Starring Rick Yune as Korean Secret Agent Kang in a deep cover mission to infiltrate the HQ of the world's most powerful nuclear force in a gutsy move to save his homeland from invasion.
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OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, THE MOST PATRIOTIC MOVIE OF 2013
Starring Rick Yune as Korean Secret Agent Kang in a deep cover mission to infiltrate the HQ of the world's most powerful nuclear force in a gutsy move to save his homeland from invasion.
Starring Rick Yune as Korean Secret Agent Kang in a deep cover mission to infiltrate the HQ of the world's most powerful nuclear force in a gutsy move to save his homeland from invasion.
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whut?
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
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.
My pals at the indie bookstore turned up a loan for me--a book of paranormal detective short stories.
It contains a Sherlock Holmes story written by Neil Gaiman, called The Case of Death and Honey.
Or more or less opens with Sherlock's account of the death of Mycroft Holmes, from obesity. One neat bit is Sherlock saying, "The Empire died with him, but only us two knew about it. The only thing that made it even close to functional was Mycroft."
Not gonna spoil the plot, but I'm an old Sherlock fan and Gaiman knows his stuff. He's right--Watson really should have realized the beekeeping was not just beekeeping for its own sake.
It contains a Sherlock Holmes story written by Neil Gaiman, called The Case of Death and Honey.
Or more or less opens with Sherlock's account of the death of Mycroft Holmes, from obesity. One neat bit is Sherlock saying, "The Empire died with him, but only us two knew about it. The only thing that made it even close to functional was Mycroft."
Not gonna spoil the plot, but I'm an old Sherlock fan and Gaiman knows his stuff. He's right--Watson really should have realized the beekeeping was not just beekeeping for its own sake.
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.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
The book's called "Weird Detectives".
Anthology edited by Paula Guran
Anthology edited by Paula Guran
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.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
A Certain Magical Index episode 15 went from "The obligitary beach episode" to "the entire universe conspiring to fuck with Toma" in an impressively brief and hilarious timeframe.
And like ten seconds of playtime after I paused the episode to say that, it managed to top itself.
And like ten seconds of playtime after I paused the episode to say that, it managed to top itself.
Basically, a very large number of people, possibly everyone except Toma, has gotten replaced with someone else, and no one else is aware of this fact and they act exactly like who they swapped with. Highlights include Misaka Mikoto (Railgun) replacing Toma's cousin, Index replacing his mom, a fireball-slinging sorcerer replacing the sick inkeeper, some guy replacing Index, and Misaka's teleporting roomate replacing President Obama.
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DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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that sounds interesting, i will have to aquire a copy of that it seems.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Hulu isn't in germany.
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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oh, thanks O.o
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Epic Rap Battles of History: Mozart vs. Skrillex
The entire ERB video series is good stuff, but some of them tend to be kinda same-y (since its usually the same two dudes in costumes screaming at one another), but they hit this one out of the park.
The entire ERB video series is good stuff, but some of them tend to be kinda same-y (since its usually the same two dudes in costumes screaming at one another), but they hit this one out of the park.
This is possibly the worst episode in the series for me (which is saying something because I hate the entire damn thing). While I can believe there are people out there in the dark recesses of the world that looked at that episode, high as fuck obviously, and thought it was cool I still find it one of the most detestable episodes in the part of the series that I saw. I actually stopped watching after the episode where the fire mage showed up but my friend, feeding off of my rage at the episode had me watch that and a few other episodes just so I would rant more about how much I hate it.name_here wrote:A Certain Magical Index episode 15 went from "The obligitary beach episode" to "the entire universe conspiring to fuck with Toma" in an impressively brief and hilarious timeframe.
And like ten seconds of playtime after I paused the episode to say that, it managed to top itself.
Basically, a very large number of people, possibly everyone except Toma, has gotten replaced with someone else, and no one else is aware of this fact and they act exactly like who they swapped with. Highlights include Misaka Mikoto (Railgun) replacing Toma's cousin, Index replacing his mom, a fireball-slinging sorcerer replacing the sick inkeeper, some guy replacing Index, and Misaka's teleporting roomate replacing President Obama.
