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Andrenn's top 25 horror films of all time! part 2
Whoo, it's the most wonderful time of the year. Heads are falling off everywhere and flesh is rotting faster than it takes a car to slam into your face. It's madness, I tell you. Really, madness this time. Not Sparta. I checked. So I'm all ready to kick some ass and Trick or Treat. I may post a picture of my costume later on, for fun.
But enough of yer damn talk, bring out the guns and turn up the music, the zombies is a comin'!
#13: The Blair Witch Project
One of the most basic aspects to a horror film is to build on suspense, really get a person on the edge of their seat, then release the scare. A lot of movies nowadays overshoot this formula and ruin it, but one of the few good films of our time is Blair Witch Project. The entire film is constant build up, with one hell of an ending. Sure, we don't see anything supernatural but damned if the build up is nothing short of greatness. Though the first film was boring at times, with an ending like the one we got, it's easily a great horror flicks for it.
#12: The Thing
The Thing would no doubt be a bit higher on the list if there weren't so damned many incredible horror films. And while it doesn't make the top 10, make no mistakes, this is a great horror flick with some great effects and killer suspense. While in some horror movies the build up can lead to frustration, as mentioned previously, similar to Blair Witch, the build up in The Thing is spot on.
#11: Evil Dead 2
Another great memorable classic film, but just not able to break into the top 10 is Evil Dead 2. Now the first one was great and lovable, but 2 just built on that greatness and cranked up the volume to 300. Sam Raimi does some awesome camera work here, and of course Bruce Campbell is great as the always memorable hero Ash. Though he started out humble, now he's taking the chainsaw to Marvel Zombies and Freddy Krueger. Who would have thought one badass would make it so far.
#10: Nosferatu
There are so many great vampire movies but really, if there I had to suggest the greatest vampire flick of all it wouldn't be the classic Dracula series from the 30's or the remake from the 90's, no, only one film in my opinion has perfectly captured the heart and soul of this horror sub-genre and given the strongest interpretation of the wicked shadow that is a vampire and that, of course, is Nosferatu. Such a chilling and haunting film that excites the mind and haunts the memories, images such as Count Orlock ascending the stares or peering over his victim are iconic images throughout horror. With such a creepy yet spot on scary film, how could anyone not have it in the top 10?
#9: Dawn of the Dead (original)
I had a hard time actually considering Dawn of the Dead as a horror film. Some times, it honestly feels like a damn comedy with some of the hilarious moments. The classic "pie to the face" gets a brilliant twist by adding zombies to that formula. But still, despite some quirky moments, it's a true horror film to it's name and was a great flick. The gore is top notch and when considering a top list of horror films, this makes it into the top 10 easily.
#8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
This gets my vote as one of the most realistic films ever, beating out Saw and the rest of them. This movie just feels like one giant nightmare where you can feel yourself there as the nightmare happens. It's rural area so there is nowhere to escape and rarely anyone driving by often to try and get aid from. And the fact that a simple act of kindness to a hitchhiker that damns these poor teens is what really hits home and makes this movie a great film and a must see for any fan of the genre.
#7: Hellbound: Hellraiser 2.
Whenever I have to compare Hellraiser to it's sequel, it's an incredibly tough decision. Both a incredibly powerful in their imagery and freaky moments, both stories have the same protagonist whom I like and great villains, but in the end, 2 wins out for overall "What the **** did I just watch?" factor. Seriously, a bed that kills you? How could that not be horror movie gold?
#6: A Nightmare on Elm Street
While later films pretty much sunk the franchise, the first film still stands out as a great movie with some incredible moments. Freddy Krueger was established as one of the top villains of the 80's and with good reason. His debut film did a great job of confusing, but not to the frustrating level, it's audience with if the characters where awake or asleep and if they where vulnerable to Freddy's murderous antics.
Also, can you think of a more terrifying time to be stalked, then in your dreams? When your sleep, you can't do anything, your just…sleeping, and though you may have some odd form of control in your sleep of your dreams, when the concept of the Nightmare franchise was just starting out, it was a freaky and well received one. So, despite the sequels really taking the fun out of it, the first film is a great time and a must see.
#5: Friday the 13th (original)
Yet another case of "great when it started but ruined by sequels", Friday the 13th really pushed the image of "camp ground horror" and made it hard for many to go camping following this. What a lot of people seem to forget is that Jason was not the killer, but his mother, Pamela, was the first killer. This revelation still holds weight compared to most movie shock moments, right up there with Darth Vader being Luke's father.
This movie had some great suspense going for it and was one of those "gorey, but only after the proper build up" films. Something that Saw and Hostel could learn from. Either way though, it's a great flick and always fun to watch for the season, or before you go camping.
#4: Night of the Living Dead
You want creepy, freaky, insane and dark? This movie practically invented those words and expanded on them more than any film could hope to come close to. While the term "zombie" was already known in the media, Night of the Living Dead really created the popular image of the zombie and shot it into the pop culture.
This film is easily the greatest zombie film ever, it's got all the elements, people trapped in a house surrounded and whatnot, and lots and lots of zombie carnage. It's just about all you need to really sell it. But we get more! The rising character tension was great and the build up to the ending is insanely good, this would be #1, if it weren't for the next 3 films.
#3: The Omen
Once again I point out, build up, horror movies, it's really good. The Omen is one of those movies that sticks with you long after it's over and you've moved on. It doesn't simply bring up faith, it brings up your whole trust system. Can you really trust anyone, even a child?
My favorite scene is and forever will be the graveyard scene in which the protagonist discovers the horrifying truth about Damien's mother, she was a jackal! While it's not very gory or over the top, it's got some great suspense and moments that make the skin crawl and it's a classic for this.
#2: The Exorcist
This film is often regarded as the scariest movie of all time and for good reason. Whereas Omen didn't show us too much as far as the supernatural is concerned, Exorcist does everything the Omen doesn't as far as that goes. There are so many bone chilling moments, but my favorite is when we see the Demon's face flash as the main hero of our story runs towards his mother in a dream sequence. That haunting face has been burned into my mind and if you ever see this movie, you won't forget the face either.
My only complaint with the Exorcist is it's ending. While it's satisfying enough, I felt there was just something left open that the sequels never capitalized on. And with a meh ending, it is made up for with an incredibly ominous opening.
#1: Halloween 1 and 2
Choosing the greatest horror film of all time is no easy task, mind you. And I in no way claim to be an expert in the field that I've seen every movie or remember every movie I've seen. So I'm sure the #1 slot is different for a lot of people across the spectrum of horror fans, but for me, there is no better than the original Halloween and it's sequel. Now I know it's cheating, but really, these might as well be the same film since 2 only takes place seconds after 1. Even in Hellraiser 2 there was a fairly solid gap which made it accessible, but Halloween 1 and 2 might as well be Halloween 1 and drop the 2. Their both incredibly great films and together ,they tell a great story that should have ended here. Some argue that in a weird continuity, 4 and up is all like a "what if the series kept going?"
I myself hate everything after 3, but still acknowledge the others as sequels. though if there where ever a grade A must see rock you to your core horror experience in a film, then the Halloween experience is that. While you can watch these 2 movies separate, I highly suggest you watch them back to back. Both incredible films and even more incredible as a solid story.
Now I feel it is time for some quick Honorable mentions for all the horror fans out there that may be disappointed that their favorites didn't make the list.
Psycho misses the list mainly because, outside of the shower scene, the film just doesn't stand the test of time anymore. It's a great film, but I don't even feel it's horror. More psychological and intrigue than horror. Though I mean no disrespect to the film, it is still great.
The birds also missed the mark. I loved this film as a child, but I recently re-watched it and found myself incredibly bored the second time around. Maybe it's just me but, like Psycho, it's lost it's staying power in current times.
An American Werewolf in London is a great flick, but similar to Dawn of the Dead, feels more like a comedy and never really hit the horror mark for me.
Now there are several other films I could mention, but the best way to sum it up is this: There are tons upon tons upon tons of great horror movies out there and nobody has seen them all and nobody's list of favorites is the same. Mine is my own opinion and my personal favorites, just because I love Halloween doesn't mean someone else doesn't have Psycho as their #1. Everyone's opinions vary and just as I respect others opinions to like other horror movies, I hope other will respect my opinion for favorite horror movies.
With that, I leave you with a simple reminder. Halloween is a day to celebrate everything scary and haunting, use this to your advantage, enjoy it. It can be a day to return to your youth and enjoy days long gone, or create new memories with old friends. Either way, Halloween is a special day that should always be treasured.
Happy Halloween everyone.
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Comic Report Card: Marvel Zombies Dead Days
One more day 'till Halloween, Halloween, one more day 'till Halloween, Silver Shamrock!
Yes that's right; it's one more day 'till the greatest day of the year…and 2 more days for the Halloween fun to end (The cruel irony). But before we wrap up tomorrow with the top 25 horror film, 13-1, we've got one last bit of Comic fun for you. Yet another Comic Report Card on Marvel Zombies: Dead Days. There's no doubt that Dead Days was very much highly anticipated by the Zombies fanbase, for one, it was the return of Kirkman and Phillips, and a lot of people weren't happy with the other Prequel, Marvel Zombies vs. Evil Dead.
