs.
Hey, I loved Ferngully. To death.
Tisk, tisk. As the cashier at my local gaming store put it it is more accurately Avatar = Ferngully in space.Avatar = Dances with Smurfs.
Hey, I loved Ferngully. To death.
EDIT: Why did my avatar just turn into a smurf?
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I hate self-righteous 'heroes.' You know the type, wantonly slaughtering and killing supposedly evil creatures and taking their stuff, and claiming they are good people for killing other people that may not have legitimately been bad.
(Incidentally, my campaigns are much more 'grey' than most of the ones I've seen. 'always evil' mortals don't exist, only Fiends and Chromatic Dragons, and there are rare exceptions among them as well.)
I feel you, our game is nice and ambiguous also. Same "outsider" and "great evil" for monsters rules. The only thing we do differently is Paladins and some Clerics (ones with extreme deities) will register for detect/pro evil, aligned affects, etc.
The vast majority of mortals, whatever their tint, register as "neutral".
I haven't put an alignment on a character sheet in almost 25 years.
I'm also not a Tolkien fan, mostly because I don't like reading normal history books. Yes it's boring
I'm no longer a soda chugger, pizza is OK, but I'll have a nice thing of tea instead.
I'm both a fan of old Star Trek, New Star Trek (not enterprise), Star Gate (Not SG-U). Monty Python Rocks
The only CCG I play anymore is L5R
I only play the Free-to-Play MMORPGs these days. DDO, EQ2, and this week Champions Online.
I'm not a huge FPS computer game fan, nor games where you can save any more. Though I'll still play Fallout 1 & 2.
Oh the only comic I'm currently getting is Lady Mechanica, it rocks.
Joss Shows, Love Firefly, hate Buffy, haven't seen Dollhouse though it's on my NetFlix list.
Brisco County Jr rules
FarScape was incredible at first, and got really strange about the time Jewel showed up.
2001, have watched it a couple times.
Fifth Element, watch at least once a year.
Anime!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SAMURAI 7....you're missing out. Akira Kurasawa helped rewrite the story for teh anime! A lot of Anime Sucks, a lot rules. Fullmetal Alchemist Rules, Inuyasha sucks.
Akira is over-rated
I don’t care that much about canon. What is or isn’t canon, whether this author or director or GM or whatever has deviated from canon. Who really cares that much?
Lots of people, right or wrong, lots of people
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See, at first glance I thought we were talking about being able to play a State Alchemist in PF. :P
As an aside, I live on Central (Drive) and half an hour away is Briggs (Street).
I feel you, our game is nice and ambiguous also. Same "outsider" and "great evil" for monsters rules. The only thing we do differently is Paladins and some Clerics (ones with extreme deities) will register for detect/pro evil, aligned affects, etc.
The vast majority of mortals, whatever their tint, register as "neutral".
I haven't put an alignment on a character sheet in almost 25 years.
I'm going to be disappointed if the wife and I don't settle down in Texas. But of course, we gotta go where the money is.
EDIT: Why did my avatar just turn into a smurf?
any time you type the word smurf your avatar changes into one.
I would like to point out, for the most part not liking and liking a lot of the things on peoples lists don't detract from your geek cred, it's not knowing and not having an opinion about them that kills your geek cred. geekdom is knowing too much about many different topics and developing opinions. i have lots of friends that keep track of "Popular" culture, so i know more than i would like, and have opinions, this is one of many things that makes me a geek.
... Damn you TOZ, one more thing to add to my list of homebrew projects. Alchemy as a feat-based power system, and State Alchemist as a prestige class that builds on that.
See, at first glance I thought we were talking about being able to play a State Alchemist in PF. :P
There's a state alchemist class already done I think. I have a link to Avatar d20 in my main XaaonofXendrik profile.
Did a Quick Google Fu and BAM! Fullmetal d20
I would like to point out, for the most part not liking and liking a lot of the things on peoples lists don't detract from your geek cred, it's not knowing and not having an opinion about them that kills your geek cred. geekdom is knowing too much about many different topics and developing opinions. i have lots of friends that keep track of "Popular" culture, so i know more than i would like, and have opinions, this is one of many things that makes me a geek.
Well put sir.
I don’t care that much about canon. What is or isn’t canon, whether this author or director or GM or whatever has deviated from canon. Who really cares that much?Lots of people, right or wrong, lots of peopleRight you are.
I guess my question is why do people care so much?
I would say there are 2 different points, these are not all of them.
1. As a geek - in the context of a socially awkward person, with lots of knowledge but little appreciation for such from your pears - what you like and spend time on becomes a refuge for you, so when people attack your refuge, you attack back (hence nerd rage). If someone comes in and screws with your refuge, you attack. Because you are socially awkward, for one reason or another, you don't understand that someone else not liking what you like is not an attack.
2. When a new writer comes in and messes with the story, it can make the character you love lame.
For example: Wolverine, I love lots of things about him; but like a cheep whore, he's been passed around so many times that he's gotten warn. So cannon becomes important to me, it keeps the character the way I grew to love him.
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I actually was born a bit before'78, I started playing with basic and 1e, but I just like 2e better.Prefer 2e to 1e, vastly.But, if you're a D&D player Born after '78 or so, chances are 2e was your first. And your first is always special.Right on. :)
But, I hope my summation of why 2e is under represented in the OSR was helpful.
I gotcha and I don't disagree. I was just pointing out that I was an exception to that.
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How does alchemy turn someone into a robot?
And why is the robot wearing a dress?
I have an intense dislike of Joss Whedon, Star Wars, Spiderman, anything that could be considered anime/manga and A Song of Ice and Fire
Everyone can just smurf it!!!
