Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I had multiple CYOA Mario books.
I remember one of them had you find Boom Boom’s sock rather randomly, or else you died.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
When I was a kid I read Animorphs for myself. Animorphs? Completely cool.
Once I'd had some fantasy under my belt, my dad got me to read Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time—the first fuckin' chunk of 'em, anyway. For him, those books were the modern fantasy books, nothign else coudl touch them, and he was so taken with the One Power as a fantasy concept that, when I started coming up with my own stories and sharing my ideas about how magic might work, he'd criticize them for getting too far away from the philosophical underpinning that informed the One Power
my very dumb opinion when i was a dumb teenager was that light fun books were dumb because movies and comics and video games did that kind of thing better and if i was gonna read a book i wanted it to be a Serious, High-Minded Exercise
Did anyone else read The Seventh Tower? Series by Garth Nix about a spoiled brat who lives in a massive castle with a bunch of other spoiled rich people who all have magic sunstones that use the different color spectrums of light to cast magic and give their shadows to otherworldly creatures they contract while also about a girl who is part of a bunch of Inuit Vikings that live their lives constantly chasing the migration of mammoth-sized walruses as they use colossal boats rigged to move on top of ice while passing down warnings about living shadows and light?
my very dumb opinion when i was a dumb teenager was that light fun books were dumb because movies and comics and video games did that kind of thing better and if i was gonna read a book i wanted it to be a Serious, High-Minded Exercise
well I mean the thing that got me hooked on the animorphs books was that I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when they kept peeing on trees when they were wolves
my very dumb opinion when i was a dumb teenager was that light fun books were dumb because movies and comics and video games did that kind of thing better and if i was gonna read a book i wanted it to be a Serious, High-Minded Exercise
well I mean the thing that got me hooked on the animorphs books was that I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when they kept peeing on trees when they were wolves
this is the book where tobias kills and eats a rat and then tries to kill himself, mind. this was my takeaway from that book at the time
Oh lordy, the wheel of time
Did robert jordan ever finish that series or is he still writing it in the hereafter
Brandon Sanderson was brought in to finish it and he went at every loose thread with intent to tie it up or cut it entirely, just taking a machete to all the cruft.
Oh lordy, the wheel of time
Did robert jordan ever finish that series or is he still writing it in the hereafter
Brandon Sanderson was brought in to finish it and he went at every loose thread with intent to tie it up or cut it entirely, just taking a machete to all the cruft.
That's probably what that series deserves
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I uh, kinda forgot that Tobias was suicidal!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
A two part book series that was buried into the recesses of my mind until Jay Edidin brought them up in his podcast like a month ago was The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley. Both of them are very good fantasy books focused on young women, and in my memory are rad as hell.
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i was really into the vlad taltos novels for a while, i wonder if they hold up
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oh I also used to read those
nuclear post-apocalypse mutant and commie fightin' ultra macho jerk-off fantasies
they had a lot of sex scenes. I remember one basically like "her boobs were huge, really big, so big, but they're not saggy at all, because of a mutation."
you know a thing I love? it's like, Sean Bean, always dies of course. It was happenstance for a while but now I'm pretty sure people specifically cast Sean Bean as characters that die.
He was in Silent Hill and was the only main character that didn't die. he died in the sequel, tho, I think.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
you know a thing I love? it's like, Sean Bean, always dies of course. It was happenstance for a while but now I'm pretty sure people specifically cast Sean Bean as characters that die.
He was in Silent Hill and was the only main character that didn't die. he died in the sequel, tho, I think.
I remember watching Game of Thrones for the first time and it was with friends and I almost made a joke about how Sean Bean can’t possibly die since he’s the main character and then whelp
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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The first thing I ever saw Sean Bean in was the Sharpe series so my mind was always skewed since he survives that.
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He does the intro voice over for Life is Feudal, I don't think he dies in that. (I cannot believe they snagged Sean Bean for it. I hope he really likes the game or something. I get a real pleasure out of imagining him painstakingly flattening land and making a little farm.)
oh! Kit Harington? Jon Snow. He was in Silent Hill 2 with Sean Bean, bringing it all back around. Silent Hill takes place in Westeros
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the movie Silent Hill 2 was some bullshit because the story was a mangled version of Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 2 the game has a plot that would transfer wonderfully to the silver screen.
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the movie Silent Hill 2 was some bullshit because the story was a mangled version of Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 2 the game has a plot that would transfer wonderfully to the silver screen.
