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| Topic | Ancient Egypt had a very unusual drinking ritual... |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/16/22 12:18:55 AM #7 | Lokarin posted... agesboy posted...by "collectively comfort" what do you mean But also handjobs. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What are some times you didn't feel respected/appreciated as a fan? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/16/22 12:05:46 AM #29 | GanonsSpirit posted... People said the same thing about the Peter Jackson movies. Very few people said that. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What are some times you didn't feel respected/appreciated as a fan? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:54:50 PM #20 | EclairReturns posted... You mean they exploit the followers they have gained over the years and/or during a period of great success, then shamelessly pander to their nostalgia, all in the name of profit? Yes, among other things. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have a costco membership? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:52:20 PM #5 | I used to have one, but then I dropped it in favor of a BJ's membership. And then I dropped that one around the start of the pandemic because I noticed I wasn't really shopping there as often anyway, as they seemed to be slowly phasing out most of what I bought there previously. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | wasn't there supposed to be a new system of a down album |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:50:08 PM #2 | No idea. I haven't been paying attention to them because they haven't been relevant since 2002. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:15:34 PM #27 | captpackrat posted... The problem if you make Daylight Savings Time permanent is we end up with sunrise at almost 9 am in winter. On the other hand, if you got rid of DST, you'd have sunrise at 4 am in the summer. It's a no-win situation. I'd generally prefer dawn to come earlier in summer rather than later in winter, mainly because winter is already a cold dark miserable time when depression is soaring, so getting up early to go to work in total darkness sucks more than dawn just coming really early in summer. I might feel differently if I lived somewhere where roosters were crowing at dawn, or where it's so hot that it would mean the day would already be unbearably hot by like 8am, but I don't. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Working = Endorphins, Endorphins = Happy, Happy people don't kill their husbands |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:12:44 PM #5 | Happiness is a flawed social construct of the modern era, and one that causes untold misery. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What are some times you didn't feel respected/appreciated as a fan? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 8:11:37 PM #17 | Solid Sonic posted... What are some times you didn't feel respected/appreciated as a fan? These days, pretty much all the time, for nearly every franchise or form of media I've ever loved. It's essentially starting to feel like an inevitable case of "You either die the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Or in this scenario, more like "Your franchise/IP either dies after a few good years, or lives long enough to turn into cynical exploitative shit." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | This job that I VOLUNTEER for is demanding I drive 20 miles for a 30-min meeting |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 7:50:05 PM #17 | wolfy42 posted... Is it just me or does 20 mins sound like the absolute min you have to drive anywhere at this point for anything, like, even a taco? Depends on where you live. There are places in the US where you have to drive like 40 minutes just to go to the grocery store. There are also places where literally everything you can possibly imagine needing or wanting is within a 15 minute drive. This used to come up in the Geek topics, when Wave mentioned he had to drive like 2 hours to go to the nearest movie theater, and I'd point that I couldn't imagine being willing to drive more than 2 hours for anything less than life-saving surgery. I can get to my local movie theater in about 15 minutes. I can get to my grocery store in about 10. I can get to my local convenience store, gas station, or McDonalds in about 5. I rarely drive more than 20 minutes for any shopping, unless I'm going somewhere specific and specialty-based. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 7:40:36 PM #21 | jsb0714 posted... Oh, please. Time zones aren't exactly straight lines anyway. They're also worse for people who live on the west side of them than they are for people on the east side of them. The entire concept of time zones is absolutely terrible. Unfortunately they're also kind of necessary in a globalized world where information travels at the speed of light. shadowsword87 posted... Is most of the world in DST, or, out of DST? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time There's a picture on that page that shows who does and who doesn't. You may notice an overarching trend. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 7:39:15 PM #19 | Judgmenl posted... Also the vote was unanimous. It's pretty much been inevitable for years. The whole point of Bush passing the law that changed the difference from being 6/6 to 8/4 was specifically meant to get people used to the idea of eventually making it a permanent thing without the twice-yearly shift. The idea is to get people used to the idea of the "off" period being shorter and shorter, until you do away with it entirely. And if you do it over a long enough period of time, people will adjust and are less likely to complain as much. See the metaphor about the frog in a pot of boiling water. It's still going to cause confusion as long as other nations continue to use it though (and a lot do), at least online (for things where time calculations matter). And Arizona's still going to be a mess unless they realign as well (because they've got their own weird thing going on right now). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you gonna get it LIT this St Pattys day? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 7:29:26 PM #8 | No, because I don't approve of the racist overtones of a holiday that equates drunkenness with the Irish. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Cast "Spaceballs: The Remake" |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/15/22 10:45:43 AM #12 | Rotpar posted... Let's not and hope it never happens. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna start having casual sex with my ex-wife |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 9:27:04 PM #11 | Mensis posted... Try hard po is just sad Nah, I didn't have to try all that hard to hook up with her at all. I mean, she pretty much threw herself at me. MICHALECOLE posted... Damn PO stole my line Don't worry, there's plenty of her to go around! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna start having casual sex with my ex-wife |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 9:17:31 PM #6 | Mensis posted... its funny because shes a whore. Really? She never charged me. Maybe you were just doing it wrong. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna start having casual sex with my ex-wife |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 9:15:59 PM #3 | You totally should. I've been having casual sex with your ex-wife for years now, and I have no complaints. Neither do any of the other guys! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | YR: wyoming is fenced off and made a prison colony |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 7:42:38 PM #5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjjPlEW9bRM --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 1:05:39 PM #3 | papercup posted... Square doesn't seem to have any idea what Final Fantasy is supposed to be. As far as I'm concerned, Square died in 2003. Anything you think you remember being released post-KHII is just a figment of your imagination. Your terrible, terrible imagination. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You only have one choice as a GameFAQS poster. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 2:20:30 AM #33 | keyblader1985 posted... Does emulation count? You can't emulate Asian women, Silly! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Would anybody like to experience a food orgasm? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 2:19:31 AM #8 | MICHALECOLE posted... More like the blight of poop That would be a pretty apt description of what you posted a picture of. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Would anybody like to experience a food orgasm? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 12:48:29 AM #6 | Entity13 posted... Here I am agreeing with PO again. <_< As it should always be. Embrace the Light of Truth. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Would anybody like to experience a food orgasm? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/14/22 12:37:33 AM #3 | I'm not sure I could ever have a food orgasm from something that looks like a fecal explosion. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Elden Ring Topic |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 11:43:40 PM #130 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBc0ixfbzI --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Let's stop fucking around |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 11:28:28 PM #27 | Nade Duck posted... that's what they said about the little candy bars they passed around on halloween, too. https://youtu.be/EVtgSS0xRHg?t=188 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever go see a movie you've never heard of just because it has great reviews? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 11:17:08 PM #22 | MICHALECOLE posted... You ever go see a movie you've never heard of just because it has great reviews? No, because I don't respect or trust the vast majority of reviewers. I might be swayed into going to see something if someone I actually like and respect the opinions of says something is great, but I've considered general reviews to be pretty much worthless for most of my life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | elden ring sucks |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 8:38:04 PM #7 | Rotpar posted... I agree that even a Souls-like game needs a pause function. Life sometimes happens, I need the game to stop now I consider pause and save anywhere features to be more or less mandatory quality of life features for adults who actually have lives. Losing a half-hour or more of progress because you didn't have time to waste slogging through another 10-20 minutes to get to the next save point or autosave is the sort of thing that can discourage people from wanting to play your game at all. If having to stop to answer your phone, answer your doorbell, or try and prevent your pet from shitting on the rug or your kids from murdering each other or the like leads to you being punished in-game, you're probably going to assume whoever made that game is an asshole. I don't really give a shit if the developer feels like it somehow invalidates their vision of what the game should be or is annoyed because they feel like save-scumming is "cheating". Fuck you, your game is detracting from my life. There should always be a means of insta-stopping the game and saving for later if something immediate comes up to distract from it. There's some justification if the game is online multiplayer, but in offline single player games I acknowledge no valid excuse whatsoever. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: The Wizards and Warriors NES trilogy is very good as a trilogy |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 8:18:45 PM #3 | I preferred Wizards, Warriors & You. https://gamebooks.org/Series/185/Show --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Imma dip my balls in some thousand island dressin' |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 8:13:24 PM #5 | Louie, is that you? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Let's stop fucking around |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 8:11:37 PM #15 | Blightzkrieg posted... I literally live my life in constant unease, knowing that half the people around me at any given time probably prefer the imp. Only half? I think like 90% of Midna hentai is imp. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You only have one choice as a GameFAQS poster. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 8:01:34 PM #30 | HornedLion posted... Nah, bro. Its a thread about the only two things GameFAQS posters love and making them choose between them. I'm a GameFAQs poster, and I don't really love Nintendo. But I love plenty of other things. Your absolutist worldview is a lie! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Let's stop fucking around |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 7:58:08 PM #13 | Wanded posted... why haven't you played ocarina of time yet Probably because it's an overrated game that hasn't aged all that well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Beer has made us smarter. