Denmarkian (72) 2 SFW Posts | 202 Space Comments | Favorites | RSS Feed 28 yr. old Geek. Most of my time not at work or school is spent trolling teh intarwebs. I likes the videogames. Lately I'm playing Animal Crossing: Wild World on my DS because it's an easy way to waste my time when I'm not at a computer. Registered 2006-12-04 08:10:43 Comment Karma: 49 Featured Comments: 0 Member of :

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Comment on Guitar Hero - Kurt Cobain Edition (2007-11-08 03:21:18)
The joke, dear casemods, is summed up well here: Urban Dictionary: "an hero" The first two definitions are the most accurate, with the 3rd giving a rough overview of how the term came to be.
Comment on Sun Patterns Wallpaper (2007-10-09 01:44:26)
Either that, or it's a series of pictures taken once every two hours during the winter to show what "Land of the Midnight Sun" means.
Comment on Sun Patterns Wallpaper (2007-10-09 01:42:08)
sorry, you're anidiot. It is from Norway, it's a picture of the noon sun once a month throughout the year above the arctic circle. My father has had a poster with that exact image for over 30 years.
Comment on Avatar's Wind (2007-10-03 20:49:41)
Touché, colin. Geographical location notwithstanding you're still 13, exemplified perfectly by your comment back to Kerry. As for starting my own blog, I'm actually terrible at thinking of stuff to talk about by myself, I'm much better at adding my knowledge to conversations already in progress. I never would have thought to write about how our culture has become so married to the convenience of single-serving pieces of sensory input that it pervades our behavior in how we interact with everything.
Comment on Avatar's Wind (2007-10-03 15:37:31)
Reality check: colin is a 13 year old boy from Cali. Don't take his statements too seriously, it's bad for your health. That being said, I would like to add my voice in support for the series. I've only had the chance to watch a few episodes of Avatar but it seems like an excellent series. I've been watching cartoons for over 20 years and have a good grasp of most of the "eras" of american cartoon making. Many thanks to friends with cable, insomnia, and CN playing lots of older cartoons from about 2am until 8am back in the mid-90s. What I find sets Avatar apart from other American cartoons is not only the fact that it takes its art style from Animé*, but the writers actually have taken the time to do some goddamn research about the concepts they're trying to write about, case in point what koopa said about them modeling the different countries' fighting styles after real, and distinct, fighting styles. In addition with Avatar, you have actual story progression. As warren stated, you7 have actual character growth and change over the length of the series, this gives characters depth and makes them interesting. The worst travesty I have seen in American cartoons is the general belief that they are mindless entertainment, no matter what. There have been at least 15 series that I have been a fan of, which have attempted to have continuity of plot, only to have that continuity butchered by someone in charge of the program scheduling at the TV station. Half of the cartoons I have seen in my life are like mini-operas in each episode, nothing carries over from one to the next. This is because the series' producers can't afford it. If there is development throughout the series you risk the replayability because you're forced to replay everything in a linear progression. With one dimensional characters who can get themselves out of every situation they get themselves into within a half-hour, as a television station producer, you can pick and choose which episodes are the most popular and replay them ad nauseum instead of committing to purchase the entire series to maintain continuity. Broadening our scope of television development, you'll find that the belief that television is mindless entertainment has been a cornerstone of television production for over 60 years. Sitcoms, from Gilligan's Island to Friends have one-dimensional characters who get themselves into something at the beginning of the episode and get themselves out of it by the end, while not actually changing their overall situation in the slightest, merely resetting the environment to be ready for the hijinks of the next episode. It's -especially- prevalent in the '60s and in early '90s "family" sitcoms. Americans have lost the ability to enjoy things that take place over a long period of time, while waiting to get installments of the story. With the advent of television, radio serials were all but cast out of the public eye. Even now, with serials coming out on broadcast TV like Lost, Heroes, Supernatural, Prison Break, and Veronica Mars that have become popular, you have at least three times as many which have been canceled for some reason or another, like Surface, Invasion, Threshold, Firely, Drive, Jericho, Space: Above and Beyond, and more that have fallen to the wayside in the past 15 years because there wasn't enough of a consumer draw to them because we, I think, as a culture are still not prepared to alter our love/hate relationship with television and abandon our single-serving entertainment style for something we might actually have to commit ourselves to being involved in. *As an aside, Animé is short for "Animeeshon" which is romaji for the word 'Animation'. "Japanimation" is a marketing buzzword that was thrown around in the early '90s to differentiate Animé from american cartoons and still allow people new to the concept to understand that it was an animated meduim
Comment on I has a timelord (buddy icon) (2007-09-06 02:22:47)
Cat is standing on a Time Lord.
Comment on Boobs? Or Shoulders? (2007-08-03 02:41:10)
Gaaaah... That's almost as bad as the "B-cup uni-boob", which is when a large woman has rather diminutive breasts, and the fold of skin from the breast hanging down kinda melds with the side fat and back fat to make one big fat roll with nipples around her ribcage. I'm sorry if you need brain bleach after reading this. I haven't found enough eye-bleach since I saw one last month.
Comment on 1337 Bible (2007-08-03 02:18:24)
I hate to be a spoilsport, but that's the LOLCats bible. There's nowhere near enough 13375P34K for it to be a L33T bible.
Comment on Egg Drop Screen Shot (2007-07-30 23:22:42)
I think he means "Milk Drop", and it's a visualization plug-in that's been bundled with WinAMP for the last couple of years.
Comment on Zombie Food Pyramid (2007-07-25 23:06:39)
This is going on my fridge tonight.
Comment on Caution: Vehicle may be transporting political promises! (2007-07-23 22:50:50)
...what?
Comment on Caution: Vehicle may be transporting political promises! (2007-07-22 19:16:05)
Just as I thought, the truck's full of shit.
Comment on Batman - The Dark Knight - Two Face (2007-07-18 20:38:16)
Fan-made costume or not, it's light years beyond the shit that Tommy Lee Jones wore in Batman Forever.
Comment on Jedi Hunted! (2007-07-17 00:54:13)
@Spac Demon Because a lot of people who do these sort of referential joke images rarely do their continuity research.
Comment on Shark / manatee buddy icon (2007-07-16 01:41:43)
Ha! I've been using this for a user icon on several other forums for damn near a year. Granted I had to 'shop it a little more so I could make it smaller but have the text still readable.