Everything posted by Musopticon?
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The Music Thread
Stone Sour - 30/30 - 150 Infinitely better than that godawful thrash called Slipknot. I might actually like it, although yankee metal often has this distinct sound that I abhor.
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Anime recommendations
Eh, the two endings share no similarities. Berserk doesn't even end has such, they just stopped making episodes, the manga story goes on while the anime one is a stub. Evangelion just had an end thats meaning is open for discussion.
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Fantasy Trappings
Star Wars made space and aliens popular. Not sci-fi.
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The Music Thread
Bill Brown - The saints
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Anime recommendations
Yeah, the first volume with Misa is good and the second decent, but then it goes downhill fast. I finished all the anime I was watching and am currently looking for some decent ones. Ones such as Pumpkin Scissors: The setup is like an allegory to second world war - the Empire has had a bloody long war with the Nation of Frost(curiously like Russia and Germany) and now it has finally ended in a truce. The world is finally picking things up where they were left at the start of the war, but everyone is desperate for supplies, sanitation and general war relief. Soldiers have become bandits and local aristrocrats rule almost autonomously, distancing themselves from government and becoming local despots. Into all this comes the Imperial Army State Section III - Pumpkin Scissors. A tool against corruption, hunger and war damages, named so by it's tomboyish would-be hero field leader, Alice Malvin. While doing a routine reconnaissance mission, they hit the jackpot and find corporal Randel Oland. He joins the regiment in hopes to perhaps remedy his past sins. Now here's where it becomes animeish: Pumpkin Scissors(which seems to have only six working members, one of them a golden retriever with a tendency to bite the wrong stuff) slowly starts to find bits of information on the silent but kind Oland. He's a huge giant of guy, but seems okay once you get to know him. Well, that is until he opens the hatch of his blue lantern and suddenly gains superhuman tenacity and can take on tanks with just his antitank pistol. Neat ability, too bad it also comes with compulsory nightmares of red soldiers marching on a killing field and chanting "T
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
You still think with your ****.
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Join the CIA and torture innocent people without consequence!
On the use of wmds; imagine the retaliation to such a move and you'll realise that shipping the weapons the heck away seems like a great idea.
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Fantasy Trappings
You know, there's not really a remedy up and coming into your situation. We could throw names all day and none of them would really fit what you are seeking. There's plenty of titles in all genres of fiction that accord free imagination, but right now the best way to enjoy contemporary fantasy and less strict accordance to conservative varieties of a genre of fiction is to find a suitable gaming group and work it up. Or play Planescape Torment. Oh damn, here goes a-namedropping.
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FFVII for $39
It's not really worth that much. Decent romp and above average storyline, but I'd pay only upwards to 15 € of it today.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
There's like a cult devoted to House M.D here on the campus. It's cute yet disturbing. Which could itself apply to the whole campus.
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The Music Thread
Amorphis - Am Universum(whole album)
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Fantasy Trappings
I heard they might be making an rpg in the setting. Big Huge Games is hiring devs.
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new G-22
Oookay, getting scary there.
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Fantasy Trappings
Walsingham hit the nail in the head; often the the simplest(and imho most valid) explanation given to what differentiates fantasy from scifi and vice versa is that if something is not scientifically explainable or not at least plausible then the work of fiction in question is scifi. The borders can bend quite a bit however and it is not uncommon to have magic in a setting that is often labeled as science fiction. For example, people often incorrectly label Star Wars as science fiction, yet it should called space opera - grand romantic themes in a futuristic setting where science is inconsequental. Swords and magic power and spacecraft that makes noise are not really explainable, right? Similarly, Arcanum is steampunk fantasy - you can't really explain steam machines and huge clockwork constructs, but they are plausible. Steampunk has always been more like a "what if"-genre, you could imagine some crafty archwrighty fellow inserting legs to a waterpowered sewing machine and setting it loose on hapless citizens. In reality it would probably take a step and then fall in to a pile of trash metal, but the plausability is there. However, the presence of magic once again makes Arcanum fantasy. By the way, if you'd like to see similar games to Arcanum, try Rise of Legends, it's a steampunk rts with incaish aliens using beamweapons. You'll love it.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Cube 2: Hypercube Each time my animator pal suggests a movie to watch I expect it to be either a goreblaster or an actionfest with silent Asian guys whacking each other with palms, but once in a while his suggestions really hit the jackpot. However, this wasn't one. Decent mindbender and I liked the myth and theories surrounding the cube structure, but acting wasn't all that good. And the plot started to sag once it came out that everyone had something to do with the cube's designer.
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There is a god!
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR OF MAN!
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Emmigrating to the US
Oerwinde, I envy you. Good luck.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Agree, it was great. I went "wow" when it screamed.
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Games you are looking forward to
Aw, it's so nostalgic. This game is easily number one on my waiting list.
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What are you playing now?
- Movies You Have Seen Lately
I saw Pan's Labyrinth. I nearly cried at the end and felt that the movie was an amazing, terrifying and subtly mindbending experience. Yet, the end didn't feel like closure to me. It could be just that twist left me feeling empty, but I felt that the movie could have used more fantasy parts and less parts with the shallow villain. Gorish, beautiful adult faery tale, but it could have been even more.- mobile phone battery woes
Yeah, so they tell.- What are you playing now?
Was that the huge maze-like dungeon with Dhoulmagus as endboss?- S.t.a.l.k.e.r.: Shadow of Chernobyl (impressions video inside)
A must-play. Post-apoc immersive mercenary fps action. Please be good, please.- What are you playing now?
I know, I just don't like to do that. Most of my Eldar game was doing that over and over again. Edit: Thanks, Tale. Playing as Nod was awesome. Especially the warmechs were awesome. - Movies You Have Seen Lately