AKA ODog1970

I play games, mostly video games. Favorites are RPGs and MMOs

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@SandyofCthulhu I remember one of those games let you turn opponents into a chicken, had lots of fun with that in multi player!

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@monsterhunter45 What that line about people who forget history again? I mean it's not like Dark Sun was glorifying it!

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@electricnowtv @jonathansfrakes LOL Is till remember the cameo he had in one Leverage episode where he was giving Nate a funny look while he was on coms, I hope he has an amazing birthday!

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

My birthday is tomorrow. You can get us BOTH a present by getting yourself one of the FOUR books I've currently got up for preorder. (yes, I am a workaholic!) Treat yourself! :D

A new MHI memoirs novel, with Les Johnson and space aliens! https://t.co/EQPTrF9poA

Academy of Outcasts 3! https://t.co/kiJbBs8RA5

American Paladin 2! https://t.co/weL32ZCVSU

The graphic novel adaptation of Gun Runner! https://t.co/QERZTg9PXk

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@everquest seeing a bunch of server locked but no announcements

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@Dean_Devlin Loved the first episode! Can't wait for the rest!

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@Dean_Devlin Any idea when season 2 will come to streaming? I unfortunately no longer have cable

[The Librarians: The Next Chapter @librarianstv]

A new season means new challenges, familiar faces, and a few legends along the way. 👀✨ Season 2 of The Librarians: The Next Chapter premieres tonight 9/8c on TNT. #TheLibrarians

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@WholesomeMeme Dollar bills or hundred dollar bills, the pic seems to indicate they are hundreds ;)

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@ProudPatriot69 @BadTasteTee Went to a concert of his where he ran up and down the stage for the first half of the show singing, then mid show he sat in a chair and did a medley of his tunes, to give the band a break LOL

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@Angie_Harmon @momo71ny Looking forward to it!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.

I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.

Nothing fell.

The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.

This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.

If it falls, they told me, you get it free.

I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.

The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.

The flip is not a trick.

It is a vow.

In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.

Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.

He did not lie.

He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.

I tipped him everything in my pocket.

He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.

I told him it was not just a Blizzard.

I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.

So I bowed instead.

He said, "You too, man."

That answered nothing I had said.

It answered everything I had felt.

[AKA ODog1970 @JTOverath]

@PaulChato Best Sherlock ever!

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

This dude got all sorts of butt hurt in the comments, doing the cliche "U Sound Angry" and "So What Your Saying Is (House is great art?)" but let me explain how this works for the non-writers who don't analyze this stuff all day.

House was an example of great writing because it knew exactly what it was (mostly, and when it strayed from the formula is when it struggled). This dude tried to spin me saying it running for 8 seasons and making piles of money was that I thought it was "great art". Lol no. Great Art is a made up bullshit term snooty people toss out to act superior over you peasants and the stuff you enjoy.

The reason the initial critique Hugh Laurie responded to was dumb is because the show wasn't actually about the medical mystery of the week. The medical mystery of the week was usually the B plot, one and done, and the formula was enjoyable for the audience. They went in with an expectation, got the reward/resolution, came back next week to do it again for 8 years because they were following the characters.

The show was actually a character drama. There's plot driven shows and character driven shows. Both must exist, but one usually serves the other. The medical mystery of the week was just there for House to be brilliant and snarky while the rest of the cast did all their drama around it.

Some people like the medical mystery, and being a mystery, it must be solved and reset with a new one. But the returning audience came back for the continuing story arcs, like the addiction, and the screwed up relationships, and the self-destruction, etc.

Some people find that tiresome, but they're not the target audience. That would be like me changing my books to cater to people who want navel gazing and therapy talk instead of face punching and monster shooting. There is no one Super Audience to cater to where you make a product that absolutely everyone likes. Pick your audience, and write to make them happy. Everybody else will be butt hurt about it, but it don't matter because the writer already got paid. :D

An ugly secret is pretty much every single successful entertainment franchise, to one degree or another, can be described in a dumbed down, ultra simplified, way to make it "cookie-cutter" and formulaic. Most of mine would be there's some kind of threat, good guys fight it, big struggle, good guys eventually prevail. Sounds cliche, right? That also describes a million other books and movies.

Tropes exist for a reason, guys. The human brain yearns for them. Shitting on something for being tropey just demonstrates that you don't grasp the nature of story telling. "Subverting expectations" is great an all in theory, but it is also how you get dumb shit that destroys franchises and drives off fans.

So there you go. I'm sure some dummy will declare me pontificating about a topic that I'm passionate about and do for a living must be because I'm Filled With Rage and Care Too Hard. Because apparently creatives aren't supposed to respond to random dumb asses pontificating dumbly on X, even though we dick around and kill time on our phones just like everybody else. :D

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@MJMcKean Casablanca

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@JustineBateman Considering how he was being treated towards the end, unfortunately not surprising

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@sawyeurism Or we just don't like poorly written characters, especially ones who could have been great. Give me an Ellen Ripley or Sarah Conner any day

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@rhykker Person of Interest

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@TheVallyD Was low budget, but had a lot of heart.

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@AshySlasheeDB I'm not really into horror movies, I literally only watched any of them because I enjoy Bruce.