The Hall of Fire

axordil wrote: Sex.
Murder.
AI.
Power tools.
Asteroid mining.

If I could work hippos in there I'd win a Hugo.

Challenge accepted: A story featuring a sexy hippo who mines asteroids with AI driven power tools, develops a taste for murder.

ETA: annnnd killed another one

Considering how few clicks it takes to get into weirdsville on the intertubes, I've been afraid to type "naked hippo pics" into the search box... until now. This thread has helped me overcome some of my fears. Picking up Jewel's comments on complacency and comfort as it relates to posting ...

It allows us to believe that, since nobody is disagreeing with us, our opinion must be unanimous. Rightly said, and this too might cause a person to stumble should no one say what needs to be said. I suppose then it matters that you follow your heart when deciding whether to reply. What can be &quo...

But don't you see, Lali? That is exactly why you SHOULD post. What the h*** good is a discussion board about controversial topics if everyone agrees with everyone else all the time? I disagree.:P Okay, I was going to just leave it at that. However, lest my behaviour be called trollish, justly, I wi...

There's a delete button? Edit: Yup; I see it hiding there. Now; should I delete this post? ;) It's only there until someone else posts in the thread. (Wouldn't want you to have to learn that the hard way.) Also, you can edit your post as many times as you like (a feature I love), until someone else...

In any case, I'm sorry for Conan Stevens who has the world being told that his Azog just wasn't cutting it... However, such a statement lends legitimacy to the idea that it matters who's wearing the mocap suit when filming a CG character. eh? :scratch: Neither Stevens' nor Rawls' versions of Azog w...

Funky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UypeE3zTwBs

Elen wrote:In any case, I'm sorry for Conan Stevens who has the world being told that his Azog just wasn't cutting it...

However, such a statement lends legitimacy to the idea that it matters who's wearing the mocap suit when filming a CG character.

Calling the statement "convenient" sounds as if you put too much meaning into this little sentence. After all, it is only one person on the forum who claimed that certain “bad” decisions were not done by Jackson. “Luthiens Tochter” does not provide any examples or “perpetrators”. There ar...

“The daughter of Lúthien” also claims that many of the decision that we disliked about the cinema version of “AUJ” did not come from Peter Jackson A vague if not convenient statement. I spent some time at the link... though Google translated the pages for me, it was hard to follow the conversation....

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/what-roger-ebert-knew-about-writing/245408/ One of the things that always struck me about Ebert was the consummate craftsmanship of his writing. Transparent and subtle by turns as the subject required, whether film or life in general--the guy...

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Wow, I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of that guy.

Notice Legolas only has one fighting knife... where's the other one? Or maybe he has a different harness altogether.... maybe he is gifted the familiar twin blades later in the trilogy? Thranduil does have a certain swagger... not sure I'd call it sass. That's usually a sign of disdain or lack of re...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Here's a gif that I found:

http://stealthylikeajackal.tumblr.com/p ... sneak-peak

Why does this remind me of The Wizard of Oz? And why do I keep expecting Dori to break out with "As mayor of the Munchkin City..."

Dave_LF wrote:I just have no desire to jump through all these ridiculous hoops in order to see a few seconds of footage from a movie that will be out in less than 9 months, and throughly advertised well before that.

Word.

Actually (now remember I'm from Canada) in flat rural areas, six inches of blowing snow can make some pretty deep drifts, usually exactly where you don't want them.

In some families if cousins are of different generations, the younger sometimes call the elders aunt or uncle, especially if the elders are care givers to the younger. (For instance my younger cousin's son calls me uncle, partially because I helped raise him from the time of his birth. Come to think...

Azog as villain is better than the wholly invented necro-orc-thing that made it all the way to the Lego figure. The character has its roots in the books, at least. I can only guess at the reasoning behind the need for a "personal villain." Is it because otherwise the " face heel turn...

Di's latest post reminds me of being at a Bible study the other day... At one point while an older lady was speaking, I looked at her and thought something to the effect, "Lord if it weren't for this study, I would never have ado with this lady, nor most of the other people in this room. Yet as...

Al, Nin, Lali, and Pearly Di all touch on my own view of this. Although (what ought to be) the characteristics of the Christian Church are revealed in the scriptures (notably Acts 2, 1 Tim 3, Titus 1, etc) I see the Catholic Church as an institution of man, not unlike a monarchy. According to Wiki, ...