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Bela Legosi's Dead

I just watched serenity again, after trying to watch Spider-Man (and really not getting into it). Serenity was awesome. Did I mention that it was a good film?

Good one, Baley:

Isn't the book told from her perspective?

Thankyou.

For your mental health (and ours) we should all contribute to a "Baley bang" pot ... then you can go out and cross that threshold!

Sounds like Asimov's rationale for humans in his magnum opus. Most half-orcs are from rapes.

Ahh ... the ol' strafe left door opening technique ... *nods appreciatively*

But there is an easter egg whereby you can replace the disc with another disc and get another game!

Yes and no. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A Badger in Moose superposition.

Certainly make me giggle.

Depends on how you look at it. Dracula is doing what is natural for him, to survive, what is bad about that? Van Helsing antagonizes Dracula because of his faulty belief that Dracula is evil, even though Dracula is only doing what comes natureal to him. Van Helsing is the protagonist here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> On the basis that the protagonist of a story is always the one who goes through dramatic events that changes the character's life, I would disagree with both of you. The protagonist of Dracula (Stoker's novel) is Mina. She's one who ends up being a very different person than she started out as, while neither van Helsing nor Dracula changed their perspectives much and ended up as the characters they began as (except for Dracula being really dead instead of undead...). van Helsing is more like Gandalf in LOTR - he is a powerful and knowledgable helper, but not the protagonist. Dracula is the villain and a device for evil. We don't know, but it doesn't matter - he does evil things, and so he's evil. Besides, I find Dracula to be more effective as a villain if he remains beyond our comprehension (and yes, that means I hated Coppola's flick ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Granted. But I never read Mr Stoker's novel, so I was unaware of the Mina character and her protagonist journey. I was basing my judgement on the films that I have seen. protagonist n noun 1 the leading character in a drama, film, or novel. ⇒a prominent figure in a real situation. 2 an advocate or champion of a cause or idea. ORIGIN C17: from Greek protagonistes, from protos 'first in importance' + agonistes 'actor'.

Attention seeking misguided ****. GL does not have the smarts to make a subliminal message. So unless you believe that Satan is the puppetmaster ... As I said in the other thread: if it is a "never-ending" goal, then Satan won't ever achieve it.

Yeah, like that Rommel. He was a bozo!

I must have missed it the first few times through. Or at least I wasn't aware of the Jade Empire reference when I found the sword ... still, I vaguely remember it being there ... good find for young Jags!

The first game I played on a computer was the text-as-graphics Star Trek game on my Apple ][. I played it for hours at a time. It provided the framework for my imagination to fill in the details. There was a rudimentary story (basically the original Five Year Mission of the original series), and colourful baddies in the form of frequent encounters with Klingons and rarer encounters with the Romulans. Now I can play games as varied as chance-based backgammon, and including brain gyms like Civ 4 and Rome: Total War, and onto the graphical gluttony of Half-Life 2. Fun games like Freedom Force versus the Third reich fit comfortably in this grouping. As does Tetris. Is fun "learning"? Possibly. Putting learnt observational intel to work sucessfully, for sure. But fun is one of those concepts, to paraphrase the late Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart who once memorably said of obscenity, "I know it when I see it." Or when I play it.

pwn!

Wow, you finished BG2 fast! I got stuck in some dungeon up north ...

That'll be the first expansion pack.

Bonobos.

Ninjas are totally sweet and awesome and flip out everywhere.