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Corek posted:I love that The Noid is working its way into the stable of characters on WHM. No impression yet, though. I sent them a Noid-related e-mail I'm hoping they'll read come next mailbag.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I sent them a Noid-related e-mail I'm hoping they'll read come next mailbag. #bringbackthenoid
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If anyone hasn't read the story of why they got rid of the Noid, it's bizarre: quote:On January 30, 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta Domino's restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police.[4] After the incident ended, Police Chief Reed Miller offered a memorable assessment to reporters: "He's paranoid."[5] Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Noid spent three months in a mental institution, and eventually committed suicide in 1995. This incident caused Domino's Pizza to discontinue advertising using the Noid as their mascot.[6]
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Corek posted:If anyone hasn't read the story of why they got rid of the Noid, it's bizarre: That's what I sent the e-mail about.
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You guys, Sucker Punch is so bad. I had never watched it, and just heard of it's shittiness, but wow. The Punchmentary made it bearable, and there were a few times that Andrew Jupin and I lined up on 'What the gently caress?!' but I'm shocked that anyone ever let Zack Snyder direct a movie again. Also, it was surprisingly hard to find a non-director's cut of the film.
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Shirec posted:I'm shocked that anyone ever let Zack Snyder direct a movie again.
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Shirec posted:You guys, Sucker Punch is so bad. I had never watched it, and just heard of it's shittiness, but wow. The Punchmentary made it bearable, and there were a few times that Andrew Jupin and I lined up on 'What the gently caress?!' but I'm shocked that anyone ever let Zack Snyder direct a movie again. Eh The Director's Cut is better. It still has issues, but the theatrical release cuts some pretty key stuff. I think it fails under the weight of its own ambition but I feel like that ambition is only really there in the additional scenes. The theatrical cut is basically what the Director's cut is arguing against.
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D&D sessions where one guy is playing a cowboy or an astronaut is way more common than I think any of the guys know.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:D&D sessions where one guy is playing a cowboy or an astronaut is way more common than I think any of the guys know. I am playing as Hugh Dancy or Mads Mikkelsen!
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When I was a kid I loved watching all those movie special effects shows on the Discovery Channel and one did an entire episode on Dungeons and Dragons. The people working on that movie were so proud of that quicksand floor effect, it got an entire segment dedicated to it. It really was oatmeal painted to look like floor.
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Guy Mann posted:When I was a kid I loved watching all those movie special effects shows on the Discovery Channel and one did an entire episode on Dungeons and Dragons. The people working on that movie were so proud of that quicksand floor effect, it got an entire segment dedicated to it. You start to gain a real appreciation for people doing guerilla special effects with only a couple of dimes to rub together. Early Star Trek: The Next Generation used a lot of stuff like that, with the two most memorable ones I can recall being oatmeal under a heat lamp to simulate the surface of a sun, and a camcorder-recorded panning shot of a rock one of the special effects guys had in his backyard to create the texture of a moon.
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Because I'm a huge dork I tweeted them that I know how to DM and I live across the river. Though I may have to demand they roleplay as Greg from BvS, Jeremy from Brainscan and Brian from The Watcher. Or maybe Eric Movie and Martin Cinemax III. At least then the game will have some TITS in it!
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Brocktoon posted:Because I'm a huge dork I tweeted them that I know how to DM and I live across the river. Though I may have to demand they roleplay as Greg from BvS, Jeremy from Brainscan and Brian from The Watcher. Or maybe Eric Movie and Martin Cinemax III. At least then the game will have some TITS in it! I would love to listen to a recording of the guys playing D&D for the first time.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I would love to listen to a recording of the guys playing D&D for the first time. I'll second that. I think it'd be a hilarious side episode (considering just how arcane and straight-up weird D&D likely is to an outsider).
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Evil Mastermind posted:I would love to listen to a recording of the guys playing D&D for the first time. I'll third that. Perhaps the guys need more D&D fibre in their diet: Mazes & Monsters, Skullduggery, Lords of Magick, Dungeonmaster.....
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I'll third that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7oipQkCfc The movie's bad, but I love the trailer.
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Evil Mastermind posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7oipQkCfc Terrible 1980s' schlock now available on blu-ray? Pray continue, sir. You have my attention...
