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FearfulSymmetry: In the Netherlands, we apparently felt the need to turn the passion of Christ into a live musical. Last year they did it in my city, but I managed to flee in time.
Musicals can actually be good if they manage to go so far into god-awfulness that they come out from the other end directly into awesome.

But to do so you have to be able to laugh your ass off at the horribly corny depictions, which I suppose is frowned upon as sacrilegious and will probably earn you scornful stares from the more pious ladies in the crowd.

Over here it's a very solemn experience. More so with the silent ones, you can actually hear the people shushing everyone else as they pass by.

And then there's the whole clan mentality amongst people devout of one virgin or one Christ. With some of them openly stating how their virgin is better than the one from the neighbouring district. Even though they know they represent the same personage. But to them they're entirely different entities. Makes me want to throttle them.
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FearfulSymmetry: In the Netherlands, we apparently felt the need to turn the passion of Christ into a live musical. Last year they did it in my city, but I managed to flee in time.
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j0ekerr: Musicals can actually be good if they manage to go so far into god-awfulness that they come out from the other end directly into awesome.

But to do so you have to be able to laugh your ass off at the horribly corny depictions, which I suppose is frowned upon as sacrilegious and will probably earn you scornful stares from the more pious ladies in the crowd.

Over here it's a very solemn experience. More so with the silent ones, you can actually hear the people shushing everyone else as they pass by.

And then there's the whole clan mentality amongst people devout of one virgin or one Christ. With some of them openly stating how their virgin is better than the one from the neighbouring district. Even though they know they represent the same personage. But to them they're entirely different entities. Makes me want to throttle them.
That sounds like neighborhoods arguing over who has the best mall Santa. -laughs-
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j0ekerr: Musicals can actually be good if they manage to go so far into god-awfulness that they come out from the other end directly into awesome.

But to do so you have to be able to laugh your ass off at the horribly corny depictions, which I suppose is frowned upon as sacrilegious and will probably earn you scornful stares from the more pious ladies in the crowd.

Over here it's a very solemn experience. More so with the silent ones, you can actually hear the people shushing everyone else as they pass by.

And then there's the whole clan mentality amongst people devout of one virgin or one Christ. With some of them openly stating how their virgin is better than the one from the neighbouring district. Even though they know they represent the same personage. But to them they're entirely different entities. Makes me want to throttle them.
I kind of like musicals in general, but this ... It's just not my thing. It feels too dramatic in a commercial way, if that makes sense.
Morning Everyone!

Just had some Carnage for breakfast :D
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CarrionCrow: Don't feel badly. I never get to see festivals or gatherings of worship for my deity.

Probably for the best, though. I don't want to see Tony the cereal box tiger on a cross somewhere. He's always so happy and upbeat, it'd just be sad to witness him in such a state.
I see your God, and raise you mine.

My God is obviously superior, since you can fap to it!

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CarrionCrow: Right...the Punisher is a gun-wielding psycho, and Batman is a psycho who likes gadgets, dress-up, and play dates that involve violent lunatics that he gets to wrestle with before putting them into the local sieve/prison so they can escape and it can start all over again.

Will have to read up on the Knightfall thing. I know of Batman, but I don't read the comics, so I'm sure there's a ton of crap I've missed.
The punisher is obsessed with wielding big guns, Batman is obsessed with people who wield big guns.

And I'm not gonna touch the whole Robin thing.

Besides he's the GODDAMN BATMAN!.
That over there is the official moment in which Frank Miller completely and utterly lost it.

Knightfall is an early 90's storyline that introduced Bane. At the time, it seemed like an attempt from DC to make Batman into a more gritty and EXTREEM superhero that would appeal to the cool kids and make him seem more in line with the fashionable sociopathic heroes of the time like those found in Image and Youngblood, who didn't have a pesky moral code and shot people's heads off with glee and oversized guns.

People hated it.

Then they did a 180, and everybody praised it for being a critical look at the trendy psychotic superheroes that were flat cookie cutter characters, with no personality other than BLAAARGH, I KILL BAD GUYS WITH MAH GUNZ. Also pouches, lots of pouches, everywhere.

Rob Liefeld did a lot of damage.
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Soccorro: Morning Everyone!

