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Ever managed a lucid dream? If so, any details you feel comfortable sharing, and did you do anything to bring it on?

When I was young, I used to occasionally have flying dreams where I would become aware that I was dreaming but I didn't have much control over where I went. I would just fly like Superman over wilderness landscapes.

So, in 1995, when I was messing with Visual Basic (it's a thing old people used to do after the hula hoop but before Fark), I wrote a program to play sound files at regular intervals, then recorded myself encouraging myself to fly and set it to play all night. Sadly, it didn't really generate any awesome flying dreams.

This partially explains my earlier post in another thread as to why I am not an Internet billionaire.

Question: if you could/had to live in another era at least 40 years earlier than present day, when and where would it be?

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Well, straight up, I wouldn't. I love everything about now, and only wish it was later.

But if I had to pick, I'd probably go with the late 1960s in America, to experience Apollo and that-era rock and roll. The downside is, Cold War. Which, yeah.

Prior to that, maybe... um. Honestly, I'd like to live in a Mongol-era foothill or plain society.

Question: Stones or Beatles, and why. If you don't give me at least five sentences on this, I think you cheaped out.

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Beatles.

Personal preference, but mainly because Abbey Road and White Album. I am one of those rare people who despises Sgt Pepper's with every fiber of my being. I even like their earlier stuff. As for the Stones, a lot of their music sounds very samey to me. Their newest albums sound like their first albums but recorded with better equipment. On one hand I think it's awesome that they still have the same vibe, but on the other, they haven't really done much experimentation that I'm aware of. The beatles, on the other hand, played the same stuff for a couple albums, and every subsequent album was a bold experiment of newness.

I don't listen to much of Sgt Pepper's, like I said, but that album was amazingly different and fresh when it came out, and remains a pretty unique sounding album even today. Even the album I hate is something I respect a great deal on a musical level. Not to mention the fact that the Stones were and are all about sex drugs and Rock, while the Beatles ended up being more Peace, Love and Grooviness, which is a philosophy I dig a hell of a lot more.

I love the Beatles.

You have a 35mm camera, a single role of 35mm film (24 exposures) and a time machine. What do you do?

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I ditch the 35mm, travel into the future grab a super HD digital camera with a 100 terabyte hard drive (or whatever happens to be powerful in the future). And then go wild.

Personally I would probably fill it with lots of ancient ruins in their heyday. Giza Pyramids being high on the list. Travel around europe for a while. Definitly check out a gladiator show. Hit up the silk road for a good time. Head down to south america, check out Machu Piccu in all it's glory, probably hit up a human sacrifice or two. And finally I'd wrap it all up with a tour through histories greatest beauties

Same question, since I'm curious... and I cheated. tongue

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Make a Marilyn Monroe sex tape.

You're face to face with God. You've one question, and you don't get to ask the meaning of life. What'cha ask?

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Make a Marilyn Monroe sex tape.

You're face to face with God. You've one question, and you don't get to ask the meaning of life. What'cha ask?

What was he smoking when he created the platypus.


What's your favourite cartoon and why?

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Cartoon - Calvin and Hobbes.
If you meant animation - Akira.
Both changed my understanding of what their formats could be.

You are told to get a tattoo. What do you get, where, and why?

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You are told to get a tattoo. What do you get, where, and why?

I get my name and Social Security number tattooed on the inside of my thigh, just in case my naked corpse washes up on a beach somewhere.

Question: You are given the task of redesigning your nation's flag to "better reflect recent history." How do you accomplish it?

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I'll let DigitalAsh take this one, what with Iceland and the economy and all.

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this...
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You are stranded on an island with nonflying, non-swimming but delectably edible Pokemon.... do you eat them?

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No. I use Rock Smash to build a tunnel to whatever piece of land is closest. Duh.

You find yourself suddenly in the midst of a vampire night club, with all attendees hungry. How do you pitch yourself non-appealing to get out?

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Rock smash was ineffective. You are confused. You try to eat Pikachu in your confusion.

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You find yourself suddenly in the midst of a vampire night club, with all attendees hungry. How do you pitch yourself non-appealing to get out?

I start dancing like Tom Yorke from the Lotus Flower video. It reduces my appeal to only hipster vampires. However,  they decide that my dance is 'too mainstream' at this point and I am left alone.



Battlestar Galactica vs Game of Thrones. Which is better?

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Why... I don't... Why would you make me choose? I just love both so much. You...You're an awful person. I will not answer this.

