Ah, but here we go. You would like a functioning spinal cord, would you not? I was implying that Guru would be perfectly happy to trade since he had no appreciation for the finer things in life.
But then he had to go and be all accepting that there might be something to all my Discworld hype, so I guess I have to take back that offer. Sorry.
I *guess* I forgive you. You know. For tax purposes.
To be fair, it's entirely possible that the only reason I don't have an interest in Discworld is that I never heard of it before these forums, and since it was something I didn't know, I've never looked into the discussion on it, and thus never had a spark from which to grow interest. Same reason I don't have any interest in King's Quest.
Sounds like you don't broaden the old horizons too much, eh, Guru?
I can't be the only person on the entire internet who doesn't give a flying fuck about Doctor Who.
Respect for GuruGuru is rising. I hate it too (at least in its current uber-camp rebooted form). A flying shark, pulling a sleigh through the night sky, as the Doctor and his companion laugh sat in the back...
Respect for GuruGuru is rising. I hate it too (at least in its current uber-camp rebooted form). A flying shark, pulling a sleigh through the night sky, as the Doctor and his companion laugh sat in the back...
Actually no, for example I like The Rocky Horror Picture Show but that doesn't mean I like it when campness is forcefully inserted (ooohhh, hello sailor) into a show that doesn't warrant it. Also, Rocky Horror is good, campy fun; whereas Doctor Who is cringe inducing, campy torture (much like my 'hello sailor' comment above).
You not got a problem with inappropriate campy stuff?
Sounds like you don't broaden the old horizons too much, eh, Guru?
More that there was never anyone or anything to show me what was beyond those horizons. For example, lots of people on here had computers all through the 90s (and some even in the 80s) and kept up on Sierra and LucasArts and the like. I didn't get my first computer until late 2000.
I spent the 90s playing the NES (because it's what my grandma's husband had), then the Genesis (because it's what my friends had), and at the very end the N64 (because a friend got me into Pokemon, bringing me back to Nintendo and laying the groundwork to cement me as a Nintendophile). I got my gaming news by word of mouth, TV advertisements, and Disney Adventures magazine. It's no wonder I grew up to be so out of touch with PC gaming, which is only very recently and very slowly changing.
The only reason I'm here today is because in 1997, my best friend in 3rd grade had me over one day and had me play this game his dad was borrowing from a friend: The Curse of Monkey Island. When I arrived at the Telltale forums in November 2009, my knowledge of adventure gaming had basically unfolded thusly: at some point in the nine years after getting a computer and my own copy of Curse, I found out that it was part of a series after seeing Escape in the newspaper ads for Best Buy. Then an internet friend one state away introduced me to Grim Fandango. Then I slowly acquired the other three Monkey Island games. I played the first two episodes of SBCG4AP on the Wii when they came out, and I knew nothing else about what adventure games were out there. A friend who buys pretty much everything that ever goes on sale on Steam had talked a little about Sam & Max, but I didn't know it was the same company that did Strong Bad, and he never said much about the games except that they were good.
So yes, I owe it to you guys that my vocabulary now includes things like "Maniac Mansion", "King's Quest", "Sierra adventure games", "Infocom", "Discworld", "Oddworld", and even "System Shock". Not because I never broadened my horizons, but because I wouldn't have ever known where to look to be exposed to these things.
And I've said it a few times, but I feel it bears repeating, this is the place that broke me out of my internet shell. This is the first internet community where I've ever really fit. I've lurked on a couple of forums before, but never really had anything to say there. The most active I've ever been elsewhere was maybe 50 posts in a Nintendo guild on Gaia Online.
Actually no, for example I like The Rocky Horror Picture Show but that doesn't mean I like it when campness is forcefully inserted (ooohhh, hello sailor) into a show that doesn't warrant it. Also, Rocky Horror is good, campy fun; whereas Doctor Who is cringe inducing, campy torture (much like my 'hello sailor' comment above).
You not got a problem with inappropriate campy stuff?
I don't find the campy-ness in Doctor Who inappropriate. Maybe this is because it's always been there. Well, okay, maybe not First Doctor, but definitely by the fourth one. In the new series, I find it keeps the show silly, which is how it should be. In my opinion. I don't have nostalgia for the show before, so I may just be supplanting my modern thoughts onto the older episodes. I also may be missing the point entirely.
In any case, campness in Doctor Who is far more toned down than the Rocky Horror Picture show. I just really like that picture, so I had to use it.
More that there was never anyone or anything to show me what was beyond those horizons. For example, lots of people on here had computers all through the 90s (and some even in the 80s) and kept up on Sierra and LucasArts and the like. I didn't get my first computer until late 2000.
