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...what?

I feel really silly for saying this, but I can't remember what the Forgoes are. Could someone explain?

Re: Me eating a cat.

Whaaaaa-? You guys are all WEIRD.

Hooray for you!

Dragonrose, those are good thumbrules, but impossible to have as ever-present, ever-lasting dogmas...
Most likely, you will some day face a situation where you might have to make somebody hate you.
There is a chance the same will go for both stealing, and, heaven forbid, even killing.

The question wasn't what would I never ever ever do in my entire life, just what I consider to be "wrong."

I don't always follow my own rules, and I honestly don't think anyone can go through life without breaking them occasionally. I've hated people, I've hurt people, and I've broken promises. But I try not to. I try not to notice the behaviours of others that drive me insane. I try not to be cruel or violent (I'm ashamed to say I've smacked more than one person). I try to keep my promises. When I've broken my own rules of behaviour, which I do a lot more than I wish I did, I feel bad. Because I can recognize I did something wrong.

And that's my thoughts.

I prefer not to think "this, that, the other is wrong," but I'd rather focus on what's right. And in my opinion, what is right is agreed upon by whole host of religions. Whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, Budhist, Sikh, Taoist or just about whatever, most agree on some variation of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." 

Would you like someone to steal from you? No? Then don't do it.
Would you like someone to hate you? No? Then don't do it.
Would you like someone to kill you? No? Then don't do it.

Doing something to someone else that would make them feel bad, would harm them in any way shape or form- THAT is wrong. 

Doesn't nature itself teach that homosexuality is wrong?
We all know the biology, but the vagina produces a lubricant for the penis while the anus does not.

There is a difference between homosexuality and anal sex. It is possible to have gay sex without ever having anal sex. It is fully possible to be gay and never have any kind of sex at all. Just as it is possible to never have sex and still like the opposite gender.

Gah. I've got to stop visiting this thread. I had to rewrite this three times so I didn't go "BLARGH BLARGH BLARGH!! U IS TEH RONG!!!1!!!11!"

Darth? I don't think it counts unless you can get someone to eat the cat. And I'm honestly surprised that there was a "sacrifcing animals debate." If the cow was going to be eaten anyway, at least this way it serves two purposes.

Oo! I thought of another one! Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH vs. The Secret of NIMH.  The book is a powerful story with a strong messages about man interfering with nature, about conservation and about scienctific ethics. A group of city rats are given steroids and are genetically modified so they have human intelligence. They create a city for themselves under a farmer's rosebush, and are clearly smarter than any other creature, but are still clearly rats.

The movie, on the other hand, has a group of city rats given injections so they have human intelligence.  They then proceed to create a quasi-medival civilization, but it's only different from the other field animals because they do magic.

As to the Branagh debate, the main problem with his adaption of Hamlet was that he didn't cut the text at all. When Zepherelli filmed Romeo and Juliet, he only used 35% of the original text. We don't really need someone to describe the ghost of King Hamlet as see through and floating. On film, that's completely visable. But on stage this must be mentioned in dialogue, because otherwise the audience won't know.

*sigh* Sorry, LT, it's not real footage. The cast of Rainbow filmed it as a joke for a competition one year.

Geoffrey talks about it about two thirds down.

Read the thread. Then you will know. Hooray!

Dahl wrote the ORIGINAL screenplay, but afterwards it was almost completely rewritten by David Seltzer. So he was an accessory before the fact.  IMDB doesn't even credit him with having written the screenplay- just the book it was based on. 

And Dahl was actually quite a good screenplay writer- he wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and You Only Live Twice.  Coincidently, those are both adaptations of Ian Flemming books.

And the only thing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the movie have in common is the father is an inventor and he rebuilds an old car.

Because you want the other kids to think you're cool.

Question: Have there been any GOOD adaptations of Michael Crichton books? Some of his original screen and television stuff has been okay, such as Twister and ER (neither is OMGWTFBBQ great, but they're okay). But every adaptation of his books I've seen has been somewhere between blah and yuck.

Discuss.

Oh yeah- and Princess Bride is my favourite movie of all time, and one of my many favourite books. I was quite surprised when I found out there was no S. Morgenstern, though.

If it turns blue, maybe you have your colour settings messed up. Are you using a palatte or 16-bit colour?

Captain Custard: Um... you're joking right? Oompa Loompas are supposed to be pygmies, the geese should be squirels, and the whole Everlasting gobstopper subplot? What was that and where did it come from? It's a good movie in it's own right, but it's only very loosely related to the book.

On a similar note, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is nothing like L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Where's Dainty China Country? Or the Green Goggles? Or the Queen of the Mice? Or the charm in the golden cap?  These are some of my favourite parts of the book, but they're nowhere to be seen in the movie. I recall being very put out when I realized they were different.

Hey, Congrats Kinoko!

* DragonRose brings in a marching band.

I blame it all on SpiderMan 

Totally off topic, but Here's the proper link to that. It really annoys me when people steal animations and put it on their sites like that. Give the right people, in this case Mr. Manuel, the credit!

Dang... now I have to stop lusting after you secretly. Phooey.

But... those aren't AGS games.

Well, I guess Max isn't AGS either. But soon we're going to have Anym drawing every adventure game character that has ever existed, and then where would be.

Too Many Smileys City, capital of Lots of Emoticonsland, that's where!

Thanks for drawing that, Snarky.  Quite helpful.