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    Default Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134

    I hereby challenge anyone to advance a decent argument in favour of dualism.

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    What sort of dualism?
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    I made my avatar character more festive. >.>

    She's also happier than she usually is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slayer Draco View Post
    I made my avatar character more festive. >.>

    She's also happier than she usually is.
    yay!

    Christmas is a happy time!

    My avatar looks scared. or disturbed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perenelle View Post
    The first movie stayed pretty close to the book, but it went downhill from there.
    The first movie really got to me, because while it was, for the most part, accurate enough, it managed to leave out what is one of the most important bits of the book. They left out Snape's puzzle. Not only does that completely remove Hermione's chance to shine, it completely destroys the argument that "Oh, Snape can't be trying to steal the Stone, he's one of the ones helping protect it!" Without that puzzle, he is doing no such thing.

    Also the puzzle bit was awesome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HotAndCold View Post
    The first movie really got to me, because while it was, for the most part, accurate enough, it managed to leave out what is one of the most important bits of the book. They left out Snape's puzzle. Not only does that completely remove Hermione's chance to shine, it completely destroys the argument that "Oh, Snape can't be trying to steal the Stone, he's one of the ones helping protect it!" Without that puzzle, he is doing no such thing.

    Also the puzzle bit was awesome.
    Yeah. I was disappointed at that as well, but glad that they got much of the rest right.

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    My general view is that the purpose of films of books is so we have an easier time imagining what the characters look and sound like the next time we read it.
    Anything more than that is a bonus.
    "'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thufir View Post
    My general view is that the purpose of films of books is so we have an easier time imagining what the characters look and sound like the next time we read it.
    Anything more than that is a bonus.
    Well said. According to many high schoolers, movies of books are also so that they don't have to read a real book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    Well said. According to many high schoolers, movies of books are also so that they don't have to read a real book.
    And people like that are why we have flamethrowers.
    "'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
    YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thufir View Post
    And people like that are why we have flamethrowers.
    and explosives.

    lots and lots of explosives.....

    I cant stand it when people go and watch the movie and think they know everything behind the book. Like my annoying little cousin that watched one LotR movie and thinks he knows everything about the movies and books.

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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    Well said. According to many high schoolers, movies of books are also so that they don't have to read a real book.
    These people are known as "lazy tossers'
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    You're very right, and this practice results in many idiotic discussions of Gone with the Wind.

    Also Safari tells me that "this" is misspelled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    You're very right, and this practice results in many idiotic discussions of Gone with the Wind.

    Also Safari tells me that "this" is misspelled.
    Go tell Safari to kindly go away and leave the real work to better browsers, such as Firefox.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonprime View Post
    Go tell Safari to kindly go away and leave the real work to better browsers, such as Firefox.
    bask in the glow of the glorious Firefox!! *bows*

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    bask in the glow of the glorious Firefox!! *bows*
    *holds up idol in the shape of a flaming fox*

    Bow before the god of the internet! Bow or be sacrificed to the flames!
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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    Obviously you couldn't live with yourself for not liking a LotR movie. So you watched Two Towers repeatedly, hoping that eventually you would like it better.
    I never said I didn't like it. I said I liked it LESS.

    Also, I wish I were more motivated to work on my essay right now . . . I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to get mooooooooooooooooooving

    Maybe I'll go watch Dollhouse instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonrider View Post
    Also, I wish I were more motivated to work on my essay right now . . . I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to get mooooooooooooooooooving

    Maybe I'll go watch Dollhouse instead.
    ...this is so much like my attitude to work recently...
    "'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
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    Eh, I even have firefox on my laptop. I'm just too damn lazy to change. One click, but I'd have to close all my tabs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonprime View Post
    *holds up idol in the shape of a flaming fox*

    Bow before the god of the internet! Bow or be sacrificed to the flames!
    Yes great Firefox! I will bow in your honor! your greatness is too much for us humans to fully appreciate!

    *builds bonfire*

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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    Eh, I even have firefox on my laptop. I'm just too damn lazy to change. One click, but I'd have to close all my tabs.
    Cast him into the fire! Burn the heathen!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonprime View Post
    Cast him into the fire! Burn the heathen!
    Indeed! *ties up and prepares to throw into bonfire*

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    *walks in*

    So, I was just enjoying playing around with new skins on Google Chro-

    *looks around*

    ...

    *slowly backs out of thread*

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    NO! I'll switch! Just don't throw me into the fire!

    I actually just looked at it. Spiffy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by the geekish one View Post
    NO! I'll switch! Just don't throw me into the fire!

    I actually just looked at it. Spiffy.
    Very well. However, if you can't say the ten commandments of Firefox right now, we will burn you anyways.

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    *walks in*

    So, I was just enjoying playing around with new skins on Google Chro-

    *looks around*

    ...

    *slowly backs out of thread*
    I get the feeling that there's something that I don't know about...
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    *creeps about the thread, whispering the heretical revolutionary doctrine of Opera in the ears of the brainwashed*

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    Long, bass-ackwards arbitrary prompt essays can go to hell and buy a summer home.

    Jane Austen's Persuasion is a unstoppable, intensely dull analysis of a bunch of characters we have no reason to care about.

    Combine the two, we've got a recipe for brain killer.

    Combine the two, then throw in a little light illness, and we've got the worst weekend ever.
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    ...
    Doc?
    Yeah, it's the "Burn the Heathen" hallucination again.
    ...Okay, yeah, I'll be needed that therapy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *creeps about the thread, whispering the heretical revolutionary doctrine of Opera in the ears of the brainwashed*
    Bleh, Opera. I do believe that the Wii uses it. However, I dislike it on my computer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rutskarn View Post
    Long, bass-ackwards arbitrary prompt essays can go to hell and buy a summer home.

    Jane Austen's Persuasion is a unstoppable, intensely dull analysis of a bunch of characters we have no reason to care about.

    Combine the two, we've got a recipe for brain killer.

    Combine the two, then throw in a little light illness, and we've got the worst weekend ever.
    You know, as a TA who has marked first-year papers, I would absolutely love to read an honest and compelling essay about how crappy and irrelevant 19th-century English novels are rather than another dust factory churn-out.

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    And I'd like to write that essay. I'd especially like to write it if I could ditch this purposefully bland academic style and revert to my no-hold-barred English Fu snarkishness.

    As it is, my prompt is as follows:
    How does occupying a particular place either geographically or in the social hierarchy affect characters' thinking? How does traveling from one place to another or experiencing financial fortune or misfortune affect characters' capacity or incapacity for change? Why might a particular place or traveling from one place to another have an effect on the way characters think?
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