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Larger than Life |
Posted by: robkelk - 03-15-2007, 03:32 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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I spend my life on bullet trains & planes & boats & cars,
I've seen the wonders of the world & gazed upon the stars,
I thought that I had seen all that there was on Earth to see,
then you walked in and pulled the rug right out from under me.
Who would have guessed? I'd be so impressed.
I've seen the Pyramids at Giza, that tilty tower in Pisa,
but baby, they just don't do what you do
'cuz you're larger than life.
Some say the blue Atlantic is really quite gigantic,
well maybe, I just don't see what they do
'cuz you're larger than life.
Zeus & all his thunder,
he liked to get his kicks,
with this spell I'm under
I don't need parlour tricks.
I've seen the falls of Niagara, the theorem of Pythagoras,
but baby, they just don't do what you do
'cuz you're larger than life.
Zeus & all his thunder,
he liked to get his kicks,
with this spell I'm under
I don't need parlour tricks.
Well, this worldly Nova Scotian will give you her devotion,
so if you've got the notion, let's cause a real commotion,
let me give you a clue, if it was just me and you,
you'd see with only us two, that baby
we could be larger than life.
Larger than Life, by Holly Cole, written by Holly Cole, from the album Holly Cole, copyright 2007 Holly Cole Music Publishing
Gives someone else the power to become larger than life-sized - considering some of the items used for comparison, possibly much larger than life-sized. If Doug really cares about the person (i.e. he uses the song on Maggie), he gets to grow, too. This being a "torch song", it also gives him the usual infatuation side-effect.
Yes, it's an excuse to get another non-rock song into the Arsenal. But the list of Empowerment songs is rather sparse...
No, I don't (yet) have a place for this in BSBW. (Although if I tweak Chapter Four a bit... no, that chapter's too full of song effects as it is.)
(BTW, the album Holly Cole is brand-new; it was released yesterday. It's mostly covers - I think it may have my new favourite versions of Johnny Mercer's Charade and Cole Porter's It's Alright with Me - the above is the only original song on the album. Highly recommended if you like vocal jazz.)
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Brief absence |
Posted by: Render - 03-13-2007, 10:33 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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We are moving on Thursday. In addition to being busy, my DSL at the old house appears to have been disconnected early. If I'm lucky, I'll be back online Friday night or Saturday with a spiffy new fiber connection. If I'm not... maybe Monday?
-Render
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[Original Story Concept] Thy Kingdom Come |
Posted by: Acyl - 03-13-2007, 09:46 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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Okay. It's called "Thy Kingdom Come".
I've been toying with this idea, in several forms, for about...I dunno, almost eight years now. Mind, it's evolved greatly over time, and the current version bears little resemblence to my first notion...
But still, this is literally, the only novel-length original concept I've ever had. I've had lots of ideas for long fanfic, mind you... and serial episodic-style original stories. But this is my only novel-length story idea. Never had another, before or since. I've always wanted to write it. But...
Well, there's problems. The story demands that it be set in an original fantasy universe. And I'm not terribly good at the whole world-building bit. Especially since the concept demands that I come up with effectively two worlds... what was before, and what exists now.
I'm good at inventing characters, at weaving themes and subtext into my narratives... but worldbuilding details escape me. So I need help with that. I've finally broken down and decided to ask on a public forum. I need people to press me on things like geography, political entities, heck, even economics. I need to think about these things, and it doesn't come naturally to me.
I'd also appreciate any comments about my characters. Do you have any questions? The act of answering those questions, that's probably gonna force me to think. They're important, critically important, and so I really need to get their portrayal right. Especially since they aren't your typical fantasy character archetypes.
(Heck, I'm posting this largely 'cause I spent a lot of time talking with Valles last night, and he made a lot of brilliant suggestions that...have already made my story better.)
Alright. Enough ramble. Now it's time to describe the world itself.
But before I do that, the following post contains the opening scene of the story. The setup, as it were. I wrote this bit...two or three years ago, and never really edited it. It's a bit raw, a bit clumsy, definitely overwrought...I ought to rewrite it...
Still, it sets the stage. So...
-- Acyl
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Hard Rock Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted by: David Lewis - 03-13-2007, 06:25 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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This is a long one people, so bare with me. A lot of this was researched (i.e, nicked from) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur...ng_Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held between active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to go forward to represent the country in the international competition.
