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Rhyno posted:There's a few good avatars there. I would join that avatar crew. I'd either want to be the Flash or Aquaman's nipples.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I would join that avatar crew. I'd either want to be the Flash or Aquaman's nipples. If I had any skill at all, I would animate them so they are wiggling then give it to you. Alas.
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I have the skill, but there are few things I want to do less than animate Aquaman nipples.
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Lurdiak posted:I have the skill, but there are few things I want to do less than animate Aquaman nipples. So what you're telling us is that your priorities are all out of whack.
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Aquaman's nipples kind of look like tiny golden fists and I'm not sure how to parse this information.
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ManlyGrunting posted:Aquaman's nipples kind of look like tiny golden fists and I'm not sure how to parse this information. ...do yours...not? 
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So is he descended from fish, or what. Because he maybe shouldn't have nipples at all
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Atlanteans have hair, and female Atlanteans have boobs. So I would assume they're mammalian.
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Selachian posted:Atlanteans have hair, and female Atlanteans have boobs. So I would assume they're mammalian. Those are actually setae and air bladders. Common mistakes, though.
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delfin posted:Well, the Golden Glider isn't quite as good at Comic Book Science as she thinks. "You never stopped to think" needs to be the new thread title.
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purple death ray posted:So is he descended from fish, or what. Because he maybe shouldn't have nipples at all He's descended from the humans who inhabited Atlantis before it sank. They used their Atlantean magic or something to grow gills, because apparently turning an entire population into fish people is easier than preventing a city from sinking. Or, you know, moving inland or something.
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Does the story live up the cover?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Does the story live up the cover? Having not read it, the answer is almost certainly no.
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This is my mountain. There are many like it but this one is mine.
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Mar 22, 2017 03:14
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THE GIANT WHO CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE
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Skwirl posted:Having not read it, the answer is almost certainly no. I wouldn't be too sure. I was surprised how many Silver Age Superman and Superman Family stories were even crazier than the covers.
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Dude's totally gonna gently caress that geological feature.
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Zeeman posted:THE GIANT WHO CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE its a myth
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poly and open-minded posted:its a myth That giant is very real and my friend.
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Adventure Time. No idea of the context. 
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darthbob88 posted:If we accept "What have I got in my pocket?" as a riddle, per the writings of B. Baggins, then "Who is the Batman?" is no less legitimate a riddle. I would dispute his categorizing it as the ultimate riddle, but not its inclusion. Various scholars debate whether or not this counted as a riddle! If you read the intro to Lord of the Rings Tolkien actually says this
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Gorilla Salad posted:Once Smeagol accepted it, it did Yeah quote:The Authorities, it is true, differ whether this last question was a mere 'question' and not a 'riddle' according to the strict rules of the Game; but all agree that, after accepting it and trying to guess the answer, Gollum was bound by his promise. And Bilbo pressed him to keep his word; for the thought came to him that this slimy creature might prove false, even though such promises were held sacred, and of old all but the wickedest things feared to break them. I really just the the bit about "The Authorities", it just feels like such a good send-up of academia - you can imagine, in the world where the Red Book of Westmarch is an actual text that actually exists, paper after paper being published. "Gollum's Riddle: A Meta-analysis of Riddling and whether or not The Pocket Question could be considered such" With, of course, lifelong rivalries between different researchers over this very question.
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 He is correct. From Shutter #28.
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theflyingorc posted:I really just the the bit about "The Authorities", it just feels like such a good send-up of academia - you can imagine, in the world where the Red Book of Westmarch is an actual text that actually exists, paper after paper being published. Tolkien was first and foremost an academic who wrote fantasy stories with made-up languages for fun. Of course he would include petty academic rivalries around the edges. Honestly I'm surprised he doesn't talk about the scholarship surrounding There and Back Again more at the beginning of LotR. Begemot fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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Begemot posted:Tolkien was first and foremost and academic who wrote fantasy stories with made-up languages for fun. Of course he would include petty academic rivalries around the edges. Honestly I'm surprised he doesn't talk about the scholarship surrounding There and Back Again more at the beginning of LotR.
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theflyingorc posted:Yeah, it's at least somewhat self deprecating. It owns pretty hard. I went back and read the Hobbit a few years ago -- there's a lot of funny writing in there.
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Begemot posted:Honestly I'm surprised he doesn't talk about the scholarship surrounding There and Back Again more at the beginning of LotR. Written by a self-admitted nobody of a hobbit who somehow manages to be integral at every point of the journey? Even if it didn't make the elves out to be petty villains, clearly an attempt to garner attention as this tale contradicts their history of events that predates this publication by a good fifty years, Baggins can hardly be considered an unbiased source.
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prefect posted:I went back and read the Hobbit a few years ago -- there's a lot of funny writing in there. Yeah, it's pretty much The Hitchhiker's Guide to Middlearth at times.
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Fantastic 4/Iron Man: Big in Japan is a national treasure.
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Bruceski posted:Written by a self-admitted nobody of a hobbit who somehow manages to be integral at every point of the journey? Even if it didn't make the elves out to be petty villains, clearly an attempt to garner attention as this tale contradicts their history of events that predates this publication by a good fifty years, Baggins can hardly be considered an unbiased source. I'm pretty sure he at least started an article that deals with this (from Gandalf's perspective).
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I had assumed the Authorities were the Valar.
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Gann Jerrod posted:Fantastic 4/Iron Man: Big in Japan is a national treasure. That book and Batman Snow were incredible. Seth Fisher died way too young, it's a shame he didn't have time to shine longer.
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ruddiger posted:That book and Batman Snow were incredible. Seth Fisher died way too young, it's a shame he didn't have time to shine longer. Same guy who did Green Lantern: Willworld, right? That's one of my favorite books.
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Lurdiak posted:He was partying on a rooftop, alcohol was involved, signs point to dumb accident. Numerous people came forward and said he was really depressed though.
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He probably died like Doug Kenney, accidentally falling while looking for a place to jump.
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Bruceski posted:Written by a self-admitted nobody of a hobbit who somehow manages to be integral at every point of the journey? Even if it didn't make the elves out to be petty villains, clearly an attempt to garner attention as this tale contradicts their history of events that predates this publication by a good fifty years, Baggins can hardly be considered an unbiased source. You might be the kind of person who would really enjoy a book called The Last Ringbearer. It's presented as a semi-accurate historical adventure fiction from a world where the Lord of the Rings was an almost-totally-inaccurate Gondorian epic poem in the vein of the Song of Roland: bloodthirsty, regressive, lionizing their ancestor's superhuman accomplishments while dehumanizing cultural enemies who were in various ways more sophisticated than them, etc. So the beginning of the book is all "Of course nowadays we all know that the Orcuen people have their own vibrant culture and intellectual traditions and were not really twisted mutants made by Satan in the dawn times of the earth." (though ironically the book manages to work in its own streaks of racism  )As I understand it, the author had an English translation made, gave up on getting it printed and sold against the wishes of the Tolkien Estate, and just released it online. e: due to a browser-extension mishap, earlier drafts of this post had the word "racism" replaced with "the r-word" Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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