Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Moderator: Moderators
-
angelfromanotherpin
- Overlord
- Posts: 9749
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
Must...resist...full...geekout.
But the short geekout:
Monsters in the books can sort of tell when a demigod's nearby but can't be certain until they see a demigod actually use its powers.
The Furies actually went easy in the Lightning Thief because if they killed Percy, they wouldn't be able to find out where Percy had evidently hidden the junk--because he didn't have it on him (they could tell that, too).
So, dunno what the movie's done (Wanna see Avatar and Sherlock first), but the book covers it bases well.
But the short geekout:
Monsters in the books can sort of tell when a demigod's nearby but can't be certain until they see a demigod actually use its powers.
The Furies actually went easy in the Lightning Thief because if they killed Percy, they wouldn't be able to find out where Percy had evidently hidden the junk--because he didn't have it on him (they could tell that, too).
So, dunno what the movie's done (Wanna see Avatar and Sherlock first), but the book covers it bases well.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Pardon my lack of knowledge then. I've only read enough of Hercules to know that the Greek Gods are dicks.Maxus wrote:You don't know your greek mythology much, do you?
The greek gods weren't all-powerful. They weren't even all-aware. Sure, if they're paying attention they can do a lot, but they can be caught unawares.
I don't know how much the movie went into it, but the books do sort of imply that Kronos was egging his sons on--subtly, but still doing it.
There ain't no rest for the wicked.
befriend (v.): to use mecha-class beam weaponry to inflict grievous bodily harm on a target in the process of proving the validity of your belief system.
befriend (v.): to use mecha-class beam weaponry to inflict grievous bodily harm on a target in the process of proving the validity of your belief system.
They're essentially people.Nicklance wrote:Pardon my lack of knowledge then. I've only read enough of Hercules to know that the Greek Gods are dicks.Maxus wrote:You don't know your greek mythology much, do you?
The greek gods weren't all-powerful. They weren't even all-aware. Sure, if they're paying attention they can do a lot, but they can be caught unawares.
I don't know how much the movie went into it, but the books do sort of imply that Kronos was egging his sons on--subtly, but still doing it.
Ordinary, normal, run-of-the-mill people.
With superpowers and got their upbringing from their kindly father, who swallowed them whole rather than raise them, rather than a pair of loser farmers who stuck them with a bunch of 'morals'.
When you can turn people into animals or just flatten cities, you really don't need to be a compassionate, gentle person who sees the point of view of others.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Doubt it.Prak_Anima wrote:Ah, right. Though that still means the Fury couldn't have done shit to Percy...angelfromanotherpin wrote:The furies have no power over those who have not committed grievous crimes.
The Furies work for Hades, and I think he told them to go hang someone's guts on a fence, they'd do just that and Hades could apologize later for bending the rules.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
In the Percy Jackson books (which is fairly accurate as far I know. The guy who wrote it used to teach the stuff and sometimes the mythology contradicts itself), there are only three Furies, and they're the chief torturers in the Underworld and they're therefore subject to Hades' rule--and they're also his chief Henchmen.Prak_Anima wrote:Do they? Granted I haven't read many myths with the furies in them, but the modern stuff I've read generally does mythology pretty right and I never heard that...
They aren't super-powerful for monsters, but they're nasty enough that when all three of them showed up at once, the satyr started freaking out about how it's all three of the 'Kindly Ones' showing up--the first hint they got about just how much attention was focused on them and how important it was to not screw up.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I just have to say it.... Venture Brothers.
The first two seasons were so funny that sometimes I laughed so hard sound stopped coming out.
Now I just watch out of the hope that they might get their heads out of their asses. So far, it's been endless pedophilia jokes and episodes dedicated to explaining one-liners from Season 1.
It makes me wonder if all cartoon comedy writers burn out after two years (like Family Guy).
The first two seasons were so funny that sometimes I laughed so hard sound stopped coming out.
Now I just watch out of the hope that they might get their heads out of their asses. So far, it's been endless pedophilia jokes and episodes dedicated to explaining one-liners from Season 1.
It makes me wonder if all cartoon comedy writers burn out after two years (like Family Guy).
God, yes. Glad I'm not the only one.K wrote:I just have to say it.... Venture Brothers.
The first two seasons were so funny that sometimes I laughed so hard sound stopped coming out.
Now I just watch out of the hope that they might get their heads out of their asses. So far, it's been endless pedophilia jokes and episodes dedicated to explaining one-liners from Season 1.
It makes me wonder if all cartoon comedy writers burn out after two years (like Family Guy).
