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Seeing all these games listed and thinking about it, the XBOX might have been the console I've played the most RPGs on. Those days were great.

I'll tell you what's ridiculous, the Kaiser. Someone should put him on a roll!

Just_a_loser posted...

The fact this needs explained to TC is telling.

FBI, we have a sociopath here. May want to investigate.

TC is making an allusion to Israel/Palestine.

Oh I'm not too worried about it. Maybe the best boss character on the show. He and J. Peterman may be tied for it.

*Send people to hell over for the dumbest reasons, some even out of a person's control, where they suffer horribly forever with no chance of parole or mercy*
*Loves you*

Isn't it funny when you bring any of this stuff up in this topic you're called a fedora tipping euphoric angsthiest? It's like they have no arguments against any of it.

If I remember right, in the book Theoden gives Wormtongue a choice of riding with him to Helm's Deep or to leave, telling him that next time he sees him he will not give him any mercy. Grima of course bolts back to Saruman. Some might say that's still foolish, but mercy is a big theme in LOTR. I always disliked how obviously evil looking he is in the movies. How could anyone trust him? He should have looked like he did at the very end like in the books. I also hate how Saruman "possesses" Theoden, when in the books he suffers from old age, bad council, and is slowly being poisoned by Grima.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Are Orcs naturally just evil? Or are they the result of Saruman's treatment?

I mean if an Orc was raised in isolation away from Sauron's influence by "normal" people. Would they just be tough aggressive normal people? Like Klingons?

I mean they have Grog and recreation. They're more than animals.

Spartan_Jedi117 posted...

I'm probably wrong about this, but, aren't orc mutated and tortured elves? From like, the beginning of the world's creation, one of the gods going rouge? Idk the actual mythos, I heard second hand from a friend

It is one of the proposed origins that Tolkien made, but he changed his mind and died before coming to a definitive answer. I believe that is the origin told in The Silmarillion, but that is basically a collection of Tolkien's various writings and weren't definitive or complete. Tolkien changed his mind quite a bit on things and would revise his stories although it was only in personal notes and such. Later on he seemed adamant that orcs were not corrupted elves, but corrupted men.

As for their nature, it seems that they weren't originally pure evil, but became so corrupted and brainwashed that they blindly followed Morgoth and Sauron and pretty much became horrible creatures in general. This doesn't answer everything, but it's an interesting text on orcs from The History of Middle Earth: Morgoth's Ring:

Finally, there is a cogent point, though horrible to relate. It became clear in time that undoubted Men could under the domination of Morgoth or his agents in a few generations be reduced almost to the Orc-level of mind and habits; and then they would or could be made to mate with Orcs, producing new breeds, often larger and more cunning. There is no doubt that long afterwards, in the Third Age, Saruman rediscovered this, or learned of it in lore, and in his lust for mastery committed this, his wickedest deed: the interbreeding of Orcs and Men, producing both Men-orcs large and cunning, and Orc-men treacherous and vile.

But even before this wickedness of Morgoth was suspected the Wise in the Elder Days taught always that the Orcs were not 'made' by Melkor, and therefore were not in their origin evil. They might have become irredeemable (at least by Elves and Men), but they remained within the Law. That is, that though of necessity, being the fingers of the hand of Morgoth, they must be fought with the utmost severity, they must not be dealt within their own terms of cruelty and treachery. Captives must not be tormented, not even to discover information for the defence of the homes of Elves and Men. If any Orcs surrendered and asked for mercy, they must be granted it, even at a cost. This was the teaching of the Wise, though in the horror of the War it was not always heeded.

It is true, of course, that Morgoth held the Orcs in direct thraldom; for in their corruption they had lost almost all possibility of resisting the domination of his will. So great indeed did its pressure upon them become ere Angband fell that, if he turned his thought towards them, they were conscious of his 'eye' wherever they might be; and when Morgoth was at last removed from Arda the Orcs that survived in the West were scattered, leaderless and almost witless, and were for a longtime without control or purpose.

