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Codex Alera is a fantasy book series by Jim Butcher. The series chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man named Tavi in the realm of Alera, an empire similar to Rome, on the world of Carna
The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim Butcher was challenged to by a member of the Del Rey Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Butcher could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".
My challenge to you is to come up with two lame ideas, and I will do what Butcher did; create a fantasy world and story based on them. So with this don't try to come up with two cool ideas. That might be tough for some of you. Come up with two lame ideas, and then I will chose the lamest.
You may proceed...
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I've always loved that story about Butcher. Sounds fun!
The missing Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
Cooking Mama
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I've always loved that story about Butcher. Sounds fun!
The missing Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
Cooking Mama
Do you mean literally Cooking Mama or is it something else?
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You wanted dumb ideas. :)
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You wanted dumb ideas. :)
Yes, I looked it up and it is truly lame. There is even a "Cooking Mama World" website. These two might work, but I need more lame ideas. to just be sure,
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Frank Frazetta's "Death Dealer" series by James Silke and "Charlie's Angels".
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
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Tron
Not so much lame things on their own, but I'm curious how they could be combined in a not-lame manner. Challenge presented =)
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Pokemon is not lame.
That death dealer + Charlies angels is pure cheesecake, grand duchess + cooking mama is food wars, (maybe) edited.
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I think the lameness being more the expectation of combining the two rather than the ideas themselves is a tad more accurate.
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Yep. Two great tastes that really should not go great together.
Indiana Jones
Barbie
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Yep. Two great tastes that really should not go great together.
Indiana Jones
Barbie
= La-Mulana 2.
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DANGIT
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Avocado toast*
The 24 hour cable news cycle
Shawshank Redemption (+) the Warner Sister
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Avocado toast*
Spoiler:*is delicious, as long as you make it yourself and don't spend $9 at a hipster coffee shop for it. As a worldbuilding tool though? Let's see.
Guacamole toast is better. Especially with a fresh not-from-a-mix margarita. You could even skip the guacamole and the toast.
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My challenge to you is to come up with two lame ideas, and I will do what Butcher did; create a fantasy world and story based on them.
Two lamé ideas? Like lamé evening gowns and lamé sci-fi jumpsuits?
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My challenge to you is to come up with two lame ideas, and I will do what Butcher did; create a fantasy world and story based on them.Two lamé ideas? Like lamé evening gowns and lamé sci-fi jumpsuits?
Yes exactly.
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You wanted dumb ideas. :)
The PETA version of Cooking Mama is more interesting...
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Guacamole toast is better. Especially with a fresh not-from-a-mix margarita. You could even skip the guacamole and the toast.Avocado toast*
** spoiler omitted **
Those weren't lame enough to suggest. ;)
(Also, OBVIOUSLY. :) My personal good night'd be a a bowl of homemade guac and a homemade margarita. Chips or something to eat the guac is fine, but so is faceplanting into it. In other news, I won a "margarita basket" at a charity raffle at work. Y'all come.)
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I want to add here that these are all really great lame ideas. I have copied down 7 pairs of lame ideas so far and keep them coming. I may have to use more than one pair, because the combination of lameness really sparked something in my mind. However I am not too sure about Avocado Toast...lol
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Shopkins and the Shamwow.
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After looking at each one of your submissions, I decided to follow Jim Butcher's example and I just chose the first one from Scintellae:
The missing Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov and Cooking Mama.
These would be two lame ideas that couldn't possibly go together. We all know about Anastasia from the movie and cartoon. At least I knew about her. Its interesting, but not something to base a fantasy world on.
Then there is "Cooking Mama." I looked it up and it's a silly PC game about a woman called Mama (but she looks really young) who has all of these recipes for cooking. The players then compete by making meals or something. It didn't seem that interesting at first.
HOWEVER, then I found the unauthorized PETA version of the game called "Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals! This time the young woman looks like a vicious, bloodthirsty murdered who inhumanely kills animals and then cooks them. This Cooking Mama was far more interesting. The combination of these two lame ideas together sparked some interesting ideas.
So that's it for this part. If you want to contribute ideas, or if you just want to talk about nonpolitical topics, then feel free to post.
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Rats. Didn't get in soon enough.
My suggestions were going to be:
Using fish as currency.
The great tulip bulb crisis.
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As they sailed away with all our tulips, we waved. "So long...and thanks for all the fish."
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Rats. Didn't get in soon enough.
My suggestions were going to be:
Using fish as currency.
The great tulip bulb crisis.
