Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 15 hours ago, Deities and Demagogues said: What may be notable about Dickens' situation is that the amount he had to write was agreed upon in advance. He might not have been chasing a carrot by extending his prose, but he was certainly chasing an inflexible target. This was also true of, for example, Asimov (at least in later years). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Huh. Asimov wrote serials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Deities and Demagogues said: Huh. Asimov wrote serials? Yes — a lot of his earlier books were serials — but that's not what I meant. For his later books, the publisher basically went to him and said, "We want you to write another Foundation book. It needs to be [x] words. We'll pay you a bajillion dollars. Will you do it?" And yes, that's a little different from a serial where you're paid for every 32-page installment, but it's the same basic incentive: you have to hit a word count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I love that the third Lije Baley book is twice the length of the first two, and noticeably worse, and ends with a garbage deus ex machina, and has an uncomfortable sex scene and discussion of how incest is okay on this planet, and sets the stage for Robots and Empire, which is maybe the worst book Asimov ever wrote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Were his earlier books actually written as serials, or rather as short stories? While those two origins have plenty in common, they don't as far as the characteristics of serialization that are relevant here -- that is, an inflexible length requirement and an inflexible deadline. Short stories published independently of one another on an as-written basis have neither. I think it's the combination of those two requirements that create potential for a problem. Few writers have an unflaggingly consistent stream of output, and it's not hard to imagine the bind the author is in when a satisfying continuation simply isn't manifesting itself and they have 32 pages or whatever due anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Jawaj Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) There were likely enough variations in printing with font, spacing, etc. that Dickens' length wasn't completely inflexible though. The Barnes and Noble edition of Hard Times averages 17.6 modern pages per installment; Bleak House 45.6 (ignoring illustrations and ancillary material like endnotes, which would only change this slightly). Reading a bit more, Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (both later novels) were serialized in a literary periodical owned by Dickens. Edited March 21, 2018 by Jawaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 A lot of the Golden Age Sci-Fi novels were first serialized in magazines and then published as novels. I am not sure if the author's intent (Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, etc) was to write a novel and then sell a version to Astounding/Galaxy/etc or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Isaac Asimov started off as a short story writer. Some stories like the Foundation Series were originally published in magazines as novellas that were collected in novels as reprints. I don't think the intent was to originally write a novel, but to get published to make money and only later reprint it as a novel when he became more successful. Later on Asimov decided to fill in gaps between his earlier works and merge series into a large coherent universe that led to really bad novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Jawaj Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Centaurs Hydras Medusa/Gorgons Minotaurs Pegasuses/Pegasi Cyclops Chimeras The Trojan Horse Odysseus/Ulysses Achilles Agaememnon Helen of Troy Hercules Zeus Poseidon Hades Athena Edited March 24, 2018 by Jawaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 Black Panther (party): An organization created by a forcefully oppressed group to whom other avenues of change had proved ineffective, and which was self-reliant and began with necessary community programs; and which was savagely and racistly attacked by the intelligence community as well as the press. It can't claim total nobility, but it's hard not to be sympathetic. Black Panther (character): A relatively good superhero, mostly free from cliches, and often with good storylines. Not the most personally resonant for me. Black Panther (film): I'm conflicted and not quite sure where to put this. Muppet Babies: Pretty good for what it was. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Fine. Good bits to the story, but a little slow at times, and I think overrated. Paulicianism/Bogomilism/Waldensianism: I don't understand why these are combined? Also, it's hard for me to *rank* all these old movements or sects within Christianity.. I could discuss them but I don't really see much to judge one way or the other. Centaurs: Not the most interesting human-animal hybrid, nor the most pleasant, and that's ignoring the infelicitousness of their appearances in modern internet days. Hydra: A widely applicable motif. Medusa/Gorgons: Now here's a truly powerful image and story, even before we hear Medusa's backstory. Poorly handled and genericized in most modern appearances. Minotaurs: Not quite as powerful a setup as Medusa, but a good one, with another great backstory -- and again, poorly handled and genericized in most modern appearances. O Greeks, you gave us such misogyny, and such compensatory mythological figures! O Medusa, O Pasiphae! Pegasuses/Pegasi: Eh. Also, quit pluralizing singular figures unless you want me to rank modern appearances instead. Cyclops: Or Cyclopes? Eh. Chimeras: More interesting than most such combinations, and it gave us a great word. The Trojan Horse: Implausible and overdone. Odysseus/Ulysses: A cunning and powerful man of privilege. Achilles: A true tragic hero, the carrier of grief and rage; interesting and more than a little monstrous. Agaememnon: It's hard to be sympathetic to this one. Helen of Troy: The feminine object _par excellance_, with a variety of depictions. As is pretty much always the case, I prefer Euripides, and accordingly rate Helen higher than her general reputation might suggest. Hercules: A fascinating figure. Despite his hypermasculinity, Heracles somehow ends up bieng one of the least obnoxious Greek heroes; and despite his persecution from Hera, one of the least problematic in his behavior towards women. Low bars, but still, have to give him some credit. Zeus: It's sometimes difficult to tell if Zeus is _actually_ an asshole, or if he's just that way because the world sucks and he's the nous and etc. etc. Poseidon: Sort of a Zeus minor with no nous to hide behind. Hades: A favourite underworld god, as True Neutral as they come, reasonable and even helpful, with the best bucket of euphemistic epithets any Cronide could hope for. Athena: Leaning In to Olympus, and raking in so much appreciation these days, but an enemy I name her: taking cleverness, wisdom, and might, and using them at the employ of the powerful, punishing the weak, and perpetuating misogyny everywhere. 