This servitude to a central will that reduced the Orcs almost to an ant-like life was seen even more plainly in the Second and Third Ages under the tyranny of Sauron, Morgoth's chief lieutenant. Sauron indeed achieved even greater control over his Orcs than Morgoth had done. He was, of course, operating on a smaller scale, and he had no enemies so great and so fell as were the Noldor in their might in the Elder Days. But he had also inherited from those days difficulties, such as the diversity of the Orcs in breed and language, and the feuds among them; while in many places in Middle-earth, after the fall of Thangorodrim and during the concealment of Sauron, the Orcs recovering from their helplessness had set up petty realms of their own and had become accustomed to independence. Nonetheless Sauron in time managed to unite them all in unreasoning hatred of the Elves and of Men who associated with them; while the Orcs of his own trained armies were so completely under his will that they would sacrifice themselves without hesitation at his command. And he proved even more skillful than his Master also in the corruption of Men who were beyond the reach of the Wise, and in reducing them to a vassalage, in which they would march with the Orcs, and vie with them in cruelty and destruction

The Shining is one of my favorite movies and I'm not much of a horror fan. The Thing is still The Thing. It's hard to top that.

Speaking of The Thing, here's Kurt Russell and John Carpenter (mostly Kurt) laughing their asses off while doing a commentary track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4r7wIsWebc

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's just cosmetic. No mtx in D4 has any in game benefits

O.O

For pretty much the same damn price as a whole game? What. The. Fuck. I wonder if the "micro transactions are fine as long as they're cosmetic" will defend this. Probably will because that was a joke viewpoint from the beginning.

EmilyTheCEman posted...

No because you should be actively watching that masterpiece show.

rideshort posted...

No. That show deserves to be watched, not listened. Play music.

These. The show holds up quite well. Years ago I went through the whole series again and enjoyed it very much.

Probably, but I am the hater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIwj1TQmFs

I hate on mark ass marks, trick ass marks, punk bitches, skip scap skanks and scallywags, hoes, heifers, hee hahs, and hula hoops.

I never played any Diablo game and never will if this is how they're going. Is this literally just cosmetic horse armor ala Oblivion or is there more to it? I'm hoping the latter for that price.

Never knew what I was supposed to do, but I loved playing it as a kid because I loved anything Jurassic Park. The first person stuff was so damn neat at the time.

Also that elevator music:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoxIFOoEBn0&pp=ygUhanVyYXNzaWMgcGFyayBzbmVzIGVsZXZhdG9yIG11c2lj

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


TheGoldenEel posted...

https://youtu.be/fuLllNyfiHs

Was hoping these would be posted.

Won't most water go back into the water cycle anyway?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3F2z8ApOI8&pp=ygUbbWVuIGluIGJsYWNrIHlvdXIgcHJvcG9zYWwg

Democratic party politicians of out touch with their constituents? No way!

It would have been in the 90s pre special editions. I don't know when I first saw it or the other OT movies. SW is one of those things I've always been a fan of as far back as I can remember.

TC can't get his trolling fix from just simping for the rich so he's doing this now.

That sounds so dumb it's funny. Sounds like something Roger Moore's Bond would do.

Sad how people defend Russia and their toadies because they have a childish view of things.

"The west is bad so people against the west are good even if they do the same things we hate the west for doing." Useful idiots you all are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

The more I hear about NTTD, the less I want to see it. I've seen much praise of it too, but it doesn't sound like something I'd like. The whole Craig run was a disappointment for me even if 2 of the movies were good, even if flawed. I hated the idea of rebooting JB in the first place. There was no need to.

ZechtAurion posted...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMiddleEast/comments/17rgwwr/israeli_terrorists_opened_fire_at_a_little_girl/

Now now. She may have had a rock! Obvious secret Hamas agent!

/s just in case.

Fascists will be fascists. Shows why people need to make sure Republicans don't get elected.

TheOtherMike posted...

Imagine how badly Republicans would lose their shit if a Democrat suggested ignoring the results of Democracy.

Just. Fucking. Imagine.

Plus the media would be harping on it for months.

Yeah, but it was fine since James Bond always returned. Would have been nice for the actors themselves. Can't comment on Craig because I still haven't seen NTTD. Spectre killed my interest in the Craig saga. Hopefully they'll either go back to the old loose and floating continuity or do period pieces with Bond in the 50s/60s fighting the Soviets like the novels.

There's the nutty religious side to it, but I think the various billionaires who fund Republicans and some of the GOPers themselves just want more poor people stuck in a bad situation and desperate. It's about ower and control and keeping people down.

I take, and am on, Ambien and I haven't said some racist crap or gone to a Trump rally. Weird.

Yeah for the most part, unless I'm in a hot, stuffy attic all day or having to dig a trench.

Pretty much, yeah.

myusernameislame posted...

How much more openly fascist and genocidal do Republicans have to get before it's OK to get upset that people vote for them? Whether or not you think they're there yet, tell me where the line is. How bad does it have to get?

