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I used to write what I now understand is Isekai fiction in my youth. I imagine a lot of us did. I wish I had kept doing it, I could be really taking advantage of this genre bubble by now. Maybe I can find some old copies and resell them. Anyone want to read a 13 year-old's adventure being stuck in Norrath?
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Jan 24, 2024 23:02
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pitch Reverse Isekai where a video game character dies and wakes up in real life. Gleefully kills a bunch of people and then is shocked to find out that they don't respawn. Kills self from intense guilt and respawns, again and again and again. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 02:19 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Jan 24, 2024 23:13
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I want a movie about the guy who is constantly mowing down all these protagonists who don't look both ways, and how much he loves his van
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Jan 25, 2024 01:26
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Reverse Isekai where a universally popular and well-loved millionaire philanthropist brain surgeon and part-time professional model keeps on waking up in the bodies of schlubby losers and lives the beginning of the day that they have when they fall into a portal/get hit by a bus/whatever Isekais them in the first instance. Just a never ending sampling platter of waking up to the horror of being a multitude of lovely dudes and knowing all of the personal failings that got them there, and then getting yeeted to the next lovely dude right before things turn around.
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Jan 25, 2024 01:30
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Breetai posted:Reverse Isekai where a universally popular and well-loved millionaire philanthropist brain surgeon and part-time professional model keeps on waking up in the bodies of schlubby losers and lives the beginning of the day that they have when they fall into a portal/get hit by a bus/whatever Isekais them in the first instance. Just a never ending sampling platter of waking up to the horror of being a multitude of lovely dudes and knowing all of the personal failings that got them there, and then getting yeeted to the next lovely dude right before things turn around. quantum leap reboot looking good
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Jan 25, 2024 01:38
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Lottery of Babylon posted:quantum leap reboot looking good Quantum Weeb.
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Jan 25, 2024 01:39
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Some of the newer ones are loving hilarious, like I'm in love with the Villainess, but it seems like more and more are going the "yea, I own slaves, but it's ok because I love them and treat them well and they love me and I am a nice owner!" route and maybe it's the white southern guy part of me but holy poo poo that's Yeah, the slavery thing going on right now is extremely  "Reincarnated as a bakery knight to buy child slaves and raise them to be my wives but they really love me" kind of poo poo.
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Push El Burrito posted:Quantum Weeb. Lol
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CJacobs posted:I want a movie about the guy who is constantly mowing down all these protagonists who don't look both ways, and how much he loves his van Stephen King breaking into the anime scene.
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Jan 25, 2024 03:37
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CJacobs posted:I want a movie about the guy who is constantly mowing down all these protagonists who don't look both ways, and how much he loves his van I think there's at least one manga about a guy like that so your chances are good.
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Bussamove posted:Stephen King breaking into the anime scene. The Pokemon 25th anniversary video iirc had anime Stand By Me right at the start
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The Hollywood Theater here in Portland had a screening tonight of Blade in 35mm. Naturally I thought of this thread. Couple IIMM's: -Frost kills Dragonetti and captures the rest of the council, which is implied that there are 12 of them. Mercury then stabs & kills one of them before the Blood God ceremony but the event still goes through. I thought they needed 12 members? -At the climax of the Blood God ceremony lightning comes crashing down through the temple, passing through the complete sarcophagus that drained Blade's blood... even though just earlier Karen freed Blade from said contraption by pusing the halves apart. -An ambulance is leaving the hospital with its sirens on and with a patient inside. Where is it going? 
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Jan 25, 2024 07:08
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 brad pitt getting isekai'd back and forth forever
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Cowslips Warren posted:My mom is watching Northern Exposure (which for some reason I thought was Twin Peaks and man was that a confusing few days) and dear loving 90's the 60-something year old in a relationship with the 20ish year old, what loving hell is this poo poo. Every scene they are in together looks so insanely wrong. I did see part of an episode where the girl is upset her dude is having a conversation with a lady about his age, and they talk for hours. Compared to him and her, who don't have anything in common to talk about. But they DO like each other so there's that! My wife and I are watching this right now on Prime and episode five of the first season has a scene that straight parodies Twin Peaks, which is the episode after your IIMM couple gets married.