I'm guessing you are joking, or haven't read anything about the series. :pFullmetal Alchemist RulesFull Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Rules more :PHow does alchemy turn someone into a robot?
And why is the robot wearing a dress?
All I've seen of the show is a few images and lines of dialogue as I turn the channel. No snark or joke intended, just curious.
Lol; Mothman; after reading all the stuff you dont like and are not into; am wondering; so; why are you a Geek and what is you Geek Card? hehe.
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Canon; I think it is very important. The motive behind breaking the Canon is that those who are against everything felt that it was an exclusive club of dead white men; and argue that dead and living people from all other backgrounds should be added. The purpose of the Canon is to give a body of work that is considered the best examples of various writing styles. Those in the Canon have been considered the best for generation after generation for many hundred years. So; when considering other sources to the Canon; the question remains; is this work really good; or is it only good in a certain place and time by a certain people; can it weather the test of time. Is anyone going to be reading Maya Angelou in a century; two centuries? Would you put her in the same group as Ovid or Virgil, or Dante, or Milton. Can she last like Wordsworth or Shelly or Shakespeare. By what measure is to be used to determine the worth of these non canon authors; just some lone group of fanatics who love their work and shout loud on their soapboxes? Time ends all arguements.
so; there you go; <gets down off his soapbox and puts his Geek Membership card away>
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All I've seen of the show is a few images and lines of dialogue as I turn the channel. No snark or joke intended, just curious.
That's fair. To answer your questions, it is a suit of armor the older brother bound the younger brothers soul to after they lost the younger's body by performing alchemy incorrectly. This is also why the older brother has prosthetic limbs, because he had to trade them to perform the alchemy. As for the dress, I'm assuming it is supposed to be like a tabard worn over armor. I can agree that it looks silly. :)
ANY creative license taken with novels made into movies is TOO MUCH creative license.
Things like:
...cutting out Tom Bombadil and the Old Forest,
...Leaving out Glorfindal and replacing with Arwen,
...expanding Arwen's presence,
...Pippin threw a coin down the well in Moria, not accidentally cause a armored skeleton to fall,
...Bilbo didn't just disappear at his eleventy first b-day party, Gandalf added some sparkles,
...Gandalf's sword was of elven make as well, SO IT should have glowed when orcs were near too
...The Riders of Rohan did make an epic charge down into Helm's Deep on the morning after the fifth day of Gandalf's disappearance, the Orcs panicked due to the sudden appearance of the Tree's and Ents of Fangorn
...Gandalf and Saruman did not have a contest of wills over Theoden King, Theoden King listened to Gandalf and transformed back to his old selfThere are more, but let's just say, my Tolkien geek-nerd rage was almost too much to overcome and still enjoy the movies.
And there's a perfect demonstration of my earlier point. Hating something geeky does NOT mean you're not a geek. In many cases, quite the reverse is true.
There are a lot of sacred holy grails of geekdom I don't care for, but I can see why others do.
Felicity Day, for example, is not hot. Not even close. She's cute, but it's her association MMO's and geekhood that make her hot. It's her "approachability", the "she's one of us!" mentality that makes less attractive people moreso all of a sudden. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously, had she just been a cast member on CSI and not The Guild, geeks wouldn't give her any notice.
Anime.... Whooo boy. Anymore, I can't stand it. I used to be really interested in it years ago, when everything wasn't cute monster collecting, some kind of card dueling, wanna-be ninjas and wanna-be samurai with spiky blonde hair. I really dug the gritty, mature themed ones like Cowboy Bebop the original Ghost in the Shell. Nowadays, I want to claw my eyes out if I see one more kid carrying a katana and a spiky blonde wig. I work at a anime convention, and I really think I'm retiring this year.
I get the fascination with anime, I understand why the kids here are going apesh*t over the new stuff; the colors, the high-energy music, the cuteness, the complete detachment from reality and escape. I'm not 12 anymore, so it doesn't interest me. I'm more of a metalocalypse guy myself.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail bored me to f***in' tears. I don't dig british humor. I get that it's sophisticated, I just don't find it funny, especially when at the game table, half my players make constant references; just makes me hate it more.
Same goes with music, there are some sacred bands I really don't care for. Led Zepplin, The Beatles, even the Rolling Stones; I respect their contributions, but I can't stand more than half a song at a time.
No need to lynch me, I'll be over by the pyre leaning on the stake.
And there's a perfect demonstration of my earlier point. Hating something geeky does NOT mean you're not a geek. In many cases, quite the reverse is true.ANY creative license taken with novels made into movies is TOO MUCH creative license.
Things like:
...cutting out Tom Bombadil and the Old Forest,
...Leaving out Glorfindal and replacing with Arwen,
...expanding Arwen's presence,
...Pippin threw a coin down the well in Moria, not accidentally cause a armored skeleton to fall,
...Bilbo didn't just disappear at his eleventy first b-day party, Gandalf added some sparkles,
...Gandalf's sword was of elven make as well, SO IT should have glowed when orcs were near too
...The Riders of Rohan did make an epic charge down into Helm's Deep on the morning after the fifth day of Gandalf's disappearance, the Orcs panicked due to the sudden appearance of the Tree's and Ents of Fangorn
...Gandalf and Saruman did not have a contest of wills over Theoden King, Theoden King listened to Gandalf and transformed back to his old selfThere are more, but let's just say, my Tolkien geek-nerd rage was almost too much to overcome and still enjoy the movies.
Yes, your point is excellently made and demonstrated Aaron.
On a related note, I just IMDBed this Felicia Day actress that people are talking about, and yes she's more cute than hott. That said, some of us would rather have a cutie than a hottie. :)