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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 13:47:44 GMT -5
DJ Ghetto Fabulous Adam Flex is our 500th Member so that we have a record on the Meanwhile thread.
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Post by Mormel on Aug 30, 2016 16:56:22 GMT -5
Good grief! That's quite a username.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 17:49:39 GMT -5
DJ Ghetto Fabulous Adam Flex is our 500th Member so that we have a record on the Meanwhile thread. Well 500th current member, we have had other members who deleted accounts (some who rejoined with new accounts even)in the past who do not count in that ongoing total, so we have had well over 500 members in total. Of course if someone else deleted and someone else joined we would have a new current 500th member and it would be deja vu all over again.... -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 18:50:30 GMT -5
DJ Ghetto Fabulous Adam Flex is our 500th Member so that we have a record on the Meanwhile thread. Well 500th current member, we have had other members who deleted accounts (some who rejoined with new accounts even)in the past who do not count in that ongoing total, so we have had well over 500 members in total. Of course if someone else deleted and someone else joined we would have a new current 500th member and it would be deja vu all over again.... -M Make sense to me ... thanks for the explanation.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 3:11:25 GMT -5
So I am reading through Warren Presents #13, the sword and sorcery issue, and there is a preview article for the movie Dragonslayer which came out that year (1981) and the article remarks how unusual it is for two big budget fantasy films to come out in the same year (referring of course to Harryhausen's Clash of the Titans as the other). It then cites the cost to make Dragonslayer (hence it being a big budget movie) at $14 million....$14 milion is a big budget action fantasy blockbuster, oy how times have changed...
-M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 31, 2016 4:05:25 GMT -5
So I am reading through Warren Presents #13, the sword and sorcery issue, and there is a preview article for the movie Dragonslayer which came out that year (1981) and the article remarks how unusual it is for two big budget fantasy films to come out in the same year (referring of course to Harryhausen's Clash of the Titans as the other). It then cites the cost to make Dragonslayer (hence it being a big budget movie) at $14 million....$14 milion is a big budget action fantasy blockbuster, oy how times have changed... -M Seeing this, I whipped out my inflation calculator and came up with Dragonslayer's adjusted budget o $37 million. Still not what you would call a big budget film but they didn't have those expensive CGI special effects expenses to deal with either Now while I had my inflation calculator handy, I applied it to comic book prices. I used 1964 and comics were 12 cents with 22 or more pages of material. Adjusted for inflation, comics should only cost 93 cents now. So the difference between that and the $2.99/$3.99 current price is the fact not many folks buy them any more Sad but true
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Post by shaxper on Aug 31, 2016 6:57:20 GMT -5
Logged in this morning and mistook "Last Post by The Captain" for "Last Post by Captain Jim." My first thought was that I hadn't interacted with him for a while and wondered what he was up to. Then I remembered.
I've lost people who were far closer to me, but Jim is still the only person I've ever lost here (to the best of my knowledge). Still hard to grasp/deal with, even more than two years later. He was such an important part of this community.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:51:20 GMT -5
Logged in this morning and mistook "Last Post by The Captain" for "Last Post by Captain Jim." My first thought was that I hadn't interacted with him for a while and wondered what he was up to. Then I remembered. I've lost people who were far closer to me, but Jim is still the only person I've ever lost here (to the best of my knowledge). Still hard to grasp/deal with, even more than two years later. He was such an important part of this community. I know what you mean here and I miss a lot of folks over at my old home - Hall of Justice Forums and I'm kind of sad that Dr. Poison (Power Guy) isn't posting anymore - His last post was August 29th 2015 and we had some good times sharing our thoughts about the Titans of Justice Stories that he authored there and I just missed him dearly. I wished the others were more active and having said that - I missed them too.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 31, 2016 9:40:18 GMT -5
Logged in this morning and mistook "Last Post by The Captain" for "Last Post by Captain Jim." My first thought was that I hadn't interacted with him for a while and wondered what he was up to. Then I remembered. I've lost people who were far closer to me, but Jim is still the only person I've ever lost here (to the best of my knowledge). Still hard to grasp/deal with, even more than two years later. He was such an important part of this community. I know what you mean here and I miss a lot of folks over at my old home - Hall of Justice Forums and I'm kind of sad that Dr. Poison (Power Guy) isn't posting anymore - His last post was August 29th 2015 and we had some good times sharing our thoughts about the Titans of Justice Stories that he authored there and I just missed him dearly. I wished the others were more active and having said that - I missed them too. Captain Jim died two years back. He was before your time. I miss Dr. Poison too, but he does drop in on occasion and would likely respond to a pm.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 10:01:09 GMT -5
Captain Jim died two years back. He was before your time. I miss Captain Jim too. A real nice guy.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 31, 2016 10:48:56 GMT -5
Anyone planning to go see the total eclipse next year?
It's far from here but I might drive down to Kentucky or South Carolina to have a look... At my age, I won't have that many more chances to see one.
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Post by Mormel on Aug 31, 2016 17:22:04 GMT -5
Another day, another 50 or so African elephants killed for their ivory.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 1, 2016 9:44:37 GMT -5
It makes me sick when I think of that
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 1, 2016 18:13:10 GMT -5
I think I might have just dropped my 13 year old son off at Starbucks on his first date. I'm not sure. But it sure seemed like it.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 1, 2016 19:22:30 GMT -5
So my wife has just informed me that she'll be leaving me in October. Came as a surprise, let me tell you. Still just trying to process this while also being there for my kids and trying to keep things together.
Not really looking for sympathy, nor anyone to be angry on my behalf. Just didn't know what else to do, so I thought I'd post it here and see if it feels more real to me now.
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