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Jan 25, 2024 08:45
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I have never seen either but I always thought Northern Exposure was sort of a spiritual successor to Twin Peaks?
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Android Apocalypse posted:The Hollywood Theater here in Portland had a screening tonight of Blade in 35mm. Naturally I thought of this thread. Couple IIMM's: The answer to that, as with so many things in Blade, is "they ran out of money and couldn't shoot either the original ending or many scenes for the replacement".
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Jan 25, 2024 09:22
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Android Apocalypse posted:-At the climax of the Blood God ceremony lightning comes crashing down through the temple, passing through the complete sarcophagus that drained Blade's blood... even though just earlier Karen freed Blade from said contraption by pusing the halves apart. This was the other sarcophagus, just upstairs from the one Blade was trapped in.
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Jan 25, 2024 11:43
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Jedit posted:The answer to that, as with so many things in Blade, is "they ran out of money and couldn't shoot either the original ending or many scenes for the replacement". Pretty sure that this isn't true, at least with regards to the original ending. They had the Deacon Frost blood tornado in rough draft CGI form and it tested like absolute garbage. Test audiences hated it. So they got more money to shoot the current ending, which they probably didn't have much time to do. The "killing members of the council" thing is probably just them going "eh, who cares"
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Jan 25, 2024 12:59
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Councils are well-known for having only a specific number of members and if a member dies that number permanently goes down by one.
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FFT posted:Councils are well-known for having only a specific number of members and if a member dies that number permanently goes down by one. Fun fact!: Councils are where highland got it's there can only be one rule. If you are ever part of a new council that forms make sure you are the last one to survive and you will gain all their powers! The only downside is they will all be council member powers which all sort of suck.
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So, councils are tontines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldtGYBODrc&t=159s
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dr_rat posted:Fun fact!: Councils are where highland got it's there can only be one rule. If you are ever part of a new council that forms make sure you are the last one to survive and you will gain all their powers! quote:The only downside is they will all be council member powers which all sort of suck.
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Jan 25, 2024 18:27
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In blade, I was always curious about how vampires were born. Do they need to drink blood as soon as they're born? Do they stop aging at some point? Because the council members looked pretty old but I thought vampires were also immortal by age? I demand logistical answers in my vampires spared the sun by sunscreen movie.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:37
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Cowslips Warren posted:In blade, I was always curious about how vampires were born. Do they need to drink blood as soon as they're born? Do they stop aging at some point? Because the council members looked pretty old but I thought vampires were also immortal by age? In the movie Whistler says vampires age slower. Also it's implied vampires can reproduce like regular humans and have pureborn vampire offspring. Frost & his crew were turned. At least they didn't end up like Dr. Webb.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:44
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Has there ever been a vampire movie where the vamps ate the crew/schoolbus/bunker full of people and they’re all just very fat? Then the hero turns up? So it’s just a load of really out of breath vamps who can’t fly or run very far?
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Jan 25, 2024 22:58
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Has there ever been a vampire movie where the vamps ate the crew/schoolbus/bunker full of people and they’re all just very fat? That would be hilarious. The closest I can think would be if there was ever a TV or movie adaptation of Terry Pratchett's discworld novel, reaper man, where it introduced the vampire couple who tried to look like the traditional gothic super pale vampires you always read about, but instead they were both middle-aged and somewhat pudgy and definitely looked more like normal people I think? Either way, they definitely did not fit into the whole opera style dress but gosh darn it! They certainly tried.
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Jan 25, 2024 23:00
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In the Blade comics vampires are all Undead and Blade is just a guy with no special powers, the half-vampire thing only really becomes a thing after the movie. Though he is immune to vampirism due to it in the comics. He is also British but was raised in a jazz club which allows the white American writers to write him like he's from Harlem. This is mostly relevant to the 70s comics (which is the best period for Marvel) I've barely read the 90s stuff. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:09 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Jan 25, 2024 23:07
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Vampires so fat they can’t even bend to bite necks so they just use straws,don’t mind me just getting a script ready…..
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Vampires so fat they can’t even bend to bite necks so they just use straws,don’t mind me just getting a script ready….. That's already a EC comic basically.
