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I guess I have to be the one to say that the original Alladin was set in China
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Yeah, Aladdin is nominally about a Chinese dude in the original. Disney made him Arabian, presumably because it was less confusing for the audience.
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May 7, 2011 00:15
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I don't think you can blame Disney for that. I never thought he was a Chinese guy.
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May 7, 2011 19:19
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"What are these guys talking about, Aladdin being Chinese? They're joking. Everyone know Aladdin comes from the tale in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, which is Arabian."Wikipedia posted:Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين, ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn; literally, "nobility of the faith") is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland (see sources and setting).[2] "Ha! I knew it. I can't believe they got me to look it up." Wikipedia posted:Although Aladdin is a Middle Eastern tale, the story is set in China, and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese. 
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May 8, 2011 09:20
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I'd disagree with that, China doesn't really mean China as such, but is instead used as the most distant place imaginable at the time. In the story its fairly obvious that everyone in the story is meant to be middle eastern. It's similar to the way that a European fairy tales might be set in a "far away land" but everyone in the story is still European.
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May 8, 2011 23:48
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'd disagree with that, China doesn't really mean China as such, but is instead used as the most distant place imaginable at the time. In the story its fairly obvious that everyone in the story is meant to be middle eastern.
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I saw some sort of D&D Monster manual in the library and started flipping though it. I soon realized two things: 1. There are way too many were-creatures. There is even a were-sealwolf, a person that turns into a seal/wolf on a full moon. Also a Jackalwere which is a jackal that turns into a person.. Mixing animal a with animal b or making a animal/human hybrid also seems to be very popular. 3. Almost all evil races live in tribal societies  ....yeah.But all of you nerd probably know this already. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 9, 2011 |
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May 9, 2011 01:32
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FreudianSlippers posted:I saw some sort of D&D Monster manual in the library and started flipping though it. I soon realized two things: Your library has AD&D in circulation?
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May 9, 2011 01:43
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It was on one of those plastic display stands next to the video game and hobby magazines. One of the librarians must be a hardcore D&D player.
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May 9, 2011 01:45
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FreudianSlippers posted:It was on one of those plastic display stands next to the video game and hobby magazines. One of the librarians must be a hardcore D&D player. "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: As Seen at Half-Price Books!"
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May 9, 2011 14:17
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Battletech Loves the 80's Featuring one of the best, and coincidentally most-80's, images of any WTF article. Edit: Speaking of Battletech and by extension Robotech, I think they'd make good subjects for a Blue Stripe article. I've always been fascinated by the number of maintenance hours fighter jets need for every hour of flight, but imagine adding the wear and tear of transforming into a robot onto that. HitTheTargets fucked around with this message at 03:33 on May 20, 2011 |
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May 19, 2011 16:48
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quote:It looks like the family unit from one of the later Heinlein novels. Hardest I've laughed in quite a while. 
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May 19, 2011 18:34
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This most recent article on Battletech managed to be several orders more bizarre than the material it was commenting on.
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FreudianSlippers posted:3. Almost all evil races live in tribal societies They don't all happen to be wielding... spears right? 
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HitTheTargets posted:Battletech Loves the 80's I agree. This was one of my favorite "WTF D&Ds?" and it completely reinforced my love of classic 80's Battletech. I still say that Fourth Succession war Battletech of the 80's is the best Battletech, both because it is what I grew up playing and being affected by and because of the ridiculous but undeniably bad-rear end aesthetic. It's not entirely unlike throwing giant robots, lasers, Lita Ford, and the costume designer of Zardoz into the film Red Dawn.
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Mindisgone posted:They don't all happen to be wielding... spears right? Well, not all of them.
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Mindisgone posted:They don't all happen to be wielding... spears right? No one wields spears. 1d8 x3 is awful.
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Schwarzwald posted:No one wields spears. 1d8 x3 is awful. they don't have enough GP for anything else 
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quote:Zack: They're just staring at me because I am the hideous monster in their world. It's like that Twilight Zone episode. No, Steve, that's not the episodes Zack's talking about! He means the episode that follows this one woman in a hospital where everyone keeps reacting to her as if she's hideous and needs plastic surgery even though she looks normal, and at the end we find out all the other people have really ugly pig faces but they don't see themselves as ugly because ugly pig faces are the norm for them while the lead woman's normal face actually looks hideous in their eyes. Steve, the episode you're thinking of is the one where there's a man riding in a passenger airplane who sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane that no one else sees. It's a completely different episode. How the hell could you get them confused? It doesn't even make sense! Seriously, it's just...