We're going to take a quick look and grade the Dead Days one shot that both enlightened, and disappointed Marvel Zombie fans everywhere.
Written: Robert Kirkman
Art: Sean Phillips
Story Comments: The story is fairly simple, picking up From MZ Vs. ED part 2, Spider-man is rushing home to protect MJ and Aunt May. As one would figure, this goes horribly wrong and in true Marvel Zombies fashion, Peter eats the 2 people he loves most in the world.
The opening is actually pretty good and it captures the spirit of the Marvel Zombies franchise, but following this, we soon start to tread water. Everything we where told in Ultimate Fantastic Four as well as Marvel Zombies is repeated here, just in the form of moments between characters. These moments reveal absolutely nothing new or slightly interesting and only do the bare basics of what they set out to do.
To put it best, Marvel Zombies Dead Days is everything we already know, but with pretty and horrific images. It's nothing new, it's nothing refreshing, and it's a giant waste of your time.
Granted, if you want to get into the Marvel Zombies but don't want to start with the first series, for some odd reason, then pick up the Dead Days one shot (or Hardcover, which we'll spotlight one day) and you'll enjoy it. For the rest of us though, it's reading everything we knew about and saw already.
Really, the only prequel here is the Evil Dead crossover. That was much better in terms of telling the story before the story.
Though I have to admit, there are some nice moments here like seeing Scarlet Spider quickly or the chilling final panel of a close up on Reed Richards but really none of it feels worth the time and effort put into this. We also don't get an explanation as to what it is about Zombie Sentry that made him a zombie in the first place, and if I recall, we never saw what happened to him. This would have been a great opportunity to show where he went, maybe the zombie heroes killed him or something. I guess we'll never know.
Art Comments: Sean Phillips is not without error here, but for the most part, his work here is solid. He still has the blotch moments and odd character features, but it's nowhere near as bad as in the first series. That plus this is where we first saw the jagged shark teethed zombies. Very well done there.
Final Comments: Marvel Zombies Dead Days is a fine read with good art, but unless you're unfamiliar with the Zombies, it's a complete waste of time and paper. I suggest you read Marvel Zombies vs. Dead Days as it had much more interesting moments and better character interactions than Dead Days could even hope for.
Score: 5 out of 10
Grade: D
The horror is nearly over. As mentioned earlier, check back tomorrow for the 2nd and final part to the top 25 horror films of all time. I'm not sure when I'll be posting it, to be honest; with tomorrow being Halloween it's kind of a busy day for me. I was also hoping to try and get down to the LCS and pick up the Ultimate Spider-man Annual, so I'll post the top 25 horror as soon as I can before I start tricking and treating.
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Spawn #185 reviewed!
Welcome to a very special post here at New Age Comics, the long awaited Spawn #185 reviewed! Now I've expressed my excitement quite a bit over the months, going all the way back to past #2 here, my first official post outside of the introduction post back in July. For those who haven't seen them and are interested, here's a link to them.
My first thoughts on Spawn: Endgame
What I hope to see come Endgame.
Now that we've got those out of the way, it's time for the long awaited issue to be reviewed. An issue so epically anticipated it gets its own post to itself. Now don't think this is the only I've picked up from these last few weeks, those will still be reviewed…but I'll go into that come end of the review. Now, let's load those guns because it's time to review!
Spawn #185
Written: Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
Art: Whilce Portacio
Opening Comments: Rarely is any comic outside of Marvel or DC this incredibly well hyped to the point where it reaches the guys like IGN or CBR. McFarlane obviously has some serious confidence in this reboot/continuation. It takes a lot of guts to hype something up so much without fear of alienating readers when they do read it, and it's not what they where expecting.
But lucky for me, I'm a long time fan and was prepared to either be astounded, or disappointed. While Spawn #185 is a good read and has some wicked art, it doesn't quite take away the pain of losing David Hine and Brian Holguin, but still, like all healing sessions, it's a good start.
Story comments: Warning ahead for all of you who don't want it to be spoiled, to make this review as thorough as I can, I'm going to delve into some key points through the issue. Including the cliff-hanger, so if you don't want to be spoiled then avert your eyes and run.
The opening pages, as we've already seen from an IGN preview weeks ago, continue where #184 left off with Al Simmons ending his trek through Hell. How long it's been since he started his long walk, we don't know. And I for one was hoping for some clarity on that side of the story. How long has it been? A day? An hour? A year? It's nothing important; I just would have liked to know. Clarification would have been nice you know, though it doesn't ruin the comic.
Spawn does some flash of light and we cut to some hospital patient waking up for the first time in what we've established as many years. The sudden change is a little odd, but to be expected with a huge blast then cut moment, and doesn't reflect similar changes in scenes such as what we've seen from Dan Slott in the previous Amazing Spider-man storyline, New Ways to Die.
Following this is a look into some slight back story to patient 47. Since a name has yet to be established for him, we will simply call him 47, or patient 47, for now. Going off of immediate speculation, judging by some of the previews and sketches we've seen over the last few months, it's safe to speculate that 47 will become the next Spawn. That long with his ability to see demons is another nice little hint.
The character himself has little added here other than he's some kind of important man, the doctors want to study him and some mysterious man in the shadows is interested in him. So interested that he makes a man kill himself for being tied to Patient 47…well it's Spawn so I can follow.
Let us jump a bit to the end, because honestly, it's where the real meat of this issue is as far as interesting and good moments are concerned. We see long time Spawn nemesis Violator back in all his fat clown glory. While I mean no offense to Mr. Haberlin's depictions of Violator in the opening story of the previous direction of Spawn, Violator looks so much better here. He also sounds much more like himself, though with McFarlane back, that is only natural.
Honestly, I could consider him the Joker of Image Comics in that every line from this guy is priceless and great. Todd McFarlane created him so it only makes sense that, though we only get 3 pages of him talking, it's great. If anything I'd say pick this issue up to see Violator being Violator, going on to him in usual fashion.
The final page of course needs to be talked about, how could I not bring it up? It is the main "shocking everything changes moment" of the issue in that Spawn seems to have beheaded himself. As Violator points at, they are in a Dead Zone that was not supposed to be there and he is impressed that Spawn "finally did it" as we see the bloody headless corpse of our former protagonist.
To sum it all up as far as the storyline is concerned, it is a solid blend of reboot, where new readers could very well jump on and check it out. Which I highly recommend as anyone who is interested will probably be drawn in, and contains some nice continuation from previous established stories such as mention of Dead Zones. While it all feels like a bunch of "here's this, now wait a few issues to find what it all means" it isn't the typical starter issue either and that is an undeniable plus.
However, we still don't know all of what we where promised we would find out and it seems like there is still a lot more to Endgame then 185 could hold. It's obvious that Spawn fans are in for a wild ride with Endgame and if anything, this looks to be a great start for what could be a great story.
Art Comments: Whilce Portacio is more of a return to the 90's era of art that Spawn well reflects that was shaken up come Brian Haberlin. I should also note Jin Han, the book's new colorist. The two make a dynamic team and McFarlane does a good job on adding with the inking of this issue. Overall, the look is stylish, somewhat colorful but nicely dark when it needs to be and really looks great.
But in all honesty, the thing I have to point out most of all is Violator. Portacio makes a return to the classic look of the fat clown/reptilian demon and it looks great. With promises that Violator will be a strong player in Endgame, I am excited to see more of what Mr. Portacio brings out as Endgame unfolds.
Final Comments: This may not be for everybody, as it follows the typical set everything up formula and wait for it to unfold, as other comics such as Amazing Spider-man and Invincible are doing right now. But unlike those books, Spawn feels like one solid story and this is a great opening chapter. Maybe I'm a tad biased by how big of a fan I am of the series, and how great it is to have Todd and Brian back in the writer's chairs, and Portacio's incredible art but either way I can't deny that I myself loved this issue and was incredibly impressed. Though I'll say this, to be fair, if it weren't for the incredible art this would just get a Must Read, but with art that fits the storyline so well I can't tell you not to buy this incredible comic.
My apologies for this being later in the evening, I could not get to the comic store today and had a friend pick this up for me since she was working in the downtown area for a while.
Now as I mentioned earlier I will be reviewing the comics of these last couple of weeks still. Invincible, Secret Invasion, etc. but with a new twist, Open Fire! Reviews. A new "quick shot" style of reviewing where I ditch the fancy talk and write it more as a paragraph or two. It won't be a regular thing but it will help for when I have too many comics to review and not enough time to go extensive on all of them.
So that's it for now, I hope you enjoyed my review of Spawn #185.
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Horror films. One of the strongest, yet most unappreciated genres in cinema today. Often grade A horror is over looked for the latest over hyped blockbuster Hollywood is tossing out with the latest big name actor who is over hyped as well.
It's no doubt that Horror doesn't get anywhere near enough credit, but when I look at some of the current films, I can see why some people misjudge the genre. So I put on my best zombie mask and sort through the mountains of crap filling the genre, and pick the 25 greatest films of all time in Horror.
