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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7080 on: June 19, 2015, 12:26:03 PM »
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7081 on: June 19, 2015, 12:28:27 PM »
It's funny living in the South Hemisphere and being part of a scandinavian-themed fandom. I see everyone wishing "Happy Midsummer Thingy" and I'm just here, freezing.

Anyway, if there are any Jurassic Park fans over there, I just found this amusing video. Enjoy.

Spoiler: show

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7082 on: June 19, 2015, 12:33:41 PM »
Quote from: Daéa Reina on June 19, 2015, 12:28:27 PM

Anyway, if there are any Jurassic Park fans over there, I just found this amusing video. Enjoy.

Spoiler: show



That was funny. :) I just saw the new movie the other day.
Has anyone read the Jurassic Park books though? They're really interesting.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7083 on: June 19, 2015, 12:36:51 PM »
Quote from: Daéa Reina on June 19, 2015, 12:28:27 PM
It's funny living in the South Hemisphere and being part of a scandinavian-themed fandom. I see everyone wishing "Happy Midsummer Thingy" and I'm just here, freezing.

Anyway, if there are any Jurassic Park fans over there, I just found this amusing video. Enjoy.

Spoiler: show


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Quote from: Feartheviolas on June 19, 2015, 12:33:41 PM
That was funny. :) I just saw the new movie the other day.
Has anyone read the Jurassic Park books though? They're really interesting.
I read the first one, and it was interesting but very concept-based and almost solely plot-oriented. I like my books with more character orientation and development. (Also babies got killed and I hated that so much don't kill babies in books or movies please just don't it makes me so upset)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7084 on: June 19, 2015, 12:46:54 PM »
Quote from: RandomTexanReader on June 19, 2015, 12:36:51 PM
I read the first one, and it was interesting but very concept-based and almost solely plot-oriented. I like my books with more character orientation and development. (Also babies got killed and I hated that so much don't kill babies in books or movies please just don't it makes me so upset)

Yeah a lot more people die in the books than in the movies. A lot of main characters die that they would never kill off in a Hollywood movie.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7085 on: June 19, 2015, 12:50:06 PM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on June 19, 2015, 12:46:54 PM
Yeah a lot more people die in the books than in the movies. A lot of main characters die that they would never kill off in a Hollywood movie.
It's always frustrating interesting how different movie adaptations are from the books.
My dad's friend is a novelist and screenwriter and he says, "A book is a leisurely walk from A to B: a movie is a frantic rush from A to Z."
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7086 on: June 19, 2015, 12:50:57 PM »
Quote from: RandomTexanReader on June 19, 2015, 12:36:51 PM
*looks up the weather in Brazil*
*climbs onto roof*
*tries to fan the warm air over in your direction*

Well, the sky cleared up a bit, so I guess it kinda worked? :o

As for the Jurassic Park books, I only read the first one, and I really liked it. Doctor Malcolm is way cooler in the books than how Jeff Goldblum portrayed him in the movies. And yes, the book has a lot of deaths, but I think it just makes the story more realistic. And Dr. Hammond is a jerk in the book version.

I tried to read the second book, but I got lazy and gave up.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7087 on: June 19, 2015, 01:04:16 PM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on June 19, 2015, 12:33:41 PM
That was funny. :) I just saw the new movie the other day.
Has anyone read the Jurassic Park books though? They're really interesting.

They were my favorite books as a kid! Ever since we were on a road trip (a common occurrence in my childhood: twice a year we'd do a three-day each way road trip to see family) and for some reason my dad figured playing a Lost World audiobook with his tiny delicate daughters in the car was a good idea... Probably the most violent books I'd read at that point in my childhood.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7088 on: June 19, 2015, 01:13:00 PM »
I've also read some of Michael Crichton's other books and they are so scary because the scenarios he writes about are things that are on the verge of existing in real life and therefore seem really realistic.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7089 on: June 19, 2015, 02:07:32 PM »
Right, so, I just earned a whole new notch to my "I'm a moron"-tableside... I was helping myself to some crisps and was closing - well, trying to close - the bag with a clothespin (fun fact: clothespins work for everything)(for me at least) when the bag slipped off my hands. My brain managed a brief REACT!NOW! impulse -
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This is the worst way of wasting half a bag of crisps.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7090 on: June 19, 2015, 02:11:06 PM »
Quote from: Laufey on June 19, 2015, 02:07:32 PM
Right, so, I just earned a whole new notch to my "I'm a moron"-tableside... I was helping myself to some crisps and was closing - well, trying to close - the bag with a clothespin (fun fact: clothespins work for everything)(for me at least) when the bag slipped off my hands. My brain managed a brief REACT!NOW! impulse -
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This is the worst way of wasting half a bag of crisps.

Crisp trebuchet? :D
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7091 on: June 19, 2015, 02:11:45 PM »
Quote from: Laufey on June 19, 2015, 02:07:32 PM
Right, so, I just earned a whole new notch to my "I'm a moron"-tableside... I was helping myself to some crisps and was closing - well, trying to close - the bag with a clothespin (fun fact: clothespins work for everything)(for me at least) when the bag slipped off my hands. My brain managed a brief REACT!NOW! impulse -
- and I kicked the bag. Midair. It was still open.

This is the worst way of wasting half a bag of crisps.

I feel a bit bad for laughing as hard as I did at this...

I think half of the humour came because I still imagine everyone here as looking like their avatars, and the image of Captain Ása dragon-kicking a bag of crisps was just too much for me.

(Also yeah, clothespins have so many uses, it's wonderful)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7092 on: June 19, 2015, 02:18:07 PM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on June 19, 2015, 02:11:06 PM
Crisp trebuchet? :D

HOW DARE YOU

Quote from: SectoBoss on June 19, 2015, 02:11:45 PM
I think half of the humour came because I still imagine everyone here as looking like their avatars, and the image of Captain Ása dragon-kicking a bag of crisps was just too much for me.

Well ok, I admit that would be a pretty hilarious scene! :D (I didn't manage anything as fancy as a dragon-kick tho, more like CORNER KICK TIME - oshi -)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7093 on: June 19, 2015, 02:21:04 PM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on June 19, 2015, 02:11:45 PM
I feel a bit bad for laughing as hard as I did at this...

I think half of the humour came because I still imagine everyone here as looking like their avatars, and the image of Captain Ása dragon-kicking a bag of crisps was just too much for me.

(Also yeah, clothespins have so many uses, it's wonderful)
yES to the "still imagining everyone looking like their avatars" thing, I've seen actual pics of Laufey and YET you will always be Captain Ása in my mind. (and SectoBoss, well, I hope you enjoy being pictured as a sentient submarine)

clothespins are magic and yet the most i do with them is arrange them in rainbow order and then get annoyed when people break them apart to pin clothes in place. how dare you ruin my art



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #7094 on: June 19, 2015, 02:24:13 PM »
Quote from: Haiz on June 19, 2015, 02:21:04 PM
yES to the "still imagining everyone looking like their avatars" thing, I've seen actual pics of Laufey and YET you will always be Captain Ása in my mind. (and SectoBoss, well, I hope you enjoy being pictured as a sentient submarine)

Yup. This 100%. Haiz, you are a sweaterLalli in my head.
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