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Shirec posted:You guys, Sucker Punch is so bad. I had never watched it, and just heard of it's shittiness, but wow. The Punchmentary made it bearable, and there were a few times that Andrew Jupin and I lined up on 'What the gently caress?!' but I'm shocked that anyone ever let Zack Snyder direct a movie again. It's amazing how good the Punchmentary is compared to the actual movie. Like, there's the tiniest hint of a decent movie buried under all that Zack Snyder, but it never really amounts to anything.
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Brocktoon posted:Because I'm a huge dork I tweeted them that I know how to DM and I live across the river. Though I may have to demand they roleplay as Greg from BvS, Jeremy from Brainscan and Brian from The Watcher. Or maybe Eric Movie and Martin Cinemax III. At least then the game will have some TITS in it! Martin Cinemax III is totally the kind of player who would just spend the game trying to have pretend sex with wenches at the tavern. Like the Flophouse dorks did in their lovely guest episode of The Adventure Zone.
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Guy Mann posted:Martin Cinemax III is totally the kind of player who would just spend the game trying to have pretend sex with wenches at the tavern. Like the Flophouse dorks did in their lovely guest episode of The Adventure Zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vChEPj0dXXk
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Man, their sister podcast ideas keep getting weirder and more niche all the time
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Eric, if you're still reading the thread, you'll be happy to know that one of the official D&D settings does in fact have a time-lost astronaut as a major character. In fact, he's one of the setting's gods. Alongside a hyperintelligent dinosaur. I don't remember offhand if one was a cowboy, though.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Terrible 1980s' schlock now available on blu-ray? Pray continue, sir. You have my attention... Oh, it's the shlockiest. I saw it waaaaaay back in the day, because it came out on video about the same time I started playing D&D, so of course I'm like "Oh man shweet, a movie about a Dungeonmashter!" I haven't seen it in decades, but I somehow remember the "plot" is that a guy creates a supercomputer called X-CaliBR8, which of course garners him the attention of super-evil game-loving demon Richard Moll. Moll then turns the room-sized computer into a magic armband for the programmer, and sends him through all different realities to see if technology can beat magic. Or something. Oh, and at one point the hero gets sent to a WASP concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BheIWU3-BMI Fun IMDB trivia: this movie is the original source of the line "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Re: Belts making for the chosen one in D&D If belts of Hill Giant strength really existed, I would wrap every square inch of myself in them as well and then go punch a dragon to death with my bare hands.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Re: Belts making for the chosen one in D&D Ah, I see that's the inspiration for the Final Fantasy character designer for the past decade and a half.
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They're doing a romcom with a lovely protagonist next week! I eagerly await finding out the context of that "I say a little prayer for you" scene.
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Jimbot posted:Ah, I see that's the inspiration for the Final Fantasy character designer for the past decade and a half.   
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Terrible 1980s' schlock now available on blu-ray? Pray continue, sir. You have my attention... There's a lot of garbage on blu-ray because people have a print and want to digitize it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Eric, if you're still reading the thread, you'll be happy to know that one of the official D&D settings does in fact have a time-lost astronaut as a major character. In fact, he's one of the setting's gods. Alongside a hyperintelligent dinosaur. I don't remember offhand if one was a cowboy, though. I am going to out myself as a giant nerd by not only confirming that he was a cowboy, but say his name was Murlynd and he had two six-shooter wands.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh, if you want to talk "overdesigned characters" then we need to talk about Wayne Reynold's stuff.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh, if you want to talk "overdesigned characters" then we need to talk about Wayne Reynold's stuff. Jimbot posted:Ah, I see that's the inspiration for the Final Fantasy character designer for the past decade and a half. 
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Haha oh my god, I never noticed the little heels before. Also I bet those shoes suck when it rains. Illinois Smith posted:is he like rob liefeld's little cousin or something Nah, he can draw feet.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I am going to out myself as a giant nerd by not only confirming that he was a cowboy, but say his name was Murlynd and he had two six-shooter wands.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I am going to out myself as a giant nerd by not only confirming that he was a cowboy, but say his name was Murlynd and he had two six-shooter wands. I love the fantasy names that are just regular names slightly changed. Like all the planets named Yrth or Urth or Eart.
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Corek posted:I love the fantasy names that are just regular names slightly changed. Like all the planets named Yrth or Urth or Eart. Almost all the "famous" wizard spells with names are just anagrams of the dudes who played them. Like Tesner is just Ernest and so on.
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Crowetron posted:This dude owns though?
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Illinois Smith posted:is he like rob liefeld's little cousin or something That's pretty harsh. Sure some of his stuff is clevagetastic but he clearly has some understanding of anatomy and not all of his characters are grimacing,
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