This. Republicans are so openly horrible and cause so much pain and suffering to innocents, yet we still have people going "OMG people are so tribal. Why does politics matter so much to people? Why can't people just talk to one another?" and crap like that. 9 out of 10 times it's people who lean conservative who can't get why their ideology is cancer.

Get a goddamn clue and get real. This is literal life and death for many people.

Is that at a Walmart? Appropriate if so.

ROBANN_88 posted...

Been a while since i read it, but i believe the book didn't specify how he made them, they were just described as human/orc hybrids.
It's implied that he purposefully "bred Uruks"

So i'm glad the movie chose the Mud Cloning way instead of the more... unsavory way

This

There are female orcs, but orcs also love kidnapping women/female elves too and there are half orcs. There's some dark stuff in Tolkien that's not openly talked about.

Saruman creating them out of mud is a movie invention.

The Cheer Up Charlie song.

Great? Yes. Perfect? No. It's a 9.5/10.

I didn't care much for the sequels. I don't know, they just didn't seem nearly as cool as the first. I did like 2's ending with you know who popping back up. That was neat. I love the idea of them with all the various pirate/sea lore, but I don't think it was executed as good as it could have been. Not much stuck with me in my memory basically.

I haven't seen them since they came out, so I might need to revisit them.

MS reelected Peter Griffin, but tons of people down here are both very stupid and very hateful so they'll vote Republican no matter what. They'd let Republicans cut one of their legs off as long as black people, "Mexicans", and LGBTQ+ people get both of theirs cut off.

These comments are both funny and sad. They are clueless and projecting.

They're both wrong, but truck driver is a lot more wrong. Truck driver shouldn't have tried to barge in like that.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

fucking entitled pick up truck drivers. "the bigger the vehicle, the bigger the asshole" ringing true again

This. 90% of the time people driving big trucks are dicks just like BMW drivers.

Spartan_Jedi117 posted...

Why CE have more topics like this? Most of the time, it's some troll trying to deliberately start a flame war

I'm just happy about any Tolkien/LOTR related topics even if it's just eagle ones. Love reading about and discussing it because I've been a huge Tolkien nerd since my tweens.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

. I'm pretty sure they'd be trying to bring back slavery if they thought they could get away with it.

They will. Baby steps.

I'm guessing Sauron can "sense" the eagles anyway and just send the Nazgul after them. Since Sauron's power can reach far and wide, they probably wouldn't even have to be close to Mordor for him to see what they're doing. Surely Mordor has spies and watchtowers everywhere anyway. The eagles are massive.

HornyLevel posted...

Everything is Eru's fault.

Really it's this. God's plan.

Carljank posted...

Rob Schneider is a bitch

I thought he was a carrot.

I'm no punk bitch!

Or open a conspiracy themed bar called the inebriati.

It's fake and all, but whether she's got a fat rod or a fat kitty, I like it.

MistyKnight posted...

If they don't care about politics they are part of a group that is rarely if ever harmed by shit policy

LSGW_Zephyra posted...

Naive
Privileged

These. And of course some folks here are still both sides-ing and shit. Give me a break. You're not cool because you're not affected and don't care either.

Partly that and other things. We are more aware of bad and sad things than we were as teens and early 20 somethings.

Speaking of politics, I post in lots of political topics, but I post in lots of other ones too. I don't make politics my only reason or even the main reason why I come here nor do I try to bring up politics out of nowhere in non-political topics. Some make them the be all end all here and that's just kinda sad.

Torgo posted...

God already knew if you were going to hell or not before you were born according to the majority of Christians, so what have you got to lose?

Of course this creates a whole problem with the concept of a God that is all good and all just, but also because of his omniscience and omnipotence... he literally created some humans to be tortured for eternity over crimes against him he knew they would commit within a finite lifetime.

Huh...

But remember, he loves you...

Pokemon is great with the fast forward option. I couldn't play one without it now. Cuts out so much of the time sink while still being fun.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I'm for re-releases of old games letting you be as much of a purist as you want to be. If you want the original experience with nothing changed you should be able to have that, but if you want modern QoL features you should be able to have that as well.

Right. People who want to be purists can just not use them and those who want to can. Everyone wins.

I'm sure we'll have folks who will say people who use them didn't really beat the game.

Uh, yeah ya think!?

Solar_Crimson posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a434f2af.jpg

Shit cube! I kinda miss this era of youtube with all the AVGN clones.