Dark One
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Ok, that was just plain awesome. I laughed my butt off when Bender said, "Gimme the keys Magoo!".
The story itself reminded me of a book I read and loved. It was called, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Charles Sheffield. A guy wants to save his wife, who is dying of a disease with no cure. He freezes himself and her and every so often, he has himself woken up to see if they've developed a cure. I won't spoil it, but the ep really reminded me of it. -
Eh, a guy found some negative plates from Ansel Adams at a yard sale for $45. Presumed value of the plates is around $200 million.
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Making the case a Land Raider or a Titan would be cooler. If he could've gotten the weighting right, wouldn't need the third leg there to support it. :/
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Quote:Maybe make his hair a different color? It blends a little too much into the background, IMO.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Proud to unveil the design I worked on this weekend:
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Quote:Not really. Anyone who watched Buffy during it's seven seasons would get it. Same with the Twilight-hatin' crowd.Originally Posted by Dedlok
Ha. That would definitely be a shirt only comics people paying attention to the current comic scene would get, but I love it.
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Quote:I meant you could start with your TPB collection. Then, if you see a decent return in terms of ad monies, you could branch out a bit.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Well I would have to have money to buy comics to review 'em.
I've even considered selling off my TPB collection but I dunno if fellow geeks are looking to make such big purchases right now.
Or see if there's websites that take in user contributions and pay per article or sum'fing.
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Something you may, or may not have considered Foamy, but have you given thought to starting up a comics review blog? I mean, based upon your past history and rather eloquent reviews, that may be a route for you.
You could throw on some Project Wonderful ads or Google ads and see if you can get anything from it. -
If it was me designing the shirt, I'd go for a bit more abstract/stylized version of the characters. The farther you get from the baseline image, the better you'd be, at least IMO and IANAL, in terms of parody/fair usage.
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Quote:*taps the No Fansub discussion sign*Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
That or the power of fansubs compel you.
Don't make me tap it again...
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Quote:Also, there is the matter of friends of friends seeing the RealID names. Unless that has also been changed or I am completely misreading that. If a friend of a friend, who you may or may not know, has the opportunity to find out the RL names of others, then there is also another problem.Originally Posted by LiquidX
Except you would have STILL had controll over your name and identity, BY NOT POSTING ON THEIR FORUMS. Keep in mind, forums are no way essential to a game. Look at CoH/V: It's widely been known that only around 1% of the playerbase is active on the forums.
The only ones that should be able to see your real name are those you chose to let see it. Not friend of friend of friend, etc. -
No, Gad. That was meant in regards to the previous comment about Kotick and maximizing profit. It wasn't meant as anything in regards to RealID, real names, etc.
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Quote:*cough*Originally Posted by Defenestrator
To be fair, as (I think) Kali pointed out -- Blizzard is no longer Blizzard. They are Activision/Blizzard. At the very top they are run by Bobby Kotick, a guy who doesn't give a flying fig about games. He cares about franchises that make millions of dollars per year and maximizing the profit of said franchises. He's leaving Blizzard (mostly) alone because he knows their games sell, but the management at Blizzard IS being marginalized and pushed aside for Kotick's agenda.
Do not trust a thing this man says.
And it's a shame, because Blizzard was one of the best names in gaming at one point. (This title might be shifting to BioWare at this point.)
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Quote:You forgot chugging a six pack o' rotgut whilst fisticuffing with a grizzly.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I stand by what I said. Real men aren't bothered at all. Real men already vented their frustration days ago be breaking down a redwood tree and using the sonic booming crack fall of the majestic plant to rend sheer the clothes from all beautiful women within a mile, proceeding then to make copious and plethora love to three while the rest prepare pancakes on a stove made of iron hand-bent, not welded. Real men are the Saxton Hale of California.
I, however, continue to troll irrelevant threads that have passed their prime.
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Quote:Doesn't bother men in the least? I'm a man (at least in theory) and it bothers me...Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I've worked in marketing before. You never commit to anything. If there was a rumor that my company's hamburgers contain the bubonic plague, my statement would be "We have confirmed that there is not the bubonic plague in our hamburgers at this time."
When you don't clarify that you mean "right this damn second", you could accidentally say something that might contradict yourself three years from now... and people will rip off their ears and scream about how this retcons you into being a liar.
In other words, that phrase doesn't bother men in the least.
Also, if I saw a burger joint say that it didn't have it "at this time", I still wouldn't eat there as to me, that says that they could add it whenever, so long as it's not at the point at which that statement was made.
Sorry, but the pessimist in me is saying that it's only a matter of time before it gets added back in.
