Sunday, August 19, 2012

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Episode Reviews
Monday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Villains and The Legend of Korra - The Aftermath
Tuesday: Angel - Tomorrow and The Legend of Korra - When Extremes Meet
Wednesday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Two to Go and The Legend of Korra - Out of the Past
Thursday: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Grave and The Legend of Korra - Turning the Tides
Friday: Buffy and Angel Predictions and The Legend of Korra - Skeletons in the Closet and The Legend of Korra - Endgame

Meanwhile on Reads, Mark begins Good Omens and continues Sandman.

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Judgement call needed! Rot13'd various bits for ungoogle-able purposes.

I've been requested to play an accordion set at a banquet! Ordinarily this would be an easy decision, but the banquet is for the SEVRAQF BS GUR AEN.

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Now I'm leaning pretty heavily towards no - but it would be good performing experience for me and I'd probably get paid. Advice?
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spectralbovine reads A Storm of Swords

Plaintext spoilers, rot13 nunning, Kickpuncher punning!

Current Progress: Page 425.
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I just watched Tomorrow and damn, I forgot how annoying that ending is. I might have to skip all of the Buffy episodes again and keep going ahead with Angel, although chances are I'll get annoyed with that too. I can barely remember the beginning of season four anyway so at least that should be interesting.
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Hey, we've had tumblr-swaps and LJ-swaps before, and I don't really use either of those, but if anybody here uses MSN/Live Messenger and wants to add me, my contact info is "Elflad[at]gmail.com"
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So, I just found out this place exists. And I soon won't be able to come here since I'll be reading both Newsflesh and Song of the Lioness for the first time. So all I have to say for now is...like my new Avatar? I'm totally planning on being the Arctic Hare equivalent for Babylon 5, ie the person who has a ton of thoughts about every episode and all kinds of background material. So I figured I should get a picture to match.
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So folks....we feel up for another meme? I know we discussed this a couple weeks ago, and had a few suggestions, but I honestly can't recall if we decided between a HP meme, a TV meme or something else.
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So, how about that Jesse Plemmons on Breaking Bad? Mark is going to flip his shit over this when he gets to Friday Night Lights.
So, three episodes in and I'm already really loving Breaking Bad. At first I was kinda iffy about the way it mixes drama and comedy like it does, but damn if this doesn't look like a project damn near everyone was giving their all on. The actors are all fantastic, especially Bryan Cranston. The way that man can emote with just the twitch of a mustache is fantastic.

The direction and editing are brilliant. I'm used to so many TV shows being shot with very sterile shoot-and-point style, that the in a way watching this show feels like watching a really long movie more than something on television.

The writing is really, really interesting. The way they establish characters and tension without even uttering a single line is great, and the way characters are set up is just so good. Please tell me the show keeps up this kind of strength. I've seen far too many shows start off great and then flop around after a couple of seasons (im looking at you scrubs).
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I just got back from a family reunion at which I discovered that my 9 year old cousin is a huge fan of The Hunger Games. This is even more impressive since five years ago her mom wouldn't let her watch Bambi for fear of exposing her to death. I guess she loosened up a bit as a parent.

Anyway, we were talking about The Hunger Games and how awesome Katniss is and all of that and I eventually asked her if she had been rooting for Gale or if she was happy Katniss ended up with Peeta, because I'm a shipper and these sorts of things matter to me. Anyway, she said that she thought Katniss should have ended up alone and it was stupid that she got married and had kids after everything she'd been through.

So I told her she had to read Graceling. That's not too advanced for a 9 year old is it?
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ARCTIC HARE, MARK THOUGHT YOU WERE AMELIA POND. we are the same in all things, because I can't shake the mental image that you look like Karen Gillian

Which really is silly, because we all know you're a snow bunny.
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Arctic_Hare Watches Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood!

Plaintext in reply, rot13 welcome, I am semi-prepared but do not want discussion of spoilery things unless I explicitly say I remember something.
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In case anyone's interested and doesn't know yet (I've mentioned it on the main site a couple times) I've been doing my own readthrough of The Wheel of Time on TV Tropes. Nowhere near as detailed as Mark's; I just describe what happens in each chapter and then give my brief thoughts on it. But some people still might find it fun. I'm currently on book four, and I hate Zarine so much that I refuse to use the name she picked for herself that the book insists on calling her.

