Most of the so-called "Vampire Community" I know find the most amusing ways to let their true feelings about 'sparkly vamps' be known. It's like watching some of you guys pile on a Creationist.
I myself have freaked out a poor teenager, who was wearing a shirt saying "Why can't Vampires and Werewolves get along" with stick-figure vamp & wolf, and TWILIGHT plastered across the back. My rant about Wyrm-tainted undead bloodsuckers spoiling Gaia had her backing away nervously, before I said "Oh.. you're talking Twilight" (spoken with all the distaste of a Shadowlord speaking of a BoneGnawer)
Nitram, slightly high on cough syrup: Do you know you're beautiful?
Me: Nope, that's why I have you around to tell me.
Nitram: You -are- beautiful. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise kill them.
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Temujin wrote:
I'm not sure exactly how to describe them, as I don't think they have a common description other than the "vampire community". The Masquerade games certainly are a part, but so is the "I'm a real vampire, blah!"
"Vampire community" is about as useful as "Star Trek community" given the sheer amount of variation involved. I think it's safe to say that most people who are fans of the Masquerade and other such games would take offense at being lumped in with otherkin and Twilight fangirls just because they like vampire fiction.
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Catch it while you can, before it's taken down! 8-bit Twilight
Love/hate the 'Twilight' series? Try this game
Comedy duo turns vampire saga into unauthorized 8-bit game
Can't stomach the ongoing vampire soap opera that is "Twilight" and yet find yourself inexplicably drawn to it at the same time?
While flocks of swooning teens (and, yes, even post-teens) line-up for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" as it opens in theaters today, we recommend you take refuge in " 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse," a totally unauthorized, remarkably amusing game.
This game/interactive YouTube video was written and directed by Benny and Rafi Fine, a comedic filmmaking duo better known as The Fine Brothers with music and animation whipped up by Doc Octoroc (the mastermind behind " Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game.")
Using the very latest in 8-bit graphic and sound design technology, they've brought Bella, Edward and Jacob to their fans like never before. Through the magic of the YouTubes, you can not only watch as the tale of sparkly blood suckers and oversized moon dogs takes its latest heart-wrenching twists and turns, you can actually decide what happens to the characters along the way.
"8-Bit Twilight" captures all the drama and all the heartache that is the "Twilight' saga.
Will Edward win Bella’s heart? Or will it be Team Jacob? With the click of your mouse, you decide!
"Being comedic filmmakers and satirists, it's great to find mega franchises with huge followings that have people who love it and people who hate it, and then create a fun experience that both sides can enjoy," said Rafi Fine, pointing out that it's similar to what he and his brother did with their " Lost" action figure parodies. "Twilight was a no brainer with the movie coming out. A perfect storm of pop culture, geek culture, lovers and haters."
Indeed, for all you Twi-hards cramming yourselves into theaters today, "8-Bit Twilight" lets you extend your "Twilight" mania to the privacy of your own home and for the price of totally free. And for all you Twi-haters, "8-bit Twilight" gives you the opportunity to guffaw your way through this redonkulous tale without an emotionally overwrought vampire-wanna-be clubbing you upside the head with her official Twilight branded lunchbox.
We do hope, however, that the next time The Fine Brothers make a "Twilight" game, they give players a third ending choice. Forget Edward vs. Jacob. We want to give Bella the boot and let the boys run off together.
(Thanks to Kotaku.com for bringing this treasure to our attention.)
Nitram, slightly high on cough syrup: Do you know you're beautiful?
Me: Nope, that's why I have you around to tell me.
Nitram: You -are- beautiful. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise kill them.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" -- Leonard Nimoy, last Tweet
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Summit Entertainment LLC.
Mind you, they could just change it so that it would not contain any copyright material. They could just call it "8-bit Teenlight Eclipse Interactive" or something and not use the faces of the actors.
LadyTevar wrote:Most of the so-called "Vampire Community" I know find the most amusing ways to let their true feelings about 'sparkly vamps' be known. It's like watching some of you guys pile on a Creationist.
I myself have freaked out a poor teenager, who was wearing a shirt saying "Why can't Vampires and Werewolves get along" with stick-figure vamp & wolf, and TWILIGHT plastered across the back. My rant about Wyrm-tainted undead bloodsuckers spoiling Gaia had her backing away nervously, before I said "Oh.. you're talking Twilight" (spoken with all the distaste of a Shadowlord speaking of a BoneGnawer)
That's absolutely hilarious.
It reminds me of this cafe that's near a place I go to play (of all things) in a kickball league. It's called Lestats, and is a vampire cafe. When you look through the window, it's either a poetry reading or a bunch of people thumbing through a shelf of White Wolf books. Anyway, so I was at the corner waiting to be able to cross past it, when their TV starts up a New Moon advertisement. There was this hoorrrrible BOOOOOOOO-ing that just resounded out.
Whatever. It's like the lameass vampire/werewolfness of Underworld, which was pretty much just an excuse for whats-her-face to shoot guns with people wearing corsets in the background.
Temujin wrote:Isn't this traditionally true for all vampires, that staking is just to immobilize them; and that only later it became instant death.
Staking has been the traditional way of killing them. I don't think staking = immobilization started gaining any traction until Anne Rice.
No, the traditional way to deal with a Strigoi/vampire is to stake him in his grave, to make him unable to leave by nailing him to it... That's how it's done in good old Romania. (Along with fences around the grave and several stuff.) So staking is to immobilize him.
