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2012/12/19 12:08:43
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
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Agents of Cthulu have allied with the Wiener Legions. Friday its all over for you cat lovers. Kiss your catnip sucking keisters goodbye.
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2012/12/19 14:38:39
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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 rodgers37 wrote:I love how Cthulu is well in the lead, only on a war games forum 
And here i was thinking zombies would be clear out in the lead. I'm glad i was wrong. 
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2012/12/19 16:22:18
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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What if the earth is really the larvel form of a giant space fairing being, and on the 21st it hatches?
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2012/12/19 17:44:22
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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 hotsauceman1 wrote:What if the earth is really the larvel form of a giant space fairing being, and on the 21st it hatches?
Nice one.
This happens in Jack Williamson's 1934 short story, Born of the Sun. All the planetary bodies in the solar system start to hatch in sequence, and people realize Earth will be one of them. The heroes are trying to escape on a colony ship and the villains are a doomsday cult.
They pushed through the shattered, crumbling shell, which already had lost all likeness to the Moon of old. Wings, alone, could human beings term them. Yet, Foster thought, they were more than anything else like the eldritch, gorgeous streamers of the Sun's corona, which is seen only at the moment of total eclipse, spreading from the black disc like two wings of supernal light. They were sheets of green flame. They shimmered with slow waves of light, that faded indistinctly at the edges, like the uncanny fans of the aurora. They were finely veined with bright silver. A body, both horrible and beautiful.
Somewhere I have this amazing graphic novel from the late 70s adapting a bunch of classic sci-fi stories, and this is one of them. A lot of them were really dark, including Who Goes There?, which is the same story as The Thing. Really strong stuff to read when I was a kid.
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2012/12/19 23:57:46
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Fixture of Dakka
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hotsauceman1 wrote:What if the earth is really the larvel form of a giant space fairing being, and on the 21st it hatches?
Doesn't that happen in a Terry Pratchett book?
Mannahnin wrote:This happens in Jack Williamson's 1934 short story, Born of the Sun. All the planetary bodies in the solar system start to hatch in sequence, and people realize Earth will be one of them. The heroes are trying to escape on a colony ship and the villains are a doomsday cult.
They pushed through the shattered, crumbling shell, which already had lost all likeness to the Moon of old. Wings, alone, could human beings term them. Yet, Foster thought, they were more than anything else like the eldritch, gorgeous streamers of the Sun's corona, which is seen only at the moment of total eclipse, spreading from the black disc like two wings of supernal light. They were sheets of green flame. They shimmered with slow waves of light, that faded indistinctly at the edges, like the uncanny fans of the aurora. They were finely veined with bright silver. A body, both horrible and beautiful.
Somewhere I have this amazing graphic novel from the late 70s adapting a bunch of classic sci-fi stories, and this is one of them. A lot of them were really dark, including Who Goes There?, which is the same story as The Thing. Really strong stuff to read when I was a kid.
They sound like awesome reads. Whats the name of the Graphic novel?
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2012/12/20 00:23:42
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Heroic Senior Officer
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End of the world you say?
Why not Zoidberg?
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2012/12/20 00:26:24
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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I just thought if it off the top of my head lol.
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2012/12/20 00:31:20
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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How will the world end?
None of the above.
It will die, not with a bang, but a whimper ...
When the end comes, it will come so quickly that we will not have time to do anything about it.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2012/12/20 00:36:21
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
Monarchy of TBD
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Exalt for classical allusions.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
Yes, it was used in Twilight- but so was Shakespeare. It does not diminish the quality of the source material.
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
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English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
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2012/12/20 03:17:29
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Tilter at Windmills
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 Snrub wrote:Mannahnin wrote:Somewhere I have this amazing graphic novel from the late 70s adapting a bunch of classic sci-fi stories, and this is one of them. A lot of them were really dark, including Who Goes There?, which is the same story as The Thing. Really strong stuff to read when I was a kid.
They sound like awesome reads. Whats the name of the Graphic novel?
Apparently all or most of them were originally published in a four-issue series called Starstream, in 1976.
http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=635071
...but the one I have is one large collected volume that reprinted them in 1979, 224 pages, called Questar Illustrated Science Fiction Classics:
http://www.amazon.com/Questar-Illustrated-Science-Fiction-Classics/dp/B000KCL3B8
A few of the stories are about end of the world scenarios, as I recall.
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2012/12/20 03:29:47
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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2012/12/20 03:49:11
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok
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Looks like The Great Old One by a landslide. Personally I'm blaming Tzeentch.
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2012/12/20 04:58:17
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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 WarOne wrote:“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
There is another idea, Invasion by alien clowns.
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2012/12/20 05:03:19
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The idea is is that while the vast majority of us mock the extremist doomsayers, the end would be heralded by our ridicule rather than by actual fear of the event.
