I wasted half the day sleeping and am now ignoring my Old Norse work in favor of working on the D&D setting some more and listening to the Guilty Gear OST. I REGRET NOTHING
I wasted half the day sleeping and am now ignoring my Old Norse work in favor of working on the D&D setting some more and listening to the Guilty Gear OST. I REGRET NOTHING
And we love you all the more for it. You are awsomesauce. I'd like to bribe the GM with a package from Japan. Is this acceptable?
does anyone know how i can put my audacity recordings as a link
If you're asking how to upload it to the internet you can use http://rapidshare.com/ and link the upload to somewhere, but not I would like to ask you to make sure it's MP3 or the like and not the Audactiy project file (I did that before)
You know, I think I've given myself more blisters while pearl knotting than I have while soldering. And it takes SO LONG. (in this case, it took the first two 'Ice Age' movies and 'Up') I'm so using beading wire next time...
You know, Secret of Nimh 2 may have been total crap, but so was Secret of Nimh 1. I can't expect the sequel to be better than the original unless it's Star Trek.
Seriously, my top 5 bad movies I've seen
5. Secret of Nimh
4. Cats
3. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Phantom of the Opera
And in the number 1 spot even though I haven't seen it is The Room.
But of course, I liked Mortal Kombat Annihilation, so what the hell do I know?
You know, Secret of Nimh 2 may have been total crap, but so was Secret of Nimh 1. I can't expect the sequel to be better than the original unless it's Star Trek.
On the topic of things relating to NIMH, thanks to the Nostalgia Critic I now know that Secret of Nimh 2 has even less to do with the book sequel than the original Secret of Nimh had to do with the original book. The only thing that Secret of Nimh 2 has in common with the book sequel (Racso and the Rats of NIMH) is that there are a couple of characters that have the same names. They're not even similar characters.
To tell the truth, I don't completely remember, I was eight at the time. I think it was that there was like a million deviations from the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, but the first thing that made me not like it, which probably made me want to find more problems with it and turned me into Douchey McNitpick, was the changing of the name of the main character.
Edit: I now hate Wham-o for making them change that part.
To tell the truth, I don't completely remember, I was eight at the time. I think it was that there was like a million deviations from the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, but the first thing that made me not like it, which probably made me want to find more problems with it and turned me into Douchey McNitpick, was the changing of the name of the main character.
And that's pretty much why I dislike it as well. It doesn't help that I read the book growing up and didn't see the movie until I was in my early 20s either, if I'd seen the movie as a kid I'd have probably been more forgiving instead of 'WTF IS THIS MAGIC AMULET CRAP? DO NOT WANT.'
To tell the truth, I don't completely remember, I was eight at the time. I think it was that there was like a million deviations from the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, but the first thing that made me not like it, which probably made me want to find more problems with it and turned me into Douchey McNitpick, was the changing of the name of the main character.
Oh, to be honest, this is a complaint I can fully understand. While a part of me wants to recommend rewatching the movie now that you're older, I won't push the idea on you. I can fully understand this though. I dislike The Rescuers because the original book was so fricking cool and could have been awesome if Disney had adapted it instead of the story they went with. The cat villain in that book was truly monstrous and creepy, and the book was set in a European castle. The person they had to rescue was a poet who had been locked up in a windowless dungeon there, and the cat would go and spit on him and stuff (if I remember right). It was truly dejected and bleak. I loved the Rescuers Down Under though, and it's one of my favorite films. I think number 5 on a top five worst movies list is a bit harsh though.
EDIT: This isn't directed at anyone in particular. I just read the changes from the book to the movie and I don't get the grief. I love the sword fight between Justin and Jenner, and the amulet scene is a beautiful and epic climax where the amulet projects the motherly love, will, and courage from Ms. Brisby's heart and soul to save her children. The rats successfully moving the house with absolutely no suspense or drama makes it kind of boring to me. I'm happy with the changes they made personally.
I guess this is normal, but I'm frustrated that... well... I finish College and I have a Job which is paying me to go USA to learn (Which is awesome) and everything around me it's like they want to me act in a different way I'm, because if I'm like myself I'm going to pretty much fail. But I'm sure I have done everything because I'm myself.
Ah, Ginny, welcome to adulthood!
Be yourself in your personal life.
Be "who they want you to be" in your professional life.
Hey, Ginny, as someone who got a lot of flak for using her college education to study in China, Vietnam, and Japan, I applaud you. You, missy, have balls.
Room reservations for Nan Desu Kan 2011 opened today, and my friend and I jumped on it and managed to get a room with an atrium balcony for the first time in probably a good five years. While we'd already be super excited over that, it's even better because they started a balcony decorating contest last year, and we came up with the perfect idea tonight. It's going to be epic.