I spent the 90s playing the NES (because it's what my grandma's husband had), then the Genesis (because it's what my friends had), and at the very end the N64 (because a friend got me into Pokemon, bringing me back to Nintendo and laying the groundwork to cement me as a Nintendophile). I got my gaming news by word of mouth, TV advertisements, and Disney Adventures magazine. It's no wonder I grew up to be so out of touch with PC gaming, which is only very recently and very slowly changing.
The only reason I'm here today is because in 1997, my best friend in 3rd grade had me over one day and had me play this game his dad was borrowing from a friend: The Curse of Monkey Island. When I arrived at the Telltale forums in November 2009, my knowledge of adventure gaming had basically unfolded thusly: at some point in the nine years after getting a computer and my own copy of Curse, I found out that it was part of a series after seeing Escape in the newspaper ads for Best Buy. Then an internet friend one state away introduced me to Grim Fandango. Then I slowly acquired the other three Monkey Island games. I played the first two episodes of SBCG4AP on the Wii when they came out, and I knew nothing else about what adventure games were out there. A friend who buys pretty much everything that ever goes on sale on Steam had talked a little about Sam & Max, but I didn't know it was the same company that did Strong Bad, and he never said much about the games except that they were good.
So yes, I owe it to you guys that my vocabulary now includes things like "Maniac Mansion", "King's Quest", "Sierra adventure games", "Infocom", "Discworld", "Oddworld", and even "System Shock". Not because I never broadened my horizons, but because I wouldn't have ever known where to look to be exposed to these things.
And I've said it a few times, but I feel it bears repeating, this is the place that broke me out of my internet shell. This is the first internet community where I've ever really fit. I've lurked on a couple of forums before, but never really had anything to say there. The most active I've ever been elsewhere was maybe 50 posts in a Nintendo guild on Gaia Online.
So...why'd I go into this rant, anyway?
Oh, Guru! I so feel for you! Let me give you a hug, man!
I'll shackle myself to Tom Selleck ANYTIME. For giving me the ULTIMATE PLEASURE of seeing that GORGEOUS HAIRY WET MAN CHEST of his, grrrr, I have only one thing to say.
Honestly Guru, after doing me so many FAVORS today, how can we NOT hug?
Oh man, yesterday finally got to see NBC's The Voice, downloaded from the Interwebs, because I live in Europe so can't watch it from the official site, and I have to say, Holdy Carp!
I already loved The Voice of Holland, but I think I love The Voice even more. I mean, face it, in America the bar just lies way higher than here in the Netherlands.
Although I am baised towards Marvel, I think Apocalypse would win.
But in the end, it depends on who Apocalypse can get to be his 4 horsemen.
If he that this team, he could beat anything! XD
My aunties cancer situation is getting worse. The doctors believe it to be Myeloma (as a secondary cancer), which is a type of bone marrow cancer which is incurable.
My aunties cancer situation is getting worse. The doctors believe it to be Myeloma (as a secondary cancer), which is a type of bone marrow cancer which is incurable.
My aunties cancer situation is getting worse. The doctors believe it to be Myeloma (as a secondary cancer), which is a type of bone marrow cancer which is incurable.
Yes I did. You spelled Faure as Fuare. Don't want to be confusing people here, now do we?
Oh god dammit, I did, didn't I? Bugger all. Well, there's nothing for it but to get on Skype with all the cool people, I suppose. And by all the cool people, I mean Dashing and I.
Oh god dammit, I did, didn't I? Bugger all. Well, there's nothing for it but to get on Skype with all the cool people, I suppose. And by all the cool people, I mean Dashing and I.
Have fun with that. I have all of the metabolic reactions in the human body to memorize by next Tuesday.
Have fun with that. I have all of the metabolic reactions in the human body to memorize by next Tuesday.
This handy academic guide will be of immense help to you, then. Best of luck, I'mma go drink a screwdriver and play Portal 2; an activity described by famed British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as "the sporting life."
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I *guess* I forgive you. You know. For tax purposes.
Saved by the tax purposes! Whatever they are.
First time I'm pleased that taxes exist. I'd hate to have you rolling up to me with a boot on a stick to kick me in the head.
Sounds like you don't broaden the old horizons too much, eh, Guru?
Respect for GuruGuru is rising. I hate it too (at least in its current uber-camp rebooted form). A flying shark, pulling a sleigh through the night sky, as the Doctor and his companion laugh sat in the back...
...and this is critically respected how?!
Respect for GuruGuru is falling.
You got a problem with camp stuff?
Actually no, for example I like The Rocky Horror Picture Show but that doesn't mean I like it when campness is forcefully inserted (ooohhh, hello sailor) into a show that doesn't warrant it. Also, Rocky Horror is good, campy fun; whereas Doctor Who is cringe inducing, campy torture (much like my 'hello sailor' comment above).
You not got a problem with inappropriate campy stuff?