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I saw the GI Joe: Retaliation[/b] the other day, and I gotta say... it didn't suck. At least, not as much as I thought it would. Sure, there was some pretty stupid shit, like Storm Shadow not being dead despite dying fairly unambiguously in the last movie, and coming back without explanation, but still. The dude who played Zartan/The President looked like he was enjoying himself a great deal. And Bruce Willis was a delight, as he always is.
And the movie even has an info dump scene, which I thought only existed in Marvel comics!
Also, The Rock=Hammy Awesomeness.
I saw the GI Joe: Retaliation[/b] the other day, and I gotta say... it didn't suck. At least, not as much as I thought it would. Sure, there was some pretty stupid shit, like Storm Shadow not being dead despite dying fairly unambiguously in the last movie, and coming back without explanation, but still. The dude who played Zartan/The President looked like he was enjoying himself a great deal. And Bruce Willis was a delight, as he always is.
And the movie even has an info dump scene, which I thought only existed in Marvel comics!
Also, The Rock=Hammy Awesomeness.
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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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I thought GI Joe Retaliation was...okay. I didn't see the first one, I know nothing about GI Joe, I was going in solely as a The Rock fan hoping for big spectacle. So there was some stuff I liked, the early stuff with The Rock and Channing Tatum was fun, Zartan was fun, the warden dude was fun. But the fact that they spent so much time on Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes was just... bleugh. Boring and incomprehensible. Are they fan-favorite characters or what?
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Regarding the review, I did notice the nuclear weapons ban thing, but Zartan posing as the President was established in a post-credits scene in the first, so if that's an anti-Obama thing it started with the first movie.
Fully resolving their backstory was OK, but I kind of feel like the whole of it should have just been its own spin-off or something, and Storm Shadow somehow coming back from the dead with no explanation was really stupid.
Also, they made it out like Destro was going to be a big deal but then he is killed off really early on, with no explanation as to why Cobra suddenly wanted him dead (presumably because they couldn't get Christopher Eccleston to play him again,) and no explanation is given as to why Ripcord, Scarlett, and Baroness (all from the first movie) are suddenly gone.
Despite all these problems I'll say that G.I. Joe: Retaliation was a good mindless action movie overall.
Agreed on all counts, and I thought the warden dude was going to be a bigger character, since they went through a lot of trouble to make him a really slimy guy.John Magnum wrote:So there was some stuff I liked, the early stuff with The Rock and Channing Tatum was fun, Zartan was fun, the warden dude was fun.
Yes, they are fan-favorite characters, and they basically put in about 2/3 of their Marvel Comics backstory in this movie even though both were introduced in the first movie (where the first 1/3 was put in, and Storm Shadow died in the first one too, oddly enough.)But the fact that they spent so much time on Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes was just... bleugh. Boring and incomprehensible. Are they fan-favorite characters or what?
Fully resolving their backstory was OK, but I kind of feel like the whole of it should have just been its own spin-off or something, and Storm Shadow somehow coming back from the dead with no explanation was really stupid.
Also, they made it out like Destro was going to be a big deal but then he is killed off really early on, with no explanation as to why Cobra suddenly wanted him dead (presumably because they couldn't get Christopher Eccleston to play him again,) and no explanation is given as to why Ripcord, Scarlett, and Baroness (all from the first movie) are suddenly gone.
Despite all these problems I'll say that G.I. Joe: Retaliation was a good mindless action movie overall.
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).
The original was made in the 80s. They're ninjas. Of course they're fan favorites.John Magnum wrote: But the fact that they spent so much time on Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes was just... bleugh. Boring and incomprehensible. Are they fan-favorite characters or what?
Incidentally, Snake Eyes was originally a commando, not a ninja. They changed it at some point because they thought that ninjas were cooler. Now he's a commando and a ninja.
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Snake-Eyes was so popular, in fact, that in the nineties he had pretty much taken over the Marvel GI Joe comics as the main star, to the point that the comics were no longer just "GI Joe", but "GI Joe Featuring SNAKE-EYES".
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Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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