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Quote:Interesting view. Another alternative would be the Quote File from rec.arts.drwho, which covers the years in Doctor Who fandom on Usenet from 1995 to 2002 (a.k.a. the wilderness years) and contains much wittiness.Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
What I was hoping for, but didn't see.
Copied and Pasted from Quotes Page
I still rather liked the Outpost Gallifrey community's group endeavor in laughing at itself for a bit. Fandom is a serious business, particularly when conducted on the Internet. -
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The "Memorial" irks me more than getting killed each time I visit it. The best canonical explanation I can come up with is that it was established when Cole was missing, presumed dead after the Korean War. More practically, it's probably low down on the corrections list for upcoming patches.
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Although I never visited the late, lamented Doctor Who forum Outpost Gallifrey, the very fact that I know of its existence places me ineluctably in the Sad Anorak category. With that disclaimer out of the way, I'd like to provide the CoH forum community with selections from one of its sterling threads: The Fans Phrasebook. Isolated from the context of debates over whether CGI are better than plastic models and who was the best Doctor, its entries apply to every online community that has accreted around some popular culture phenomenon, whether a television program or a video game.
Quote:Naturally this glossary continued to grow, requiring a second installment of selections.Fandom:
I am proud to be a Doctor Who fan.
I am scum. I am a socially maladjusted retard who is nervous around the opposite sex. I am either a spiteful and dour malcontent with a cynically vicious streak so wide my anorak has had to be made by a special tailor or a verbose and inanely positive Special Needs creep who is easily pleased by the most charmless and bland lowest-common-denominator television imaginable. My next reply will tell you which...
I felt that Story X was a bit weak.
Why am I not producing this show? And directing it? And writing it? And why am I not playing the Doctor and/or his assistant?
The Doctor's line about xxxx directly contradicts what he said in ...
I am, apparently, unaware that Doctor Who is a fictional television show written by lots of different people.
You are, apparently, unaware that Doctor Who is a fictional television show written by lots of different people.
Look at me, everybody, I'm making some Saddo with borderline Autism look like a clown! Aren't I just, like, the coolest kiddie that ever walked the earth?! I think I'll go out a beat up some cripples now.
Code of Conduct:
That could be considered a Code of Conduct violation.
"I'm gonna grass you up like a Copper's nark!"
... and you felt you had to start your own thread on this subject when one already exists, because?
I am an officious pedant ... And, I'm gonna grass you up like a Copper's nark!
With all due respect
I think you are bottom-feeding scum with opinions of no value whatsoever to man nor beast. Unfortunately, we have this damn Code of Conduct so I'm biting my lip and taking the piss at the same time.
Conflict:
We should all respect each other's opinions.
EVERYBODY JUST SHUT THE **** UP AND LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!!!
I'm entitled to my opinion.
I really didn't think about that previous post, at all, did I?
You have every right to your own opinions just as I have every right to mine.
Thank you for your timely reminder of what "Ignore Files" are for.
My opinions are being dismissed! Ever heard of free speech?!
I have no idea what the concept of "free speech" actually entails.
With only a week until the new Christmas special, I thought some of these might come in handy...Quote:Series five will be 'Specials' only:
OMG!!!! The sky is falling! The SKY is FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I don't want to say "I TOLD YOU SO" (but I'm going to anyway ... even though, actually, I didn't tell you this or anything even remotely like it, I told you that the show would be cancelled at the end of Series four and, when I do say "I TOLD YOU SO" I'm going to look like a proper a 'nana when somebody digs into the archives and finds what I actually DID told you...)
The Christmas Special can't come soon enough!:
I just can't take six bloody months of Arlene bloody Phillips on Saturday night telly.
Fandom Buzzwords:
Interesting view...:
... and, here's my better one...
You raise some very valid points:
Everything you say is wrong...
We:
I...
Everyone I know:
I...
The Fandom Wars:
Get over it:
My opinion is right, and despite the fact that your argument is well-articulated and well-supported, I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and go 'lah-lah-lah!' because I know you are wrong.
Get a life:
My irony detector is on the blink again. As, indeed, it has been for the last 25 years. Which way's the exit?
We're just going to have to agree to disagree ...
But one day I shall return to destroy this miserable little planet and you along with it! Goodbye! -
Be warned, Russell Davies' New Who hits pockets of absurdity with increasing frequency until by The End of Time, it reaches Condition: Total Bollocks Overdrive (spoilers).
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"This is Christmas, melon farmer!"
Sadly, I'm not going to be able to introduce that into my holiday greetings. -
Quote:Strictly speaking, these are "specials" from December 2008 to January 2010, though Netflix may miscategorize them as "movies". (Essentially, Tennant committed to a final season only if it could be spread out over a year.)Originally Posted by Arbegla
David Tennent did some Doc who movies, right before he died (as the doctor) Waters of mars is one of them, it basically explains how matt smith became the new doctor, that might be what netflix is picking up.
As usual, Wikipedia has a handy guide for the mainstream viewer, diligently annotated by true fans. -
Although the new Carl's Jr. tie-in commercial may not be a trailer per se, it looks like it captures the film's spirit, style, and wit as much as anything we've seen so far.
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As long as we're making Praetoria-Monty Python jokes:
Calvin Scott: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, public order, irrigation, roads, Enriche, and public health, what have the Praetors ever done for us?
Or:
Tunnel Rat: Brought peace?
Scott: Oh, peace - shut up! There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this city of the Praetors once and for all.
Crow: Uh, well, one.
Scott: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.
Player: Are you the Praetorian People's Front?
If Calvin Scott doesn't already have a Twitter, someone needs to get on that ASAP.
Calvin Scott: **** off!
Player: What?