-
God_of_Awesome
- Knight-Baron
- Posts: 686
- Joined: Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:19 am
I've read this entire thread, waded through all of your nerd rage and I have become stronger for it.
Frank on the Fighter (Abridged)
FrankTrollman wrote:...God_of_Awesome wrote: Could I inquire on the motive behind the design decisions on the Fighter class?
The Fighter is intended to be, like the Wizard, a character who can and does adapt their tactics to the opposition and draws upon player experience to deliver tactical victories. And to do it without "feeling" like it was using Magic.
...
So honestly, when someone tells me "I know the game backwards and forwards, and when I pull out all the stops with the Fighter I totally win!" And my response is "OK, good." Because that's exactly what people report with the Wizard too.
-Username17
If you gave up half way through season 4, episodes 4x07 and 4x08 are actually good and worth checking out.Jilocasin wrote:God, yes. Glad I'm not the only one.K wrote:I just have to say it.... Venture Brothers.
The first two seasons were so funny that sometimes I laughed so hard sound stopped coming out.
Now I just watch out of the hope that they might get their heads out of their asses. So far, it's been endless pedophilia jokes and episodes dedicated to explaining one-liners from Season 1.
It makes me wonder if all cartoon comedy writers burn out after two years (like Family Guy).
-
Username17
- Serious Badass
- Posts: 29894
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
-
CryptoSolipsist
- 1st Level
- Posts: 25
- Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 6:48 am
There was a scene near the end of that episode, where the Monarch is advancing on Captain Sunshine, dressed as the Boy Wonder, salaciously telling him that he needs to fuck his archenemy dressed as his sidekick to exorcise his personal demons. My girlfriend absolutely refuses to watch that episode ever again, but has reluctantly admitted that she finds that particular bit to be the funniest scene not just from Venture Bros, but from any TV show ever.
-
CatharzGodfoot
- King
- Posts: 5668
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
- Location: North Carolina
I might have chuckled a few times. Didn't actually find it entertaining, though.FrankTrollman wrote:Frankly, if you didn't laugh your ass off through Handsome Ransom (Venture Brothers 4x02), I don't know what to say to you. They had the voice of Animated Batman as Captain Sunshine. Comedy fucking gold.
-Username17
[Edit] This is the one with the Waco/clone thing, right? [/Edit]
Last edited by CatharzGodfoot on Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
Captain Sunshine is the one with the superpowered pedophile called Captain Sunshine. If you saw the episode, you pretty much have to remember this.CatharzGodfoot wrote: [Edit] This is the one with the Waco/clone thing, right? [/Edit]
I still like the Venture Bros, though I thought the earlier seasons were better. Why the hell aren't any new ones coming out?
-
CatharzGodfoot
- King
- Posts: 5668
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
- Location: North Carolina
My bad, then. I'll download the real one.shau wrote:Captain Sunshine is the one with the superpowered pedophile called Captain Sunshine. If you saw the episode, you pretty much have to remember this.CatharzGodfoot wrote: [Edit] This is the one with the Waco/clone thing, right? [/Edit]
I still like the Venture Bros, though I thought the earlier seasons were better. Why the hell aren't any new ones coming out?
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
-
Ganbare Gincun
- Duke
- Posts: 1022
- Joined: Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:42 am
So Venture Brothers has managed to extract itself from the comedic wasteland that was Season 3 and has gotten back down to business, eh? That's some welcome news!FrankTrollman wrote:Frankly, if you didn't laugh your ass off through Handsome Ransom (Venture Brothers 4x02), I don't know what to say to you. They had the voice of Animated Batman as Captain Sunshine. Comedy fucking gold.
-Username17
There was an episode riffing off of 'The Shining' that had a wise old black dude turn the local small-town sheriff + SWAT on the Venture Compound, and a bunch of popup cardboard Ventures got the sheriff decrying the place as a religious compound.CatharzGodfoot wrote:[Edit] This is the one with the Waco/clone thing, right? [/Edit]
-
Sir Neil
- Knight-Baron
- Posts: 553
- Joined: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm
- Location: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
The radio was playing a song by David Guetta that features Akon musing about "tryin' to find the words to describe this girl without bein' disrespectful". Sadly, the best he could do was "sexy bitch". It's a shame, because the way he sang right before the chorus was very pretty, enough to prompt me to look up the lyrics.
Koumei wrote:If other sites had plenty of good homebrew stuff the Den wouldn't need to exist. We don't come here because we like each other.
-
Lago PARANOIA
- Invincible Overlord
- Posts: 10555
- Joined: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:00 am
edit: oops, wrong thread
Last edited by Lago PARANOIA on Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.