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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Illusionist on Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:06 pm

You know what's kind of weird about The Hobbit? The Necromancer Gandalf mentions doesn't seem to have a name. In a world so richly designed, it seems odd that one guy only has a title.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Nightranger on Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:41 pm

What brought that up? Anyway, I think it was revealed in one of the books that the Necromancer was actually Sauron attempting to return to power, before he returned to Mordor and incarnated into the eye form.
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MARTIN: What's wrong with it?
CARTER: "The singularity is about to explode?"
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CARTER: Everything about that statement is wrong.
DANIEL: How exactly is having weapons at maximum going to help the situation?
MARTIN: The audience isn't going to know the difference. They love: "weapons at maximum."
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TEAL’C: I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby BtEtta on Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:39 pm

Yeah, its covered in The Lord of the Rings' Appendix B (2941, Third Age.) Probably elsewhere in that book or its appendices too.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby mdm on Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:51 pm

Gandalf also mentions it at Elrond's council, as I recall.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby BtEtta on Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:20 pm

Yup.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Illusionist on Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:39 am

Nightranger wrote:What brought that up? Anyway, I think it was revealed in one of the books that the Necromancer was actually Sauron attempting to return to power, before he returned to Mordor and incarnated into the eye form.


A post that bumps a long-dead thread is called a necro-post.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Aeg'air on Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:45 am

Illusionist wrote:
Nightranger wrote:What brought that up? Anyway, I think it was revealed in one of the books that the Necromancer was actually Sauron attempting to return to power, before he returned to Mordor and incarnated into the eye form.


A post that bumps a long-dead thread is called a necro-post.


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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby mandros on Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:55 pm

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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Alkonium on Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:21 pm

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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Nightranger on Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:28 pm

Simply brilliant.
MARTIN: What?
DANIEL: Okay. One, that's Star Trek; and two, it's ridiculous.
MARTIN: What's wrong with it?
CARTER: "The singularity is about to explode?"
MARTIN: Yes.
CARTER: Everything about that statement is wrong.
DANIEL: How exactly is having weapons at maximum going to help the situation?
MARTIN: The audience isn't going to know the difference. They love: "weapons at maximum."
MITCHELL: Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment.
TEAL’C: I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.
MARTIN: Look, you guys may all know how things really work out there in the galaxy, but I know the film business. Explosions make great trailers. Simple fact. More explosions, better trailer. Better trailer, more viewers.

I have discovered that Death Note + Lucky Star = awsome.
Here's more proof.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby TeaMug on Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:35 pm

Yup.


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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Darekun on Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:47 pm

TeaMug wrote:http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo134/tea_mug/3D_1.png

Hee, I've always preferred those to the "trans-infinity" style, and that's a good "cutout style" one :J

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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby TeaMug on Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:17 am

It's a tiny little stereogram of the 'let your eyes drift apart' (parallel?) style.
Here's the depthmap.
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby mixedintrests on Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:10 pm

TeaMug wrote:It's a tiny little stereogram of the 'let your eyes drift apart' (parallel?) style.
Here's the depthmap.
mug_depthmap_125.png


I can usually see these things... but on this one I can't. Maybe it's harder on the computer screen? I'm used to looking at them in books.

And thanks for the e-hug! Totally approprate! :D
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby Tenebrais on Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:26 am

mixedintrests wrote:
TeaMug wrote:It's a tiny little stereogram of the 'let your eyes drift apart' (parallel?) style.
Here's the depthmap.
mug_depthmap_125.png


I can usually see these things... but on this one I can't. Maybe it's harder on the computer screen? I'm used to looking at them in books.

And thanks for the e-hug! Totally approprate! :D



I think it's just too small. Can't get the repeating pattern to match up, because my eyes go right over it whenever I relax them...
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby TheAuldGrump on Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:59 pm

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I showed this comic to some of my players, telling them that it seemed familiar, but I just couldn't place it.... They laughed. :P (I have a tendency to go into exposition mode.....)

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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby yreomyr on Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:35 am

CLEAR!

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I considered cutting it down to panels 2-4 but then I remembered that I'm really lazy and just went with the whole comic.

Yea, sorry for the thread necromancy, but, really, where else am I to put this.

Besides, as the old, gentle saying goes "IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO POST IN AN EXISTING THREAD THAN TO CREATE A NEW ONE" *cough*
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Re: EGS Motivational Posters

Postby theopenandclosedbook on Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:03 am

And shame on all of yous for letting it die.
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