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Cael Merryman
Brain in Neutral
Join date: 5 Dec 2007
Posts: 380
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10-06-2008 08:45
From: Oryx Tempel Most of those fairy tales are globally known. Disney would have to apply for international trademarks for each one. Here's an article about Disney and "wordmarks" in New Zealand. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/29/disney-hijacking-ali.htmlPlus, there are ballets, written stories, etc all involving those characters. Looking up "Cinderella" in Wikipedia, it seems that there are variations of the story around the world. I don't know if Disney could do that... No, but they could shut down anyone using their characters as developed in their films. Unfortunately, more people identify those stories to the characters as drawn than the stories as told. Also why I find the Sorceror's Apprentice a mixed blessing... |
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Cael Merryman
Brain in Neutral
Join date: 5 Dec 2007
Posts: 380
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10-06-2008 08:57
From: Trout Recreant That's because instead of spending all their time in the yard lifting weights and stabbing each other with sharpened toofbrushes they're putting together musical reprisals of Michael Jackson songs.
Every Christmas, they do the Nutcracker, and their rendition of "The Music Man" got national acclaim.*
*I completely made that up. If Macauley Culkin can do the Nutcracker, anyone can do the Nutcracker. And Macauley Culkin did the Nutcracker. The sound portion of the production was pretty good as he didn't sing. |
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Colette Meiji
Registered User
Join date: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 15,556
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10-06-2008 09:14
Zombie Dark urban abandoned city threads FTW
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Mjolnir Uriza
Hammer of the Gods
Join date: 14 Sep 2007
Posts: 504
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10-06-2008 15:19
From: Colette Meiji Zombie Dark urban abandoned city threads FTW does anybody even make zombie furry avis? |
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Dakota Tebaldi
Voodoo Child
Join date: 6 Feb 2008
Posts: 1,873
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10-07-2008 08:08
I wouldn't mind playing in a "dark urban RP" place. Vampires and stuff wouldn't bother me, unless they could shoot fireballs out of their hands and stupid stuff like that. But the problem is, since most of these places are supposed to be in the future, they've all got like cyborg characters running around that are simply unbeatable. Thus, you've got people walking around with stupid-powerful weapons. If I wanted to walk around with just a handgun, I'd be screwed. From: someone CodytheAwesome comes around the edge of the dumpster and sees the strange figure suddenly lumber into view directly in front of him. Startled, he draws his Glock 17 and holds it in low-ready position, looking the stranger over carefully.
DaViDX345term actviates his sueprsonci rail mahcine gun arm and aims it at you
CodytheAwesome notes the movement of the figure's arm and brings his Glock to aim directly at the figure's center-of-mass. "Don't move!" he commands, "or I'll shoot!" He backs slowly around the edge of the dumpster, ready to back fully behind it if necessary.
DaViDX345term: /em lauhgs at the small human hahaha bulltes dont harm me he says knwoing that his supratitanium phase-powreed balisstic platting repels eveyrthing but armor-peercing rounds
OfficerAndy looks down on the scene from the low rooftop, seeing the small human hiding from the mechanized beast. Luckily, he had been looking for this particular cyborg and was prepared. He shouldered his STINGER missile launcher, thumbing off the safety catch. "Adios, loser," he says, as he fires the rocket directly down at DaViDX345term from above. Even if the rocket does not hit directly, it will impact the street and explode less than 1m away from the target, hitting it with the full force of the explosion.
DaViDX345term qucikly turns on hi smissle defens efield and dodges the missile easliy, lettign the forcefield and his heat-resisstent heavy armor taek the brunt of the blast he laughs again hahahaha evil mechanical voice ringing in your ears dont you know that i was bilt by the millitray to fight against pepple with missiles he says laughing some more he turns on his flamethrower arm and fires at the man on the bilding
CodytheAwesome looks on the scene, considering withdrawing to safety.
