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In Arizona news, I am now addicted to pork rinds.

EDIT: Trying to see the euphemism here...
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Tequila Sunrise wrote:

In Arizona news, I am now addicted to pork rinds.

EDIT: Trying to see the euphemism here...

You like pork butts and you cannot lie?

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You other boarthers can't deny.

Co-worker has been going off about stabbing his eye out if it doesn't improve by Friday.

So this should be a fun week.
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Happy Birthday, Limey!
Vidmaster7 wrote:
Captain Cap Captain, Captain wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
Very_sad_vidmaster7 wrote:
I'm a little sad no one else commented about the suggested Fawtl Paizocon game.

I play in person or not at all.

Sorry!

So, you're saying we'd have to Tron you into the internet somehow?
I call Blue Lion!
That's good Too but I wanted to do "Super Human Samurai Cyber squad".

Don't you mean Gridman?

gran rey de los mono wrote:
Vidmaster7 wrote:
I'll be happy as long as we don't do "Tattoo Teenaged Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills".
What about Big Bad Beetleborgs?

Dont you mean B Fighter?

Vidmaster7 wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Or VR Troopers?
You know the thing I liked about VR troopers? They weren't afraid to break out the giant robot just to step on the regular sized monster. Martial arts you say? but I have a laser pistol. I'm just gonna use the laser pistol bro.

Don't you mean Space Sheriff Shaider?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIMEY!
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Orthos, I am glad you have arrived safely at Scint.

For some strange reason, the boards were not updating for me.

Post-Monster? :)
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The General: I don't know why the oranges seem to be going bad faster but I suspect someone is dropping them

Me: I've been doing the whole princess and the pea thing, but with oranges

Tiny T-Rex (looking confused): Is that in Harry Potter?

Crookshanks: Yes.
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.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.
Freehold DM wrote:
Vidmaster7 wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Or VR Troopers?
You know the thing I liked about VR troopers? They weren't afraid to break out the giant robot just to step on the regular sized monster. Martial arts you say? but I have a laser pistol. I'm just gonna use the laser pistol bro.
Don't you mean Space Sheriff Shaider?

You mean "Brave Star"?

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Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.

I know Rikki Tikki Tavi. Mongoose who eats cobras.

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gran rey de los mono wrote:
Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.
I know Rikki Tikki Tavi. Mongoose who eats cobras.

Sweet.

Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.

Out of curiosity, did you (or anyone else) read "Bunnicula"? What about "The Mouse and the Motorcycle"?

I do vaguely remember Bunnicula but I did not read "The Mouse and the Motorcycle"

I remember loving them both as a kid, but haven't read either since like 4th grade or something.

The books I remember reading way to much of as a kid was Goosebumps. After about 25 of them I had to quit they all start blending together. Oh and animorphs I used to really like animorphs. The books were a lot more intense then the series. I should go back and see if the author ever wrote an ending to them.
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I never read either Goosebumps or Animorphs.

They were pretty popular when I was in middle school.

I don't remember anyone reading Animorphs. And when my classmates were getting into Goosebumps, I was reading Lord of the Rings, Robinson Crusoe, Three Musketeers, and such. Probably still read Boxcar Children (anyone else read those?) and maybe some Hardy Boys.

I went from Goosbumps to Anne mccaferys dragon riders books then LOTR The problem was our school library didn't have the LOTR books so I had to burrow them from a teachers personal collection.

Our school library kind of sucked too. I got some books (mainly Hardy Boys and Boxcar Children) from the public library, which wasn't much better than the school, but a little. A lot of the books I just bought. I might ask my parents if a book was worth reading, to which they usually replied "Most books are worth reading at least once. If it looks interesting, buy it. If you don't like it, you can donate it to the library." So that's where a lot of my allowance went. I wound up keeping most of the books. I gave a few to friends who borrowed them and liked them a lot more than I did. Only a few got donated.

In high school I really got into the Battletech books. As far as I know, I have all but one novel from before FASA folded. The one I know I'm missing is "The Sword and The Dagger". I think there is at least one anthology and one graphic novel. I don't have those. When WizKids bought the franchise and started Mechwarrior: Dark Age, I tried reading those books, but didn't like them. I think I read the first 6 or 7, and then gave up.

Shame. Yeah my first DM ended up giving me books to read all the time. When I first read David Eddings belgariad series. Which I am still a big fan of today.
Grand Lodge
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I love the Elenium and Tamuli. The Belgariad and Malloreon are great too.

I never read much of the DnD novels. I had a friend who loved the Dragonlance books, and he tried to get me into them. But he would loan them to me in random order, so it didn't make any sense, and I just wasn't that interested in them. Years later I read some of the Drizzt books, and thought they were okay, but didn't seek out any others. Especially since that was about the same time that I was getting into the Honor Harrington books, and those are so good that I had no time for anything else.

Plus, I just generally prefer sci-fi over fantasy.

Quote of the Day:
"If a prequel comes out first, it's not a prequel. It's just the first movie."

Eddings book's not technically D&D books just fantasy. I couldn't get into dragon lance or forgotten realms.

