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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 26, 2009, 04:39:16 PM »
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: November 26, 2009, 04:27:10 PM »
IMG]http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j241/guergy/RedSeriousBusiness.jpg[/IMG]
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: November 26, 2009, 03:53:50 PM »
For a minute there I thought you like a girl, you are trap a Flame.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 26, 2009, 02:45:53 AM »
I am stuck on a boss on MegaMan Zero, I suck hard.
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 26, 2009, 02:44:51 AM »
"I understand but please understand, I don't want ot be shot!"
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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.
« on: November 26, 2009, 02:42:53 AM »
"Sorry Sephiroth but Shinra has claimed more lives all over Gaia than you ever did in Nibelhelm."
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 25, 2009, 04:22:03 PM »"I can't play a fighting game for s***. I don't know about FPSs, though... Never played one..."
Me neither, I cannot believe that I have to practice ten thousand [tornado fang]ing buttons for one combo.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: November 25, 2009, 04:17:45 PM »
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 25, 2009, 02:19:15 AM »
Man, I wish I had drawn my own fanart when I see the arts of everyone here, it just makes me ashamed knowing that I could have been one of them. I can't draw for beans and even my stick figures pale in comparision to other peoples.
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 25, 2009, 02:13:47 AM »
"Didn't the Falcons got right place last season?"
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 24, 2009, 08:35:59 PM »
One day, I am going to make my own H Doujin game with everything I like with twice the H scenes but maybe I will cut the scenes entirely and just amke the game.
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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.
« on: November 24, 2009, 08:31:31 PM »
"But it was my fault!!!"
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:19:01 AM »
Well, the thing is I feel particularity confident now than I was in the morning, I really needd to get my life on track. It is like ever since I stopped going to school, I had been going downhill and steadily losing my mind but despite I keep holding on and I try to get back into school. The real way that I could do that is if I could I pay off some money so that I can get the credits and transfer into another school, otherwise my parents will be all over [parasitci bomb] and they will never let me forget it. Has anyone been given the "lazy" despite doing everything they can to find a job? IT is gfoing to take me half a year to pay some things off but I go to keep at it because it is the only thing I can do right now.
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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:13:03 AM »
"You wield a huge [tronado fang]ing sword! you must have great upper body strength."
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:11:15 AM »
"now to care of the FF villians and rule the world. I had delayed this far too long."
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ZX / Re: What's up with ZX3?
« on: November 23, 2009, 02:48:29 AM »
I thought Mega Man's gameplay was just choosing one of the eight levels, beat the boss and gain his weapon, use new weapon on another boss until you beaten all the bosses and move on to the fortress levels where after going through all that danger, you finally face off against Wily.
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 23, 2009, 02:44:00 AM »
"Black Mage pwns all! Black Mage >>>>>> Garland."
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 22, 2009, 04:09:11 PM »
Man, it is like a game barely comes out and already there is fanart of said game or maybe I am behind the times realizing too late that there a game out. For some reason, I feel ike going on a massive final fantasy marathon, I think I will play the game today and I will play it for hours.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 22, 2009, 02:57:14 AM »
Oddly enough despite my earlier post on hot bloodedness, after watching a scene of Gurren Lagann and viewing a Super Saiyan 2 Gohan vs. Cell amv I feel hot blooded now....but I will be depressed later.
Good Insight.
I just feel the need to throw this point out there. And please, let this be the last - or one of the last - words on this trite and reviled subject.
Stephanie Meyer is not a good writer. Just open any of her books at any page and, within moments, you will see that. So why is she so successful? One simple reason:
She has a winning formula.
Back in the Good Old Days, vampires were monsters. Go back to Slavic folklore, for example, or Bram Stoker's hallmark novel Dracula; they were creatures to be feared and loathed. Even though Count Dracula was a stylish aristocrat - especially as portrayed by a one Mr. Bela Lugosi - he was also a wicked being, an evil man who used other people for his own selfish purposes. Skip forward a few decades to the Anne Rice era. Suddenly, vampires are not the scary, brooding, haemophiliac demons they once were. Why? Well, obviously Ms. Rice took the "style" portion from Count Dracula's "stylish villainy" and transformed that into a romantic anti-hero in the form of Lestat. Vampires were no longer monsters or demons; they were attractive, seductive and misunderstood misanthropes. Female readers swooned. Vampires began to lose credibility. The "goth" subculture/social clique, in particular, were fascinated by this concept - a handsome, sophisticated and elegant, yet socially shunned and feared Casanova! The kind of character they could admire and adore. The trend continued. Gradually, it seemed, the idea of a monstrous and evil vampire was fading.
