DarthTofu

Quite possibly the best foreign comedy ever. Shaolin Soccer had me doubled over laughing, even if it was dubbed. The humor style is slapstick by and large, with amazing visual effects that, thankfully, are not the primary focus, though are still important to the plot, acting as one giant joke. It covers the story of a soccer team made entirely of Kung Fu masters, going out to win the Chinese Soccer world cup. It's almost never serious, except for one small part of the plot, and is one of my new favorite movies. I recommend any and all who like comedy see it!

Our tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude! Stupid photobucket isn't working right now, otherwise I'd upload a new one I have...

I've been meaning to compliment Eagle on the new avatar. @ J: I like it!

OOC: I'm glad to see that others enjoy obscure articles on Wookiepedia as well, SOCL. IC: I’ve heard that “Hard Contactâ€

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OOC: Hey, I got a commando named after me! I'm touched! At least I assume he's named after me- then again, you could just have no creativity. You're good with action sequences, man, and remember: They don't always have to be action sequences. You're free to just do character-building stuff as well as set-up of bases, etc. I'll try to post again some time this week with the raid on the base.

From what I've heard, the Dark Nest trilogy is not enjoyable. BadSamaritan read it and complained the whole way through of the random new material that was suddenly canon, as well as reinterpretations of previous canon and giving some character dissproportionate amounts of power. I skipped 'em and broused the wookiepedia articles on all persons involved, so I now know pretty much what happened, and I'm not sorry that I skipped it. As for Rogue Planet: It was tied into the Vong war as an afterthought according to the interview at the end of my copy of Unifying Force. Vergere is never mentioned by name except as a Jedi who dissapeared. She was retconned as that Jedi during the Vong war. I read some of it back when it first came out, and even then I felt it was rather poor writing.

I'd simply assumed that when he said, "Everything" he was referring to non humans as well, meaning that pets, Ewoks, and Hillary Clinton should see it as well... I still say that Cube is one of the best movies of all time... Messes with your head, even if it isn't that creepy (According to Mad). Granted, some bits hurt ("Hmm, is 369 prime or not?") but the acting is decent enough, and the overall plot is great.

That's about as odd as this! (I love how we get three posts of randomness from one site...)

85.615 meteres and three loop-the-loops... That only took forever and a day to get.

*Drop pants* "Oh no! It's the RANCOR!!!!"

For a hardback? Not my Barnes and Noble. The least they'll lower the price to is probably around twenty bucks, maybe so far as sixteen. That's still twice as much as the paperback version, and the hardback doesn't include Boba Fett: A Practical Man which I'd been wanting to read, anyway. Paperback is just a better deal...

Have you gotten to the part where it explains why the Vong have no Force presence yet? If you have, then you get to read the black text! The Force was stripped from them? Oh, come on! That's just retarded! Stripped from them? STRIPPED FROM THEM?!? Everyone else alludes that there's more to the Force than the Jedi know, that the Vong just exist in a differant spectrum, like ultraviolate light to the human eye, and you go off and says that they were stripped of the Force?!? The Force is life. Without the Force, there is no life! Having it stripped from you and surviving is just... Argh! *Headdesk* I hated that so passionately.... One thing that I will say I liked about Unifying Force was that J.L. used other people's characters in his books. Too many other authors will only mention them- person X from the novel before this one walked through the door and then left. Jagged Fel is probably the only exception to that one. J.L. was good enough to give the characters more than three-sentance cameos, and that helped a lot for the overall novel.

OOC: Ah, there's the thing- this thread is complete and total freedom. You can jump into the war wherever and whenever you want to, using whoever you want to. My stuff begins around the Agents of Chaos Duology, where I think Krytos's stuff is from around Star by Star. As far as rules go, I only had one, and you've gone and broken it already. My rule was that you had to be stuck on a planet somewhere and start a resistence cell. I was basing it somewhat on the idea from Rebel Dream of creating cells on all of the planets to retaliate. I imagined that it would be easier for some to start with being dropped off by the Falcon or some other New Republic ship, while others could make their own bases up as they went. As I said before, my characters all have their own futures mapped out, so I'd prefer it if you didn't interact with them for the time being. In the future- the far future- the cavalry will be arriving, and so there some interaction will be possible if anyone feels the need to. I'll alert folks in advance when that time comes.

Wow... Apparently I'm a serious cheapskate, 'cause I'm just getting the damned thing from the library and then buying it in a year...

So I'm reading Legacy of the Force series, now, and I'm enjoying it, because I really like Aalston, am enjoyed what I read from Traviss, and am more capable of tolerating Dennings, now. I finished Exile a while back, and now I want to read the next book, Sacrifice, which is dreadfully important to the overall plot. One problem. It's in hardback, and I'm getting the books as they come out. I figure, "No problem- I can wait a few months to get the paperback version for far less." Problem. Del Ray isn't releasing Sacrifice in paperback until May of 2008. Those money-grubbing bastards are trying to rake in the cash by not making it available except in hardback while they release the rest of the series. Argh! On the up side, the library has a copy of Sacrifice. Securing it will be something of a bitch since there are apparently lots of other fans on the island (Betrayal is still on the New Book shelf, and was all alone when I saw it.) and they're all reading Legacy of the Force, now. ... Friggin' Del Ray...

