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[RavenEyry]

dreamgazer wrote...

I don't understand the fascination with the cycle of thread-closings in here.

Neither do I, the first one had a good reason for closing, the second had a couple of people obsessed with the idea of closing at about the same time and PMed a mod about it.

[ThisOneIsPunny]

DoomsdayDevice wrote...

BRDG CNTR WRNG

bridge control wrong

I really don't think that T78 sign means anything. It's alllllll over the game.

Looks more like an abbreviation of CeNTeR to me.

[Eryri]

RavenEyry wrote...

http://tvtropes.org/...CenterOfTheMind is another appropriate trope.

Indeed it is. 

And by the way, my God, that tropes site is a time vampire! You look at one page, then you click on another interesting link and before you know it you're sucked into some kind of vortex of geekery.

Modifié par Eryri, 02 décembre 2012 - 04:32 .

[RavenEyry]

Eryri wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

http://tvtropes.org/...CenterOfTheMind is another appropriate trope.

Indeed it is. 

And by the way, my God, that tropes site is a time vampire! You look at one page, then you click on another interesting link and before you know it you're sucked into some kind of vortex of geekery.

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

[Eryri]

RavenEyry wrote...

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

 I sympathise.

I was just wondering, do many ITers enjoy mind bending fiction in general? Perhaps that's why we're more willing to believe in IT as opposed to those, like our apostate coelenterate friend, who profess a personal dislike for the so called "it was all a dream" trope (even though IT is nothing of the kind).

Examples of similar mind screws I've enjoyed in the past have been obvious ones like The Matrix (the good one, not the other two) and Inception. There's also the novel The Magus by John Fowles.

There was also a John Cusack film called 1408, (which probably wasn't objectively very good but it made an impression on me), about a cynical paranormal investigator in a haunted and maliciously sentient hotel room.

The film featured an extended sequence where the lead character thought he had escaped from the room, and experienced a couple of subjective months of apparently normal life, before the illusion was shattered and he realised he was still trapped in the hellish room. Something about that sequences' theme of being unable to tell reality from illusion scared the bejeebus out of me. 

[Raistlin Majare 1992]

RavenEyry wrote...

Eryri wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

http://tvtropes.org/...CenterOfTheMind is another appropriate trope.

Indeed it is. 

And by the way, my God, that tropes site is a time vampire! You look at one page, then you click on another interesting link and before you know it you're sucked into some kind of vortex of geekery.

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

It is even harder to resist if you are a writer. I cant help but look up what kind of tropes best describe the plot and characters I used. Has taken way too many hours away from me...though nothing beats the feeling of looking all over for the trope which covers some great plot twist or other significant bit of your story and finding that nothing truly covers it.

[Dwailing]

RavenEyry wrote...

Eryri wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

http://tvtropes.org/...CenterOfTheMind is another appropriate trope.

Indeed it is. 

And by the way, my God, that tropes site is a time vampire! You look at one page, then you click on another interesting link and before you know it you're sucked into some kind of vortex of geekery.

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

I haven't been its slave for QUITE that long, but yeah, TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life (It's actually a page, hence the capitalization).  Much like the IT Thread, actually. 

[Dwailing]

Eryri wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

 I sympathise.

I was just wondering, do many ITers enjoy mind bending fiction in general? Perhaps that's why we're more willing to believe in IT as opposed to those, like our apostate coelenterate friend, who profess a personal dislike for the so called "it was all a dream" trope (even though IT is nothing of the kind).

Examples of similar mind screws I've enjoyed in the past have been obvious ones like The Matrix (the good one, not the other two) and Inception. There's also the novel The Magus by John Fowles.

There was also a John Cusack film called 1408, (which probably wasn't objectively very good but it made an impression on me), about a cynical paranormal investigator in a haunted and maliciously sentient hotel room.

The film featured an extended sequence where the lead character thought he had escaped from the room, and experienced a couple of subjective months of apparently normal life, before the illusion was shattered and he realised he was still trapped in the hellish room. Something about that sequences' theme of being unable to tell reality from illusion scared the bejeebus out of me. 

Well, I'm a huge fan of the Matrix, and I actually kind of like the other two, especially because the ending of two and all of three heavily implies that Zion is just another layer of the Matrix.  I'm also a fan of the Slender Man, and let's just say that things get rather screwy when he's involved. 

Modifié par Dwailing, 02 décembre 2012 - 04:53 .

[DoomsdayDevice]

Eryri wrote...

I was just wondering, do many ITers enjoy mind bending fiction in general?

I absolutely do.

[Raistlin Majare 1992]

Eryri wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

TVTropes will ruin your life. It's their motto.

