Lord Mhoram

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!!

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I can see that. I think the first season of Andromeda some of the best SF TV out there.

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Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I haven't read the 3rd book in the last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant yet. I'm going to wait for the 4th book, and read them all straight through. I've read books 1 and 2 though. One of the bits I really liked about the start of that series - when Linden realized that she was going back to the land- the first thing she does? Gets a really nice pair of hiking books and some really tough jeans. I loved that.

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Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! There are a bunch. It's just the books can be so divisive it's seems that way.

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Re: Why I prefer HERO System over Pathfinder/OGL/D&D for fantasy On RPG net the value of universal systems to games tailored to genre - and a lot of it comes down to "The specific system do better genre emulation" and the idea of learning new games vs "It emulates the genre well enough for me" and the ease of mastering a single system. What you just posted is almost verbatim some things I've said over there. Good call.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter Went over finances. Will be able to pledge in two weeks when I get paid. Woo hoo! Only a few days before it closes, but I can actually do it. And it will be the first 6E book I buy.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Oh yeah - I don't play board games. Regular Hasbro or Parker brothers types, or European ones like Ticket to Ride or Settlers. Just don't like games where the players play against each other.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I only started when I worked at a comic/RPG/CCG store, and it was good customer service to have a deck or two handy to play when someone came in. Of course anyone in the store as a customer or at the register always took precedence (and I let anyone I was gaming with of this rule, so I'd drop my hand in the middle of turn and everything went on hold).

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I agree with you on that one.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Yeah - I don't care for Heinlein myself except his early juvinile novels - Have Spacesuit will travel, starman jones - those were good. I tried Time enough for Love, Number of the Beast, Friday, Stranger in a Strange land and Job. Couldn't finish a single one of those - and I tend to make myself finish books, but hated each of those so much, I couldn't do it.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just finished re-watching seasons 1 and 2 of Deep Space 9. While uneven it was better than I remember. I know that things pick up in season three, and then Worf Shows up in season 4. Best start trek series of them all.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I like some niven, and I really liked Robert Forward's Dragon's egg.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! There is an X-men panel (I wish I could find it, but cannot) where wolverine rushes in and get "Logan Wait, he's had preptime" and the next panel is wolvering flying miles out and the sound effect of it is BAATMAAAAAN

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I guess I got tired of life after about 4 episodes.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I like my star wars a little goofy and lighthearted. Empire is my least favorite of the original trilogy and I liked Attack of the clones more than Empire, and Revenge about the same (it's also a little dark).

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I think a lot of HP is what happened socially and the timing. Childrens books had been dominated by sterile stories with a message - the kind that dominate the Newbury Awards. Trouble is it wasn't any fun - not fun to read, not fun to imagine. Then HP came along, and it was fun again. So younguns started reading them. A lot. Then parent are "what is this that actually makes my kids read" and they read then - to be able to talk about it with their kids, or read it to the ones to young to read. And they liked them. After that start it just snowballed and became a cultural zietgiest. And the movies would not have been so huge if the books didn't already have such a huge impact, and it drew it the people that didn't read the books and many of those liked the movie. The books are well crafted, and Rowling gets better at writing as they go. The films are solid - if not great, especially early on - and get a pass because of the huge social impact. That is my thoughts anyway.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! The spakly vampires didn't bother me at all. In Dracula vampires were supernaturally evil. In Salem's lot they were evil, but it wasn't the holy symbols it was the faith in them Anne Rice killed any relation to God at all. I saw Sparkly as just the next step. Actually as a champions player I sort of liked it - it was like "What are the classic vampire schticks - strong, fast, durable, cold the the touch, cannot go out in the sun (or at least don't like to - Dracula did)... what could explain that- having a body made of gemstones would do - which means the sun thing is the masqurade - it's their secret. I like the resoning from effect - Vampire power - and coming up with a single SFX that tied it together.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I'll second that. I hate the writer. He's only done 1 halfway decent comic.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! That brings up one for me - I never had GI joe toys, or Transformer toys, never read the comics, never watched the cartoons. The first time I watched any media related to the two franchises were the recent live action movies. I liked them a lot. I liked the Ewoks too, and didn't mind Jar Jar Binks at all.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I have never watched Dr Who. Tried years ago and it bored me to tears. I thought Buffy was boring - never watched Angel. I like the TV mini of the Shining much more than the theatrical release. 2001 was boring. I hate Song of fire and Ice, but I sort like the Wheel of Time. I hate Swords and Sorcery in any form (don't like Howard's writing at all - I also don't like Lieber or Moorcock). X-files was pretty boring - I couldn't get into it at all. I like the Star Wars Prequels, I like the Matrix Sequels. I have never played a console game online, nor a computer game online. My first MMO was only a month ago with CoH - a coworker talked me into it, and I don't play for the combat, I'm in a Roleplay Heavy supergroup - and as I can't make my normal weekly face to face game sessions this is an okay fill in until I can.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Tucker and Dale vs Evil - not usually my kind of movie, but this was really funny.