Cutty

My opinion on the movie: intense yet lacking in continuity. Compared to the scripture it feels crippled...it does not "flow" as much as the (great!) "Prisoner of Azkaban" did. Pros: - Special effects! Eye-candy! - heartwarming emotions throughout the film (though suffering the "cripplature" as mentioned above) - Hungarian Horntail air-combat ;) :oD !!! - No happy end (Yay!) - energetic Dumbledore (beard-power!) - mood of constant danger throughout the movie. Great atmosphere! Cons:- Cripplature (Mad-Eye Moody plot!) - Voldemort had too much coffee, and was on speed and extasy simultaneously...hyper-activity galore! - NO QUIDDITCH!!! THE HELL?! Seriously! I was looking forward to seeing the Quidditch world-cup finale ever since I knew there would be a film coming...but noooo! :( :'( >:( |-/ - Not enough Hagrid screentime - Rita Skeeter does not feel right from what I (personally) imagined based on the books... All in all, nice film. But it does not measure up against "Prisoner of Azkaban", yet overshadows the blatant Disneytainment that are the first two movies. Recommended for all kids beyond the age of 10. Under the premise they can keep their megablocking noise-hole shut! (Had an ever sermoning kid behind us, until my sister got up angrily and barked at them to quit noise-production *wacko* :-D ) Greasons Seetings, Cuttyda Kedavra

I can so see the black hairpiece painted yellow on a buttload of cloud strife (FF7) customs... I still stand by what I said when the first leaked pics hit us...not worth my time. I am sick, Cutty

xwingyoda! That would be the only SW I would be inclined to buy right now (came to dislike SW over time...). This would ideally cater to the dress-up-doll crowd. Throw in a joint venture with clikits (cardboard rooms for the kids to decorate with SW-ornaments-clikits-style) and your set! Great idea!

Damn! I'll have to shave then ;) Sick story btw. Sick as read in: He should have known better... Beardy greetings, Cutty

Whoa! This is so absolutely vulgarly hilarious! Great job on that last pic LV! Greetings, Cutty

Small correction on the hydra part: They never have/had wings*, though may have legs. And it wasn't Hercules who fought the Hydra of Lerna (his second deed of the dodekathlos; 12 more or less canonical deeds he fulfilled on command of King Eurystheus of Tiryns) but Herakles. Though it IS technically the same mythological person, "Herakles" is the name of the GREEK heros, while "Hercules" is the latinized (->ROMAN) name of said greek heros, who was in turn deified in the roman pantheon. See info on the "Ara Maxima" on the Forum Boarium in Rome, quite next to where the Circus Maximus was located in antiquity ;) I'm just nitpicking here, but it seems that native english-speakers never care about the (significant!) difference. MODERN hydras (as the above is only true for antique ones) may have wings, as long as they are not specifically referred to the myth of Herakles as inspiration. Peace and archaeologic greetings, Cutty *neither in scripture (although I may fail on this one, since I haven't scanned ALL the sources) and, I am very certain on this, never in pictural tradition. This is true for both relief-sculpture and pottery painting. This specific episode is not a very popular one in antique art btw. because most artists (or painters to be more accurate) supposedly never had an idea themselves, on how a hydra's physique really worked.

My logic lessons in last semester fail me on the matter here... Basically I've learned about "truth-transfer", as in "two or more true premises may under no circumstances render a false conclusion"... But here we have me a)"liking Spongebob" and b)"liking Lego" and as a conclusion c)"not linking Spongebob Lego"... I think TLC has really lost it's way of pulling its own thing. Where are all the good sets of he past? Suffering from nostalgia, Cuttybob Circlepants

Nice vignette. Although I liked the topic's title even more ^^ *imagines Cpt. Ahab yelling:"Get down on that dick, Ishmael!" Haha*

Hmmm...The piece assortment isn't too shabby, especially for the smaller parts. And the price of ~2.7

