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    Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off

    Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See

    Gaming Manuals That Will Prepare You For An Alternate World

    The Coolest Vampire Blood-Drinking Scene You've Ever Watched [NSFW]

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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    03:50 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    Vampires got clowned. If one of their own didn't break up the rave, it would have been close. You can't let the human get away AND have Wesley Snipes beat you all down at your own party.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    03:45 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    Wait. "Who just got served?" means we're voting for the LOSER in the contest, right?
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    03:56 PM

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: jesus yes.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04:20 PM

    @Meredith Woerner: Don't swear at me, Meredith. It's not my fault your survey is counter-intuitive.
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    04:30 PM

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: ha ha ha ha. it's not my fault you're getting old.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04:44 PM

    @Meredith Woerner: What? What are you talking about? I AM STILL VERY YOUNG!

    Look, I'm going to purchase a very fast automobile and date an exotic dancer as irrefutable evidence of that fact.
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    03:39 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    So much 80's music, I can't handle it!
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    03:32 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    Werewolf steppers, at least their leader, won the battle in my mind.
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    Image of dougr650 dougr650
    04:34 PM

    @LittleDragon: Agreed. Werewolf stepping FTW!
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    03:23 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    Zombies do it better. I think it's the rigor mortis.
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    Image of ExtensionOfBob ExtensionOfBob
    07:10 PM

    @EdificeComplex: Oh, no question. Although I've seen mummies really kill it on the dance floor too. (Uh, no pun intended? Seriously...my puns aren't that bad.)
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    07:30 PM

    @ExtensionOfBob: Oh, see now I just had to. I'm home sick on Friday night, bored out of my mind. What else do you expect?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    03:19 PM

    In reply to Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off
    I'd vote for humanity got served (literally.)
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    I have to say, after editing together a trailer for an assignment earlier this year, this is just BRILLIANT. I can't say I'm in love with the very end where the melodrama starts, but overall it's pretty solid.

    It reminds me a bit of the fake Umbrella ads made for Resident Evil. I like cleverness in film advertising.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    Good movies get released the week before new years.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/18/09

    In reply to Gaming Manuals That Will Prepare You For An Alternate World
    So... I'm supposed to bop the eldritch horrors from beyond space and time in the head with the book, then?

    I mean, half of them don't even have heads, much less anatomies that would ensure any sort of success should you actually land a blow on an extrusion resembling a head...
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    ah...fantastic use of Kate Bush in that clip...
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    Image of simonbarsinister simonbarsinister
    11/18/09

    @goldfarb: Indeed. "Make a deal with God; Get him to swap our places..."

    Very appropriate for a movie where vampires and normal humans have swapped roles.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/18/09

    @simonbarsinister: and the beat as heart beat doesn't hurt :)
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    Image of RexMaximus RexMaximus
    11/18/09

    In reply to Gaming Manuals That Will Prepare You For An Alternate World
    No Warhammer 40K, Rifts or Shadowrun?

    Especially Warhammer 40k? I mean, zombie robots, soul-eating psychic demons, more aliens than the American Southwest, armored genhanced supermen, and planet-eating bugs? What more could you want?!

    Oh, and pauldrons. Lots and lots of pauldrons.
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    11/18/09

    @RexMaximus: Hate to say it, but so far the 40K RPG books have been kind of light on material. Lots of fluff and setting and whatnot, but lacking in the raw amount of information like you'd get in the old Monster Manual.
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    Image of RexMaximus RexMaximus
    11/18/09

    @daveNYC: Guess you're right, though I haven't played 40k since Second Edition and back then you could still find First Edition materials on shelves. Both of them were just treasure troves of stuff on the background, setting, aliens and weapons of the 40k world.

    I can't speak about the current editions, but at least the wikis tell you almost all there is to know.