Now look to Stephanie Meyer's work. She obviously understood - and, presumably, still understands - why these "new-age" vampires are so admirable and beloved, especially by gothic literature enthusiasts and teenage girls. She is not only taking advantage of this fascination with the romantic vampire (whether her work is plagiarism or not is left to one's own opinion), she is taking advantage of her target demograph. Now, I don't like generalising. But it would not be much of a stretch to say that "tweenage" girls are, more often than not, not very well gifted with the faculty of good judgement (there are exceptions, of course, and I don't mean to offend anyone; but that is another argument entirely). They see a book that promises angsty teenage romance, and they lap it up. Throw in a vampire or two - or however many there are in these god-forsaken atrocities upon the literary scene - for that eerie supernatural edge, and you have yourself one winning formula to go. As for why these vampires - and I use the term loosely - are scarcely anything like Mr. Stoker's eponymous antagonist or the vampires of old Slavic folklore...well, these books are still aimed at tweenage girls. And we can't have shadowy-dwelling demons ripping young maidens' throats out and feasting on their fresh virgin blood in such a book, now, can we? At least, Stephanie Meyer seems to think so; Darren Shan would like to point out that you can still have proper, scary vampires in a children's book and be a big success. But I digress. Meyer, instead, chose to make them brooding, anti-social loners, albeit incredibly handsome ones. This gives them that "mysterious" edge that these young ladies tend to fawn over. It also lends itself to a "plot" (and, again, I use the term loosely) point, when our young protagonist finds out that the object of her affections is, in fact, a vampire! Gasp! Oh, and as for the sparkles; quite simple, really. First of all, having the heroes shrivel up and decay into dust and bone in the sunlight would not only be rather gruesome for young ladies, it would also raise the problem of finding one's paramour in a pile of dust because of shoddy window blinds. Not to mention the fact that it would lead to some rather awkward situations of not being able to go out during midday. And, secondly, what do tweenage girls love? That's right, sparkly things! It's a winning formula - plus one! Huzzah!
Perhaps if Meyer could tell a good story, her series wouldn't be so reviled by just about everyone outside its targeted demograph of young girls. But wait! Stop the presses! According to this writer's mother, who is an avid reader and knows very well what it takes to make a good book, Stephanie Meyer has written a good book - The Host! Gasp! So what's stopping her from making the Twilight series actually a decent read instead of fireplace fodder for cold Winter nights? The answer is, of course, two things: rabid fans and vampires. Those God damned vampires ruin everything.
So, to sum up this entire argument...
Don't blame Stephanie Meyer for unleashing this evil upon us, at least not her alone: blame Anne Rice, rabid fans and inexperienced movie directors! But then, of course, one must consider that Stephanie Meyer is likely just writing with her "winning formula" because she knows it will make a quick buck - from books, movies, promotional merchandise, and so forth.
Oh dear.
Good Insight.
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 22, 2009, 02:49:40 AM »
"I had been search for the reason behind life, the universe and everything...I believe I had found the answer."
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: November 22, 2009, 02:47:10 AM »
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 21, 2009, 05:46:56 PM »
I read on TVTropes about hot blooded heroes and for some reason, I find myself turned off by them although at one time I would have liked to be like them. hot blooded characters seem to have little to almost no character development and why is required for Suiper Robot heroes to be this way?
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: November 21, 2009, 05:38:20 PM »
"I wonder if I have a Servant for the grail War."
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: November 21, 2009, 02:41:05 AM »
Oddly, I feel the same way about Hellsing just as many people here do Twlight, Alucard is too much or jerkass and mary sue who is ridiculously overpowered with an equally jarring sadism. I don't give a [tornado fang] if he is a badass, he is an effing vampire why should care what a human is and I don't care if being overpowered is a part of his character, it is just irritating knowing that Alucard will just come back through some [parasitic bomb] ex machina. When I read a manga I expect my heroes to overcome their obstacles through some effort, it just ruins the Suspension of Disbelief for me knowing that the heroes will just win because they are overpowered, invincible and just plain boring to honest. I find myself suportting the villains more than those kinds of heores and I don't care if most of the time that is the point, I want the heroes to stop being so invulnerable and more mortal.
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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.
« on: November 20, 2009, 04:22:44 PM »
"The Zero series never dies!"