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Corribus
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posted December 12, 2009 08:31 PM |
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Yeah, that sums it up pretty well. 
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friendofgunnar
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posted December 12, 2009 09:25 PM |
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Hollywood keeps regurgitating ideas because people keep buying them.
and that is my original thought for the day.
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xerox
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posted December 13, 2009 12:59 AM |
- penalty applied by angelito on 14 Dec 2009. |
Edited by xerox at 17:41, 13 Dec 2009.
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Well, my book idea is very original.
Here is how it is;
The land of Mythotopia had always been peaceful and filled with harmony. Untill evil itself manifested on Mythotopia.
Evil manifested itself as the Shadow Overlord Saremort.
The young boy Keldan lived with his mother within the Greenmist Forest. Then the Shadow Overlords forces attacked.
Keldans mother died and he was forced to flee untill a lone Hunter named Barkagos found him. Barkagos protects Keldan and together they flee to the realm of the Elves.
The Forest Elves of Fairlon had always been a people that had isolated themself from the rest of the world. They were servants of the Divine Light. But that had change now as Saremorts forces had entered Mythotopia. The Forest Elves and their Tricorns welcomed them to their capital city of Skogensugeruss, which was located high abvoe the trees.
With the help of the Elven Priestes Anabalahbelhora or Ana, they decided to destroy Saremort. Saremort lived in the darkened lands of Detarkalt, which was located in the South pole.
The Elves didnt go to war, because they are descending to the Heavens of Light.
In a long and epic journey they finally Saremorts palace on the south pole. Isslot is the name of his castle.
They climb down the stairs of the Crystal Spire to reach him. They fight him and then Ana sacrifices himself and Saremort is weakened by the explosion of Light. But Saremort is not defeated.
He fights on and the Hunter and Keldan are forced to flee.
At the deepest abyss of the south pole, Saremort awaits and is about to unleash his forces of darkness and cataclysm upon the world.
And that is the end of the first book.
PS: The hunter MIGHT turn evil and be his father and he MIGHT be forced to kill the elf.
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Adrius
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posted December 13, 2009 01:04 AM |
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Edited by Adrius at 19:02, 13 Dec 2009.
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Don't spam the OSM xerox.
EDIT: Seriously, that post isn't even offtopic, it's just pure spam.
A forest called "skogensugeruss"? That's swedish for "the forest sucks uss" (dunno what the uss is about though)
A city on the southpole called "detarkalt"? That's badly spelled swedish for "it is cold" 
It's just complete spam.
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Elvin
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posted December 13, 2009 01:54 AM |
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That one should probably be penalized..
Seems I missed a few things and unknowingly used bak's way of post navigation. I pretty much understood the same 
Here is another interesting article. In a way it is connected as it speaks about some of Hollywood's trends.
One of them is not surprisingly the mass production of remakes and franchise reboots. Heh 
If your only plan of expansion upon the original is to cast the actors ten years younger or change the ethnicity or gender of the lead role, you might have a bad idea brewing. [...] A reboot is for an idea that you blew the first time around. If more attention were paid into asking why Batman’s suit suddenly had nipples on it, you’d be working on your seventh film in the franchise instead of your third.
Another is the excessive use of cgi which often comes at the cost of other things. *cough*transformers*cough*
It would seem to us that if 80 percent of your screenplay consists of effects shot descriptions instead of dialogue that you might want to rethink the validity of the movie you’re trying to make. [...] we love giant talking alien robots just as much as anyone. [...] But when your movie looks like it was made by a third grader with a cocaine problem, even we have to draw a line.
Then there's the trend of planning trilogies before you even test the waters. Greedy greedy greedy
The need to make a movie about games. There is only one cool movie about them and it's about minesweeper  I had no idea they were planning a movie about monopoly, am I missing something..?
People also dig the hell out of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The world doesn’t need a film about either of them.
Aand which directors we pay to make movies. Now that is a scary notion  The following really says it all.