It's amazing how terrible Hollywood is at transferring game narratives into movies. Silent Hill 2 is a deep psychological study of the hell we create in our own minds. It's literally people being haunted by their own demons. Pyramid Head is clearly intended to be a metaphor for James' id, specifically the aggressive psychosexual pathology and his guilt over the circumstances surrounding his wife's death.
The movies treat him like he's Jason Voorhees.
Hitman is a dark comedy where you plot out the Rube Goldberg deaths of powerful people creating a geopolitical web of conspiracies and espionage. It tells half the narrative through mission briefings and cutscenes and the other half through overheard dialogue and environmental clues observant players can make thoughtful use of in their assassination attempts. Hitman's one of the few franchises left where a high score means something and the best way to get the highest score is to kill your targets in a way that would leave people questioning whether they were even murdered or died in some darkly ironic accident. If there were a series of films to compare it to it would be James Bond as filtered through all of The Cohen Brothers films at once.
The movie is about a bald man who shoots people real good.
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I remember one of them had you find Boom Boom’s sock rather randomly, or else you died.
Yeah funny same trajectory here
after that I started reading my mom's old Stephen King novels and whatever sci-fi books had cool covers at the library
"It" is not a thing an 11-year-old should be reading!
Once I'd had some fantasy under my belt, my dad got me to read Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time—the first fuckin' chunk of 'em, anyway. For him, those books were the modern fantasy books, nothign else coudl touch them, and he was so taken with the One Power as a fantasy concept that, when I started coming up with my own stories and sharing my ideas about how magic might work, he'd criticize them for getting too far away from the philosophical underpinning that informed the One Power
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Was a pretty damn good MG/YA series!
well I mean the thing that got me hooked on the animorphs books was that I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when they kept peeing on trees when they were wolves
Did robert jordan ever finish that series or is he still writing it in the hereafter
this is the book where tobias kills and eats a rat and then tries to kill himself, mind. this was my takeaway from that book at the time
Brandon Sanderson was brought in to finish it and he went at every loose thread with intent to tie it up or cut it entirely, just taking a machete to all the cruft.
That's probably what that series deserves
So hard to focus
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I only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
There was a lot more sexual content in there than teen-me was expecting, but I kinda just skimmed past those parts.
nuclear post-apocalypse mutant and commie fightin' ultra macho jerk-off fantasies
they had a lot of sex scenes. I remember one basically like "her boobs were huge, really big, so big, but they're not saggy at all, because of a mutation."
They're all pretty fucked up mentally
you know a thing I love? it's like, Sean Bean, always dies of course. It was happenstance for a while but now I'm pretty sure people specifically cast Sean Bean as characters that die.
He was in Silent Hill and was the only main character that didn't die. he died in the sequel, tho, I think.
I remember watching Game of Thrones for the first time and it was with friends and I almost made a joke about how Sean Bean can’t possibly die since he’s the main character and then whelp
Also Ronin he doesn’t die.
oh! Kit Harington? Jon Snow. He was in Silent Hill 2 with Sean Bean, bringing it all back around. Silent Hill takes place in Westeros
It's amazing how terrible Hollywood is at transferring game narratives into movies. Silent Hill 2 is a deep psychological study of the hell we create in our own minds. It's literally people being haunted by their own demons. Pyramid Head is clearly intended to be a metaphor for James' id, specifically the aggressive psychosexual pathology and his guilt over the circumstances surrounding his wife's death.
The movies treat him like he's Jason Voorhees.
Hitman is a dark comedy where you plot out the Rube Goldberg deaths of powerful people creating a geopolitical web of conspiracies and espionage. It tells half the narrative through mission briefings and cutscenes and the other half through overheard dialogue and environmental clues observant players can make thoughtful use of in their assassination attempts. Hitman's one of the few franchises left where a high score means something and the best way to get the highest score is to kill your targets in a way that would leave people questioning whether they were even murdered or died in some darkly ironic accident. If there were a series of films to compare it to it would be James Bond as filtered through all of The Cohen Brothers films at once.
The movie is about a bald man who shoots people real good.
Too bad!
I didn’t choose this bird life, this bird life chose me
Stop the music
I just went on a nostalgia deep dive for a minute
Any of you all remember a little game called Mirage online???
in ronin his career as a merc dies, along with is pride
Yeah Anne MacCaffrey put a lot of thought into her mind-linked simultaneous telepathic dragon/dragon human/human sex scenes