man flesh is famously not good

same guy who mocks people for caring when their favorite celebrities die btw

stupid thing to care about

animals are better than people

Quote from: Jono on April 15, 2018, 02:31:03 AM

What death metal band is this from

It's Lord of the Rings lore

Essebtially Iluvatar (the big god) created a bunch of smaller gods called the Ainur because he was bored and their songs created the planet which Middle Earth was situated on. Melkor sang a different tune to the rest so was responsible for all the evil shit and disharmony in the world.

Eventually shit happens and you end up with a bunch of lesser gods being made to do shit on Middle Earth - in the tech tree of Middle Earth, the wizards (or Ishtari) are on the same power level as the Dragons and Balrogs. Sauron was one of these lesser gods who was like Morgoth's Lieutenant in being evil.

Pretty sure I got one or two of those details wrong.

Just some naming conventions.

Ainur - Comprised of the Valar and the Maiar, who are greater and lesser respectively
Istari - this refers only to the five Maiar sent to Middle Earth to guide man to defeat Sauron

Balrogs in fact are Maiar themselves, this is why their power is on par with that of the Istari.
The power of dragons varies greatly, the eldest dragons were bred by Morgoth himself and could easily best a Maiar in single combat, but some younger dragons could even be killed by small parties of elves.

OT: Melkor failed to repent after he learned why what he did was wrong, and only became more wicked.
In fact, the Ainur were very willing to forgive him, even saying that his discord had created beauty on it's own.
The hot and the cold was his doing, and his brothers and sisters marveled at fire and snow, and all of these unintended beauties. But Melkor was jealous of pretty much everyone else for almost no reason, and turned into a massive douche and pretty much ruined everything every chance he got, and eventually he was cast out because of this.

don't get me wrong, I have very little respect for academic convention, and have purposefully ignored the mla for years, but some things, like the Oxford comma, are simply right

s' is one of those things

Quote from: challengerX on April 10, 2018, 10:35:53 AM

Quote from: Jive Turkey on April 10, 2018, 01:57:21 AM

I’m SecondClasses biggest fan

SecondClass'

SecondClass's

the AP style guide is shit

>the AP style guide

nigga I think you mean kindergarten

a long time ago there was a guy called armored skeptic that did a bunch of creationist and conspiracy theory debunking. no idea if he's still around or if his stuff is any good now.

aside from his anti-anti-atheist videos he was never very good

if you guys were wondering why I didn't comment on his thread declaring his love for me, it's because he does shit like this

whatever this post may be, it's definitely not worthwhile advice for op

maybe I'm telling someone to kill themselves?

something crabby about charlieposting

Did you clap when you saw the reference?

negative comment that if you get upset over or try to have a serious discussion about I'll just say something in all caps and laugh to myself about how dumb you are for having a different opinion

nonconstructive meme reaction

Operator?

Can you help me place this call?
You see, the number on the matchbook is old and faded.

Quote from: Dɪᴏ Nᴏʟᴏs on March 29, 2018, 06:25:20 AM

also I probably wouldn't have made that joke about keeping files on people

Fucking creep

I know right

lmao but I knew everyone before sep7

Quote from: Dɪᴏ Nᴏʟᴏs on March 28, 2018, 06:56:05 AM

Quote from: FatherlyNick on March 28, 2018, 06:22:13 AM

I love how the main villain is killed in a cutscene in the beginning so that they can shove Cortana in.
I love how the Prometheans are still an enemy even though their leader (and the one who controlled them) is dead.

Not only does nothing happen, but the things that DO are retarded.

I kind of get why they did that with M'dama

how could M'dama's death be meaningful if Arbiter already slayed Truth, symbolically severing his people's bond with the covenant in Halo 3

the big scene where the covenant shatters already happened, and Jul M'dama only ever served to further Halsey's ends, so he just wasn't needed anymore when she decided to go home, and he went out as her pawn, like he had lived

we didn't need a big confrontation with him, because he was never really the mastermind of that story arc

In the novels he was built up pretty well. Spartan Ops jerked us till blue balls with him and then they won't even give us the courtesy of fighting him in-game. I'm not saying it should be a Tartarus-tier boss fight, but don't fucking push him off an edge in a cutscene on the first mission.

I did read Thursday War and Mortal Didacta, but considering the way the franchise has shit all over Fall of Reach, which is one of my favorite books of all time, I don't really put a lot of stock in the books anymore.