More that there was never anyone or anything to show me what was beyond those horizons. For example, lots of people on here had computers all through the 90s (and some even in the 80s) and kept up on Sierra and LucasArts and the like. I didn't get my first computer until late 2000.
I spent the 90s playing the NES (because it's what my grandma's husband had), then the Genesis (because it's what my friends had), and at the very end the N64 (because a friend got me into Pokemon, bringing me back to Nintendo and laying the groundwork to cement me as a Nintendophile). I got my gaming news by word of mouth, TV advertisements, and Disney Adventures magazine. It's no wonder I grew up to be so out of touch with PC gaming, which is only very recently and very slowly changing.
The only reason I'm here today is because in 1997, my best friend in 3rd grade had me over one day and had me play this game his dad was borrowing from a friend: The Curse of Monkey Island. When I arrived at the Telltale forums in November 2009, my knowledge of adventure gaming had basically unfolded thusly: at some point in the nine years after getting a computer and my own copy of Curse, I found out that it was part of a series after seeing Escape in the newspaper ads for Best Buy. Then an internet friend one state away introduced me to Grim Fandango. Then I slowly acquired the other three Monkey Island games. I played the first two episodes of SBCG4AP on the Wii when they came out, and I knew nothing else about what adventure games were out there. A friend who buys pretty much everything that ever goes on sale on Steam had talked a little about Sam & Max, but I didn't know it was the same company that did Strong Bad, and he never said much about the games except that they were good.
So yes, I owe it to you guys that my vocabulary now includes things like "Maniac Mansion", "King's Quest", "Sierra adventure games", "Infocom", "Discworld", "Oddworld", and even "System Shock". Not because I never broadened my horizons, but because I wouldn't have ever known where to look to be exposed to these things.
And I've said it a few times, but I feel it bears repeating, this is the place that broke me out of my internet shell. This is the first internet community where I've ever really fit. I've lurked on a couple of forums before, but never really had anything to say there. The most active I've ever been elsewhere was maybe 50 posts in a Nintendo guild on Gaia Online.
So...why'd I go into this rant, anyway?
I don't find the campy-ness in Doctor Who inappropriate. Maybe this is because it's always been there. Well, okay, maybe not First Doctor, but definitely by the fourth one. In the new series, I find it keeps the show silly, which is how it should be. In my opinion. I don't have nostalgia for the show before, so I may just be supplanting my modern thoughts onto the older episodes. I also may be missing the point entirely.
In any case, campness in Doctor Who is far more toned down than the Rocky Horror Picture show. I just really like that picture, so I had to use it.
I love that movie. It's fricking hilarious. One of the greatest comedies ever made. I mean it.
Oh, Guru! I so feel for you! Let me give you a hug, man!
Try it and I'll ban you for two years.
You'd do that...just for me? You'd relieve me of the burden of being unable to leave this place, shackled to this forum for the rest of my life?
(I just LOVE this image.)
Honestly Guru, after doing me so many FAVORS today, how can we NOT hug?
Ricky Gervais is playing a genie in the stage production of Doctor Who!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbAWwSQC8E&feature=related
I'd say that they've toned down the campness levels if anything.
You can never have too many cats. Just ask any self respecting crazy old woman!
I guess you could call this a CATalyst (sorry)
A litter TRAY of kitties (again, sorry)
How aMEWsing (so, so sorry)
These cats PAWS for thought (I know, I know)
PUURRRfect (Okay, you can shoot me now)
XD Thinking about that always makes me burst to laughter ... except now ... damn it! I've ruined it!
No offence Comrade ...
I already loved The Voice of Holland, but I think I love The Voice even more. I mean, face it, in America the bar just lies way higher than here in the Netherlands.
I did. She said that you can have too many cats when the cat density reaches the point at which they begin to form a small black hole.
Which, admittedly, is a lot of cats.
Pikachu.
The only winning move is not to play
Well, yes but it's from the film Wargames.
But in the end, it depends on who Apocalypse can get to be his 4 horsemen.
If he that this team, he could beat anything! XD
and, uh....
I should have come back to the thread to edit myself. I realized your reference only later. I was like... Oh 80s I miss you.
FTFY
Also:
I am Alcoremortis and I endorse this statement.
And not because I just sang it in concert. Not at all.
My sympathies are with you, mate. =(
You didn't FTFM, you just repeated it! Good job on that agreement, though.
That sucks man. I'm sorry to hear that.
Yes I did. You spelled Faure as Fuare. Don't want to be confusing people here, now do we?
Oh god dammit, I did, didn't I? Bugger all. Well, there's nothing for it but to get on Skype with all the cool people, I suppose. And by all the cool people, I mean Dashing and I.
Have fun with that. I have all of the metabolic reactions in the human body to memorize by next Tuesday.
This handy academic guide will be of immense help to you, then. Best of luck, I'mma go drink a screwdriver and play Portal 2; an activity described by famed British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as "the sporting life."