Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 2 2014, 17:32:32 UTC
Any nonnies replaying the games or playing them for the first time? Stumbled across anything new and interesting? Just feel like chatting about our lord and master Durandal?
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 2 2014, 20:15:25 UTC
I still haven't played the games and I haven't found anything new and interesting recently but I'm always interested in talking about the almightly Durandal.
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 2 2014, 21:18:04 UTC
He makes for such a scintillating topic of conversation!
Personally, I'm really hoping he makes some sort of appearance in Destiny. He could be the Traveler (or involved in its creation), there could be stuff on Mars referencing him and the crash of Traxus IV and MIDA and Strauss, and while as far as I know the currently planned accessible locations in the game are just Earth, Venus, the Moon, Mars, and possibly Europa*, if we get as far out as reclaiming Pluto we might get buzzed by Durandal in the Manus Celer Dei... So many possibilities!
Also, I volunteered to write up a walkthrough for the first two dream levels/"Aie Mak Sicur," so one way or another, I can finally get my theory that the Hangar 96 terminals are from Durandal up on the Marathon's Story page. Even if it's just in the forums. (It's a perfectly valid theory! And there certainly aren't many others about the dream level terminals, at least not in the speculation pages, and I've read practically all of them.)
*It's one of the locations we've seen concept art for
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Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 2 2014, 21:59:33 UTC
I've seen you mention that theory before but you didn't really go into much detail (also, I haven't played Infinity and unlike the first two games picking it up from fandom doesn't seem to work). Care to elaborate?
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 2 2014, 23:56:45 UTC
HAPPILY. :D (Yeah, Infinity is a bit of a difficult game to get your head around, even if you do play it - I know the first time I played it I didn't have a clue what was going on.)
[Cut because this could get long...]So, the Hangar 96 terminals occur only on dream levels, which are already pretty surreal experiences - oddly colored enemies who may or may not ignore you, bizarre architecture, etc. - and like the other terminals on these levels (the so-called story of the knife) don't appear to have an obvious connection with the rest of the game. Unlike the knife story terminals, which tend to be long, rambling, and filled with unpleasant sensory details (grime, used chewing gum, vomit, the kid with the bloody nose), the Hangar 96 terminals are short, repetitive, and clinically detached from the scene the narrator is observing, although the one on the third dream level "Eat the Path" (which, notably, occurs after you pick up a chip possibly containing Durandal's primal pattern on "Hang Brain") does tie back to the story of the knife
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Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 3 2014, 06:34:43 UTC
DA
Yeah, he dropped a few hints in M2 like letting the entirety of the remaining humans go back to Earth. And then going to visi- er, annoy them later. Good job, Durandal. That'll show them how much you don't care.
Also considering the whole "primal pattern inside your soggy little skull" thing, I think there's enough connection for weirdness to seep through. (Although, it does bring us questions of what exactly a primal pattern is (code? his soul?) and how you would hide it well enough Tycho can't touch it...)
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Marathon
anonymous
March 3 2014, 15:51:45 UTC
I always sort of figured that it was the portion of his code or whatever that was responsible for his essential Durandalness. Which to all intents and purposes pretty much is his soul (I'm enough of a Ghost in the Shell fan to want to use the term 'ghost').
On a somewhat related note, I heard about a short story where someone is smuggling an AI inside themselves and some 'leakage' occurs. If/when I read that story I suspect that it'll give me ideas, because the premises alone is already making me wonder.
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Black Sails
anonymous
March 2 2014, 17:58:16 UTC
Am I really the only one watching this? It has huge issues (in all the senses of that word), but… well, pirates!
[Spoiler (click to open)]Billy! Oh, I know he'll probably be fine, but he's really grown on me.
Still very unhappy about the direction they've been taking with Max. Ugh. And I'm annoyed she didn't have a hand in saving herself - where's the scheming, ambitious woman of the first couple of episodes? She's become this parcel to be handed around Nassau. Poor Max.
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Black Sails
anonymous
March 2 2014, 19:27:17 UTC
I watched the first episode and part of the second before I went meh. The f/f felt like fanservice (twice the tits per sex scene!) and I had a bad feeling about what they were going to do with Max (apparently justified, as per your comment). I mean yeah, pirates....but I'm not really feeling it.