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I will.  Game of Thrones, hands down.  Don't get me started on BSG.

What, to you, was the finest moment in any television series ever?

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To me,  the best thing Whedon has ever done was the scene in Willow's room during the Buffy season 5 episode, The Body.  That didnt feel like, "just tv," and in many ways, elevated the genre.

Your new martian friend has time for movies that sum up the human experience.  Go.

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I don't think I'm qualified to answer that question. I guess I'd start with movies that show humanity's impression of aliens. Everything from WAR OF THE WORLDS to ET.

You know what? I'm going to start a thread about this. I bet a lot of people have great answers.

You have the ability to relive one movie from the perspective of its protagonist. You have control over their action for the duration of the film. What movie do you choose, and what choices do you make?

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You have the ability to relive one movie from the perspective of its protagonist. You have control over their action for the duration of the film. What movie do you choose, and what choices do you make?

Brewster's Millions. I spend the $30 million dollars financing Down in Front: The Movie, a film doomed to obscurity, mainly for its lack of marketing campaign and the fact that I'll spend $28 million acquiring the rights from all the forum members and panelists.

I can give up to $1.5 million (5%) to charity and lose up to $1.5 million gambling, so that should take care of any meager profits and the value of the rights to the film itself. On the off chance that the film makes more than $3 million profit, I spend it on a making-of documentary on Down in Front: the Movie and give THOSE profits to charity.

And I bang the hell out of Angela Drake.

Question: The people in charge of such things ask you to make up a new swear word. What do you come up with and what does it mean?

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Smup.
Pronunciation: /sm^p/

vulgar slang.

verb (smups, smupping, smupped)
1. vigorous anal fisting.
2. (cunting smup) to be deemed useless for anything other than fisting.

adjective
warm but generally unpleasant.

What biopic would you like to see made, and by whom?

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Tesla.

Alfonso Cuarron.

Where do you want to retire?

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[ignore]Biopic of Will Eisner, Scorsese or Ben Affleck directing a script from William Goldman, starring Giovanni Ribisi as young Will  in the 30's through WW2 and maybe up until the early 60's or so with some decent make-up. If Will Eisner ain't your thing, the same team could tackle a Lovecraft biopic as well. I think Ribisi could pull it off. Might need a fake nose, tho. Lovecraft's snout was flippin huge.[/ignore]

I guess I should have refreshed the page before trying to reply, eh?

I want to retire to Hawaii so I can drive a little ways and have a really nice spot to paint / take photos / etc. Barring that, New York for the same reasons.

You get $150 Million to set up a movie adaptation of a videogame. What game do you pick and which people do you hire to make it?

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Portal, Nolan.

By the way, Nolan was not a default answer, I was trying to figure out who could take what was basically a game mechanic and make it interesting, and Nolan is good with taking technical machinations and making them into movies. If I was focusing more on the Aperture Science side of things... potentially Duncan Jones. Joss is a cop-out answer at this point, but it'd need to be someone with a sense of humor and a grasp of scifi.

Interesting question. I'd like to see someone else answer it, so, next person: same question.

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Portal, Nolan.

By the way, Nolan was not a default answer, I was trying to figure out who could take what was basically a game mechanic and make it interesting, and Nolan is good with taking technical machinations and making them into movies. If I was focusing more on the Aperture Science side of things... potentially Duncan Jones. Joss is a cop-out answer at this point, but it'd need to be someone with a sense of humor and a grasp of scifi.

Interesting question. I'd like to see someone else answer it, so, next person: same question.

I suppose it'd be cheating to say "Halo, Neill Blomkamp." *sigh*

I guess I'd kind of like to see Terry Gilliam do a Wario movie... Starring James Gandolfini, maybe? I don't have any idea what the plot would be, because the Wario games are pretty plotless. But there are plenty of opportunities for weird humor and wide-angle lenses in a bizarre fantasy universe.

You have to have either both legs or your non-dominant arm amputated. Which do you choose?

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I was actually gonna say Portal too. But I hadn't thought of Duncan Jones, that could be interesting. I would actually be muuuuch more interested in the Aperture Science side of things, more than just a "well here's something about Portals." I really like the way portal 2 handled it. Making Chell the center of it all, but this universe is just happening and existing and unfolding around her as she tries to escape.

And yeah the Halo movie just makes me sad inside sad

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Non dominant. I'd then invest heavily in future tech prosthetic companies and dream cyborg dreams of sheep.

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Are we talking hypothetical or actual experience here?

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