You all need to calm down. Jesus Christ.
I saw Star Trek once and it was alright. I was never much of a Star Trek fan, though.
Heroes does not interest me.
ferris209 said:
I know this, if playing a Cop as a character....
You can wreak all kinds of havoc on society and be regarded as a good cop.
You can shoot any car at the gas tank and blow it up, immensely, with a big explosion.
You only have to answer to one supervisor, usually a Captain, but never anyone else....like a Chief or the City Council.
You can actually "Commandeer" vehicles.
Any of the many laws you violated to make one bust will be gratefully ignored in the end, regardless of just how guilty you are. (i.e. The Negotiator)
Your vest, or badge, will save you every time you're fired upon.
The legal system works extremely fast.
Everything can be fixed with a suspension.
There is no such thing as the ACLU.
You're always in the very best physical shape to the point that you can run 3 miles and still fight a bad guy for 20 minutes straight, no matter how much you drink, or how badly you eat. (usually shown eating a hot dog on the street, drinking nothing but whiskey when getting home, and still overcoming that bad guy who worked out everyday of his 20 year sentence)
You ALWAYS have a screwed up personal life. (divorced, alcoholic, estranged kids, etc.)
You're badge can get you in ANYWHERE.
Your gun has a unlimited amount of bullets.
No matter where you work, you're the only non-corrupt cop.
You can beat criminals in a fully video-taped interrogation room and it's no big deal.
Every-time you arrest someone, you read them their Miranda Rights.
You forgot:
You'll always get pulled off the case because it's "too personal" and your chief will make you give up your badge and gun, and that's when you go vigilante and solve the case anyway.
doubleKO said:
An early Happy Birthday for Tyrphanax!
(It's the 13th here).
Here... in the future?
O=
Whatever I said in the last thread like this.
I dunno. I just didn't know it was the same guy until you said. It blew my mind.
Bester said:
I've always been interested in the Mandalorians. Can anyone point me to a good Mandalorian EU story/novel?
Yes.
Jango Fett: Open Seasons is really good, and so is the companion PS2/Gamecube game Bounty Hunter. So are the KotOR comics, some of which feature Mandalorians quite heavily, not to mention the games. There are a couple old issues of the Marvel Star Wars comics from way back (68 and 69) that deal with them, as well, and also the Tales of the Jedi comic from the 90s has a couple issues that deal with them.
There are a few episodes of The Clone Wars cartoon that feature them, but in a way that is pretty different from what one would expect, hopefully it's not a permanent change, but still...
There are also a plethora of novels by Karen Traviss dealing with the Mandalorians that I absolutely hate. I feel like she really ruined them by exploring every little bit of their culture, giving them an actual language (the first almost fully-formed Star Wars language), and generally going against what they always stood for. The whole thing about the Mandalorians is that they were cool because they were mysterious and secretive and we didn't know much about them, like with Boba Fett, she threw all that to the wind and completely described almost every little detail of them, which took away that mystery and intrigue and made them accessible to all the idiots out there who are not deserving.
Plus she made Boba Fett cry in one of her books, which is not cool.
My suggestion is that you first read up on the earlier stuff, to get an idea of how the Mandalorians really are, and then, if you positively must, read Karen Traviss' books. That should show you the differences in how the Mandalorians should be seen, and how she twisted them and made them ugly. My only consolation is that she ragequit writing them after Lucasfilm decided to do the Clone Wars episodes with them and she didn't like the changes, so now her continuity is up for grabs for a better author to tackle.
doubleKO said:
He is the same actor who plays Spock in the last Trek movie
Oh shit he is.
This changes everything.
The one with Adam West.
That's Jellystone. Christ.
Good lists up in here.
George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedburg, Brian Regan, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Louis C.K.... I'm sure there are more that I'm not remembering right now.
It's not hard to make me laugh, though...
I have to disagree with Daniel Tosh, though. That show he has, Tosh.0, is one of the worst piles of tripe to ever insult the airwaves.
hairy_hen said:
The Darths in the movies tend to be abbreviations of words that start with letters 'I N'. InVader, InSidious. So--to fit with the ridiculous notion that 'Darth' was ever meant to be a title, there should really be a character called Darth Ane.
You forgot both InMaul, and InTyranus.
Yousa point is well seein.
twooffour said:
While we're at it, OWN DONT RECOGNIZE CRPS!!!!
POTY
Never seen Dallas, Frink?
RedFive said:
What is a Tyrphanax?
Something I made up a few years ago because I was tired of using derivative names online and wanted something original.
I poured over a lot of old name lists and combined a bunch and came up with Phanax. Then I added a Tyr at the last moment because tyrannosaurs are badass. Plus it makes everyone shorten my name to that of the Norse God, which is cool by me.
Everyone tells me it sounds like a nasal spray. Assholes.
And Bingo said, "Let there be Bauhaus." And there was Bauhaus. And Bingo saw the Bauhaus, and it was good. And Frink separated the Bauhaus from the thread's original purpose.
TV's Frink said:
Tyrphanax said:
TV's Frink said:
Tyrphanax said:
TV's Frink said:
Tyrphanax said:
Salt n' Peppa - Push It
You're doing it right.
FTFY
Bitches Ain't Shit - Ben Folds.
FTFY :p
There are few things I hate more than white hipsters who think they're being hilarious doing an acoustic guitar version of a gangster rap song.
How about a bunch of bitches?
They ain't shit.
Weird Al - A L B U... querque.
It's officially Tier-Fan-Axe, but you can say it however pleases you broheim.
TV's Frink said:
Tyrphanax said:
TV's Frink said:
Tyrphanax said:
Salt n' Peppa - Push It
You're doing it right.
FTFY
Bitches Ain't Shit - Ben Folds.
FTFY :p
There are few things I hate more than white hipsters who think they're being hilarious doing an acoustic guitar version of a gangster rap song.
Wewt. Into the desktop folder. Thanks!
I know, it just always looks like the shillouette of Daultay Dofine to me if I don't actually look at it directly.
(on the right)
I wasn't being serious, Bingo. I just like to poke fun sometimes.
I love OT.com, I really do. I'm 100% behind the purpose of the site, and God knows I'm as excited for the deleted scenes showing up in peoples' revisions of the movies as the next guy.
But, you know, if you can't laugh at yourself...
Linky to full size? <_<