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Black Sails
anonymous
March 3 2014, 09:43:38 UTC
I'm guiltily enjoying it: guiltily because I'm enjoying the political shenanigans and I love Toby Stephen's Flint, but the male-gazey f/f is very prevalent. It's like Starz are trying to make up for the orgy of manflesh that was Spartacus. I've noted male viewers 'congratulating' Starz for the lack of male homosexuality. Ugh.
Not to mention all the damn rape.
I'm intrigued to see where they go with Anne/Max, but that douching scene felt incredibly gratuitous to me. Yet I love the idea of Anne/Rackham/Max. I wasn't sure if Anne & Rackham had that kind of relationship (despite all his 'darling's) until we saw them in bed together.
Re: Small Fandoms Thread - Tokusatsu
anonymous
March 3 2014, 03:53:13 UTC
[Gaim up to 19]Gaim is still pretty great, although I'm not sure how they're going to keep this pace up for the rest of the series. There are so many factions and people working for their own agendas and Micchy trying to play like three or four at once, which I am watching with the veiled horror of an upcoming trainwreck because there is no way that this is going to end well. (By the way Micchy, since you have inner access to Yggdrasil now, if you don't want Kouta seeing the video of Yuuya, maybe you should... just delete or lock the video... instead of totally ratting him out
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Personally, I'm really hoping he makes some sort of appearance in Destiny. He could be the Traveler (or involved in its creation), there could be stuff on Mars referencing him and the crash of Traxus IV and MIDA and Strauss, and while as far as I know the currently planned accessible locations in the game are just Earth, Venus, the Moon, Mars, and possibly Europa*, if we get as far out as reclaiming Pluto we might get buzzed by Durandal in the Manus Celer Dei... So many possibilities!
Also, I volunteered to write up a walkthrough for the first two dream levels/"Aie Mak Sicur," so one way or another, I can finally get my theory that the Hangar 96 terminals are from Durandal up on the Marathon's Story page. Even if it's just in the forums. (It's a perfectly valid theory! And there certainly aren't many others about the dream level terminals, at least not in the speculation pages, and I've read practically all of them.)
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[Cut because this could get long...]So, the Hangar 96 terminals occur only on dream levels, which are already pretty surreal experiences - oddly colored enemies who may or may not ignore you, bizarre architecture, etc. - and like the other terminals on these levels (the so-called story of the knife) don't appear to have an obvious connection with the rest of the game. Unlike the knife story terminals, which tend to be long, rambling, and filled with unpleasant sensory details (grime, used chewing gum, vomit, the kid with the bloody nose), the Hangar 96 terminals are short, repetitive, and clinically detached from the scene the narrator is observing, although the one on the third dream level "Eat the Path" (which, notably, occurs after you pick up a chip possibly containing Durandal's primal pattern on "Hang Brain") does tie back to the story of the knife ( ... )
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Yeah, he dropped a few hints in M2 like letting the entirety of the remaining humans go back to Earth. And then going to visi- er, annoy them later. Good job, Durandal. That'll show them how much you don't care.
Also considering the whole "primal pattern inside your soggy little skull" thing, I think there's enough connection for weirdness to seep through. (Although, it does bring us questions of what exactly a primal pattern is (code? his soul?) and how you would hide it well enough Tycho can't touch it...)
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On a somewhat related note, I heard about a short story where someone is smuggling an AI inside themselves and some 'leakage' occurs. If/when I read that story I suspect that it'll give me ideas, because the premises alone is already making me wonder.
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That Durandal, so tsundere. (Admittedly he could have gone back a bit earlier than 10,000 years later... I'm sure time just got away from him.)
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I've thought about your comment regarding Captcha but I can't decide which possibility is more worrying and/or amusing; hero worship or an AI crush.
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[Spoiler (click to open)]Billy! Oh, I know he'll probably be fine, but he's really grown on me.
Still very unhappy about the direction they've been taking with Max. Ugh. And I'm annoyed she didn't have a hand in saving herself - where's the scheming, ambitious woman of the first couple of episodes? She's become this parcel to be handed around Nassau. Poor Max.
Flint's waxed 'tache = swoon.
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Not to mention all the damn rape.
I'm intrigued to see where they go with Anne/Max, but that douching scene felt incredibly gratuitous to me. Yet I love the idea of Anne/Rackham/Max. I wasn't sure if Anne & Rackham had that kind of relationship (despite all his 'darling's) until we saw them in bed together.
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