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  3. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    I just watched Paranormal Events 3 together with my sister. She rented it "for me", then when she 'watched' it she spent half her time looking away from the screen. It was okay, but it seemed too over-the-top when I compared it to the first two movies, and there seemed to be no real explanation for where the VCR tapes it was recorded on came from. They appear in a bit from the second movie, and then they vanish before anyone looks at them. What the heck?

     

    I also saw an old favorite, the B&W Gunga Din, and mean to soon watch The Man Who Would Be King with Sean Connery.

  9. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    I find myself wondering why the Canterlot upper crust don't know who Rarity is. I mean she did shake cake all over Prince Bluebood' date=' and get a medal in front of a large audience for helping to defeat Discord.[/quote']

     

    Oh, please, that was months ago! You can't expect the Important Ponies of Canterlot to remember every little thing!

  12. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    If it is the episode I am thinking of with the floating symbols and the old guy trapped in the ruins, the old lady who went with them built the stargate in the first place. What you should be asking yourself is how did the old guy survive in the ruins.

    CES

     

    Yeah, that's a rather good question too.

     

    Well, actually, she would be the daughter of the archaeologist who found the Stargate on the Giza plateau back in the Twenties in the movie. She is the initial contact for Daniel Jackson, and is the one who brings him into the project. In SG-1 continuity, she was also part of a team that attempted to get the Stargate to work back in 1945, as shown in the episode, "The Torment of Tantalus". The Stargates were created by the Ancients.

     

    Season 1 of SG-1 was absolutely horrid. I remember when it arrived in syndication (after running on Showtime), and being extremely underwhelmed with the entire production. It took me several years before I'd watch an episode, and it had improved immensely. I've tried to re-watch the season 1 episodes on Netflix, but I'm stuck somewhere around the "Broca Divide". I just can't seem to plow through it. The series gets better in later seasons, though there's still a bit of hand-waving with the military structure and science.

     

    JoeG

     

    Thanks for letting me know that the show got better with later seasons. The local library has seasons 1-4*, and I may watch the later ones.

     

    * -- Not to mention the entire run of Dark Shadows, including the original series, the reunion show, the TV movie, and the 90's series. It takes up a whole shelf. One of our librarians must be one heck of a Barnabas Collins fan.

  13. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    MLP Season 2' date=' Episode 9 -- [i']Sweet and Elite[/i]. While the outcome was never in doubt (it's a kids show after all) it sure was hilarious getting there.

     

    Some people I know of are impressed that they bypassed the usual Aesop and punishment about lying by showing Rarity's friends being supportive of her efforts to make some business contacts. They're of the opinion that it was a bold move for s kid's cartoon.

  14. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    I've been watching a DVD collection of the first season of Stargate SG-1. I freely admit, I chose it from the library because I'd read the Stargate:Equestria fanfic and found it well done. But the show... yeesh. Y'know, my standards for SF aren't all that high. I enjoy space opera by Poul Anderson and Andre Norton. Heck, I like Star Wars. But the "science" on this show is basically nonexistent save for a few occasions (they did have Colonel O'Neill know what a black hole's accretion disk was, which was a nice touch of continuity, given that he was once in training for NASA -- but then he can't explain what a black hole is to Teal'c).

     

    And they seem to make some glaring errors in how the team acts, given that these guys are supposed to be (mostly) military. Like allowing members of the team to wander off by themselves when they're in alien and hostile territory, or taking an elderly civilian along on a mission to a dangerous environment staged by a top-secret project she shouldn't even have been told about, or staging a rescue mission for Teal'c's son and wife and then leaving them behind in their enemy's home territory after they rescue them.

     

    It just... something seems wrong when a man with no real military experience can look at their actions and ask, "Is this really what they would be doing under these circumstances?"

  15. A Thread for Random Videos

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    Why do I get the idea that I should be high if I watch this?

     

    Worst of all, I can remember an episode where the villain's sidekick (an anthro rabbit in a badly-done fursuit) takes over, so the villain outwits him by -- are you ready? -- dressing up in an even worse rabbit fursuit, a female outfit no less, and "seducing" him in a truly horrible segment. All this in a show aimed at kids.

  16. "Neat" Pictures

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    An old D&D coloring book. You even traverse through a dungeon to choose which picture to color next.

     

    Spoilered for size.

     

     

     

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    I had a copy of this when I was a boy. I got it at Dinosaur Land in Virginia when the family was driving back from a trip to St. Augustine in Florida. Man but I loved coloring that book.

     

    It's been over 25 years. Thank you so, so much for posting that link.

  17. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    The Thing From Another World. The 1951 original' date=' not the 80's remake or the now showing new one. Classic horror,well worth seeing. I'll probably watch the Carpenter version tomorrow (I can get that streaming, had to wait for the disk for the classic)[/quote']

     

    I own that on DVD, and I think it's amazing; vastly superior to the remake.

     

    Right now I'm watching Drag Me To Hell; it's okay, but no one's taken a step towards New Jersey yet.

  21. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic HERO

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    Yeesh, what were they doing in the real world?

     

    Hmm, now there's a good odd question. Would someone from another dimension (or whatever Equestria is) get offended if they heard someone talking about their world as though it were somehow less 'real' than their own?

     

    Trixie thought he stole her horn. There was never any overheard conversation.

     

    The whole incident is inspired by fan art with a Humanized Trixie using her horn as a magic wand. She sets it down for a moment, loses it, and then here is this guy running to the elevator with her horn...She was pretty pissed when she she met Brian. The wrong impression can be a dangerous thing with Trixie...

     

    Sorry I meant to reply and clarify before: I was referring less to events in your story proper with my question and engaging more in a general "what would happen?" line of thought. I apologize for the confusion.

     

    And again, your story thus far looks good to me.

  22. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic HERO

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    Yep thats them...

     

    Yeesh, what were they doing in the real world?

     

    Hmm, now there's a good odd question. Would someone from another dimension (or whatever Equestria is) get offended if they heard someone talking about their world as though it were somehow less 'real' than their own?

  24. Heroes for pay

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    I would think: God damn' date=' is he nuts? Depending on the weapons of the robber and himself people could have gotten hurt. People tend to get overconfident when they have a weapon and thinking "I can take him on" without having training will just get bystanders get into the line of fire or the line of swing.[/quote']

     

    I have to agree. Yes, he was heroic, but he was also very reckless. Possibly criminally so.

     

    And while it is indeed noble to do good without expectation of recompense, I see little wrong in someone expecting to at least make a living wage off. Especially if they're not doing the usual "fight a supervillain" heroics but are, say, engaged in normally dangerous industrial work such as getting rid of toxic waste or putting satellites in orbit. Superman did that for free -- I think -- but how many people can be Superman?

  25. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic HERO

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    Quick question: the Sonic Rainboom. Is this a power' date=' what game effect can it have, and how do you write it up in Hero 6?[/quote']

     

    I'd just go with a SFX for when Dash puts her full NCM on Flight into effect. Or maybe you could make it Sight and Hearing Group Images, MegaScaled AoE, linked to greater-than-normal Flight speed? Probably with the limitation: Skill Roll (or Activation Roll) to represent how difficult it seems to be for Dash to pull this off.

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