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| sakura |
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11 | 6.96% |
| hinoka |
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21 | 13.29% |
| camilla |
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42 | 26.58% |
| elise |
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15 | 9.49% |
| im gay (in a nonironic sense) |
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69 | 43.67% |
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The digimon game is good and I like the characters so far
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Feb 3, 2016 00:31
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Lemon Curdistan posted:They're great. Howard's Conan is intelligent, speaks a dozen dead languages, successfully leads armies and dresses sensibly. It's dumb that Frazetta's Beefy McMuscleslab Loinclothman depiction is what stuck with comic book artists. You can be a melancholic wise warrior king even when you still look like a perfectly chisled bronze god. Hell, he's described as beefy as hell all the time so frazetta isn't wrong.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:31
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Motto posted:it's weird to see people complaining about JRPGs not having dubs. I get it, but it's like I've fallen into a mirror world. Yeah, I'd rather nothing than a really half assed dub, but there have been some really good ones recently that have made me hope for English dubs with new releases
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Feb 3, 2016 00:33
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Lemon Curdistan posted:They're great. Howard's Conan is intelligent, speaks a dozen dead languages, successfully leads armies and dresses sensibly. It's dumb that Frazetta's Beefy McMuscleslab Loinclothman depiction is what stuck with comic book artists.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TsCS9LF2c I want to somehow give these weird creatures a hug 
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Feb 3, 2016 00:35
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I don't mind Conan being portrayed as a Big McLargehuge muscle man cause the dude's pretty gnarly, but I regret most people play/write barbarians as idiots while Conan himself is pretty on the level.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:35
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Knorth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TsCS9LF2c i'm not sure they'd appreciate a hug
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Feb 3, 2016 00:36
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It's the wisdom you get by fighting as a mercenary/working as a thief for decades
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Feb 3, 2016 00:37
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Erg posted:Yeah, I'd rather nothing than a really half assed dub, but there have been some really good ones recently that have made me hope for English dubs with new releases same, though for some reason I'm easy to please when it comes to game dubs.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:38
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Best ship of 2015.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:43
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Droyer posted:i'm not sure they'd appreciate a hug I bet they'd love it! I mean, I bet they'd just be stoked that I wasn't actively trying to eat them at the time but I think I'll practise on this thing first 
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Feb 3, 2016 00:44
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Bad Seafood posted:That will be enough posting about Sex Criminals. fine them im gonna post about southern bastards a book about small southern towns and football and crime and being hung up on the only glory you ever had a chance at
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Feb 3, 2016 00:45
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southern bastards is a book about small southern towns and football and crime and being hung up on the only glory you ever had a chance at
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Feb 3, 2016 00:45
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Davincie posted:several runs are just straight adaptions of the books with the smart rogueish conan though Which runs are they? I want to read them. Bad Seafood posted:I don't mind Conan being portrayed as a Big McLargehuge muscle man cause the dude's pretty gnarly, but I regret most people play/write barbarians as idiots while Conan himself is pretty on the level. Yeah, it's not the beefiness that annoys me so much as the Conan = barbarian = loincloth-wearing idiot thing. Conan spends his time getting out of situations through a combination of wits, agility and chopping people with a sword. I don't know if I'd compare Howard to old-timey epics but I do agree his writing has weight to it, especially compared to Lovecraft, who's just not a good writer (in addition to all the racism). I was really surprised when I read both Howard and Heinlein around the same time - I went into them expecting really dry writing and it turns out their writing actually flows really well, even today.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:45
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Bad Seafood posted:I don't mind Conan being portrayed as a Big McLargehuge muscle man cause the dude's pretty gnarly, but I regret most people play/write barbarians as idiots while Conan himself is pretty on the level. have you ever read the dark horse run by uhhhh i wanna say busiek? the one that was like half straight adaptations of howard's stories and really got that conan is smart as hell plus the second page of the comic is conan cutting a rapist in half so that's cool, and the rogues in the house adaptation owned hard
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Feb 3, 2016 00:46
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Which runs are they? I want to read them. lovecraft is overrated but he's not a bad writer per se. his dream quest stuff was good
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Feb 3, 2016 00:47
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That tale of the town where cats ate a bunch of people who msitreated kitties and everyone in town now treated cats well
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Feb 3, 2016 00:48
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Literally The Worst posted:southern bastards is a book about small southern towns and football and crime and being hung up on the only glory you ever had a chance at Literally The Worst posted:have you ever read the dark horse run by uhhhh i wanna say busiek? the one that was like half straight adaptations of howard's stories and really got that conan is smart as hell Where does the Conan movie with Arnie fit into all this? I haven't seen it and don't know much about it.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:48
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Bad Seafood posted:I don't mind Conan being portrayed as a Big McLargehuge muscle man cause the dude's pretty gnarly, but I regret most people play/write barbarians as idiots while Conan himself is pretty on the level. i remember when KCB wanted to join a d&d game one of her friends was running but the dm refused to let her be a barbarian who was looking for knowledge and had the ability to read because "that's not what barbarians are! they aren't smart, you can't be a smart barbarian, it doesn't make sense!!!" lmao
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Feb 3, 2016 00:49
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:lovecraft is overrated but he's not a bad writer per se. his dream quest stuff was good i like the ideas lovecraht had, but i think he wasn't very good at executing them
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Feb 3, 2016 00:49
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:That tale of the town where cats ate a bunch of people who msitreated kitties and everyone in town now treated cats well
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Feb 3, 2016 00:49
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FirstAidKite posted:i remember when KCB wanted to join a d&d game one of her friends was running but the dm refused to let her be a barbarian who was looking for knowledge and had the ability to read because "that's not what barbarians are! they aren't smart, you can't be a smart barbarian, it doesn't make sense!!!" lmao That's so lame.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:50
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 I can't remember but did Busiek just straight up use Howard's prose for narration?