    Also: I know the profiled books are RPGs, but shouldn't tabletop gaming be included too?
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    Image of Idaan Idaan
    11/18/09

    @daveNYC: I'd argue that rows of numbers won't prepare you for an alternate world like fluff and setting will.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    I've hit that perfect point where I'm interested in the movie, but don't want to know any more about it before I see it. PSA, get thee behind me!
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    Image of enderwiggin13 enderwiggin13
    11/18/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: If you've seen the regular trailer, you should be safe to watch this. It all looked like footage from that trailer cropped down with a soothing PSA voiceover. It's still pretty cool though.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: it's just a trailer, there's really no content in it at all you haven't already been exposed to. except maybe a super cheesey 'to farm them for blood' voiceover.

    honestly though, you shouldn't take my word for it. i don't belive there's ever a point were one knows just enough about something until they know all of it. if it's not a good movie why not 'spoil' it and find out now instead of 2 hours and $11.50 later?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/18/09

    @tetracycloide: first let me say i find you oddly attractive.:

    Sometimes the process of discovery is the only appeal a movie has. Of course, a good movie has far more going on and is watchable even if you already know everything about it, but for mediocre movies that isn't true.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @Jesse Astle: but opinions are not spoilers, they are fundamentally different things.

    @Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: again, for myself at least, i'd rather find out ahead of time and save myself the time and money to discover something that really wasn't worth my time or money. to each his own i guess. at least your honest about the logic driving the position, plenty of spoilerphobes will try and pass it off as if the logic applies equally to everything.
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    Image of kosai kosai
    11/18/09

    @Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: I completely agree, I think if I had known absolutely nothing about Transofmers 2 it might have actually been bearable.

    However, Daybreaks has me interested enough I will probably pursue every bit of spoilery goodness.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    If vampires are immortal, can they die from starvation? Or just exist in a sort of starved-and-inanimate catatonic state?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/18/09

    @acrobatic rabbit:
    Apparently they become rabid bat monsters. At least in Daybreakers they do.
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    Image of Not a fan boy Not a fan boy
    11/18/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: I've always wondered this myself... Immortality is kinda a jip if you have to eat.

    Also, aren't most things vulnerable to stakes through the heart, fire and beheading? How do these qualify as vampire specific weaknesses?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/18/09

    @Not a fan boy: From most of the literature on vampires, the consensus is that it's not necessary for them to feed on blood to survive, but doing so lets them remain young and vital. Without it, they age quickly and lose a lot of their strength and abilities.

    Hell, even Dracula was like that; when Jonathan Harker first came to him, he was a decrepit old man, but as the process of securing Dracula's London residence progressed, he began to feed on village children to regain his vitality.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/18/09

    @Not a fan boy: With the whole "not being able to enter without being invited in" and "having to say blah all the time" Vampires really are pretty lame.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/18/09

    @Not a fan boy: Immortality is a curse not a blessing. Only losers win at the game of Rassilon
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @Not a fan boy: they qualify as a weakness of anything but they are vampire specific in that they are a vampries only weaknesses.

    i would consider the immortatility of vampiresm a jip if i couldn't eat anymore. i wouldn't mind drinking blood for sustinance if i could still enjoy a rare beef wellington with a side of asparagus smothered in hollandaise sauce and a hazelnut crème brûlée served with a double shot of espresso for desert.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @RoboBagins: fuck that noise. the ability to learn everything would far outweight any disadvantages inherent in immortality. unless it's some kind of cheesy immortality where you keep growing older and older or you live through everything that would normally kill you and end up hacked and mangled.
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    Image of allium allium
    11/18/09

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: And the counting...oy, the counting.
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    Image of enderwiggin13 enderwiggin13
    11/18/09

    In reply to Daybreakers' PSA Reminds Vampires: Turn In Any Humans You See
    Just when I had lost faith in vampires in entertainment I saw the previews for this movie. I'm still withholding judgment, but a vampire movie where vampires are the norm and humans are the minority is already on the right track.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/18/09

    In reply to Gaming Manuals That Will Prepare You For An Alternate World
    I remember Ravenloft. Good times.
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/18/09

    @FrankenPC: Ah. You were a GM. >:)
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/18/09

    @Alessar: I tried...my wetware came back with ERROR:Insufficient creativity
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/19/09

    @FrankenPC: That's what modules are for. : ) If you're not a writer, direct.
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