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Clarke Exile III: Ruined World The Cranberries (band) Bartenders Black Panther (character) Sock puppets Flamingos Cluny the Scourge The Chronicles of Narnia "Mr. Green Genes" Muppet Babies Penguins TLC Rhinos Civilization (human phenomenon) Beer Frodo Baggins Mexican food Bob Dylan Richard Garfield Ontology Chimera (Lycian) Science museums Achilles Ella Fitzgerald Pelicans BitTorrent Nevermind Tom Waits 70's prog Sliths Rats Avernum II: Crystal Souls Slarty Ranks Everything Ranking lists "...Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades..." Heavy-handed symbolism Princess Peach Elephants Donuts Cats Trombones The Muppets The Eiffel Tower Solidarność screenshot Civ II Helen of Troy Revolutions Casablanca Avadon series Goldfish (snack) Gilbert Gottfried Football (American) Nephils Star Wars original trilogy James Garfield Jury nullification Avernum 4 Cinnamon rolls Hubble space telescope History museums Pegasus 2001: A Space Odyssey The Beatles Aretha Franklin Homestar Runner They Might Be Giants Tennis Posting games Inspector Peanut Subinfeudation Solitaire The Big Lebowski Nelson Rockefeller Goldfish (fish) Art museums King Arthur The aesthetic qualities of the Hebrew alphabet Zeus Windows 3.1 Carmen McRae Richard Cheese Bark spider Spiders Dolphins Metahumor Nixon's foreign policy Sparkling water Grant Wood Paprika Spam (meat) Cabaret (film) Harry Potter series Peanuts Standard playing cards Norman Rockwell The electoral college Nick Cave MMORPGs "This is a Trent Reznor Song" Google Odysseus Xian Skull (item) Spam (e-mails) Running Puggsy Checkers Facebook Runtz Pineapple pizza The LP rendition of Slarty's voice Gilmore Girls Hockey George Clooney Film noir Abugidas Vitamin C supplements Blazing Saddles Louis Armstrong The Trojan Horse 70's movies New York City Abjads "Lackadaisical" "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Matrix GIFTs (Spiderweb) Godwin's Law Poseidon The aesthetic qualities of hierogylphics Russian Bimetallism Beowulf (character) Angry Birds Alf screenshot Pyramids with eyes on them Centaurs Moderate rain all day Microsoft Phantom stair step (bottom) Word Rescue Elvis Presley Minecraft Galactic Core Bumper stickers Novelty mugs Apple Mechanical pencils Vultures John Wayne Amazon The post that asks me to rank itself Virtue ethics Roller skates Greek yogurt KISS (principle) Agamemnon Salty liquorice WesternsFriends Getting a triple word score in Scrabble Phantom stair step (top) Turkey/cat video Dieselpunk Life of Brian AOL ELIZA Zombies (infectious) 80's fashion KISS Hipgnosis Expensive wristwatches Salt lamps Cologne My Little Pony Whaling Rudyard Kipling The War on Drugs (band) Queen (band) Fifty Shades of Grey Jane Austen books The Byzantine Empire The Let's Play series Stubbing your big toe Basketball Baseball "Acceptable in the 80's" (song) Halloween Bertrand Russell Cats (musical) Stubbing your little toe Pirates Elfpunk Ennui Charles Dickens "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (song) Soccer Robin Hood (character) Star Wars prequel trilogy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas the Tank Engine Freefall (webcomic) "2500 things Mr. Welch..." 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Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 13 minutes ago, Deities and Demagogues said: Paulicianism/Bogomilism/Waldensianism: I don't understand why these are combined? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 I mean, they're still quite distinct things. This picture is a serious oversimplification, given that at least 500 years passed between the origin of the Paulicians and the Waldensians appearing. It strikes me that this would be sort of like saying "The Federalists/Whigs/Republicans" -- there are some clear lines of descent there but cmon, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Well, we can't quite know the exact line of descent of these heresies cuz obviously almost anything the heretics wrote was destroyed. IIRC tho a Bogomilist priest visited northern Italy and southern France to support the Cathars there and, probably, establish a consistent line of ordinations between the two communities. So, the link to Paulicianism per se is somewhat dubious and unknowable (but the Bogomils almost certainly had to have gotten their dualist Gnosticism from SOMEWHERE), but the link Bogomilism -> Catharism is known, and Waldensianism was founded in Occitania at the height of the Cathar heresy, so influence and cross-pollination is likely. Modern "Waldensians" are just Calvinists, tho. Edited March 24, 2018 by googoogjoob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Gilgamesh Enkidu Utnapishtim Inanna/Ishtar Humbaba/Huwawa Gugalanna EDIT: Let's have more fun with razor thin differences of theology! Transubstantiation Transignification Consubstantiation Impanation Edited March 24, 2018 by Dintiradan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 What, no Hamsubstantiation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Lord of the Rings Series Xanth Series Wheel of Time Series Shannara Series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt as fantasy or explanation of a psychiatric disorder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Jawaj Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 King Lear Hamlet Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Midsummer Night's Dream As You Like It Twelfth Night Much Ado About Nothing The Merchant of Venice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 Sorry I've sat on this. Am meaning to get back to it; things have been crazy. May have some time coming up. Feel free to pile on more things to rank if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Circular saw, Table saw, Chain saw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 22 hours ago, Deities and Demagogues said: Sorry I've sat on this. Am meaning to get back to it; things have been crazy. May have some time coming up. Feel free to pile on more things to rank if you like. I was starting to get worried as I hadn't seen you on the forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Simon Garfunkel. Separately, and together. I was starting to get worried cuz you hadn't changed your name in a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Hugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan jlsgaladriel Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) Slarty, I'm blown away by the immense amount of time you've put into this. Not surprised, mind you, just blown away! When you recover from whatever life is throwing at you, please add to the list the missing spiderweb games, or at least: