lol Troel Brown. Hilarious.
Hurray East Coast!
I was wondering where Goody was, I didn’t wake up to like 10 likes for once thought he was sick.
its once upon a time more the abortion than grimm? ya know since disney owns the rights to fables.
I read somewhere that the recession may have contributed to the success of Once upon a Time and Grimm…Supernatural stomps them both though.
I’ve really had this problem for the past few years. Personally I don’t see shit wrong with being rage angry. It’s motivational. The key is to control who or what you direct your anger towards. Designate a place where you can vent (like the gym) so you can look cheerful and unaffected in the parts of life that piss you off.
Shawn White totally punked the shit out Justin Timberlake. I should have watched this movie before but you know, chick flicks.
(I keep forgetting to mention that I’m still surprised to have learned, via TVTropes of course, that the creator of Oglaf is a woman. I would have sworn it was a guy given the general, initial premise.)
Sigh. End up sleeping 10 hours after not being able to get to bed earlier, only to have nightmares the entire time and then up past midnight anyway just in time to hear my neighbors going at it again. Ugh. I need to move this bloody bed if nothing else.
It’s because no one’s afraid of vampires anymore. We (read: women, mostly) all want to fuck them now due to their sparkling good looks and what not. Even for the many people (read: men, mostly) that this doesn’t appeal to, it’s certainly more difficult to them as serious threats nowadays due to shit like Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Anita Blake and (probably) that remake of Fright Night that’s basically estrogen-bait–I’m excusing both versions of Being Human out of bias here since those shows are actually good.
Besides that, as you pointed out, vampires have more “subtle” powers…well, can have more subtle powers. Their actual skills and weaknesses probably fluctuate more than any other popular monster really, even before Twilight came (and came) into the picture.
So we get a bunch of zombie stuff because a)zombies aren’t attractive–ignoring the instance of “zombie porn” and that book by Acevedo or whoever–and vampires already fill the pop-necrophilia niche anyway, b)zombies are more readily contagious and thus more threatening, especially since they have less weaknesses & often way more numbers, c)zombies are arguably more sci-fi nowadays where as vampires are pretty much always still fantasy, which still has a hard(er) time selling (than sci-fi) when openly marked as such, and d)due to the sci-fi aspect of zombies, it’s easier to suspend disbelief when incorporating them into modern settings rather than generally having to make up your own rules even for modern settings when dealing with vampires.
Combine all that with developers and creators in popular culture taking less and less risks by churning out more and more sequels and remakes and you’ll realize that you’re probably not going to be dealing with anything other than “shamblers” in video games for quite some time.
If by everyone you mean “goodm0urning”, then yes.
I knew Oglaf was done by a woman. :tup:
And you bring up good points about the vamp/zombee thing. Also, I’d like to knwo more about the “pretty zombie” book. sounds interesting.
(That was quick, and yet the Alerts didn’t alert me…)
Oh man, the Common Mary Sue Traits page on TVTropes is hilarious.
…Damn it, I need to do some actual work.
Oh, I didn’t say “pretty”. I was just implying sexualized.
I haven’t read the book and likely never will, especially with the size of my backlog, but I distinctly remember the name of it because I remember seeing it at work one day and thinking “what the fuck?” verbatim. And then I tried to forget about it.
Anyway, it’s the second one down.
Oh. never mind. I don’t see how zombie and sex can ever go together. Well… I’m sure I could Fiiind a way, but there’s a lot of things I could accomplish that really don’t need to be done.
looks at the books Can’t be that ba… what the fuck? Verbatim. :tup:
Good, long, fun weekend. Got the day off today then heading back to work on Tuesday. Needs sleeps now.
ugh i accidentallly saw an episode of grimm the other night, i know nbc owns sci fi and all but i dont think they should be stealing their shows, just one look at the quality/awfulness of it sort of tagged it like that
(Ugh, I need to fucking proofread more.)
Still being distracted by TVTropes and the fact that goodm0urning keeps liking everything.
Go to bed, goodm0urning! [/hypocrisy]
I haven’t watched Grimm, but I have to defend Sci-Fi–excuse me, Syfy–shows here. Syfy’s shows are, for the most part, quite good. It’s their original movies that are largely (still) terrible.
Unless you’re just talking about sheer CGI stuff, in which case even then that’s not exclusive to Syfy. I don’t know any show that has ever had a big enough budget to do repeated, non-egregious, non-background CGI/special effects on-screen. See Heroes even at the height of its success.
Just caught this on youtube and even though I am not religious in any way I like this guy, at least in this video.
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I thought Supernatural had pretty good Special Effects overall, not just their CGI (Which I think looks pretty good).
