The Nerd Thread (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics, Games, Collectibles, Lore, etc.)

@Dex Stewart  

 
This was the only episode of Scooby-Doo to ever spook me. It was mostly the sounds it made that got to me, I think.

@ANoobis  
Yeah that thing was creepy.

@Dex Stewart  
He looks like:
 

@Fleur de Lis  
 
Here’s a clearer image.  
But yeah,he does look kinda similar.

Both of them look like they were based on The Hero from Dragon Warrior
 

 
I’m looking forward to see Cathay and Kislev into Total Warhammer III, as these factions need more lore and worldbuilding. And that will lead to more inspiration.

 
I found this cool Italian Blu-ray on eBay!  
Shipping from Italy costs too much though.

Halo TV Show Won’t Please Everyone, And That’s The Point, Producer Says
 
It isn’t a guarantee that it’ll be bad, but I’m getting real Rian Johnson vibes from the statements coming out.

 
Some classic Star Wars animation is coming to Disney+.  
Along with those are the two Ewok movies.  

@Dex Stewart  
Are they going to censor or alter it in any way?

@ANoobis  
The Holiday Special Special still isn’t being released officially,just the Animated segment. The Ewok movies apparently had minimal alterations when they were transferred to DVD,an alternate line from Cindel(the little girl in the Ewok movies) in one scene of Battle for Endor,and the end credits being moved to the end of the film instead of being played over the final scenes. They’ll most likely use the DVD versions.  
For Clone Wars and the Ewok series,I have no idea. We’ll have to wait and see.

 
I found a cool Deep Roy collage.

Shows with good finales:  
Digimon,all the seasons have decent finales.  
M* A* S* H*  
Spider-Man 90’s cartoon  
Freakazoid  
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  
Beavis and Butthead  
Futurama (multiple times)  
She-ra and the Princesses of Power  
Clone Wars  
Individual Power Rangers seasons who’s finales I’m fond of:  
Zeo,Turbo,In Space,Lost Galaxy,Lightspeed Rescue,Time Force,Wild Force,Ninja Storm,RPM

@Dex Stewart  
Breaking Bad also had a good finale, however I haven’t seen that show yet.

I’ve been reading the Siege of Terra novels. I’m up to Saturnine, and I’m not sure what’s going on with the writing. Dan Abnett is usually a lot better than this. I’m not far into it yet, but already almost everyone but Dorn is out of character. And the language is much more repetitive and mechanical than I’ve come to expect from him.
 
And why is everyone obsessed with shit so far? In The Solar War, Abaddon was quoting literature. Now? Shit. Jaghatai Khan’s talking? Shit. Everyone is saying it, in this book only, and it’s starting to stick out with its insistence.

Here’s a funny thing I found:
 
“Why didn’t Jabba the Hutt have sex with Leia? Is he a gay man?”
 

@Dex Stewart  
The hermaphrodite thing is old and widely known pre-Disney canon. But all you have to do is look at his slaves to see that he has a preference for humanoid women. It might not be “straight” but he obviously likes ladies. So the question would still stand overall.

What’s with the weird dome on Robert Pattinson’s Batman suit? He doesn’t have a fivehead. It looks like a Batman costume designed to fit Vladimir Lenin.
 
 

 
I found a Hawaiian Goranger book from the seventies! I did a Video about it.  
Imagine if back in the eighties,Saban had successfully brought over Bioman.  
 
Or what if the Dynaman parody dub got popular?  
It would be strange looking at this book and thinking,“Rangers? Boy that’s different,I’m used to ‘Man’”.

@Dex Stewart  

Man is okay. But I prefer Man and the Sters of Verse .

Someone here likes Gears Of War?
 
The videogame have probably one of the worst universes to live in the fiction. Not the worse, but it should be in the top 20 or even 10, maybe… A threat from the underneath, a goverment who doesn’t care sacrifice civilians with a mass-destruction weapon in their hands, and monsters without any sense of conservation, killing civilians and soldiers for equal. Even if those monsters looks savage, they’re really intelligent, capable to create weapons or some having human weapons. Which is even more fucked up, because the archaic look of the game is misleading; Humans and Locust have fururistic tech in their hands.
 
In difference with another videogames or even movies, the technology in Gears Of War is not too advanced, that’s the reason why I say the eye can cheat on you when you see the weapons and armours for the first time. But I’m speaking of the original thrilogy for Xbox 360, the saga is still alive and I can talk more about this.

I do have quite a bit of interesting things in my mess of a room, I have a couple powerbooks (including a g3 Wallstreet with rainbow apple logo, and a g4 titanium), 3 thinkpads (an ibm one from about 2003 with 98se installed, one of the w models, and an x1 yoga I picked up on ebay recently), lots of dvds including the Evangelion platinum holiday edition box, the first part of Revolutionary girl Utena in a neat case with book that interviews Ikuhara and has some art (Utena has a neat style after all), the rest of the series on less impressive blurays. Also as I’ve shown in the video game thread, I have a Taito f3 arcade pcb with puzzle bobble 4 on cartridge (taito f3 carts are huge red carts) along with some graphics that would go on a candy cab. Other vidya stuff includes a US Beatmania (IIDX) controller and copy of Beatmania IIDX 14 gold on ps2. I’m looking to expand my Taito f3 collection since that has a lot of cool games like Bubble Symphony and Elevator action returns.