The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956, and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally. It has been broadcast around the globe beyond Europe to such places as Australia, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Hong Kong, India, Korea, New Zealand and even the USA; even though these countries do not participate. Since the year 2000, the Contest has also been broadcast over the Internet; with more than 74,000 people in almost 140 countries having watched the 2006 edition online
Over the years, the Song Contest has grown from a mere televisual experiment into an international institution of mammoth proportions. Most countries in Europe have taken part at least once during the Contest's history, and such is the magnitude and scale of the Contest that the word "Eurovision" is one of the few household names to be recognized across an entire continent.
The Contest is historically known for being mainly a bastion of formulaic, orchestrated pop music. However it has featured (although always as unappreciated minorities) a vast, diverse array of songs, including such musical genres as Arab, Balkan, Celtic music, Dance, Folk, Israeli, Greek, Latin, Metal, Nordic, Pop-rap, Rock, and Turkish. Historically very few of these different styles have won the competition, the reigning themes being pop and ballads.
However last year....
all that changed....
Because of LORDI.
Lordi is a heavy metal band from Finland, and winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, formed in 1992 by Tomi Putaansuu (known as 'Mr. Lordi') of Rovaniemi, Finland. Lordi is known for their constant use of monster costumes and lyrical themes.
Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with a record 292 points, giving Finland its first ever victory. Lordi were featured on the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen when Mr Lordi presented the award for rock, they were also the closing act playing their single Hard Rock Hallelujah.
Lordi represented Finland in the finals with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" after getting through the semi-finals. The band won by a significant margin, scoring 292 points, 44 points over second placed Dima Bilan, representing Russia with the song "Never Let You Go".
Having been voted for by all countries except Albania, Armenia and Monaco, Lordi scored the highest number of points for any entry in any Eurovision Song Contest to date. They received 12 points from eight countries: Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Coincidentally, Lordi also scored 292 points in the semi-final held two days earlier. They were also the first Eurovision entrant to win in both the Semi-Final and Final stages.
To celebrate their recent victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, Lordi held a public, free, open-air concert in the Market Square in Helsinki, Finland, on 26 May 2006. The band actually implicitly promised this concert to Finns during the scoring in the Eurovision final in Athens, as it became more and more clear they would win, by holding up a sign saying "Torilla tavataan!" ("See you at the [market] square!") in front of the TV cameras.
At the concert, President of Finland Tarja Halonen made an official appearance to give Lordi a bronze key flag award for exemplary Finnish work. The concert was reported to have been attended by over 90 thousand people from all over Finland and even other countries, some even on their first ever trip to Helsinki. The concert was the biggest public event to that day in Helsinki. On this occasion, the world record for most people ever to sing karaoke was attempted by approximately 80,000 people, singing Hard Rock Hallelujah. The previous record was held by 50,000 Irish rugby fans
I realize that I'm going on a bit about this, but you have to understand I've grown up with the eurovision song contest, and thus dealt with absolute decades of stagnation and repetition, political voting and general cynicism about the whole thing. And then came Lordi, who've broken an incredible barrier of conformity to bring in something different for perhaps the first time in the show's history, and hopefully made a small difference in the overall acceptance of alternative music styles in Europe. THEY ACTUALLY USED PYROTECHNICS AND MONSTER COSTUMES!!! TEN YEARS AGO THAT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THEM SHOT!!!
I like the song, but it's not really some heavenly (or hellishly) good anthem in my opinion, just a pretty good and catchy metal song.
Here's a group of videos -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDcpQcUsgqI - The Actual Live Performance at Eurovision
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPU8xXY3wJo - The Victory Performance At The Market Square
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YgOHggUjhk - The Original Video
Okay, so lets get to what we're REALLY here for,
How would Doug's metatalent use this song? I think it'd immediately grab on to it, but as always, a good use of power escapes me. here's the lyrics,
Hard Rock Hallelujah Lordi
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
The saints are crippled
On this sinners' night
Lost are the lambs with no guiding light
The walls come down like thunder
The rock's about to roll
It's the arockalypse
Now bare your soul
All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high
The true believers
Thou shall be saved
Brothers and sisters, keep strong in the faith.
On the day of Rockoning
It's who dares, wins
You will see the jokers soon'll be the new kings
All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high
Wings on my back
I got horns on my head
My fangs are sharp
And my eyes are red
Not quite an angel
Or the one that fell
Now choose to join us or go straight to Hell
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Yeah!
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock 'n roll angels bring thine Hard Rock Hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
I get the feeling this might be a bit to overpowered, as it may summon an 'Arockalypse' or 'Day Of Rockening, and there are a few odd phrases in there as well, 'Striking Down The Prophets Of False'. So I'm submitting it for discussion, suggestions of powers and/or step it would be useful in?