Now as I said way back on October 1st, this is only part 1 to a 2 parter as here we have 25 through 14 and on Friday, Halloween, we have 13-1.
#25: Saw
Saw just barely makes it onto the list. Now I'm talking Saw 1 here, not 2 and up because after the first one it all went to hell. The first Saw film, while still annoyingly grotesque like so many Torture Porn films, had some great suspense and build up. My favorite trade mark to the horror genre. That, and our first main protagonist was fairly good. While not perfect, Saw is a good example of a modern horror film and how to blend suspense and freak out moments.
#24: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
I never count this as a part of the Nightmare series, but rather a spin-off. Therefore, it qualifies outside of the main franchise and I can add it to the list. The original series ran it's course and after a while became nothing of a poor joke. Wes Craven returned with the amazing New Nightmare. A film that set itself in a main stream reality and blended similar things from the original Nightmare movie, but kept it very dark and without any of the bad jokes that Freddy spat out in that series. Overall, an incredible film, but not good enough to break much more than 24th spot.
#23: The Mummy, Original.
Boris Karloff is a major icon of horror, and while I've never been big on Frankenstein, his classic portrayal of the Mummy is legendary. This film feels like one nightmarish haze enveloping you, it's both haunting and hypnotic and I love it for this.
#22: The Howling
The Howling is one of the better "modern" werewolf films. It seems that nowadays the genre of Werewolf movies has been seriously lacking, but in these last couple of decades, the Howling has stood out and told both a well written and very creepy story with some awesome scenes of werewolf attacks.
#21: Poltergeist
When I first saw this film as a child, it terrified me and had a strong haunting power, but as I matured, it lost the effect. Still, it's a great flick nonetheless and has some great moments. My favorite being the infamous "face falling off" scene.
#20: Jaws
Some wouldn't consider Jaws a horror film. I however would and I find it an important aspect to horror, since it really strengthened the "out at sea" part of horror. Face it, if your stuck at sea, your up a creak without a paddle and have no chance. Especially if you've got a murderous giant shark after you. Though several knock offs and awful sequels, the first film has some amazing suspense and is great.
#19: Children of the Corn
Where I live, there is a haunted corn field. It's in the town right next to mine, and is a 10 minute drive. It's not really haunted, it's all for show, but if you go there after watching Children of the Corn then the moments of people popping up have much more effect. Now as for the film in general, it didn't really get freaky until near the end, and Isaac made a great villain. While not the strongest of Stephen King's work, it's a great flick and has some lasting effect.
#18: Rosemary's Baby
While this film had some great build up and suspense, it falls back in the list mainly due to not having enough strength in the scare department. Compared to a movie that I practically consider it's successor, The Omen, there was a lot more that should have been done with this film. Still, it was great nonetheless.
#17: The Fly (original)
Leave it to Vincent Price to make one of the wildest horror films of all time feel realistic and eerie. While the remake seems to be more popular, I for one loved the original and found it left a real haunting impression. It's the classic "Science gone wrong" horror story but with some eerie moments and an ending that sent shivers down my spine.
#16: The Hills have Eyes (original)
Wes Craven continues to dominate with a great and classic film. While most people seem to only think of it's remake, similar to the Fly, the original was a great film and was a great tale of revenge and in the end, ended up being far more twisted than most people had predicted it to be.
#15: Pet Semetary
This is an incredible horror experience. But it loses some points on the scare scale since it takes forever for something really scary to happen. And in the end, the final moments is what really completes it and makes it so great. Though the film is strung with some great moments, the finale is the best aspect.
#14: Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
I was going to try and keep it to one film per franchise, but in all honesty, I don't even feel Halloween 3 as a main part of the franchise. This was when they wanted the franchise to go off and tell different stories with each film. This was also the last good film in the Halloween franchise, as everything from 4 and up has been complete trash. But 3 was still great, despite some odd sci fi aspects to it.
So that's part 1 to the epic top 25 horror flicks. I know some people will no doubt disagree, and that's fine. Everyone has different tastes likes or favorites when it comes to movies. And with such a huge helping from the Horror genre, there is plenty to pick. This is more my opinion based off of the many, many, many horror films I have seen over the years. So if you disagree, no worries, I'd love to hear your favorites.
Now come back tomorrow for the extra special Spawn #185 review, so epic of a comic it gets its own post to itself. Now until I see you then, have a good night and lock those damn doors!
Week's End
The Week has ended, and the countdown to Halloween is almost up. All this glorious time, so many dead, so few survivors…wait, is my Wii broken? *checks* Okay, we're good. My best friend was eaten alive…but as long as my Wii is okay, I'm all right.
Comic of the Week: Final Crisis #4
Not a very good week for comics, in my opinion. Really weak for pretty much everyone, but Final Crisis steals a win for itself since it was one of the few good reads. I didn't read the issue myself, just online spoilers and scans again, but from what I read, it was great. While I'm still sour at Jones' inability to complete all 7 issues, I'm still liking where this is going. If word keeps going strong for FC, I may pick up the collection book.
Moment of the week: New Avengers #46 Dormammu reveal
Not a really great week for moments either. While there was some good ones, nothing stood out to me more than the reveal of Dormammu as the demon powering Hood. Always loved this character and great to see him back, and I can only figure this leads in to Dark Reign somehow. Also, while I'm not a big fan of Billy Tan's, that is one wicked looking demon.
Cover of the week: NA #46 by Aleski Briclot
Again, not really a great week for covers either. But Aleksi's awesome homage of Marvel Villains skrullified takes the win this week. Not a lot to say about it though, it's incredibly cool.
So that's it for the Week's End. This week we've got reviews again of comics, Spawn #185 will be reviewed for sure. Maybe Invincible and Secret Invasion if I can get my hands one them. And if possible, more, but money is a bit tight right now. So until Tuesday, have a great weekend and grab yourself a water gun, the aliens are here.
Collection Spotlight: 30 days of Night
For the most part through Halloween, we've covered mostly Zombies. But there's another franchise of horror monsters that I love and enjoy seeing bite and infect people. The vampire. It's no secret the Dracula made the image of the vampire popular, but since the glory days of the 1930's and 40's, Vampires have never been the same. Their images have constantly been changed around from suave and romantic creatures, to beat like and horrific in every way.
Then comes long 30 days of Night, a graphic novel that begs the question, why can't they be both? Who says a vampire can't have a werewolf like hunger and instincts, but retain its humanity and thought process? That is the main selling point to 30 days of night, and that's why we're brining it up to help celebrate the Halloween season.
Written: Steve Niles
Art: Ben Templesmith
Story comments: really, the story of 30 days of Night is pretty simple. In Barrow Alaska, it's 30 days of night and the people have no connection to the outside world for this month. But suddenly, vampires attack in order to take advantage of no sunlight. Our main characters are husband and wife sheriff.
Really, it follows a simple Horror plot, but does well not to play on any of the annoying clichés that have plagued current day horror. We have a happy couple, our main characters and saviors of the story, a big bad vampire as well as his horde of minions, and lots of humans ripe for the killing.
One thing I have to give credit for is the character of Vincente. Whereas Marlow is an all right vampire villain, Vincente steals the show and if anyone deserved their own spin-off prequel series, it's him. For one, the way he's drawn just reminds me so perfectly of Nosferatu, a wicked shadow of death and evil. His personality, what little we see of it, is very wicked and sick and I enjoyed every moment he was in.
The character of Eben is good hero for our story; he ditches the "Super human without a cause" that most stories have. You know what I'm talking about. The incredibly, insanely, badass hero who just annihilates everyone and everything in his path to save the people in danger. Eben is nicely humanized, without making him a dumb moron.
Stella is another great character, but we don't get enough of her. Though she gets her time in the sun come Dark Days, her character still leaves more to be desired of a protagonist hero.
I don't want to make excuses here, but there really isn't too much to talk a bout when it comes to 30 days of night. It's a 3 issue series as it is, and I can't necessarily stretch it out with every little twist and turn, as that's more of what Comic Report Card's are for. Rather here I'm talking about important moments and the story in general.
The final battle between the vampire-ified Eben and Vincente is done well. Eben doesn't start out as a Demi-god from the start, which I appreciated on Niles part. He gives a nice build up to the quick, but satisfying conclusion for our hero. Also, the narration was priceless.
I enjoy the storyline and its characters, there's a great build up and some really wicked moments, but it's not that much really and there's some undeniably weak moments that I'd rather not cover, just for the sake that it would either spoil them or if you've read this, you know damn well what I'm talking about.
Art Comments: I'm a big fan of Ben Templesmith. That very much should be clear. Though as much as I love his current work (Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse is nothing short of brilliance personified) I find myself rather flustered over his previous work, with Hellspawn, and 30 days of Night.
Here, his style seems to go back and froth from traditional goodness such as his vampires, to an odd….almost photo-realistic style. It's confusing and I didn't appreciate it. But then comes moments where he writes, yes, he actually writes in thin ink in his art. Such as the reveal of Vampire Eben to Vincente he writes "Badass time" thinly. It's a fun little nugget like that which boosts the art.
Of course I have to talk about his vampires. Their perfect blend of wicked shadows and monstrous beings. Templesmith creates a haunting and great image of the Vampire.