As far as sci-fi goes I have been reading a ton of Orson scott card. I also really liked the book "armor" John Steakley which was about a guy in power armor fighting giant ant alien things. quite good.
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Vidmaster7 wrote:

Eddings book's not technically D&D books just fantasy. I couldn't get into dragon lance or forgotten realms.

As far as sci-fi goes I have been reading a ton of Orson scott card. I also really liked the book "armor" John Steakley which was about a guy in power armor fighting giant ant alien things. quite good.

"A guy in power armor fighting giant ant alien things" sounds a lot like Starship Troopers. Which was a MUCH better book than movie. Although the movie is fun to watch occasionally.

Yeah Armor isn't tooo too much like Starship troopers. Their is a few similarities. obviously giant bug monsters. It's more of a soldiers story then all out war story.

Well, Starship Troopers is basically a politics lesson disguised as an action story.

Only ever seen the movie.

If you have a mind to, check out the book. Just be prepared, it is very different than the movie.

Good I would hate to read the same story that I just watched in movie form. It's why I never finished the Harry potter books.

I read the first Harry Potter book and then stopped because it wasn't any good. I think I've "seen" the first 4 movies, maybe 3, because my nieces would put the DVDs on and I would be in the room ignoring the TV as best I could.

eh It was ok I can see why it got popular and they made so many movies. Was their better books to make into movies? For sure. But meh I watched them all and I was entertained.
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Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.

I haven't heard that name in a long time.

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Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.

Grew up with a VHS of the Chuck Jones cartoon of it.

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Harry potter was and is a great gateway franchise. Whether by film or book, it showed a LOT of people the joys of fantasy literature. Some percentage of those newcomers picked up other books in genre and started learning about the pratchetts, webers, butchers, mccaffreys, cherryhs, and such. Maybe they went deeper to burroughs, zelaney, bujold or more. Would we have had hbo got without potter? Maybe but i doubt it.

It has its place. It is accessible. It is self contained. If it gets more people accepting of fantasy lit, i can tolerate. And i was entertained
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I have an Orthos.

Which Orthos? There is the regular one, the near mint collectable one, the one that was messed up by a 5 year old, or the one that has been accesorized.

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Happy belated birthday, Limey!
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Vidmaster7 wrote:
.... It's funny the stories we think everyone knows or saw as a child to only find out later in life that it is just you. One of those for me is rikki tikki tavi.
Out of curiosity, did you (or anyone else) read "Bunnicula"? What about "The Mouse and the Motorcycle"?

I have never read Bunnicula, but I loved The Mouse and the Motorcycle.

Nylarthotep wrote:

Harry potter was and is a great gateway franchise. Whether by film or book, it showed a LOT of people the joys of fantasy literature. Some percentage of those newcomers picked up other books in genre and started learning about the pratchetts, webers, butchers, mccaffreys, cherryhs, and such. Maybe they went deeper to burroughs, zelaney, bujold or more. Would we have had hbo got without potter? Maybe but i doubt it.

It has its place. It is accessible. It is self contained. If it gets more people accepting of fantasy lit, i can tolerate. And i was entertained

I don't mind if people liked it, but I didn't. I also hated Game of Thrones.

gran rey de los mono wrote:
Nylarthotep wrote:

Harry potter was and is a great gateway franchise. Whether by film or book, it showed a LOT of people the joys of fantasy literature. Some percentage of those newcomers picked up other books in genre and started learning about the pratchetts, webers, butchers, mccaffreys, cherryhs, and such. Maybe they went deeper to burroughs, zelaney, bujold or more. Would we have had hbo got without potter? Maybe but i doubt it.

It has its place. It is accessible. It is self contained. If it gets more people accepting of fantasy lit, i can tolerate. And i was entertained

I don't mind if people liked it, but I didn't. I also hated Game of Thrones.

Now I don't like game of thrones. I agree with you there. Their was parts of it that I thought were cool or interesting but as a whole I did not care for it.

Vidmaster7 wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Nylarthotep wrote:

Harry potter was and is a great gateway franchise. Whether by film or book, it showed a LOT of people the joys of fantasy literature. Some percentage of those newcomers picked up other books in genre and started learning about the pratchetts, webers, butchers, mccaffreys, cherryhs, and such. Maybe they went deeper to burroughs, zelaney, bujold or more. Would we have had hbo got without potter? Maybe but i doubt it.

It has its place. It is accessible. It is self contained. If it gets more people accepting of fantasy lit, i can tolerate. And i was entertained

I don't mind if people liked it, but I didn't. I also hated Game of Thrones.
Now I don't like game of thrones. I agree with you there. Their was parts of it that I thought were cool or interesting but as a whole I did not care for it.

I know I've said this before, but I read the first four books because they were given to me as a gift. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have read them at all, or would have quit halfway - at most - through the first book. Then I watched the first season of the show thinking "It's so popular that they had to have fixed it." And I couldn't stand it. Never watched or cared about the rest of the series.

Scarab Sages
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Vidmaster7 wrote:
The books I remember reading way to much of as a kid was Goosebumps. After about 25 of them I had to quit they all start blending together. Oh and animorphs I used to really like animorphs. The books were a lot more intense then the series. I should go back and see if the author ever wrote an ending to them.

I really loved animorphs. Sadly, they never translated the whole series, and this was before I was proficient enough to read english.

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