Darth Chaltab

A Day in the Life of Larry Liberal

Larry gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He got the coffee at a reasonable price because of free market competition.

He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. The medications were developed by a pharmaceuticals company, the root of all evil.

Larry dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. He waves hello to his black neighbors,who he doesn't own as slaves because a Republican president freed them during the Civil War.

Larry drives to work in one of the safest countries in the world because some facist conservative fought to maintain a strong police force and military.

Larry has a good job and makes an acceptable living wage because his conservative parents encouraged him to pursue his education and make it on his own isntead of trusting in the government to make up for his shortcomings.

He visits his father, who lives in a nice house in the country, which he worked hard in a free market, capitalist system to afford, and which his father can continue to own because the Republicans have kept property taxes in the area low.

Larry is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives off an individual retirement account, an investment he made so that he would not be sucking on the drying nipple of Social Security in his senior years.

He turns on Air America and finds nothing but static; they're bankrupt ecause nobody wants to listen to a bunch of whiny liberals. Instead he turns on Keith Olberman and listens to the anchor

Larry agrees, "Yeah, Bush lied, people died! And that bastard wants to stop women from getting abortions too!"

I thought it was decent. Normally I wouldn't say this, but I thought he should have let Obama speak a bit more. Obama's policies are self-evidently wrong headed; O'reilly didn't need to frame the discussion so much.

Batman Forever and Batman and Robin were probably the worst sequels I can think of.

RIP, movie trailer voice guy.

m not exactly a comic book history buff, but I can give you a basic overview.

The Golden Age is what they call the years between 1938 (when Superman first appeared) and the late 1940s or early 50s. Stories in that era carry a lot of morally questionable content (Superman smashes up slums to get the land lord to build better homes; Batman shoots people dead with guns) and wartime propaganda. (This is where we get classics like "Superman Says You Can Slap a Jap!") Other than Superman, most heroes were powered by magic.

The Silver Age is from the mid 1950s to the 1970s; it's characterized by science fiction stories and bright optimism. Even Batman was out doing crazy things all the time. It relaunched the Green Lantern and Flash into the form we know them as today, and also saw the birth of Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and the frozen-in-ice rebirth of Captain America. Marvel first started making superheroes unique and reasonably realistic people in the middle of the silver age, an approach that DC quickly emulated. Unfortunately it was also the era of the Comics Code Authority, which had a ridiculous amount of regulations to comic content. Jack Thompson would salivate at the prospect of putting something similar on video game content.

The Bronze Age began in the 1970s and is sort of a neo-golden age with better art. A lot of the innovations of the Silver Age remain, but the stories got a lot more serious, especially Batman. He stopped going in to space and Robin showed up a lot less. Batman: The Animated Series is a great example of Bronze-Age storytelling. The art was also more realistic then, because guys like Jim Aparo and George Perez were at the height of their careers.

The "Modern Age" began in 1985 when DC rebooted its continuity with 'Crisis On Infinte Earths', which was basically a cosmic retcon that let them start over. In the new world, Superman no longer had powers as a kid, Lex Luthor was a business man, etc. Marvel and DC also got a lot darker, and the Comics Code Authority became basically irrelevant. Also, 1986, DC published what are largely considered two of the masterworks of the medium, Dark Knight Returns and The Watchmen. Modern Age stories also have much cleaner and more realistic coloring thanks to computer image manipulation.

And that's everything, but that's just the gist of it.

As for Earth-1 and Earth-2, Everything before 1955 is set on Earth 2, everything between 1955 and 1985 is set on Earth-1.

I'm not exactly a comic book history buff, but I can give you a basic overview.

The Golden Age is what they call the years between 1938 (when Superman first appeared) and the late 1940s or early 50s. Stories in that era carry a lot of morally questionable content (Superman smashes up slums to get the land lord to build better homes; Batman shoots people dead with guns) and wartime propaganda. (This is where we get classics like "Superman Says You Can Slap a Jap!") Other than Superman, most heroes were powered by magic.

The Silver Age is from the mid 1950s to the 1970s; it's characterized by science fiction stories and bright optimism. Even Batman was out doing crazy things all the time. It relaunched the Green Lantern and Flash into the form we know them as today, and also saw the birth of Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and the frozen-in-ice rebirth of Captain America. Marvel first started making superheroes unique and reasonably realistic people in the middle of the silver age, an approach that DC quickly emulated. Unfortunately it was also the era of the Comics Code Authority, which had a ridiculous amount of regulations to comic content. Jack Thompson would salivate at the prospect of putting something similar on video game content.

The Bronze Age began in the 1970s and is sort of a neo-golden age with better art. A lot of the innovations of the Silver Age remain, but the stories got a lot more serious, especially Batman. He stopped going in to space and Robin showed up a lot less. Batman: The Animated Series is a great example of Bronze-Age storytelling. The art was also more realistic then, because guys like Jim Aparo and George Perez were at the height of their careers.

The "Modern Age" began in 1985 when DC rebooted its continuity with 'Crisis On Infinte Earths', which was basically a cosmic retcon that let them start over. In the new world, Superman no longer had powers as a kid, Lex Luthor was a business man, etc. Marvel and DC also got a lot darker, and the Comics Code Authority became basically irrelevant. Also, 1986, DC published what are largely considered two of the masterworks of the medium, Dark Knight Returns and The Watchmen. Modern Age stories also have much cleaner and more realistic coloring thanks to computer image manipulation.

And that's everything, but that's just the gist of it.

Twilight Princess was announced the year after Wind Waker came out... It's been nearly two years since Twilight Princess came out, and even if they announced it this year it would still be a while before it was out.

I'm surprised they've not announced a new Zelda yet.

It's uncharacteristic of them to go this long without having a known Zelda in the pipeline.

Aw, man, I hate to hear that. :(

Well, there's apparently going to be a DC Universe MMORPG on the PS3.

I guess that means I'll have to get one... eventually.

Mielr said:

I guess not too surprising considering that he campaigned for George McGovern.

Then let us hope Obama's campaign is as sucessful as McGovern's.

Well, I think it's safe to say Dragonball is a victim of Adaption Decay. I'd say the real question would be, does it decay into something worthwhile or is it just rotting the core of what made it fun?

Didn't even see that...

O_O...

Well, I guess it could be worse.

Yeah, it doesn't really hold up to repeated viewings precisely because it's so drawn out. That's why a lot of people like all those out-of-continuity movies; they give you a story that can be rewatched in a few hours without the episodes and episodes of staring and grunting.