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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I think you should know that it's on days like this that I look down upon you and think to myself "34? Dude, that's only 2 years younger than me! I'M NOT OLD!!!"
Also, unlike Taea's cheeky box in the mail, mine is more like an evil box in the mail.
# Bithnar Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 11:10 am
But the question of the day is which of our lovely female posters posed for the epic boobies picture posted above?
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Those are mine Bith.
I read this just before I read the column. I was stunned. I was 13 when I first heard Carlin's album, "A Place for my Stuff", and it soon became worn out by the constant playing of it. As has been stated already, Carlin had a fantastic gift of looking at society and seeing it's ridiculous rules, then point them out to us in a way that could make us see the stupidity inherent in the system. To me, that was what made him special. He saw things that we all saw, we all quietly questioned, and then he would scream them out to the masses on stage and although we were laughing, he made us take a look at how silly we could be about everyday things while still maintaining a philosophical view about them. I loved this guy and I hope whereever he's at now, he gets to be the hippy dippy weather man in the sky.
Hands down, Sephiroth has EASILY been my worst video game villain. He frustrated me so much that I left the game for a few years, bought the cheat book, then went back and enjoyed EVERY DAMN PART OF THAT GAME I MISSED, including beating Sephiroth... BARELY. Even with the cheat book it was STILL touch and go. Quite possibly why this is still a fan fave of the FF series even 12 years later.
The other hardest villain was Rugal from King of Fighters. SOB has a kick attack that reaches halfway across the screen, removes health even if you are guarding, AND it'll suck half your health down and fling you across the screen if you actually get hit. Worst of all? Rigal regains like 70-80% health when he kills a member of your team, which means you almost have to beat him with the first fighter in order to even have a CHANCE of winning. Stupid annoying bastich shows up as the end boss in a few more updates and the SNK vs. Capcom 2 where he inherits Akuma's powers to boot!
The problem with the first one everyone has is it tried to get away from the "Hulk Smash" aspect and look into what made the Hulk the Hulk... which is what made that movie GOOD! All you philistines who have seemingly never read the early Hulk comics apparently don't realize that when you have an UNSTOPPABLE force of nature (and don't give me that "Supreme" or whatever his name is BS, cause it's a freaking load of writing CRAP) there's no real villains you'll believe that are going to be able to stop him and no real plotlines other than "Hulk angry! Hulk SMASH!". The early comics were chock full of Banner trying to cure himself, but also hating what he'd become and pissed that he couldn't have a normal life. Plus there was STILL plenty of HULK SMASH in there too.
And the casting? Don't even get me started. Liv Tyler couldn't act her way out of a 3rd grade play and while Hurt, who doesn't look bad as Thunderblot Ross, can't hold a CANDLE to Sam Elliot who was born for that role. Jennifer Connelly was awesome as Betty Ross (once again, read the old comics where she was featured) and should've ben brought back to play with Norton.
In the end, there is nothing wrong with the first movie. It was a good movie. Not oscar calibur, not Iron Man calibur, but it was a damn good movie. Anyone who says otherwise sucks.