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Comment by condemned6436 on October 25, 2011 at 5:51pm

This did except without a television show and they've done superbly well. Even their video game was well created with great side story and amazing visuals.

Comment by Mike Bass on October 25, 2011 at 5:32am

What about the Operation Killscreen Podcast? its a good gaming one which is a bunch of youtubers that shoot the shit. Its a good listen.

Staff Comment by Brian Salisbury on October 24, 2011 at 10:34pm

@Cyrus Now more than ever, your favorite quotation from Blade seems apt. Some muthafuckas ARE always trying to ice skate uphill.

Comment by Cyrus on October 24, 2011 at 4:46pm

It'll do.

 

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on October 24, 2011 at 3:07pm

 @Cyrus P.S. I still conceder Tony Montana to be both the protagonist and antagonist of Scareface. lol Just throwing it in there  to "antagonize" you.  Is that a good pun ?

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on October 24, 2011 at 2:58pm

 @Cyrus  Thanks again for replying.

Well, I guess I'll take your word for it that that is the correct meaning of the word. Although, that does not make complete sense. If antihero refers to the protagonist you would think the word would be anti-protagonist. However, anti-protagonist sounds like it would just be another word for antagonist. Now, I'm just confusing myself. lol I'll never understand English and I am American. English was my worst subject in school. lol Anyway, thanks for clearing that up a little bit for me.

By the way , I notice you spell the word anti-hero while I spell it antihero. I use a spell-check program and according to it they are both correct. Is that right ? Is there two ways to spell it correctly ?

Comment by Ryan "Trilby" Evans on October 24, 2011 at 12:01pm

i FUCKING love audiobooks i listen to audiobooks almost every night on my ipod before i go to sleep in particularly i listen to abridged Terry Pratchett novels read by black-adder star Tony Robinson with his amazing characterisation

Comment by Cyrus on October 24, 2011 at 11:46am

Because, despite the use of the word 'hero' in the word 'anti-hero', it refers specifically to a flawed protagonist, which is not always the same thing as a hero.

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on October 24, 2011 at 6:58am

@Daedalus Ciarán "Why're you all still dragging this up?" Clarification. I said that an antihero is an extremely flawed hero. Cyrus said I was wrong. I just want to know why I was wrong. When I looked up the word antihero my statement of extremely flawed hero seemed to fit with the definition. So, I don't understand why Cyrus would accuse me of being wrong. Perhaps the definition that I found is incorrect.

When I first used the word protagonist in my past comments I misused the word and Cyrus corrected me. I looked the word up for myself and found out that he was correct and I admitted my mistake. However, I looked up the word antihero before my use of the word and I believe my use to be correct. Although, I may very well be wrong. And if I am wrong I would like to know why. It's as simple as that.

Comment by Daedalus Ciarán on October 24, 2011 at 5:40am

@ Toe Knee Bee Ears; I agree with you about the confusion on the LEOG, between 'protagonist' and 'hero', though it's partly because of the vagueness of what 'hero' means. It can mean the lead character in a drama, though most use 'protagonist' now instead for clarity since the phrase 'hero' also implies the character is heroic/good/ideal etc which is not always the case. If you use 'hero' as the word for the lead character, the secondary meaning and a little old fashioned, then 'anti-hero' being used for the lead character, who is a villian, makes sense. However I've found that 'hero' is being dropped in favour of protagonist unless the lead character is explicitly heroic. Language and literary criticism evolves. Why're you all still dragging this up?

 

I gave 'We're Alive' 19 chapters. I downloaded the first 16 and, aside from the annoying female characters who never became less annoying, and the rather bland protagonist, I thought it was decent. But the thing you mentioned here, the fact that people rarely die, started to bug the life out of me. I couldn't get scared or anxious at all when something would happen because I knew, knew, nothing was going to happen to any of the characters. I remember there was a funeral after the tower attack, complete with sad music and tearful characters, for people who had barely had a line. One of them was first mentioned after he was found dead and yet I was supposed to feel some loss? Anyway around chapter 20, about two hours of story and two or three near death experiences, I dropped it. I do not regret it.

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