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| The Fantasy Topic; Discuss any fantasy, in any media. | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 12 2011, 04:58 PM (1,696 Views) | |
| lamna | Oct 12 2011, 04:58 PM Post #1 |
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Rather than clogging up the system with dozens of topics that get a little interest before settling into the soft silt of General Discussion, I thought I would make a topic that could move with whatever is popular at the moment. And as the nights get darker, the weather colder* and Christmas and Halloween draw closer, for me fantasy is coming to the forefront of my mind. I've just discovered Game of Thrones and wow, that's a cool program. There is a bit more buggery than I'd like in it, but it's clearly part of the story and not solely fan service. It got Sean Bean doing his thing, the cool kind of political intrigue (as in the fate of kingdoms, not the local by-election) and some very brutal fights. I was also impressed by the depiction of justice without a police force, which seemed much as it was in medieval England. Also, Lancel Lannister is a very pretty boy. *At least in this hemisphere. But we don't have any members from anywhere the Southern Hemisphere that has a real winter. |
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| Kamidio | Oct 13 2011, 06:06 PM Post #2 |
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The Southern Hemispere has a Winter? I thought seasons went like this. North: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter South: Cooling Down(aka Autumn), Tolerable Temperature(aka Winter), Get Out Your Coolers(Aka Spring), MOTHER OF GOD, IT'S SO HOT THAT SCORPIONS ARE HIDING IN ALL MY CLOTHES GAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!(aka Summer) Seriously, who though it was a good idea to stay in Australia after the island became its own nation? I would've gotten the fuck outta there. But yeah, around this time of year, my mind turns to the gory, grotesque, and the ghastly. Hell I'm the proper shape for my Halloween costume, so you can expect lots of children to be scarred for life.
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| lamna | Oct 13 2011, 06:53 PM Post #3 |
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It does in Chile, New Zealand, Argentina and the Antarctic. |
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| seascorpion | Oct 14 2011, 12:38 AM Post #4 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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in Australia, most people say summer, autumn , winter and spring as our seasons In a lot of australia we have four distinct seasons. as far as I know, magoo lives on the outskirts of perth and margeret pye lives in melbourne, i live in sydney. all those areas have four distinct seasons. there is a difference between winter, spring, summer and autumn here. and although our winter isn't as severely different, we have a much more intense summer. hence when you say we don't have a winter, its just as true for me to say you lack a summer. and fakey, seriously Australia isn't that bad, most australians actually think we're luckier than you when it comes to wildlfe safety. we don't have any predators as large as yours, plus we have an incredibly unique ecosystem. I know your joking about the whole dangerous australia thing, but seriously, hearing someone talk about how my country is a death trap can get annoying after a while. its not like anyone keeps claiming kentucky is a hellhole full of danger and crazy weather. but yeah right now im watching darker than black in the anime-redacted order (season 2 , then season 1, then the OVAs) |
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| lamna | Oct 14 2011, 04:05 AM Post #5 |
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Never seen that one, is it the one where there are star powers or something? Anyone interested in Skyrim? I was not very interested until I watched the walkthrough and saw the Dragon attack the mammoth herders. |
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| seascorpion | Oct 14 2011, 07:12 AM Post #6 |
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I'm waiting for skyrim. The demo gave me a nerdgasm |
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| Zoroaster | Oct 14 2011, 07:51 AM Post #7 |
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Summer's heading in here now - so I am toning down the Metal on my playlist and going to more "mellow" stuff like Tom Waits. I think I might have his song "Kentucky Avenue" played at my funeral, not that I care, because I won't be there. But I digress, Game of Thrones is AWSOME, I watched like the first 5 episodes patiently waiting for each one, but then couldn't wait anymore, both me and my wife needed to know what happened next - so I downloaded eps 6 - 10 or whatever the end number is - and looking forward to the next season. I got so impatient to find out what happens next, I downloaded all the books in e-books and now I am hanging out for Book 6 (it took George R R* Martin 5 f--king years between book 4 and 5!). My favourite character is Tyrion Lannister, the vertically challenged brother of Cersei and Jaime, and it was good to see the actor playing him grab an Emmy! *And what's the deal with the "R.R.", is it because J R R Tolkien had a double R, or was his dad like a Cornish pirate or something? "Ar ar"... ? Edited by Zoroaster, Oct 14 2011, 07:53 AM.
