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Hmm I never really thought of it like that. Do you feel that birth names sound more proper then nicknames? I've always called a person by whatever name they wanted to be called by. It's not something I'm very conscious of though I do have a pet peeve for pronunciation. For instance I've been playing Witcher 3 and it has names that are pronounced in very particular ways. I think this is due to the game being Polish and the English voice actors were told how those names are actually pronounced. What bothered me was that until a name was mentioned by a character I had no idea how the names were pronounced. I thought Skellige was pronounced Skel-egg but instead it's pronounced Skel-egg-guh and I cringe looking back on the way I initially pronounced it. I Also thought Quen was pronounced just qu-en but again I was wrong it's actually pronounced q-when. I have a soft spot for words and names that look absolutely nothing like how they are pronounced. There's a decent number of old English surnames, whose disparity between the spelling and pronunciation is absolutely baffling. Magdalene = "Mord-lin" Beauchamp = "Bee-cham" Featherstonehaugh = "Fan-shaw" Auchinlech = "Aff-leck" Woolfardisworthy = "Wool-see"

Frequencies by Teebee

Tropico 5, started The Big Cheese mission. I also played the daily challenge on Ziggurat afterwards.

1. Ogremoch 2. Imix 3. Yan-C-Bin 4. Olhydra 5. Tharizdun

No idea at all! I'll hazard a guess and say one the recent Grand Theft Auto games? GTA V? "Talking! I'm good at that [mumbling] Most of the time I talks to myself, cos it's nice to hear an intelligent person speak [mumbling] Millennium hand and shrimp [mumbling] You can blow that out of your teapot and no mistake!"

^ "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" Glad I could be of service I vow to make my quotes about your avatar a lot less, prurient. I figured you might be getting sick of it.

One of those new fangled double caramel Magnums (the chocolatey ice cream treat, as opposed to the high-powered revolver )

Reacquainting myself with the awesomely terrifying music of Burial Hex.

Someday they'll name a University in your honour and this which be the foundation's motto. I know right! It's not as if there were any Christian stories featuring terrifying monsters, or demonic tempters, or unearthly celestial beings, or burning plants that could talk, or anything like that. No sir. *cough-cough*St. Martha and the Tarasque*cough-cough*

Two Lovers Team by Berndsen Which just finished, now I'm listening to... Halcyon Movement 1 by Guy Blakeslee

Ok, so here's my viewpoint, from how I grew up. I'm 100% totally Catholic. Both parents are Catholic 100%. They started teaching me about ancient world mythology when I was a year old. I never had any nightmares about ANY of the 'monsters'. There really is no way to when all of the stories have a 'kid friendly' version where the hero wins. Besides that, it taught me to think way outside the box to solve otherwise impossible situations. (thinking about the Jason and the Argonauts here, a movie my parents let me watch when I was 2 years old) NONE OF THIS HAS EVER EVEN COME CLOSE TO WAVERING MY FAITH! (and I was a surprisingly average kid) Now you have evidence to support your position of those 'monsters' being harmless to teach a kid about, even when dealing with religion. Just don't get the kid hooked on D&D, and he should be perfectly fine. Ultimately nobody has any any control over what a kid does and doesn't find frightening, but based on my experiences with my cousin he is absolutely fine with monsters. As a two year old he isn't even considering all the valuable historical context you've rightly cited, but who knows what he'll be interested in when he becomes older and advanced? Your parents example is how people ought to expose their children to new ideas. Bluntly put, even if his father doesn't approve of it, if I'm looking after him I'm going to let him explore anything he shows an interest in.

I find the weirdest stuff in my "Recommendations" too, usually of a pseudo-national socialist character and content. I'm subscribed to stupid computer game channels and various other bits related to black metal and cartoons. Who would of guessed that Youtube was prime dogging territory for closet nazis?

Acid Rain by Reagan Youth

Whilst I don't hate them (I'd much rather love them!) I've not genuinely enjoyed playing anything Metal Gear Solid related since the third game in the franchise. And as much as it pains me to say it I think those first three are just a chore to play now. MGS4 had a marvellous narrative, a bizarrely appealing cast and was chock full of shadowy technophobic concepts that I found really appealing - it's only a pity that the first two chapters are actually remotely like it's "sneak em' up" predecessors. The cutscene-to-gameplay ratio was taken to a mind boggling extreme, and Mr. Konami already had a reputation for pushing it. I know Konami has a loyal fanbase and those who won't hear anything negative about him without taking umbrage, but I sometimes think he ended up working with the wrong medium entirely. Now if the Metal Gear Solid franchise had been a TV or film series, I'd have no complaints whatsoever.

