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by locke
Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:54 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Insomniac (formerly with Vampire Hunter D)
Replies: 172
Views: 88655

Re: Insomniac (formerly with Vampire Hunter D)

I should be asleep, but apparently even halfway into my 30’s I still haven’t figured out how to be a responsible adult. I’ve spent the past few hours on a giant nostalgia binge reading through my PM archive and the threads many of them were associated with. Browsing the forum makes me realize how a...
by locke
Sat Jun 20, 2020 3:16 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Quarantine
Replies: 13
Views: 8600

Re: Quarantine

Quarantine has been incredibly stupidly hard. My workplace shut down a week before CA shutdown, so we had a head start on remote work, but I’ve pulled so many long hours and split hours it feels like I don’t know when work ends and home begins anymore. It wasn’t too bad in April, but then we started...
by locke
Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:57 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Who's Left? -- I Miss This Place
Replies: 39
Views: 29577

Re: Who's Left? -- I Miss This Place

Howdy, got married got a couple kids, been working a ton sometimes two jobs at once.
by locke
Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:19 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Confessions of a 20-something mother
Replies: 3888
Views: 896864

Re: Confessions of a 20-something mother

i changed that like the week you moved to Chicago, btw.
by locke
Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:15 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread
Replies: 126
Views: 107489

Re: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread

I just got mine from Amazon and can't wait to get home to watch the deleted scenes!!!! [edit] a) the deleted scenes were pretty great (though the one with Chamrajnagar was maybe unnecessary), I'm not sure why they weren't included :( b) If there's really 20 minutes missing, only half of that showed...
by locke
Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
Replies: 1169
Views: 242284

Re: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg

yay! Congrats
by locke
Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:09 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Gluten
Replies: 7
Views: 5315

Re: Gluten

Interestingly, availability of substitutes is more of a problem than a blessing, only because my family is so damn accomadating and nice. Since we cannot be without tons of junk food at my family events they have searched out and found and acquired all possible gluten free substitute junk food. Hoor...
by locke
Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:47 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Gluten
Replies: 7
Views: 5315

Gluten

So a few months after our wedding, Renee tried going gluten free for a month because it had helped her sister and mom. She saw improvement herself, and naturally the weightloss that comes with cutting gluten. she reexposed after that initial month and promptly had a horrible reaction with all the at...
by locke
Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:28 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Riddles in the Dark
Replies: 58
Views: 22610

Re: Riddles in the Dark

Well Smaug and bilbo was pretty good, until Jackson decided to get the f****** hobbit out of the way so the main character/protagonist thorin could have a chit chat with Smaug.

Mostly it was meh, about as much meh as the first one. :(
by locke
Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:13 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread
Replies: 126
Views: 107489

Re: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread

Saw it last night (yes, finally!) Here's the quick and dirty: I really enjoyed it. Loved Asa as Ender. Loved. Loved the Battle Room. Loved the score. Loved the depiction of the final 'simulation'. Only real frustration was the lack of sense of passage of time. It really was breakneck speed through ...
by locke
Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:01 pm
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: More Battle School books on the way
Replies: 6
Views: 8669

More Battle School books on the way

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8655 ... -Game.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by locke
Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:24 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread
Replies: 126
Views: 107489

Re: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread

I...don't even know what character/book you're talking about here. That characterization of Ender rings true for movie-Ender to me but that is not even remotely close to how I read book-Ender in any of my readings over the years. Not as a 14 year old and not as a 30 year old or anywhere in between....
by locke
Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:19 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread
Replies: 126
Views: 107489

Re: "I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND I MUST TALK ABOUT IT" Thread

so our internet was out yesterday, but we saw it friday night. I would give it about a 7.5 to 8. The film was clearly made by people who love the book, as virtually every important scene/beat from the book was in the film, though often in a highly compressed version. This illustrates the biggest pro...
by locke
Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:09 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

12 Years a Slave for the first time since Schindler's List a masterpiece has been made of such staggering scale that it will wind up in the top ten of 'greatest movies ever made' lists when such lists are made (at least of the populist vein of lists like AFI, who knows what art cinema snobs groupthi...
by locke
Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:18 pm
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books
Replies: 9
Views: 10880

Re: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books

hmm, I have fewer OSC books than I thought, all of them are listed except Crystal City which OSC sent me after helping to proof it, so it's inscribed with my first and last name. I've started pricing these, anybody on pweb who is interested, PM me, add $4 for shipping. I'd like to see them go to a g...
by locke
Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:15 pm
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books
Replies: 9
Views: 10880

Re: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books

sure. First Meetings was initially a short run sold exclusively at Endercon in 2002. extra copies were sold at hatrack.com until it went out of stock. The subpress edition came after the first edition sold out. I think the cover art is very similar if not the same, but the boards are different and t...
by locke
Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:45 pm
Forum: Other Orson Scott Card Novels, Stories and Adaptations
Topic: The Gate Thief: Or, Danny North's Teen Harem
Replies: 5
Views: 8231

