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by Bill Dungsroman 06/13/2003, 1:01pm PDT

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

Your post comparing Baldur's Gate to the Star Wars trilogy is the most forced and absurd parallel I've ever seen. If I were your English Lit teacher I would give you an F-.

But the grammar was good! Anyway, on with the babble...

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

Please! You refer to both the movie trilogy and the game in such general terms that any comparison is easy to make. By your rationale, I can easily prove that Vin Diesel has copied his personal style from an egg (*GASP* They're both bald and vaguely white! It's a conspiracy!).

Your Vin Diesel/egg parallel is intriguing. Plus, you left out that both are bland, homogenized, ubiquitous, and full of runny proteinaceous fluid.

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

And comparing Ewoks to elves? Did you even play Baldur's Gate?

I've played the entire BG series more times and in more ways than you can count, son. But let's nuke your counterpoints, one at a time:

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

The elves are a sophistocated culture and live in magnificently engineered cities

...in trees, in the middle of a thick forest. Also: for an aspiring English teacher, you need some work.

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

the Ewoks are hairy and cute,

Elves aren't cute?!?!?!

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

talk in nonsense Lucasian languages that use the same words in a different order for every sentence,

The English language, the one you are so fond of when you bandy about grades, uses the same words in different order for every sentence to. Unless I do this: You're a fag. You're a fag. And unless you speak or understand Elvish (and somehow I SUSPECT YOU DO), Elvish would sound like gibberish to the untrained ear.

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

and live in crude tree houses that a chimp would turn up his nose at. I don't see the parallel.

There are a lot of people in the world who live in worse domiciles than the ones portrayed in RotJ, son. Are you implying dissimilarity by virtue of housing quality, a disparity that exists among the human race?

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

All you have done is taken some meager circumstancial evidence and blown it out of proportion, hoping against hope to elevate yourself from the intellectual gutters.

Circumwhosits? The major antagonist reveals that he's blood related to the protagonist, the female lead is revealed to be the sister to the protagonist, Khalid and C-3PO sound identical in voice and mannerism. Yoda/Cespenar? Fighting an apparition of Irenicus/Vader on the Pocket Plane/Dagobah? THE WALRUS MAN / TARNESH PARALLEL CANNOT BE IGNORED.

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

The few superficial similarities you have pointed out ("fabricated" might be a more accurate word) do not occur in the same order and when actual specifics are considered can be dismissed out of hand. Khalid versus C-3PO, hmmmm. I suppose they were both plagiarizing the Lion in the Wizard of Oz, since he was a coward too.

See above, dingus. THEY TALK ALMOST EXACTLY ALIKE, down to the slight English accent. Also, care to refute my other points listed above? Superficial? I don't think so.

blindeyesopen23 wrote:

We all want a topic for which we can get on a righteous soapbox, my friends. And so we hunt for it, and sieze whatever first comes to light for a good thrashing. If in the middle of your fury you would stop to take a look at reality, you might feel a little embarrasment. So congratulations! You've invented yourself a war, boy.

Did you really just write that? Put down the phantasy novels, Drizz't, it's warping your brain into thinking everything is epic and important. And it makes you describe things in a manner that's screamingly queer.

BDR