I've been a slave to it for about four years now.

 I sympathise.

I was just wondering, do many ITers enjoy mind bending fiction in general? Perhaps that's why we're more willing to believe in IT as opposed to those, like our apostate coelenterate friend, who profess a personal dislike for the so called "it was all a dream" trope (even though IT is nothing of the kind).

Examples of similar mind screws I've enjoyed in the past have been obvious ones like The Matrix (the good one, not the other two) and Inception. There's also the novel The Magus by John Fowles.

There was also a John Cusack film called 1408, (which probably wasn't objectively very good but it made an impression on me), about a cynical paranormal investigator in a haunted and maliciously sentient hotel room.

The film featured an extended sequence where the lead character thought he had escaped from the room, and experienced a couple of subjective months of apparently normal life, before the illusion was shattered and he realised he was still trapped in the hellish room. Something about that sequences' theme of being unable to tell reality from illusion scared the bejeebus out of me. 

I have used the "Lotus Death Machine" as well as more normal "trapped in your mind" tropes a few times in my more fantastical stories. It is a great way to explore a character, especially when that one little detail happens which makes them realize it is all dream.

Planning on ending the bad guy in a grand three way "Battle in the center of the mind" as well

But actually I think it is not so much mind bending i enjoy as exploring and testing the morality of a character.

How far would this character be willing to go for another? What would happen character A if I removed beloved character B? What physological conditions could it cause?

To quote the Joker, "madness is like gravity, all it takes is a little push"

It may sound sadistic, but that is what i like to see, characters with moral issues which need to be solved if at all possible.

Modifié par Raistlin Majare 1992, 02 décembre 2012 - 04:57 .

[Eryri]

Dwailing wrote...

Well, I'm a huge fan of the Matrix, and I actually kind of like the other two, especially because the ending of two and all of three heavily implies that Zion is just another layer of the Matrix.  I'm also a fan of the Slender Man, and let's just say that things get rather screwy when he's involved. 

I keep seeing people mention Slender Man, but I've never come across it. Is it a manga / anime?

[RavenEyry]

Eryri wrote...

I was just wondering, do many ITers enjoy mind bending fiction in general?

I do, though I don't seek them out.

Other common ITer traits are enjoying writing and being pedantic.

EDIT: And for the record I like the Matrix sequels when watched together. Since it was originally planned as one movie but cash cowed into two, it'd be great if someone spliced the two films together, cutting out the filler.

Modifié par RavenEyry, 02 décembre 2012 - 04:59 .

[Raistlin Majare 1992]

Eryri wrote...

Dwailing wrote...

Well, I'm a huge fan of the Matrix, and I actually kind of like the other two, especially because the ending of two and all of three heavily implies that Zion is just another layer of the Matrix.  I'm also a fan of the Slender Man, and let's just say that things get rather screwy when he's involved. 

I keep seeing people mention Slender Man, but I've never come across it. Is it a manga / anime?

No it is a game, a free game online I believe. Horror game which drew alot of attention.

Modifié par Raistlin Majare 1992, 02 décembre 2012 - 04:58 .

[masster blaster]

Morning guys. So I guess Chris wants to personaly shut down our thread. I am just saying. Oh and didn't he say he likes IT?

[DoomsdayDevice]

[RavenEyry]

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

No it is a game, a free game online I believe. Horror game which drew alot of attention.

There were a lot of creepypasta stories about him before the game, that just brought him to more general attention.

And for eryri, Slender Man is a tall thin man in a suit with no face who steals children and randomly stands at dramatic distances.

The Silence on Doctor Who may well have been inspired by him.

[Raistlin Majare 1992]

RavenEyry wrote...

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

No it is a game, a free game online I believe. Horror game which drew alot of attention.

There were a lot of creepypasta stories about him before the game, that just brought him to more general attention.

And for eryri, Slender Man is a tall thin man in a suit with no face who steals children and randomly stands at dramatic distances.

The Silence on Doctor Who may well have been inspired by him.

True, they are quite similar.

[Eryri]

RavenEyry wrote...

Other common ITer traits are enjoying writing and being pedantic.

EDIT: And for the record I like the Matrix sequels when watched together. Since it was originally planned as one movie but cash cowed into two, it'd be great if someone spliced the two films together, cutting out the filler.

Re editing the Matrix sequels - that would be good actually. Chopping out that ridiculous 10 minute rave scene accompanied by the "music" of Stomp in the 2nd film would be a good start. 

Modifié par Eryri, 02 décembre 2012 - 05:11 .

[Restrider]

magnetite wrote...

CmdrShep80 wrote...

