MTG Salvation

@{mikeyG}: Even with the book being split into two movies (the "Deathly Hallows treatment"), I doubt that they'll keep that half-vampire spawning story intact.

Which brings up another question that deserves an answer: how the ☺☺☺☺ do you change that ☺☺☺☺ into something that both stays true to the source at least a little bit and still retains the PG-13 rating that the series is obviously shooting for? I want my pictures of horrified mothers!...

I also just realized that if the mothers go to see this makes-/b/-look-sane-in-comparison movie they probably like the series and see nothing wrong with it... ergo my desire to see the look of utter horror on the faces of the female gender will never come to fruition.

Still, I'm filming the ☺☺☺☺ out of this!

Yeah, it's not often that I totally rip an article, but it was just so hilarious that I couldn't pass it up.

Been reading the comments on the original site, also, and thought that, even though Cronenberg is the best choice for this ☺☺☺☺, there were also some other interesting choices. Tarantino (style matches, but he's so successful that he won't touch Twilight with a 50-foot pole), Uwe Boll (he only makes crap video game movies, so he's out), Sam Raimi (after Spider-Man, he's in the same boat as Tarantino)... can't think of anyone else. So Cronenberg would probably be the guy to do it, even though from what I've heard is that they're speeding up the marriage thing between Bella and Edward and cutting out the kid angle and the 4th book altogether, so I'll have to be a sad panda.

Wait, you know what? I'm a theatre major. I've done well directing. I can easily make fake blood. I'm the damn president of my college's stage combat club...I'm filming the ☺☺☺☺ out of this whether it gets made or not!

Oh, and to say nothing of this "trunk-or-treat" ********, where a bunch of parents drive their cars into a parking lot, decorate their trunks, and fill said trunks with candy and hand them out to kids. I could tolerate this in the boondocks, where houses might be spaced many acres apart, but in the city/suburbs? I wanna hang these people. And then gut them like a fish.

Wow, and here I was thinking the opposite: your making a girl cry was an act of evil. Dammit, I really need to get checked.:p

Honestly, it's great to hear that you were able to touch someone in such a profound way. I only hope that I'll get that chance someday. And that I won't **** it up by going in the aforementioned direction.

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No one really reads these blogs anyway, so you're *****ing about stuff to no one. Do you really like to read your own type that much?

Honestly, I don't care if nobody reads my blog. It's more of a way for me to air out my anger at what I see as the amazing stupidity humans tend to exhibit. "*****ing to no one" can actually be kinda healthy. What do you think journals are?

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Obviously, stuff's gonna go down in these dorm rooms, if not between the girl and the guy that live there, then with friends of either parties.

That's kinda my point. The parent in question, IMO, doesn't seem to TRUST her ADULT daughter to not be sexually responsible. You may call it naive, but I don't think it's "obvious" that stuff is gonna go down. Reasons follow:

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Maybe you don't understand how college works,

Oh, I understand how college works. I'm just finishing up my junior year at college, and while it may be a commuter college I still feel I have been able to learn a great deal about how college works. Sure, there's always gonna be those college students who screw up with no parental supervision, but I have, for lack of a better word, "faith" that most college students are there because they want to be, and because they genuinely want a great life for themselves, and they'll concentrate on obtaining that goal instead of confirming these idiot parents' fears with sex each night or whatever.

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It'll end up awkward and unnecessary 95% of the time; let me tell you from experience, where I roomed with girls in the same suite (read: not the same room) my first year of college, and guess what? Stuff happened, and it was awkward.

I'm gonna end my reply with these:

1) Sorry that you felt that it was awkward, but I feel that stuff like that happening could be good for you. You in the general "group" sense. I'm not saying you personally here, since I have no clue who you really are, and thus have no right to make any specific judgments. I think experience is the best teacher, bar none. You do stuff, learn that what happened was awkward, and thus try to prevent it from happening again. Remember, the professors aren't the only people in college who can teach you things.

2) If you (or perchance anyone else reading this post) is actually interested, the daughter of the mom I railed against has responded to the story here.

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Oh look, another person on the internet trying to be "edgy" like his hero, Maddox. What you guys don't seem to get is that Maddox doesn't have the angsty sense of humor that a 13 year old usually has.

First of all, I wouldn't really call Maddox a "hero" of mine. Sure, there was a time when I found him quite funny. I'll admit that. But I've since grown out of that. To me, he's now just about as funny as Jay Leno. And that's pretty bad.

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You don't even have a good reason for not liking fat people; you just don't like them because they're fat. You posted a story which is probably fabricated to demonstrate how you think fat people are also intellectually inferior to people who aren't, then spent the rest of the blog complaining about something that isn't really all that offensive. Did a fat guy kill your family or something? Cause otherwise, you don't really have a decent reason to hate them.

