Marcian Tobay

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  1. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    Can a pie dance car?
  2. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    I'm sure I'll love it all in... time. Just trying to figure out what the show's about. They still haven't actually said what the show's about. It's just too captivating for me to care.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
    I haven't played the game yet, so I don't know to whom you are referring, but is it one of Batman's usual Rogue's Gallery members? If it is, your friend, if a fan of the Bat, should have known that person was a villain, and therefore, you should have been spared the wrath.
    May I PM you spoilers?
  4. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    Maybe you'll notice my incredibly unsubtle attempts to make this amazing thread anything but a "Yah-huh" "Nuh-uh!" with Golden Girl...

    Season 1, Episode 4, series that started in 2005.
  5. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    I've been falling in love with Doctor Who lately... show's great. Only on the 4th episode.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
    That is, of course, the plot of the average video game, an ethos that Pilgrim has unreflectively absorbed. Wright has made it clear that this approach won't work in the real world and that Pilgrim (surely that name's symbolism isn't obscure?) will have to learn otherwise for himself.
    Oh, I get that entirely. And on that level, I appreciate it. It's commentary on game concept, which was unintentionally commentary itself.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kasoh View Post
    Six minutes.

    Knowing the details shouldn't change the actual experience, if it does, it wasn't that good of material to begin with.
    Man, Ten Little Indians was crap.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlackArachnia View Post
    OK, either we all listen to critics, and take their word for everything, or we ignore them.
    This reminds me of when reviewers started trashing The Last Aribender. These forums were utterly alight with guesses as to how critics could misunderstand it. That it could still be genius even with bad reviews.

    Then people saw it for themselves. They came back, pale skinned and white eyed. They fumbled unknowingly for their beds and claimed some muttering utterance of "Mouth of the Beast". They fell asleep and slumbered in a torrential and quaking comfort that saw them into eternity.

    tl;dr Sometimes reviews know what they're talking about. It doesn't mean you must agree with them.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agonus View Post
    From the moment the series was about beating up enough of the woman's exe's that you would "win" her, I've shut off the part of my brain that analyzes subtext and focused on the fighting.

    After watching the movie, I may come back and rant. In the meantime, however, I'm withholding accusations.
  10. Full story here.

    A man was told by a fortune teller that he would go to jail. This upset him so much he assaulted her. He is now spending 24 years in jail.


    Probably wasn't the ghost who doesn't realize she's dead.
  11. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex View Post
    you know that reminds ne of those old Warner Brothhers cartoons of the Sheepdog and the Wolf drinking coffee then punching in to oppose each other. Ahh nostalgia for things wonderful that passed.
    Oddly, the exact reference I was making. I've been making it for years, hoping someone would get it.
  12. Ideas are similar does not equal "Ripped it off from". I mean, we had claws, but just because they were three metal claws that went "Shnick" when they came out of automatically regenerating knuckles didn't mean we stole it, does it?

    Yes, I just sabotaged my own point for a lul. I consider it a good trade.
  13. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    Mornin', everyone.

    *Punches time card*

    Opted for cocoa instead of coffee this morning.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlackArachnia View Post
    What is Arrested Development?
    Sheer genius. A show that succeeded at many styles of humor most other writers wouldn't dare. Brick jokes, pitch black humor, sliding stuff past the censors... it was actually daring, as opposed to "We has boobs, we are daring" that some shows claim to be. It experimented and was a success in writing but not in viewership.

    Though even Fox adored it, absolutely nothing could garner it a significant mainstream audience. In a truly brilliant parting shot, however, the show spent its final episodes wrapping up the entire series into a nice little package, having foreseen its own cancellation.

    I cannot recommend it highly enough.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Echoo_ View Post
    Did your friend get annoyed because you mentioned a Batman villain by name, or quoted one of their lines or something?
    A certain character turns out to be more malevolent than first looks. The fact that they are a villain is a surprise. I linked her to a site that listed him on Batman's Rogues Gallery and she damn near lobotomized me with a stapler.
  16. Poster's cool. More interested in the bust of Kramer being smashed. The implications of that are awesome.
  17. Tenzhi, you called Michael Cera loathsome and presume Arrested Development interesting. I think you're, ah, quite different from the average geek.

    And how is Cera "loathsome"? Strong word for someone who has effectively separated his personal life from his acting career.
  18. I see Stephen Hawking values a space victory. Please let him know that Los Angeles and New York have both passed 50,000 Culture, and that we're considering Philadelphia.

    By the way, check to see if he'll accept 1 Uranium and 1 Coal for a Defensive Pact.
  19. Hobbles out on walking stick and waves alternate walking stick at the kids on the lawn.

    Ye ingrates! In my time...
    • We didn't customize weapons. Whatever BackAlley Brawler thought a claw was... THAT'S what a claw was... and we'd go to court o'er it!
    • Sonic Resonance gave people headaches, but they would bear through for the buffs!
    • You wanted to fight Ghost Widow, you brought Radiation. End. Of. Story.
    • Being a Villain meant knowing that your power pools sucked, you were underpowered in PvP, and you didn't deserve epic Archetypes. And you didn't anyway. *Gets in close to the reader's face* Because you wanted storyline!
    • When you got to level 50, people would laugh at ya. They'd just laugh.
    • Did you miss that badge? Then ya shouldn'a been flappin' yer gums when I was telling you to fight off 100 Infected.
    • PvPers cared.
    • Use'in ta be ya couldn't join a mission without sweet talkin' someone a higher level'an ya into taking on a Side-Kick. If'n you couldn't charm people inta side-kicking ya, ya didn't get on a mission. You got put back like the wallflower you were.
    • Level 50 meant you were done, and there were'n finite number of server slots. If ya got eight people to level 50, you were done with that server. You went on to chat, and that was it.

    Now get offa mah lawn before I teleport you youngin's into a hot dog stand!
  20. How long can something be out before someone's waived the right to say "Spoiler Alert"? I have a friend who just got on me for referencing the name of one of the baddies in Arkham Aslyum, and it made me curious.

    Thanks!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    are they video games?

    No?

    Then there's no problem.

    Not complicated.
    Agreed. I'm getting weary of people that are insisting that this is a more complex affair than it is. I don't like the rules either but... reasonableness. Please.
  22. Marcian Tobay

    Retcon Anyone?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NewAgeKnight View Post
    Things we must find out.

    Are basketball games with midgets always pickup games?


    Does a deaf person enjoy ventriliquists?


    Why doesn't Jimmy teach others to crack corn?


    What exactly is a single entedre?
    1. Yes, but they're usually dropped abruptly.

    2. Haven't heard anything on the subject.

    3. Don't know. Don't care.

    4. An entendre that couldn't bring a conjunction to the function.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Combine it with an orchestral version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKOqr2KHBD0

    ... Holy amazing.

    I'm fairly certain that, in another dimension, Nobuo Uematsu used that for a villains theme in Final Fantasy. It sounds gorgeous and has a sweeping, villainous air about it.