Search results

Hyp - why did you edit my post while leaving Whisperfoot's personal attacks against me and this thread up there? I have not responded yet to his continual antagonistic posts, after he was told to stop, yet when I point out how even on NL they're making fun of him for being unreasonable over...

Thanks for actually reading the post in question, barsoom. It's amazing how well the written language works when someone actually reads the words, instead of making up their own words that were written...

I'll be back later tonight to respond to the excellent informative posts earlier, but I wanted to ask one question: Are there any other major fantasy books in the last 50 years that have this kinds of "hands-off" approach to criticism? This 'different rule set', when it comes to criticism, so...

Thank you, Eric. I felt that it would be detrimental to the debate if it was closed, and/or moved to a new one. The thread of shared opinions/approaches speaks for itself. What also speaks for itself is SOME Tolkein fans absolute inability to talk about LotR in any analytical way. I put up...

ummm... because this is a GAME? :D :rolleyes: a) I hope noone believes that all the stats for weapon damage, armor, etc are 'true to reality'. Given that assumption, b) it is up to the game designers to give VALID choices for a character to take. Creating 12 or so armors, but only 3 or 4...

This attitude is an embarassment to critical thinkers everywhere. Further, it's a slap in the face to Tolkein fans, since it is basically saying that Tolkein's work is incapable of passing any scrutiny, and must depend on un-examined genuflecting on the altar of Fantasy. Please don't contribute...

Because I was answering your question. If you'd prefer me to dodge your questions, like most people are exhibiting today, than I think I'll do that next time and save myself the time and insult of being deliberately misrepresented. To wit: You asked "if it's so obvious, than what explains other...

re: Starship Troopers I have based my comments on observations about what was in the film. All I've heard bad about the film boils down to "it wasn't like the book" "it's bad" "teens" "t&A" "bad performances". Not too many solidly objective responses there, guys. If you want to critique ST in...

Salthanas - stop the straw man stuff. I never said that anyone who likes Tolkein is brainwashed. You asked, I went out of my way to make a fairly insightful (I thought) reply. I rooted my answer in established psychological observations and techniques (i.e. the brainwashing comparison). It's...

blackshirt, I'd appreciate if you contributed to the debate/discussion, instead of threadcrapping. BTW: If you (or anyone else for that matter) is not interested, than it's a lot easier to NOT post than it is to post that you're not interested....

I'll start with 2 problems I see in the books : 1) Frodo waiting for months before leaving AFTER it was found that without a doubt, he has the One Ring. In the other thread, various rationalizations have been forwarded, none of which is remotely convincing to me. They ignore the facts that...

Thank you, Serge. That's the kind of thing I'm interested in reading: the ability to point out weaknesses without "slaughtering" the guy. I agree with what you detail are his good points. I'm more interested in debating the bad points, and story flaws here. I also find it interesting how Dark...

a) I didn't ignore them - they simply didn't convince me, and they didn't counter my stated reasons. b) That's a big question. But there are many reasons, not the least of which is human nature/psychology: The more people read (and/or learn) something, the more their approach becomes similar to...

I'm afraid my wife (and myself, as well- I'd been contemplating joining) will have to bow out. We just don't know M&M, don't have it, and are not realistically going to be able to learn enough about it to create characters. Have a GREAT game, though - it sounds interesting as all heck. Kinda...

Yay! Another V:tM PbP on thse boards! Nice to see it. Any more info on what style you want it to be? What else have you DM'd? How do you prefer to run your game? Combat? Maps? Pictures? What kind of characters and posting style are you looking for from the players?

Thanks admins! Much better. I was hoping to find an explanatory post from someone representing the Admins on this thread - I was surprised just to see the problem fixed, but not mentioned here. Oh, well - again, good job, and thanks for the fix.

thanks for pointing it out, Hyp. In my eyes, though, in the context I wrote it, it's rather obvious that I'm intimating "WW2-type" book (especially since the previous sentence, I'd mentioned the book's THEMES). "type" or "era", the discussion was (is) about Starship Troopers material being a...

Inspired by the Disc 3 of TTT:EE, I am wondering if people would be interested in hearing about / debating about possible MISTAKES, and bad writing in the original Tolkein Lord of the Rings. We all are aware of how absolutely beloved this work is. I have seldom read any analysis or detailing of...

oh, absolutely. I don't think ANY war movie with kick-ass giant bugs in it needs anything else (certainly not politics) to get a big thumbs-up from me.

This is a total copout, and doesn't convince me at all. Handwaving Gandalf's mistake(s) by saying he wasn't 'omniscient' or 'perfect' ignores that he himself related to the reader the dire danger the One Ring represented. Who did the reader hear the background of the Ring from? Are we supposed...