What's with topics like these? Almost every community got something like this going...not that I'd mind so much. So here goes with the top 10 of my fav. movies. There is no particular order here as they rearrange in sympathy based on my daily mood: Monty Python - The Meaning Of Life (SO damn hilarious it hurts!) The Fall Of The Roman Empire (Sir Guinness is even better as Marcus Aurelius than he was as some retired Jedi) (sort of a remake of the above:) Gladiator (Joaquin Phoenix is brilliant, forget Mr. Crowe though, please!) Kill Bill 2 (this stuff is INTENSE!) Once Upon A Time In The West (too long for my tastes, but it deserves its cult-status) -5 more to go...mmmh- Dead Man (GO. SEE. THIS. MOVIE. "!" one of Mr. Depp's most brilliant performances!) The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain ( I hope this movie is even known to our non-euro friends here ;) ) -oh god! only 3 more choices...tough stuff- Princess Mononoke (I knew there had to be at least one anime slipping into this...) Night Of The Living Dead (this stuff is ingenious) . .. ... can't decide on a definite 10th one... instead I'll list an assortment of reasonably enjoyable misc. movies that definitely don't deserve to be called the best movies of whatever...so here goes: Starship Troopers LOTR 1-3 Troy (based on the frequency I see this movie, it somehow HAS to have a certain quality to it. Historically it's utter bullcrap - and I don't like either Mr. Bloom or Mr. O'Tool) Brazil Matrix 1-3 (yes, all three of them) Nell Contact Kill Bill 1 Conan The Barbarian The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fried Green Tomatoes Alien (! Giger rules !) The Burton Batmans (1+2) Edward Scissorhands (I literally cry everytime I see this movie...) Harry Potter 3 (nice...not overwhelming, but nice) ... I can't think of more right now...I bet there are more somewhere hidden in my brain... Cineastic Greetings, Cutty

HAHA! This sounds promising! "Emperor Bricus Blocus"...this made me giggle like a tickly gladiator. I cannot wait for pics to come, so better hurry! Eagerly awaiting Lego Rome, Cuttyator (-is,-i,-em,-e)

Glad to hear you enjoying this fine game! But where in Athens are you now? Still trying to protect Achimedes, or further already? After some heavy struggling, I shall now try to raid the tribun's mansion to slay him. But a buttload of praetorians and the dark sorcery of said tribun (and commander of the praetorians...) make this very hard to do! Eating Hydras for breakfast, Cutty

It usually won't get repetitive since every mission forces you to deal with certain goals that are only achievable through some heavy thinking and strategy sometimes. I mean, you WILL hack and slash, always, but the more you advance in the game the more the actual missions get into focus and you stop thinking about blocking/attacking issues and concentrate on the strategy. I am myself up to now highly entertained. Though I am still stuck in Athens (what a shame...) and try to complete this bodyguard mission. I'd recommend anyone to at least play it until after the siege on Sparta is over to make up their mind about this game. Maybe one could give it a rent for one or two days to check it out. Graphics wise (based on the GC version) this game is nicely accomplished. There are often myriads of singular enemies and allies on the screen and it won't press on the framerate. The models themselves look good, no matter how far you zoom in or out, the landscaping is often pure eye-candy (the badlands though...just look like badlands ^^), the special effects are pretty nice (Fire, Lightning, random aura of utter destruction... Medusa-Laser! w00t!) and the movement of the models is fluent and looks realistic most of the time. Though I still don't get why the Danes and Romans have ninjas *wacko* |-/. Spartian greetings Cutty