Just had some Carnage for breakfast :D
Good morning. =)

Aside from your victory on the battlefield, how's your day going?
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CarrionCrow: Don't feel badly. I never get to see festivals or gatherings of worship for my deity.

Probably for the best, though. I don't want to see Tony the cereal box tiger on a cross somewhere. He's always so happy and upbeat, it'd just be sad to witness him in such a state.
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j0ekerr: I see your God, and raise you mine.

My God is obviously superior, since you can fap to it!

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CarrionCrow: Right...the Punisher is a gun-wielding psycho, and Batman is a psycho who likes gadgets, dress-up, and play dates that involve violent lunatics that he gets to wrestle with before putting them into the local sieve/prison so they can escape and it can start all over again.

Will have to read up on the Knightfall thing. I know of Batman, but I don't read the comics, so I'm sure there's a ton of crap I've missed.
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j0ekerr: The punisher is obsessed with wielding big guns, Batman is obsessed with people who wield big guns.

And I'm not gonna touch the whole Robin thing.

Besides he's the GODDAMN BATMAN!.
That over there is the official moment in which Frank Miller completely and utterly lost it.

Knightfall is an early 90's storyline that introduced Bane. At the time, it seemed like an attempt from DC to make Batman into a more gritty and EXTREEM superhero that would appeal to the cool kids and make him seem more in line with the fashionable sociopathic heroes of the time like those found in Image and Youngblood, who didn't have a pesky moral code and shot people's heads off with glee and oversized guns.

People hated it.

Then they did a 180, and everybody praised it for being a critical look at the trendy psychotic superheroes that were flat cookie cutter characters, with no personality other than BLAAARGH, I KILL BAD GUYS WITH MAH GUNZ. Also pouches, lots of pouches, everywhere.

Rob Liefeld did a lot of damage.
Really glad that my god isn't generic-looking anime girl. If I'm going that route, I'll dig around and find a better female. -laughs-

Yeah...thanks to a bunch of Linkara videos, I learned of the madness that is Frank Miller post-All Star Batman and Robin (I think that's what it's called), as well as the Rob Liefeld style of both shitty drawing and shitty characters.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Hi all!

Just a few *hugs and waves* before I'm back to the battlefield kitchen again :-)
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FearfulSymmetry: I kind of like musicals in general, but this ... It's just not my thing. It feels too dramatic in a commercial way, if that makes sense.
Kinda, I'm reminded of Crow's Santa simile, and how they've sucked any spirituality out of Christmas.

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CarrionCrow: That sounds like neighborhoods arguing over who has the best mall Santa. -laughs-
It kind of is.

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CarrionCrow: Okay, thanks to Wikipedia and speed reading, I have the gist of it, and I can see why it's profoundly stupid on multiple levels.
The first part of knifghtall (the actual fall part) is brilliant. And is universally acclaimed.

The seond act with armoured Batman, however is the one universally panned.

The third act, the rise, is again well received, for obvious reasons.

With the power of hindsight some people claim DC's original plan was always a TAKE THAT AUDIENCE, an example of giving idiots what they asked for, then see how well they liked it.

I think they were just trying to make him more 90's-like, but then went back when they saw no one really liked it.

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toxicTom: Hi all!

Just a few *hugs and waves* before I'm back to the battlefield kitchen again :-)
Welcome Tom, what sort of enemy will you be facing?
Post edited March 29, 2015 by j0ekerr
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Soccorro: Morning Everyone!

Just had some Carnage for breakfast :D
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CarrionCrow: Good morning. =)

Aside from your victory on the battlefield, how's your day going?
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j0ekerr: I see your God, and raise you mine.

My God is obviously superior, since you can fap to it!

The punisher is obsessed with wielding big guns, Batman is obsessed with people who wield big guns.

And I'm not gonna touch the whole Robin thing.

Besides he's the GODDAMN BATMAN!.
That over there is the official moment in which Frank Miller completely and utterly lost it.

Knightfall is an early 90's storyline that introduced Bane. At the time, it seemed like an attempt from DC to make Batman into a more gritty and EXTREEM superhero that would appeal to the cool kids and make him seem more in line with the fashionable sociopathic heroes of the time like those found in Image and Youngblood, who didn't have a pesky moral code and shot people's heads off with glee and oversized guns.

People hated it.