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Quote:I don't think the idea is completely gone...Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Thanks for posting.
And good riddance to this horrible idea. Blizzard recoups some points from this blunder.
Nothing saying that it won't change again in six months.Quote:we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.
The real cynic in me thinks that this was simply a way of getting free publicity.
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Quote:I would think Castle is a bit more than a cubicle monkey...Originally Posted by Defenestrator
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Quote:I didn't mean that he has a say in the matter, just that, ya know, him being an employee, would have some insight into whether or not NCSoft would ever consider something of this level of idiocy.Originally Posted by Defenestrator
I'm not sure Castle has a say in that matter. That would be for someone at NCSoft to decide.
But I'm hoping the rest of the industry is watching the kerfluffle and thinking, "You know, that isn't such a good idea."
I can guarantee that if CoH ever did this, I would out of here. Love the game, but not that much to have my privacy invaded. -
Quote:Castle, please give us some solace and say that Co* will never implement something as stupid as what is going on with WoW...Originally Posted by Castle
Their EULA/Terms of Service forbid players from revealing their login information, in whole or in part.
With the switch over to Battle.net accounts for login, your login is the email address connected to the account.
To connect to someone using RealID, you must give them the email address connected to the account.
Therefore, using RealID is a violation of the Terms of Service.
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Quote:*snicker*Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Why not? X is a variable, and you aren't sure what one likes most. It's almost gender neutral and the most useful. I love CoX.
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Quote:I could think of a way to leverage it into more money...Originally Posted by Nethergoat
The responsibility to enforce community rules lies with Blizzard, not their paying customers.
I'm wondering how they think they can leverage this to make money.
Because their stated reasons are ridiculous.
Offer a return to aliases if you pay a slightly higher subscription fee. Say, $19.99 per month for a WoW sub + anon forum access. The "regular" subs, who may or may not use the forums, can continue at the traditional $14.99 per month. Regular subs use Real ID to post. -
Quote:Point of fact, they have not been 100% set-in-stone that just because it's in a EULA that it is enforcilble. It really depends upon the venue where the case is tried, and even those are not on the entirety of the EULA.Originally Posted by Venture
Utter codswallop. EULAs have been held up in court. Blizzard has sued under its EULAs and won.
The Blizzard case was not on the entirety of the EULA, but under the provision regarding reverse-engineering and the DMCA. -
Quote:Because they don't like being petted and hugged and squeezed and named George!Originally Posted by LiquidX
...What do you mean, Jimmy went to go live on a farm? WHY DO ALL MY FRIENDS KEEP GOING TO LIVE ON FARMS?!
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One of these days, I'll get around to updating the list. >.<
Also, I have a whole pile of anime to watch, including Hell Girl, Claymore, Animation Runner Kuromi, Please Teacher, Pani Poni Dash and Excel Saga, amongst others. Right now, I'm going through my movie collection and watching each in order to determine what to sell and what to keep. Once that is done, it's back to anime. I have a decent pile of movies that I realize I'm never going to watch again and rather than take up room, I'll divest myself of them. -
Well...Bleach kinda has a catgirl. Yoruichi spends part of her time as a cat, but then transforms into a smexy ninja girl (without cat characteristics).
Slayers has a dragongirl (Phyllia? can't recall the name).
Tenchi Muyo: GXP has a catgirl that's a little more on the cat side.
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Quote:Or...if you want to think happy...they don't have the baggage that we do and don't have to let go of anything. They just go straight through the turnstile without the stopover in Purgatory.
One thing made me a little sad though...not all dogs go to "heaven". = (
Not necessarily. It may be just that that place was one of extreme emotion for them, making them gravitate to it. Not really any different than a ghost haunting anywhere else.Quote:Thinking about it... since we were told that the whispers were souls that were trapped because they couldn't move on, then doesn't that make The Island purgatory as well? or at least, somehow the physical location of purgatory, and so the flash-sideways stuff was happening on The Island, in a metaphorical sense.
Only if one doesn't know what the term "Purgatory" really means.Quote:I don't think "purgatory" is the right term for what the sideways universe was, as the term has a really negative connotation. Perhaps "limbo" fits better.
Purgatory is a place of cleansing. It's in between heaven and hell. It's for those who died with sins but not having rejected God. They can still be purified and "let go" of the stuff that happened while alive, and move on to Heaven.
Those in Limbo can't, for the most part.
Heck, Ana-lucia and Ben were in there, so presumably, they have a chance to move on. Even Sawyer got the chance to, and he was a killer.