Albus being Latin for white (Adjective), Sirius being the dog star, everyone in the Black family being named for stars, Draco being, as my favorite astronomy book puts it, "The last in a series of rather dim stars," Inferi being the plural of dead in Latin (I think- I remember it had something to do with either the dead or zombies)... There are so many easter eggs hidden in there that it's hilarious. There are almost so many that it isn't even funny, but Rowling is smart enough to know when to stop.

I'm pretty sure that you're wrong. The Irish, being dirt poor, were willing to accept jobs at much lower rates than the people already in America would have. This led to the Irish getting jobs over Americans, as well as a great deal of anti-Irish sentiment. The mafia/hit man thing might have been a way to protect themselves way back when, or it might just be a bit of propaganda/an ugly rumor started against the Irish by disgruntled people already living in the U.S.

I just watched Transformers, and truth-be-told, I have to say that I agree with Krytos's assessment of it. The plot is pure crap, but the special effects are bloody amazing- everything looks so real! Well, not quite everything- this one brick wall during a shoot-out scene was really digital-looking, but that was only for about a tenth of a second, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who noticed it. Who was who got slightly confusing when the "Bad" transformers arrived, though, as my friend put it, "The good guys are colorful ones, the bad guys are the dark-colored, blackish ones. Except the weapons guy who is, in fact, black. In more ways than one. And the best possible way." As Krytos said, the comic relief was a bit heavy at the beginning, though toward the end it was lessened considerably, which was nice. All in all it's worth seeing once- and only once. The plot is nothing special, and rather crappy, but the fight scenes are great, high-adrenaline. One thing that bugs me from the movie is this (Highlight if you've seen it): After Megatron dies, Optimus Prime snags something out of his chest- what the heck was that? I thought it was a shard of the cube thingy (Which, Star Trek fans, looked decidedly like your precious Borg Cube mixed with a Rubix Cube) but that really doesn't make too much sense, as it was almost entirely destroyed. Also, if the cube gave life to the Autotrons and let them live in peace for a while, why did it make only evil machines with whatever it hit?

What on Earth would characters from The Lion King be doing in the Harry Potter world? Sorry, I had to.... I'm still eagerly awaiting that last book. @SOCL: Call me crazy, but I thought that Unifying Force felt somewhat... Well, forced, as it were. Do you ever get that sort of feeling where you can tell what the author was feeling or thinking as they wrote a passage or chapter, like you can tell that something is based on an experience that they've had, or they're slightly ashamed to write something, they don't quite know what they're talking about and bluffing, etc?

Are the Irish guys drunks or hit men in Boondock Saints? I know their father is sort of a hit man, but he only knocked off criminals and such, and so far as I know (I only saw about the second half of the flick) the two kids are neither drunk nor hit men. *Shrugs* The Irish make good hit men because of the accent. You can't help but smile and say "They're after me Lucky Charms!" when an Irish bloke comes at you and says something. Then, in that brief moment of inner laughter, they can rip out your throat... That's my two bits worth.

No reading book seven until you've gone back and read one through four. You'll miss way too much plot info and be lost as hell. Go back and read them through. Now. (I'm threatening you on the honors system that if you don't you'll slam your fingers in the oven or something.)

Granted. The asassins that everyone hired to take out Rob when he lied about the date Reloaded was being released a while back mistake you for Rob (We couldn't afford very good asassins) and take you out instead. We pay them in full for making the world a better place. I wish this thread would be locked since all it's leading to is spam. (I appologize for making it in the first place- I didn't realize how it would spread!)

This post is for mature audiences only. Do not read this if it's going to offend you. You really think you could walk up to a thirteen-year-old and say, "Hey, if you shove a dildo up your ass it feels great in a masculine way!" he's going to do it? Given the level of homophobia kids just hitting puberty have nowadays, I'd say there's very little chance that they'd run about doing something like that. Feel free to argue if you want, but just remember: It's been a lot longer since you were thirteen than since I was. As for pyrotechnics: Of course people are stupid around fire. Fire is, well, fire. I screwed around with it a bit when I was younger, though I was bright enough to do it in a not-so-busy-street or on a storm drain surrounded by green grass that wasn't about to burn, and typically with my then-sixteen-year-old-sister who remembered having as much fun with fire back when she was my age as I was now. The post is over. You can go back to your normal posting habits, now. If you were offended by this post, it's your own damn fault. I warned you not to read it if you would be.

I studied under Bruce Lee, Jet Lee, Jackie Chan, and Indiana Jones to learn the ancient are of kickassery, wherein one learns to utilize such weapons as the foot for the "Praying Mantis Strikes the Family Jewels" technique, and the hand gun for the "Bullet Pierces the Heart and Kills the Fool Who Attacked Me" technique. .... Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah. I never took any sort of martial arts training. I sort of got into fencing, but not really. I never even got good enough to attend a tournament, though I used some of those skills to knock my friends on the head with Kenn-do (sp?) sticks that we pretty much used self-taught styles with. It's really kind of scary to know that most of the people here are probably profficient enough in martial arts to kick my @$$. Rob, in particular- I've seen pictures of him on the internet, and he just doesn't look like a blackbelt. Then again, I suppose that might be a good thing for you, so that they don't send the ninjas to kill you and all....