exile, A:EftP, A3:RW, avernum 5, avernum 6. Also, you can't do Enkidu without Shamhat. Edited April 13, 2018 by jlsgaladriel clarify avernum remakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 PHEW, this was a big update. Lots of good items to add here. Keep 'em coming. Gilgamesh: A favourite mythic figure. I am mostly convinced that his titular epic, besides being the first such epic, was also the first gay love story. The bevy of subtle (and rarely translated) homoerotic puns are only the tip of the iceberg. At the start of the epic, Gilgamesh is unhappy and is raping women left and right; it doesn't fulfill him, but wrestling with Enkidu does, and that's when his problematic behavior stops. Consider that the primary antagonist is the goddess of love; that she's the antagonist because Gilgamesh rejects her advances; and that she is the one who kills Gilgamesh's "companion" after they overpower and kill the Giant Fertility Symbol of Heaven. Ultimately, Gilgamesh is a great symbol of how negative things can be reclamated when you respond to them constructively, something I give the Sumerian gods great credit for. Enkidu: Doesn't really have much independent agency. As such, not quite sure how to rate him. Utnapishtim: More interesting than Noah, in part because he gives advice, and in part because he is the agent of a rogue benevolent god, rather than part of a detailed and totally unspontaneous plan from a single entity. Inanna: An utterly fascinating goddess due to her ubiquity and to the contradictions presented by her different aspects. Humbaba: Monster (?) that we don't really have enough information about. Gugalanna: It isn't 100% clear that Gugalanna = the Bull of Heaven. Either way, as with Humbaba, there's a pretty limited corpus to go off of. Shamhat: An ironic character, in that she civilizes Enkidu using sex, whereas Enki (Enkidu's creator) is the prototypical culture hero, from whom Inanna (whose temple employs Shamhat) steals powers of civilization, in another myth. Lord of the Rings: Not a series; Tolkien intended it to be a single volume, even though it has often been published as three; and his other work is different enough to rate differently. Anyway, this is a real treasure to me, one of those books that I reread frequently, yet always find new insights in. It isn't flawless but its heights are very high. Xanth Series: That brings me back. I mostly haven't touched this in decades and I'm afraid it won't have aged well. There are bits that I remember fondly, and bits that are creative, and then there's all copious sexualizing -- copious really does seem like the right adverb, there, for Anthony -- and the clearly unintentional, but no less extant, sexism. And that's not even touching all the hamfisted puns. Altogether, hoom, hmm, this is a tough one, but the whole unique-magic-talent premise is a good one, and ultimately I want to give it credit for its better parts, like Imbri and Metria. Wheel of Time Series: I read the first book a long time ago. It seemed extremely generic. Given what I've heard about later books, I'm willing to judge it on that basis. Shannara Series: Haven't read. The Compleat Enchanter: Haven't read. Hamlet: Not for nothing do some people consider this the high water mark of basically everything. There's so much packed into every word of this play. Macbeth: I don't like it as much as many people seem to, but it certainly has a lot to it -- there aren't too many Shakespeare tragedies I'm willing to dump on. Romeo and Juliet: The modern versions are generally very unfortunate, but the play itself is a truly evocative take on a powerful situation. Midsummer Night's Dream: Overdone, and not a play I am generally excited to see, but then again, there is "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Twelfth Night: One of my least favourite. I think I've seen it performed too many times, and too many of them have fallen flat. It just feels like it relies lazily and boringly on cross-dressing. I *could* rank every Shakespeare play, but that would be silly, so I'm going to stick to those I have unusually strong feelings about. I'll even throw in my favourite, just inching out Hamlet: Titus Andronicus: In the dictionary by "underrated." (And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, / Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, / As if a double hunt were heard at once...) Circular saw: Maybe my favourite saw? It doesn't seem versatile but I find that its ease and efficiency end up making it more versatile in the end. Table saw: Ah, the memories I have of wood flying across the shop... Chain saw: Clearly one of the best power-ups in ZAMN. Paul Simon: Clearly talented, though I don't quite understand the people who treat _Graceland_ as if it were _Hamlet_. Art Garfunkel: Sorry for his sanity loss. Simon & Garfunkel: Deserving of their pre-eminent reputation. Hugs: I am much more positive about hugs than I imagine most of you would expect. Games: per my previous statement, I'm not sure I care to eventually include every single SW game here (especially as a lot of them will clump closely together). Sorry Gal! Dogs Square One Television Alphabets Subtle, tasteful symbolism Chrono Trigger Cyberpunk Bilbo Baggins Waving Hands Titus Andronicus Hamlet Lord of the Rings "Zombie" (Cranberries song) Pet Sounds "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" Spirited Away Cait Sith Exile II: Crystal Souls Nethergate Billie Holiday "Nephil's Gambit" Kierkegaard Gilgamesh Slartibartfast The Tarot Deck Madeline Kahn Hades Hugs The deck of many things Seinfeld Egizia Coffee Croissants Les Misérables (novel) Bossa nova Disco Jiji (character) Mice Upton Sinclair File compression Sliced bread Bagels Subways (transit) Sailor Moon (first anime) Marie Curie Medusa P-zombies Ducks Deontology Willow Rosenberg Prossis-Bok Working out Russian literature Simon & Garfunkel Nina Simone Sea slugs Samuel Clemens Ninjas Circular saws Jiji (in Nikki's lap) Inanna Ziggurats Reality TV AD&D 2nd Edition Maggie Simpson Shamhat Tiki drinks Snakebird Ice cream Utnapishtim 70's cars Georg Cantor Shanti AD&D 1st Edition w/ UA —Alorael C++ Good grammar Macbeth Cor Blok's Tolkien art Bacon Falafel Black Panther Party Henry Wallace OK Computer Catharism Minotaur (Knossos) Zombies (necromantic) Romeo and Juliet The Northern Lights Speedy Gonzales screenshot Saunas Vinyl records Chainsaws Linux Sans serif fonts The aesthetic qualities of the Greek alphabet The Queen is Dead Schuyler Colfax Roguelikes Chess Lady Gaga Video games Lawsuits Wine A Midsummer Night's Dream Robert Heinlein Heracles Jeff Vogel Ravens Smartphones Whiskey Hydra (Lernaean) Xanth series Isaac Asimov The Evil Overlord List Arthur C. Clarke Exile III: Ruined World The Cranberries (band) Bartenders Black Panther (character) Sock puppets Flamingos Cluny the Scourge The Chronicles of Narnia "Mr. Green Genes" Muppet Babies Paul Simon Penguins TLC Rhinos Civilization (human phenomenon) Beer Frodo Baggins Mexican food Bob Dylan Richard Garfield Ontology Chimera (Lycian) Science museums Achilles Ella Fitzgerald Pelicans BitTorrent Nevermind Tom Waits 70's prog Sliths Rats Avernum II: Crystal Souls Slarty Ranks Everything Ranking lists "...Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades..." Heavy-handed symbolism Princess Peach Elephants Donuts Cats Trombones The Muppets The Eiffel Tower Solidarność screenshot Civ II Helen of Troy Revolutions Casablanca Avadon series Goldfish (snack) Gilbert Gottfried Football (American) Nephils Star Wars original trilogy James Garfield Jury nullification Avernum 4 Cinnamon rolls Hubble space telescope History museums Pegasus 2001: A Space Odyssey The Beatles Aretha Franklin Homestar Runner They Might Be Giants Tennis Posting games Inspector Peanut Subinfeudation Solitaire The Big Lebowski Nelson Rockefeller Goldfish (fish) Art museums King Arthur The aesthetic qualities of the Hebrew alphabet Zeus Windows 3.1 Carmen McRae Richard Cheese Bark spider Spiders Dolphins Metahumor Nixon's foreign policy Sparkling water Grant Wood Paprika Spam (meat) Cabaret (film) Harry Potter series Peanuts Standard playing cards Norman Rockwell The electoral college Nick Cave MMORPGs Table saws "This is a Trent Reznor Song" Google Odysseus Xian Skull (item) Spam (e-mails) Running Puggsy Checkers Facebook Runtz Pineapple pizza The LP rendition of Slarty's voice Gilmore Girls Hockey Wheel of Time series George Clooney Film noir Abugidas Vitamin C supplements Twelfth Night Blazing Saddles Louis Armstrong Art Garfunkel The Trojan Horse 70's movies New York City Abjads "Lackadaisical" "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Matrix GIFTs (Spiderweb) Godwin's Law Poseidon The aesthetic qualities of hierogylphics Russian Bimetallism Beowulf (character) Angry Birds Alf screenshot Pyramids with eyes on them Centaurs Moderate rain all day Microsoft Phantom stair step (bottom) Word Rescue Elvis Presley Minecraft Galactic Core Bumper stickers Novelty mugs Apple Mechanical pencils Vultures John Wayne Amazon The post that asks me to rank itself Virtue ethics Roller skates Greek yogurt KISS (principle) Agamemnon Salty liquorice WesternsFriends Getting a triple word score in Scrabble Phantom stair step (top) Turkey/cat video Dieselpunk Life of Brian AOL ELIZA Zombies (infectious) 80's fashion KISS Hipgnosis Expensive wristwatches Salt lamps Cologne My Little Pony Whaling Rudyard Kipling The War on Drugs (band) Queen (band) Fifty Shades of Grey Jane Austen books The Byzantine Empire The Let's Play series Stubbing your big toe Basketball Baseball "Acceptable in the 80's" (song) Halloween Bertrand Russell Cats (musical) Stubbing your little toe Pirates Elfpunk Ennui Charles Dickens "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (song) Soccer Robin Hood (character) Star Wars prequel trilogy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas the Tank Engine Freefall (webcomic) "2500 things Mr. Welch..." Fedoras Johnny Cash Deconstructivism The Microsoft Office Assistant Steampunk Kitten/rat box Athena John Calhoun (politician) Mr. Toad of Toad Hall The Xavier Files BGG Top 10 Ethical intuitionism Sock puppets (fake accounts) Birthdays The Barber Paradox Turnips Anchovy pizza U2 Wings (band) Fictional names that use a lot of apostrophes Twilight Saga Deconstructionism Final Fantasy VIII "Stuff from the 90's!" (song) The Olympics The Big Bang Theory (TV show) Consequentialism The Crusades King Leopold Handlebar mustaches (i.e., thin and spindly ends) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Bender89 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) Did you rank the 7 dwarves yet? Edited April 17, 2018 by Bender89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Sade Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Arsène Lupin A. J. Raffles Zorro Sherlock Holmes Hercule Poirot Batman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Jawaj Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) Werewolves Vampires Ghosts Zombies Mummies Frankenstein (either his monster or the story in general - you choose) Your favorite muppet Geneforge series (collectively or your single fave - you choose) Super Mario (series, don't count spinoffs) Curling (sport) Gargoyles Choosing between lightbulb types at the store Edited April 17, 2018 by Jawaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Horatian satire Menippean satire Juvenalian satire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 17, 2018 Author Share Posted April 17, 2018 In an attempt to get more strong reactions and fewer "eh"s, I propose including more items of the style of "your favourite ___" and "your least favourite ___". But I'll still accept whatever. ----- Did you rank the 7 dwarves yet? No, and I'm not going to, although it probably wouldn't be hard to guess which one I like best Arsène Lupin: No knowledge. A. J. Raffles: No knowledge. Zorro: Mixed feelings. He provides a sturdy archetype. Ultimately I prefer Cyrano. Sherlock Holmes: Full of wonderful details, but thin, for my taste, on personal involvement and motivation. Hercule Poirot: I agree with Agatha Christie that Poirot is a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". I also dislike the number of ridiculous leaps of reasoning that he tends to employ in his work. Batman: Not my favourite hero. I appreciate the depth of the atmosphere that surrounds him. I don't love the hyper-masculine I-don't-have-any-special-powers wish-fulfillment element it's taken on. But I suppose you can take Batman in a lot of different directions. "The night is dark and cold. In the dark, the lights of Gotham try to provide some comfort. Some hope in the darkness. The lights of the theater were burning brightly, Zorro’s theme playing through my head. My heart wouldn’t slow down. It couldn’t. I didn’t want it to. I entered the night more than just a boy. I was the masked man people feared, I was their nightmare. I was legend. My parents flanked me on either side. The noise and light of the theater faded into the empty Gotham night. My eyes were still wide eyed. I should have been paying closer attention. Should have seen the clues. A cough. A quite footstep. A stillness to the air. But I didn’t. All I saw was another man’s legend as my own. And then I saw something else. A different man. He was mysterious, dark, as he emerged from the steam filled alley. I couldn’t help but notice his hands, strong, masculine. Yet they revealed so much more about him. A longing, a tenderness, an understanding. They were hands that knew and had seen the world. I locked eyes with him. They were deep. Never ending. A man of a different age. The eyes of an old soul. Then he shot my parents. I was so embarrassed." Werewolves: Not the most interesting generic undead, but not the least interesting either. Vampires: I suppose it depends what variety we're talking about, but... eh. Ghosts: Finally an undead creature that