Unfortunately, the rooms jumped up to $113 a night this year, plus they're going to charge $10 a night for parking. The hotel's been treating us worse every year anyway, and now this. I'm wishing more than ever now that the convention would find a new hotel.
WarpSpeed, that is some excellent advice. Especially the bit about the kittens. Unless of course you become a professional kitten-kicker, in which case that is some terrible advice.
Room reservations for Nan Desu Kan 2011 opened today, and my friend and I jumped on it and managed to get a room with an atrium balcony for the first time in probably a good five years. While we'd already be super excited over that, it's even better because they started a balcony decorating contest last year, and we came up with the perfect idea tonight. It's going to be epic.
Unfortunately, the rooms jumped up to $113 a night this year, plus they're going to charge $10 a night for parking. The hotel's been treating us worse every year anyway, and now this. I'm wishing more than ever now that the convention would find a new hotel.
Speaking of rooms, and cons...I need to get the bus rolling on PAX. But nothing will be available until March...me sad now.
If I could scrounge up the money to do both, that would give me two weeks after PAX to relax and prepare for NDK (September 9-11). Like I said, I would really love to, but I don't think it's in the cards this year, with PAX being the more expensive one to go to and money already invested in NDK.
It's looking like I won't be able to do both PAX and DragonCon, and if that's the case then out of the too I think I'll pick DragonCon, because I want to spend time with Rather Dashing and Comrade Pants, and it's a smaller con. I think it might be more friendly, and if I can find a way to just hang around these two the whole time I'll have a lot of fun.
From what I've heard of PAX it's just out of my comfort zone. Way too crowded, and I'd feel lonely as a result, unless I could hang around with someone the whole time, which isn't looking like it's not gonna happen.
I've always wanted to go to PAX or a similar convention and hang out with people I only know on the internet, but unless someone buys me an international plane ticket and hotel room/a place to stay, not to mention convince my parents to even let me go in the first place, that'll just stay as a fantasy.
EDIT: This isn't directed at anyone in particular. I just read the changes from the book to the movie and I don't get the grief. I love the sword fight between Justin and Jenner, and the amulet scene is a beautiful and epic climax where the amulet projects the motherly love, will, and courage from Ms. Brisby's heart and soul to save her children. The rats successfully moving the house with absolutely no suspense or drama makes it kind of boring to me. I'm happy with the changes they made personally.
In the book, the climax isn't the moving of Mrs Frisby's house, it's the rats' escape from the NIMH scientists who come to dig up the rosebush, because they have to make it look like they're not the superintelligent rats the scientists are looking for as well as escaping alive, which means destroying everything that's there. The move is glossed over because the focus is on "oh crap, we might all die or go back to NIMH tomorrow." So the book is less focused on Mrs Frisby, and more on the rats.
Jenner doesn't even appear in the book, he's only mentioned as 'the one who left' (because he was against the Thorn Valley move) and is in the story Nicodemus tells about their origins because he was Nicodemus' best friend. (Nicodemus doesn't die either, he's in the sequel) The true villains are NIMH.
Also, Jenner's son is one of the protagonists of the sequel.
Anyway, I would no doubt like the movie a lot more if I'd seen it before I read the book. After all, I like Disney's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', and it makes Secret of NIMH look like a 100% accurate adaptation. But I saw the Disney version before I read the book, so I wasn't going "THAT'S NOT RIGHT!!!" (and Tony Jay is in the Disney version so I am legally obliged to like it)
And at least Secret of NIMH isn't the 1995 adaptation of 'A Little Princess'. SO MUCH HATE FOR THAT MOVIE. HAAAAAAATE.
Instead of being set in London in the late 1800s it's set in New York during World War I. Instead of her father being an officer in India who loses his money investing in diamond mines, goes insane and dies, her father goes off to fight in World War I, gets amnesia, but is all better by the end and everything is happy and rainbows and kittens. I could go on, but you'd have to have either seen the horrible movie or read the book.
I HATE THAT MOVIE. SO MUCH HATE. Put it this way, if you're a Harry Potter fan, this would be like making a movie that moves Hogwarts to New York and has his parents come back at the end because they just had amnesia. HAAAAAAAATE.
I've seen the movie (and don't remember it fondly), and I'm not sure if I'd be interested in the book. I can certainly see why that would annoy the hell out of you, though.
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And we love you all the more for it. You are awsomesauce. I'd like to bribe the GM with a package from Japan. Is this acceptable?
Fix'd
I can't stop playing Duke Nukem 3D.
I'm flattered, but I'd hate to cost you the shipping of sending something from Japan to the U.K......
Its quite interesting.
Though, I will be honest, the text errors are a bit annoying, (I guess you are not a native English speaker), but its good enough to make sense of it.