OfficerAndy screams as his face and arms are burned by the jet from the flamethrower. He ducks down below the ledge of the building, temporarily out of the cyborg's sight, and painfully takes an EMP grenade from his belt, activating it. The EMP grenade will not physically explode or damage anything living, but when it "detonates" in 5 seconds, it will immediately deactivate everything electronic within a five-block radius.
DaViDX345term: /em laguhs even more hahahaha dont you know that i have EMP shelding in my sub-plating armor layer EMP cannot hurt me hahaha he says as he jumps up, super-strong hydraalic legs alllowing him to jump up to 100 meters and he landds on the roof firing his M60 point blank into the humans face
CodytheAwesome sighs and logs off. The other problem, of course, is that the parcel description for all of these places are identical to each other, usually going something like this: From: someone A Dark Urban Roleplay sim gangs sex drugs sex weapons sex bondage sex gothic sex urban sex city sex BDSM sex torture sex postapocalyptic sex rape sex vampire sex nudity sex sexy sexical sex-sex sexification XXX sex sexsexsexsex SEX ...which pretty much means I can't take my av there anyway. I tried one of these places once a while ago (I forget the name, but I don't think it's one of the ones mentioned in this thread) that did NOT have "sex" listed repeatedly in its parcel description. But when I rezzed there, I immediately was given a rules notecard (which is a good thing, by the way, I hope they all do that, seriously). Halfway down the incredibly lengthy notecard was a rule that no child avatars were allowed; so I ditched. Oh, well.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 4,694
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10-07-2008 08:20
From: Dakota Tebaldi ...which pretty much means I can't take my av there anyway. I tried one of these places once a while ago (I forget the name, but I don't think it's one of the ones mentioned in this thread) that did NOT have "sex" listed repeatedly in its parcel description. But when I rezzed there, I immediately was given a rules notecard (which is a good thing, by the way, I hope they all do that, seriously). Halfway down the incredibly lengthy notecard was a rule that no child avatars were allowed; so I ditched. Oh, well. CoLA allows kids. But, they aren't allowed to carry weapons or participate in any combat or other extreme situations simply due to the inevitable.... outcome. (O.o) When I visit; I usually go tall there because I wanna wear claws and get involved. (^_^)y |
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Dakota Tebaldi
Voodoo Child
Join date: 6 Feb 2008
Posts: 1,873
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10-07-2008 08:27
From: Imnotgoing Sideways CoLA allows kids. But, they aren't allowed to carry weapons or participate in any combat or other extreme situations simply due to the inevitable.... outcome. (O.o) Bah, where's the fun in that? "You can be a kid here, but you must stand facing the corner and not make any noise." I wanna make like a displaced Myanmar terrorist child-soldier character and shoot some people with it, darnit. Actually, I kind of understand. I bet it would really ruin of lot of these people's fun if someone with a kid av RP'd being shot by their stray bullet. That would really suck.
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Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
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10-07-2008 09:25
From: Annabelle Babii Chapter 13
...I walked into the club. it was dark. Very dark. Every prim of each 57-prim barstool was default-texture-black with shiny set to "none."
"Would a little glow every now and again hurt?" I mused to myself.
I meandered across the club in search of something to whet my dark appetites. My noob-blood fountain was running low, and I hadn't had a good blood-bath in days. With the black-on-black-on-black decor, I stumbled into several ill-placed barstools on my way to the darkest corner of the darkened room. I grimaced in annoyance. It's hard to exude a miasma of gloom when you're bumbling around like a freshly minted Ruth.
In the dim shadows, I finally sighted my prey, proudly wearing a bubinga-textured primis. I unsheathed my flaming sword.
"Unable to rez. Parcel is full." ROFL! Chaos will never live that one down I guess, but cut the guy some slack, I has more imagination and building talent than many of us, even if he lacks the prims  . And I reckon he's improved and mellowed a lot in the last 12 months, enough to be treated with respect anyway. He's stuck to his guns on what he wants to do, lets not destroy his dreams.................... While we are talking breakdancing Zombies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memW5zjGyFshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1F3awGE4ck
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