Moments when a piece of entertainment annoys you no end

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:34 am

The design of the jet pack is a fucking joke to begin with, and I can already tell, she'll drop the obviously terrified of heights Agatha, who'll scream and fall a total of maybe three feet. At worst, she'll sprain an ankle. I really hope Sturmvoraus actually takes the opportunity to shoot Zola, and that the gun doesn't turn out to be some not-a-weapon-at-all piece of recreational crap that just happens to look like a death ray. Though on the other hand... even if the suit works sans Agatha, flying isn't exactly that strenuous. If he doesn't shoot, and she takes off, she should explode after getting about a meter away from the castle, thanks to the moveit 11, or whatever. Which she won't, for some asinine reason.

I really hoping Foglio's trolling his fans, and not actually thinking this bit is good and compelling.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:00 pm

I was honestly fine with the plot until the latest time she showed up. It's now gotten irritating to me.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:56 pm

I was vaguely ok with it, but when she solved the "one more dose, go die" with what she was doing anyway (move around a lot and kill people), but more, it got really annoying.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:14 am

On the upside, we did get this sweet image to promote the use of the Tomes with:

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:19 am

Went and saw "Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn treader."

It was possibly the most Jesus of the three movies. Hell, Aslan even said the main reason for coming to Narnia was so that they can know and love the Earth-version of Aslan.

The books were bad enough. But having this movie rammed down my throat was serious bile-inducement. The first and second were not so Jesus. Of course, they hinted at it. I'd figure that to be par for the course. I was surprised that they stuck so close to the book on the third one for the Christian angle. I could make a point that the movie was distributed by 20th century Fox and Rupert Murdoch might have pushed. But I'm not sure if that's a far-fetched claim or not.

But I totally didn't enjoy the third movie compared to the other two. I blame this mostly to the Jesus.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:34 pm

Nothing was rammed down your throat. You were aware of how Jesus Dawn Treader was if you read the book, you willingly went to the movie.

There was nothing stopping you from leaving the movie theater.

Seriously, if you thought the novels were bad, why did you see the movie? I don't understand...

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:56 pm

First movie did pretty well. Second movie started tanking. Basically, some Jesus people were complaining about it not being Jesus enough. So they made it more Jesus. Thus, direct quoting the "I am teh Jesus!" line.

But I second, if you don't like the books, why are you watching the movies?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:19 pm

-Shrug- went to see it with my wife and kid. Also a perverse curiosity for things from my childhood. I also may be a masochist. This is just conjecture but this provides proof.

I should probably amend the "books=bad" remark by saying that when I was 10, they were cool and awesome. When I was 17, then the badness became apparent.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:36 pm

Minor but recurrent one from A Song of Ice and Fire:

Were Eddard Stark, his kids, his brother, and Tyrion the only people to bother attending class on the day of the direwolf lecture? I mean, it makes some sense when people anger the wolves when they're small dogs with nasty teeth, but by halfway through the first book they stand about four feet tall at the shoulder.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:03 pm

Indeed, it really seems like there'd be some natural respect (if not pants-crapping fear) at such creatures, especially if they're acting hostile towards you.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:19 pm

I don't know about anyone else, but large animals that I'm not familiar with at least make me slightly edgy.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:11 pm

Okay, even I am out of patience with Zola by now. There had BETTER be a huge payoff for this. Something like "She's secretly Klaus" except slightly less insane.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:30 am

name_here wrote:Okay, even I am out of patience with Zola by now. There had BETTER be a huge payoff for this. Something like "She's secretly Klaus" except slightly less insane.

Yeah, at this point I check in once a week, and skip past anything about Zola. I just don't fucking care.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:05 pm

So NatGeo has a new show, Beast Hunter, about a biologist, Pat Spain, going around and trying to identify or find various rumoured-to-exist creatures, so far some fully erect orangutan like thing in Sumatra, and a large, one eyed, hairy, clawed beast with a mouth in it's stomach, called the mapinguaro, I think.

It's actually a kind of cool show, but this guy is like the anti-Bear Grylls. He is such a wuss, that he called crossing a caldera lake in a canoe in the fog a nightmare because he was shivering, while every other person with him was perfectly fine, and not dressed any differently. It's looking like it's going to be a theme with each episode "let's see Pat be a complete fucking pussy about something the locals deal with without whining!" such as that rite of passage with the bullet ant mitts. Second episode. Delusions and whining and being a complete wuss while they were on, when the 12 year old boys next to him took it stoically. And once they were off and he could actually be a bitch, it was, of course, worse.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:22 pm

I was under the impression that doing the bullet ant thing was a rite of passage because being bitten by a bullet ant fucking hurts, hence the name.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:03 pm

yes, but he whined about it to an extreme extent, as I said, the 12 year old boys next to him, doing the same damn thing, were pretty stoic about it

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:07 pm

Some guy who isn't a pussy takes the bullet ants like a man. The problem with the bullet ants isn't the hundreds of stings that feel like red-hot needles being jammed under your skin--it's the poison's gradual ramp up to agony that takes place afterward.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:12 pm

For comparison, Pat Spain's ritual

to be fair, the guy seems like he may be bipolar...

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:20 pm

What a dramaqueen.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:45 am

Anyone else watching River Monsters? Damnation, that guys pulls the most hideious monstrosities out of rivers, it's positively freaky.

When I consider how much of my youth was spent splushing around the local waterways, I count myself lucky, would have never done it if I'd seen this show.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:31 pm

Flaky Pastry
Another webcomic that sets up a new story arc (let's go bring back our sociopath goblin friend who was magically given a conscience) but delays it to no end with stupid shit.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:41 am

Would someone please tell Phil Foglio that splash pages for a non-daily webcomic work best when a lot of action has been happening, or they are accompanied by another page, and that even dailies can't do them too often?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:14 pm

Personally, I like the massive showing-off of awesome things. The splash pages are actually of things that are pretty cool, unlike the massive splash pages in a certain other webcomic that I only read because apparently the author is like a Jekyll&Hyde of entertainment.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:14 pm

Yes, they're cool, I just kind of wish they were accompanied by a page that advanced the plot.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:14 am

Prak_Anima wrote:Would someone please tell Phil Foglio that splash pages for a non-daily webcomic work best when a lot of action has been happening, or they are accompanied by another page, and that even dailies can't do them too often?

GG is not primarily a webcomic. Foglio writes his material for the TPBs.