Hmm, lots of points there. But by that rationale even things like "Works and Days", the "Theogony" or the homeric epics "Iliados" and "Odysseia" are accurate history. The latter even more, since they include, in the same way as the bible does, peoples and events that inherited and happened at the time these epics were first conceived. That there is dealing with actual ethnicities in the bible wasd never doubted at any time, but it does not support the fact that the bible is a credible record of history. What you say about "corrupting" the bible might be true to the extent that clerical officials had their say in the matter, but the canonisation of the collection of books is, to may knowledge, consistent from the 4th century a.d. to the present day. Historiography at these times and before is a highly delicate thing to deal with, for reasons I am too tired too list up here. Mainly reasons of shortcoming in the analytical and stating sources way.... Note: The presence of actual ethnicities is in no way a hint at credible history. Besides that was the bible never meant to be a work of history anyway. Rather a work of spirituality, and the selection of material presents this very well IMO. I utterly fail to see your point concerning the danger for children at all. Do you say Lego is mainly targeted at children so if there is Lego on a random internet website that recreates scenes of questionable content is a threat to children? Well from my point of view I see no such danger here, at least not for children under the age of 6. I base this opinion on the fact that children up to this point have just little or no understanding of the actual concepts of death, violence and the results of it. For children above that age I'd say they would not get what the stories are about in a way of thinking "this is what actual people could do to each other". And even daring the danger of beating a dead horse I'd say that the responsibility for the visited websites of children belongs entirely to the care of their parents. I highly doubt any logic that states the following: Lego is a toy and toys are for children = scenes of violence depicted in Lego is harmful to children. The other way round you would have to forbid any mentioning of the bible's contents in public spaces, do not allow religious education based on its content, instruct adults not to talk about it to minors aso. I smell overprotectiveness in such behaviour for sure. I can only speculate on the reasons why Mr. Smith further deals with this matter. But I am 100% sure he does not pull a "Marilyn Manson" and does it just for shock-factor. The quality of his work and the sheer stamina in his pursuit would not do such a goal justice. I believe he stated once he just likes the bible and it is a fun thing for him to combine his fascination with Lego and his interest in the bible. Same as any StarWars-mocer (I am at this point reminded of A.C. Pinlac, who devotes much of his time to recreate scenes and places from the SW-movies), or Gundam-mocer, or Lord Of The Rings-mocer or whatever-mocer does. Hell if I had the brick collection of my liking, enough time and stamina to do it I would recreate many of the greek epics and hero-tales, which would be even more violent as the bible could be. And I certainly would not do it for the shock factor. For now a good day to you all, Cutty p.s.: What harm nudity could do to children will always be an unsolvable enigma to me...

Thanks Snefroe! You made a valid amendment to my original point. You are perfectly right about the matter, which I have sloppily missed upon, namely that Mr. Smith indeed reinterprets the stories from a modern POV. Upon the selection of stories on TBT: Why should he not choose the stories of his liking? I came to read more of the less publicised stories because of TBT myself. Stories with reasonable publicity would IMO be the nativity story, noah's ark, the story of abram sacrificing his son, moses leading the israelites out of egypt aso. Most of these are already covered on TBT. The New Testament IMO would not translate into graphic form as well as the Old Testament, safe for the gospels and maybe the Revelation of Johannes (John in english, isn't it? ;) ) since it consists more of letters than real stories. So the selection TBT can actually cover is limited in the first place. And consider there is constant updating on the site, so even the less violent stories may one day appear there (hopefully). I don't think there is anything taken out of context there. Since everyone could sit down and read any given random chapter of the bible himself, and thereby NOT start with "In the beginning....", everyone who does so would be to blame to rip the story he is about to read out of the greater context. A matter which, frankly, I don't understand, since it is a compilation of separate stories anyway. Well enough of this now, extensive writing had its due, Cutty