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2012/12/20 06:06:25
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Hallowed Canoness
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 Squigsquasher wrote:Rei will reunite Adam with Lilith, becoming Giant Naked Rei, and beginning Instrumentality. Then everyone will get hugged and turn into Tang.
Sweet, we can be astronaut food!
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
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2012/12/20 10:19:30
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Whats Tang?
I mean i know what "tang" is but im wondering whether this might be one of those words not everywhere uses the same way.
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2012/12/20 11:47:03
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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Snrub wrote:Whats Tang? I mean i know what "tang" is but im wondering whether this might be one of those words not everywhere uses the same way.
He's making a reference to End of Evangelion, where everyone dies by turning into an orange fluid, that looks like tang but tastes salty.
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What I have
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
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2012/12/20 12:29:55
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Wasn't that ending retconned into something a bit more proper with a movie?
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2012/12/20 12:49:37
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Krazed Killa Kan
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I went for:
Catalysimic volcanic chain reaction
I don't know why everyone's getting so wound up about it, all tomorrow means is that the mayan long-count calendar ticks over into the next b'ak'tun (14th b'ak'tun btw), which roughly translates at 'end of age of the world' which some dingus decided to misinterpret as 'apocalypse OMG OMG OMG Darlene you get the kids and I'll go and buy up the entire town's supply of instant ramen!'
And, quite frankly, why would we care if the world ends tomorrow, there is not a single possible outcome that cannot be answered, and rightly dismissed by the response 'you will also be dead, so why does it matter?'
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And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
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2012/12/20 12:50:50
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 Leigen_Zero wrote:
And, quite frankly, why would we care if the world ends tomorrow, there is not a single possible outcome that cannot be answered, and rightly dismissed by the response 'you will also be dead, so why does it matter?'
There would be a few people who would argue that death in and of itself is not the end of the journey; there could be a whole new thread dedicated to that and that alone.
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2012/12/20 13:22:14
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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The only people who think the world will end tomorrow are probably severely lacking in intelligence...
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2012/12/20 16:15:46
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
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I bet my dad £10 that the world would end. But I'm not paying up till the end of January when we'll hopefully be in the clear. 
I voted for alien invasion.
rodgers37 wrote:The only people who think the world will end tomorrow are probably severely lacking in intelligence...
Not gonna argue with that. I'm not the sharpest tool in the box.
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2012/12/20 16:28:45
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Right well it 3.20 in the morning and theres no sign of asteroid, blizzards or volcanos. No zombies or earthquakes and i doubt johnny-come-lately cthulu is even awake yet......  Apocalypse is over people, time to go home (or in my case go to sleep). Crappy Myans.
Worst birthday ever...... 
Also thanks for those links Mannahnin.
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2012/12/20 16:34:15
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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Have heart, its only 17:33, 20/12/2012 in France.
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What I have
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~1660
Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
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2012/12/20 20:05:29
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Huge Hierodule
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
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Sad Gendo is Sad.
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 buddha wrote:I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
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2012/12/20 20:41:47
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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 Frazzled wrote:
Agents of Cthulu have allied with the Wiener Legions. Friday its all over for you cat lovers. Kiss your catnip sucking keisters goodbye.
What if my cat is more like a dog? He thinks with his stomach, demands frequent attention from anything on two legs, and loves sleeping at the foot of the bed. Can he join the wiener legions?
On topic, is anyone actually looking forward to the possibility of the world ending? I plan on being up at the supposed 3am (eastern US) mark with a gin & tonic in my left hand, and my right hand holding up the middle finger. How is everyone else going to greet it?
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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2012/12/20 20:45:23
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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 timetowaste85 wrote: Frazzled wrote:
Agents of Cthulu have allied with the Wiener Legions. Friday its all over for you cat lovers. Kiss your catnip sucking keisters goodbye.
What if my cat is more like a dog? He thinks with his stomach, demands frequent attention from anything on two legs, and loves sleeping at the foot of the bed. Can he join the wiener legions?
Wienie ally status...approved.
I want Zombie games, er apocalypse to everyone else. Bring it!
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-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
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2012/12/20 21:36:26
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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No 3 years long winter = no apocalypse.
Mayans were idiots.
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2012/12/20 21:45:16
Subject: Re:It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Snrub wrote:Right well it 3.20 in the morning and theres no sign of asteroid, blizzards or volcanos. No zombies or earthquakes and i doubt johnny-come-lately cthulu is even awake yet...... Apocalypse is over people, time to go home (or in my case go to sleep). Crappy Myans.
Worst birthday ever......
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In fairness the mayans would work to their timezone which is GMT-6 IIRC so still 8 hours to go folks
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2012/12/20 22:11:32
Subject: It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Huge Hierodule
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I'm sad. There is no option for "Alcohol-induced Nuclear Armageddon".
Or is that too realistic?
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