relies on backstory rather than fangs. I also appreciate their usability as a psychological metaphor. Zombies: Already on the list, in like ten different versions (#thanksdintiradan) Mummies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmlwNrA7RfY Liches: Sure, why not. Frankenstein (either his monster or the story in general - you choose): It's a good read with a lot to say. Your favorite muppet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwHsKYJhST8 Geneforge series (collectively or your single fave - you choose): I'll be kind here and pick G1, which was, in most ways, Geneforge at its best: a great setting with some interesting ideas and very rough mechanics. Super Mario (series, don't count spinoffs): There are some highs and some lows, but overall, I have to give this franchise credit for its (1) emphasis on exploration, (2) creativity, (3) high bar for play controls, and (4) being perhaps the most widespread platform that showered children with images of psychedelic drug. Seriously, the original power-ups were 70's style mushrooms and flowers and none of the kids-can't-know-drugs-exist crowd gave them a second thought even in America in 1985. Crazy. Gargoyles: FIREBRAND LIVES Choosing between lightbulb types at the store: I, uh... what? Horatian satire: I'm going off Wikipedia for these. Here the description sounds great, but then I hit the list of examples and it's like, oh, when they say "gentle humour" they mean, like, fabric softener level gentle. Juvenalian satire: The reverse was true here. Menippean satire: ...and here it becomes clear that the categories fall apart, because the list of examples includes items from BOTH previous varieties of satire. Commit it then to the flames! Dogs Square One Television Alphabets Subtle, tasteful symbolism Chrono Trigger Cyberpunk Bilbo Baggins Waving Hands Titus Andronicus Hamlet Lord of the Rings "Zombie" (Cranberries song) Pet Sounds "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" Spirited Away Cait Sith Exile II: Crystal Souls Nethergate Billie Holiday "Nephil's Gambit" Kierkegaard Gilgamesh Slartibartfast The Tarot Deck Madeline Kahn Hades Hugs The deck of many things Seinfeld Egizia Coffee Croissants Les Misérables (novel) Bossa nova Disco Jiji (character) Mice Upton Sinclair File compression Sliced bread Bagels Subways (transit) Sailor Moon (first anime) Marie Curie Medusa P-zombies Ducks Deontology Willow Rosenberg Prossis-Bok Working out Russian literature Simon & Garfunkel Nina Simone Sea slugs Samuel Clemens Ninjas Circular saws Jiji (in Nikki's lap) Inanna Ziggurats Reality TV AD&D 2nd Edition Maggie Simpson Shamhat Ghosts Frankenstein (novel) Tiki drinks Snakebird Ice cream Utnapishtim Juvenalian satire 70's cars Georg Cantor Shanti AD&D 1st Edition w/ UA —Alorael C++ Good grammar Macbeth Cor Blok's Tolkien art Bacon Falafel Black Panther Party Henry Wallace OK Computer Catharism Cookie Monster Minotaur (Knossos) Zombies (necromantic) Romeo and Juliet The Northern Lights Speedy Gonzales screenshot Saunas Vinyl records Chainsaws Linux Sans serif fonts The aesthetic qualities of the Greek alphabet The Queen is Dead Schuyler Colfax Gargoyles Roguelikes Chess Geneforge 1 Lady Gaga Video games Super Mario series Lawsuits Wine A Midsummer Night's Dream Robert Heinlein Heracles Jeff Vogel Ravens Smartphones Whiskey Hydra (Lernaean) Xanth series Isaac Asimov The Evil Overlord List Arthur C. Clarke Liches Exile III: Ruined World The Cranberries (band) Bartenders Black Panther (character) Sock puppets Flamingos Cluny the Scourge The Chronicles of Narnia "Mr. Green Genes" Muppet Babies Paul Simon Penguins TLC Rhinos Civilization (human phenomenon) Beer Frodo Baggins Mexican food Bob Dylan Richard Garfield Ontology Chimera (Lycian) Science museums Achilles Ella Fitzgerald Pelicans BitTorrent Nevermind Tom Waits 70's prog Sliths Rats Avernum II: Crystal Souls Slarty Ranks Everything Ranking lists "...Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades..." Heavy-handed symbolism Princess Peach Elephants Donuts Cats Trombones The Muppets The Eiffel Tower Solidarność screenshot Civ II Helen of Troy Zorro Revolutions Casablanca Avadon series Goldfish (snack) Gilbert Gottfried Football (American) Nephils Star Wars original trilogy James Garfield Jury nullification Avernum 4 Batman Cinnamon rolls Hubble space telescope History museums Pegasus 2001: A Space Odyssey The Beatles Aretha Franklin Homestar Runner They Might Be Giants Sherlock Holmes Tennis Posting games Inspector Peanut Subinfeudation Solitaire Werewolves The Big Lebowski Nelson Rockefeller Goldfish (fish) Art museums King Arthur The aesthetic qualities of the Hebrew alphabet Zeus Windows 3.1 Carmen McRae Richard Cheese Bark spider Spiders Mummies Dolphins Metahumor Nixon's foreign policy Sparkling water Grant Wood Paprika Spam (meat) Cabaret (film) Harry Potter series Peanuts Standard playing cards Norman Rockwell The electoral college Nick Cave MMORPGs Table saws Horatian satire "This is a Trent Reznor Song" Google Odysseus Xian Skull (item) Spam (e-mails) Running Puggsy Checkers Facebook Runtz Pineapple pizza The LP rendition of Slarty's voice Gilmore Girls Hockey Wheel of Time series George Clooney Film noir Abugidas Vitamin C supplements Twelfth Night Blazing Saddles Louis Armstrong Art Garfunkel The Trojan Horse 70's movies New York City Abjads "Lackadaisical" "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Matrix GIFTs (Spiderweb) Godwin's Law Poseidon The aesthetic qualities of hierogylphics Russian Bimetallism Beowulf (character) Angry Birds Alf screenshot Pyramids with eyes on them Centaurs Moderate rain all day Microsoft Phantom stair step (bottom) Word Rescue Elvis Presley Minecraft Galactic Core Bumper stickers Novelty mugs Apple Mechanical pencils Vultures John Wayne Amazon The post that asks me to rank itself Virtue ethics Roller skates Greek yogurt KISS (principle) Agamemnon Salty liquorice WesternsFriends Getting a triple word score in Scrabble Phantom stair step (top) Turkey/cat video Dieselpunk Life of Brian AOL ELIZA Zombies (infectious) 80's fashion KISS Hipgnosis Expensive wristwatches Salt lamps Cologne My Little Pony Whaling Rudyard Kipling The War on Drugs (band) Queen (band) Fifty Shades of Grey Jane Austen books The Byzantine Empire The Let's Play series Stubbing your big toe Basketball Baseball "Acceptable in the 80's" (song) Halloween Bertrand Russell Cats (musical) Stubbing your little toe Pirates Elfpunk Ennui Charles Dickens "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (song) Hercule Poirot Soccer Robin Hood (character) Star Wars prequel trilogy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas the Tank Engine Freefall (webcomic) "2500 things Mr. Welch..." Fedoras Johnny Cash Deconstructivism The Microsoft Office Assistant Steampunk Kitten/rat box Athena John Calhoun (politician) Mr. Toad of Toad Hall The Xavier Files BGG Top 10 Ethical intuitionism Sock puppets (fake accounts) Birthdays