Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194918 times)

R^2 · « **Reply #2300 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:58:48 AM »

Citation needed.

Kayma · « **Reply #2301 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:59:24 AM »

I've had black bean brownies. They're... ok.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2302 on:** June 10, 2012, 11:05:42 AM »

Quote from: R^2 on June 10, 2012, 10:58:48 AM

Citation needed.

Citation found. We used Ghirardelli cocoa powder.

TA · « **Reply #2303 on:** June 10, 2012, 11:11:26 AM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on June 10, 2012, 10:28:03 AM

Apparently you can make brownies out of black beans and dates and a bunch of cocoa powder that are indistinguishable from regular ol' brownies.

My mind has been blown.

I must admit, it *is* very shocking that the thing with a bunch of chocolate in it tastes like chocolate.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2304 on:** June 10, 2012, 11:42:45 AM »

Yeah, that cocoa powder really creates a moist, cake/cookie-like texture.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2305 on:** June 10, 2012, 07:22:33 PM »

That both James Gurney (creator of Dinotopia) and Thomas Kincade (notorious "Homey art prints" artist) both worked on Ralph Bakshi & Frank Frazetta's Fire & Ice.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2306 on:** June 10, 2012, 08:36:42 PM »

Yeah, after Kinkade's death, Ralph Bakshi wrote a piece on his work on the film. He tries to (unconvincingly) sell Kinkade as a counter-culture spy making fun of the people buying his paintings. He also shows off some of Kinkade's backgrounds on the film, which look good, although you can clearly see Kinkade's style in utero there. Who knows, if he hadn't gone to Jesus he probably would have been doing prints at sci-fi conventions of alien landscapes or Boris Vallejo style pinups.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2307 on:** June 10, 2012, 08:41:27 PM »

Fun fact: I couldn't remember Boris Vallejo off the top of my head for that last post, so I did a search for "Dinosaurs" (the last thing that I remember ever seeing a Boris Vallejo image on) which led me to this familiar image:

After that, I just typed in a search for "90s fantasy painter" and Vallejo was the first name that popped up.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2308 on:** June 10, 2012, 09:09:07 PM »

Boris Vallejo is one of my favourite "joke people", largely because of Hyborian Gates:

But also because really, even when not making magnificent catastrophes in game form, the dude could not resist doing art like that anyway. Severely 80's-coiffed women riding chrome animals was ~~actually a very common theme of his~~ clearly a fetish of his.

Büge · « **Reply #2309 on:** June 11, 2012, 06:37:44 AM »

If you look at Vallejo's stuff from the late '70s to the early '80s, you may notice a recurring model or two.

That woman appears in many of his works from that period, often nude. I've never learned her name.

The man is the artist himself. He also appears in many of his paintings, but never nude. I wonder why.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2310 on:** June 11, 2012, 06:50:23 AM »

Might be Julie Bell, she worked with him a lot.

Could also be a relative. Frank Frazetta used his daughters as a model a lot (which does have this sort of unfortunately creepy pedo vibe to it, even though I've never heard any accounts of his actually doing anything and his daughters seem to have been on better terms with him than his sons).

Büge · « **Reply #2311 on:** June 11, 2012, 10:28:51 AM »

I doubt it was Julie, they didn't meet until the '90s and she's got a totally different face structure.

It might have been his first wife, Doris.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2312 on:** June 23, 2012, 05:55:09 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

I love how it's actually entirely outside any real mathematics... Just wait to see if the earth goes haywire and then manually add them.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2313 on:** June 26, 2012, 02:51:40 PM »

Google "gay" or "gay pride"

Mongrel · « **Reply #2314 on:** June 26, 2012, 04:41:48 PM »

Oh right, it's gay pride week.

That means our ridiculously homophobic mayor has to chicken outta town all week again!

Shinra · « **Reply #2315 on:** June 26, 2012, 05:32:46 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on June 10, 2012, 09:09:07 PM

Boris Vallejo is one of my favourite "joke people", largely because of Hyborian Gates:

But also because really, even when not making magnificent catastrophes in game form, the dude could not resist doing art like that anyway. Severely 80's-coiffed women riding chrome animals was ~~actually a very common theme of his~~ clearly a fetish of his.

I was at a card and comic book show when I was a teenager and Hyborean Gates boxes were on sale for 4 dollars a booster box. Also, Wyvern the Collectable Card Game.

I am sad to say the only two games I have ever had a complete set of were Hyborean Gates and Wyvern.

Words really cannot express how fucking bad Hyborean Gates was. Not just the art, but the gameplay mechanics. The booster packs would come with little cards that had cut-out things you'd assemble into little papercraft markers to put on cards. The rules were completely incomprehensible. I spent hours reading that little manual that came iwth the starter decks and was NEVER able to figure it out.

Wyvern on the other hand was honestly pretty good, but nobody played it and the art was miserable.

Büge · « **Reply #2316 on:** June 26, 2012, 06:32:49 PM »

Quote from: Shinra on June 26, 2012, 05:32:46 PM

I am sad to say the only two games I have ever had a complete set of were Hyborean Gates and Wyvern.

Did you get any Fallen Empire cards in any Wyvern packs?

Mongrel · « **Reply #2317 on:** June 30, 2012, 12:20:32 PM »

Steve Jackson Games once won a fight with the Secret Service

GNOMES OF ZURICH, PULL YOUR STRINGS.

R^2 · « **Reply #2318 on:** June 30, 2012, 12:50:28 PM »

Oh yeah, because cyberpunk book = netrunning rules = hacking = domestic terrorism. I used to play GURPS, so they whole story is in the sidebar of a couple SJ Games books.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2319 on:** July 01, 2012, 01:25:50 PM »

That there is an honest-to-god real person, born well over a decade before the release of a certain movie, named Snake Plissken.

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