Christmas at IM?

SuperFlex · 12-24-2004, 11:47 AM

Are you guys twins?

Luke9583 · 12-24-2004, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by bkc

rockgazer69 watch out! Luke is sneaking up behind you!

crazy_enough · 12-24-2004, 11:59 AM

We aint doing much for x mas this year as the kids will be at their dad's from x mas day to Jan 3rd ...So ill have plenty of time to be here!! Attempting to go through my first alcohol free holidays!!

Merry X mas to everyone, Wishing you all the best! Have a blast!

SuperFlex · 12-24-2004, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Luke9583

j/p bro.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

I'd love to have swords!! Maybe someday. I lost alot of respect for RA Salvatore too to be honest, but oh well, I can still enjoy the books. I like Drizzt so much because of his fighting spirit and how he knows who he is and what he believes in. Wish I was more like that.

Real swords or just wallhangers? If you just want decoration, I can point you to a few stainless steel manufacturers I trust. They're not really expensive. But if you want real hand forged, folded steel like my two in my sig, that will cost you. I can give you some websites to look at if you want. They're great for cardio.

I have much love for RAS. But in all honesty, he HAS let Drizzt get monotonous. I did not enjoy 1000 Orcs and Lone Drow even less. I read several reader reviews of Two Swords on several forums and all of them bashed it to no end. The way he wrote the whole Cattie-Brie thing left too many people pissed. But even so..... I still dig Drizzt even though Im not going to read Two Swords. Im waiting for more Entreri and Jarlaxle novels.

Glad to know you guys like these books. I was beggining to feel all alone here, LOL.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 12:54 PM

I'm with you about the monotony of the later books. It's like he's just rewriting IMO. His series of the Demon Wars was pretty good though, I enjoyed that whole series and he ended them after 7 books.

I'll look at whatever sites you have. I imagine for decor 'cause I don't see myself ever actually using one LOL.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 01:24 PM

Well I'll send you some sites for decoration and some that I think maybe you can swing around without warping the blades or breakin the handles. So far Ive come up with 2 different dual sword patterns that I practice when not bulking. One with some things I learned off Drizzt. Definately great for cardio.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 01:27 PM

Cool, thanks man. So do you teach yourself these patterns or have you taken classes for it?

Vieope · 12-24-2004, 01:33 PM

Swords are nice but they invented the gun.

Shae · 12-24-2004, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Vieope

I don´t like your avatar rockgazer

I dig the avitar!

Its like Rocky Horror Picture Show-like ya know. Remember:

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, God said, LET THERE BE LIPS! AND THERE WERE! AND THEY GAVE GOOD HEAD!!

God, I love the movie.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Shae

I dig the avitar!

Its like Rocky Horror Picture Show-like ya know. Remember:

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, God said, LET THERE BE LIPS! AND THERE WERE! AND THEY GAVE GOOD HEAD!!

God, I love the movie.

No, it used to be a naked guy with a fig leaf. She changed it again.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

Cool, thanks man. So do you teach yourself these patterns or have you taken classes for it?

I basicaly teach myself. I have a source for overseas training videos and DVDs and I also read as much as I can on styles and moves and such. Then I practice my ass off. The fight scenes in the Drizzt books are actually real good to learn from, it just takes a bit of dissecting. Word was a while back that Salvatore consulted a sword master to help write out the fight scenes because the moves he wrote were actually real moves. I dont know about all that (he said in an interview that he didnt) but I do know that the fight scenes have lost the intricacies and depth of the first books.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 01:51 PM

That's pretty cool. They have lost the intricacies of the beginning books. When I met him he said he used to do swordplay and he wrote from his experience.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 01:53 PM

I dont believe that.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 01:56 PM

He said alot of things I don't believe. That's why I lost respect for him.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 02:05 PM

The techniques he wrote were masterful and are very difficult to duplicate. You cant just come up with stuff like the because you used to "sword play".

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 02:09 PM

You know they were going to make a mini-series outta of the Drizzt books (or maybe it was just a reg TV show).

Vieope · 12-24-2004, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Shae

I dig the avitar!

Its like Rocky Horror Picture Show-like ya know. Remember:

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, God said, LET THERE BE LIPS! AND THERE WERE! AND THEY GAVE GOOD HEAD!!

God, I love the movie.

Science fiction, double featureeee..

V Player · 12-24-2004, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

You know they were going to make a mini-series outta of the Drizzt books (or maybe it was just a reg TV show).

They've been talking about that for years. I dont know how screwed up it will be if they do a TV or movie because RAS does not own the rights to Drizzt or any of the characters. He has absolutely no artistic control, only a "consultant" place. There's no way anyone who is not a fan can capture what Drizzt is all about in a movie or TV setting. Mainly cause of the time constraints. Look at what happened to the last LOTR movie. Everyone was POd that they cut so much stuff out. Thats why they added it all on the "director's cut" DVD.

Then there's the problem of who will play Drizzt........ I swear Ive seen the geeks at RAS' message board come to almost physical blows over THAT issue. I can only imagine what they will do if someone that cant represent gets the role. Expect mass Columbines, is all I can say. Geeks are very emotional over this issue.

