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Books / Re: Wheel of Time
« on: May 22, 2003, 10:33:33 AM »
What is it about Anthony, anyway?  You're dead on.  Teenagers--and I was one of them--love him.  I can think back to most of my teenage infatuations (even most TSR books) with fondness, but I think of him and just cringe.  

Perhaps Anthony was a bad example.  The point of the referance, however, was to note that few series can keep momentum through that many books.  Some very fine authors write some fairly bad books when they're forced to reuse the same ideas over and over.

As for Melville, I have only one question.  Have you read Billy Budd?  It's far superior to Moby Dick.  (Though, to be honest, I like Moby Dick too.)

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Books / Re: Wheel of Time
« on: May 22, 2003, 01:38:42 AM »
Let me put in a small defense for our esteemed colleague Mr. Rigney, also known as Robert Jordan.  Despite criticisms, many of which are valid, he has done several important things.

1)  He consistently gets on the best seller lists.  This helps fantasy in general sell better.

2) He may not be extremely original, but he provides crossover appeal.  I know several people who are not fantasy authors, but who enjoy Robert Jordan.  By maintaining such a high profile, he again helps fantasy by giving new people experience with he genre.

3) He put in his time.  He may have had inside help, but he spent years writing those Conan books before he finally was able to put out his own series.  The Eye of the World was not published in hardback originally (as I remember.)  It received only moderate publicity.  It succeeded on the merits of its story.  

Now, he may have exploited this success a little too far, but is there really any reason to pick him out as opposed to other authors, such as Anne McCaffery and Piers Anthony, who have done the exact same thing?

ps.  Lay off Mellville, you philistine.   ;)

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Everything Else / Re: Word Sense
« on: May 22, 2003, 01:24:36 AM »
Chicken!  

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Suggestions Box / Re: Forum RPG Mod
« on: May 22, 2003, 01:22:06 AM »
You know, now that school's out, I suppose I could tweak the forum side some more.  What would you guys like to see changed?

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Suggestions Box / Re: Reviews with pictures
« on: May 22, 2003, 01:20:00 AM »
Be nice, Sprig.

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Suggestions Box / Re: Problems accessing my own profile
« on: March 21, 2003, 08:10:43 AM »
Uh, sorry about that...I didn't update your profile way back when.  (Whoops.)  Guess it doesn't matter now.

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Everything Else / Re: I pity TWG!!
« on: March 21, 2003, 06:34:36 AM »
Ha.  One of my ex-roomates once had to do a 'revisualization' of a Shakespeare passage for a class.  He ran Romeo and Juliet through a Sweedish Chefilizer and turned it in--and got an A.

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Everything Else / Poll
« on: January 02, 2003, 01:23:30 AM »
You know, an inordinant number of those poll answers seem to relate to me in one way or another...

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Movies and TV / Re: Treasure Planet
« on: December 07, 2002, 10:18:04 PM »
I saw the movie, and generally agree with what has been said.  I can't see why movies like this one keep doing poorly.  Oh well.

Anyway, Disney has had some blockbusters lately--they've all just been Pixar co-releases.  Lilo and Stitch also made an okay ammount of money.  

However, I think Sprig has hit on something.  Disney keeps trying for a new market--which is good.  However, it probably shouldn't have been so quick to abandon its 'Princess saves the world' formula.  Those movies were all very popular.  The Lion King made them think they could branch out more, but the fans (IE, the mothers) just haven't gone along with them.  

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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: December 07, 2002, 10:14:12 PM »
I keep trying to be excited too, but I'm more worried.  The sources I've read say that this is probably the last Star Trek movie in a long while.  I suppose that's probably a good thing, since we--it's target audience--are so unexcited.  However, the movies have kind of been a staple.  They just aren't earning cash, though.  Let's hear it for the market system....

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Everything Else / Re: Mr. P's Signature Contest
« on: December 07, 2002, 10:10:44 PM »
Oh, let's see.  That "Wizards are never late" quote from the Lord of The Rings is a great one.  Every time Sir Ian says that one, it makes me crack up.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Sea of Insanity
« on: November 21, 2002, 01:15:07 AM »
So, I'm going to do a review of this one.  The artist emailed me, and I liked the comic well enough to read through it.  What do you guys think of it?

http://fractuslux.keenspace.com

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: New daily webcomic!
« on: November 21, 2002, 01:13:01 AM »
I've still got a copy--I just need to redesign the webcomic site so there's a place to post them.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: New Game Beta test
« on: November 16, 2002, 09:09:28 PM »
Uh, I don't get anything at all when I click on the link.  Have you taken down the game?

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CCGs / Re: Onslaught
« on: November 16, 2002, 07:58:45 PM »
Ha.  If we do get them, it wouldn't come from the site.  We're trying to trade in some of the books we got in our World Fantasy gift totes.  A lot of them are lame, and we're hopign to be able to get some bookstore to give us credit for them.

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