The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising.
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spectralbovine and monkeybutter (and introducing: Ryan Lohner) need somewhere to talk about Breaking Bad without rot13

lossthief and SqueezeBoxPharm are NOT ALLOWED.

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Harry Potter Meme: Day One
Discuss how you got into Harry Potter and Why You Still Love It

Hello, everyone! I still find it hard to believe that we haven’t done a HP meme yet, but I guess we did use it so much for answers to other memes that it just seemed like it. Besides, the Spoils Hive Mind insists that we haven’t, and we are never wrong, for we are legion.

Anyway, when I first had Harry Potter read to me, if you had told me that one day I’d be running a written club of sorts about why I love it, I would have laughed in your face. I’ve probably told this story here before, but I’m dyslexic. I’ve gotten over it by now, although I have difficulty spelling new words or learning new languages. Reading was the bane of my existence, filled with funny little symbols that looked near identical. How was I supposed to care about the difference between ‘d’ and ‘b’, and how could any information contained in books actually be interesting?

My uncle was (and still is, incidentally) a teacher, and his discovery that I didn’t read didn’t please him much. He decided he would make me want to learn to read! So he bought me a copy of this Harry Potter book he’d heard so much about, and read me the first chapter.

I hated it.

It was boring, and dumb, and the main character had the stupidest name I’d ever heard; Hairy Potter? Was his mother “Feathered”?

So that didn’t really work out well. That initial experiment was a failure. He left the book with my family, though, and about five months later the day came. My mother and sister were out, so I had no one to play with. It was raining, so I couldn’t go outside. My friends were all busy. There were no good cartoons on. So I approached my dad, prepared to do anything to escape the boredom, and I asked him; “Can we try that fluffy book again?”

“Huh?” he said.

“You know, the one about Fluffy or Furry whatever. It had a train on the cover. I’m bored.”

He only faintly remembered the book, but he was just so excited to have me reading anything at all that he quickly found it and settled down for story-time. This time, I loved it. Somehow those few months had made an amazing difference; I laughed at the jokes, I wanted to find out what happened next. Over the next few years I fully threw myself into the world of Harry Potter. The characters became friends, taking me on amazing adventures. Suddenly, I had a reason to want to read. That was the gift JK Rowling gave to me; not only her own amazing world, but that of a million other books and stories, too.

That’s not the only reason that I love HP today, of course. I love the plotting, the characters, the prose, the hints and twists hid throughout all seven books. I love the community which has sprung up around it, the feeling that my entire generation has shared this world with me. The knowledge that one day I’ll be able to share this with a new generation, maybe even my own children. But I’ll never forget that biggest gift HP gave to me; my love of reading.

Everyone feel free to share your own thoughts and experiences! Tomorrow we’ll be discussing your favourite book.
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The official inaugural picture for my new camera, Asami.
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so this is a tad late, but

Music Thread!

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Is the post late today?
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O HAI GUYS.

I'VE DECIDED TO HANG OUT HERE NOW.

Also, I don't have much to do/have a lot of stuff I'm avoiding in lab,/the post is late so, um, I need to be entertained? Please to be linking me to awesome sites I may not know about yet?

ETA: and as soon as I say it's late, it appears!
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Warning: Geek Heresy Follows

So this is the 10th anniversary of Firefly. Does that mean we can give up on all the campaigns, pleas, and general whining for a Season 2 now? Please?
10 replies · active 644 weeks ago
Lossthief Watches Princess Tutu

FINALLY getting back to this. Funfact: Moving is FUCKING MISERABLE and so many things break when you take them to new places that I might as well have just rented a team of helicopters to lift my old house to a new area.

But anyway, onto more dancing/emotional issues/things being ripped out of people's chests/Drosselmeyer being an unmitigated asshole.
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I just saw the show Mark will be watching along with The West Wing. That should provide some interesting times, as both are what I like to call Douglas Sirk shows, after the line from Pulp Fiction, meaning that when they're good, they're brilliant, but when they're bad...
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Omg. I just realized. less than 2 weeks til Mark starts The Song of the Lioness. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

BRB, rereading the series.
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Stefb4 Watches Slayers

I am unprepared. Rot13 for major spoilers, although I really don't mind if you accidentally let a minor one slip. Plain text in reply.

I pretty much spent the whole day watching FMA: B so I thought I'd do some Slayers so I don't get too ahead of arctic_hare and mix up episodes. My goal is to try to finish the first series this week!
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