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Vlad has outdone himself |
Posted by: CattyNebulart - 03-13-2007, 05:32 PM - Forum: Anime Music Videos
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This one cires out for a fanfic to be made for it... There just has to be a City Hunter/Sailor Moon x-over made for this...
www.animemusicvideos.org/...hp?v=89803
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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Just when I decide to buy it... |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-13-2007, 01:53 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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...I discover that the goodies pack from the COH Collector's DVD Edition is no longer available. I don't care so much about the feelies, but damn! I wanted the in-game stuff!
I can still find the actual Collector's Edition over at Amazon, but I'm not going to spend $80 to get a badge, prestige power slide, and a couple other things...
-- Bob
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Visit beautiful Boston, proud successor to Seattle as
"City Most Scared Of Its Own Shadow
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Racial/Ethnic Groups in Fenspace |
Posted by: Kokuten - 03-12-2007, 06:30 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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Pulled out from the soil thread, as I think this is interesting enough to be pursued. Suggest insertion into the Glossary (EnFenloPedia?) when consensus has been achieved. Please support Consensus by posting your ideas and corrections and input!
Quote: what other minority groups might be "interesting enough" to get into space with handwavium?
To be blunt, Pakis, Irish, Jews, Amish, Nigerian, Homosexuals.. the list could go on and on, if needed.
Nigerians - A rather tightly-knit community of Nigerians have set up shop on Mars, and are doing quite nicely for themselves. The prime reason for their mini-exodus was to provide an honorable face to the Universe, in contrast with the Nigerian Prince email scam, which they're quite unhappy with.
Pakis - Tired of treatment as second-class citizens in their native Britian, the Pakistani immigrant is by and large a happy healthy person, who while they may end up working in a service position, is now working with people who believe that their services are honorable, valued, and worthy of respect.
Irish - Bars In Spaaace. No, really. a nucleus of irish brewmasters and distillers pushed off, to investigate and take advantage of the easy availability of vaccum and zero G in fermentation and distillation of beverage. In general, they're a fairly technical folk, nowhere near as tightly knit as the Nigerian or Amish communities. They're profiting a lot in stability from the concept that "If ye don't like it here, we'll be happy to help you get back home", forcing noone to stay Out that doesn't want to..
Jews - The old persecution of the Judaic peoples hasn't escaped from the gravity well yet, leading some of the more verbally pugilistic of this community to debate upon the specific gravity of hatred.. A split community, part of the Jewish prescence in Fenspace believes that the Fenchurch and it's sacraments (such as they are) are Kosher, while the other half appears to think that that Fenchurch thing is a fine, fine idea, but they still need to be holding their own sanctified observances. As of yet, this 'conflict' has led to well-reasoned debates, and quite a lot of profit for coffee and bagel sales.
Homosexuals - Yes, there is a 'Gay Station'. It's a fully functional space station, with a surprisingly balanced gender mix in it's permanent population. The station is a political haven for anti-discriminatory lobbying and propoganda, and they've finally come clean about the Gay Agenda:
1) Live well
2) Be Happy
While the station does have a red light district, it, like Candy Apple Reds, is a seperate entity, clearly marked, and not really that big of a deal, since that's not what their main purpose here is.
Amish - A surprising member of the Fenspace population mix, the Amish can be found primarily on Mars, though the Venus Terraforming Project has already made it clear that there will be land available for them on Venus, when.. The Amish in Fenspace are, unsurprisingly, quite liberal compared to their Earthbound kin, but still avoid technology as much as possible, preferring instead to utilize handicrafts and manpower, where some of us would use antigrav and grapples. An Amish hand-woven spacesuit will shock the wearer on their first donning, as it's lighter, more flexible, and just works better than the average run-of-the-mill. The fact that it was constructed by hand as much as possible, well, that's just their thing, right?
One Amish elder has been quoted as stating that "Mars, while not Heaven, is certainly a very nice place to raise a barn, thanks to the gravity."
The modern Amish buggy is horse-drawn, sure, but the horses are signifigantly smaller, wear their own pressure setups, and the buggy itself is air tight and uses a variant on the Hephaestian zipper-lock.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979
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Just an eeeevil idea. |
Posted by: Vulpis - 03-11-2007, 05:01 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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Song: The 'Tiny Tim' version of 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
Power: 'Ninjawalk' (Silent stepping that doesn't set off pressure sensors).
Drawback: He has to listen to that *awful* singing. I'd rather have a polka medley, personally...
Hmmm...actually, that does raise a question--what *do* medleys do to Doug's power, anyway? I'm thinking of Weird Al's polka medleys in particular, one of which includes Black Hole Sun...
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