@SuvieD: I think I get your point. But do not forget, the bible is by NO means a historical account of history. And if so it is only up to the end of the Old Testament. It may be escapistically called "word of the lord", but is in its entirety just a product of utterly human, ergo fallible, beings. Besides that was the bible a collection of stories that were passed down verbally over a period of hundreds of years. The bad side-effects of hearsay and "silent post" apply here I'd say. Or least the rules of fairytale: A true core in a fantasy story. As for the depictions of violence: What's your recipe against it? Shut down the site, change the means of presentating the biblical stories (no Lego) or rewrite the bible to fit modern political correct moral standards? I said I think I get your point, so I'm not 100% certain if I got, but on this matter I seem to not get it? What is your gripe with the depicted stories? Are they too violent per se, wrongly executed in presentation (incomplete e.g.) or just the possibilty that minors could get to this site? As for you statements concerning nazi-ccs: If you wish material on this matter I could give you a fine account on what is shown at german schools these days. Believe me, it's been done already, for the sheer sake of preserving history and educate the masses. Which I'm thankful of. Closing the eyes on these things is worse than showing them. Though I agree noone ought to exploit these events comically. But I fail to see how one can possibly compare biblical stories (full of angels, divination, talking foliage...) to history as historians, and I believe you share their POV SuvieD, deal with it. Let me give you an example of what I mean. In 490 b.c. the athenians and plataians opposed an invading army of the persians close to the city of marathon. Numbers of combattants are inconsistant (I don't know them off my head right now) but considering the casualties given by the historical sources (192 dead greeks compared to 6.400 slain persians, see Herodot's histories on the matter) you see how very likely these accounts are. The description of strategy employed by the greek phalangites to attack the persian force is another point to look further into: It is said the greek's heavily armoured hoplites (carrying a weight of possibly more than 30kg) ran over a kilometer non stop to avoid being hit by enemy archers. NO consider this: running 1km is possible, but if you are emotionally upset, perhaps in fear, carrying a load of weight, knowing there are more enemies in front of you than companions besides and behind you...no way... My point is: History does not write itself. It is made by humans the way they want to perceive and believe it. The very same is also true for everything one will find in the bible. I won't possibly try to argue that mass murders etc. become any less wrong that way, but that the bible as a historical source is void or if there are matters of cross examination where other sources approve the accounts it is vague. In that matter I think TBT has a well deserved place of showing exactly that, what the bible tells people. Even if it is comically exaggerated to be honest. One may not find it witty or thought provoking (the latter being a beaten to death criterium of criticism of art anyway...) but inappropriate to do? And then comparing it to deathcamps? Seems like a moot point to me, notwithstanding that one personally might have issues with the graphic nature of the presentation. This all makes me think, why there is no real childrens' bible depicting all the "bad" stuff to find in it's works. Perhaps the story in which some israelites are burned alive by king Nebukadnezzar in babylon. The israelites are not harmed by fire because of their belief in god. What if kids would reenact such things inspired by the biblical stories? Or would one even tell kids such stories? Makes sense Mr. Smith put warning signs on each chapter. The abundance of warnings on his website illustrate of what nature the biblical works really are. And in which way it is due to portray them. As they were written. And that is a chaining of misanthropic events. Is tired of typing, Cutty p.s.: Mary was no virgin! Parthenogenesis is for megablocks!

My local toydealer of trust just recently told me you had to order months in advance with Lego to have a good supply of things. The very same just happens now with all the SW and Viking sets here because the original circulation of both lines is almost sold out here. So stores order now to receive things next year. I presume the same is true for the 2006 sets. I for my part am not wondering about retailer catalogues being early. Decreasing in circulation, "Daily Cutty - news noone needs!"

Yay! More power through more reknown members! Welcome here Graynar, make yourself at home and enjoy your stay! Perhaps you could help us castlerians to stand up even to the omnipresence of pirates in the according forum ^^? Have nice trips to EB Graynar, Cutty

So I got this nice produit of software yesterday just out of the need to play a little hack and slay title to vent my inner stress...so far it works ^^ Here's a rundown of what this is all about: It's 30 b.c. and the Roman empire invades greece, which subdued to the ever powerful legions of the enemy in no time. All of greece? No! A small city on the pelopponesus dares to resist. The brave men of Sparta act up and defend against the invading legions of the Romans. This is where the game kicks off: as a young rookie Spartan (who's name is "The Spartan", because he's an otherwise nameless foundling) one challenges myriads of sword-foddery Italians alone. You hack, you slay, you murder, you desecrate corpses, you collect souls to please Ares (god of war, who will from time to time comment on your actions if you slaughter good ^^!). This not only sound historically incorrect, it IS! But in a fun way, since you proceed through slaying Medusa, undead Trojans, undead Romans, Giants (supposedly those, that warred against the Olympians) a Hydra...you name it! You power up your little Spartan to become a hero and later a legend, collect mighty weapons that hold divine power (swords of Athena, Beowulf's hammer, the spear of Achilles!) and smash and murder through even more walls of flesh even better. Have I already mentioned this game is not to be sold to folks under 18 years in germany? Well I have now. But with much fun comes frustration. Currently I am stuck in Athens (which looks NOTHING like the real Athens of 30 b.c.) were I have to protect mathematic, engineer and philosopher Archimedes through the city to his hideout. Warding off hundreds of 2,5m tall praetorians, roman ninja-praetorians, centurios in masses and thge occasional legionary inbetween while keeping them away from an old man's life is hard, to say it politely. As to now I already attempted this particular mission 30+ times...well...more practice needed. So people let's discuss this fine game. "Death to the Roman hounds!", Cuttymedes EDIT: Thanks for remembering me jipay! This game is available for all major consoles (GC,PS2,XBOX). I myself play the GameCube version.