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I'd just like to point out that the skeleton king on page 10 appears to be jacking off.
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Schwarzwald posted:Seriously, it's just... It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone!
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Some of those pictures were clearly drawn by an artist with some genuine artistic talent. Maybe no AAA-grade stuff, but surely someone who can find something better to do with their time and skills than draw ghouls ripping apart a chainmail bikini babe. Have you tried looking closely at the person being ripped apart? I tried to, in order to figure out the exact level of loving detail put into it. They were painfully professional about drawing the whole mess, no obscuring cloud of blood or anything. Bleugh. I know nothing but regret, that "you cannot unsee" label was no joke.
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Jun 2, 2011 15:20
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I read this with the distinct feeling that what I was looking at was quite possibly illegal.
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Jun 2, 2011 16:58
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Anyone else notice that zombie is reaching UP between her legs to rip into her guts
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James Edward Raggi IV e-mailed me to point out that the image posted above, of the woman being torn apart, literally was done by the guy who did all the Cannibal Corpse album covers.
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I'd like to see you guys do the Book of Erotic Fantasy. One of my friends did some of the illustrations for it (and as a result I playtested it), and it had all kinds of fun controversy surrounding it with the D20 label and so on. Plus I mean it's pretty much boobs. Boobs and furries. And rules for magic condoms.
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StealthStealth posted:I'd like to see you guys do the Book of Erotic Fantasy. One of my friends did some of the illustrations for it (and as a result I playtested it), and it had all kinds of fun controversy surrounding it with the D20 label and so on. Plus I mean it's pretty much boobs. Boobs and furries. And rules for magic condoms. I think EPG did a solo walk-through a while back, but it would be enjoyable to see him and Steve play off of each other with it.
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Nucleic Acids posted:I think EPG did a solo walk-through a while back, but it would be enjoyable to see him and Steve play off of each other with it. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/role-playing-corner-2.php
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quote:Steve: We may be super nice, especially if your game is not at all about giant monster heads coming out of a babe's private area. Like if you sent us an RPG that was like "hot babes swimming and suntanning and doing karate moves topless to relax the RPG" we would give it great comments. That would probably result in a pretty dry article, though.
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Hey, I was going through the WTF, D&D section and I noticed that the FATAL review (which was really a non-review, but whatever) wasn't in the table of contents. If you are new to the feature, check it out, it's terrifying! http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fatal-worst-rpg.php
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TheBigC posted:Hey, I was going through the WTF, D&D section and I noticed that the FATAL review (which was really a non-review, but whatever) wasn't in the table of contents. Huh, that's weird that it isn't in the list. Let me try to figure out what's going on with that.
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elpintogrande posted:Huh, that's weird that it isn't in the list. Let me try to figure out what's going on with that. Do you think that your Book of Erotic Fantasy review could be added to the WTF D&D section, even though it's actually front page news? On a somewhat related note, the first few Fashion SWAT articles were also front page news, and are therefore not on the Fashion SWAT index.
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Can articles be in more than one index? It might be worth having some in Front Page and the relevant subcategory of feature, to account for those front page updates that became their own offshoot series.
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TheBigC posted:If you are new to the feature, check it out, it's terrifying! I figured they excluded it on purpose, but on the other hand it is probably necessary to have it in the listing no matter what so people won't ask them to look at FATAL.
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Just wanted to say that because of WTF, DnD I've bought a bunch of 2nd Edition AD&D stuff and am going to be DMing a Spelljammer campaign. Thanks?
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Koos Group posted:More importantly though, did Zack ever admit that Steve Sumner was his brainchild? So... Steve doesn't really exist? Nooooooo
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dogbox posted:So... Steve doesn't really exist? Steve is real. I gamed with him once. He kept on making fun of my bard and when I told him in-character that I didn't know what a "guitar" was and that I was playing a citerne, he rolled initiative on me.
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Does Steve have enough material yet for another Barbarian's Dojo or is that dead & buried?
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The Joe Man posted:Does Steve have enough material yet for another Barbarian's Dojo or is that dead & buried? Barbarian's Dojo gave the best review of Bioshock I think I've ever heard. My memory of it other than that is dim, however.
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At long last, WTF, D&D!? returns... and with a new contest!? Haha, holy cow, I heard that the fourth monster manual was full of lackluster ideas, but those were all just so awful. Oh look, another air elemental. With FISTS. My favorite was the deathdrinker, though. Just reclining, all saucy impertinence.
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