Evangelia just sold a Chronal Skip for 200,000,000 influence.  Yes, you read that right, no that's not a typo -- two hundred million influence.
Holy cow.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

After a little tweaking based on the comments I got a few weeks back, I've published my arc (tagged as "Looking for feedback" since I'm not 100% satisfied with it, but satisfied enough...)
Anyway, I'd be very grateful if folks would give it a play and comment/rate it, please.
Thank you.
(ETA:  I tweaked the arc a little this morning, and the number changed when I saved it.  Please note the new number in the threat title.)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

After a little tweaking based on the comments I got a few weeks back,
I've published my arc (tagged as "Looking for feedback" since I'm not
100% satisfied with it, but satisfied enough...)

Anyway, I'd be very grateful if folks would give it a play and comment/rate it, please.

Thank you.
(ETA:  I tweaked the arc a little this morning, and the number changed
when I saved it.  Please note the new number in the threat title.)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/media.html]Promo videos for Portal 2

(Somewhat choppy on my current connection, but that may be because thy're still relatively new and the server's under stress...)

Wheatley looks like an ... interesting ... character.
--
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

Well, okay, a bogus trailer.  I don't remember if I mentioned it beforehand, but on Sunday Peggy and I saw Weird Al Yankovic live at the Imperial Theatre in Asbury Park.  (About a block from Madam Marie's and two blocks from the Stone Pony, for all you Springsteen fans.)  If you've ever seen Weird Al perform, you'll know that he punctuates the live performances with an eclectic collection of video footage, including AL-TV and Weird Al Show segments, clips of references to him or his appearances in various movies and TV shows, and chunks of his videos, among other things. 
Anyway, this short film was among the stuff that appeared during one of those video segments.  What's amazing is the cast that was assembled to make it... and check out the cameo Weird Al himself made.  I'd love to embed it, but it's got embedding disabled.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I did, at like 10 at night.  Big mistake...  first of course being the sheer length of the movie.
Worst?  its 2am here on the west coast and now I cant bloody sleep cause I keep thinking about it.  Not just about the comparisons between the graphic novel (which my nephew got me for christmas...  last year? or the year before?  the holidays after it was in theatres, anyway) but more than a few of the underlying themes there.
about my only comment at this stage as I'm pondering, and not sleeping is that the sex scene could totally have been implied and not shown on screen.  Not that doing so would have saved it from an R rating with all the other language and elements in the film.
the other?  its gonna be a looooooong oh dark hundreds.  And an even longer day to follow.
Better go make myself some coffee...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

{{Shipbox

|shipname = FPVX-1169 Flying Egg "Flegg"

|shipimage =

|caption =

|hull = Custom design

|length = 11m / 36 ft

|width = 14m / 46 ft

|height = 4.5m / 15 ft

|mass =

|drivetype = "Chicken"

|driverating = Peak velocity 0.02 - 0.04c

|weapons = none standard o

|manufacturer = Unknown

|owner = Anthony Esposito

|flag = Fenspace Confederation

|faction = None

|registry = Kandor City

|datelaunched = $foo $201(0+n
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

Geneon returns - Hellsing OAV, Fate STAY/Night: Unlimited Blade works, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, Black Lagoon s3
Bandai - Haruhi s2, Haruhi movie, K-ON! (*edit* Just s1, but they said if it does well and they can get it, s2). Main VA cast for K-ON announced, I only know Christiana Vee is Mio (she was Haruhi in the ASOS videos) and they are doing a US band, similar to the ASOS Brigade they did for Haruhi
There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

Only $35K. But they throw in a free TRON helmet.  Oh, and it's street-legal, too.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Not the minute-and-a-half teaser, but a full-length trailer:

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.