Vieope · 12-24-2004, 02:25 PM

Almost Christmas, I think we already have a good number of lonely losers and antisocial bastards online.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 02:30 PM

Well and look at the TV shows like Hercules and Xena. Might be entertaining but the fight scenes and acting sucks. Just not "movie" quality. People might have been PO'd over the last LOTR movie, but I'm a huge fan of the book and still loved the movie. Given the time constraints I think it was very well done. The geeks crack me up. There were a bunch of them there when I met him and the questions they asked, give me a break LOL.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Vieope

Almost Christmas, I think we already have a good number of lonely losers and antisocial bastards online.

Count me as number one

Vieope · 12-24-2004, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

Count me as number one

No way, losers never come first, even in top 10 losers lists.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

The geeks crack me up. There were a bunch of them there when I met him and the questions they asked, give me a break LOL.

Oh man.......just how much time did you spend on that RAS message board?? Did you see the topics they FIGHT over???

Drizzt vs Entreri...

Zak vs Drizzt...

Drizzt's sisters vs each other...

Who would win in a fight? RAS or Tolkein

And if anyone doubts me, go to that message board and have a look around.

Anyways, yeah I can only imagine the questions they ask. Ive heard many of them myself. I once heard some geek at a local comic book store saying how he was really Drizzt in another life. And he was serious. But what bothered me more was how the three geeks around him also took him seriously. I would have said something but I had already almost been arrested at that store a few months before for threatening another geek to slap him TFU.

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Vieope

No way, losers never come first, even in top 10 losers lists.

Oh that's just mean!!!!

Rocco32 · 12-24-2004, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Metal V Player

but I had already almost been arrested at that store a few months before for threatening another geek to slap him TFU.

That is freaking funny.

V Player · 12-24-2004, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rock4832

That is freaking funny.

The dude was going on and on and on in a and annoying voice about some shit with the Star Wars trilogy. After about 15 minutes, my calm snapped (no, Im not proud) and I had to tell him to STFU. I wanted to go through the Spawn section in peace and get the fuk out. Thats when he and his little buddies all got an attitude. I stood up then. Not a proud moment, to be sure.

12-24-2004, 11:47 AM	#61
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12-24-2004, 11:59 AM	#63
crazy_enough IM lesbo extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 3654322436751302 weeks out Posts: 2,423 Photos: 18	We aint doing much for x mas this year as the kids will be at their dad's from x mas day to Jan 3rd ...So ill have plenty of time to be here!! Attempting to go through my first alcohol free holidays!! Merry X mas to everyone, Wishing you all the best! Have a blast!
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12-24-2004, 12:54 PM	#66
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	I'm with you about the monotony of the later books. It's like he's just rewriting IMO. His series of the Demon Wars was pretty good though, I enjoyed that whole series and he ended them after 7 books. I'll look at whatever sites you have. I imagine for decor 'cause I don't see myself ever actually using one LOL.
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12-24-2004, 01:24 PM	#67
V Player Six String Samurai Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Dallas Posts: 1,313	Well I'll send you some sites for decoration and some that I think maybe you can swing around without warping the blades or breakin the handles. So far Ive come up with 2 different dual sword patterns that I practice when not bulking. One with some things I learned off Drizzt. Definately great for cardio.
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12-24-2004, 01:27 PM	#68
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	Cool, thanks man. So do you teach yourself these patterns or have you taken classes for it?
	I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain...

12-24-2004, 01:33 PM	#69
Vieope Monochromatic Bunny Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: drinking coffee.. Posts: 14,817 Photos: 10	Swords are nice but they invented the gun.

12-24-2004, 01:51 PM	#73
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	That's pretty cool. They have lost the intricacies of the beginning books. When I met him he said he used to do swordplay and he wrote from his experience.
	I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain...

12-24-2004, 01:53 PM	#74
V Player Six String Samurai Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Dallas Posts: 1,313	I dont believe that.
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12-24-2004, 01:56 PM	#75
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	He said alot of things I don't believe. That's why I lost respect for him.
	I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain...

12-24-2004, 02:05 PM	#76
V Player Six String Samurai Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Dallas Posts: 1,313	The techniques he wrote were masterful and are very difficult to duplicate. You cant just come up with stuff like the because you used to "sword play".
	http://www.thestranglehold.com/images/pix/Batista.jpg Someday....I will be like you....

12-24-2004, 02:09 PM	#77
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	You know they were going to make a mini-series outta of the Drizzt books (or maybe it was just a reg TV show).
	I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain...

12-24-2004, 02:25 PM	#80
Vieope Monochromatic Bunny Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: drinking coffee.. Posts: 14,817 Photos: 10	Almost Christmas, I think we already have a good number of lonely losers and antisocial bastards online.

12-24-2004, 02:30 PM	#81
Rocco32 UNLEASH THE BEAST Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 22,316 Photos: 18	Well and look at the TV shows like Hercules and Xena. Might be entertaining but the fight scenes and acting sucks. Just not "movie" quality. People might have been PO'd over the last LOTR movie, but I'm a huge fan of the book and still loved the movie. Given the time constraints I think it was very well done. The geeks crack me up. There were a bunch of them there when I met him and the questions they asked, give me a break LOL.
	I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain...