Recent content by TwistedEllipses

I had to look this up, it was too intriguing. Y'know how I said the Varangian guard were there because it was thought they wouldn't get involved in factionalism, well... Harold earned his position in the guard under emperor Michael IV. Michel had two co-rulers as his successors, the emperor's...

So I want to tell you how several thousand Vikings in the 10th century became the personal guard for the emperor of the Byzantines all the way done in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). Historical accounts are a bit sketchy, questionable and this outside my normal area of expertise, but it's...

There's needs to be a modified swear-jar for every time a certain someone says the phrase:

The foolish man builds his house upon the sand, imagine how incompetent you have to be to build the house out of sand as well...

I need help in working out what the pc game is that I played in primary school in the UK c.mid 1990's. It was an education archaeology game where you would choose a tool to dig with, usually damaging artifacts but occasionally getting to see what the full artifact would look like in the past...

Don't worry folks, there's still Jar-jar in there! The problem with fan edits of the prequels are that some poor acting/writing are pivotal to the plot and have to stay in. Also, cutting to this level means some coherence between cuts is lost. EDIT: pacing is a major problem with renegade...

I appreciate the honesty, but have things got so bad that you need to advertise Paul Blart: Mall Cop: 2: Electric Boogaloo?

I got the impression that while Jedi can sense other force users, the Midichlorian test was simply to measure their potential through the abundance of a parasite. If they are a Jedi, but have virtually no force potential, then there's no point in training them. As for the spiritual argument that...

As the metal conversion unfolded, I was beginning to wonder whether they were trolling, but I think they're genuinely that clueless about metal. I'm no fan myself (though I might fall into the Hard Rock category) so that whole conversation made me feel so much better about my meager metalogy...

I've seen a film where there are dinosaur riders and there were bigger, fatter dinosaurs with cannons attached...it was on Naboo in Star Wars episode 1! Simply by mentioning that film, I've made that seem a lot less cool.

Whilst it's nice to hear someone talk enthusiastically about something, please never ever talk about baseball again. No matter how boring people think any sport is, it's much more boring to hear someone talk about it (especially when they talk about a sport that doesn't really leave the shores...

The irony of the continuing Star Trek: Voyager bashing is that it actually had a decent ending that gave a resolution to the premise via a crazy/stupid/very Janeway-ish route. I'm surprised no-one mentioned Dexter...

The irony is that when a film does everything straight-faced, then it becomes funny in it's own right. I look forward to laughing at stuff they didn't intend to be funny. I mean, look what people have already done with pictures of superman in the rain...

The eyes! THE EYES! To stare into them is to see madness itself! (but seriously, I'm really sick of the manga style approach of ever increasing eye size to show innocence and be cute)

Someone else finally gets why the eagle argument is about as valid as saying "why didn't the allies just fly to Berlin and shoot Hitler in the face?"