If that didn't manage to hold him, the killing was then done by cutting his head off, then burning the remains and scattering the ashes. So actually, Rice lead the train back to the original tracks.
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Really hilarious shirt. As if one of the blood would ever steep as low as to mingle with lupii...
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Temujin wrote:Isn't this traditionally true for all vampires, that staking is just to immobilize them; and that only later it became instant death.
Staking has been the traditional way of killing them. I don't think staking = immobilization started gaining any traction until Anne Rice.
No, the traditional way to deal with a Strigoi/vampire is to stake him in his grave, to make him unable to leave by nailing him to it... That's how it's done in good old Romania. (Along with fences around the grave and several stuff.) So staking is to immobilize him.
If that didn't manage to hold him, the killing was then done by cutting his head off, then burning the remains and scattering the ashes. So actually, Rice lead the train back to the original tracks.
And if you couldn't kill the bastard, you'd throw rice or sand down to force the OCD motherfucker to count out every single little grain. It might not kill him, but it'll delay him long enough for your ass to get the hell out of town.
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Akhlut wrote:
And if you couldn't kill the bastard, you'd throw rice or sand down to force the OCD motherfucker to count out every single little grain. It might not kill him, but it'll delay him long enough for your ass to get the hell out of town.
Might not be as effective as you think it is, as anybody who's seen Dracula 3000 can attest to.
Akhlut wrote:
And if you couldn't kill the bastard, you'd throw rice or sand down to force the OCD motherfucker to count out every single little grain. It might not kill him, but it'll delay him long enough for your ass to get the hell out of town.
Might not be as effective as you think it is, as anybody who's seen Dracula 3000 can attest to.
Pretty sure grains of rice was never a weakness for Bram Stoker's Dracula at all.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula was the Twilight of its day, and about as accurate to the vampire mythos as well.
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Akhlut wrote:
And if you couldn't kill the bastard, you'd throw rice or sand down to force the OCD motherfucker to count out every single little grain. It might not kill him, but it'll delay him long enough for your ass to get the hell out of town.
Might not be as effective as you think it is, as anybody who's seen Dracula 3000 can attest to.
Pretty sure grains of rice was never a weakness for Bram Stoker's Dracula at all.
It was to the vampire of Dracula 3000, or at least the people thought it was, as was him needing to untie knots, which he did like a hot knife through butter. The movie went extremely down hill from there, so I'm not sure how it ended.
Bob the Gunslinger wrote:Bram Stoker's Dracula was the Twilight of its day, and about as accurate to the vampire mythos as well.
Bram Stoker's Dracula was at least suitably monstrous and not this fluffy superheroes with fangs bullshit.
And both Lugosi's and Lee's performance really captured this quality, but what I like about Oldman's is that he really captured both the monstrous and sympathetic qualities of the character.
Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry... I wish it were otherwise.
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LaCroix wrote:As if one of the blood would ever steep as low as to mingle with lupii...
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Down! Behave!
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No, no, Tev was talking about OWoD. That's the symbol of Clan Gangrel. Shapeshifters who have from time to time been able to negotiate uneasy peace treaties with Lupine due to their naturalistic outlook.
For a long time vampires were able to turn into wolves (in addition to bats, rats, mist, etc...), though I think that was added into the literature (Bram Stoker's Dracula) from the old werewolf legends. It seems to have been since removed by the likes of Rice and others.
Werewolf transforms! Vampire transforms into wolf! Both than spend time sniffing each others butts.
Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry... I wish it were otherwise.
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." – Frankenstein's Creature on the glacier[/size]
General Schatten wrote:No, no, Tev was talking about OWoD. That's the symbol of Clan Gangrel. Shapeshifters who have from time to time been able to negotiate uneasy peace treaties with Lupine due to their naturalistic outlook.
Ah, Gangrel...
Well, they did try to make peace treaties, but the furballs can't behave for long, their tree hugging belief always makes them rise up again. Don't talk to them, use them. Drop them. Listen to their anguished howls when they realize they were used.
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Bob the Gunslinger wrote:Bram Stoker's Dracula was the Twilight of its day, and about as accurate to the vampire mythos as well.
Since vampire myths have very little in common for a given definition of "vampire", that's not a bad thing, really. Dracula would've been kind of retarded if he suddenly turned into a faceless baby stealer from Costa Rica, or some fucking floating head dragging entrails from Malaysia. OR retardedly awesome.
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I don't consider the Twilight movies to be particularly skilled examples of film making. I also think it's pretty sad how girls swoon over the depictions of romance in the movies the way they do. (Stalking = Romance these days I guess.)
That being said, i'm pretty hesitant to consistently come out and bash the movies. After all, I liked Transformers, and other absolutely retarded action movies which naturally appeal to males. Twilight is to girls what Transformers basically is to guys.
I mean, it's pretty sad how guys can't shut up about the hilariously skewed depictions of violence in action movies right? (Fuck guns we shall fight with the awesome power of our MANLINESSS.)
It turns out movies like these are pure fantasy satisfaction. Let them have their fun.
There's a fight scene in Transformers that I would say is JAWESOME. Single handed scenes of coolness do little to improve the overall quality of the movie to me. That's why I hated 300.
I think most peoples issue is the fan whores and their ridiculous behavior, rather than the shitty films themselves.
Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry... I wish it were otherwise.
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." – Frankenstein's Creature on the glacier[/size]
