5 Answers to 5 Questions: The LONG Version. (part 2)

Welcome to part 2. (part 1 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT2V1GDs23w ) If you are here, it's because you probably have an attention span, are very brave, are bored, or have nothing else better to do. In any case, this is part one of the long version. Basically, you'll get more explanation behind my answers here than you would for the shorter version of my answers to Gothatfunk. So if you actually wanted more of an explanation on what I think would be the most interesting part of the pretend biopic, a longer, more involved answer to the friend hitting a homeless person with a car question, or my long answer to what I thought was the last question, well, here it is. Enjoy.

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[Kbiomech]

Well, within three minutes I couldn't stomach the short version. If ever there was a man who should not be edited, it's you :)

I'm flattered by your choice to act me, as well as the inclusion to begin with, but I'm a bit confused by it. Why Ed Norton?

[Swordsage]

@Kbiomech Well, Norton seems pretty good at acting as life traveled bad asses, and I think he kind of looks like you when he's wearing a goatee. That was the criteria I went by anyway.

[Kbiomech]

@Swordsage :p Don't really see myself as a badass, but hey, I'll take it :)

I never really saw the resemblence before, but with my pic next to his... Kinda.

I thought he was great in Fight Club and American History X.

[Erlinion]

Tolkien was very fond of the sorrowful and nostalgic tone of these stories (of which Beowulf is a prime example), and he aimed to channel it in his own works. Then, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion became the archetypes of modern fantasy - not that none of the later writers can deviate from Tolkien, but every one of them is influenced by him in some way. And so, this element became somewhat of a common trope.

Wow, that turned out to be quite geeky. :) Anyway, nice upload, thanks!

[Erlinion]

They were not proficient in stone architecture, so when they found the decaying Roman cities and fortifications, they generally thought them to be the works of extinct giants. The idea that the world moved away from an era of prosperity into an era of darkness is quite prevalent in their mythic corpus.

In fact, here is a connection to the fantasy stories you also mentioned: Tolkien was a scholar of the Old English language and literature, which was ripe with this feeling of a lost brighter age.

[Erlinion]

That actually influenced some early medieval ideas about "a blessed era long gone by". Not that this sentiment was not present in earlier times; just think of the "fall from grace" myths of the Fertile Crescent, or the "golden age" tales of ancient Greece. But the Angles and the Saxons for example (the "Old English") very much felt like that because of the Romans. These peoples took over Britain after the legions left the island; they lived on the visible remains of a more powerful empire.

[Erlinion]

Hey, everyone! This will be a long comment, so I divided it into four parts.

The technological fallout you mention at the end, Swordsage, not only can happen, it already happened at least once before. And don't worry, this won't have anything to do with esoterism, I am not too fond of it.

In the ancient times, the Roman Empire was the major organizer of technology in its region, and when it collapsed, much of its knowledge was lost for a long time, and in some cases was lost forever.

[wonderpope]

@Domzdream Unfortunately, I never played the first part. But the sequel was definitely a cool game and had a very immersive atmosphere. Favourite game in the last year was Starcraft 2 and I'm still playing it online.

[Domzdream]

@wonderpope

I played the first deus ex 14 times. I was a big fan...obviously.

I'll be getting the deus ex human revolution soon. I'm finishing off mafia 2 at the moment. An amazing game.

But my fave game so far I've played this year, and loved it in every way possible is Dead SPace 2.

Simply the perfect game in my opinion.

[Domzdream]

Geez, I'm sorry you went through that. Christi that must have been scary. That's my biggest fear. To be homeless.

By the way, I'm also a big martial artist. A practitioner of Okinawan Goju Ryu.