Then they did a 180, and everybody praised it for being a critical look at the trendy psychotic superheroes that were flat cookie cutter characters, with no personality other than BLAAARGH, I KILL BAD GUYS WITH MAH GUNZ. Also pouches, lots of pouches, everywhere.

Rob Liefeld did a lot of damage.
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CarrionCrow: Really glad that my god isn't generic-looking anime girl. If I'm going that route, I'll dig around and find a better female. -laughs-

Yeah...thanks to a bunch of Linkara videos, I learned of the madness that is Frank Miller post-All Star Batman and Robin (I think that's what it's called), as well as the Rob Liefeld style of both shitty drawing and shitty characters.
I'm fine. and you?
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toxicTom: Hi all!

Just a few *hugs and waves* before I'm back to the battlefield kitchen again :-)
Good morning. =)

Next fall on the Food Network, it's Battlefield Kitchen. Watch as contestants cook fabulous meals while being shot at with real bullets, pelted with shrapnel and occasionally doused in napalm!

Sorry...that's what came to mind. -laughs-
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CarrionCrow: Additional - Despite the shit I've been talking about Bravely Default (totally justified by the way, I am sick to death of multiplayer shit being stitched into solid singleplayer games like some conjoined fetus nightmare that needs to be killed with fire), I'm really liking some of the other aspects.

With my squad of 3 people, I can start off a fight with 12 attacks, so long as I'm willing to take the risk that the enemies won't die. At that point, they get 3 free rounds to beat the crap out of me since I burned four rounds worth of turns already.

Also, having a slider bar so you can control the encounter rate? Frigging awesome. If I want to grind, I can turn it up. If I'm getting my ass kicked, I can shut it off and scurry back to town to heal up.

And of course, the job system continues to be one of the very best things Square ever came up with.
Good, glad you are enjoying it, I'd feel bad having talked it up if you didn't at least like the combat system.
The Brave / Default system is fun, but it does end up game breaking sometimes (but that being said, there are enough hard enemies, even in the random encounters, that it's never really a complete walk over). But that combined with the encounter rate slider means grinding is so much more fun (plus the fact you can just auto battle, so once you find a tactic that works you can speed through battles and grind loads).
I think Bravely Default is the only game I ever maxed out every class on every character...
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CarrionCrow: Nothing wrong with tutorials. Beats going with blind confidence and failing.
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ElTerprise: Definitely.But atleast i have a laptop for backup if something happens...

BTW there is no gogdownloader for linux right? i haven't seen anything like it....
I was sure there was an unofficial one somewhere... let me see if I can dig it up for you :)

Edit: Here it is, not sure if it's still working / supported or what though:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/lgogdownloader_gogdownloader_for_linux/page1
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FearfulSymmetry: I kind of like musicals in general, but this ... It's just not my thing. It feels too dramatic in a commercial way, if that makes sense.
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j0ekerr: Kinda, I'm reminded of Crow's Santa simile, and how they've sucked any spirituality out of Christmas.

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CarrionCrow: That sounds like neighborhoods arguing over who has the best mall Santa. -laughs-
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j0ekerr: It kind of is.

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CarrionCrow: Okay, thanks to Wikipedia and speed reading, I have the gist of it, and I can see why it's profoundly stupid on multiple levels.
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j0ekerr: The first part of knifghtall (the actual fall part) is brilliant. And is universally acclaimed.

The seond act with armoured Batman, however is the one universally panned.

The third act, the rise, is again well received, for obvious reasons.

With the power of hindsight some people claim DC's original plan was always a TAKE THAT AUDIENCE, an example of giving idiots what they asked for, then see how well they liked it.

I think they were just trying to make him more 90's-like, but then went back when they saw no one really liked it.
I'm going to go with the idea that armored crazy wannabe Batman was just a colossal screwup on their part.

Apparently they're prone to such things, since I saw in another thread that they're revamping Batman in a frigging armor suit that contains what look like metal bunny ears.
And that's not for the 90's. That's 2015. They have no excuse.
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toxicTom: Just a few *hugs and waves* before I'm back to the battlefield kitchen again :-)
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j0ekerr: Welcome Tom, what sort of enemy will you be facing?
Dirty dishes, general chaos, and later the Dinner boss fight ;-)
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CarrionCrow: Next fall on the Food Network, it's Battlefield Kitchen. Watch as contestants cook fabulous meals while being shot at with real bullets, pelted with shrapnel and occasionally doused in napalm!

