The X-Men series and Spiderman for instance tried to stay pretty close to the originals,
I have to take exception with this, or at least the Spiderman part. My suspension of disbelief died when they tried to make as close to real as possible. Like when they made his web shooter organic and moved them to his arms. There is a reason that in the comic they where artificial. I know of no spider that spins webs from its front legs much less shoots webs from any part of its body.
If they wanted to follow that organic line, Spiderman in the movies should be shooting his webs out his ass. Now there is a pretty picture for you. Makes swinging from building to building interesting to say the least.
Now that would be worth seeing. None of those wimpy looking gundam rejects. Lets field some steel. Gundam next to an Atlas. I think it would be a short fight.
Try sticking your head in between your legs and kissing your ass good bye. Well us old farts have one major advantage over you young nerds. We'll be to senile to give a fuck. Hell, for most of us it might be a mercy killing.
I just replaced the offices easy listening CD's with 12 hours of polka. I also stole the key that goes to the closet where the cd player is. Tomorrow is going to be interesting. Good thing I have my own mp3 player.
Like it really matters. So which one of you people are going to be the first to file for a patent on an atomic bomb. I don't know about the rest of you fuckers but I got this thing about having my door kicked down by the feds and getting ass raped in a federal prison.
Firstly: Hell yeah - these physicist nutters (including myself) are quite happy to wipe out the Universe from curiosity, it's the least it deserves.
Damn Straight! I would rather us wipe everything out trying to figure out how it works than some monumental act of stupidly like a nuclear war. At least when we are all standing around in the next life after the event the words "whoops" won't just have a hollow meaning.
I don't care how you say it but that is just fucking cool when you think about it. Except the part about everyone dying, that might be a problem. But the other shit is just fucking too cool for words.
Few Olympics are profitable. I only know of two in the last few decades that didn't end up costing the taxpayers money,
Last I heard the olympics were not about money. I thought it was about the promotion of peace, love, and brotherhood through the spirit of competition, or some such bullshit. Not that I give a flying rats ass about any of that, but it's what I heard. Personally I get more excited about a new router manual than I do the olympics.
I used to get excited about womens gymnastics when I was younger. But now what they define as a "woman" and what I define as one don't match.
Microsoft were showing signs of remorse--giving back to the community that they raped to get to where they are, then some forgiveness might be in order.
Wouldn't that be sort of like the hooker you boned trying to give you back that case of the clap you gave her?
This is all bullshit. The Safari installer doesn't just jump out of your computer and hold a gun to your head. I ran the itoons updater just now and it ask me if I wanted to download and install safari. I said 'no'. I didn't even download the new itoons ether. Nobody held a gun to my head.
Don't let that stop you. Maybe all the public relations nightmares and lawsuits might not stop this but nothing but video of a 100,000 nerds jerking off on the couch.... I bet that get the plug pulled on this bullshit in a heart beat.
Which is exactly why I will hold off for another 6 months. This crack maybe permanent and sony (lower case, they don't deserved to be capitalized) may come out with a "patch" to fix this. Good job to the company that did this, slyfox?, but I'll wait till a team of hackers come out with a decrypter that is more open source so sony can't just fire up the magic legal team and make it vanish.
On another note Newegg has a nice BR rom for 129 bucks.
Rama's real purpose was only alluded too in the first book. Was it a colony ship, an escape ship? I think that is the over all question of the book, what was Rama's purpose. That is also what made it such a great work. When you are done with the book you are left with just as many questions but it is presented in such a way that you are fat and happy too. It also tells you that not all questions that you have are meant to be answered.
If you haven't read the other Rama books, my advice is don't. They completely destroy the original work. They do tell what Rama's purpose was but it's so stupid that it baffles the mind. While I was reading them I had the impression that the author stealing Clarke's name had never even read the first book. If he did, he didn't understand it.
Forget them. Read the first book and continue to wonder what Rama's real purpose was for.
I, for one, loved the entire series. Rendezvous With Rama is THE classic.
Rama II, Garden and Revealed are different, longer, sometimes ponderous, epic, yet fantastically imaginative. They are not Arthur C Clarke, but they are a cracking good read.
I know everyone is entitled to their option and everyone's tastes are different, but dude, if you think Rama II, Garden and Revealed are cracking good reads. Then you are in need of some serous medical attention. I would suggest shock therapy or maybe some scientologist training would be in order.
I totally agree with you there. The sequels to Rama where total crap. I remember reading Rendevous and how happy I was when I found there where sequels. I picked them all up at the same time. I remember reading them hoping they would get better, they had to get better. Shame that just when you think they hit rock bottom some fucker would break out a jack hammer. I lasted almost to the end of the last book. I had 10 or so pages left. I don't remember exactly what it was but I remember it was something so stupid that I closed the book. I calmly took out the other two and slammed them into the trash.
That is the first and only time I have ever thrown a book in the trash instead of giving them away or something. I know it wasn't completely Clarke fault but I've never been able to read anything by him again. I put first Rama on a shelf. It still sits there till this day, about 20 years. I've never been able to bring my self to read it again.