Final Comments: While as much as I personally enjoy this story, it's faults have to be taken for account for, and really, the series didn't get all that great until Return to Barrow. Which is something we'll Spotlight next Halloween season. So while this is a great horror book and should go up in the history books, in the end, it's just all right.
Buy It.
I know that it's another short one but eh, it is only a 3 issues series we're talking about. Now, tomorrow expect Week's End on time and soon the start of the top 15 horror films! Whoo, but until then rest easy as we've marked all the doors with yellow.
The 3 Solicits for January 2009
The solicits are up and out, a little late than usual, but I'm still here for the party. Now rather than posting each solicits group in 3 divided posts, I can't be doing that so much with the Season's Postings, so instead I'm putting them all under one roof!
I know nuts. But seeing as the majority of it is Marvel anyway, I figure 3 Batman books and whatever Image comics I'm getting won't stretch this post too much.
Image Solicits for January 2009
DC solicits for January 2009
Marvel Solicits for January 2009
Now Image goes first since they sent out their solicits first. Fair's fair, kids.
I am stoked for Endgame and all it's…Endy glory. This issue sounds interesting, but I'm not quite sure what to think of it being about some reporter chasing Spawn. Sounds like the POV kind of stuff comics do every once in a blue moon to shake up perspectives on these characters. Though with any luck, McFarlane doesn't delve too far away from Spawn. Also, best cover yet by Portacio. Very wicked.
Witchblade #124
I knew it. I knew that student girl of Dani's would cause trouble. While I'm not exactly sure how or what she does that causes the ripple effect, this issue is the lead in for War of the Witchblade, a story that alongside Ultimatum and Spawn Endgame, I am highly anticipating and am excited to see. That cover is also Sejic's best yet, I know I was hard on him in the November solicits for that one weak cover, but this one is just incredible. Can't wait to see War of the Witchblade.
Witchblade volume 6. TPB
I may pick this up seeing as it starts off with where I jumped on with Witchblade, and that was some incredible stuff right there. Now thanks to the internet I already know quite a bit on Witchblade, but no harm in checking this out. Could be a future CS some day.
Now onto DC!
Batman #685
Dini and Nguyen are back! Yes!
But wait…spoiler alert? Well there goes the build up to Heart of Hush' conclusion. We now know Catwoman lives…while I'm happy to see her survive…I'm pissed at DC ruining the build up that #850 had going in Detective Comics. Major fail DC.
Batman: Cacophony #3
Not much to say on this really. I'll be picking it up for sure.
Nightwing #152
I find it odd that Ra's big return is in Nightwing. No offense to the book and its fans, Dick Grayson is an awesome character, but something so major…one would thing is to be handled by in the pages of Batman or something.
Detective Comics #852
So this spotlight is on Hush for this whole "faces of evil" crap. I honestly don't care about all that, but hey, it continues the story from Heart of Hush and it's MORE Dini/Nguyen teaming up. And I'm all for that.
I just want to point out, what happened to the Neil Gaiman/Andy Kubert "Whatever happened to the caped crusader?" storyline? Delayed? I thought it was set to come out in January…
Now onto the last long leg of our trek…the Marvel solicits
The Dark Reign hoopla continues to be kept under wraps as far as solicits is concerned. No covers, nothin, Marvel isn't telling is squat. But I read the early release of the Spider-man solicits, I guess someone at Marvel.com messed up since ASM #584, and it involves Menace and Harry Osborn, and has Romita Jr. Back. It seems to be a part of the Dark Reign…interesting.
Hmmm, I'm not sure why but this solicit doesn't sound as interesting. Looks okay, but I'm not sure what to think. Too vague.
Is Ultimatum being delayed for the month? It's nowhere in the solicits, from what I see….
Spider-man Noir #2
That cover is odd. Not bad, just odd. I'm really hoping that this series goes for a black and white like, unlike X-men Noir which for some stupid reason will be in color. The solicit talks of Black Cat showing up, so hey, some femme fatale action going on. You know what; looking a second time at the cover…it's pretty good.
Well, I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. More salt on the wound, as they say. People asked for this? Really? Meh, I don't recall anyone asking for it, but I don't hang around the Marvel forums often.
Ghost Rider #31
I still have yet to add this to my pull list, I'm waiting to pick up #28 this week and see if it's good enough to add this story back to my pull list. Cool cover by Suydam though. Also, I decided against Danny Ketch, the mini-series.
Marvel Zombies 3 #4
I already commented on the cover on Yesterday's MZ cover talk. The solicit sounds like a crazy fun time, can't wait to see more of this story.
Quick comment here, Ruins sounds and looks stupid. Ellis or no Ellis.
Skaar: Son of Hulk #7
Dear god let this story pick up! With the return of Silver Surfer, I'm excited to see if Pak can finally breathe strong life into this comic. Also, seems Guice has replaced Garney…I can't tell if I'm happy or sad at that.
I'm considering picking up Thor finally. It was a great idea on Marvel's part to return to a classic numbering.
Secret Invasion: War of Kings
I'm considering picking this up…I'm not all that sure if I'll be reading War of Kings, it has me interested and I'm all for some Black-Bolt baddassery.
X-men: Legacy #220
Rogue…favorite X-man! Must buy now…must buy…
X-men/Spider-man #3
I was so excited for this issue, but damn….it's Ben Reilly as Spider-man…not Scarlet Spider…I would have loved, dare I say, strongly, for him to be Scarlet Spider. He was awesome as Scarlet Spider, sucked as Spider-man…but still, the art looks incredible and it's got some classic Carnage so I'm in.
Is Wolverine getting ANOTHER damn DELAY?!
Ugh…just…just ugh….I'm starting to consider dropping Wolverine.
Spider-man: New Ways to Die HC.
While this story isn't perfect (I hope to be able to review the final issue sometime soon) I did enjoy this story enough to warrant picking up the HC.
March on Ultimatum HC
I'll be picking this up mainly to have a book that contains the Ultimate Spider-man Annual #3.
Marvel 1985 HC
I got the first issue of Marvel 1985 and it was great, but I decided against getting the whole series and to wait for the HC. I will be picking this up as soon as I can, the reviews have been fairly positive about this so I look forward to reading it all as a whole.
So that's the full epic Solicit talk. It took a bit of time to get it all together, busy as all hell today. Now I should be able to get to the comic shop tomorrow so expect a review of Invincible and Secret Invasion.
Andrenn
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By: Addison Wylie
The Selfish Giant gives off an aroma of a film that will be remembered for a very long time. The staying power of its troubled characters as well as the painfully realistic portrayal of a down-and-out community in Northern England are quite remarkable.
This directorial feature debut from British director Clio Barnard trails the life of two young troublemakers trying to make sense of their early teens. Both boys always yearn to help either their struggling family or friends. The loudest of the duo Arbor (played by Conner Chapman) hates to see his pal Swifty picked on. In fact, it's Arbor's adamant roughness that gets himself and Swifty (played by Shaun Thomas) suspended from school.
Swifty, who is only asked to leave for 10 days, is Arbor's rock. Rather than enabling Arbor's rowdiness, he's usually helping the foul-mouthed rebel soothe down after adults treat the twosome with brash language and constant discipline.
It's stupefying how natural Chapman and Thomas are in front of the camera. Each line and pause all feel habitually motivated. A large portion of the film feels as if we're infringing on their hang outs.
The youngsters also decline any chance to beg movie goers for sentimentality or easy reactions. These are two actors who understand that the story and reacting to those subtle beats are essential parts to making this viscerally moving film succeed. These are old souls who are showing rather quickly that they have the hang of acting.
Some – if not all – of The Selfish Giant is tough going to watch. Whenever families are the prime focus, there's always chaos. There's always a collection of disarray happening in small spaces with blue language being whipped around. It all looks and feels just as invasive as watching the leading boys by themselves.
Barnard hasn't overdone the purity within these moments, which is a great sign of what's to come with her filmmaking career. We don't find too many details about the different adults other than hearing local gabbing on the school yard and seeing visual cues that give us just enough to draw conclusions. These scenes come at full force one after another during the first act – undoubtably disarming. But, once we are sucked into these stressful environments, it's hard to veer our interests away from the candid calamities.
As we watch Arbor and Swifty slowly enter a working man's world as they earn money for collecting scrap metal, the lack of a concrete narrative never feels like a problem. Arbor and Swifty dig through heaps and keep their eyes open for available wires to steal and sell. Those illegal activities are what drive the film forward, adding extra nervousness while elaborating onto and reinforcing Chapman and Thomas' characters. Observing how Swifty becomes more outgoing and how Arbor develops jealousy towards him is a forceful dynamic.
For Arbor, the scrapyard is just the life for him that fits his hyperactive interests. Swifty, on the other hand, finds his calling when he's allowed to tame and tend to the horses around the scrapyard. In a lot of ways, this free pace around unique symbols resembles Cilo Barnard's film to Harmony Korine's audacious directorial debut, Gummo. What separates the two films, however, is that The Selfish Giant has more of a filmmaker's professionalism to it. It also has more of a direct focus on portraying youthfulness and less inclinations to shock the audience.
When an earth-shattering climactic event drops, the audience feels the impact from every possible direction in a matter of seconds. It's hard to take in. Mostly because we don't want to accept that it's real. Barnard handles the consequences that carry out in all the correct ways. Her direction, along with her screenplay, is instinctive with the audience's perceptions. Just as the actors have shown, this filmmaker has shown – yet again – how strong she is at her craft.
As the end of the first month of 2014 grows near, I feel happy to know the bar is being set high for phenomenal indies. The Selfish Giant has me excited to tell people about this accomplished work, and has me eager to see what Clio Barnard, Conner Chapman, and Shaun Thomas will do next.
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Amazing Mood, Youth Actors amazing. A great realistic portrait. My kind of film.