Sure, the story might be fabricated. I don't know, this is a second-hand relation of something. However, I do think that fat people exhibit at least a greater lack of common sense than other people. And the insistence of fat people that people be a lot more sensitive about their weight is pretty damn offensive, at least to me. IMO, obesity is the leading factor of the incredible pussification of American social behaviors. We have to constantly massage their fragile psyches, which never makes them want to lose that weight that could be threatening them. Instead, we could be blunt and almost callous, which I hope would make that person want to do something about their current problem, like losing weight and getting healthier.

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It's not as easy as "EAT A BANANA, STUPID".

However, when reduced to its simplest terms, it is. Eating could be an addiction, but all it takes to beat an addiction is the willpower to end it.

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So start actually knowing what you're talking about before you say you hate it. The last thing we need in the world is blind hatred.

But...but...blind hatred is so much fun!:D

Thanks for the grats! Now, on to the answers:

The music in the background is One Winged Angel, from Final Fantasy VII. I'm still looking around for some appropriate contemporary instrumental-only music for the background, and this was the first thing that popped into my head. And it was also pretty much the only thing I had already on my hard drive.:p

The voice might sound broken for one of two reasons that I can think of: 1) For whatever reason, I hated my voice so I initially intended to release it with my voice lowered by a couple of steps, but then decided that that would amount to a huge lie, and then I had to go back and re-increase the vocal pitch. Either that or the fact that I was doing the show with an entirely numb lower jaw since I had to get three fillings put in a few hours prior. But a promise is a promise, and I promised that the show would be released on the second, so there it is.

Magic Mage: Ya got me. Still, the point is there: the school seems to have gone WAY downhill since I graduated, and I never thought that was possible.

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Haven't seen the movie, but the title is from a short story that since the movie's release seems to have dissappeared of the internet, probably because while before hand it was quite obscure and not particularly representative of the James Bond stories in general, it is now being re-published. Oh well. Basically it is about Bond's more human side and how everyone around him fails to notice or care that he has one. The term "quantum of solace" relates to the compassion one person has for another.

Sure, but the problem I have is that Bond titles are never this abstract. Dr. No was the name of the villain. Same with Goldfinger. License to Kill was the thing that got taken away from Bond and hampered his mission. The World is not Enough was his family motto. Never has a title been so hard to tie in to the movie itself.

Also, if you loved Brad Pitt in Fight Club, you'd love him in 12 Monkeys.

First of all, random rants? What are you doing ripping off my style?:p

Second of all, sounds like a pretty cool undertaking. But a multiplayer text adventure game? I would love to see how that would even work. Something like text-only D&D maybe?

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Are you really expecting Palin to just condemn her daughter? I would be much more hesistant to vote for a VP that is willing to disown her own daughter because she got pregnant. If anything, Palin support of her daughter shows her emphasis on family values. It's certainly not hypocrisy.

Besides, character attacks - and even worse, attacks on a politician's children - is the lowest form of politics.

I don't expect her to condemn her daughter. I didn't say anything about what I expect her to do. I just pointed out what I thought was a bit of hypocrisy. That's all.

Here's the hypocrisy:

James Dobson of Focus on the Family approves of unmarried teen pregnancy, as long as it's a white Republican unmarried teen.

If it was anyone else, he would be yelling his ass off about it.

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dude, nintendogs? ELITE BEAT AGENTS???? cmon man

Hey, what can I say? I'm a dog person, and unfortunately the apartment complex that I live at doesn't allow pets, so this is the next best thing. As for Elite Beat Agents, that game is REALLY addicting. I know some of the songs suck, but I like the game as a whole.

So what, nobody feels my physical pain? That makes Vax a sad panda.:crying::p

Sounds like fun! If I had any sort of money I'd get a video capture card as well. YouTube just doesn't seem complete unless you put something on that sum*****.

As for game ideas, try going old-school with stuff like Super Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, and Earthbound. Those would definately be for the "Let's Partly Play" category.

I'm a little confused about the "WTF..." one. Is it like you're conducting an interview about the game with the person on the other end while you're playing it?

As for emulators, I would suggest several, but I don't know if talking about that kind of thing is against the rules. If it isn't, I'll share some really great ones with you. Just not now.:p

Wow, am I the only person who both pays attention to these blogs AND has read the Watchmen graphic novel already?:p

I really don't know about this movie. Part of me is going, "Yay! It's gonna rock!" but another part of me is going, "Dammit, the source just doesn't lend itself well to translating onto the big screen." Of course, it's been a while since I've read the thing, plus I was reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the same time I was reading Watchmen, so I might have to go through it again. I'm a little leery about it, TBH. About as leery as I was when I heard about the villains appearing in Spider-Man 3, and my gut feeling was right on that one.