We’re betting that you or someone you know has worked in a fast food place and yet Uwe Boll keeps getting money to make movies. We guess that that’s kind of a trade-off though. Yeah, the fast food worker is horrifically underpaid and underappreciated, but they don’t have to worry about committing some of the worst hamburgers of all time to be remembered forever.
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Fauch
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posted December 13, 2009 02:46 PM |
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Well, my book idea is very original.
we definitely not have the same definition of original
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Lith-Maethor
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posted December 13, 2009 03:38 PM |
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xerox, that is... as far from original as it gets really, as i read your summary, at least four different (and quite famous) fantasy book series came to mind
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But when your movie looks like it was made by a third grader with a cocaine problem, even we have to draw a line.
...what's the point? they'd probably sniff that line too
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Fauch
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posted December 13, 2009 08:25 PM |
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Edited by Fauch at 20:26, 13 Dec 2009.
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well, it may not be exactly the subject, but it's still about originality. playing, and making lots of maps for FPS games, it seems to me that there is a lack of originality in level design, maps are usually built to be as realistic as possible. here is one of the craziest maps I built, do you remember seeing something similar in a FPS?
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bort
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posted December 13, 2009 11:25 PM |
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I bet that 40,000 years ago or so, there was a cave painter named Zug that complained about how all of Zog and Zag's cave paintings were total rip offs of his magnum opus "Three horses that kind of look like blobs."
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Fauch
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posted December 14, 2009 12:42 AM |
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were there human 40000 years ago?
and could they use a language?
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Elvin
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posted December 14, 2009 09:27 AM |
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No but I think you are missing the point.
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Doomforge
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posted December 14, 2009 11:32 AM |
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Humanity thought everything that could be invented is already invented at almost any given time.
Yet we go on and original stuff pops up from time to time.
People quickly forget that the eighties, awesome as they were, were just a massive Arkanoid and Dynasty cloning spree.
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xerox
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posted December 14, 2009 04:46 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 16:48, 14 Dec 2009.
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What? Why did I get -QP without a warning or anything? 
I was just showing off an example of how unoriginal most stories (mostly in fantasy) are today like Eragon is basically LOTR + Star Wars etc. I dont see how it hurted the thread or was nescessary.
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JollyJoker
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posted December 14, 2009 08:41 PM |
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I agree. If you'd deduct a QP for either a very dumb post or a very ironic post, you'd be pretty busy deducting.
The thread theme is no excuse either. I mean, if someone makes a couple of posts, arguing, then pulls back claiming he wasn't interested in the topic anyway, might get a QP deducted for frovolity, but might get one added for originality as well...
If everything is said and done, oroginality is overrated anyway. A good story is a good story, and a good story well told doesn't ask whether it's original.
Originality has a place in details, though. Unusual variations of a theme may yield great results. Example: "Scream".
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Fauch
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posted December 14, 2009 08:48 PM |
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was there a book called scream? because I don't remember the movie being that good
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JollyJoker
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posted December 14, 2009 08:55 PM |
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Not before the movie. It was an original movie script - that's why there are two Oscars there, one for an original script and one for an adaption.
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Elvin
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posted December 14, 2009 09:12 PM |
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That penalty did not come out of the blue. Xerox has a long troll history, often disrupts threads or tries to provoke reactions for his amusement.
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JollyJoker
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posted December 14, 2009 09:35 PM |
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Strange, I've not stumbled on any post of him that would strike me as really annoying. Sure, he has a certain crush on his home country - but I know a couple other guys around here who have.
If trolling was a reason to deduct QPs... Ah, but what do I know. Yeah, down with good-humoured Swedish boys.
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blizzardboy
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posted December 14, 2009 10:46 PM |
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Xerox is the van Gogh of HC. Hardly anybody appreciates his awesomeness, until one day when it's too late and he's no longer active.
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Lexxan
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posted December 14, 2009 11:12 PM |
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Xerox is the van Gogh of HC. Hardly anybody appreciates his awesomeness, until one day when it's too late and he's no longer active.
And cuts off a body part.
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