Well I've been doing school work and following the US Presidential Debates (even though I am Australian) for lolz. Australians aren't told about anything in the world except shootings and thieves and speeding.
My tip: Watch Fox News' coverage of the debates for EXTRA ROFLMAOS. @SeanHannity's words are almost as fake as that hair piece.
Well, looks like everyone else forgot, so I have to give you bad news... *sigh* where should I start...
You remember the cookie jar, filled up with golden cookies, to be eaten for a great day to come? Well... that day was yesterday... there's no cookie left... sorry?
You remember the cookie jar, filled up with golden cookies, to be eaten for a great day to come? Well... that day was yesterday... there's no cookie left... sorry?
Don't worry, @PhillipDaigle is keeping one for me, he signed a legally binding pinky swear promise.
The Floor Is Lava is a game where people pretend the floor is...made of lava (so contact is bad), and you have to leave the room or otherwise move around without touching the floor. It starts when someone yells, "THE FLOOR IS LAVA!" Anyone who is too slow to react gets burned by the lava and "dies."
@Brude: more proof that Blizzard can't think of ideas on their own. All of their major IPs, they stole from Games Workshop. In this case, they lifted that name straight out of Forgotten Realms lore.
Which is a crying shame, because there is so much more soul and sheer bad-assery in Warhammer Fantasy than Warcraft, and EASILY more soul and awesomeness (and grim darkness!) in Warhammer 40k than Starcraft.
Of course we missed you @Ward - without you here I've been able to slam IWD repeatedly for lack of story and characterization, and there just hasn't been any opposition. WB. 8)
Technically speaking, Silvanus was the god of the woods in ancient Roman mythology, which was created *way* before the Forgotten Realms... But oh well, DETAILS! XD
@sandmanCCL This may just be Blizzard spin but I think the issue was the games workshop wouldn't give blizzard the rights to adapt their games. A shame if that was the case. +what Cheesebelly said.
Technically speaking, Silvanus was the god of the woods in ancient Roman mythology, which was created *way* before the Forgotten Realms... But oh well, DETAILS! XD
@HahaCharade Roman stole all their cool stuff from Greeks.
Yep. I love Greek Mythology. It was like the world's first soap operas. I dig how people from one myth, show up in other myths, like making cameos.
Prometheus gets chained to his rock in punishment for not only giving man fire (which was the lesser crime) but tricking Zeus. See, Greeks needed to explain why when they butchered an animal for food, they got the good meat and they gave the fat, scraps, bones to the gods in sacrifice. Why would the gods want the crap? Well, the myth goes Prometheus, who loved man, put two piles of meat out there. One bloody (the good stuff) and one covered in glistening fat (the bad stuff). He asked Zeus to choose what would be a sacrifice for man from that day forward and Zeus swore on the river Styx (unbreakable oath buddy!) that he would pick the pile with the fat. When he discovered that Prometheus decieved him, that was like the last straw....
But anyway, going back to my cameo stuff, Prometheus chained on his rock would appear in many myths. People would stop by and talk to him, etc. all the way up until Hercules famously killed the eagle eating his liver and freed the imprisoned Titan.
Same with Orpheus, the famous musician. He went with Jason and the Argonauts (so did Hercules again) and his music saved them from the Sirens. His best myth tho was later, when he went to the underworld to get his dead wife back...
@HaHaCharade, ah, that means that Orpheus is an archetypal bard character, then. I didn't know that. I'm always looking for examples of bard heroes in myth, literature, and film.
Cleric heroes can also be hard to find, outside the Bible - I don't mean priestly or monkly characters, I mean fictional D&D cleric archetypes, with clerical magic powers.
@HaHaCharade, ah, that means that Orpheus is an archetypal bard character, then. I didn't know that. I'm always looking for examples of bard heroes in myth, literature, and film.
For sure. Orpheus is the most famous bard in all of Greek myth and arguably the most famous ever. Was said that while Apollo created the Lyre, it was Orpheus that played it the best. I urge you to check out the myth where he visits the Underworld called Orpheus and Eurydice... It is really cool.
@HaHaCharade Have you read Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid. Gah, I would quote a passage but it is currently too deep in the book-strata Great book for fans of Hughes and tales of Greek myth.
@HaHaCharade Have you read Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid. Gah, I would quote a passage but it is currently too deep in the book-strata Great book for fans of Hughes and tales of Greek myth.
I have not but thanks for the recommendation! Is it like a book based around Greek myth or is it a book on Greek myth?
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My tip: Watch Fox News' coverage of the debates for EXTRA ROFLMAOS. @SeanHannity's words are almost as fake as that hair piece.
You remember the cookie jar, filled up with golden cookies, to be eaten for a great day to come? Well... that day was yesterday... there's no cookie left... sorry?
Which is a crying shame, because there is so much more soul and sheer bad-assery in Warhammer Fantasy than Warcraft, and EASILY more soul and awesomeness (and grim darkness!) in Warhammer 40k than Starcraft.
+what Cheesebelly said.
@HahaCharade Roman stole all their cool stuff from Greeks.
Yep. I love Greek Mythology. It was like the world's first soap operas. I dig how people from one myth, show up in other myths, like making cameos.
Prometheus gets chained to his rock in punishment for not only giving man fire (which was the lesser crime) but tricking Zeus. See, Greeks needed to explain why when they butchered an animal for food, they got the good meat and they gave the fat, scraps, bones to the gods in sacrifice. Why would the gods want the crap? Well, the myth goes Prometheus, who loved man, put two piles of meat out there. One bloody (the good stuff) and one covered in glistening fat (the bad stuff). He asked Zeus to choose what would be a sacrifice for man from that day forward and Zeus swore on the river Styx (unbreakable oath buddy!) that he would pick the pile with the fat. When he discovered that Prometheus decieved him, that was like the last straw....
But anyway, going back to my cameo stuff, Prometheus chained on his rock would appear in many myths. People would stop by and talk to him, etc. all the way up until Hercules famously killed the eagle eating his liver and freed the imprisoned Titan.
Same with Orpheus, the famous musician. He went with Jason and the Argonauts (so did Hercules again) and his music saved them from the Sirens. His best myth tho was later, when he went to the underworld to get his dead wife back...
I could read Greek myths all day long man.
Cleric heroes can also be hard to find, outside the Bible - I don't mean priestly or monkly characters, I mean fictional D&D cleric archetypes, with clerical magic powers.
Welcome back, @Ward.
Great book for fans of Hughes and tales of Greek myth.