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 5:25:43 PM #9 | synth_real posted... It was one of the big reasons why ancient agriculture was developed, they wanted to brew lots of beer but needed more grain to do it. https://www.amazon.com/History-World-6-Glasses/dp/0802715524 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | March Madness 2022 |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 4:09:50 PM #7 | ArvTheGreat posted... What if Arv was in some b ball Then in defiance of all known science, I would actually somehow care even less. Like negative care. Sarcasthma posted... Except for when you were in your infamous Lola Bunny phase. Nah. Unlike you sad children of the 90s, I wasn't developing a furry fetish from Space Jam. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Iran launched a missile strike on US Consulate in Iraq |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 3:57:55 PM #7 | Accrovideogames posted... Stop misleading people. The Consulate wasn't even hit. From the article you yourself posted: "Initially, an Iraqi official said several missiles struck the US consulate in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. But later Kurdistans foreign media office said none of the rockets hit the facility but they landed near the compound." It's not really misleading people when you're just accurately reporting what's being said. If the info changes later that doesn't really invalidate the original post. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | March Madness 2022 |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 1:26:31 PM #2 | Over the last 45 years, there has never been a single moment when I was excited about or interested in basketball. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Satirical Hot Take: Disney's Turning Red normalizing furry culture |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 4:19:28 AM #12 | wolfy42 posted... Um, disney has pretty much ALWAYS normalized furry culture, I would imagine a good percentage of all furries became that way due to Disney movies/films etc. http://images4.fanpop.com/image/articles/106000/walt-disney-characters_106568_1_full.jpg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did any of the Walking Dead content ever say how it all started? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/13/22 12:55:24 AM #7 | JixHedgehog posted... He mentioned it at a convention ..then later in a tweet Could be worse. He could have pulled a Y: The Last Man. With that one, Vaughan had characters in-universe constantly speculate on what the origin of the plague was, so there were about a half-dozen different possibilities mentioned in the comic. And then he just told people that one of them was accurate and the canonical answer without actually saying which of the theories it was. Because he wants the reader to decide for themselves. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did any of the Walking Dead content ever say how it all started? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 11:11:51 PM #4 | JixHedgehog posted... Robert Kirkman went on record to say it came from space That was actually a lie he told the publisher. He told them it came from aliens so it would seem "unique" and they'd publish it (since they'd already rejected it two or three times by that point). He's explicitly said in interviews he never had any intention of ever having aliens in it, and he was just lying about it. The origin of the zombie virus in Walking Dead is the same cause of the zombies in Night of the Living Dead (which was the direct original inspiration). Namely, there is no known cause, because it's not important to the story, and the unknown is scarier than knowing. Whatever you can personally imagine will be more frightening or interesting than anything Kirkman could come up with and tell you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I weigh under 200lbs for the first time since 2014. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 8:37:12 PM #11 | wpot posted... For me, never leaving the house has had the opposite effect. How do you lose weight that way? Was going to say this. Most people gained weight during the pandemic. For most people, never going out means not exercising. Especially with gyms closed. Combine that with stress and boredom eating, and it's a formula for weight gain. Judgmenl posted... Good? I'm almost a healthy weight again. Well, there's more to health than just weight. If you're a sort of withered thin where most of your muscle mass has kind of atrophied, you're much worse off than you'd be if you weighed more but it was muscle mass. Ideally, when you drop weight, you want to be losing fat, but not muscle. People who lose weight by just sort of stopping eating tend to wind up unhealthy because they lose more muscle than fat. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You only have one choice as a GameFAQS poster. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 8:30:33 PM #14 | Wanded posted... "hear" You can still watch dubs... --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who would you rather have as a friend Sam vs Ron |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 6:34:10 PM #11 | wpot posted... I really didn't like what Jackson did with Merry/Pippin, though: they got the full comic relief sidekick treatment whereas they were more or less equals to Frodo in the book. That was my complaint about Gimli, honestly. He's reduced to comic relief in a lot of his scenes, which is very much not what he is in the books. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who would you rather have as a friend Sam vs Ron |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 6:32:45 PM #10 | wpot posted... Actually I had a rather strong "are they gay?" reaction the first couple times I read the books in the 90s as a teenager. I never got that from the books, though I definitely got it from the movies. But part of that also plays into my complaint that people today seem psychologically incapable of comprehending the idea of powerful platonic friendship. The moment characters in any show or movie seem to have strong feelings for each other, people come out of the woodwork to talk about the sexual subtext or imagine them fucking. I'm not sure whether the rise of shipping culture is more a symptom or a cause, but it seems a given these days that the baseline assumption is that romantic affection is the only affection that exists. Which might even tie into the idea of why incest porn is becoming so popular lately - we're no longer capable of viewing relationships through the lens of familiar love, platonic love, communal love, or anything other than romantic or erotic love. All affection implies romance or lust, no exceptions. Granted, the subtext is certainly there in any number of stories written over the years, going waaay back, so the idea of romantic love being hidden behind the facade of another type isn't a new thing, but people today seem to read it into nearly everything. It must be frustrating to be a