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Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:34 pm
by Infinity Biscuit
one thing I find interesting is that the single best moment the show had, I felt, was in season 2

when kirito uses illusion magic for the first time to "transform" into a monster he'd fought and killed in the last game, one who killed friends of his before his very eyes, to "kill" players in this new game, and he revels in it

it's too bad the show really dropped the ball with explorations of the effect of the experience on players such that scenes like that can be counted on, well, one finger, really. because I felt the way they DID play the setting (as opposed to a more MMOish way) was good in potential but they never explored that, either

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:57 am
by F.J. Prefect, Esq
Galvanized wrote:Instead the story might as well have been set in a "real" fantasy world for all the effect being in a game had on the show.
I hate to be all 'well that was the point' but like

Kayaba Akihiko's whole motivation relates to this

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:28 am
by Infinity Biscuit
just watched season 5 episodes 15 and 16 of buffy

good choice for me not to have any wine tonight

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:16 am
by Darksi4190
Infinity Biscuit wrote:just watched season 5 episodes 15 and 16 of buffy

good choice for me not to have any wine tonight
Been a while since I watched those so i'm not certain what you're referencing.

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:17 am
by Infinity Biscuit
the title of ep 16 was
the body

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:18 am
by Darksi4190
oooh. That.

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 12:28 pm
by Gands
Yeah, that's the one episode I've never been able to rewatch.

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:26 pm
by Stofsk
It's very real. It's the hardest hour of television you're ever likely to watch.

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:27 pm
by Infinity Biscuit
Gands wrote:Yeah, that's the one episode I've never been able to rewatch.
I actually kind of am interested in doing so myself, since it has amazing direction and symbolism (at least I think; I'd wanna watch to pay more attention)

but my best friend died from cancer a couple years ago and all I ever got was a phone call about it, so I was feeling for dawn a bit too heavy and may have cried for like half an hour after the episode was over

so on the other hand I don't think I want to revisit it so clinically or anything too

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:56 pm
by evilsoup
is that the monkey paw episode?

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:27 pm
by Galvanized
It's the one where
the mother dies of a brain aneurysm

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:04 pm
by timmy
So back at the end of high school some friends and I made a detective show pilot. Networks decided not to pick it up.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=KrQ2U9lJcSg

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:16 pm
by F.J. Prefect, Esq
Jesus Christ Tim

Jesus Christ

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:52 pm
by timmy
Fair go Ford it was a long time ago

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:57 pm
by evilsoup
I wish I'd seen this yesterday, then I could have told everyone 'happy regicide day'.
oh well, next year maybe

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:35 pm
by Dooey Jo
hooray, self-styled anti capitalist anarchists glorifying violence, fucking everyone over except their own egos and helping the status quo stay in place

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:44 pm
by evilsoup
I wonder if we'll have Lee Harvey Oswald masks in three hundred years time like we have Guy Fawkes masks today

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:36 pm
by RogueIce
Dammit soup it was the CIA and Oswald was just a fall guy. Don't you know anything about history? :argh:

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:44 pm
by evilsoup
just like guy fawkes was the fall guy for the damnable French

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:00 pm
by adr
the jfk assassination was a false flag perpetuated by anarchists with the cooperating and active involvement of fidel castro, to frame the cia and federal reserve in an attempt to trick them into opportunistically seizing even more power

such that the masses would see the violence inherent in the system and rise up in glorious revolution with a young ron paul as their prophet

you'll never hear about this in the lamestream media

which means it has to be true

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:10 pm
by F.J. Prefect, Esq
timmy wrote:Fair go Ford it was a long time ago
It is amazing

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:33 pm
by Dooey Jo
many people have pointed out the similarities between the kennedy administration and the reagan administration

what they don't know is the reason

it wasn't kennedy that was shot that day in dallas

it was an actor


actor ronald w. reagan

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:49 pm
by evilsoup
dooey jo you have just blown my mind

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:09 pm
by Gands
timmy wrote:So back at the end of high school some friends and I made a detective show pilot. Networks decided not to pick it up.
I demand to see more.

Re: Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:18 pm
by timmy
Sadly, that's all I've got.