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| Ook | Oct 14 2011, 08:18 AM Post #8 |
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not a Transhuman
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/4334819/1/#new Lamna lamna... BTW theSong of Ice and Fire books (Game of Thrones is first part of that series) are even better,but they are very addictive Australian ecosystem is pretty much ruined,with most of the larger carnivores and herbivores extinct,which causes overpopulation of species like red kangaroos,most smaller carnivores very rare and declining and lot of introduced species which are easily outcompeting the native species ..and lot of poisonous spiders,snakes,ants etc.
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| lamna | Oct 14 2011, 08:37 AM Post #9 |
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I'm already addicted to The Emberverse (which is basically fantasy in a post-apocalyptic setting) and the Honorverse, I don't need more novels filling up my room and stealing my money. And I want to just watch the show, novels are never the same after you've seen the film or the show. I've only on about episode 6 or 7 but I'm loving it so far. Its got the same feeling of Babylon 5, dozens of plans and agendas just about to slam into each other, not all of then just good vs evil. I'm going to have to recant my previous statement on the buggery. There is a awful lot of humping and nakedness in the show. |
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| dialforthedevil | Oct 14 2011, 11:50 AM Post #10 |
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SKYRIM!!! Its gunna be awesome!
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| lamna | Oct 14 2011, 03:56 PM Post #11 |
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Perhaps, I don't know how well I'd get on with the combat. |
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| Kamidio | Oct 14 2011, 04:48 PM Post #12 |
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Bullshit. Here in my area, the temps can reach around 99 degrees Fahrenheit. Don't know what that is in Celsius though... Almost everything there is venomous, can crush your bones, or cut you to death and leave your corpse floating for the sharks(Coral). Meanwhile, here in northern Kentucky, the most dangerous animals we have are dumbasses trying to use fireworks. The most venomous animals here are the brown recluse, the northern and southern black widows, and bears aren't in this area of Kentucky. Most venomous snakes here in habit the southern counties, so I have no worries of that. So which is more deadly? The land-locked, lil' ol' Kentucky, or the vast, reef-surrounded Australia? |
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| seascorpion | Oct 14 2011, 07:27 PM Post #13 |
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I have never known anyone that has died from an attack by an animal. I know people who have been attacked. the majority of them were bitten by stray dogs, other than that two of those people were bitten by foxes, two more were scratched by cats, one was bitten by his pet tarantula, another was kicked by a horse, the only person I know who has been attacked by a native animal was a girl who hit a tiger snake with a stick (she survived), she provoked it obviously, if she hadn't freaked out when she saw it nothing would have happened. |
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| Zoroaster | Oct 14 2011, 09:33 PM Post #14 |
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Fakey - 99 F is about 37 C... the only time that F and C meet, other than with U and K, is at around 40 below I think, they're the same. 100 in the shade is like 37-38 in the shade... that is pretty warm in my opinion. At this lattitude (Sydney and Perth are in roughly the same lattitude) you can go for days of 40 C, whole weeks, and it won't drop below about even 25 at night, which is the worst part - because whole house does not have time to cool. The hottest I have EVER been was once in Melbourne, it was HUMID and 45 celsius. The mercury has hit 45 here in Perth, but I was inside an office in aircon, and it had dropped back down to 37 by the time I knocked off work and rode my motorcycle home. One of the main differences between Sydney and Perth, is that Sydney, whilst at the same lattitude, does not have a desert right behind it - and it gets much more humidity than Perth. Perth has a "mediterranean" climate, i.e. dry summers (VERY dry, all the grass dies) and very wet winters, California has a mediterranean climate, my memory of Sydney (I was born and grew up in Newcastle about 100 miles North) is that it could rain heavily any time of the year. Bexi - its not the paucity of predators that causes plague populations of roos and emus (Red kangaroos hardly ever reach plague levels, it's the grays, or "Euros") and cockatoos - it's the opening up of the land - grasslands favour roos and emus and cockatoos. Since the arrival of man some 40,000 years ago, Australia has had approx the same level of population of large predators! Thylacines have never been populous on the mainland, and they were never open country hunters. Wedge tailed eagles do prey on wallabies and young kangaroos, and are no really that endangerd - the stupid useless bounty system of killing them (just because they took the occasional lamb) has stopped years ago. But wedgetail eagles probably get most of their food from roadkill I'd say, you can see 4 or 5 of them at the site of a dead kangaroo on the Eyre highway. |
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| lamna | Oct 15 2011, 02:51 AM Post #15 |
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Not to mention irrigation. Waterholes created for cattle help everything survive better and at higher densities. But Australian wildlife and which coalmine has more dangerous wildlife does not have much to do with fantasy. Just watched the Skyrim walkthrough again, I really hope my computer can handle it. |
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