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well, yea, but the way they do it, as I wrote earlier (and gave examples) is cut out key stuff (because otherwise it'd be obvious) and you get a soulless, 4kids film and this is why Hollywood advertising strikes a nerve: 'legendary director' 'critically acclaimed feature' 'unparalleled skills' 'world class actor' they're masters of BS, but since everyone is bs-ing, it should be ok, no? but put world class BS on top of 90% copy-paste and you get....me ranting

Some would say it's impossible, but it's not so much about being original as it's about not being a 90% copy (the 10% left is simply you trying to disguise stuff). It's like you're given an assignment in biology class, you take a paper from some site, modify it a bit and read it to the entire class. Nobody's asking you to be original, how could you, you're effin 15 and your interests lie elsewhere...but what you're doing is moonshining. Yes, the Bible was written under Buddhist influence, or rather, the Bible is a retelling of Buddhism, mixed with the local creeds. But the thing is, th

I was thinking of holding the last games at fixed hours, as to give the ones in the race for highest total score a fair chance to solve their duel for supremacy. Demonic and Kaya, what hour is most convenient for you to attend the game at? (it can be any, before fyrd's event, in the morning etc)

4leafclover Desc: gives the 4leafclover mark to those surviving a hit with less than 10% vitality (don't know how to write the param, it gives a 50% chance of ignoring damage from attackers for the next 5 rounds; a, e)

That's very true, the way these things operate is revolving around money only, and that's why things will change only when people like me and you will say 'we want some good stuff, we're not gonna pay a cent anymore for crap. i can do crap myself, tyvm'. the way is boycott and i'm doing it already (i'm also spreading hate, so i'm doing a little more). i don't think too big to fail businesses should exist, i think often you have to burn the grass to get better produce next year burn hollywood? nah, let it freefall

Rehash for money, copy plots for money, either way it's 'not sweating for money'. Also, if I don't care about the Star wars franchise, i won't be giving them any money. They're mooching off their long-life host. And why do people want a rehash, anyway? It's like trying to chase back that feeling you had soo long ago - you'll never have that again. Try something new, don't delve deeper into the nostalgic past. Haven't seen any of those two, they sound interesting, but not my cup of tea.

same here. you can get a revelation in the dumbest of places or talking to the dumbest of people. read a book on Greek culture written for kids, got three revelations just by thinking about it. BUT! what a frickin' pain also, at some point, if you value yourself, you will limit contact with idiots

Disagree with both. The fact that samurai Jack is the best action cartoon just shows you how pathetic the industry is. Don't get me wrong, but can't we make action productions that are not based on manga written 30 years ago? As for plagiarism in other countries, I'll make my point in a jiffy. My problem with Hollywood copying the Japanese is the fact that they're dooming you to be forever 12 (mentally). Let's take Mononoke (series). In it, this guy is roaming the land, killing these evils that are born from human emotions. To do that, he has to determine the form, the origin, the f

Yea, these are the thoughts that don't let me sleep in peace, but...i watched a film yesterday and was left with one question: how much of Hollywood is American and how much Japanese? I just have to know, because it seems they've copied the Japanese for over half a century, since the conquering of Japan, and I've arriving at that conclusion only now. This is how grand is the deception. When I first saw some impressionist paintings, I thought 'da F is this?'. Made no sense. Then it was explained with big words and I believed it. Then, much later, I heard they've been seeing Japanese art (w

...ok... (don't wanna say something dst would say)

The riddle is (in) the poem itself. It's often that when reading something, you discover it means something else than you thought of, if you read between the lines.

can't edit, so: notobullies - enemy gets no xp if kills you in one blow cinnabar pill - restores all vitality lost this round for all ritual (or all vit lost until now, for creature) vaevictus - lower's nearby creatures' initiative if it died in previous fight coliva - gives defence boon to all ritual if comprises 6 different types of creatures inbreeding - gives susceptibility to steallife ability if all creatures are of same family thetribe - gives extra initiative if all creatures are of same family

craneinflight - gives winged creautre chance to escape killing blow rainafterfire - gives tree creature double regen for next fight ballandchain - gives attacks with multiple to become all chainmechanism - gives normal attack or random attack a chance to affect the nearby enemy creature bowtocrossbow - gives archer's attacks, for this fight, double damage, at the price at firing every 2 turns frytheknight - gives drachorns a chance to ignite mellee units, if in first row arrowsrain - gives archers extra damage against drachorns, if said archer is in the second row flipc

silvercross - makes you immune to lifestealing hatchery - gives lvl 1/2 creature double exp from fights silverbullet - gives more damage to attakcs vs lifestealers holyward - gives immunity against lifesteal for 3 rounds for the whole ritual at the expense of attack (no attacks from your side) armored turtle - disperses all defence from the crit equally among the other crits in ritual forestinbud - for plant type creatures, gives all crits in the ritual regen skill fixed % (or variable) axeandfire - reduces regeneration skill of enemy creature by % chains -

mosquito - gives the creatures to the left and to the right vampiricaura shareadrink - (percentage chance) convincing enemy creature to not fight drumsofwar - increase initiative of allies every 3 turns thebishop - attack creature with lowest health after 2 rounds if original target was random the queen - attack multiple, even if the craeture doesnt have that ability, all enemy units under 50% vit

retreattoshell - creature refuses to fight after x rounds woodentargaid - healer unit loses its heal ability for x rounds, getting extra vitality (or def) for same nr of rounds lonelygetstronger - singlecrit rituals get some boon drachornscare - lowers the initiative of drachorns meatcleaver - reduces the boon gained by opponent's ritual from pairing crits of same family (archer, drachs etc) cerebellumslap - slightly damages crit if inactive for this round goodlucktotheliving - gives alive creatures a boon until the end of the battle if more than 3 crits died

That was a great summary, thank you. Because of my shortcomings in making this quest (which had a very specific purpose that I failed to achieve), I have asked Chewett to sponsor the full rewards to all participants. It wasn't all bad, I guess, but I woke up looking particularly terrible this morning, which means if you drag quests for hours...*they*'re not the only ones who are going to feel that. Lesson learnt

Not much decoration here, but I'm of the opinion you don't need much to get a party going. Just lay a blanket, open the picnic basket that contains wine and bacon and just enjoy...this is a chill place to wait (for years) for those MP3s to direct them to the spear&halberd rack, teach them to use the whetstone and everything.

no worries, if i waited yesterday to run my game (and it was worth it) for the max amount of participants, i will do it today too

Today, in the evening, after or before Fyrd's (we'll see), we're doing this little play. I've attached the so-called map we shall be using, but the details of each room will be disclosed at the time of the event. I'll meet you there!

Sign me up. Imagine if I lost (win) in this one...it would be ironic.

Classic.

I'll take this opportunity to warmly welcome all to Marind Bell, where for the next couple days you will be able to listen to minstrels singing about love and war (a.k.a. I will be posting link to various music pieces with the theme knights&maidens). I encourage visiting the more secluded areas. Love and battles. Epic battles, battles of dominance, battles of attrition, battles of retribution. Fiery love, withering love, useful love, used love. In this theme is the following riddle/puzzle, entirely a forum quest (hence the submissions will be by forum PM, to yours truly). Fastest corr

That's 10 days from now, but...maybe from 4-5 p.m. server time