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Q: My bash script that works in terminal does not work when run as a script I have a simple bash script that goes to a webpage and scrapes the first installment of the Harry Potter novels and replaces each instance of "wand" with "butt."  At the end, I wish to print the modified novel to the console but the script just halts and does not end.  However, when I run each command separately in the terminal, the code works fine.  I'm not sure what it is about running the actual .sh file that causes the final code to not run.
I know that the script runs up until the final echo command because it successfully creates the two output files.
Here is my script:
#!/bin/bash

# Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
touch output_file.txt
curl 'https://archive.org/stream/joannek.rowlingharrypotterbook1harrypotterandthephilosophersstoneenglishonlineclub.com/Joanne%20K.%20Rowling%20%28Harry%20Potter%2C%20Book%201%29%20-%20Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Philosophers%20Stone%20%5BEnglishOnlineClub.com%5D_djvu.txt' -o "output_file.txt"

tr "\n" "|" < output_file.txt | grep -o '<pre>.*</pre>' | sed 's/\(<pre>\|<\/pre>\)//g;s/|/\n/g' > parsed_output.txt
harry1=$( sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' parsed_output.txt )

harry1_butt="${harry1//wand/butt}"
harry1_butt="${harry1_butt//buttering/wandering}"

echo "$harry1_butt"

exit

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The French Patissier Laurian Veaudour opened his first Patisserie in April 2010. The previous shop was located a few doors down on Whitchurch road in Cardiff. Laurian followed his dream in building up the Cocorico brand, and started planning a relocation to new, more upmarket premises with the aim of increasing the customer experience and building up the premium brand identity.
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Police In Quebec Admit They Have No Idea What The Law Says About Driving With Marijuana
You could get in trouble just for having it in your car.
Photo 117348053 © Christian Ouellet - Dreamstime.com
Legalization day in Canada has come and gone, but some ambiguities remain.
Cannabis stores across the country, for example, are already running dry. Officials have no estimate as to when demand and supply will eventually reach a balance.
ALSO READ: Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante Is Defying The CAQ And Moving Ahead With The STM Pink Line
TL;DR Law enforcement agencies are uncertain how to determine whether cannabis in an individuals car was legally or illegally purchased if it is not in its original packaging from the SQDC.
Via MTLBlog
But legal issues persist, too.
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Quebec has by far the most strict cannabis laws in the country. Sales are controlled entirely by a government-run corporation, the société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC).
Via Le Nouvelliste
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Von 2013 bis 2019 verkörperte Alanna Masterson in der Fernsehserie The Walking Dead die Rolle der Tara Chambler. Während der vierten Staffel gehörte sie zur Nebenbesetzung, ab der fünften Staffel hatte sie eine Hauptrolle inne.

