Everything posted by Musopticon?
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The Music Thread
I found myself stepping rythm to the tune of to the latter one. Have to agree. The Crash - Big ass love
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What's so great about The Catcher In The Rye?
It's a prime example of white angst.
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Ha ha
Is that a come-on?
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NWN2 Modding project
Fan feelings aside, those look pretty good.
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Favorite Quotations
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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The funny videos thread
There was story about the baby's family in our news a couple of months ago. Truly heartwarming.
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Anime recommendations
Outlaw Star was the crap. I watched it for like 10 episodes, but couldn't really see anything worthwhile in it. And I absolutely hated the characters. It felt like Deeper Samurai Kyo in space. Urgh. Ergo Proxy could very well be my new favorite anime. Also, Pop, this really isn't the right thread for you.
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The Music Thread
Mokoma - Mieli syd
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Inventor of Ramen Noodles dies...
Seriously, recitatet in pacem. I've never eaten ramen noodles, but this guys had influence. He had worth.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Wonderboys I love Wonderboys, it's in my top 3 movies of all time. I really really need to find the original book and induge on it. Yet, I doubt it's going to be good without Douglas' rugged charisma and Maguire's whimsical performance. Such a great, great movie, and I don't even pride myself as a writer.
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Anime recommendations
Ergo Proxy seems promising. I laughed at the ending song though. Of all things, they chose Radiohead. :D
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The funny videos thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DhO9kY730 "That's ok, no problem. We'll keep it on the up'n'up. I can do wonderful, wonderful things for you..."
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What are you playing now?
Ravenholm mod for HL2. First over 40 zombies and crabbers, some of them berzerker exploding ones, then a CMB attack chopper without cover from the pulse gun fire and then a goddamn assault force of CMB troopers and then yet more zombies and crabbers. All under 5 minutes. I love this mod.
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The funny videos thread
"A huge chair is blocking your way" :D
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Black Mesa: Source
Maybe I should have phrased it a little differently... Man, all the opinions of you lot, they sure do suck.
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The Music Thread
GZA - Cold World
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Anime recommendations
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjj1XiwFPA You've probably seen it though. Edit: The comments on that vid are beyond absurdly funny btw.
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Black Mesa: Source
Man, all of your opinions...they sure suck.
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The Music Thread
Torchbearer - Burial waters, deepsome graves
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Really, it's the single best dystopian claustrophobic horror film I've seen. Not that there's a lot of those, but Alien is easily better than it's predecessors(like Thing) and certainly lightyears better than it's successors. Gripping, surprisingly disgusting and while the production certainly could have been better(not to mention filming, what the heck was with those close-up shots all the time?), it's a tight horrorfest. Much more complete then the botched up thing they call Alien 3, urghh. What first enamoured me was the inside look of Nostromo. My god, it looks like a submarine in space! Everywhere is damp, steam leaking from pipes and cooling system dysfunctioning, and the ship seems like it's been sunken under the waves since the 60's. Barely working and a mess of pipes and odd fixtures that don't seem to serve other purpose than look depressing. Yet it's somehow beatiful, just like the inside of the alien(somebody called them "Pilots) ship. I really liked the contrast between the organic look and manmade once the xenomroph starts to take out the crew. This film certainly has great art direction. Bless you, Giger. Another thing that held me in a firm grip was the suffocating feeling of claustrophy and, later on, loneliness. Just like Ripley at the end in the escape shuttle, the watcher gets assaulted by the feeling of frailty or better yet the aura of 'alien'. An atmosphere that just screams "you can't see it, you can't run away from it and it's so different, so superior, that you can never best it or understand it" and is further enhanced by the claustrophy of tight hatches and corridors of Nostromo. When the captain was skulking in the air shafts with the flamethrower and perspiration started slowly to show and he had to keep the flamethrower ready all the time, I couldn't help feeling more than a bit of creeped out. I guess the experience could have been better if I didn't already know that Ripley would survive. I didn't really fear for her, which sort of ruined the end since I couldn't sympathise with her that much. And on that ruining part, when the alien chestbrusted from Kane, I just kep grinning, since the special effect was so aged. :D Great movie. I'll have to watch Aliens next, since it has been the odd 8 years when I last saw it.
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The funny videos thread
That is the single most awesome video in the history of Youtube. Varmaan isoin insidedzoukki siell
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Can I have a Hindu swastika as my avatar?
Several cultures over the world share/have shared it. Like the Halstat culture(pre-celtic) and good old Indo-European migrative folks known as Aryans.
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Anime recommendations
Thanks, I might look into that. Especially if it's dystopian.
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Anime recommendations
Thanks for the summary. So, what's Ergo Proxy then? Yeah, I could just ask the internet, but I thought might want to give your view the same time.