dc20willsave

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  1. Story was alright thought I am kinda bummed that

    Dick is Batman rather than Tim

    . I mean, it does make sense because when Bruce comes back ,(Hopefully no one is under the illusion that this is the new status quo and not just a momentary change to soon be changed back to normal)

    Dick will go back to being Nightwing, which makes sense as opposed to Tim going back to being Robin would be like Wally West becoming Kid Flash again.

    Frankly, that was the only thing keeping me from getting all too excited about the brand new Batman. No matter who get the mantle, they were little more than a placeholder for the Once and Future Bat.

  2. And to be fair, I doubt it will go the Anastasia route of rewriting history so that tolerance is wide-spread and the south is a land of awesome for minorities at this time period. You can get away with it with imperialist Russia, not so much with your own culture.

  3. As much as I love Pixar, they ruined animation for me. Traditional animation has so much more charm than a pixil in my eyes so I will be giving this movie a try. If worst comes to worst, it still has to be better than Atlantis.

  4. Can't remember for the life of me where to get the Flash HM. I may already have it. I must check when I get home!

    Thanks. I couldn't remember if it was a skill or an item or what that lit up caves.

    It's in route 2, I think the house that has the kid who will trade you for Mr. Mime. You just have to have caught like 10 pokemon. It's useless so put it on a pokemon you'll just use for the cave.

  5. I just finished the first season of Futurama. It started out a little slow for me, then picked up in the middle, and sort of dropped off near the end. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I didn't laugh as much as I had hoped to.

    Next I'll be giving Weeds a try. Having seen the first episode, so far I'm impressed.

    It gets better after the first season. It's like the first season of The Simpsons, utterly forgettable. Outside of "Fry and the Slurm Factory", I can barely remember any of the Season 1. Now, seasons 2-4, I can quote like mad. I got the Bureaucrat song stuck in my head now. Damnit!

  6. They don't crossover until the last episode of the first season of Torchwood. The cliffhanger ties directly into the last three episodes of Doctor Who Season 3. So watch "End of Days" (Torchwood), then "Utopia," "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords" (Doctor Who).

    I'm going to merge this with the all-purpose Doctor Who thread.

    Likewise, watch The Sarah Jane Adventures Season 1 and Torchwood Season 2 before getting to the last three episodes of Series 4.

  7. So, debating if this is major enough to go in the big stuff but I figure it's small over all but here goes. I'm taking a short fiction writing class and part of it is we have to workshop each others stories that we write. One of the stories that I had to read for tomorrow read like if Left Behind, Twilight, and the Sweet Valley High series has a baby which was then butchered with a chopping knife, tossed in a blender, and than served straight out Pauly Shore's mouth. It read like a third grade book report and the main character committed murder suicide for no reason at the end. Fry's story that he traps the Big Brain in in Futurama seemed more intelligent. This isn't even counting that the writer couldn't decide on tense, point of view, and a murder/suicide at the end for no reason. I have a headache and kinda want to look the kid in the eye and ask, "Have you thought of going into business?"

    As a writer/editor (both an editorial reader and a copy editor), one of my "minor annoyances" is when people pick on writing in text, but don't render their complaint in a clean, professional way, making themselves look petty/hypocritical and making me feel embarrassed for them.

    So, I'm debating if this is major enough to go with the big stuff, but I figure it's small overall, so here goes: I'm taking a fiction writing class and part of it includes workshopping each other's stories. One of the stories that I've had to read for tomorrow read as if Left Behind, Twilight, and the Sweet Valley High series had a baby, which was then butchered, tossed into a blender, and then served to someone straight out of Pauly Shore's mouth. It read like a third grade book report, and the main character committed murder, then suicide, at the end for no reason. The story Fry writes in which to trap the Big Brain in an episode of Futurama seemed more intelligent. This isn't even counting that the writer couldn't decide on tense, point of view, and had a murder/suicide at the end, for no reason. I have a headache and kind of want to look the kid in the eye and ask, "Have you considered going into business?"

    That said: A MAJOR annoyance of mine (but it'll stay here because, well, it fits) is that EVERYONE thinks they are a writer. EV. ER. Y. ONE. dc20, I do not envy your being in that class. You are in my thoughts.

    Sorry about that. I take fault for it. I'm normally a bit of a grammar nerd as well though I was so irate last night that I decided to ignore it in favor of putting my thoughts out before I decided to write a nasty e-mail to the writer of the story. That all said, I skipped the class today so I wouldn't say something too mean to the kid. I'm sure other people were able to give him more constructive feedback.

  8. So, debating if this is major enough to go in the big stuff but I figure it's small over all but here goes. I'm taking a short fiction writing class and part of it is we have to workshop each others stories that we write. One of the stories that I had to read for tomorrow read like if Left Behind, Twilight, and the Sweet Valley High series has a baby which was then butchered with a chopping knife, tossed in a blender, and than served straight out Pauly Shore's mouth. It read like a third grade book report and the main character committed murder suicide for no reason at the end. Fry's story that he traps the Big Brain in in Futurama seemed more intelligent. This isn't even counting that the writer couldn't decide on tense, point of view, and a murder/suicide at the end for no reason. I have a headache and kinda want to look the kid in the eye and ask, "Have you thought of going into business?"

  9. Yeah, I've got to be honest, this as an all round weak week for thatguywiththeglasses.com

    I didn't enjoy anything I saw.

    Which is sad since, you know, one year and all. Aniversery's aren't supposed to be this disappointing.

  10. You live in the US.

    You haven't seen UK Doctor Who fans. Asexuality is a better option than constantly getting turned down.

    Oh, and as a UK Doctor Who fan, who knows other UK Doctor Who fans, I'm talking about those other Doctor Who fans. The sad ones. Not the cool ones reading this.

    I guess that's the advantage of growing up with it being the weird show on PBS that came on before Ghostwriter on Sundays. It wasn't part of my national tradition or anything like that. It was just the show with guy with the awesome scarf and the scary robots (Daleks scared me as a kid).

  11. So, I was going to transfer my Xbox live id to another XBox but then I realize I forgot the password. I go to the compy to recover it and, turns out, the Windows Live ID has expired, can't be recovered, and my Tag is therefore stuck on my roomy's hard drive. I can either keep using his hard drive or I can start a new ID and then have to start over with my points, not that I have that many but now I have to start over on everything.

  12. See, I wouldn't have been ranting if she didn't do this EVERY OTHER NIGHT, and then she bitches when I ask her to turn it down.

    She's got it coming to her. :P

    I feel your pain. My upstairs neighbors are, quite possibly, running a brothel. I don't know but most nights we have to complain about the rhythmic banging on the ceiling above us.

  13. Dear Idiot Bitch Next Door Neighbor:

    YOUR BASS LINE SHOULD NOT BE SO LOUD THAT IT IS CAUSING A HEADACHE AND/OR THINGS IN MY ROOM TO VIBRATE.

    Just for you, I'm putting Caramelldansen on loop on my iHome alarm clock right as I leave for class at 8:30 and aiming it straight at your fucking wall. :D

    Fuck you,

    ~Me.

    Wow, that's mean. I'm nominating you for a People's Choice Award!