Sie ist die Schwester der Schauspieler Jordan, Danny und Christopher Masterson. Ihr Cousin ist Angus T. Jones. Wie ihre Brüder ist Masterson Anhängerin von Scientology.

Mitte November 2015 wurden Masterson und ihr Freund Brick Stowell Eltern eines Kindes.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1994–1995: Schatten der Leidenschaft (Seifenoper)
 2006: Malcolm mittendrin (Malcolm in the Middle, Fernsehserie, Folge 7x10)
 2008: Greek (Fernsehserie, Folge 1x22)
 2009: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fernsehserie, Folge 2x15)
 2009: Grey's Anatomy (Fernsehserie, Folge 6x08)
 2010: First Day (Fernsehserie, 7 Folgen)
 2011: Peach Plum Pear
 2013–2019: The Walking Dead (Fernsehserie, 56 Folgen)
 2014: Men at Work (Fernsehserie, Folge 3x07)
 2018: Younger (Fernsehserie, 3 Folgen)
 2018: Afraid
 2018: Irreplaceable You

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Glasgow Museum of Transport facts for kids
The Glasgow Museum of Transport in Glasgow, Scotland was established in 1964 and initially located at a former tram depot in Pollokshields. In 1987 the museum was relocated to the city's Kelvin Hall, then moved to its current location in the Riverside Museum building at Glasgow Harbour in 2011.
Museum of Transport (1987 - 2010)
Railway and municipal transport exhibits
New Museum of Transport
The Museum of Transport was first established in 1964. Created in the wake of the closure of Glasgow's tramway system in 1962, it was initially located at the former Coplawhill tram depot on Albert Drive in Pollokshields, before moving to the Kelvin Hall. The old building was subsequently converted into the Tramway arts centre.
The museum was then situated inside the Kelvin Hall opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow. The Kelvin Hall was built in 1927, originally as an exhibition centre, but was converted in 1987 to house the Museum of Transport and the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena.
The Kelvin Hall site itself closed in April 2010, with the Museum moving to its third home at the new Riverside Museum in 2011.
Model of the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 in the Clyde Room (Kelvin Hall)
Accurate full-scale recreation of a pre-1977 Glasgow Subway station, featuring salvaged items from the former Merkland Street subway station (Kelvin Hall)
The Museum of Transport in the Kelvin Hall was one of the most popular museums of transport in the United Kingdom, attracting half a million visitors a year, and housed many exhibits of national and international importance.
The museum housed the oldest surviving pedal cycle and the world's leading collection of Scottish-built cars and trucks, including pioneering examples from Scottish manufacturers Argyll, Arrol-Johnston and Albion. More modern Scottish-built cars, namely the Rootes Group's Hillman Imp, Chrysler Avenger and Chrysler Sunbeam were represented too along with many other motorcars in a large showroom-type display sponsored by Arnold Clark.
All forms of transport were featured, from horse-drawn vehicles to fire engines, from motorcycles to caravans, even toy cars and prams.
In the Clyde Room was a display of some 250 ship models, representing the contribution of the River Clyde and its shipbuilders and engineers to maritime trade and the Royal Navy, including the Comet of 1812, the Hood, the Howe, the Queen Mary, and the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2.
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Main page: Riverside Museum
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Why Issaries runes are different betweeen HQG and RQG?
By Beorne
December 25, 2020 in Glorantha
Beorne
One is trade, movement, trade, the other is harmony, movement.
And trade rune is missing from RQG, as some other do.
And perhaps there are more "glorantha" differences between the two systems, apart the game system.
And this make me ask another question: are the Glorantha depicted by RQG and the Glorantha depicted by HQG really the same?
My approach is, that Glorantha is always the same, so far the given example the trade rune does exist. Runequest:Roleplaying in Glorantha and Heroquest Glorantha are just different approaches to explore this world using a game, i.e. they are a set of gaming rules. The fact, that the trade rune is not used in RQG, does not mean, that the rune does not exist, it's just not used in the rule set, because it does not have any relevance for this rule set.
And: the trade rune is just a composition of Harmony and Movement (which is even explained in the HQG rules). So from the game world perspective, there is no difference.
40 minutes ago, Oracle said:
The fact is that runes does not seem a game mechanics element but an essential Glorantha world element, like to say that Orlanth exists only in RQG and not in HQG.
15 minutes ago, Beorne said:
Issaries' Runes were always Movement and Harmony. His worshipers claim that together they form the Issaries or Communication Rune, although few others acknowledge that. In HQG, I used that as one of the possible Runes, but when we wrote RQG we were much more deliberate and careful about how we established character Rune associations. Thus characters might have Movement and Harmony, but not "Issaries" as a rune.
22 hours ago, Beorne said:
Yes, you are right, the runes are the essential Glorantha world elements, but if and how they are used (or not used) in RQG and HQG is a game mechanic. So as Jeff explained above, the Issaries worshipers claim that the Movement and Harmony runes together form the Issaries or Communication Rune, which means, that you could use the Communication Rune in RQG too, but it would not have any impact on the game mechanics, just on the stories told by your game (which is the important part with respect to exploring Glorantha - at least from my point of view.)
Edited December 26, 2020 by Oracle
Researcher into the Fourth Inspiration
The Issaries or Communication Rune would also be extremely difficult to sync with how Rune magic works in RQG. Would it be something everyone has, and if so, where would it go in the schema? Would it be unique to members of merchant cults, and thus produce a balance headache? Movement and Harmony, which have consistently been labeled as the two components of Communication, work much better mechanically.
Though a Lunar through and through, she is also a human being.
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I do have to note that the Trade Rune (the Issaries rune) exists in the Guide to Glorantha, which is in theory, meant to be relied on for Canon. (Page 149)
Tindalos
If you don't like the idea of the guide, cults of prax, etc being wrong; you can view the Issaries rune as representing the part of Harmony referring to harmonizing people, rather than flesh, etc. i.e. the "communication" rune name of previous editions, in a similar way to how the guide has Light as a division of Fire/Sky without any heat.
Ruleswise, it may have no effect, but it can be a useful reminder that Issaries doesn't have any special influence over mending wounds and the like.
scott-martin
King of Birds
3 hours ago, Beorne said:
IMG RGQ reflects the same world as HQG only showing the strains of a difficult decade. Old models no longer work as well. Sometimes the people in power make choices that alter the magical systems that run the world. Some of these choices are born of desperation and we know a little about how they happened.
Others have yet to be revealed. I'm personally convinced that the sacrifice of Issaries rune to itself is one of these hidden choices that rocked the world off its underpinnings but we don't know a lot yet about how it happened. Maybe we all went to bed one night and when we woke up in the morning it was accepted across all the markets that the rune was gone. Maybe it was always a figment of the bookkeeping and we finally decided to give it up. It was too expensive, no longer useful, the opportunity costs stacked elsewhere. Maybe a cabal of esoteric merchants ("syndics") haggled it out . . . something like the Ban and the area of effect is now expanding out of that Zero Point to convert all Trade Runes stored into something else.
Rune as crypto contract, but I digress. A notional sink of magical capital denominated in arbitrary numbers we invented and are now calling back. It's the hero wars.
Brootse
The Communication Rune may not have rule mechanics in RQG, but it's used in my campaign in stead of white flag, and has played an important part on few occasions.
Leingod
Personally, I prefer to just have those unique/personal Runes as more indicators of specific gods/spirits/etc. and their nature/powers than as an actual mechanical thing. That is, they exist in-universe, but aren't part of the mechanics. A worshiper of Issaries doesn't have a special Rune that only merchant gods get for some reason, they just have Movement and Harmony, and the Communication/Issaries Rune is just iconography that specifies that this is Issaries or some other god of communication, trade, and travel.
For HQG, that means my own personal approach as a GM would be to switch out those personal Runes with a "basic" Rune, possibly two. Issaries gets Harmony and Motion, and the powers assigned to his Communication Rune I assign to whichever makes the most sense. Similarly, the Eternal Battle Rune of Storm Bull becomes Disorder, the Yinkin Rune is split into Movement and Beast, etc.
There are a number of differences - compare Lhankor Mhy's runes, for instance, or the dramatically different maps of Clearwine.
I think we should talk about four different Glorantha dev tracks, or forks - Guide, RQG, HQG, 13AiG. These are not 100% compatible with each other even on a pure non-rule level (maybe HQG and Guide?). You really can tell that you're in RQG-Glorantha just from seeing Lhankor Mhy's Stasis rune - you would not in any of the others.
This will save you a number of headaches.
Edited December 26, 2020 by Akhôrahil
6 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:
Yes, now that I looked to the Guide I have seen there are a lot of deities using runes non existing in RQG ...
That's not quite correct (from my point of view): these runes still exist, but are not used in the game mechanics (and therefore are not explicitly mentioned in published documents like adventure books ...)
