Yes. Yessssssssssssssssssss. You reminded me I've gotta start watching The Wire again.benzooka said:From the best series ever made:
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Puns aside, I think the ice hotel is pretty damn cool.FrostyChick said:
I trump this with...captaincabbage said:I'll see your Nepoleon Dinosaur cavalry and raise you a. . . this thing.thaluikhain said:I see your Tyrannosaurus-in-fighter and raise you Napoleon:captaincabbage said:OT: This. Simply this.
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I don't know what it is, but it fucking rocks.
I didn't anyone else here knew about Skulduggery Pleasant, let alone would ninja my answer.DanielDeFig said:For me, there is a difference between awesome and cool. Pirates are awesome, Ninjas are cool. Sci-Fi is cool, Fantasy is awesome.
Magic seems to have the potential to fill either the cool or the awesome criteria for me, but generally lean towards awesome (fireballs are far more common than, say, waterbending-style magic). Undead skeletons seem to have the same, yet opposite effect, potential for either but usually end up being cool (i think it's numbers and type here. Smaller numbers of human skeletons are more prominent and cool, while legions of mixed skeleton types is scarce but tends to be awesome).
Interesting then, that someone (Derek Landy) decided to come up with an undead skeleton sorcerer detective as a main character for his books. Not only is he a skeleton sorcerer, but he is sarcastic, suave, sophisticated, shrewd intelligent and has a bloated ego. Along with that he is a practitioner of elemental magic, a master of several martial arts, carries a revolver at all times, and a sharp dresser. The fact that he is a brilliant detective (giving him a certain film-noire aura) adds to his coolness factor, and is the thing that tips him to be more cool than awesome, though he has enough of both to out-rank most other stuff/characters i know of in either category.
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The left picture is official (on the cover of the first book), while the second is fanart (the URL gives credit to VanKid, so i will too)
I wans't sure anyone here would know of Skulduggery either, i have yet to start Mortal Coil (i just bought it, but i'm reading something else right now). BTW, WOW, that looks like an awesome show, with a cool intro to boot. I'll be going through whatever Wikipedia has to say about Clone High.FreelanceButler said:I didn't anyone else here knew about Skulduggery Pleasant, let alone would ninja my answer.DanielDeFig said:For me, there is a difference between awesome and cool. Pirates are awesome, Ninjas are cool. Sci-Fi is cool, Fantasy is awesome.
Magic seems to have the potential to fill either the cool or the awesome criteria for me, but generally lean towards awesome (fireballs are far more common than, say, waterbending-style magic). Undead skeletons seem to have the same, yet opposite effect, potential for either but usually end up being cool (i think it's numbers and type here. Smaller numbers of human skeletons are more prominent and cool, while legions of mixed skeleton types is scarce but tends to be awesome).
Interesting then, that someone (Derek Landy) decided to come up with an undead skeleton sorcerer detective as a main character for his books. Not only is he a skeleton sorcerer, but he is sarcastic, suave, sophisticated, shrewd intelligent and has a bloated ego. Along with that he is a practitioner of elemental magic, a master of several martial arts, carries a revolver at all times, and a sharp dresser. The fact that he is a brilliant detective (giving him a certain film-noire aura) adds to his coolness factor, and is the thing that tips him to be more cool than awesome, though he has enough of both to out-rank most other stuff/characters i know of in either category.
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The left picture is official (on the cover of the first book), while the second is fanart (the URL gives credit to VanKid, so i will too)
In that case, I'll go with Clone High.
I found out about it a few days ago, found out it was cancelled in 2003 and am sad already. Doesn't stop it being awesome.
I demand you all go watch it. Now. Do it.
oppp7 said:PTEROSAURS ARE NOT DINOSAURS GODDAMMIT. (Same with Icthysaurs, Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, and especially Dimetrodon)
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