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fannish5 question of the week: Five characters who could give a great speech.
- John Sheridan: The captain of B5, president of the ISA, and leader of the Rangers (although never at once)could give great speeches. So great that it could often be hilarious, but when he chases the Shadows and Vorlons out of the galaxy by telling them so (His speech included the phrase "Get the hell out of our Galaxy!"), you know he had the power of speech-craft.
- Jeff Winger:Winger's capacity to pacify his study group mates, who spent 90% of the time on the brink of homicide, is beyond belief. If I had access to YouTube, I'd link to the clip show where they cut a bunch of his speeches together.Instead, I post it, thanks to IMDB.
We've known each other for almost two years now. And yeah, in that time I've given a lot of speeches, but they all have one thing in common: they're all different. These drug runners aren't going to execute Pierce because he's racist. It's a locomotive that runs on US, and the only sharks in that water are the emotional ghosts that I like to call fear, anchovies, fear, and the dangers of ingesting mercury. Because the real bugs aren't the ones in those beds. And there's no such thing as a free Caesar salad and even if there were, The Cape might still find a second life on cable, and I'll tell you why: el corazon del agua es verdad. That water is a lie! Harrison Ford is irradiating our testicles with microwave satelite transmissions. So maybe we ARE caught in and endless cycle of screw ups and hurt feelings, but I choose to believe that this is just the universe's way of molding us into some kind of super group.
- Captain America: Blah blah blah living legend of WW II,leader of the Avengers. Although I'm still working on forgiving Jim Shooter for the worst line in comics history from Secret Wars where he tells Mr. Fantastic "No wonder the name Reed Richards is synonymous with compassion." Seriously, Jim.
Let's forget "Surrender??!! You think this letter on my head stands for France?" - Aragorn son of Arathorn:
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Yeah, that's ok. . - King Hal:Come on, right? The best. Go here and look, it's huge.
I got Lords of Waterdeep (apologies for linking to BGG) for our anniversary. Well, I got a gift card and used it to buy LoW.
I was particularly impressed when I unboxed LoW last weekend because, and this is the stupidest thing I've ever placed in writing, the tray is so well put together. They actually give you instructions on how to place everything in the tray. Everything has a place, and it all fits together well, and I love it. The tray for Castle Ravenloft was almost completely useless, and I don't recall instructions on what went where. This is very well organized.
The game puts each player in the role of one of the eponymous Lords of Waterdeep, and they are seeking to gain influence over the city. It's a worker placement game where you put agents in play, and they gain you either adventurers (blocks!), gold, or control of buildings. The goal is to complete quests, which gain you victory points. End of game, you get bonus points for quests that fit your secret lord.
We were joined in the game by
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ghostwes which was odd because a couple days before I had been scrolling through old LJ posts and wondered "Whatever happened to him?" Tiny world, wouldn't want to mow it.The game was a lot of fun. There are Intrigue cards that can be a little frustrating to play on others. For example, I played a Mandatory Quest on
ghostwes as he was pulling ahead. This would, probably, have delayed him a few actions, but instead put the brakes on him for several rounds, as getting clerics was surprisingly difficult in the game. Only one base location lets you get a cleric (one, and he needed two), Cynra stole one of his, and it had to be his priority to get it done.I actually had an intrigue card in my hand that would have slowed him down further, but that was just too dickish to play. It can encourage cutthroat play. I definitely want to play more of LoW. Fun game.
Yesterday, the bus was about 18 minutes behind schedule, which meant that it was three minutes after the scheduled arrival time for the Milton train. I still figured I’d take the train home. As we pull into the station, however, I saw that the Milton train was pulling in as well. Hey, I thought, I can catch this!
I strutted into the station, down the stairs, as fast as my stubby legs could carry me and not leave me an asthmatic wheezing wreck when I got onto the train (I’ll wheeze, but not asthmatically). I didn’t encounter any of the departing commuters until they were on their way down the stairs, and thankfully they hewed right enough to allow me up the stairs.
Of course, the lady who was galumphing across the platform, her nose buried in her book, didn’t notice my rapidly oncoming bulk, but a grunted “excuse me” cleared her out of the way, and I was home free. “The Doors are Now Closing” grunted the PA system as I leapt for the door, my feet finding purchase on the floor and momentum carrying me into the train until the door close onto my bag.
I’m not a physicist. I don’t know what happened to the momentum that my body possessed when the doors shut onto my bag. I do know that I am sore as fuck right now. Thankfully, a nice bottle of Life brand ASA (Thanks,
kinra) has helped keep the pain at bay. *I love starting a story with “So”. It allows me to leap into telling the story with a minimum of stage setting. “So” indicates that you’re continuing from where you left off, even if it’s from the title of the piece . As in this.
