The Merc with the Lounge - - - - - Part 167

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I'd love it if my books got me enough to be able to travel to various Cons. I'd love to meet some of the famous writers and pick their brains.
 
KevanG said:
I'mma still working on my book and the sequels. Also going to have onion soup and hamburgers for supper. :p

What do you think about Superpeople that died and came back going on vacation to Mexico for the Day of the Dead festival as an in-joke amongst themselves?
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Play it up right and it could be funny. My own stab at comedy is where five friends drift into a casino, separately, and all end up at the same black jack table. To try to cheat the casino.
 
Victarion said:
Play it up right and it could be funny. My own stab at comedy is where five friends drift into a casino, separately, and all end up at the same black jack table. To try to cheat the casino.
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I figure at some point I'd have the main character go traveling. He's based in California and Mexico is next door. He'd recognize a few people and remember that it was a popular thing for Supers to do. It would also be a way for them to reflect on their lives by seeing how death isn't always considered such a bad thing and how even when they're gone they still get remembered.
 
I'm so freaking tired today. I just want to go home, eat a bowl of chicken and yellow rice and pass out for a good 12 hours or so.
 
It'd be an excellent way to have some of your more uncertain heroes get an answer to the question we all ask at some point: "Is it worth it?"

Here's a description of the casino itself:


Rakrah’s quest ended at Black Jak’s Joint. It was a beacon of black fire in the green-shrouded Blackcleave Mire; a casino scavenged from the rheumatic joint of a cyclopean reptilian beast that was neither dragon—due to its serpentine trunk—nor sea serpent—what kind of sea serpent had four sets of wings? The reptilian had been named Black Jak, its wings snared by the fire-lit cypresses of the Blackcleave Mire district, making the creature an unofficial demarcation between the Blackcleave Ravine and the Fire-Lit Mire; the reptilian’s muscular bulk shaded the undercity known as the Oozeway. Bioluminescent black-green light from Black Jak’s corpse illuminated the mist-shrouded road to Black Jak’s Joint, the casino itself being framed by the dull red fires of the fire-lit cypresses.

@Greens: The scene in question

“Verak!”

The shaman started, spilling a pile of chips. He glanced back, his tattooed features twisting into a smirk.

“Hey Rak. What’s up?” It was still strange – you wouldn’t expect a snakebelly-white shaman with a storm of dragons tattooed across his face, arms, and other places Rak was familiar with to have that kind of voice or easy grin.

She smiled, recalling one of the first stories they’d shared. Verak had been helping someone with their shamanism – she’d given him some nudes. He found out she was with one of the po’dunk gangs, the Battlejesters. The story’s moral according to Verak – “don’t stick your dick in crazy.” The incongruence between the story and Verak’s reserved manner was as funny now as it had been when they first met.

“I need you out back.”

“Hey Tak,” the Company man next to Verak, Jerhu, nudged Tak, “your BJ night’s turning into a blowout, but it looks like Verak—” The man’s wife reached around to take the winnings he’d set aside and drove her fist into his side. “Jeez, Beka!”

“These kids, dealer, bunch of jokers and amateurs,” the player at the end of the table, Drakehide, shook his head. “Don’t be ragging on this guy—” He slapped Tak’s light armor, “he’s clearly a chieftain, and where better to have a bad day than at the gaming table? Better than on the battlefield, though I doubt you newbies have ever got your axe wet.”

“Axe? What are we – a bunch of plowbeast-****ing savages?” Jerhu’s hand went to the necrogenesis holster that maintained a symbiotic system of sustenance with Jerhu’s piece, an ebon drake with a custom spitfire sac grafted to its venom glands. The warmth from Jerhu’s hand caused the drake’s armored tail to twitch in anticipation of being drawn.

Beka shook her head as she scooped up the rest of Jerhu’s winnings. “I told you not to bring that.”
 
KevanG said:
I'd love it if my books got me enough to be able to travel to various Cons. I'd love to meet some of the famous writers and pick their brains.
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What famous people?

For me it would be a mix...actors and actresses and writers...
 
Chris Claremont, Alan Moore (if he ever left England or went to cons :p), Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, about five hundred other people who I admire. :D

Any of them would be great if I could sit them down and just talk about getting things going.
 
DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs said:
Not when you consider it already opened in every major market all at once. You can't compare it to every other film that did a staggered release. Nowhere to go but down from here. It will be lucky to get to $850m WW.
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Deathly Hallows Part 2 didnt have a staggered release. It opened in 65/71 markets in the same week. The only place it opened in its 2nd week was Pakistan and the only place it opened in its 3rd week was indonesia. It released in China in its fourth week. None of those secondary releases account for its 3rd weekend up tick.

X-men Last Stand also wasn't a staggered release.
 
When did that Evanescence song from DareDevil become a meme?
 
Victarion said:
When did that Evanescence song from DareDevil become a meme?
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The movie itself just barely missed the "meme" era, so I guess it's just now happening. Kinda like all those Brady Bunch Movie memes - it's like people just suddenly re-discovered how meme-worthy those movies were.
 
It seems to be popular when mixed with Brendan Frasier's career.

edit: I remember liking that stuff (and HIM) when I was in high school :funny:
 
KevanG said:
Chris Claremont, Alan Moore (if he ever left England or went to cons :p), Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, about five hundred other people who I admire. :D

Any of them would be great if I could sit them down and just talk about getting things going.
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Cool man. I would love to sit down and chat with any of my favorite actresses and or actors. ... in fact it would be cool to chat with Chris evans. Get his perspective on his writing experiences. I wish I could ask hayley Atwell a question when I met her in Toronto last September...maybe if Natasha Henstridge happens to be at the fan expo one of these years.. I for sure would like to chat with her about whether or not she still be interested in appearing as a comic book character since she has expressed an interest a while back. Hell she even has met Stan Lee and...damn.

Anyway .... I was watching that 70's show on YouTube lol. Man i forgot how much I missed the show since it last aired. I always thought laura prepon was a tall hottie amazon. ...oh don't get me started on Amazon women...lols. there's so many ..
 
Marvolo said:
Deathly Hallows Part 2 didnt have a staggered release. It opened in 65/71 markets in the same week. The only place it opened in its 2nd week was Pakistan and the only place it opened in its 3rd week was indonesia. It released in China in its fourth week. None of those secondary releases account for its 3rd weekend up tick.

X-men Last Stand also wasn't a staggered release.
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All movies that were also heavily front-loaded just like this film. This movie is already dropping worse than W: Origins which is regarded as one of the absolute worst CBMs ever. Not a great way to start your universe.
 
I like Evanescence but not as much as I still love Lacuna coil. Christina Scabbia is hot. She's got a great singing voice. Lols
 
DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs said:
All movies that were also heavily front-loaded just like this film. This movie is already dropping worse than W: Origins which is regarded as one of the absolute worst CBMs ever. Not a great way to start your universe.
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The point is that its not unheard of for a film even a mediocre one to have a huge drop in week 2 and smaller drops in the following weeks. We are starting week 3 and the film has nearly $700 million. WB isnt writing this film off as a failure this soon and its silly for us to be doing that at this stage. The drop is worrisome, but considing its Box office at this point and the fact that the NCAA final four was this past weekend, and it having a "B" on cinemascore and 70% on RT.com we might as well wait and see how it performs over the coming weeks. It isn't over yet.
 
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