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Just spent 10 minutes trying to explain to someone that there is no comic called Transformers: Chaos and that Chaos is just the current storyline in the Transformers ongoing series. He just left here mad because I wouldn't take back his Transformers #22 and order Transformers: Chaos #22 for him.
I should have took the book back, called him immediately to tell him his book had arrived and then handed him back the book he brought in.
Just spent 10 minutes trying to explain to someone that there is no comic called Transformers: Chaos and that Chaos is just the current storyline in the Transformers ongoing series. He just left here mad because I wouldn't take back his Transformers #22 and order Transformers: Chaos #22 for him.
I should have took the book back, called him immediately to tell him his book had arrived and then handed him back the book he brought in.
"I cannot order something that doesn't exist."
Longest-Reigning Drunken HeroClix Champion - anyone got a liver?
Just spent 10 minutes trying to explain to someone that there is no comic called Transformers: Chaos and that Chaos is just the current storyline in the Transformers ongoing series. He just left here mad because I wouldn't take back his Transformers #22 and order Transformers: Chaos #22 for him.
I should have took the book back, called him immediately to tell him his book had arrived and then handed him back the book he brought in.
Itd be even better if hes standing there infront of you when you called him.
I heartily disagree with that. The concept behind the Flying Spaghetti Monster is sound. The whole point is to create a dummy religion to illustrate how impractical it is to try to combine religion and government. It's not meant to mock religion, it's meant to specifically make a point about separation of church and state. If you're reading that as nothing but trolling, either you're mis-understanding the point, some jerk is mis-representing it to you, or you're evaluating it on a completely different axis than I am.
I don't necessarily disagree with that, though.
I've said before (within the last ogre thread I think) that I have a Cthulhu fish on my car. It's for me. It's not intended as a political or philosophical statement. It's there partly to help me find my extremely common car in parking lots and partly so that other Lovecraft fans might get a chuckle out of it. It's so meta that any meaning beyond that should be clearly pretty humorous, and if people are going to read into it past being a pop culture reference then they're free to do that I guess.
I think you have a point about misrepresentation there. Everyone I've met who talks about Spaghetti Monster is doing it in an attempt to invalidate all religions and show how "stupid" they are.
I understand where you're coming from with your Cthulhu thing.
But you're not taking into consideration the fact that when people first started putting fish on their cars it was a representation of their personal beliefs. Therefore, anything that apes it is, at base, insulting. Yeah, it's grown out of control and reached a point of meaninglessness. But it's basically making fun of soomeone's personal beliefs. The Spaghetti Monster is, at its base, also doing the same thing.
You mean like the neighbors I once had that owned a BMW with the back end covered in a combination of environmentalist/political/anti-religion stickers. It was sad to see such a nice car defaced. I didn't engage in political or religious conversation with them, but the husband had a killer sound studio in his basement.
I'm gonna disagree with this but only based on the fact that you called a BMW a nice car.
As I may have mentioned I repossessed cars when I was in junior college.
In high school, I got a bunch of really dumb ideas about what was and wasn't a good car.
We got a job to repo a BMW and I thought "Ooo, wow. This is gonna be great!" I hated driving the thing.
I work for a sign shop and yet have no graphics of any kind on my car. However my wife's van has custom pinstripes, with a small, subtle Wonder Woman logo cut into them on the driver's side and a small, subtle Superman logo on the passenger side. I really should do something on my car, but I just never have the time to do fun stuff for myself.
I enjoy stuff like this.
the stuff that makes you smile when you approach your car but no one else basically sees or understand is all fun.
Aside and FWIW, I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a hoot. It's lighthearted, and anybody who takes serious offense is reading too much into it, IMHO.
To some extent, I took it that way at first. But the basic fact that it's lambasting people's personal beliefs was always there bothering me. It's been used by many people as a cudgel as well.