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sore
I was watching the trailer for the upcoming Alison Brie (guest starring Jason Segel & Emily Blunt) romcom The Five Year Engagement.
There's a scene in the trailer that seems a like disjointed from the rest of the narrative it's trying to promote. In it, a small child is playing with a crossbow and pulls the trigger, and somebody gets shot in the leg. Ouchy!
But what it sounds like is they've punched up the scene by having the moppet say from offscreen "I'm Katniss!".
That's a strange little joke. Very current (what's the opposite of passé?), so much so it was looped in. But I'm not sure how big the intersection of "People who like/are aware of The Hunger Games " and "People who want to see a Jason Segel penis RomCom".
But, yeah, Alison Brie movies. I saw Scre4m, I'll see this.
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amused
james_nicoll's lj about Christopher Priest's reaction to the nominations for the Clarke awards.
What's amusing is that last night, en route to game, I stopped off at Bakka Books, where I got to paritipate in a nice game of "interrogate the Yank". "What's a two-four? What's a double double?"
While I was browsing a guy came in and asked for one of the books Priest mentioned, Osama. He'd heard of it just because of the Priest column. The bookstore clerk hadn't heard of it as yet, but apparently it's not being carried by any of their distributors, and he hadn't taken the time to wade into the day's nerd net kerfuffle.
Just nice to watch ripples, I guess.- Mood:
nerdy
Last Thursday, the hordes of people who'd wandered by the Alliance booth at Comic Con the prior weekend squeezed into a theatre at the Scotiabank theatre.
As always with preview films, it was overbooked, but we were five from the front so we got in.
The film was enjoyable, but as the director asked us to not discuss film details in advance of the release, I'll respect his wishes. It's a good horror flick, very much informed by the genre.
As I've said in the intervening week, it'll appeal to gorehounds, Whedonites & Tv Tropers.
That last bunch, btw, are gonna plotz.
I'm listening to the Comma Error podcast, and laughing at the host's factual errors.
Good film. Ignore trailers and just go.
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So I'm about halfway done my co-op placement at the gub'mint. It's been a good place, although I feel as if my presence is occasionally forgotten, and I have to give my boss a prod to remind him I exist.
The staff I work with are good, with better than reverse Sturgeon. The location, next to a power corridor near Yonge & Finch, has proven to be a good one. There are parks nearby, which are good for visiting on lunch.
I don't suspect I'll be staying, but I've enjoyed being there. It's been good to exercise the skills I picked up at school.
The commute remains hellish. I find if I get to work by 8:30 I can grab the 4:40 bus home and be home by six-ish which makes my work day only 11 hours.
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My plans for CanGames 2012 revolved primarily around playing some new and/or interesting games and helping oversee the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz event at that show. And possibly visiting Diamond Barbarella's.
The theme for the show is Flames Across the Border, in reference to the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 ("The First Time we Beat the Yanks").
Until this morning, after reading multiplexer 's review, a couple synapses popped while I was in the shower, and now an idea is percolating:
President Osborn has discovered that several American heroes have sought refuge from the SHRA in Canada. Can Alpha Flight protect these refuges from Osborn's Dark Avengers and prevent an international incident?
Of course, I'd have to stat up The Flight and the various Dark Avengers (and, you know, buy the new Marvel game), but it would probably be fun.
I've got a few days to think about it, in any case.
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So, I dropped off at around 11 pm or so. Came home and watched SNL (ah, Channing Tatum. Just shut up and look pretty).
So I decided to put in a hold request for the other two Breaking Bad dvds. I logged into the MPL web site, and entered my account.
So, at that moment I discovered that my books had somehow been checked back into the system. Between 11 pm and 1 am.
I'm hoping that there's some kind of automated scanning system in the return slot. Otherwise, the library has some kind of hunchback or something hanging out in the building after hours processing returns.
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terrified
Amusingly enough, issue nine (?) of The Twelve came out today. Shame I no longer give a fuck. Seriously, I hit acceptance somewhere in 2009 and JMS can eat a bag of dicks. I got an email asking if I'd like to buy a copy of the B5 timeline, to which I said fuck no. Seriously, the only book they published I wanted was the one that you could only get if you bought 14 screenplay books.
Anyway, nerds are going bugfuck. There's angry posts on twitter, and on the blogosphere, and other people are going "Well, Moore based his work off other people's work, so why should he be upset, garble yarble dargle".
It's so great. I just want to sit in front of a bunch of computer screens and read all the blog posts and comments and tell my viet cong housemen how awesome it is.
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ecstatic