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 He's fat because of all the cholesterol in his diet from Americans being fat.
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I can’t remember why exactly Frost is even a person of importance in the vampire council. They seem to hate him and make fun of him for not even being a full vampire so they’re also racist.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Vampires so fat they can’t even bend to bite necks so they just use straws,don’t mind me just getting a script ready….. This is literally a character in Blade
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Cowslips Warren posted:That would be hilarious. The closest I can think would be if there was ever a TV or movie adaptation of Terry Pratchett's discworld novel, reaper man, where it introduced the vampire couple who tried to look like the traditional gothic super pale vampires you always read about, but instead they were both middle-aged and somewhat pudgy and definitely looked more like normal people I think? Either way, they definitely did not fit into the whole opera style dress but gosh darn it! They certainly tried. Pratchett has fun takes on everything, but I especially enjoyed the recurring theme of vampires trying to be good people and pledging not to drink human blood, which is a new development in Discworld society so everyone is weirded out by it. Also the photographer who fucks himself up every time he takes a picture. I also liked the Key and Peele sketch where the coven is all goth and sexy and the new guy goes wtf are you all doing? Those clothes can't be comfortable, sex should be private and stop spilling blood everywhere. No wonder you're all hungry all the time. Goddamn I just wanted to be immortal and see the future and poo poo.
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Taeke posted:Pratchett has fun takes on everything, but I especially enjoyed the recurring theme of vampires trying to be good people and pledging not to drink human blood, which is a new development in Discworld society so everyone is weirded out by it. Also the photographer who fucks himself up every time he takes a picture. The best thing with the photographer is he has a vial of blood around his neck so when he disintegrates himself with a flashbulb he instantly reconstitutes. Otto was fun.
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oldpainless posted:I can’t remember why exactly Frost is even a person of importance in the vampire council. They seem to hate him and make fun of him for not even being a full vampire so they’re also racist. He's not important to the council. They do hate him and, think he's a man child who is threatening to upend their comfortable existence. I have no idea if he even is on the council or if he just sits himself down at the table to piss them off. Naturally this causes them to completely underestimate him and get completely blindsided when he kills the council head and pulls a coup.
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Deacon Frost being an upstart half-blood or whatever is literally his entire character arc, new blood wins over old and Blade just reestablishes the status quo with a lot of collateral damage. It's a Marvel movie.
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null_pointer posted:He's not important to the council. They do hate him and, think he's a man child who is threatening to upend their comfortable existence. I have no idea if he even is on the council or if he just sits himself down at the table to piss them off. Frost isn't officially on the council as far as we know, but he's accumulated a lot of power in a very short time and the Families are evidently in no position to shut him out. But they clearly see him as the upstart representative of the turned vampires on the council and from their POV they're letting him sit at the table because it's better to have him on the inside of the tent pissing out and from a vain hope that he might learn to respect their "wisdom". Meanwhile he's translating manuscripts that they think can't even be read any more and figuring out ways to overcome their weaknesses. It's also not implied that vampires can be born, Udo Kier says it outright to Frost: "I was born as I am - a vampire. You were merely turned."
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Cowslips Warren posted:That would be hilarious. The closest I can think would be if there was ever a TV or movie adaptation of Terry Pratchett's discworld novel, reaper man, where it introduced the vampire couple who tried to look like the traditional gothic super pale vampires you always read about, but instead they were both middle-aged and somewhat pudgy and definitely looked more like normal people I think? Either way, they definitely did not fit into the whole opera style dress but gosh darn it! They certainly tried. The Southern Vampire Mysteries books that True Blood were based on are like this. You look like you did when you're turned, so there's fat, middle aged vampires. Also, there's very few well off fancy vampires in the books - most are pretty schlubby blue collar, working poo poo jobs and driving crap cars. They're a fun read.
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Jedit posted:It's also not implied that vampires can be born, Udo Kier says it outright to Frost: "I was born as I am - a vampire. You were merely turned." God, Udo Kier is such a great weird actor. One thing I miss in the last 20 years or so, are the weird actors, Everyone's just pretty. It's boring. Crowetron posted:This is literally a character in Blade The Librarian, Pearl. 
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