The Barber Paradox Turnips Anchovy pizza U2 Wings (band) Fictional names that use a lot of apostrophes Twilight Saga Deconstructionism Final Fantasy VIII "Stuff from the 90's!" (song) The Olympics The Big Bang Theory (TV show) Consequentialism The Crusades King Leopold Handlebar mustaches (i.e., thin and spindly ends) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Discarded chewing gum Your least favorite billboard Your favorite brass instrument Dick van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins Ferris wheels Heathers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 To be fair, Horatian and Juvenalian are Roman satirical modes, while Menippean is Greek and predates the others by centuries. So some overlap is forgivable, I think. Also: Your favorite superhero Your least favorite superhero C Auguste Dupin The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Kim Stanley Robinson Ferrets Otters Stoats Match Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I didn't see this in the list but it is possible that missed it under a different name. Forum Lurkers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Sade Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Your favorite motivational quote Your favorite subject in school Your least favorite subject in school Your favorite season (of the year) Your least favorite season Your favorite cuisine Your least favorite cuisine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Discarded chewing gum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVI712f93RQ Your favorite brass instrument: Trumpet, when used mildly and tricksily, as in https://youtu.be/MnpP8sdPVHM?t=1m19s Dick van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins: Oh dear. Ferris wheels: Pointless on multiple levels, literally. Heathers: So bad. So good. Your favorite superhero: I'll limit these to relatively well-known characters, to save myself a tricky task. That means I'm going here with Storm; and while I admit that some of the reason for this comes from Iona Morris' voice acting on the animated series, I find plenty to appreciate in the nature of her powers, her weaknesses, and her ethics. Your least favorite superhero: Appriopriately -- and I did not realize this would be the case till I'd chosen it -- I'll go here with the one leader of the X-Men who predates Storm: Cyclops. An arrogant, inflexible dudebro-in-denial. C Auguste Dupin: Haven't read. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Huh, this sounds like, really, not the best rebel nation ever. Kim Stanley Robinson: Haven't read. Ferrets: Oof, I have some bad memories here. Match Game: Funnier that it probably deserves to be, and has led to some great parodies. Forum Lurkers: I think I support lurkers. Your favorite subject in school: Let's say history. Your favorite season (of the year): Fall Your least favorite season: This is a harder call. Your favorite cuisine: Thai food. Your least favorite cuisine: The ubiquity of kimchi beats out borscht and pushes me to say Korean, here. Dogs Square One Television Alphabets Subtle, tasteful symbolism Chrono Trigger Cyberpunk Bilbo Baggins Waving Hands Titus Andronicus Hamlet Lord of the Rings "Zombie" (Cranberries song) Pet Sounds "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" Spirited Away Cait Sith Exile II: Crystal Souls Nethergate Billie Holiday "Nephil's Gambit" Kierkegaard Gilgamesh Slartibartfast The Tarot Deck Madeline Kahn Hades Storm (X-Men) Hugs The deck of many things Seinfeld Egizia Coffee Thai food Croissants Les Misérables (novel) Bossa nova Disco Jiji (character) Mice Upton Sinclair History File compression Sliced bread Bagels Subways (transit) Sailor Moon (first anime) Marie Curie Medusa P-zombies Ducks Deontology Willow Rosenberg Prossis-Bok Working out Russian literature Simon & Garfunkel Nina Simone Sea slugs Samuel Clemens Ninjas Circular saws Jiji (in Nikki's lap) Inanna Ziggurats Reality TV AD&D 2nd Edition Maggie Simpson Shamhat Ghosts Frankenstein (novel) Tiki drinks Snakebird Ice cream Utnapishtim Juvenalian satire 70's cars Georg Cantor Shanti AD&D 1st Edition w/ UA —Alorael C++ Good grammar Macbeth Cor Blok's Tolkien art Bacon Falafel Fall Black Panther Party Henry Wallace OK Computer Catharism Cookie Monster Minotaur (Knossos) Zombies (necromantic) Romeo and Juliet The Northern Lights Speedy Gonzales screenshot Saunas Vinyl records Trumpets Chainsaws Linux Sans serif fonts The aesthetic qualities of the Greek alphabet The Queen is Dead Schuyler Colfax Gargoyles Roguelikes Chess Geneforge 1 Lady Gaga Video games Super Mario series Lawsuits Wine A Midsummer Night's Dream Robert Heinlein Heracles Jeff Vogel Ravens Smartphones Whiskey Hydra (Lernaean) Heathers Xanth series Isaac Asimov The Evil Overlord List Arthur C. Clarke Match Game Liches Exile III: Ruined World The Cranberries (band) Bartenders Forum lurkers Black Panther (character) Sock puppets Flamingos Cluny the Scourge The Chronicles of Narnia "Mr. Green Genes" Muppet Babies Paul Simon Penguins TLC Rhinos Civilization (human phenomenon) Beer Frodo Baggins Mexican food Bob Dylan Richard Garfield Ontology Chimera (Lycian) Science museums Achilles Ella Fitzgerald Pelicans BitTorrent Nevermind Tom Waits 70's prog Sliths Rats Avernum II: Crystal Souls Slarty Ranks Everything Ranking lists "...Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades..." Heavy-handed symbolism Princess Peach Elephants Donuts Cats Trombones The Muppets The Eiffel Tower Solidarność screenshot Civ II Helen of Troy Zorro Revolutions Casablanca Avadon series Goldfish (snack) Gilbert Gottfried Football (American) Nephils Star Wars original trilogy James Garfield Jury nullification Avernum 4 Batman Cinnamon rolls Hubble space telescope History museums Pegasus 2001: A Space Odyssey The Beatles Aretha Franklin Homestar Runner They Might Be Giants Sherlock Holmes Tennis Posting games Inspector Peanut Subinfeudation Solitaire Werewolves The Big Lebowski Nelson Rockefeller Goldfish (fish) Art museums King Arthur The aesthetic qualities of the Hebrew alphabet Zeus Windows 3.1 Summer Carmen McRae Richard Cheese Bark spider Spiders Mummies Dolphins Metahumor Nixon's foreign policy Sparkling water Grant Wood Paprika Spam (meat) Cabaret (film) Harry Potter series Peanuts Standard playing cards Norman Rockwell The electoral college Nick Cave MMORPGs Table saws Horatian satire "This is a Trent Reznor Song" Google Odysseus Xian Skull (item) Spam (e-mails) Running Puggsy Checkers Facebook Runtz Pineapple pizza The LP rendition of Slarty's voice Gilmore Girls Hockey Wheel of Time series George Clooney Film noir Abugidas Vitamin C supplements Twelfth Night Blazing Saddles Louis Armstrong Discarded chewing gum Art Garfunkel The Trojan Horse 70's movies New York City Abjads "Lackadaisical" Dick van Dyke's accent as Bert "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Matrix GIFTs (Spiderweb) Godwin's Law Poseidon The aesthetic qualities of hierogylphics