Avelorn

Are you calling us monkeys, heathen! We do not deal with filthy monkeys! :eek: ... sorry apes.

I haven't really talked this through with Anders yet but I'm sure he could offer some "special services" for the chosen one.

As I can't go to WE because of my brothers wedding the hotelroom I was going to share with Anders (Ritual) has a missing spot. PM Me if interested! Sven

Well your still lucky that your name is relatively common and that you don't come from the same place. Still sucks though.

4 n noengelish speakr it not ez 2 unterstan! luv teh catz tho kthnxbai

Me and a friend spoke about this recently. She worked at a fast-food restaurant and had to call 911 (112 in Sweden) pretty often to take care of the usual fistfights and so on. She said that pretty often she couldn't get through and I was shocked, never heard of it before. However she called from an IP phone so we figured it could be something about that, limitation in the restaurants or the phonecompany's devices instead of in the emergency department. Not sure though but I think more people would have reacted here if it was a real problem.

I missed out on Mona.. crap. I need that one.

Oh. well there was this image I got a couple of years back from another of these so called "friends" who liked to send links of horrible horrible stuff. MILD WARNING, DESCRIPTION AHEAD: Well at first a couldn't quite see what it was. It looked green-brown.. no wait a green-brown fountain right towards the camera? What is that.. is that a butt? Is that a human laying butt-up in a bathtub? And a brown fountain...and.. and suddenly the entire image hit me like a sledgehammer. I wanted to rip out my eyes. @Jim: Still intrigued by this face painting thing.

@Ritual: *raises hand*

@Anders: Yeah be my MSN date tonight!

@Anders: Yeah.. right! :smokin: Like we haven't heard that one before... :lame: Music! :flute: And though I'm not a great romancer I know that I'm bound to answer When you propose, Anything goes...

What were the holes in the first Matrix (the one I was talking about)? Meaning what was wrong and contradicitive? Mindblowing philosophically.. hm. I don't think I would view it as such now as I did 1999. But that's because I've actually read philosphy since and contemplated the issues raised. Still it's incredibly neat walkthrough over the philosophic history and major issues. + the name symbolism etc. etc. The problem with the 2nd and 3d was that what they were hinting in the first they said straight up and down in the sequels. It was like "hey people didn't notice the subtle nods to philosphic history in the first one so we have to scale it up a bit." And what was left to the imagination in the first was put on the plate. I remember I had a great time thinking that ghosts and such were just bugs in the system etc. But when they did just that with the flying banshees.. it just rang false somewhere. However they had some brilliant points as well. I have to rewatch them all. Long time since I saw them. EDIT: why would Jurrasic park not be a sci-fi?

Why army of 12 monkeys is not on the list is a big mystery to me. Equilibrium... hm. Never understood the hype of that movie. Same with V for vendetta. The trouble I had with both I guess because people mentioned the word "deep" and how they really "made you think". They were both pretty shallow action sci-fi flicks. Expectations not reached for me there. I had no expectations for Matrix and it rocked my world back then so definately a number one for me too.. I haven't seen all series/movies you mention though. Some reviewers here in Sweden called Matrix "high-school philosophical (degoratory)" and "giant holes in the story is effectively covered by the sfx". That was one of those times I contemplated writing angry letters to the paper. I think a discussion of what makes sci-fi will be a long one. I mean if we are talking... "hard sci-fi" Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is far more sci-fi then Star wars (actually it's quite spot on) because it deals with something that might be a possibility and even in largely a scientifically correct way (how we form memories and how they are stored etc.)

Taste differs, I think it looks absolutely great. I can see nothing wrong with the proportions either except for the obvius enlonged limbs. The face is beautiful, full of character and expression. And if we're talking deamonettes and slaanesh.. androgynity is not a bad idea. Even if I personally wouldn't say she looks very masculine. The paintjob looks maybe even better then the first one, more contrast and character. And that one was one of the best minis I've seen in my life.