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Infinity Biscuit wrote:Great show all around you guys

So I just finished Heart of the Swarm, I gotta say as much as I think the plot has suffered since SC1/BW, the execution and mission design were both excellent. I honestly hope I don't have to wait three years for Legacy of the Void.

artillery fire is not conducive to study

thejester wrote:artillery fire is not conducive to study

this sounds like an interesting tale

there is very little to tell

just someone (presumably at RMC) keeps firing artillery pieces intermittently and its rattling the windows and scaring the fuck out of me and my officemate

We could replace our existing insult system with one based on the reinforcing a different culture's norms, such as the Japanese system of increasingly rude ways of saying "you".

Please demonstrate?

timmy wrote:Flagg

Stop being a cunt, mate.

Seriously?

I know Flagg is an misogynist four year old who will likely never find his way out of my ignore, as well as a walking, talking, and ever more persuasive argument as to why I should ditch this board like I ditched SDN (not to mention likely a contributing factor as to why others have slowed to a stop with posting here)...

... but don't use that word. Even if you're trying to do it 'ironically', you're just validating his misogynist bullshit and detracting from what little made this place better than SDN in the first place.

Yeah, sorry. I forget that Americans see that word differently.

Wait, there are parts of the world where the use of that word as a descriptor by a male doesn't involve verbal (and occaisionally physical) beatings?

Why?

Edit: while I know there are funny insulting loan words in English that are perfectly acceptable in the original language, that's not one of them, though.

Further Edit: is it odd that I know more cross culture stuff from Eastern Europe, France (a bit) and the ME than I do other English speaking cultures?

i honestly kind of tended to see nt as kind of an aussie board anyway, or at least one with a p. substantial proportion of australians

(i know new zealand's not the same but i kind of subconsciously lump the whole area together, sorry if this offends anyone)

Questor wrote:Wait, there are parts of the world where the use of that word as a descriptor by a male doesn't involve verbal (and occaisionally physical) beatings?

Why?

Edit: while I know there are funny insulting loan words in English that are perfectly acceptable in the original language, that's not one of them, though.

Further Edit: is it odd that I know more cross culture stuff from Eastern Europe, France (a bit) and the ME than I do other English speaking cultures?

Because, swearing, whatever the word, is a perfectly accepted part of Australian culture across a wide range of environments.

OK, interesting.

Nolan and Bale in the Justice League.

Am I the only one who sees potential for this? It gives an opportunity to fix some (but by no means all) of what I consider the biggest narrative flaws of TDKR, jack up the threat level of the bad guys enormously, and then shut them down in a partly believable manner.

Bruce Wayne's dead, except to two people (and possibly a third if he's got any brains). Does anyone think that if a threat that shows up and takes down Supes (and there's not many ways to do that) that Batman's not going to show up?

Step 1: Threat appears.
Step 2: Supes does his bull/china shop schtick
Step 3: Supes gets beaten
Step 4: Batman's voice calls Fox and asks for some set of files.
Steps 5-n: Recruitment scenes
n+1: Big team battle

I don't know if it would be good, but it doesn't have to suck or break the Nolanverse either. The nolanverse enemies were heavily implied to be non-superhuman/magical but they didn't have to be. That flower could have been supernatural, Bane could have been. God knows Joker could have been an elemental force, and how the heck else do you even try to explain Two-Face?

EDIT: In fact, it also avoids the huge gaping issue in the Avengers: In a world with Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk, how do you give Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye a role? Batman's role is to be what he is portrayed as being. The smartest nutcase in the universe.

Questor wrote:OK, interesting.

Nolan and Bale in the Justice League.

Am I the only one who sees potential for this? It gives an opportunity to fix some (but by no means all) of what I consider the biggest narrative flaws of TDKR, jack up the threat level of the bad guys enormously, and then shut them down in a partly believable manner.

Bruce Wayne's dead, except to two people (and possibly a third if he's got any brains). Does anyone think that if a threat that shows up and takes down Supes (and there's not many ways to do that) that Batman's not going to show up?

Step 1: Threat appears.
Step 2: Supes does his bull/china shop schtick
Step 3: Supes gets beaten
Step 4: Batman's voice calls Fox and asks for some set of files.
Steps 5-n: Recruitment scenes
n+1: Big team battle

I don't know if it would be good, but it doesn't have to suck or break the Nolanverse either. The nolanverse enemies were heavily implied to be non-superhuman/magical but they didn't have to be. That flower could have been supernatural, Bane could have been. God knows Joker could have been an elemental force, and how the heck else do you even try to explain Two-Face?

Can I buy some pot from you?

Flagg wrote:Can I buy some pot from you?

For which part? Rising to the standard of "Good Comic Book Movie" is not a high bar to clear.

All I'm saying is that going "Ahhhhhh, it'll break the universe and rape my childhood" is premature.

Of course, I thought there was a chance Transformers wouldn't suck, too. That one still amazes me. How do you make giant transforming robots suck?

Questor wrote:

Flagg wrote:Can I buy some pot from you?

For which part? Rising to the standard of "Good Comic Book Movie" is not a high bar to clear.

All I'm saying is that going "Ahhhhhh, it'll break the universe and rape my childhood" is premature.

Of course, I thought there was a chance Transformers wouldn't suck, too. That one still amazes me. How do you make giant transforming robots suck?

Sorry but if I see Christian Bale as Batman in a space station or the goddamned fortress of solitude I will be most displeased. Most displeased indeed.

that would be fucking great though

I had a hilarious idea. Have Christin Bale as batman in Justice League. But not Nolan verse Batman. Give him a different costume. A much more lower paid actor to cameo as Alfred. Bam. Different Batman.

It would so trolly. But cool. But then no-one likes Bale as batman anyway. Bale as Wayne works. But not with the bale batvoice.

Weirdly I never really noticed until everyone started ripping on it. Then I could never not notice.

Still not as shitty as the bane voice though.

I like Bane's goatse mask

At least Bane didn't sound like he had emphysema. He was just a bit muffled.

Meh. I found bane's muffled, high-pitched pseudo-russian thing a lot more distracting and harder to understan than just excessive hoarse-ness but its just personal taste.

christian bale as patrick bateman as bruce wayne

that's what i imagine anyway when i watch the batman films and it makes them 500% more entertaining

Crazedwraith wrote:I had a hilarious idea. Have Christin Bale as batman in Justice League. But not Nolan verse Batman. Give him a different costume. A much more lower paid actor to cameo as Alfred. Bam. Different Batman.

It would so trolly. But cool. But then no-one likes Bale as batman anyway. Bale as Wayne works. But not with the bale batvoice.

Weirdly I never really noticed until everyone started ripping on it. Then I could never not notice.

Still not as shitty as the bane voice though.

Get Kevin Conroy to dub the Batman voice.

Damn right.


edit: they actually did have kevin conroy and the btas lot do some dkr lines when the created a btas version of the dkr trailer to promote some btas marathon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btMtwz4P0fc

his vocal performance is sort of uninspired but then the lines weren't that great to begin with.

I should grab the BTAS integral sometimes . It looks pretty awesome.