Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:27 pm

Starmaker wrote:Today's Irregular Webcomic.

Not the comic itself, but the accompanying rant on the evils of Monopoly (the tabletop game).

Yes, that was inspired.

Jilocasin · Post by **Jilocasin** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:42 am

I always thought the point of Monopoly was to introduce children to the concept that if they own enough property they will eventually gain the ability to crush and then devour the souls of their adversaries.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:29 pm

Saw Walk Hard again last night with the GF.

I had forgotten, but that really is a really great movie. It's a spot-on parody of music movies. One of my favorites, plus I like John C. Reilly.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:46 am

TOZ wrote:On the subject of television, anyone here watch Castle?

I'm not sure I can forgive it for having someone tell Malcom Reynolds he needed to "Butch up"

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:02 pm

Nathan Fillion makes it all better, c.

Oh shi- Walk Hard. That was a movie that was so stupid I couldn't ignore it. And I wasn't even watching it, just listening to my roommate watch it. Funny, but stupid.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:46 pm

K wrote:
TOZ wrote:On the subject of television, anyone here watch Castle?
I do. I can't watch TV procedural most days, but this show is so good you forget the crime parts of it.

Amen. My wife and I watch Castle on hulu. I hate the "mystery" formula for TV shows, but love the character interplay. I pretty much ignore the crime stuff which sadly is a large portion of the show.

I almost entirely stopped watching mystery type shows since they are so stuck in their formula. I used to enjoy House almost solely for his clinic duty which was the most spontaneous and entertaining part, but he never does that any more. The only formula show that I 100% enjoy is Burn Notice. It is predictable to some degree but cool enough that I forgive it and write it love poems.*

There was 1 good episode of House recently though. Season 6, ep 14. Private Lives. I didn't really care about the patient-story despite it being the redhead from That 70's Show, but the House-Wilson-Chase interplay had me and my wife rolling.

*
Improvised bugs, bombs
and lots of Macguyvering.
Who could ask for more?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:52 pm

Higgs is just plain awesome. Definitely badass normal.

er... badass something anyway... forgot a couple things...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:10 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Higgs is just plain awesome. Definitely badass normal.

er... badass something anyway... forgot a couple things...

Oh god yes.

Everything thought I was crazy when I read his introduction. Laughing like a maniac and cheering will do that for you...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:14 pm

Maxus wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Higgs is just plain awesome. Definitely badass normal.

er... badass something anyway... forgot a couple things...
Oh god yes.

Everything thought I was crazy when I read his introduction. Laughing like a maniac and cheering will do that for you...

I'm betting some kind of jaeger heritage, or possibly being a very well built and autonomous clank.

I also like the hat the Jaegers gave to Gil...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:26 pm

Prak_Anima wrote: I'm betting some kind of jaeger heritage, or possibly being a very well built and autonomous clank.

I also like the hat the Jaegers gave to Gil...

I want that hat...Also

I give this rant a lot...

The Jaegers are still genetically human. They were all once human, but they're transformed by the Jaegerbrau, which is a Jekyll/Hyde thing permanently set to "Hyde". Any children Jaegers have are ordinary human human (as evidenced by Oggie and his 'great-great-great-grandson' and Lemarck not being right.)

He could be a Jaeger with a human-looking face. Given what he's done, I'm betting he's a Spark who's smart enough to lie low if he can.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:39 pm

Maxus wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote: I'm betting some kind of jaeger heritage, or possibly being a very well built and autonomous clank.

I also like the hat the Jaegers gave to Gil...
I want that hat...Also

I give this rant a lot...

The Jaegers are still genetically human. They were all once human, but they're transformed by the Jaegerbrau, which is a Jekyll/Hyde thing permanently set to "Hyde". Any children Jaegers have are ordinary human human (as evidenced by Oggie and his 'great-great-great-grandson' and Lemarck not being right.)

He could be a Jaeger with a human-looking face. Given what he's done, I'm betting he's a Spark who's smart enough to lie low if he can.