Re: The Gate Thief: Or, Danny North's Teen Harem

There are minor spoilers in the following post: Anyone read or in the process of reading this one? I just have a few more chapters to go, and I'm finding it to be generally enjoyable, but one thing in particular jumps out at me as being odd, that is, Danny's teen harem (ie. his teen female friends)...
by locke
Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:36 pm
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books
Replies: 9
Views: 10880

Re: Collecting OSC Ender's Saga and Shadow Books

There was also the Endercon edition of First Meetings, which is technically the first edition. I've got signed copies of all the Shadow books (I think) that I'll be selling, and I'll be selling as well as signed copies of most of the other OSC titles. Wierdly, I never bought the original quartet in ...
by locke
Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:27 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The Cuckoo's Calling
Replies: 2
Views: 2819

The Cuckoo's Calling

So she published another novel back in April under a pseudonym and has been 'unmasked.'

Anyone read it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... novel.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by locke
Wed May 29, 2013 12:25 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Star Wars
Replies: 180
Views: 141077

Re: Star Wars

So I saw the new Star Trek It's going to suck when JJAbrams disarms all the people with lightsabers so we don't have any swordfights. It's going to suck when JJAbrams disables all the spaceships so we don't have any space battles. Instead everything will be resolved by a Jedi FistFight (which we alr...
by locke
Tue May 07, 2013 6:19 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: The trailer
Replies: 67
Views: 39993

Re: The trailer

Interesting, comes off as a little cheesy, I'm guessing Graff carries the film? I love seeing all the stuff they packed into the trailer, but I wish they'd taken more of a Hunger Games approach with the marketing of less is more.
by locke
Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:25 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: How about that weather, then, eh?
Replies: 1034
Views: 299589

Re: How about that weather, then, eh?

I'm either incredibly slow or incredibly dense (probably both), but I never realized "Ewok in Jawa-land" was referring to an Ewok living in the desert. If you hadn't just made the winter equivalent, I probably never would have figured it out. I didn't realize that until you pointed it out...
by locke
Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:02 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: How about that weather, then, eh?
Replies: 1034
Views: 299589

Re: How about that weather, then, eh?

It's a record-breaking warm year in Chicago. 321 or so days without more than an inch of snow and today will be in the 50s, which is warmer, I think, than my hometown in AZ today. I am well and truly disappointed.
This has thwarted my plan to change your custom title to Ewok in Tauntaun-land
by locke
Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:07 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
Replies: 1265
Views: 370004

Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)

I finished re-reading The Darkness that Comes Before and moved on to a reread of The Warrior Prophet (book 2 of the second apocalypse) I just came across this passage, which I love because it's on it's face a very interesting piece, but on a reread there are all sorts of layers of revelation going o...
by locke
Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:47 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Star Wars
Replies: 180
Views: 141077

Re: Star Wars

unrelated to Star Wars, but I want to know what happens when Anne watches studio ghibli movies.

You'll be hearing the totoro song for a long time, is my guess
by locke
Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:55 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: Army Insignia
Replies: 5
Views: 6969

Re: Army Insignia

some more logos

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/e ... -logos/#/0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by locke
Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

just riffing here, wouldn't part of the wave motion be facilitated by interacting with molecules of gas though? how much of a ripple is caused by force rebounding off gas through the flag and we perceive that bounce back and forth as a ripple?
by locke
Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:46 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

I have one thing to add:

"Here, cobra, cobra, cobra....."
:bash:

I saw this today, and I pretty much loved it, I always wondered why you couldn't see the stars in the moon footage:

by locke
Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:26 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

Prometheus - 6 or 5 I so want to enjoy a film that tries for big ideas. But when your film has the biologist uninterested in examining an alien body, and the geologist who controls the mapping drones getting lost and archeologists that aren't archeologists BREATHING on freshly discovered cave painti...
by locke
Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:10 pm
Forum: Ender's Game Movie News and Discussion
Topic: The EG Movie Media Mentions Thread
Replies: 23
Views: 17529

Re: The EG Movie Media Mentions Thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/busin ... d=all&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by locke
Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:52 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

movies seen since Les Mis: DJango Unchained - 9 - awesomeness, top five of the year, ridiculously violent. This Happy Breed -8 - Pretty good Lean/Coward Melodrama ala Cavalcade. Zero Dark Thirty - 9 - intense and impressive procedural thriller. Condemns torture while acknowledging it was official Am...
by locke
Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:05 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

Uhhh....why is Thorin Oakenshield, the dwarf, the main character in the film version of The Hobbit, instead of Bilbo, who is, ya know, THE HOBBIT? I think its because some folks want a rugged and manly sword swinging type to deep voice his way into hurrahing the troops to their exciting and thrilli...
by locke
Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:57 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Periodic Movie Review
Replies: 783
Views: 242868

Re: Periodic Movie Review

Les Miserables - 10

:gasp:
by locke
Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:08 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: When the Dark Comes Rising Six Shall Turn it Back
Replies: 6
Views: 3903

Re: When the Dark Comes Rising Six Shall Turn it Back

drool:
http://www.foliosociety.com/book/DKR/dark-rising" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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