Look what I found over in Readerville!
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
sumi - Mar 18, 2005 10:07:41 am PST #3776 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2005 10:13:34 am PST #3777 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm not registered there--what is it?
beathen - Mar 18, 2005 10:21:59 am PST #3778 of 3902
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
obtaining an id and password from bugmenot.com will work to get in
Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2005 4:21:57 am PST #3779 of 3902
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Still more Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded for the Return of the King.
CHOMSKY: Mordor, the "dark land." Which you correctly pointed out before we began should be properly known as Orcistan.
Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2005 4:39:22 am PST #3780 of 3902
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
More:
ZINN: Oh, I believe completely that Gandalf was cannily exploiting Sam's latent hobbosexuality from the very beginning. If nothing else, Gandalf is a sophisticated psychologist with a keen understanding of the plight of the closeted Hobbit in the intolerant, provincial Shire. Why else did he select Bilbo as the burglar for Thorin's party in The Hobbit? Perhaps because he knew the company of 13 male Dwarves might be appealing?
CHOMSKY: You mean Bilbo's hobbosexual, too?
ZINN: Well, you know what they call an eleventy-one-year-old bachelor in Buckland, right?
CHOMSKY: Ohhhh.
StuntHusband - Mar 23, 2005 6:59:03 am PST #3781 of 3902
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
In case anyone else is watching, Turbine took over 100% of the development of Middle-earth Online, the MMO. I don't think an MMO should be done at all, but Turbine's probably the best people around to do it.
Lord knows Vivendi Universal did NOTHING for over a year. Launch this year? Beta hasn't even started signing up yet.
much fear
Noumenon - Mar 23, 2005 7:22:16 am PST #3782 of 3902
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
You know, people complaining about the unwieldiness of the acronym MMORPG is the only reason I remember it. Is MMO a little different, or is it just an abbreviation of an acronym?
StuntHusband - Mar 23, 2005 11:34:13 am PST #3783 of 3902
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Some folk advocate using MMO as the generic, covering MUSH, MUD, MUCK, MMORPG, etc. Rarely does "MMO" get used for anything other than EverQuest and it's siblings, however. The MU* crowd genteely despise the graphics-oriented crowd.
There are MMOs that aren't RPGs - the most successful is Planetside, which is like permanent Halo. "War that never ends", very, very little RPG material, just lots of shooting other folk, dying, respawning. MMOFPS isn't much better than MMORPG. :)
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2005 11:43:25 am PST #3784 of 3902
brillig
Someone's showing off now.
StuntHusband - Mar 23, 2005 11:59:34 am PST #3785 of 3902
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Actually, someone's a gigantic geek. It's what Alfredo and I do every evening - play World of Warcraft. (Since he won't join my Fading Suns tabletop campaign).
I'm not sure he'll play Middle-earth Online, but I will - if for no other reason than to know definitively that it's worthy of much scorn.