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Count Arioch the 28th
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:58 pm

I do like the art upgrade, although I don't know why anyone says the animation in the old one was better (if it was any worse, it'd be completely unwatchable).
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Post by angelfromanotherpin » Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:47 pm

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I do like the art upgrade, although I don't know why anyone says the animation in the old one was better (if it was any worse, it'd be completely unwatchable).

They might be remembering the old opening titles, which are extremely slick; and not the actual running footage, which is indeed quite shoddy.
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Post by Prak » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:41 am

I move that denizens study this list of insults from around the world, in order to give our constant flame wars that little touch of culture.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Cynic » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:26 pm

> Prak_Anima wrote:I move that denizens study this list of insults from around the world, in order to give our constant flame wars that little touch of culture.

a few more from Tamil. spoiler NSFW
onga pathi ongakku pooluh obunnduh porra -- your grandma is going to your sister's dick.
onnudo chinna oobundhuh oddu kutthi mayaru romba perisa irrika - your tiny dick has quite a lot of large [EDITED] hairs.
That's just a few. I can think of somemore when my brain remembers more tamil.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:36 pm

I've been told that the irish insults in that article are so grammatically incorrect to be incoherent.
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Post by K » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:19 pm

So I watched Young Justice, a new Justice League spin-off.
It's kind of terrible, and yet I watched every episode.
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Post by Prak » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:00 pm

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I've been told that the irish insults in that article are so grammatically incorrect to be incoherent.

Well, they are Irish....
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:20 pm

> Prak_Anima wrote:

> > Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I've been told that the irish insults in that article are so grammatically incorrect to be incoherent.

> Well, they are Irish....

I'll be more specific. I've been told by Gaelic speakers that the insults on the cracked.com article that are in Gaelic aren't actually proper Gaelic and don't actually mean anything at all.
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Post by Prak » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:30 pm

Oh, well that doesn't really surprise me. The Cracked writers probably just did a search, and used google translate as necessary, and we all know how reliable that can be...
On another note, today's OotS was strangely satisfying. Perhaps it's because V got back to a type of joke prevalent in older stories, perhaps because it shows that there is, in fact, one intelligent member of the Linear Guild.
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Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Cynic » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:05 pm

I'm watching "The Blind side." It's a decent movie. That isn't the part that makes this rock to me.
I'm watching this movie with my five-year-old daughter.
It's interesting to explain homelessness and the idea of people who have no family. She takes to the idea and seems to understand it at what it sounds like. I can't really expect her to get the emotional response of whatever sort. The TV has her transfixed, as usual. But slowly I see her understand understand the top molecular skein of the top peel of this onion.
She seems happy when she sees the good things happening to the family.

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Post by Maj » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:17 am

> K wrote:So I watched Young Justice, a new Justice League spin-off.
> It's kind of terrible, and yet I watched every episode.

I have a horrible weakness for shows with that animation style. Apparently, my brain associates them with Batman and Teen Titans and registers it as something awesomer than it actually is.
Is the second [half of the first?] season of that out yet?
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Post by violence in the media » Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:55 am

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is excellent. You should go see it.
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Post by Prak » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:46 am

It really is. My friend and I were debating how much of the pre-juicing ape behaviour was realistic. I maintain that even
the gorilla not immediately killing Caesar at it's first opportunity
was perfectly reasonable ape behaviour. There are also some neat shout outs if you've any knowledge on the various studies of apes.
Oh, and I've officially dubbed the Orangutan "The Librarian." Alternatively, "Dr. Zaius."
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Maxus » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:03 am

> Prak_Anima wrote:
> Oh, and I've officially dubbed the Orangutan "The Librarian."

Ook!
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.
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Post by DSMatticus » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:19 am

> violence wrote:Rise of the Planet of the Apes is excellent. You should go see it.

I have trouble believing this. The trailers have made it look like a joke. Or maybe that was just me and I'm too cynical.
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Post by Prak » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:25 am

It was just you, DSM. The trailers, or at least one or two of them, were amazing.
This one, in particular.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by DSMatticus » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:49 am

That one does look a lot more believable. The clips I'd seen were playing up the violence part, making it look like a film about a violent, super-intelligent ape revolution, which is a stupid premise.
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Post by cthulhu » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:58 am

Yeah, the trailers we are getting in Australia look retarded. Fully half the length of the trailer is dedicated to these bizarre scenes of apes with spears taking out men with shotguns as the primary focus, and that's a dumb.
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Post by Prak » Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:35 am

Actually, the apes with spears part was pretty awesome, in my opinion. But I've seen the full movie, where it was probably executed a lot better than in the trailer.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by cthulhu » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:07 am

The trailer it's just apes doing a WWI change against a machine gun and not dying. Which offends my senisibilities, having seen Gallilopi.
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Post by Prak » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:14 am

In the movie, it's super smart apes attacking a battalion of police from three directions (head on, from above, and from below), coming out of the fog, and some apes do in fact die. I imagine not more died (on screen) because it's a lot of apes, and only a few machine guns, iirc, so bullets are more spread out amongst some pretty tough targets.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by PhoneLobster » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:34 am

The new Chinese Ghost Story movie is OK.
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Post by violence in the media » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:00 pm

> DSMatticus wrote:That one does look a lot more believable. The clips I'd seen were playing up the violence part, making it look like a film about a violent, super-intelligent ape revolution, which is a stupid premise.

Ignore the trailers, they're just trying to make it out to be SUMMER ACTION BLOCKBUSTER, and stay through the credits.
The 2 things I liked best about the movie was that it called out humanity on our total inability to have a cohesive method for recognizing non-human intelligences as equals, and it presented the idea that the Planet of the Apes was not of the ape's own making. They didn't take the planet so much as inherit it.
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Post by Josh_Kablack » Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:21 am

The first two panels of todays Sinfest accurately depict a meme of growing traction around here:
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4008
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Post by Prak » Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:47 am

I love how in Pokemon Leaf/Fire, the ghosts in Pokemon Tower will always use Curse very early on, so my captured ghost can hit them with an attack, then the opponent uses curse and loses half it's health, and then I can hit it again, and grind xp on pokemon of the same level because the AI is dumb.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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