Only Syfy show I watch is Haven, since it doesn’t feel like a Syfy show in that it’s good and not pandering.
(is still stuck on TVTropes)
Ugh, I forgot that bullshit west coast port “protest” is happening today. I wonder how many people will end up getting killed today. I’ll honestly be surprised if no one dies.
I don’t know what’s funnier about that video: the user-name of the person who posted it or the face of the “interviewer” at times.
Regardless, it’s nothing new. It just further shows that even parts of churches are realizing and vocalizing more and more how corrupt & fear-mongering most religions and religious institutions are.
I wouldn’t know. I’ve never watched Supernatural and have absolutely no desire to.
Yeah, Haven is rather good, which is kinda ironic, since I usually don’t like anything Stephen King-related, especially when it comes to media. (Ugh, if The Stand comes on Syfy one more time before this year ends…)
Also, “pandering”? What Syfy show panders? And to what or to whom…?
Sheeeit, I haven’t seen Twilight but the ones on Vampire Diaries would definitely be a threat. I don’t think that show is as “girly” as most guys probably assume it is.(*plus it has unbelievably gorgeous girls on there…staying true to The Rule™ of CW and television in general.) They still have super-human speed(fast enough to appear as a dark blur if they dash around), strength and agility, and compulsion. The compulsion works on all humans…you would have no choice but to “take a walk off that skyscraper” or whatever the vampire compels you to do. The powers only get stronger as they get older…and the ones from the Original Family are borderline invincible…there is currently only 1 way to kill them, if I recall, and that’s not even readily available. (it requires the wood of 1 special tree, and there’s not much left in the world. The funny thing is that even THAT isn’t a permanent death for them…stake them thru the heart with it, but if you remove that special wooden stake from the body, they’ll come back to life. Oh and Originals’ compulsion is so strong it works on ordinary vampires as well, and probably werewolves too. Game-breaking shit, folks.)
On another note, vamps were always supposed to be the “sexy” creatures of the night, with the exception being the more monstrous ones from 40 Days of Night, and I guess Nosferatu, who also looked like some mutant freak.
(Must…escape…TVTropes.)
By “threat”, I mean “actively threatening” as in “these are things that will always be trying to kill you and will not stop” like zombies, “not these are things that potentially very dangerous but, more often than not, that you may be able to sit down to have polite tea with and/or fuck” like humans and modern-day vampires. Werewolves are sort of tricky to place since they’re Transformers: Furries in Disguise.
Power level doesn’t have a thing to do with what I was talking about with that show being “estrogen-bait”, really. I should have just said “needlessly/overly sexualized” to be more unisex about it.
Actually, I’m pretty sure vampires originally all were thought to look like Nosferatu and not be “sexy” at all beyond maybe a forced compulsion angle and perhaps the possible metaphor for other bodily fluids with the whole blood thing. The “original” sexy creatures of the night were succubi more than anything.
I may be wrong/forgetting about something, but considering what the supposed inspiration for Dracula, Vlad Tepes, did to people, I really doubt that vampires were originally “sexy”.
They are both abortions.
Disney does not own the rights to Fables. Fables is vertigo. Vertigo is DC. DC is owned by Time Warner not Mickey.
No you are rights, Vampires were supposed to be hideous creatures that hid out because of what they were and how they looked. As everyone knows it was loosely based of Vlad Tepes and he was thought of as an evil and hideous man, so they made the vampire evil and hideous.
From Wiki:
It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, though there are several elements common to many European legends. Vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open.It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, and nails may have grown somewhat, though in general fangs were not a feature.
The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th-century southeastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.
The vampire is now a fixture in popular fiction. Such fiction began with 18th-century poetry and continued with 19th-century short stories, the first and most influential of which was John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), featuring the vampire Lord Ruthven. Lord Ruthven’s exploits were further explored in a series of vampire plays in which he was the anti-hero. The vampire theme continued in penny dreadful serial publications such as Varney the Vampire (1847) and culminated in the pre-eminent vampire novel of all time: Dracula by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire’s profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century, with Varney the Vampire and Count Dracula both bearing protruding teeth,[]](‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampires#cite_note-Skal99-145’) and Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) fearing daylight. The cloak appeared in stage productions of the 1920s, with a high collar introduced by playwright Hamilton Deane to help Dracula ‘vanish’ on stage.Lord Ruthven and Varney were able to be healed by moonlight, although no account of this is known in traditional folklore. Implied though not often explicitly documented in folklore, immortality is one attribute which features heavily in vampire film and literature. Much is made of the price of eternal life, namely the incessant need for blood of former equals.
The Modern Day “sexy” vampire was made famous by Anne Rice. Anne Rice is also on record as saying if she knew Twilight was going to be released, she would have never written Interview.