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I have to take exception with this, or at least the Spiderman part. My suspension of disbelief died when they tried to make as close to real as possible. Like when they made his web shooter organic and moved them to his arms. There is a reason that in the comic they where artificial. I know of no spider that spins webs from its front legs much less shoots webs from any part of its body.
If they wanted to follow that organic line, Spiderman in the movies should be shooting his webs out his ass. Now there is a pretty picture for you. Makes swinging from building to building interesting to say the least.
Now that would be worth seeing. None of those wimpy looking gundam rejects. Lets field some steel. Gundam next to an Atlas. I think it would be a short fight.
Dragon Ball The Movie. Where they cram a 10 min ass whooping into 2 hours. Rather than the usual 2 months. Yeah, I think I can hang with that.
How about we just say that it sucked and leave it at that?
Try sticking your head in between your legs and kissing your ass good bye. Well us old farts have one major advantage over you young nerds. We'll be to senile to give a fuck. Hell, for most of us it might be a mercy killing.
Damn straight. I was happier not knowing. How am I supposed to sleep at night now? I'm going to lay awake for the next 21 years worrying.
Not Good!!!
They took they fucking door off its hinges. One man was ready to take an axe to it.
I just replaced the offices easy listening CD's with 12 hours of polka. I also stole the key that goes to the closet where the cd player is. Tomorrow is going to be interesting. Good thing I have my own mp3 player.
Like it really matters. So which one of you people are going to be the first to file for a patent on an atomic bomb. I don't know about the rest of you fuckers but I got this thing about having my door kicked down by the feds and getting ass raped in a federal prison.
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Damn Straight! I would rather us wipe everything out trying to figure out how it works than some monumental act of stupidly like a nuclear war. At least when we are all standing around in the next life after the event the words "whoops" won't just have a hollow meaning.
I don't care how you say it but that is just fucking cool when you think about it. Except the part about everyone dying, that might be a problem. But the other shit is just fucking too cool for words.
Last I heard the olympics were not about money. I thought it was about the promotion of peace, love, and brotherhood through the spirit of competition, or some such bullshit. Not that I give a flying rats ass about any of that, but it's what I heard. Personally I get more excited about a new router manual than I do the olympics.
I used to get excited about womens gymnastics when I was younger. But now what they define as a "woman" and what I define as one don't match.
Wouldn't that be sort of like the hooker you boned trying to give you back that case of the clap you gave her?
Yeah but your not a cat. The cat has no such rights. But it does have claws and teeth. That should account for something.
Apple don't have nothing on them rabid amiga hippies. I still get hate mail from them crazy mother fuckers.
This is all bullshit. The Safari installer doesn't just jump out of your computer and hold a gun to your head. I ran the itoons updater just now and it ask me if I wanted to download and install safari. I said 'no'. I didn't even download the new itoons ether. Nobody held a gun to my head.
Don't let that stop you. Maybe all the public relations nightmares and lawsuits might not stop this but nothing but video of a 100,000 nerds jerking off on the couch.... I bet that get the plug pulled on this bullshit in a heart beat.
Which is exactly why I will hold off for another 6 months. This crack maybe permanent and sony (lower case, they don't deserved to be capitalized) may come out with a "patch" to fix this. Good job to the company that did this, slyfox?, but I'll wait till a team of hackers come out with a decrypter that is more open source so sony can't just fire up the magic legal team and make it vanish.
On another note Newegg has a nice BR rom for 129 bucks.
Yeah, that is all fine and good but what we really want to know is what happened with the girl? Did you get lucky?
Welcome to the club. God what awful garbage.
Rama's real purpose was only alluded too in the first book. Was it a colony ship, an escape ship? I think that is the over all question of the book, what was Rama's purpose. That is also what made it such a great work. When you are done with the book you are left with just as many questions but it is presented in such a way that you are fat and happy too. It also tells you that not all questions that you have are meant to be answered.
If you haven't read the other Rama books, my advice is don't. They completely destroy the original work. They do tell what Rama's purpose was but it's so stupid that it baffles the mind. While I was reading them I had the impression that the author stealing Clarke's name had never even read the first book. If he did, he didn't understand it.
Forget them. Read the first book and continue to wonder what Rama's real purpose was for.
I recommend Spin too. I'm on the last few chapters right now. Amazing piece of work.
I know everyone is entitled to their option and everyone's tastes are different, but dude, if you think Rama II, Garden and Revealed are cracking good reads. Then you are in need of some serous medical attention. I would suggest shock therapy or maybe some scientologist training would be in order.
I totally agree with you there. The sequels to Rama where total crap. I remember reading Rendevous and how happy I was when I found there where sequels. I picked them all up at the same time. I remember reading them hoping they would get better, they had to get better. Shame that just when you think they hit rock bottom some fucker would break out a jack hammer. I lasted almost to the end of the last book. I had 10 or so pages left. I don't remember exactly what it was but I remember it was something so stupid that I closed the book. I calmly took out the other two and slammed them into the trash.
That is the first and only time I have ever thrown a book in the trash instead of giving them away or something. I know it wasn't completely Clarke fault but I've never been able to read anything by him again. I put first Rama on a shelf. It still sits there till this day, about 20 years. I've never been able to bring my self to read it again.