10 hours ago, John Biles said:
That's exactly the point. The Guide to Glorantha (and The Glorantha Sourcebook, King of Sartar as well as some other books from the Stafford Library, i.e. texts, which are not game specific) describe the world Glorantha and therefore build the canon. Game systems like 13th Age Glorantha, Heroquest Glorantha or Runequest:Roleplaying in Glorantha have to tweak these descriptions to adapt them to the needs of the game, but they do not change the world, only your view on the world. (Although they may add more detailed descriptions of parts of the world, which may or may not part of the canon.)
Similar to Risk, which is a game using an abstraction of some aspects of the real world to describe (a certain view on) this world. Monopoly is doing the same with a completely different view on the real world. Does that change the real world? Not at all.
Also you have to keep in mind, that the exploration of Glorantha, which Greg Stafford started so many years ago, is far from complete. Certain descriptions (especially from game accessoires) may change, while we learn more about these details exploring Glorantha more and more (e.g. the maps of Clearwine ...). This could be compared to an archeologist, which discovers an artifact completely changing our view on certain historical details.
As the Guide & HQG are in agreement WRT the runes and gods runic associations, their model is largely how I frame the world.
I respect RQG having a condensed rune list for the sake of being more managable on the character sheet, spell list, etc.
I dislike the idea of bending the setting to match the condensed list (or pretending that it had always been that way), along with some opposed rune consequences that the condensed list has for characters.
If I were to run a RQG campaign, I'd let players write in Eternal Battle, Communication/Trade, Light, or whatever they need on their sheet, and go with whatever makes sense for matching up spells, cult requirements, etc.
Edited December 30, 2020 by JonL
On 12/25/2020 at 5:47 PM, Leingod said:
A worshiper of Issaries doesn't have a special Rune that only merchant gods get for some reason, they just have Movement and Harmony, and the Communication/Issaries Rune is just iconography that specifies that this is Issaries or some other god of communication, trade, and travel.
This sort-of works, but can run afowl of the opposed nature of power runes. A smuggler who is strong in Trade and Disorder works, but not so much if the trader magic is based on Harmony. Similar closed doors arise from replacing Eternal Battle with Death & Beast for Urox.
6 hours ago, JonL said:
This is actually how the Cults Book entry for Issaries reads:
RUNIC ASSOCIATIONS
The Runes of Issaries are Movement and Harmony. Together these are often expressed as "Issaries" or "Communication," a Rune unknown or unused except in trade functions. Other than Issaries, few spirits have it, save those who took or otherwise obtained it from him.
jongjom
Argan Argar has Mastery, Darkness, and Communication Runes in the GtG, but Darkness and Harmony in RQG. What is Argan Argar's association with Communication?
48 minutes ago, jongjom said:
He is communication with Darkness. Which is also Harmony with Darkness.
Except (in addition to @Jeff's point) even in HQG, Disorder is listed as one of the "Opposed Runes" of Issaries (along with Stasis and, of course, Chaos), and the Communication Rune is still explained as being a combination of Harmony and Motion (but for some reason instead of just having both those components lumped into its powers, Issaries gets Communication and Motion). Your theoretical smuggler would probably be better-suited to having Illusion than Disorder, I think.
Edited December 30, 2020 by Leingod
Lordabdul
On 12/25/2020 at 2:02 PM, Eff said:
The Issaries or Communication Rune would also be extremely difficult to sync with how Rune magic works in RQG.
I am totally NOT advocating doing this, but IF someone wanted to do this: you treat it as a combination, just like Jeff said. So if the Communication Rune is now (or always was?) a combination of Movement and Harmony, take the lesser of the two Runes and that's your Communication Rune score. Or the average of the two, or whatever. And then you introduce the concept of dual-Rune spells, that is: spells that are cast on combination Runes. Ideally these are more powerful spells (more bang for the Rune buck) since they require a higher degree of alignment with a deity's Runes. And now, I'm going to close the browser and not think about the consequences of this crazy idea
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5 hours ago, Leingod said:
That's one of the very few differences between HQG & HQ2. You'll see that opposed runes section in SKoH's cult write ups, but not in HQG's. You just have the general power rune oppositions in the latter. In either case, the principle still holds for Argan Argar, Etyries, or Dormal.
RQG's rune opposition mechanics are gentler still, but a mismatched character could still put you in a frustrating place when it's time to pick up the dice to cast certain spells.
WRT the magic in RQG, If I were patching in Communication, I would just go through the spell list and pencil in Communication next to some-but-not-all of the Movement and Harmony spells, and perhaps even make a few Communication-exclusive - as thematically appropriate. Same with Eternal Battle.
Sir_Godspeed
Sycophantic Contrarian
On 12/26/2020 at 12:47 AM, Leingod said:
Slightly conspiratorial perhaps; but the status and nature of several Runes in-universe are questioned and debatable. Storm is not always considered a elemental Rune (especially in the West), Moon is considered an elemental Rune by the Lunar Empire, there was a theorized purification rune, and at least one system separate Fire and Sun runes, etc. etc.
IMHO, and IMG I guess, the in-universe "reality" of Runes are probably a lot more subjective and conditional than most people would like to admit. It's less that the categories people divide the cosmos into (ie. the Runes themselves) are objective, neat, "Planckian" categories, wholly distinct and atomic as it were, and more that as long as the divisions/categorizations work, there's no point in really questioning them. Does calling on the Communication Rune make Issaries magic happen? Aight, cool. Does calling on Harmony and Movement do the same? Fair 'nuff.
This also opens the door for the discrepancies above.
davecake
Lhankor Mhy
I think of the Communication Rune as Harmony without the association with unselfishness or focussing on the needs of your own community. It's not opposed to those things, but nor it guided by them - it's the mystery of Issaries that, through trade, working to make profit for yourself benefits all, learning about the other teaches you about yourself, the desire for wealth can lead to peace, etc.
I don't really see the Movement connection much, but more Harmony focussed outward not inward? Issaries does have a Movement connection of course - but then, Issaries is always given the Movement rune too. I don't see the movement connection for Argan Argar, and most other trade gods have their own Movement connections (Etyries of course gets it from Issaries, Lokarnos is a movement god first and trade only as it follows from that, etc).
But I think the nature of the Communication rune is one that scholars can absolutely debate about in Glorantha, and leave it as Harmony and Movement for the purposes of the magic rules, just being guided by our understanding that Runes are always interpreted in a context, and that particular character uses the Harmony rune mostly only in certain ways.
I don't think most of the Rune changes described in the various rules sets usually reflect changes that the inhabitants of Glorantha notice, or would notice. Sometimes they may reflect our evolving understanding of the deity (such as Lhankor Mhy being the Orlanthi sorcery god). Worshippers have different experiences and understanding of deity. Many runes may express different cultural nuances, and not always be consistent, or make distinctions that are less important to others. Runic associations are very set and simple in game writeups, for good game design reasons, but not always so simple.
To the followers of Lhankor Mhy who know him as their cultures sorcery god, they might think it appropriate to use the Law Rune, or they might find it confusing as their culture barely uses the Law Rune, or just not use it to those who don't understand it - and to other Lhankor Mhy worshippers who use more traditional magic, the Stasis Rune is more appropriate to indicate their role in keeping the continuity of culture. None are wildly wrong. Followers of Yinkin or Odayla might use the special runes they know as the Cat rune and Bear rune in their own iconography and magic - but neither denies that they represent a type of Beast, and so the Beast rune is also appropriate, and no one really gets confused about this (except scholars trying to make rigid rune classification systems). Storm Bull worshippers might know what is meant by the Eternal Battle, but it's a core mystery of their cult, not something that outsiders would be expected to understand - and so the rules give the runes as understood by outsiders, and so on.
Sometimes, of course, Rune changes can reflect that the cult actually changes. The Lunars discovered (or rediscovered if you believe them) Lunar connections to deities that were previously believed to be unconnected, and some cults will now have a Moon Rune that did not before (and some people in Glorantha may believe this a distortion or corruption, and who can say for sure if they are right, but the magic works just the same). Almost all of Orlanths Mastery magic comes via the Orlanth Rex cult, which is a second age change - would Orlanth have been universally considered as having the Rune before? We have seen multiple sets of Runes for Yelm in various sources - and we also know that the understanding of the Yelm cult by the Dara Happans has changed a lot over the centuries. If those changes happen inside the context of a single game, they'd be a huge change that would be reflected in a lot of game activity, but for most games we can treat them as set and just acknowledge there is some history.