Sorry, I keep thinking Jaegger is inheritable at least to some degree. Given that his unusual abilities have thus far consisted of leaving a good three inch indent in a stone wall and being none the worse for wear, and smashing a powerful clank in half with a wrench (and possibly having the exact thing Agatha needed when coming up to her with a struggling and pissed off half a clank in his other hand) I'm betting he's not a spark so much as something created by a spark.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:47 pm

Looking at the page, I think he took the arms off the clank.

But he's shown sparky analysis/creation abilities.

He's going to be fun to find out about in, anyway.

It seems like Sparks, in D&D terms, can get a huge boost to Int and Charisma, and a equally huge penalty to Wis...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:00 pm

Maxus wrote:Looking at the page, I think he took the arms off the clank.

But he's shown sparky analysis/creation abilities.

He's going to be fun to find out about in, anyway.

It seems like Sparks, in D&D terms, can get a huge boost to Int and Charisma, and a equally huge penalty to Wis...

huh, you know, come to think of it, it's implied that sparks can specialize, even in ludicrously weird fields, it's at least vaguely possible that he's a spark who specialized in "Soldiering"

RiotGearEpsilon · Post by **RiotGearEpsilon** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:56 pm

Like the Ringing Vale monks from Anathem?

TavishArtair · Post by **TavishArtair** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:28 pm

He looks more like he's a Construct as equally well-built as Punch and Judy. But he could just be a badass normal. In comics, Luthor is allowed to take a full-on punch from Superman, go flying back, stand up, grin, and say "You can hit!" As opposed to, you know, disintegrating into monatomic particles from the force.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:45 pm

Punch and Judy are actually somewhat flawed constructs. Punch can't talk and has neck bolts, while Judy has one eye larger than the other. Somewhere in the background info, it's been stated they were early creations of the Heterodyne brothers, which explains their flaws.

But yeah, the way they've established things in the setting, Higgs could equally be a construct, a spark, or a 'normal' person. The extent of his skills that he wants secret indicates that his true nature is something important, but that doesn't say anything there.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:23 am

hmmm... looking over a summary of Higg's involvement, there are some interesting points to consider:
-He was in the "secret" "jaegger" bar
-He healed remarkably quickly, possibly aided by the Jaegger battle draught "slightly better than death"
-The Muse containing the Castle's consciousness "knows him"
-He has pointed ears

yeah, I'm thinking it's all leading up to him being some variation on Jaegger.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:07 pm

hiimdaisy makes Persona 4 at least twice as fun. I think this may be my favorite webcomic.

http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26044.html#cutid1

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:01 am

The ears thing doesn't seem like it would indicate anything. Most of the depictions of Tarvek show him with pointed ears, and he's certainly not of Jaegar blood.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:20 am

Avoraciopoctules wrote:hiimdaisy makes Persona 4 at least twice as fun. I think this may be my favorite webcomic.

http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26044.html#cutid1

Never played Persona, but after seeing what people have done with it, I now want to.

-Username17

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:38 am

If you are into Lets Plays, there are two available here: http://www.letsplayarchive.com/

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Persona%202/
http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Persona3/

I haven't finished 3, so I haven't read through that one, but I know that the narrator is in-character, portrayed as the protagonist's Livejournal or something.

I found the Eternal Punishment LP pretty entertaining, and there's a hilarious summary of the other half of P2 in this chapter: http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Persona%2 ... index.html

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:09 pm

Finished watching Code Geass not too long ago. For an anime with mecha I was surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:16 am

Great ass or Greatest ass? /old meme

Rejakor · Post by **Rejakor** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:59 am

I saw Code Geass about a year ago. It continually took my expectations and overcame them, and quickly I gained a lot of respect for it. However, it was only after the ending that it became my favourite anime of all time.

-Rejakor

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:01 am

Rollerskating robots are something I can get behind. Saw all of first season and have vague ideas (and spoiled ending) of season 2. Seemed good.