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Let's Try This Again: Hero System vs. D&D

2008-03-14 16:35:34 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...unlike D&D, which has several bullshit maneuvers that do nothing at higher levels (dodging does what?), everything you can do in Hero System has some effect, even if you may not be powerful enough to have it matter. (You can grapple the rhino, but I wouldn't advise it So let me outline, briefly, my problems with D&D 1) AC is the only armor...
 
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Redefining the Korean Family

2008-01-23 03:59:01 by Rufus in Lucid Screening - A Film Blog
 
...Unlike Soowon, who uses her wealth to further insert herself into a patriarchal family structure, Okhee is attempting to use material wealth to escape the family structure and achieve upward mobility only for herself. Her attempts at economic agency is based off of the concept of social exchange, and it is in this sense, the emancipation from...
 
Tags: family structure, structure, war, post-war korea, relationships, non-exchange relationships prosper, korean human relationships, korean, family
 
 
 
 
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Centennial Tributes: Bette Davis: Part I

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2008-04-05 06:07:00 by odienator in Edward Copeland on Film
...Unlike Of Human Bondage , Davis did get an Oscar nomination for her performance, yet I don't know why. Her Fanny Trellis is such a vain airhead that she's painful to watch. For most of the picture, Davis is like Gertrude Stein's Oakland, and then three-quarters of the way through the film's interminable 145 minute running time, she turns into...
 
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DAY 11: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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2007-08-11 22:43:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...unlike Gremlins where I can recognize Howie Mandel in the mouth of Gizmo, I dont hear anyones voice other than E.T.s. In fact, although I cant very well avoid seeing Debra Winger in things, Ive deliberately tried to never, ever hear Pat Welsh in any other context (interviews or whatever). If you can tell me who is really speaking in which...
 
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31 Days of Zombie!, Day 29: Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)

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2007-10-29 01:33:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...Unlike Night 's evocations of racism or Dawn 's attack on consumerism, Romero's zombies here aren't terrorists or AIDS or any single meaning to be interpreted. To this point, my colleague Eric Henderson summarizes Romeros matter-of-fact approach so perfectly that I simply must recount it here (kudos to him, too, for his brilliant review of...
 
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TOWARDS A GENDER ANALYSIS OF THE PINKY VIOLENCE FILM: part 4

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2007-11-08 09:25:00 by Ed Hardy, Jr. in Shoot the Projectionist
...Unlike the torture scene in Girl Boss Guerilla , where the reaction shots are used to implicate us (the viewer) in the torture of this woman, and throw our own titillation back in our faces, the reaction shots in Criminal Woman: Killing Melody serve only to reinforce the idea that we are supposed to be turned on by what we see. Despite the...
 
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Last Year at Marienbad.

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2008-01-16 11:44:30 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...unlike these other films. I don't know. But attending film school for four years I never heard this film mentioned once, unlike the other significant ones from that period (I was forced to watch Breathless at least seven times, I'm certiain ...). I can't say I've ever met anyone who's seen it either. I only ever heard of it because I got very...
 
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Funny Games Review

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2008-03-18 16:42:43 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Unlike Gus Van Sants Psycho remake, Funny Games is a shot by shot remake done right. In fact, it made sense that Michael Haneke decided to film the movie again for North American audiences, because he knew of the subtitle phobia a lot of audiences have. By remaking this film, he turned his obscure 1997 film that had a mild success in the film...
 
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Masculinity Is Dead, Say Goodbye To Cigars

2008-04-06 15:12:56 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...unlike a lot of the other dopey heroes out there, who never talked about anything, he had depth. Oh, he had it in that vainly struggling 1970s way, where he was really still saturated with a lot of chauvinist innuendo and he talked just a bit too much about sticking it to The Man... But unlike every other macho dude with a gun, Charlton...
 
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Star Trek Updates

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2008-05-05 19:25:08 by Sam in Slice of SciFi