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Actually, I take that back upon watching some Superman cartoons on YouTube (while simultaneously watching them on my PS3).

These are actually quite enthralling. The animation and voice-acting is better than I remember. I love the feeling of motion the cartoon gives you when Superman is flying in particular. So I'm upgrading it from 'watchable' to PDG.
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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.
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Anyone else checked out the A-Team movie? I found myself thinking 'this is absolutely ridiculous and I don't mind one bit!' I'd say it doesn't take itself too seriously and just runs with refuge in audacity.
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I loved the A Team movie, especially the cameos after the credits.
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I am very much looking forward to seeing it, there had better be an absolutely perfect "I love it when a plan comes together."
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Mr T didn't like it.

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Crissa wrote:Mr T didn't like it.

-Crissa
I saw an article about that. He felt it was too edgy--too much sex and violence, and said apparently the often-goofy tone of the old A-team doesn't sell these days.

I've heard the guy filling his old role on the team has been causing problems on the set, too.
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That would explain the lack of a Mr. T cameo, I was kind of wondering about that. And I'm not surprised, very rarely does the old guard like the new young turks.


Airbender keeps cracking me up, starting with penguins reacting to Aang in a way that makes Scotsmen/hillbilly and sheep jokes pop up in my mind, and continuing with Iroh and Zuko's attempt to lie about what happened to their ship being a perfect example of a couple guys with no ranks in Diplomacy forced into a social situation.
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Prak_Anima wrote: continuing with Iroh and Zuko's attempt to lie about what happened to their ship being a perfect example of a couple guys with no ranks in Diplomacy forced into a social situation.
Ha! Yes!
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Jilocasin wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote: continuing with Iroh and Zuko's attempt to lie about what happened to their ship being a perfect example of a couple guys with no ranks in Diplomacy forced into a social situation.
Ha! Yes!
Iroh has a ton of ranks in Diplomacy, but sometimes rolls a natural 1.

Iroh is awesome. He is far and away one of the most awesome characters in the show.
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

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no, I'd say Iroh has tons of charisma, not necessarily much diplomacy.

but yes, he's awesome
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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just started watching "Ong Bak 2" on netflix's watch instantly.

The movie starts out with all the sponsors for the movie even before anything happens. It's a little silly and sad but it rocked my world that they show it upfront and tell you who they got money from to make the film rather than at the end credits. yeah this isn't really rocking enough for this topic.

But Netflix's watch instantly rocks my world everytime I use it!
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I think I just damaged an optic nerve from eyerolling at people using D&D terms to describe non-D&D things.

I mean, really.
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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.
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Is 'There Will Be Brawl' any good or is it one of those things that gets praised all of the time but actually sucks when you look at it past the surface, like, oh, Chrono Cross? I've heard a lot of praise from the series, but the things people say that makes the series awesome seems like things that would make me want to avoid the series altogether like
Samus being a hooker or Kirby being the evil mastermind
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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.
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I've seen it and though I watched it all I don't feel that it was particularly good or bad. I'd say it was "interesting".
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I lol'd.
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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

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Maxus wrote:I lol'd.
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Hehe thats pretty good, I'll have to look at some more of those.
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Leverage is back on!
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Just watched the full five episodes of Afro-samurai on Hulu, as well as the movie that came after it. Kinda epic.
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Hulu has the first three episodes of "The gates" which seems to be an attempt at a show about a community for supernatural creatures living normal lives in a gated community. It shows a little promise but seems semi desperate housewivesy in humor/drama attempts.

I'm only 10 mins in the 2nd episode so I can't really judge it too well. But attempts to show a vampire family trying to raise an adopted child and having to deal with whatever unsaid social trauma and risk of getting to keep their child is pretty cool.
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I watched Aliens vs Ninjas yesterday at the Fantasia film festival, here in Montreal.

I haven't had this much fun watching a movie in a long while.

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Equilibrium is a good movie.
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Psychic Robot wrote:Equilibrium is a good movie.
You mean the one with Keanu Ree- OH no no I mean Christian Bale.

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Nicklance wrote:
Psychic Robot wrote:Equilibrium is a good movie.
You mean the one with Keanu Ree- OH no no I mean Christian Bale.

don't lynch me...
I like Equilibrium. The fight scenes are eye-catching, at least.

Also, funny thing is, Bale's next movie was The Machinist, where he literally starved himself down to look like a guy who hadn't slept in a year.

And his next role was Batman Begins
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

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Anyone else enjoy Predators?
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It was ok, wish they'd done more with Topher Grace's character, wish the more interesting characters, like Trejo's and the Sudanese terrorist(?) had gotten more screen time, but it was entertaining.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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