Russian Bimetallism Beowulf (character) Angry Birds Alf screenshot Pyramids with eyes on them Centaurs Moderate rain all day Korean food Microsoft Phantom stair step (bottom) Word Rescue Elvis Presley Minecraft Galactic Core Bumper stickers Novelty mugs Apple Ferris wheels Mechanical pencils Vultures John Wayne Amazon The post that asks me to rank itself Virtue ethics Roller skates Greek yogurt KISS (principle) Agamemnon Salty liquorice WesternsFriends Getting a triple word score in Scrabble Phantom stair step (top) Turkey/cat video Dieselpunk Life of Brian AOL ELIZA Zombies (infectious) 80's fashion KISS Hipgnosis Expensive wristwatches Salt lamps Cologne My Little Pony Whaling Rudyard Kipling The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom The War on Drugs (band) Queen (band) Fifty Shades of Grey Jane Austen books The Byzantine Empire The Let's Play series Stubbing your big toe Basketball Baseball "Acceptable in the 80's" (song) Halloween Bertrand Russell Cats (musical) Stubbing your little toe Pirates Elfpunk Ennui Charles Dickens "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (song) Hercule Poirot Ferrets Soccer Robin Hood (character) Star Wars prequel trilogy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas the Tank Engine Freefall (webcomic) "2500 things Mr. Welch..." Fedoras Johnny Cash Deconstructivism The Microsoft Office Assistant Steampunk Cyclops (X-Men) Kitten/rat box Athena John Calhoun (politician) Mr. Toad of Toad Hall The Xavier Files BGG Top 10 Ethical intuitionism Sock puppets (fake accounts) Birthdays The Barber Paradox Turnips Anchovy pizza U2 Wings (band) Fictional names that use a lot of apostrophes Twilight Saga Deconstructionism Final Fantasy VIII "Stuff from the 90's!" (song) The Olympics The Big Bang Theory (TV show) Consequentialism The Crusades King Leopold Handlebar mustaches (i.e., thin and spindly ends) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma GiantFriendlyTalkingSpiderman Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Trying to figure out your taste in music from this list, and I thought of the perfect thing for you to rank. Text search functions! (ctrl + f) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Dead trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan googoogjoob Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 5 hours ago, Car Je est un autre said: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Huh, this sounds like, really, not the best rebel nation ever. Approximately 20 million dead, the population of China wouldn't regain its pre-war population level until well into the 20th century, and you still rate it above Wings, pirates, and Clippy. Rating it above Dickens and Queen is acceptable, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 6 hours ago, googoogjoob said: Approximately 20 million dead, the population of China wouldn't regain its pre-war population level until well into the 20th century, and you still rate it above Wings, pirates, and Clippy. Hey, I have to deal with the fact that the thing growing on my face is Canonically The Worst Thing Ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 14 hours ago, Dintiradan said: Hey, I have to deal with the fact that the thing growing on my face is Canonically The Worst Thing Ever. i find it rather strange that you have nickelback growing on your face GiantFriendlyTalkingSpiderman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 https://twitter.com/DanielStrauss4/status/245334369538039808 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Stairs with uneven steps Vancian magic Public libraries The Mary Tyler Moore Show Your favorite nonfiction book Your least favorite bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) What a fascinating thread. Slarty, you have clearly outdone yourself. At first I thought that I would have pun with this, but the meticulous manner with which you consider each word is more compelling that I remain sane. I am particularly impressed by your dissertatio1`n regarding the McDonalds Coffee Caper. Much of that information was not disclosed at the the time. Too many people jumping up and down try to attract attention to their particular cause` de jour. And now for your rating pleasure I submit my list of words: The White Rabbit, The March Hare, The Jackalope, The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, Harvey (the Pouka), Harry (as in the Jerry Lewis movie The Geisha), The Easter Bunny, Did a rabbit really attack Jimmy Carter? The Harehunter If you put me at the very bottom of your list, I will consider that fair in light of my long absence. Edited April 22, 2018 by Harehunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 Text search functions: I think my feelings on these are well-known. Dead trees: Uh. Uhm. Well, I mean, you can do some pretty great things with their corpses, but I'm not sure that improves my opinion of trees being dead per se. Stairs with uneven steps: I've been trying to think of any time I've encountered this, and I can't think of any. This doesn't seem like it should be that hard to find, and yet... am I crazy? Vancian magic: It's hard to get more arcane than this. I support it on that account. Public libraries: A wonderful thing on so many levels. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: As mainstream sitcoms go, there aren't many that are so good on the details. Also, I mean, Ed Asner, come on. Your favorite nonfiction book: I'll rank this one, but it's remaining unidentified, because it's esoteric enough to be potentially personally identifying. Your least favorite bug: Wasps. They're so big! It's just creepy how big they are. The White Rabbit: Gets more appealing with each new adaptation, but in the original, it's hard to feel great about this guy. The March Hare: Equally crazy each time -- in a pretty generic way. The Jackalope: How in the world did we go from coming up with chimeras and hippogriffs to jackalopes and ligers? Yeesh. The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog: Vorpal bunny FTW. The Easter Bunny: Yet another patronizing, paternal, panoptical icon stuck on a holiday. The Harehunter: Per earlier statement, I am not including any members on the list. Dogs Square One Television Alphabets A nonfiction book (identity redacted) Subtle, tasteful symbolism Chrono Trigger Cyberpunk Bilbo Baggins Waving Hands Titus Andronicus Hamlet Lord of the Rings "Zombie" (Cranberries song) Pet Sounds "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" Spirited Away Cait Sith Exile II: Crystal Souls Nethergate Billie Holiday "Nephil's Gambit" Kierkegaard Gilgamesh Slartibartfast The Tarot Deck Madeline Kahn Hades Storm (X-Men) Hugs The deck of many things Seinfeld Egizia Coffee Public libraries Thai food Croissants Les Misérables (novel) Text search functions Bossa nova Disco Jiji (character) Mice Upton Sinclair History File compression Sliced bread Bagels Subways (transit) Sailor Moon (first anime) Marie