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I once climbed a really tall tree.

Oh **** someone stole my idea several years ago. http://chocolatedeities.com/deity.php?deity=chocolate_buddha

I'd rather have a giant cream-filled chocolate Buddha. That fat bastard looks like he was made to be eaten. They could make a Mohammed too, but then some bearded dudes somewhere would hear that he was filled with coconut when the real Mohammed hated coconut, and they'd suicide bomb the Hershey factory.

Can you ask the female clerics to cast cure on the light wounds in your back pocket? Or be a cleric and vise versa?

Oh snap two wierds. He's wierd squared.

Doesn't seem any worse than the guys who get dressed up as special forces to play Airsoft, if you ask me. Hell of a lot nerdier, sure, but no less silly.

I was pretty sure we weren't really going to go to Iraq, not too long ago. I don't know what to expect anymore. Frankly, when dealing with the Middle East, I don't think anything works the way it's supposed to.

That's a wierd name for a dog IMO.

Band: The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly TV Series: Quantum Leap Cartoon: Batman, The Animated Series (TV show) The Snowman (whatever that was) Book: To Kill a Mockingbird (classy) Point of Impact (pulp thriller) Comic Book: Watchmen (adultish), Scrooge McDuck (kiddie) PC Video Game: Grim Fandango Console Video Game: I've played about 3 console games. I liked Kingdom Hearts 2

Hmm. Nice name. Nothing says trustworthy quite like three Ks.

Everyone knows Jesus' body dissapeared when he died, just like Obiwan's.

In Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and NWN2, does your character start out under the assumption that the world is a totally swell, normal place free from horrible monsters? Most characters in Cthulhu stories start out as completely clueless. Even in Fallout, the assumption is that the world has been incredibly screwed up by nuclear war and radiation. A lead protoganist who, let's say, is working on a degree at the Miskatonic University and has taken several peeks into the Necronomicon despite his professor's advice, ought to be just as prepared to fight Lovecraftian monsters as a guy who's never left his underground bunker is prepared to clean out a military base full of well armed super mutants.

From what I remember, I got the impression of a giant mountain that was flat on top. They landed a plane on it and then took a series of tunnels into its interior. Even better, I believe they actually see another mountain next to it that's even bigger at one point, which would mean that the tip of that one would be something like ten miles high. Cthulhu's head got split open when it was keelhauled by a small motor yacht. Admittedly, it grew back, but not until after the yacht had gotten completely away.

You mean like we do (start as) in Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and NWN2? In that case, I concede that I had the entirely wrong impression about what Delta Green was. I only knew what someone once describe to me, and I guess he did such a bad job that I never looked at it myself. A team of amateur Ghostbusters in a Lovecraft setting could actually be very interesting. It is in a modern setting, though, right? Lovecraft would lose some of its plausibility, I think, in a world of modern technology. It's hard to believe that Cthulhu, who after all was defeated in his one story by a small boat to the head, would be particularly fearsome in a world where a megaton of ordnance could be dropped on him at the press of a button. It's harder still to imagine that there is a moutain four times the size of Everest nobody knows about in the Antarctic, or a city the size of a continent under the ocean somewhere that nobody has ever found.

My dream CRPG is a party-based Baldur's Gate type dealie set in the Lovecraft universe, with period and location correct firearms, real world skills and abilities, and the sort of non-linear gameplay and NPC interaction we know to expect from an American style CRPG. I was actually right about to say this too, before JE beat me to it. Delta Green would be a convenient way to do this, but a modern, secret government, quasi-MIB sort of thing has no place in Lovecraft, in my opinion. This, in my opinion, takes all the mystery and fun out of Lovecraft. What makes it fun is that nobody knows what's behind the next corner, and the only guy with any idea is that wierd shifty guy who once took a peek inside the necronomicon. The super-secret government agency, working at the super secret underground base, detecting a disturbance on the super secret big screen, and dispatching troops in the super secret stealth hovercraft has been overdone and would kill the whole feel. Throwing real people into the bizarre situations adds mystery and atmosphere and could easily be done, just as long as the recruitable NPCs are very special people rather than milkmen and interior decorators. Consider, if you will. Instead of a group of regular people, you could bend the rules a little and create a team of what are essentially pulp heroes, an anthropology professor from Oxford who also shoots regularly at Camp Bisley and got his ass hard boiled at the battle of Passchendaele, an FBI agent that shoots like DA Bryce but got fired for shooting his partner when a shoggoth started climbing out of his mouth, an African big game hunter looking for something to hunt more sporty than yet another white rhino, a Biggles-type WW1 flying ace and former barnstormer out of work and operating a taxi cab, Tesla's lab assistant on a test run with a prototype teleforce ray, or a hitman for Al Capone that just got put out of work because his boss was sent to Alcatraz for tax evasion. Each character would be incredibly interesting and useful, and would join the party not right there at the beginning, but as you play through the game actively searching for new partners, like the NPCs in Torment. Some you would meet as part of the natural storyline, and others, the especially powerful characters, would be semi-hidden or would require sidequests to convince them to join you. In my opinion, this would make a far more engaging game than the sort of X-Com / Jagged Alliance type deal I would imagine a Delta Green game to be. Plus you could reload your own ammunition.

Top # Lists are, in my opinion, the most useless things in the world when it comes to music and games. Everyone has different preferences, and everytime someone compiles a list its based on theirs. Plus they're always wrong.

I really don't see the point of this. Jagged Alliance had nothing special going for it except awesome gameplay. The plot, characters, and pretty much everything about it was just filler designed to capacitate it. Since you can't feature god gameplay in a movie, this is pretty much the most useless game-to-movie idea ever.

So if Leonidas had been a gay or bisexual Cablinasian and had made sure his carefully written bill to defend the city had passed congress before taking off with only 300 of his fellow short, flabby, gay Cablinasians for some reason anyway, and Xerxes and all of the Africans, Asians, and Iranians that made up his army had been upper-class middle-aged white men invading in order to illegalize stem cell research, and Ephilitas had been seduced by such imagery as wealthy people driving gas guzzling SUVs, and the women were all chastise, single, and also on the battlefield, then you would have thought this was a much better movie?

The only thing that is a new concept is preaching freedoms while systematically taking them away. How is that even remotely new? Point taken. Clearly, none of it is new.

I'm not really sure that's a "modern" concept. People have been preaching freedom for centuries. The only thing that is a new concept is preaching freedoms while systematically taking them away. And I for one thought that Batman: The Dark Night Returns kicked some serious ass.

I was really hoping Hollywood would stay away from Watchmen.

That's blasphemy! That's madness!

Didn't this story arc also pretty much ruin Spiderman by having him reveal his identity too? My prediction is they'll either clone him in a month or so, which is a retarded copout, or replace him with a black/latino/female/teenage version with an in-your-face attitude and totally destroy everything that makes the character cool (the fact that he cannonically punched Hitler in the face, mainly). Of course, I stopped reading comic books a long time ago (with a few exceptions) so I don't really care.

And since then they've not only evolved to an astonishing degree, they've also acquired a myriad of different uses. A lot of early inventions share this characteristic, surprisingly enough.