I've never played that, so I'm afraid I wouldn't know. But I bet Metro 2033 has much less irradiated Lindt chocolates in it... ;p But on a slightly less stereotypical note, one of my favourite websites turned-up this absolute gem of Swiss lore. A marvellous illustrated blog entitled A Book of Creatures has an entry on an obscure Swiss monster called the Butatsch Cun Ilgs, what essentially amounts to a vengeful giant cows stomach covered in eyes, though the link is worth checking out for the badass mythology surrounding the creature. If that doesn't sound like the product of aberrant nuclear breeding I honestly don't know what does.

I hope nobody minds if I ignore the threads current Bethesda-bashing vibe. Yes! "I see a lot of fancy robots here today, made of real shiny metal. But that don't impress the Robot Devil. No, sir!" Now that you've brought Futurama into the conversation, I can think of a bunch of characters who should be made into companion mods. Hedonism Bot springs to mind, I find him both amusing and strangely alluring.

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I think it's a fine (if not tenuous) line between dictator and tyrant, but power corrupts absolutely in any regard. I tried to keep thread open to leaders who were merciless in their politics, or just utterly depraved and outrageous, or as if often the case both extreme simultaneously. You might be able to analyse the half-truths, the stone cold facts and the outright lies of an individual tyrant or dictator's legacy, but I think in black and white terms many would agree that these people were just colossal bastards. Ubu Roi made flesh, more mad than parody could ever be.

Despite the sheer unremitting lunacy of that book, it has moments that a lover of strange linguistic arrangements like myself can't help but find irresistible. "Sniffer of carrion, premature grave digger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word... You, who sleep at our vigil and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason..."

Thanks for understanding my situation BTG. I've wrestled with my consciousness as to whether I'm giving my cousin potential nightmare fuel with my available toys, but it's not as if I'm showing photographs of Linda Blair or otherwise obviously traumatic material. Despite my own fears regarding the morality of my interests and my cousins almost inevitable exposure to it, it doesn't seem like the "scariness" of the monsters is even what his father has an issue with. I'll be the first to admit that I'm rather touchy about the idea of certain strands of knowledge being unavailable, unfavoured or outright forbidden by small-mindedness and pettiness. Thanks pal I ought to confess he calls Nessie "a Dragon that goes outside". I tried teaching him in several instances that her name was Nessie but he found his own alternative and is sticking with it. He actually corrects me sometimes, right after asking me what a particular monster or animal is. All Lions are called "Mufasa's" now, due to obsession with a certain Disney title. "What animal is this?" I'll ask. "A Mufasa!" he replies. "Very good! But what type of animal is Mufasa? Do you remember?" "A type of Mufasa". Two year old logic is impenetrable. APRIL YOU ARE DRUNK GO HOME

"Hello! My name is Succubus Sally and I'm here to talk to you about Jesus..."

This thread has potential Mr. UshankaCat... :3 1. Primary Weapon: A particularly heavy book. I'll have something to do in between waves of flesh eating abominations, and I'll be wielding something with enough clobbering power to drop anything, living or dead. 2. Secondary Weapon: My acerbic wit and candour. Zombies can't handle the truth. 3. Stronghold: Tamworth Castle, the local and very defensible castle of my town. If I attract any followers I'll insist they pay homage to me as the King of New Zombie Mercia. 4. Vehicle: One of those pedal boats shaped like a giant swan. Assuming the zombies can even penetrate my cunning disguise, I'd like to see them try to swim out to me. In that tiny body of fenced-in park water I'll presumably be calling home from now on. 5. Outfit: One of those brightly coloured creepy-Richard-D-James-bear suit's from Aphex Twin's music video. 6. Companion: Brian Blessed. If we get attacked by any zombie hordes he'll just shout them away with lines from Shakespeare. 7. Battle Music: I'd like to think that I'd have a degree of self-effacing irony about it, so during battles I'd play They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV. But actually, in the spur of the moment, I'd probably resort to . 8. 3 Additional Supplies: The Mighty Max Skull Mountain playset, in its entirety. Divination rods (who needs supplies when I can use magic to find me water whenever I want?) And finally, my favourite t-shirt with a picture of a Native American saying "if you're gonna be all up on my land like that, could you try being less of a dick?"

Trying to think of something I'll claim to be doing so I can post it on here.

Mighty DubFest rang some mental bells, I looked it up and saw your band's logo in the lineup. Congratulations for landing that gig! I did check out the Coquetfest's site but there didn't seem to be any information on the lineup page other than the various stages where acts will be playing. I'll just to take your word for it and assume you weren't adding yourself to imaginary music festivals... ;p