Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:09 pm

The Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics have really been on the ball lately.

Foxwarrior · Post by **Foxwarrior** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:56 am

Man of Steel is now my favorite movie about people having fistfights while moving supersonically through walls under their own power.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:43 pm

I still love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQ-h_2WGkw

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:26 pm

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:23 am

JDCorley's 293 Pages Of Forgotten Realms Adventure Seeds
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?228 ... ture-Seeds

p. 22 - instruments of Faerun, including the wargong, made from the shields of fallen enemies

Controversy rocks Waterdeep as the avante garde Harpreet Theater Company over their new production of the classic "War Against The Horde". They've inverted the story to be one that depicts highly favored heroes as drunken louts and orcs as misunderstood noble warriors. What makes this impolitic production even more outrageous is the use of actual shields from the war as the wargong basis for the spectacular musical number "Charge of the Raiders". The worst part? It's an amazingly good production. As veterans of the war protest outside and connossieurs of music and art flock to the theater, the worst occurs - a faction of half-orc descendants of the rapes that occurred in the Horde wars demands the return of the shields of their ancestors. Your weedy aristocratic PCs are caught in the middle of it - they're all investors in the Theater, but their business interests are threatened by the expanding conflict. Can they reconcile all of the battling factions without losing their shirts? And what about the crush that the lead develops on one of the PCs? The histrionics of the orchaestra leader? And how do you choreograph a dance with both halflings and half-elves on the stage at once? If you draw a straight line between every Mickey Rooney "let's put on a show" movie ever made, "Shakespeare In Love", and "The Producers", you reach the Harpreet Theater Company and this crazy adventure.

2FYEW: (sings) "SPRING time for EL minster AND Shadowdaaaaaale..."

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:35 am

ubernoob wrote:
Ancient History wrote:I still love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQ-h_2WGkw
wut

The Flash has a relationship with his city and his rogue's gallery that is... different from what other heroes have. I'm hoping that Zack Snyder captures that in the Flash movie (scheduled for 2016). I'm guessing he won't, which will be a shame.

-Username17

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:59 pm

Maybe it will happen in the Arrow spin-off?

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:20 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:
ubernoob wrote:
Ancient History wrote:I still love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQ-h_2WGkw
wut
The Flash has a relationship with his city and his rogue's gallery that is... different from what other heroes have. I'm hoping that Zack Snyder captures that in the Flash movie (scheduled for 2016). I'm guessing he won't, which will be a shame.

-Username17

That clip was awesome. Is Flash chill like that because he's basically a benevolent deity (so fast nothing is a threat, and so speedy he can give everyone some personal attention) or is he just the coolest dude among all the tights-wearers? Edit: Also, is that behavior considered canon or is it something they invented for the animated series?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:36 pm

Comics Flash, it depends on who's writing him, but in general his rogue's gallery is way more chill than Batman or Superman's, he quips like Spider-Man, and there is a Flash Museum.

But the Timmverse Flash is just perfect. "Got me again Flash!"

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:00 pm

Most of Flash's rogues gallery (Grodd and Antiflash/Reverse Flash/whatever his name is being exceptions) are guys who just rob banks and such. I don't know their actual backstories, but basically Flash's rogues are what you would get if a bunch of blue collar workers couldn't find work but were able to throw boomerangs really well, or cobble together a melta/freeze gun, or a weather wand. Batman has seriously bought them off before. Hell, even Grodd's been bought off with a donation to a classical music station he listens to when he's in prison.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:46 pm

I'd never actually read the first paragraph of the Paladin entry in the Player's Handbook:
"The compassion to pursue good, the will to uphold law and the power to defeat evil--these are the three weapons of the paladin."

Me: "And greatswords" Four! The four weapons of the paladin are the compassion to pursue good, the will to uphold law, the power to defeat evil, and greatswords. "Also special mounts." Five! The five weapons of-- "oh, and magic spells." Six--Among the weapons of the paladin are...

Of course Church of England paladins just go around offering cake or death.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:57 pm

Except the Paladins don't especially have the power to defeat evil. A Good cleric or a Good wizard has more. And can do it while also able to significantly contribute against non-Evil opposition!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:56 am

I don't care whether it's accurate or not, that's literally the first line of the Paladin entry in the PHB, and it made me think of the Spanish Inquisition skit from Monty Python.

The fact that they're not particularly effective at fighting evil just makes it more appropriate.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:17 am

Prak_Anima wrote:Most of Flash's rogues gallery (Grodd and Antiflash/Reverse Flash/whatever his name is being exceptions) are guys who just rob banks and such. I don't know their actual backstories, but basically Flash's rogues are what you would get if a bunch of blue collar workers couldn't find work but were able to throw boomerangs really well, or cobble together a melta/freeze gun, or a weather wand. Batman has seriously bought them off before. Hell, even Grodd's been bought off with a donation to a classical music station he listens to when he's in prison.

Yep. Because noting says that you really don't give a fuck like using your ultracompact weather control technology to rob banks for thousands of dollars instead of patenting and licensing it for billions.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:23 am

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:42 pm

Got to see Knights of Badassdom last night. Despite the years-long wait of Hollywood legal hell, the movie met or exceeded my expectations.

Go tjeck it out.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:05 pm

The Lego Movie is amazing and everyone should watch it.

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:40 pm

Chamomile wrote:The Lego Movie is amazing and everyone should watch it.

Agreed. My wife and I watched it on Monday and quite enjoyed it. I like Movie Bob's Review, which is less about the plot of the movie and more about him being surprised as hell that Lego and Warner Bros. allowed Phil Lord and Chris Miller to actually make this movie. Why wasn't this a boring, formulaic bit of cinematic pablum?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:00 pm

Fox News believes the Lego Movie is anti-capitalist.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:50 am

They also called Mass Effect an alien lesbian sex simulator.

Which contributed to me playing a female Shepard.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:20 pm

I played Shantae: Risky's Revenge. It was glorious.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:04 am

http://www.mangareader.net/assassination-classroom/8/5
"There is no step 2"

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:12 am

Bah, proud USA doesn't do well with shitty little .22 bullets. Give us giant anti-tank guns, and we'll show you how real men win ski-shoot-a-thons
in fairness to the us competitor, the target hardly looks like a black teenager at all

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:27 am

I've heard the USA dominated that before, but then the event was changed to .22lr rifles. Saw old teams using Mosin-Nagants in the 60s and stuff, so it seems like it could be true.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:11 pm

http://pokebeach.com/2008/07/second-pok ... ing-points

So then I said, “Why can’t you just ditch Brock, have Ash, have Misty, and then bring in a new boy? That would be switching up things instead of having a new girl.”� His following answers made me laugh my head off I had to pick it up off the floor and reattach it. He stated that they like to switch up the girls because it gives the boys some new eye candy every once in a while.

That boils the brain.