Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Mon May 30, 2011 11:52 am

You can blame Dragonball for the tournament arc bullshit.

Anyway, Scott Adams is an embarrassment. His comic reads like it was written by the worst stereotype of an engineer: a humorless, misanthropic, passive-aggressive, lazy, know-nothing know-it-all. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that his RL personality has devolved into that since it was telegraphed by the decline of the comic years ago, but goddamn. At least Garfield still occasionally makes me smile/laugh and Bloom County was making jokes about how stale that comic was over two decades ago.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Mon May 30, 2011 11:56 am

erik wrote:Well he did have the string comic which already showed that they cared for each other. Meh. I am still bored with the Elan's dad arc.

This would actually be a pretty decent arc if Burlew didn't degrade to his schedule of 'update once a week MAYBE'.

Fuchs · Post by **Fuchs** » Mon May 30, 2011 12:25 pm

And he has a number of nice surprises, like the dinosaur rampage that freed the two bounty hunters - and Elan's dad's reaction to it.

Datawolf · Post by **Datawolf** » Tue May 31, 2011 12:55 am

I recently read a novel called The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb. It was one of the most well written, amazing Gothic ghost stories I'd ever read.

Except for the ending. The entire novel is a massive build-up to a confrontation with a terrifying foe only to have the whole thing resolved in a paragraph by...

... the protagonist basically telling the villains to get lost.

If you're a fan of gothic/ghost stories I would recommend that you get a copy of this book and read the whole thing except for the last chapter and just make up your own damn ending.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:55 pm

Dragon Age just lost me, and I haven't even played it, because of golems.

Golems are made by murdering people on a magic anvil, trapping their soul, then putting that soul into a golem body.

THAT'S NOT A GOLEM!!!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:01 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Dragon Age just lost me, and I haven't even played it, because of golems.

Golems are made by murdering people on a magic anvil, trapping their soul, then putting that soul into a golem body.

THAT'S NOT A GOLEM!!!

I beg to differ. Shale is freakin' awesome.

And it works better than you think.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:07 pm

Maxus wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Dragon Age just lost me, and I haven't even played it, because of golems.

Golems are made by murdering people on a magic anvil, trapping their soul, then putting that soul into a golem body.

THAT'S NOT A GOLEM!!!
I beg to differ. Shale is freakin' awesome.

And it works better than you think.

Yes, it works, but it's not a golem... it's a complicated zombie.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:07 pm

Mangas usually lose me when they turn from whatever they were about (monster hunting, conspiracy, fantasy world saving) into fighting tournament wank.

see the problem with mangas is that they are shitty all around. at least when a fighting tournament is animated, it can look cool, and I can look up the videos on youtube to see some of the more interesting fight scenes. but there's really no excuse to be reading mangas anyway.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:12 pm

Didn't want to derail the MLP thread.

What the fuck is with the love of Flapjack and Adventure Time? The art is fucking terrible.

Xaolin Showdown was just a terribly cliche story. The concept is cool.

Ravengm · Post by **Ravengm** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:12 pm

Psychic Robot wrote:
Mangas usually lose me when they turn from whatever they were about (monster hunting, conspiracy, fantasy world saving) into fighting tournament wank.
see the problem with mangas is that they are shitty all around. at least when a fighting tournament is animated, it can look cool, and I can look up the videos on youtube to see some of the more interesting fight scenes. but there's really no excuse to be reading mangas anyway.

The translations tend to be higher-quality since they don't have to account for "the flap", but yeah, that's about it.

I guess that it could be considered cheaper than anime too, but I suspect that anime is mostly acquired in less-than-legal manners.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:51 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Didn't want to derail the MLP thread.

What the fuck is with the love of Flapjack and Adventure Time? The art is fucking terrible.

First, I can't speak for Flapjack.
Second, I agree the art is terrible.

But despite this, Adventure Time is awesome. The D&D in-jokes, the constant hurling shit past the radar, the general zaniness...it's a hilarious show.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:13 am

PoliteNewb wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Didn't want to derail the MLP thread.

What the fuck is with the love of Flapjack and Adventure Time? The art is fucking terrible.
First, I can't speak for Flapjack.
Second, I agree the art is terrible.

But despite this, Adventure Time is awesome. The D&D in-jokes, the constant hurling shit past the radar, the general zaniness...it's a hilarious show.

Neh, I'm an art snob, being something vaguely similar to an artist myself, so it takes a lot to get me to overlook a bad, or simplistic art style. XKCD is frequently hilarious, and occasionally shows that the stick figures are just a stylistic suck thing because the Randy does very complex pictures that show a great deal of ability. OotS, I guess, has the same things going for it as Adventure Time, or did, but also is a very refined use of a simplistic style (which isn't even all that simple if you've ever tried to make an OotS style character...)

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Adult Swim/Cartoon Network use this method for coming up with new shows:

Quantumboost · Post by **Quantumboost** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:10 am

Prak_Anima wrote:Yes, it works, but it's not a golem... it's a complicated zombie.

Uh

If something is made out of rock, without using any actual corpses, why are you calling it a zombie? It's more of a ghost possessing a giant statue.