Curie Medusa P-zombies Ducks Deontology Willow Rosenberg Prossis-Bok Working out Russian literature Simon & Garfunkel Nina Simone Sea slugs Samuel Clemens Ninjas Circular saws Jiji (in Nikki's lap) Inanna Ziggurats Reality TV AD&D 2nd Edition Maggie Simpson Shamhat Ghosts Frankenstein (novel) Tiki drinks Snakebird Ice cream Vancian magic Utnapishtim Juvenalian satire 70's cars Georg Cantor Shanti AD&D 1st Edition w/ UA —Alorael C++ Good grammar Macbeth Cor Blok's Tolkien art Bacon Falafel Fall Black Panther Party Henry Wallace OK Computer Catharism Cookie Monster Minotaur (Knossos) Zombies (necromantic) Romeo and Juliet The Northern Lights The Mary Tyler Moore Show Speedy Gonzales screenshot Saunas Vinyl records Trumpets Chainsaws Linux Sans serif fonts The aesthetic qualities of the Greek alphabet The Queen is Dead Schuyler Colfax Gargoyles Roguelikes Chess Geneforge 1 Lady Gaga Video games Super Mario series Lawsuits Wine A Midsummer Night's Dream Robert Heinlein Heracles Jeff Vogel Ravens Smartphones Whiskey Hydra (Lernaean) Heathers Xanth series Isaac Asimov The Evil Overlord List Arthur C. Clarke Match Game Liches Exile III: Ruined World The Cranberries (band) Bartenders Forum lurkers Black Panther (character) Sock puppets The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog Flamingos Cluny the Scourge The Chronicles of Narnia "Mr. Green Genes" Muppet Babies Paul Simon Penguins TLC Rhinos Civilization (human phenomenon) Beer Frodo Baggins Mexican food Bob Dylan Richard Garfield Ontology Chimera (Lycian) Science museums Achilles Ella Fitzgerald Pelicans BitTorrent Nevermind Tom Waits 70's prog Sliths Rats Avernum II: Crystal Souls Slarty Ranks Everything Ranking lists "...Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades..." Heavy-handed symbolism Princess Peach Elephants Donuts Cats Trombones The Muppets The Eiffel Tower Solidarność screenshot Civ II Helen of Troy Zorro Revolutions Casablanca Avadon series Goldfish (snack) Gilbert Gottfried Football (American) Nephils Star Wars original trilogy James Garfield Jury nullification Avernum 4 Batman Cinnamon rolls Hubble space telescope History museums Pegasus 2001: A Space Odyssey The Beatles Aretha Franklin Homestar Runner They Might Be Giants Sherlock Holmes Tennis Posting games Inspector Peanut Subinfeudation Solitaire Werewolves The Big Lebowski Nelson Rockefeller Goldfish (fish) Art museums King Arthur The aesthetic qualities of the Hebrew alphabet Zeus Windows 3.1 Summer Carmen McRae Richard Cheese Bark spider Spiders Mummies Dolphins Metahumor Nixon's foreign policy Sparkling water Grant Wood Paprika Spam (meat) Cabaret (film) Harry Potter series Peanuts The White Rabbit Standard playing cards Norman Rockwell The electoral college Nick Cave MMORPGs Table saws Horatian satire "This is a Trent Reznor Song" Google Odysseus Xian Skull (item) Spam (e-mails) Running Dead trees Puggsy Checkers Facebook Runtz Pineapple pizza The LP rendition of Slarty's voice Gilmore Girls Hockey Wheel of Time series George Clooney Film noir Abugidas Vitamin C supplements Twelfth Night Blazing Saddles Louis Armstrong Discarded chewing gum Art Garfunkel The Trojan Horse 70's movies New York City Abjads "Lackadaisical" The March Hare Dick van Dyke's accent as Bert "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Matrix GIFTs (Spiderweb) Godwin's Law Poseidon The aesthetic qualities of hierogylphics Russian Bimetallism Beowulf (character) Angry Birds Alf screenshot Jackalopes Pyramids with eyes on them Centaurs Moderate rain all day Korean food Microsoft Phantom stair step (bottom) Word Rescue Elvis Presley Minecraft Galactic Core Bumper stickers Novelty mugs Apple Ferris wheels Mechanical pencils Vultures John Wayne Amazon The post that asks me to rank itself Virtue ethics Roller skates Greek yogurt KISS (principle) Agamemnon Salty liquorice WesternsFriends Getting a triple word score in Scrabble Phantom stair step (top) Turkey/cat video Dieselpunk Life of Brian AOL ELIZA Zombies (infectious) 80's fashion KISS Hipgnosis Expensive wristwatches Salt lamps Cologne My Little Pony Whaling Rudyard Kipling The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom The War on Drugs (band) Queen (band) Fifty Shades of Grey Jane Austen books The Byzantine Empire The Let's Play series Stubbing your big toe Basketball Baseball "Acceptable in the 80's" (song) Halloween Bertrand Russell Cats (musical) Stubbing your little toe Pirates Elfpunk Ennui Charles Dickens "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (song) Hercule Poirot The Easter Bunny Ferrets Soccer Robin Hood (character) Star Wars prequel trilogy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas the Tank Engine Freefall (webcomic) "2500 things Mr. Welch..." Fedoras Johnny Cash Deconstructivism The Microsoft Office Assistant Steampunk Cyclops (X-Men) Kitten/rat box Athena John Calhoun (politician) Mr. Toad of Toad Hall The Xavier Files BGG Top 10 Ethical intuitionism Sock puppets (fake accounts) Birthdays The Barber Paradox Turnips Anchovy pizza Wasps U2 Wings (band) Fictional names that use a lot of apostrophes Twilight Saga Deconstructionism Final Fantasy VIII "Stuff from the 90's!" (song) The Olympics The Big Bang Theory (TV show) Consequentialism The Crusades King Leopold Handlebar mustaches (i.e., thin and spindly ends) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Colonialism as an explicit theme in games like Archipelago Colonialism as an implicit theme in games like Puerto Rico Colonialism being omitted entirely in games like Settlers of Catan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma GiantFriendlyTalkingSpiderman Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Equivocational School said: The Jackalope: How in the world did we go from coming up with chimeras and hippogriffs to jackalopes and ligers? Yeesh. But ligers are real though... 3 hours ago, Equivocational School said: Text search functions: I think my feelings on these are well-known. Maybe I should give you something more difficult then, like say... Rate the first six StarWars movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Also ligers are amazing! Huge and cuddly cats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 (I like how Eph made jackalopes a thing in Mote. In general, critters from Tall Tale folklore make for great benign encounters.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Bender89 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 So.. This should be easy, masonic lodge Elks lodge Orange lodge or Odd fellows lodge. Just for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 4:58 PM, GiantFriendlyTalkingSpiderman said: Trying to figure out your taste in music from this list Also, I meant to comment on this... with what's been asked about thus far, I suspect this would be a nearly impossible task. GiantFriendlyTalkingSpiderman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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