Sorry...that's what came to mind. -laughs-
LOL, even worse: watch as the contestants struggle while they are pestered by wives and children all demanding attention and raising the workload by adding mundane chores...
Post edited March 29, 2015 by toxicTom
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CarrionCrow: Additional - Despite the shit I've been talking about Bravely Default (totally justified by the way, I am sick to death of multiplayer shit being stitched into solid singleplayer games like some conjoined fetus nightmare that needs to be killed with fire), I'm really liking some of the other aspects.

With my squad of 3 people, I can start off a fight with 12 attacks, so long as I'm willing to take the risk that the enemies won't die. At that point, they get 3 free rounds to beat the crap out of me since I burned four rounds worth of turns already.

Also, having a slider bar so you can control the encounter rate? Frigging awesome. If I want to grind, I can turn it up. If I'm getting my ass kicked, I can shut it off and scurry back to town to heal up.

And of course, the job system continues to be one of the very best things Square ever came up with.
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adaliabooks: Good, glad you are enjoying it, I'd feel bad having talked it up if you didn't at least like the combat system.
The Brave / Default system is fun, but it does end up game breaking sometimes (but that being said, there are enough hard enemies, even in the random encounters, that it's never really a complete walk over). But that combined with the encounter rate slider means grinding is so much more fun (plus the fact you can just auto battle, so once you find a tactic that works you can speed through battles and grind loads).
I think Bravely Default is the only game I ever maxed out every class on every character...
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ElTerprise: Definitely.But atleast i have a laptop for backup if something happens...

BTW there is no gogdownloader for linux right? i haven't seen anything like it....
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adaliabooks: I was sure there was an unofficial one somewhere... let me see if I can dig it up for you :)
Good morning. =)

You don't ever have to feel badly about recommending something and me finding something to bitch about with it.
As luck would have it, I'm kinda good at that. -laughs-

I'm getting enough of a FF Tactics vibe from it all that it's making me happy on that level, so it's fine.

Granted, I'm still on the basic classes, and I keep having the urge to scream "I have the power!" when they hold up a new asterisk like they're He-Man invoking the power of Greyskull, and I kinda keep screaming for characters to shut the fuck up when they start going into their third or fourth jag of talking at length, and I've started calling crystal girl Onions to the point that I refer to her as that as I sit here mocking the dialogue in general, but it's enjoyable enough.

That's a chunk of how my night's going. How're you doing today?

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j0ekerr: Welcome Tom, what sort of enemy will you be facing?
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toxicTom: Dirty dishes, general chaos, and later the Dinner boss fight ;-)
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CarrionCrow: Next fall on the Food Network, it's Battlefield Kitchen. Watch as contestants cook fabulous meals while being shot at with real bullets, pelted with shrapnel and occasionally doused in napalm!

Sorry...that's what came to mind. -laughs-
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toxicTom: LOL, even worse: watch as the contestants struggle while they are pestered by wives and children all demanding attention and raising the workload by adding mundane chores...
So your day right now is kinda like a real life version of some Popcap time management game like Cake Mania, where more and more complications get added when all you want to do is make some frigging food.

No wonder you're tired so much. ;)
Post edited March 29, 2015 by CarrionCrow
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Soccorro: Morning Everyone!

Just had some Carnage for breakfast :D
What game is that?

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CarrionCrow: Really glad that my god isn't generic-looking anime girl. If I'm going that route, I'll dig around and find a better female. -laughs-
DOUBLE BLASPHEMY BURN THE UNBELIEVER!

Some background info on TL:DR form on our goddess Haruhi.

1: She's not generic, to be generic she'd have to have blue hair and her breasts would have to be three times as big.
2: She's actually omnipotent, except she doesn't know it. So she techincally qualifies as god.
3: Most important of all, my God has some utterly delectable doujins dedicated to her. Any doujins dedicated to yours would be of the eye gouging variety.
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CarrionCrow: Good morning. =)

Next fall on the Food Network, it's Battlefield Kitchen. Watch as contestants cook fabulous meals while being shot at with real bullets, pelted with shrapnel and occasionally doused in napalm!

Sorry...that's what came to mind. -laughs-
I'd watch that!
Post edited March 29, 2015 by j0ekerr