You know, like a D&D golem, except with ghost instead of earth elemental.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:27 am

Quantumboost wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Yes, it works, but it's not a golem... it's a complicated zombie.
Uh

If something is made out of rock, without using any actual corpses, why are you calling it a zombie? It's more of a ghost possessing a giant statue.

You know, like a D&D golem, except with ghost instead of earth elemental.

Voodoo zombie, basically.
but yeah.

and I realized earlier that my mind is just working weirdly, because it will accept a golem animated with a human soul if the golem is made from a body, and it will accept sacrifice magic being used to create the energy to power the golem, but it won't accept a statue moved by a possessing ghost as a golem.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:24 am

if mangas had a halfway decent translation, I might be interested in reading them. gave up after five pages of elfen lied. that opening scene in the anime is pretty awesome, though.

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:06 pm

I HATE ADVENTURE TIME! All of it, completely. It has to be one of the most pointless shows I've ever laid eyes on. Its right on up there with the Tim and Eric show from Adult Swim.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:28 pm

Xavier: "Welp, it's a place we know Magneto frequents. It's too dangerous to send the children/a large group would be found too easily, so we need a single person to go, alone, without backup."
Wolverine: "Got it. My metal bones totally won't screw me over if Magneto pops up."
-Every fucking x men franchise, eventually.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:09 pm

Wait, wolverine is in "First class?"

I guess they didn't care about the whole pre-68 thing that first class is supposed to represent.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:10 pm

Cynic wrote:Wait, wolverine is in "First class?"

I guess they didn't care about the whole pre-68 thing that first class is supposed to represent.

I don't know, I actually haven't seen First Class yet, but it happened in the movies before anyway. For some reason, they always give Wolverine that idiot ball at some point.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:55 am

Wolverine is over 200 years old. He fought in the Civil War. He doesn't have his admantium bones until much later, but he's around and kicking in the 50's and 60's

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:29 am

Playing through ME1 because fuck ME2 Krogan, I am reminded that, although the plot is greatly superior to ME2 overall, Shepard spends about half an hour coming off like a raving lunatic. It's somewhat grating.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:21 am

(I've been watching X Men Evolution on Hulu, hence the X Men stuff of late)

I get the feeling that the major reason people think Angel is an angel is not so much his wings (though they get the ball rolling) but his good looks. If you were saved by some average looking, might sorta be handsome, but he's a bit too overweight, shmuck who happened to have wings, I really doubt you'd be thinking "holy carp, it's an angel," rather than "WTF!?" Hell, imagine Ron Jeremy with fluffy white angel wings just pulled you out of a burning building. Are you really going to be thinking he's a literal angel from heaven?

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:15 am

name_here wrote:Playing through ME1 because fuck ME2 Krogan, I am reminded that, although the plot is greatly superior to ME2 overall, Shepard spends about half an hour coming off like a raving lunatic. It's somewhat grating.

Look I hate Mass Idiocy and it's sequel as much as any bastard.

But I just played a little game called 'Alpha Protocol'.

And if you think HE came off bad on his chat lines holy crap you need to play (or perhaps need to NOT play) Alpha Protocol.

The designers for Alpha Protocol SAID that you were choosing between three and a bit options for every dialogue choice and they were themed along the lines of James Bond, That Guy From 24, Some Other Guy.

Let me tell you now YOU NEVER say anything like James Bond. You generally sound more like that sleazy stupid guy from generic sitcom of your choice edit: Fry from Futurama impersonating James Bond, only a lot less funny.

Or you just pick "professional" wasting less time in STUPID chat while also getting bigger "I like this guy, he doesn't sound like sleazy stupid sitcom stereotype guy!" bonuses from almost every NPC.

Also the game is generally bad in a lot of other ways, most notably serious loading jitter, forced brawling in a stealth based game, and a fucking bullshit helicopter.

The game is supposed to be rich and diverse with multiple paths to variant outcomes and crap. I considered re-playing it, or maybe JUST replaying the last level just to do some bullshit "get the girl" ending.

Then I realized I would have to fight Bullshit Helicopter again and I thought "Bullshit". So no. Not doing that.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:12 pm

NO, I don't mean that he isn't old.

X-men first class was specifically made to include the original x-men that were created prior to 1968.

He first appeared in Comics in 1947 1974 according to wiki.

That's what I was talking about.

Edit: fixed 1947 to 1974. stupid typo.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:41 am

Blicero wrote: Rich is doing that stupid thing where you're randomly supposed to care about some badguys despite gleefully ignoring how most badguys are cheerfully slaughtered. You as the reader have no reason to care about those two dinosaurdudes. At all. They've gotten pretty much no characterization, they've been just as dickish as Belkar but not nearly as entertaining. It was a blatant attempt to pull at your heartstrings and it fail'd.

It's honestly hard to tell whether that was supposed to be the joke since he's done that kind of thing before and intentionally, but that's the second-biggest thing that bugs me about the comic because it makes you wonder whether the author was serious about it or not.

The biggest thing that bugs me about the comic is the schedule. I remembered when OotS updated 3 times a week and that's when the author had a job. Updating once every two weeks is just unacceptable, I stopped reading as of last month.