come on people START talking!!!

[drklaw]

Nonsense on a forum is okay. Some of the best conversations I've ever had were over something inane that just popped into my head that I then shared with everybody.
And yes, girls are scary. I still have bite marks from when I was attacked by some:)

[garsh]

Oh yeah, nonsense is always okay with me. It's the forum-ing I'm more at issue with.

Bite marks, huh? Well, that's probably the least scary part about them to me. I don't even want to say what *really* scares me about them, because I know they can smell fear and may be drawn to it. But some of my lesser female terrors include deadly pathogens, and the fact that they're positively bloated full of eggs.

[drklaw]

`Lol Full of eggs! I got this image of some octopus/alien thing carrying around their egg sack. It looks creepy and mildly interesting. Maybe I shouldn't have watched that documentary...
And I guess the bite marks are better than the cheek pulling I used to get on the bus when I was around five or so. That hurt. Hmm... I wonder if she's still single... :D

[garsh]

You know it's true, dude. Not only that, but they go into a mindless rampage in a feverishly driven desire to fertilize them and multiply. I want no part of that. So much risk and so little reward, it's not worth it.

[drklaw]

`Really? I've had the opposite problem. People see me coming and their libido shrivels up like bologna on a hot car hood. And I really would like to have kids someday. Maybe no time soon but still.

[garsh]

Well 'm not saying that *I* have the problem of too many girls wanting to mate with me. It's just that if I were an attractive, eligible, viable partner, I would not feel safe.

I don't know if you want any advice from someone who's totally clueless, but if you're turning girls off, the problem is most likely in your body language. Just last night I communicated with an actual girl who exposed confidential information about this. She insisted that even if she doesn't find a dude particularly attractive to look at, his body language makes all the difference.

If you can manage to balance on the tightrope of assertive confidence without leaning too far on the side of arrogant cockiness, this seems to be the trigger that detonates the female human mating impulse. This is a skill that completely escapes me.

I'm betting this is why you see so many reasonably attractive girls hanging on the arms of homely douchebags. Most likely, she was drunk enough when they met that his ego problem slipped right by her impaired attitude filter, but his overblown, self-important swagger buzzed her genital radar.

[drklaw]

`I think the confidence thing actually does work. I just have trouble with it because I'm not that confident. Even when I act like I am, most people can see right through it. Sometimes I can actually become confident in myself, but then I tend to get upity about it, so I bring myself back down. I've been trying to not do that though. It's a very fine line unfortunately.

[garsh]

I know! I have almost the exact same problem, but in my case I pretty much never feel confident at all. I have nothing to be confident about.

The really frustrating part, though, is that for a lot of dudes, it comes perfectly natural. And a lot of those dudes have less to be into themselves about than I do.

Boy, there's really not a lot of activity on this forum, is there? If it weren't for you and me, there wouldn't be any posts today.

[drklaw]

`I know what you mean. I knew this one guy that would get really drunk and scream out his name ala 300. Like he was this really important guy and whatnot. That self bloated attitude worked though. He strung my friend along for a good year while psychologically abusing her.
So I'm sure you have a lot more to be genuinely confident about than he did. I just wish I could protect all my friends against a-holes like that.
And yeah it's dead in here. You think as nerds there would be a lot more to talk about. Like superhero movies:)

[garsh]

Your anecdote about that scumbag guy reminded me of a good time I had once.

Maybe we're all different kinds of nerds, so our interests don't overlap as much as maybe we would like. I'm really a former video game nerd, so I pretty much know the actual correct way to quote the Konami code that everyone gets wrong, and I know where all the heart containers are in The Legend of Zelda.

Were you hinting at The Watchmen? Cause I didn't see it. I'm somewhat interested, everything I've read makes it sound like the story is very high concept in ways that would appeal to me, but I feel a little left out being oblivious to the graphic novel. It's also hard for me to overlook the fact that it's got such parody based-characters. When I look at them, I find myself trying to figure out all the influences that inspired them, rather than caring who they really are.

[drklaw]

`All the heart containers?! Dang! I'm more of a jack of all trades nerd. I'm into a little of this and a little of that, but never going into anything deep enough to become a world expert on it. I guess my biggest nerd sub-genre would be book smarts and useless trivia type stuff.
And I haven't seen the watchmen either actually. Frankly I didn't even know about the graphic novel until the movie was coming out. I was just making the observation about all the movies that are comic book based that Hollywood has been putting out for several years. I know some people that get pissed off for the way they're are made. Whereas people like me, I just find it to be another retelling of the same story and not something to get worked up over.

[garsh]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's not just comic adaptations that get criticized, though, it applies to the whole spectrum. Comic nerds are just very passionate and vocal, I think.

How many times have you heard "the book is better than the movie" for instance? Personally, I think even a terrible movie is "better" than the best books just by virtue of having moving pictures and sound and so on. Most of the time I suspect that book fans are confounded with film interpretations because it's so divergent from their own personal vision that they imagined. To assert that their personal interpretation is somehow superior seems like immense hubris to me.

As a former game nerd, I have some inside perspective on movie adaptations from games. The Super Mario Bros. movie is widely considered one of the biggest cinematic abortions ever committed to celluloid, but my intense love and admiration for it is near infinitely abundant. Critics complain that it bears little resemblance to the source material, and I see that as its brilliance. A direct aesthetic transition of the cartoon Mario style would have been dull. Instead, I find the gloomy, industrial, dystopian re-imagining made for a playground of clever references and cameos. That's just one tiny example. I'm avoiding the topic of Uwe Boll.

Movies are something I don't usually take too seriously, and as long as I'm entertained, I'm pretty satisfied. Having said that, though it would warm my heart if the upcoming Castlevania movie could be anything other than the desecration it's shaping up to be.

[kerrminator07]

`The thing that I hate about movies these days, is that none of them are really original works...they're all remakes, sequels, or interpretations of other movies, books, comics etc. There's no originality whatsoever and these Hollywood big shots walk around with their noses in the air like their s---e don't stink and they're some kind of geniuses for what they do. The people who make these movies seem to have the mentality that "if it's not broken, don't fix it" ie. this story line made money for this guy, i'll change the plot a little and make money off it too....

As for whether the book is better than the movie...they're two completely different mediums, so to compare the two is like apples to oranges. The stories are comparable, but the experience for the person watching/reading is totally different. I think books better because they are able to get more in-depth into the characters and story line. On the other hand, movies go a lot faster and it's less work haha (unless it's a movie like "The Passion of the Christ")

[104lbofinsanity]

`I agree. Books and movies are too different to compare. That's why I'm always amazed when a movie is almost exactly like the book it was made from. I think it's pretty damn amazing if someone can manage to take a book and cut out just enough stuff to make a good movie.

[garsh]

Yeah, and the measure of a movie should be if it's entertaining and meaningful to the widest audience possible, not how closely it resembles one fan's imagination.