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Feb 3, 2016 00:50
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Lemon Curdistan posted:I don't know if I'd compare Howard to old-timey epics but I do agree his writing has weight to it, especially compared to Lovecraft, who's just not a good writer (in addition to all the racism). I was really surprised when I read both Howard and Heinlein around the same time - I went into them expecting really dry writing and it turns out their writing actually flows really well, even today. I've never read anything by Lovecraft.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:50
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Bad Seafood posted:Where does the Conan movie with Arnie fit into all this? I haven't seen it and don't know much about it. it's a kull story actually lol
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Feb 3, 2016 00:50
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Droyer posted:i like the ideas lovecraht had, but i think he wasn't very good at executing them Just like Kinoko Nasu
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Feb 3, 2016 00:51
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Nitro+ Heroines is a dumb idea to begin with but for whatever reason Ruili seems a particularly dumb character to include.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:52
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FirstAidKite posted:i remember when KCB wanted to join a d&d game one of her friends was running but the dm refused to let her be a barbarian who was looking for knowledge and had the ability to read because "that's not what barbarians are! they aren't smart, you can't be a smart barbarian, it doesn't make sense!!!" lmao I have a document full of weird/novel character ideas I'd like to try someday. Gonna stick the savvy barbarian in there for future reference along with the kung fu wizard and the possessed sword.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:52
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Bad Seafood posted:Every small town sports movie ever, plus or minus the crime aspect. nah this is explicitly "poo poo is hosed up and toxic and sad" which is usually not part of the small town sports movie the first arc is v much Walking Tall: The Comic but then the apparent protagonist is beaten to death with his own club by the local football coach slash crime boss and suddenly the coach becomes the focus of the book it's super good, the second arc is fantastic
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Feb 3, 2016 00:52
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Just like Kinoko Nasu
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Feb 3, 2016 00:53
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Parallax posted:
for the ones that are straight adaptations yes
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Feb 3, 2016 00:53
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yah iirc it was the dark horse run that just straight up adapted the prose, often it just quoted and illustrated the stories. years ago i downloaded a collection that curated only the straight up adaptions, but i have no idea where i found it
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Feb 3, 2016 00:53
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:That's so lame. it really was, cause apparently the version they were playing even had rules for handling barbarians that try to take literacy and stuff but the dm (a guy who insisted on being called "The Darkness") was all "no way barbarians are dumb it doesn't fit in my campaign for barbarians to ever want to be smart, it makes absolutely no sense for a barbarian to ever decide to seek knowledge"
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Feb 3, 2016 00:53
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Play Exalted instead
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Feb 3, 2016 00:53
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Bad Seafood posted:
the commentary rules, so far my opinion on the movie. arnie is a very funny guy
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Feb 3, 2016 00:54
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Bad Seafood posted:I haven't, but it sounds like I should. its this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(Dark_Horse_Comics)#Conan
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Feb 3, 2016 00:54
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Bad Seafood posted:That's dumb. 
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Feb 3, 2016 00:54
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Davincie posted:yah iirc it was the dark horse run that just straight up adapted the prose, often it just quoted and illustrated the stories. years ago i downloaded a collection that curated only the straight up adaptions, but i have no idea where i found it that whole run is super good and worth readin tho and its only 50 issues that's like, a couple days of reading tops
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Feb 3, 2016 00:55
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Literally The Worst posted:nah this is explicitly "poo poo is hosed up and toxic and sad" which is usually not part of the small town sports movie
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Feb 3, 2016 00:55
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Bad Seafood posted:I figured it wasn't exactly the same, it's just a vein I've seen running through a lot of those movies like Friday Night Lights. yeah that's kinda the thing that it's playing off of, that most stories about that sort of thing are glorifying it and feel good bullshit and then this comes along and goes "uh actually no it sucks a lot and is bad for you" and is a good story to boot. check out the first two trades (they're all that's out so far i think? i know #13 just dropped but idk if that's in trade 3 or 4)
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Feb 3, 2016 00:56
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