Scott: Praetorian People's Front. We're the People's Front of Praetoria! Praetorian People's Front. {spits} If you wanted to join the P.F.P., you'd have to really hate the Praetors.
Player: I do!
Scott: Oh, yeah? How much?
Player: A lot!
Scott: Right, you're in. Listen, the only people we hate more than the Praetors are the ******* Praetorian People's Front.
Ricochet: Splitters.
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Quote:Which is now F2P and received a certain amount of criticism from their lifetime subscribers when it did (although that seems to have subsided).Originally Posted by LISAR
You mean like LOTRO?
The other example of lifetime subscriptions that comes to mind is a Certain Other game that caught merry hell from their players from their initial offer, then another round after the game went F2P, and most recently is dealing with the latest after re-offering lifetime subscriptions at an inflated rate.
While I don't regard lifetime subscriptions as inherently bad, there are enough bad precedents that I'd be suspicious if NCSoft started offering them for CoH. -
Quote:I get the (nebulous) impression that CoH's physical locations set the moral boundaries for characters: Vigilantes can only go so far in pushing the limits of justice in Paragon City, which is a fundamentally decent place, and likewise Rogues can take advantage of the amorality required as a moral compromise to live in the Rogue Isles, a fundamentally bad place. Trying to apply Paragon's code of justice in the Rogue Isles inevitably leads to its corruption and the path to villainy, while Paragon's opportunities to do good push even the most self-interested characters toward redemption.Originally Posted by Socorro
I don't really get why we can't do vigilante tips in the Rogue Isles
That's my hypothesis at least until the devs change things. -
As an impulse purchase planned in advance, contradictory as that may seem, I picked up both the Cyborg and the Wedding packs as a kind of two-for-one deal.
(I've wound up picking up more booster packs than I would have originally anticipated, but I justify the periodic purchases by amortizing them against my subscription. Clearly I am in need of financial counseling.) -
My boot drives are always named "MacGuffin" plus whatever number they fall in the sequence of ownership. That's mainly for practical rather than sentimental reasons, though. Only rarely does hardware earn a nickname for dedicated service. My G4 Sawtooth, which received upgrades for every single major component as well as numerous add-ons, is "Frankenstein's Mac".
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Just to necro this thread, here's the same cartoonist's imaginings of "What if DC published 1970's Marvel characters in the 1960's?"
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For a while, Empire elevated Kershner from competent journeyman director (1978's The Eyes of Laura Mars being his best work up until then) to a go-to guy for franchise sequels (1983's James Bond quasi-official sequel with Sean Connery Never Say Never Again and 1990's Frank Miller-scripted RoboCop 2). Judging from his recent easygoing interview in Vanity Fair on the 30th anniversary of Empire, he seems quite content with his output, without any of the insecure auteurism that has marred G. Lucas's career.
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Quote:Thanks for the tip, which I'm definitely adopting for my DS MM, whom I play less often because of the noisy pets. This will have to do while we wait for the devs to take pity on the demonic noise pollution that's now seemingly everywhere in the game.Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
If I do have to bring them in, I have a macro set up to make them all do Hero Stance 1, so they stand there silently.
Any stance or ongoing emote they can do will make them skip the sounds they make (save for the heal aura). If they get pushed out of place and have to move back, however, that breaks the emote and they'll make noise again. So, if you see demons standing around doing some kind of emote, don't push them around or they'll start making annoying noises again. -
Quote:(That's very likely on the horizon since the devs now have a new tool to insert events more easily into zones, instead of continuing to use the old hard-coded method.)Originally Posted by Torrynt
(5) Additional zone events.
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Quote:Because Kids Today are going to love the gritty reboot that has even less of Joss Whedon's input than the ultimately filmed version of his screenplay! Plus, as producer Charles Roven observes, "There is an active fan base eagerly awaiting this character's return to the big screen"!Originally Posted by myskatz
My comment is WHY? guess it's cause I never cared for the series but loved the original movie. It was funny as hell.
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Quote:Sadly, the Lovecraftian pastiches are primarily the work of Mr. Muzski, who has incorporated some of Herge's old art into his cover mock-ups (Tintin in Tibet supplies the figure for Tintin at the Mountains of Madness, for instance).Originally Posted by Nethergoat
also.....Herge is still alive?
As for M. Herge, a rough contemporary of Lovecraft, he's lucky enough not to be around to see this:
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First there was the preview of "Tintin in the Uncanny Valley" from Steven Spielberg's upcoming CGI/mo-cap movie
Then Charles Burns's "Tintin Experiences a Bad Acid Trip",
And now a whole series of Tintin's adventures in H. P. Lovecraft's monstrous landscapes.
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I refuse, point blank, to watch this.
Moon was one of the best real science fiction movies in recent years, but even its comparatively restrained trailer gave away too much. (It's got excellent casting, nice set design and special effects, a well-written script with a solid twist at the end. What more could one ask for in a directorial debut, or indeed, have to be "pre-sold" in order to see it? The poster, despite a weak tag line, was enough to intrigue me.)
Anyroads, I'm content to look forward (eagerly) to Mr. Jones's next work with only minimal information about it. (Moon is out on DVD in January in the meantime.) -
Hugo Strange is one of those hold-over villains from the Batman's early years who have never quite got their due, despite occasional reappearances. Nolan is more likely to tap into Strange's potential as a nemesis, and one website is suggesting that Nolan plans to use Doug Moench's graphic novel Prey as the basis for his film.
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Quote:Good points. I'd never really looked into the tricks of the trade for self-destruction, but you make a convincing argument for a $5 purchase.Originally Posted by Jordan_Yen
Cyborg Self destruction is worth it alone: http://www.jordans-town.com/rps/cyborg-booster
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Quote:There's no way this is unintentional:Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Also is funny to consider that Leo and Nolan look kinda alike.