I don't see how it was small.  The pic was huge on my end.  Unless you mean the stuff on the table.  I was drawing attention to the giant symbol on the wall.  The same symbol as on the Normandy.  The symbol on the Normandy seems to connect to strange places you start hearing things (or potential signs of indoctrination).  If you connect that to the stuff on the table, you start to realize there's stuff on Omega doing/implying the same things, then when you look at all the stuff on the table and connect it to the other areas they show up in, you end up going mind=blown.

As far as I can tell most of the "words" repeats in other areas.  The wave form however, seems to be pretty constant all over Omega where ever you see it, like in that other pic I posted.  By the way here's the same scene but from the other side of the table:

Oh, sorry, I was referring to the words and such. I know about the indoctrination symbol only being found on the Normandy, Mars, Object Rho room, as well as a couple other places. Someone thought it was a reactor symbol, but I don't think so. I wasn't necessarily referring to the symbol, but rather the "T78" which I found out is stated to be "adverse affects not otherwise classified". T75 had something to do with vertigo from infrasound.

The other thing is that Retribution hinted that Omega was built by a race before the Protheans. Same was said about the Citadel in Revelation, but later we found out the Reapers built it.

^ I think Rif and I were thinking the same thing, at the exact same time.

It's still a symbol for a fusion reactor.

[Eryri]

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

No it is a game, a free game online I believe. Horror game which drew alot of attention.

There were a lot of creepypasta stories about him before the game, that just brought him to more general attention.

And for eryri, Slender Man is a tall thin man in a suit with no face who steals children and randomly stands at dramatic distances.

The Silence on Doctor Who may well have been inspired by him.

True, they are quite similar.

Ah right, thanks for the info guys.

[masster blaster]

As anyone do a list on the N7 mission, and why Reapers/ cerberus went there? I mean yes to aliminate the bases, but what was going on/ in the base?


That also goes for our squadmates missions.

[Raistlin Majare 1992]

You know while we are on the subject Tv Tropes how would you sum up the different companions in one Trope?

Mordin is definetly The Smart Guy, but what are yours?

Edit; Also i would say Shepard qualifies for Badass Abnormal after the start of ME2. His strength and toughness is certainly not Human anymore as we see a few times.

Also while we are a bit off topic I would like to ask if anyone here has read or reads the Temeaire series by Naomi Norvik. Nothing IT related, just curious.

Modifié par Raistlin Majare 1992, 02 décembre 2012 - 05:20 .

[RavenEyry]

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

You know while we are on the subject Tv Tropes how would you sum up the different companions in one Trope?

Miranda is a Defrosting Ice Queen.
Jack is a case of Gone Horribly Right.
Tali is a Wrench Wench.

EDIT: Garrus was a Cowboy Cop, then a Vigilante Man and now a Memetic Badass.

Modifié par RavenEyry, 02 décembre 2012 - 05:23 .

[hukbum]

masster blaster wrote...

As anyone do a list on the N7 mission, and why Reapers/ cerberus went there? I mean yes to aliminate the bases, but what was going on/ in the base?


That also goes for our squadmates missions.

My "Cerberus mission timeline":
Mars - Get the Crucible plans
Sanctum? (the first N7) - Reaper Research and stuff about Talavi and indoctrination of troops
Eden Prime - get Prothy the Prothean (and more troops?)
Surkesh - No alliance with the Krogan
Tutchanka (Bomb) - No alliance with the Krogan
Benning - Get more troops
Noveria - fighterbase (not much to find there, was there even a datapad?)
Citadel - No new alliance and/or install fake council
Thessia - get info about the catalyst
Ontorom - Intel from alliance fleet (maybe crucible location)
Sanctuary ... yeah, I still don't know what to do with it.
All other mission benefit the Reapers too (from thier point of view) but Sanctuary ...
I put that list together because Sanctuary makes no real sense there (imho).

The Reaper mission feel like "simple" war missions, even the first Tutchanka-bomb mission, I'm working on that.

[Dwailing]

Eryri wrote...

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

RavenEyry wrote...

Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...

No it is a game, a free game online I believe. Horror game which drew alot of attention.

There were a lot of creepypasta stories about him before the game, that just brought him to more general attention.

And for eryri, Slender Man is a tall thin man in a suit with no face who steals children and randomly stands at dramatic distances.

The Silence on Doctor Who may well have been inspired by him.

True, they are quite similar.

Ah right, thanks for the info guys.

Here's a good source of info: http://knowyourmeme....mes/slender-man  Also, I strongly recommend that you look up Marble Honets on YouTube, and if you enjoy that, you'll probably want to check out TribeTwelve, Dark Harvest, and EverymanHYBRID.