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Ah, yeah. Didn't realize you weren't using Seth. Yeah I've read theories about not using certain characters because they're XP absorbers, but in my mind that's what the ruins and tower are for, to flesh out those who may have not seen as much XP in battle as Seth. So a lot of times my game plan has been based around letting tanks take on a lot of the battle and have everyone else take out what they can. I'm on the second to the last battle (I think) and struggling not to get at least one of my characters killed.

I've kept watching at this, and think its really improved a lot.

I liked the first one pretty well, myself. The other two I never really saw much point in.

Whooo...okay I saw over the weekend: The Grudge 2 - Similar but more expansive to the original US remake (helmed again by Shimizu). Expands on the concept a good deal but keeps most of the mystery intact. A couple of really good creepy momnets but not, IMO, as creepy as the earlier film. The Cop in Blue Jeans - kinda weak sub-Serpico Italian film about a special agent police officer trying to take down a group of "purse snatching" thugs(!) only to run afoul of an even bigger criminal. Entertainment value mostly derived from some of the sheer ridiculousness of various situations. Wakusei daisenso aka The War in Space - Toho's last space film, made to capitalize on the "Star Wars Phenomenon". A weak effort (or perhaps its just a weak dub, need to sit down and watch the sub) that has a few good ideas wrapped up with a lot of stuff in previous Toho space films (alien invaders who change appearance, kidnap women, etc) Man in the Attic - A decent version of "The Lodger", only this time they change the end. Still Jack Palance and Constance Smith do pretty well in their parts as the Lodger and the woman who finds herself interested in him. Khun krabii hiiroh aka Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis - super-insane zombie-action-comedy-parody that is completely off the wall. Very, very worth seeing, IMO, as I was laughing so hard several times I had to rewind the film as I missed things!

Oh yeah, that one was hard even on normal mode. . But whether that works on hard mode or not...NO CLUE!

That game is seriously starting to piss me off. I'm trying to go through on hard mode without losing anyone, but I swear it's impossible to get through the 6th mission (1st fog of war I think) because The tanks just aren't enough of a tank yet at that point to just soak damage. If its the first fog of war one, IIRC what I did was But that wasn't on hard mode. I'd totally die on hard mode.

I've been on a bit of a GBA/DS kick and have been playing Trace Memory (just finished it in fact), Puyo Pop Fever and (the most currently playing) Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.

I saw Voodoo Island with Boris Karloff (pretty good but the story kind of collapsed in the last fourth of the movie) and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake which has some interesting ideas marred by some of the worst police work in the history of film

Happy Birthday!

Just saw the cult film, Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural. It had some decent ideas, but they were buried in a film that was pretty directionless all toled.

^I didn't actually, it was forwarded to me and I thought it was interesting. Great story of a man using his natural talents for fame and fortune. Quite inspiring, in a way. >_

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=202 http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pujol I thought this was pretty interesting reading; I'd heard vaguely of Le P

I thought it was brilliant when I saw it at the cinema ... then I watched it again a few years ago and it had not aged well. There are some good parts, definitely, like the new robot and some of the dialogue was pretty nifty, too ... but I did cringe at a fair bit of it. I liked the Lost in Space movie, although I think it has some flaws; partially in ham fisted dramatics (Will teaching the Robot about Friendship, the forced dramatics of a family that can't barely get along). That said, the new robot was crap. Why can't people anymore design really cool looking robots? They all look industrial and "samey" to me anymore. And for the record I'm a big fan of the original series as well.

I think that the idea - while they could move patients in a number of ways now (burly male nurses or two-three nurses working together) that allowing a single nurse to use a suit might make better use of existing personell resources. Its an interesting idea, but I think it'll be some time before they work the kinks out of it.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060928_power_suit.html Thought this was an interesting story; particularly since this and the story of the "feeling" artificial limb seem so akin to science fiction. Now where's flying cars or practical jet packs...?

I saw it and wasn't wild about it. Characterwise Hiro and Claire (the cheerleader) seem to be the most interesting. Hiro because he's goofy and Claire partially because The online stripper's story and the painter's stories really turned me off. And I wasn't wild about the politician and his nurse brothers story either. Junior Suresh could go either way. I may watch next week, but I wasn't really wowed by Heroes

I liked the movie pretty well, but its not really a horror/scary film I agree.

Happy Birthday and stuff.

Dude, you're old. You really can be a disagreeable little punk when you want to be can't you? Actually I picked the cartoon figuring no one would recognise it. It was pulled from television in the 60's for being too violent ( knifing and shooting ) for kids on Saturday mornings. :D Jonny Quest was originally, like the Flintstones, a prime-time television cartoon on ABC. It was hugely successful in 1964-65 but because each episode ran over budget, Hanna-Barbera opted to show the show continuously in re-runs rather than make new episodes. Like a lot of H-B shows, it ran off and on throughout the 60s and 70s on various schedules (ABC, NBC, CBS, syndication). It was here that some felt that the originally made for prime-time episodes weren't fit for kids, and in 1972 (8 years after the last new episode was made) the show was "edited" for its content but continued in syndication. Its debatable if it was ever "pulled" because the show wasn't, as far as I can tell, ever consistantly part of a line-up past their intial prime-time season (as they only had one season worth of shows). I used to love Jonny Quest as a kid.

I haven't seen snow in a few years. :|

Doesn't look familiar to me atm, definately not from either of the US Ring films afaik.

I thought stuff was...like...possesions and things. AKA that which Kroney owns must not be touched. Ever.

All I'm arguing against is the idea that V *can't be* a villain (which was the post I replied to making that very point in my apparently easy to misconstrue way). The author sees him as interpretable as a villain, the character sees himself as a villain, ergo I think you can make a strong case that he is, in fact, a villain and not the dreaded (IMO) "Anti-Hero". The nice thing about V - and this I agree with - that you can make a case that V is as much hero as villain, which is I think part of the point of the story. But I don't think that its clear-cut and if someone wants to determine V to be a villain than I support them in that, just as I would someone if they decided to say he was a hero. Or something.

If you read the introduction by Alan Moore to the Trade Paperback, you'll see that what I just mentioned is what he himself writes. I don't believe my reasoning is "stupid", even if you disagree.

Even though the movie was a pretty poor translation of the graphic novel... V WAS NOT A ****ING VILLAIN YOU [have got that wrong, he was an ANTI-HERO]! Thank you. Even Alan Moore disagrees with you there. Book 1, chapter 1 in V for Vendetta is called "The Villain" and introduces V.