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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Daleks vs Cthulhu |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 2:04 am
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Cthulhu's firepower exists in the hands of his enemies. He will cause them to turn on each other and/or themselves.
Cthulhu is superior. This is why he is dormant. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Daleks vs Cthulhu |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 1:54 am
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Titangeek wrote: Uprising wrote: mushroo wrote: Cthulhu, because he can go up/down stairs. Dry.   Daleks can fly.
Those look like wings to me. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Cthulhu Ftagn! |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 1:40 am
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Replies: 11
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I really enjoyed The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. It is a little derived in some areas, but hilarious.
Lovecraft is notoriously difficult to adapt to film. Feature length, at least. Here's a really cool short though:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpBDopIMxw[/youtube] |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Board Games. Anyone play? |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 1:29 am
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| In October 2012, I reconnected with some high school friends for a game night. We played vanilla Munchkin and vanilla Catan. Now I'm hooked, and I travel to my friend's house- a 90 min bus commute- just about every week. In my personal collection I have 7 Cthulhu Mythos games: Arkham Horror, Elder S... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2010, 4:02 pm
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Replies: 493
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| I hadn't bothered to see how old this thread was, what page I was on, or what date Rob Swire was mentioned. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2010, 3:37 pm
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| I'm not so sure but Rob Swire frontman for the drum n bass band "Pendulum" seems AS-ish. I watched a live DVD and he had no direct interaction with the audience. Also he seemed entirely focused on his instruments rather than the audience. I watched an interview with him and another band member and ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: who else watches TV using an antenna? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010, 1:58 pm
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| I had been TV free for a couple years. I broke down and bought a DTV box this winter. I'm about 2 miles from one of the tallest broadcast towers in the country. I had no trouble getting NBC, ABC, CBS(two channels, one of them weather only), and 3 channels of PBS. I mostly just watched Create/PBS, Th... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: "Toni Baxter" on the Music Episode of Look Around |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 9:27 pm
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I saw this episode of Look Around You on Adult Swim the other night and wondered if anyone had seen it. Particularily the character Toni Baxter.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRMFQxd7ye8[/youtube] |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Who's your favourite comedian? |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 9:22 pm
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Thank God no one said Dane Cook.
Mine are:
Pretty much anyone from Comedians of Comedy.
Patton Oswalt
Zach Gallifianakis
Brian Posehn
All of Monty Python
Eddie Izzard
Iranian:
Maz Jobrani(American)
Omid Djalili(English)
Pardis Parker(Canadian) |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: PPR Book Recommendations |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 6:29 pm
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| Aldous Huxley was brilliant beyond his dystopia Brave New World . He also wrote a commentary on religion/spirituality called The Perennial Philosophy . The Bhagavad Gita is an essential. It is basically a conversation on various meanings of life between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. Krishna utilizes a sy... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Religious but otherwise sensible and intelitgent people |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 4:28 am
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| I'm not a Christian, by definition, but I believe in Christ. I admit that I have not thoroughly studied the Bible, but I recognize the immense importance of the Gospels. I have come to view the Sermon on the Mount in the Book of Matthew as one of the most important guides for living virtuously that ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US Healthcare reform |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 12:05 pm
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| That's another part of the issue: instant gratification. Too often, people want to see immediate results, when the best solutions are often the ones that take time to set in. Better education about holistic diets- not diets that avoid one thing or glorify another- is necessary. All it takes is a few... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US Healthcare reform |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 2:07 am
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| My solution would have to deal with education, diet, and a hoilistic/preventative approach to health care. Educate people on what goes into a healthy diet. Educate people about preventive care measures. Give tax incentives for taking Tai Chi/Qi Gong or other martial arts or even yoga classes. Better... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: For people who have converted |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 1:22 am
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| Which religion did you choose? The Baha'i faith. Why did you choose to convert? Everything makes sense. Also, we don't believe in 'conversion', we consider it to be 'progression', as all religions are the same. How did you choose which religion and denomination to progress to? Independent search fo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Help. I seem to have lost a term that I learned here. |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 1:16 am
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The first place I saw this particular term was here, so I figured I would ask if someone could help refresh my memory.
In the context of scripture, when one teaching or verse overrides or updates a previous one. Used in Islam frequently.
Thanks. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What Religion are You? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 1:12 am
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Replies: 153
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Baha'i.
Any other Baha'is other than Khan? I haven't been around for a while. |
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