Hey its cool Feros. I will keep taking your lame ideas, because I can always write something else. Your suggestions gave me a great idea.
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Dang. I'm sorry I missed this.
If you do this again, I should have an interesting combination of lame ideas.
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Everyone keep the lame ideas coming! I could change my mind and pick two other lame ideas! Really keep them coming.
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"All spells must be sung" and "Sharknado."
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Hmmm...
It isn't exactly lame per se.
But I wanna see:
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (or some other take on WWI - historical or alternative history)
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"My Little Pony: Friendship is magic"
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Hmmm...
It isn't exactly lame per se.
But I wanna see:
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (or some other take on WWI - historical or alternative history)
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"My Little Pony: Friendship is magic"
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned an important lesson about mustard gas.
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Warhorses would be a great RPG, about overcoming fear, riding into battle and keeping your rider alive.
HOLY CARP, this sounds like an amazing (and mind-bendingly awesome) RPG concept.
O.O
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Avocado toast*
WTH is with the sudden avocado fixation? Am I the only one who never liked it (and I'm from California!)?
Anyways, lame idea combination:
the "Super Solvers" early-90s edutainment computer games
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prehistory according to H. P. Lovecraft
Avocado toast*
WTH is with the sudden avocado fixation? Am I the only one who never liked it (and I'm from California!)?
Anyways, lame idea combination:
the "Super Solvers" early-90s edutainment computer games
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prehistory according to H. P. Lovecraft
Avocado Toast sounds repellent to me.
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But have you tried it?
Enneagrams
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The Imperial measurement system.
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Warhorses would be a great RPG, about overcoming fear, riding into battle and keeping your rider alive.
Probably better suited to Crimea than WWI. I can't offhand recall much in the way of major cavalry involvement in WWI.
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Mitch McConnell and Beyblade?
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Warhorses would be a great RPG, about overcoming fear, riding into battle and keeping your rider alive.Probably better suited to Crimea than WWI. I can't offhand recall much in the way of major cavalry involvement in WWI.
Half right there Scint.
WWI generally saw a steep decline in the usage of cavalery. It saw the least usage on the western front (and there mostly by the british), while it saw much more extended usage on the Eastern and Ottoman fronts.
Horses did see constant usage as draft and transport animal on all sides of the war, and I've seen it estimated that somewhere 5-6 million horses served through out World War I.
Actual casualty numbers are a bit harder to dig up, but the british (horse) casualties were reportely between 431.400 and 513.000 (using an old textbook ^^').
Ah, good to know!
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Tammany Hall and Project Runway.
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Soylent Green + Mr Potato Head
Det. Thorn: Ocean's dying, plankton's dying... it's people. *Soylent Green is made out of people.* They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the Exchange.
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
Soylent Green (1973)
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Skeletor + I can has cheezburger?
Gummy bears + All your base are belong to us
Transformers + Kool-aid man
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The idea Bowser and Mario are adopted brothers plus an orc boy band.
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WTH is with the sudden avocado fixation? Am I the only one who never liked it (and I'm from California!)?Avocado toast*
You are not. I despise avocados and anything made from them.
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Soylent Green + Mr Potato Head
This one actually popped into my head just now.
Create a world with an enslaved underclass of genetically modified people. This underclass serves as equal parts cattle stock, spare organ stock, and slave labor for the world's upper class.
In order to keep food production and organ donation from cutting too deeply into the labor force, one of the genetic modifications the underclass have is the ability to easily and not-messily remove, exchange, and replace many organs and extremities, and survive without them at least temporarily or with synthetic/mechanical temporary parts.
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Warhorses would be a great RPG, about overcoming fear, riding into battle and keeping your rider alive.Probably better suited to Crimea than WWI. I can't offhand recall much in the way of major cavalry involvement in WWI.Half right there Scint.
WWI generally saw a steep decline in the usage of cavalery. It saw the least usage on the western front (and there mostly by the british), while it saw much more extended usage on the Eastern and Ottoman fronts.
Horses did see constant usage as draft and transport animal on all sides of the war, and I've seen it estimated that somewhere 5-6 million horses served through out World War I.
Actual casualty numbers are a bit harder to dig up, but the british (horse) casualties were reportely between 431.400 and 513.000 (using an old textbook ^^').
As an Australian, the Light Horse have always been a big part of wartime history.
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I'm sorry. I thought one was supposed to only suggest things that were lame.
I'm sorry. I thought one was supposed to only suggest things that were lame.
Yes, true, but each person has a different definition of [i]lame[/].