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I thought it might be DF on an epic troll

guy pushes too many of the right buttons not to be suspicious

The whole 'link to HOS/PS thread?' question was just

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... ead#unread

This thread is becoming proof of why Slade claims he wrote TBO.

How hard is it to understand that after a certain date (I think Slade's is actually later than it really needed to be, but he went for the whole "wipe them out" thing) the Nazi's are done. I have never bought the "we wouldn't use it on Germany" angle. And unless you also propose to fix Hitler's problem with physicists, no one is going to challenge Heisenberg's mistake until after bomb number one goes off.

Darksi4190 wrote:Can someone tell me why Final Fantasy XIII is getting another sequel despite it being one of the lamest settings in the franchise?

Lightning Farron is immensely popular.

I always thought she was a rather uninteresting protagonist to be honest, of course it's possible that she gets better characterization in the Pulse chapters of XIII and the sequel. The extreme boring-ness and linearity of FFXIII has made it impossible for me to even finish it.

She looks neat and she's a girl who doesn't need rescuing. Her characterization doesn't get much better than that as far as I know.

It's official: consuming any type of alcoholic drink makes my Crohn's act up. Thinks sucks because what I have been drinking is very good. At least I'm going out more, though.

PS. The Fincher-esque House of Cards is brilliant. I have not seen the original yet and I'm not sure I will.

If you don't mind my asking, what were you drinking that was good?

Gands wrote:When looking at NC videos, do you guys only watch the videos based on films you've seen?

Sort of. I'll go to ones I've seen first, but I'll take a look at others if it's a movie I've at least heard of and am a little interested in. Or if they did something special like the Moulin Rouge one, and crossovers.

RyanThunder wrote:If you don't mind my asking, what were you drinking that was good?

A drink called California Kid.

That sounds like a house specialty cocktail. Do you know what was in it? Google has zip.

Zod wrote:That sounds like a house specialty cocktail. Do you know what was in it? Google has zip.

I do not know. A friend described the taste as a melted blue popsicle. It's very good.

thejester wrote:I thought it might be DF on an epic troll

guy pushes too many of the right buttons not to be suspicious

Yeah, but there's people that dumb, too. I'm using it as an experiment to see how long I can remain calm and/or how fast I'll get bored.

Questor wrote:http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... ead#unread

This thread is becoming proof of why Slade claims he wrote TBO.

People like DH are a dime a dozen, more or less. (As it happens, I was lurking on HPCA back when he got the idea to write TBO; it pretty much was written for three reasons: "alt-history keeps fucking up how the Nazis really would do and I hate Nazis and Nazi-wankers," "oh look I found interesting performance numbers on the B-36," and "nuclear warfare is horrifying and serious business that should not be taken lightly".)

How hard is it to understand that after a certain date (I think Slade's is actually later than it really needed to be, but he went for the whole "wipe them out" thing) the Nazi's are done. I have never bought the "we wouldn't use it on Germany" angle. And unless you also propose to fix Hitler's problem with physicists, no one is going to challenge Heisenberg's mistake until after bomb number one goes off.

Even without Heisenberg's colossal mismanagement their program is doomed. It just doesn't have the necessary resources. Germany was the primary target (enough source material exists!) but they were defeated before weapons were ready. Slade speculates that Dresden was one of the primary targets (hence its relatively late firebombing once it became clear that nuclear weapons weren't going to be used over Germany).

The two primary targets scheduled as the first targets for nuclear bombing in Germany during WWII, were IIRC Mannheim and another one I've forgotten. Was the other city Dresden ? Probabley, but I can't remember : it was said during a documentary on Lise Meitner.

Negative Knub wrote: PS. The Fincher-esque House of Cards is brilliant. I have not seen the original yet and I'm not sure I will.

You really should. Fincher's House of Cards is Big Love in Washington, good but soap operaesque and filled with dead weight. The BBC House of Cards is I, Claudius in Washington. Genius by comparison, which isn't necessarily a slight on Fincher's version, and they do all the little techniques better, especially the breaking of the Fourth Wall.

phongn wrote:

thejester wrote:I thought it might be DF on an epic troll

guy pushes too many of the right buttons not to be suspicious

Yeah, but there's people that dumb, too. I'm using it as an experiment to see how long I can remain calm and/or how fast I'll get bored.

I'm convinced DH is either an epic level troll or a High School nerd looking for a place to hang out. They're the sort of person who would have thrived on TEO in 2003-2005 and just happen to be be incredibly late to the party. Kind of a shame, really.





Also I'm apparently a subjectivist. Whatever will I do?

Straha wrote:You really should. Fincher's House of Cards is Big Love in Washington, good but soap operaesque and filled with dead weight. The BBC House of Cards is I, Claudius in Washington. Genius by comparison, which isn't necessarily a slight on Fincher's version, and they do all the little techniques better, especially the breaking of the Fourth Wall.

London, you mean?

phongn wrote:I'm convinced DH is either an epic level troll or a High School nerd looking for a place to hang out. They're the sort of person who would have thrived on TEO in 2003-2005 and just happen to be be incredibly late to the party. Kind of a shame, really.

My guess is the latter.

but if he's driven out how will sdn become a thriving community of dweebs again???

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:

Darksi4190 wrote:Can someone tell me why Final Fantasy XIII is getting another sequel despite it being one of the lamest settings in the franchise?

Lightning Farron is immensely popular.

I've heard the real reason is they developed so many art assets for the game they just want to reuse them again. Like parts that were supposed to be in XIII ended up in XIII-2.

Plus this is a good holdover until the next consoles launch.

phongn wrote:

Straha wrote:You really should. Fincher's House of Cards is Big Love in Washington, good but soap operaesque and filled with dead weight. The BBC House of Cards is I, Claudius in Washington. Genius by comparison, which isn't necessarily a slight on Fincher's version, and they do all the little techniques better, especially the breaking of the Fourth Wall.

London, you mean?

yeah.

Straha wrote:
I'm convinced DH is either an epic level troll or a High School nerd looking for a place to hang out. They're the sort of person who would have thrived on TEO in 2003-2005 and just happen to be be incredibly late to the party. Kind of a shame, really.

This could just be nostalgia talking but I consider 2003-2005 to be my personal "golden age" on SDN. The main SW/ST debate hadn't been completely done to death yet, so there was still some decent activity in the Vs. forum, The N&P and G&C forums opened up new avenues of discussion and weren't yet completely polarized, the old-style STGODs were in full swing without the point scores and numbers to bog them down, and there was still a decent amount of excitement over the Star Wars franchise with Episode III on the horizon.

Veef wrote:
Plus this is a good holdover until the next consoles launch.

So you don't think they're going to do the next numbered entry in the main series until the new consoles come out?

So this is the trailer for what may be the final story arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

It looks like it'll be fucking awesome

Darksi4190 wrote:
So you don't think they're going to do the next numbered entry in the main series until the new consoles come out?

Who knows, highlander... who knows.

Darksi4190 wrote:So this is the trailer for what may be the final story arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

They've pretty much confirmed season 6 is happening. They're already working on it.

Darksi4190 wrote:It looks like it'll be fucking awesome

I cannot deny this statement, however.

I can't fucking wait.

RogueIce wrote:

Darksi4190 wrote:So this is the trailer for what may be the final story arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

They've pretty much confirmed season 6 is happening. They're already working on it.

Even if they keep the same staff, i'm not sure it'll be the same show under Disney's rule. I know they haven't enforced too much control over other stuff in the past, but this will be airing on a Disney channel, probably XD, and I can't see them allowing something like say, the Umbara arc, to air on their channel given their "family" reputation.

Time will tell I suppose.