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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #30 on: May 28, 2010, 07:26:58 pm »
« Last Edit: May 28, 2010, 07:29:43 pm by Pathos »
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #31 on: May 28, 2010, 07:31:30 pm »
Pathos, that just fucked my browser.

Please remove it.

I CANT FIND THE POST BUTTON.
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #32 on: May 28, 2010, 07:36:11 pm »
What sort of browser wusses out at such a small quote pyramid? IE6 has no problems, and they say that it is outdated!
(Plus, I'll once again mention this, a topic from VN where they broke physics with their pyramid. Literally over 50 layers)
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #33 on: May 28, 2010, 07:40:58 pm »
Oh God no, leave your love for IE6 out of this thread, it never goes anywhere.
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Pathos

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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #34 on: May 28, 2010, 07:54:19 pm »
Quote from: Realmfighter on May 28, 2010, 07:31:30 pm
Pathos, that just fucked my browser.

Please remove it.

I CANT FIND THE POST BUTTON.

In MY day, we had quote ZIGGURATS and we never complained. We had to like 'em or we went hungry. Youngsters, eh?
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #35 on: May 28, 2010, 08:50:18 pm »
Quote from: Jackrabbit on May 28, 2010, 07:40:58 pm
Oh God no, leave your love for IE6 out of this thread, it never goes anywhere.

I was trying to say that NOT EVEN IE6 has issues with displaying 12 nested quotes, so what sort of hideously old browser breaks at it? Maybe the problem is too small of a window, but even that shouldn't break a browser. Maybe a non-computer system?
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #36 on: May 28, 2010, 09:13:14 pm »
Quote from: ein on May 28, 2010, 04:35:38 pm
They're fun books if you like terrible fan-fiction.
I don't know, Fan fiction can get pretty crappy, at least this is properly spelled/formatted.

I'd say that this book fall into the usual pattern of Follow The Leader, heavily influenced (or in this case rip from) by more popular works of art in with name changes and minute detail changes, in then sold in the hope no one will notice/care.
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #37 on: May 28, 2010, 10:12:20 pm »
Eragon=Harry Potter
Brom=Dumbledore
Murtagh=Draco
Galbatorix=Voldemort
Saphira=Hermione
?=Ron
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2010, 11:13:03 pm »
Quote from: Karnewarrior on May 28, 2010, 10:12:20 pm
Eragon=Harry Potter
Brom=Dumbledore
Murtagh=Draco
Galbatorix=Voldemort
Saphira=Hermione
?=Ron
Obviously Ron is Roric. Or whatever his name is. Maybe Ron is the Dwarf guy. They both stick out like a sore thumb, though Ron is a ginger...
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #39 on: May 28, 2010, 11:22:06 pm »
I like the Temeraire series better.
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #40 on: May 28, 2010, 11:30:08 pm »
Quote from: Karnewarrior on May 28, 2010, 10:12:20 pm
Eragon=Harry Potter
Brom=Dumbledore
Murtagh=Draco
Galbatorix=Voldemort
Saphira=Hermione
?=Ron

Fail, because THIS would imply that

Harry Potter=Luke Skywalker
Dumbledore=Obi-Wan Kenobi
Draco=Grand Moff Tarkin
Voldemort=Darth Vader
Hermione=Leia Organa
Ron=Han Solo
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #41 on: May 29, 2010, 12:26:32 am »
yeah, and?
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #42 on: May 29, 2010, 12:29:24 am »
Dumbledore is Obi-Wan.
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #43 on: May 29, 2010, 02:28:23 am »
Quote from: CJ1145 on May 28, 2010, 11:30:08 pm
Quote from: Karnewarrior on May 28, 2010, 10:12:20 pm
Eragon=Harry Potter
Brom=Dumbledore
Murtagh=Draco
Galbatorix=Voldemort
Saphira=Hermione
?=Ron

Fail, because THIS would imply that

Harry Potter=Luke Skywalker
Dumbledore=Obi-Wan Kenobi
Draco=Grand Moff Tarkin
Voldemort=Darth Vader
Hermione=Leia Organa
Ron=Han Solo

That matches up fairly well considering he didn't rip off Star Wars characters to the point where there's no difference between his and theirs.
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Re: Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle
« Reply #44 on: May 29, 2010, 02:33:00 am »
He should have changed more letters of "Dragon" and then maybe write something that was not so very derivative of some famous fantasy work and maybe write characters who were not shallow idiotic author-insertions. Then he should have edited it, or had someone edit it. Because by looking it it, it must have been only proofread.

So I guess I'm saying if he did a much better job and named it "Eradun" I would be much more forgiving. It's basically a fanfic with less sex, and you pay for it.
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