Finished most of my exams. I do hope I past.
I am exhausted from it all though.
If you're asking how to upload it to the internet you can use http://rapidshare.com/ and link the upload to somewhere, but not I would like to ask you to make sure it's MP3 or the like and not the Audactiy project file (I did that before)
Edit: What was the origin of Donut Button?
Seriously, my top 5 bad movies I've seen
5. Secret of Nimh
4. Cats
3. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Phantom of the Opera
And in the number 1 spot even though I haven't seen it is The Room.
But of course, I liked Mortal Kombat Annihilation, so what the hell do I know?
I have to know. Why?
Edit: I now hate Wham-o for making them change that part.
And that's pretty much why I dislike it as well. It doesn't help that I read the book growing up and didn't see the movie until I was in my early 20s either, if I'd seen the movie as a kid I'd have probably been more forgiving instead of 'WTF IS THIS MAGIC AMULET CRAP? DO NOT WANT.'
Oh, to be honest, this is a complaint I can fully understand. While a part of me wants to recommend rewatching the movie now that you're older, I won't push the idea on you. I can fully understand this though. I dislike The Rescuers because the original book was so fricking cool and could have been awesome if Disney had adapted it instead of the story they went with. The cat villain in that book was truly monstrous and creepy, and the book was set in a European castle. The person they had to rescue was a poet who had been locked up in a windowless dungeon there, and the cat would go and spit on him and stuff (if I remember right). It was truly dejected and bleak. I loved the Rescuers Down Under though, and it's one of my favorite films. I think number 5 on a top five worst movies list is a bit harsh though.
EDIT: This isn't directed at anyone in particular. I just read the changes from the book to the movie and I don't get the grief. I love the sword fight between Justin and Jenner, and the amulet scene is a beautiful and epic climax where the amulet projects the motherly love, will, and courage from Ms. Brisby's heart and soul to save her children. The rats successfully moving the house with absolutely no suspense or drama makes it kind of boring to me. I'm happy with the changes they made personally.
Ah, Ginny, welcome to adulthood!
Be yourself in your personal life.
Be "who they want you to be" in your professional life.
Don't kick kittens in either life.
All will work out in the end! Trust me.
you watch alot of life dramas dont you
Unfortunately, the rooms jumped up to $113 a night this year, plus they're going to charge $10 a night for parking. The hotel's been treating us worse every year anyway, and now this. I'm wishing more than ever now that the convention would find a new hotel.
WarpSpeed, that is some excellent advice. Especially the bit about the kittens. Unless of course you become a professional kitten-kicker, in which case that is some terrible advice.
Why on earth would anyone ever give you flak for that??
Speaking of rooms, and cons...I need to get the bus rolling on PAX. But nothing will be available until March...me sad now.
Yes.
26th thru 28th of August.
From what I've heard of PAX it's just out of my comfort zone. Way too crowded, and I'd feel lonely as a result, unless I could hang around with someone the whole time, which isn't looking like it's not gonna happen.
In the book, the climax isn't the moving of Mrs Frisby's house, it's the rats' escape from the NIMH scientists who come to dig up the rosebush, because they have to make it look like they're not the superintelligent rats the scientists are looking for as well as escaping alive, which means destroying everything that's there. The move is glossed over because the focus is on "oh crap, we might all die or go back to NIMH tomorrow." So the book is less focused on Mrs Frisby, and more on the rats.
Jenner doesn't even appear in the book, he's only mentioned as 'the one who left' (because he was against the Thorn Valley move) and is in the story Nicodemus tells about their origins because he was Nicodemus' best friend. (Nicodemus doesn't die either, he's in the sequel) The true villains are NIMH.
Anyway, I would no doubt like the movie a lot more if I'd seen it before I read the book. After all, I like Disney's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', and it makes Secret of NIMH look like a 100% accurate adaptation. But I saw the Disney version before I read the book, so I wasn't going "THAT'S NOT RIGHT!!!" (and Tony Jay is in the Disney version so I am legally obliged to like it)
And at least Secret of NIMH isn't the 1995 adaptation of 'A Little Princess'. SO MUCH HATE FOR THAT MOVIE. HAAAAAAATE.
Instead of being set in London in the late 1800s it's set in New York during World War I. Instead of her father being an officer in India who loses his money investing in diamond mines, goes insane and dies, her father goes off to fight in World War I, gets amnesia, but is all better by the end and everything is happy and rainbows and kittens. I could go on, but you'd have to have either seen the horrible movie or read the book.
I HATE THAT MOVIE. SO MUCH HATE. Put it this way, if you're a Harry Potter fan, this would be like making a movie that moves Hogwarts to New York and has his parents come back at the end because they just had amnesia. HAAAAAAAATE.