writer today and be unable to write a story with two characters who have a deep and abiding friendship and love for each other without tons of fans online asking when they're going to fuck. wpot posted... As I grew up that faded as I read more books featuring olde English servants/friendships, though: a truly devoted old world servant had some characteristics we would associate with lovers today. It gets even more complicated if you start going back into ancient sources (like, say, Homer or other Greek stories), where you have characters who may be presented as friends who also casually have sex, because a number of past cultures didn't necessarily equate sex with romance. Like how Japan tended to value the archetype of same-sex sexual camaraderie even while being strongly homophobic in general (going back to at least the samurai era), or how Romans would encourage old man/young boy pairings as a form of socialization but had a strong disdain for actual homosexual relationships. We have a tendency to try and view all past media and history though the lens of our own current culture and mores, but that can lead to a lot of false assumptions. People in the past didn't see the world the way we do, and ignoring their cultural context kind of changes the reality of whatever you're looking at. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You only have one choice as a GameFAQS poster. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 6:13:43 PM #9 | LinkPizza posted... I guess I wont touch Asian women. It will suck to not hug my friend. But I must play Nintendo Keep in mind they won't be your friend at all anymore, since you won't be able to see or hear them either. To your perspective, they will cease to exist. Whereas from their perspective, you'll just be an asshole who started ignoring them for no reason one day. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You only have one choice as a GameFAQS poster. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 6:12:06 PM #8 | I haven't really seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched Nintendo products for like 20 years now, so I wouldn't even notice the difference. You could have completely erased them from existence in 2000 and the last two decades of my life would barely change at all. Meanwhile, my girlfriend is Asian. Granted, she's South Asian (by descent, at least) as opposed to East Asian, but that's the problem with that descriptor - there's a lot of Asia. Without terms like the now frowned upon "Oriental" to help distinguish between regions, "Asian" alone also includes most of Russia, India, and the Middle East (and not just China/Japan/Korea/etc). About 3/5ths of the Earth's population is Asian (and that's just counting Asians IN Asia, not people of Asian descent in other places). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Does your tape collection look like this? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 6:01:33 PM #4 | No, but I do own this on 8-track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui1E6zxFc-s --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Satirical Hot Take: Disney's Turning Red normalizing furry culture |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/12/22 5:59:27 PM #4 | It was clearly Chinese propaganda, likely meant to weaken the West before their inevitable invasion. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which of these classic era wrestlers is your favourite? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/11/22 11:43:32 PM #3 | Virgil would be my favorite, except he's kind of a shit in real life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who would you rather have as a friend Sam vs Ron |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/11/22 9:51:10 PM #6 | wpot posted... The only quibble I have with Sam is the persistent loyal servant (as opposed to true "friend") thing. But he's still a greatest ever tier character. Well, it's worth keeping in mind that Sam is Frodo's servant. And a hereditary servant to boot - his father was Bag End's gardener before him. To some degree their relationship is a product of the era in which the books were written. Tolkien was basically writing about England when he was writing about hobbits and The Shire (and more specifically, the sort of upper-class English countryside culture of the late 1800s/early 1900s). And the relationship between Frodo and Sam was originally written to reflect the sort of relationship an upper class British man might have with his loyal personal servant. It's closer to the relationship you see between the social classes in shows like Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs. Or more accurately something like Jeeves and Wooster. Where the bond is one of both loyalty and friendship, but there's always that underlying divide that separates the two. Not a friendship of equals, but one where one half of the pair is inherently seen (by both) to be superior to the other (but which can be subverted if the "inferior" half of the pair is arguably more capable - again, a Jeeves and Wooster sort of scenario, or even a Holmes/Watson pairing). It's more the Peter Jackson live-action films that kind of underplay that aspect more in favor of just making them closer friends (or more, depending on how you want to read the subtext) and more or less equals. But that's mainly because the audience has changed and the culture it was reflecting isn't so much of a thing these days. I'd argue that the live-action films also tend to make Aragon seem much more sympathetic and awesome than the books do. And they humanize Gandalf a bit more. And make the Merry/Pippin interactions feel more like friendship than merely kinship. Tolkien was very much writing from an English tradition of stiff-upper-lips and refraining from showing emotion or excessive affection between friends, whereas the movie is showing a more modern style of social interaction (which is part of what helps people relate to/like those characters more). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who would you rather have as a friend Sam vs Ron |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/11/22 9:31:06 PM #4 | Sam just because he's from the series I actually like, as opposed to the one I don't. But even beyond that, Sam's generally awesome (and doubly so when played by Sean Astin), so he's the no-brainer choice regardless. Hell, I'd pick Samwell Tarly over Ron as well. wpot posted... To be completely honest I don't think Rowling had a very good grasp of how male friendships work. (OK, OK, "traditional" male friendships) If we're going to be completely honest, it seems like Rowling doesn't have a very good grasp of a lot of things. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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