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from werkzeug.security import check_password_hash, generate_password_hash
from HoverSpace.models import USERS_COLLECTION
from flask_login import UserMixin

class User(UserMixin):

    def __init__(self, username, email=None, firstname=None, lastname=None, password=None, db=False):
        self.username = username
        self.email = email
        self.firstname = firstname
        self.lastname = lastname
        self.password = password
        if db:
            USERS_COLLECTION.insert_one({
                '_id': self.username, 'email': self.email,
                'firstname': self.firstname, 'lastname': self.lastname,
                'password': generate_password_hash(self.password),
                'quesPosted': [], 'ansPosted': [], 'bookmarks': [],
                'karma': 0, 'voted_ques': [], 'voted_ans': [], 'commentPosted': [] })

    @property
    def is_authenticated(self):
        return True

    @property
    def is_active(self):
        return True

    @property
    def is_anonymous(self):
        return False

    def get_id(self):
        return self.username

    def update_questions(self, quesID):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'quesPosted': quesID}})

    def update_comments(self, commentID):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'commentPosted': commentID}})

    def update_answers(self, ansID):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'ansPosted': ansID}})

    def update_karma(self, karma):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$inc': {'karma': karma}})

    def setBookmark(self, quesID):
        bookmarked = (USERS_COLLECTION.find_one({'_id': self.username}))['bookmarks']
        if quesID in bookmarked:
            USERS_COLLECTION.update_one({'_id': self.username}, {'$pull': {'bookmarks': quesID}})
            return False
        else:
            USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'bookmarks': quesID}})
            return True

    def addQuesVote(self, quesID, vote):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'voted_ques': {'quesID': quesID, 'vote': vote}}})

    def updateQuesVote(self, quesID, vote):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username, 'voted_ques.quesID': quesID}, {'$set': {'voted_ques.$.vote': vote}})

    def removeQuesVote(self, quesID):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$pull': {'voted_ques': {'quesID': quesID}}})

    def addAnsVote(self, ansID, vote):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$addToSet': {'voted_ans': {'ansID': ansID, 'vote': vote}}})

    def updateAnsVote(self, ansID, vote):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username, 'voted_ans.ansID': ansID}, {'$set': {'voted_ans.$.vote': vote}})

    def removeAnsVote(self, ansID):
        USERS_COLLECTION.find_one_and_update({'_id': self.username}, {'$pull': {'voted_ans': {'ansID': ansID}}})

    def voteQues(self, quesID, voteType):
        fl = False
        status = {
            'votesChange': None,
            'type': None
        }
        voteChange = 0
        vote = None
        try:
            voted_ques = list()
            voted_ques = (USERS_COLLECTION.find_one({'_id': self.username}))['voted_ques']
            for ques in voted_ques:
                if ques['quesID'] == quesID:
                    if ques['vote'] == 1:
                        if voteType == 'up':
                            self.removeQuesVote(quesID)
                            voteChange = -1
                        else:
                            self.updateQuesVote(quesID, -1)
                            voteChange = -2
                            vote = "downvote"
                    else:
                        if voteType == 'up':
                            self.updateQuesVote(quesID, 1)
                            voteChange = 2
                            vote = "upvote"
                        else:
                            self.removeQuesVote(quesID)
                            voteChange = 1
                    fl = True
            if not fl:
                if voteType == "up":
                    self.addQuesVote(quesID, 1)
                    voteChange = 1
                    vote = "upvote"
                else:
                    self.addQuesVote(quesID, -1)
                    voteChange = -1
                    vote = "downvote"
            status = {
                'votesChange': voteChange,
                'type': vote
                }
            return status
        except:
            print ("voteQues except")
            status = {
                'votesChange': voteChange,
                'type': vote
                }
            return status

    def voteAns(self, ansID, voteType):
        fl = False
        status = {
            'votesChange': None,
            'type': None
        }
        voteChange = 0
        vote = None
        try:
            voted_ans = list()
            voted_ans = (USERS_COLLECTION.find_one({'_id': self.username}))['voted_ans']
            for ans in voted_ans:
                if ans['ansID'] == ansID:
                    if ans['vote'] == 1:
                        if voteType == 'up':
                            self.removeAnsVote(ansID)
                            voteChange = -1
                        else:
                            self.updateAnsVote(ansID, -1)
                            voteChange = -2
                            vote = "downvote"
                    else:
                        if voteType == 'up':
                            self.updateAnsVote(ansID, 1)
                            voteChange = 2
                            vote = "upvote"
                        else:
                            self.removeAnsVote(ansID)
                            voteChange = 1
                    fl = True
            if not fl:
                if voteType == "up":
                    self.addAnsVote(ansID, 1)
                    voteChange = 1
                    vote = "upvote"
                else:
                    self.addAnsVote(ansID, -1)
                    voteChange = -1
                    vote = "downvote"
            status = {
                'votesChange': voteChange,
                'type': vote
                }
            return status
        except:
            print ("voteQues except")
            status = {
                'votesChange': voteChange,
                'type': vote
                }
            return status

    def alreadyVotedAns(self, ansID):
        try:
            voted_ans = list()
            voted_ans = (USERS_COLLECTION.find_one({'_id': self.username}))['voted_ans']
            for ans in voted_ans:
                if ans['ansID'] == ansID:
                    return True
            return False
        except:
            return False

    '''def set_password(self, password):
        self.password = generate_password_hash(password)
        USERS_COLLECTION.update_one({'username': self.username, {'password': self.password}})'''

    @staticmethod
    def validate_login(password_hash, password):
        return check_password_hash(password_hash, password)

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