First of all: B.P. Smith would be one of my personal favourite builders on the net these days. He is not only creative and funny but also shows a certain degree of well due lowliness concerning his creations. Evidence would be a discussion on Lugnet I read a few days ago, in which it was brought up there might be translation issues with his chapter titles. As for seconds: The Brick Testament is accordingly one of my favourite websites to visit, although I am neither a religious nor an extraordinary spiritual person myself. I enjoy reading a visual recreation of the book most western peoples' view of the world is based upon. It his thereby funny to see as to what extent we have brutal violence, gender and racial discrimination, issues of homi- and genocide, mutilation and display of erratic powers that be in that book people keep holding for the cornerstone of all what's good and worthy in this world. Makes me wonder... On the graphic aspect of TBT: I think Mr. Smith over-exaggerates graphically to achieve a comic aspect. I mean having Jesus and the Holy Ghost wander through the desert like this, only to find a Satan stereotype of the highest order to me is nothing I would interpret too much into. These small examples show how Mr. Smiths knows his way to play with the people's preperceptions of the divine concepts that act and counteract in the bible. Come on? Red Satan /w trident (btw: he had shown a collection of Satans once on Lugnet, and described on how he "casted" the right one for his project! Hilarious!)? Hippie-Jesus (looks nothing like the common person that would live in judea 2000 years ago) and the generously smiling Holy Ghost? Hey, it's fun! My favourtite of all the bible's books would be The Law! A recollection of all things a good jew (and probably christian also) would have to do or not do to go to heaven. Issues of sexuality, violence, murder, profanity, and you name it ARE IN THE BIBLE. There is no way around it. No matter how many attempts by clericals are made to reinterpret these things differently, it stays what it is. One should never forget about how the bible gives account on how things were in the past. Oppression of the Romans in Galilee in order to milk the province on account of the residing praefect is entirely believable. Eschatologists prophecising the coming end of the world were everyday stuff, pornography (take a look at contemporary roman brothels...), adultery, rape, murder...humanity did not change too much by the time passing. Portraying this in a comical way, for instance in Lego, to me is a nice attempt at toung in cheek humour. We all now the historical facts (s.above), we all now the bible should (well I don't...) be treated with reverence, and we all now about how bad and sick the world can be, but why should we not laugh about something that was created out of the desire to entertain? I for my part do not think Mr. Smith wants to stir up controversials, but that rather those that want to pick at him, because he chose a delicate matter, belief and spirituality to name it, as his business of entertainment. So I will stay here and enjoy my recommended dosage of comic man to man love, comical divine intervention, mass circumcision and inminifigan acts of slavery! ;) This is so entertaining that I had to cry of laughing hard many times, especially concerning The Law. On my account I would recommend the lecture of this website to anyone with a good sense of (black) humour. For all the others, especially religious hard-nuts and other redundafundamentalists: "This is not the website you seek!" *waves hand* To close this thing I havea question for you that might be as comical and yet as offensive as the material above: Does the pope defecate with knees bent? --->Think about it! Theopilic unholy greetings, Un-Cutty ;) p.s.: The guy's name is Brendan Powell Smith.

Ah damn! Now that the lastion CapCon ended I come up with a new one! Well, too late now! But this voting is hard. So many funny entries! Ridduzzled and puzziddled, Cutty

Or he elaborates on how the new City airplanes are too big for american children to play with. He got in trouble with airplanes before... I bet he's happy though Lego does not release any skyscrapers ^^

Too bad there won't be canisters with old grey *sob*...or with the bleys at least to stock up on these colours. This "Makro" chain is belgium-based only, isn't it? Ah well, here's hoping for some german disounter to get these in the future...

You want to see the pics? Click a link and you'll get an error message. Then correct the adress from ".../albums578/..." to ".../albums579/...". That should do the trick. All pics from 1000steine are accessible that way. If an admin could cross post this into the several forums, that would be nice! Cold fingers, Cutty