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Medusa Here's my problem: In the original, Perseus can't look at Medusa directly so he uses his shield as a mirror. In the remake, Perseus can look at Medusa and the whole thing is just typical fight. Basically, my problem is that the remake actually made Perseus dumber.

I came across this review of LotR from back when it was first published and it made me wonder if LotR love was universal in the RPG community. Since I don't have the money, time, or resources to do a scientific study, I'm posting a poll here. As always, the answer choices mean whatever makes...

This, I think, is where things get strange. I want to get talk about something brought up by the response to this your post. Lets say we have a DM who's trying to hue closely to medieval concepts about gender roles and class. One player wants to make a female paladin who was raised on a farm...

How are you defining ethicist? I know for a fact that people argued that "slavery was ok" in the west since then, so I'm curious how you can simply exclude them from the discussion. But then again, that's part of the problem isn't it? Modern ethics isn't very modern when you realize that...

This reminds me of a book I read recently, Sex with Kings. The book is about King's mistresses. I'm not a history buff, and most of the history buffs around me are into the war aspect. They know all about knights, armor, fire arms, famous battles, etc. As such, I don't hear a lot about anything...

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One of the things that struck me when I saw the movie was how old fashioned it looked. It wasn't in black and white, or silent, but it looked like it was shot in the 70s. So many movies make use a color correction (Transformers, Harry Potter 8 had a scene in the forest where everyone was blue)...

Makes sense to me, but let me answer a question: See, you originally said "To anyone whoever says they weren't bothered by the prequel trilogy, I send this link..." Your next post went on to imply the video contained an objective argument grounded in logic when you said "He doesn't just say the...

This is so weird. Do you actually think whether or or not I like something is the sort of thing that's subject to someone else's analysis? My own counsel will I keep about what I like.

I'm an important member of the economy That sort of thing just makes me want to like the movies more. I've never changed my opinion of a movie from like to dislike (or hate) just because someone else said it was bad. But I have liked something more as a result of being told it was bad. I...

I'm passing on the new Underworld movie. I didn't like the first one, so eh. It was my week to pick, so me and my wife saw Red Tails. Being a history major and a social studies teacher, I think she liked the move more than I did. It's getting the short shift, but the local theater (which is...

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

So, lets say there's a guy (definitely not me ;) ) who, upon finding out that the creator of Coupling is now the writer on Doctor Who, wants to check it out. Where should this very hypothetical person start? New series, old series, current Doctor, some other Doctor? That one movie with Peter...

There are fandoms, and then there are hatedoms While I agree with you, I thought Takei was just poking some harmless fun at Twilight. It's popular, so it's a target. Both Star Wars and Star Trek have loads of people making fun of them, no reason Twilight should be left out. That said, I'm...

I'm reading a few books at once: Primary: Great Expectations I read the book high school and loved it. I've never read it since, but I still tell people It's my favorite book. Recently, I decided to see if that's still true. Secondary: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault This books...

Currently, I'm making my way through the Sherlock Holmes cannon. No new stories coming in that series! I'm currently reading the short story The Adventure of the Devi's Foot from the collection His Law Bow. So far, the series is awesome. And it's broken up into bite-size bits! :D

Now it's starting to look like DVD drives are going away. I suppose I'll get over that to.

I loved the movie. The problem with the movie is that the action sequences dominated the marketing and, because of the downer ending, dominate the experience. Here's the thing: Babydoll does not succeed in her mission to save herself. After sitting through a fantasy (that parallels her...

I read the first one, A Princess of Mars, fairly recently and it was really good. It was one his first efforts at writing. IIRC, he was reading pulp magazines and felt he could write better than that. Apparently, he was right. Anyways, it looks true to the feel of the book I got from reading...

I'll play anything my friends want to as well. My only problem is that I'm pretty much the only one in my current group who's like that. Also, I'd enjoy DMing/GMing pretty much any RPG including all the ones on the list.