Thread: Stuff you know WAY too much about

Originally Posted by captain castle

David Eddings is kind of my family standard for reading. Me and my brother and sister have read Belgariad/Mallorean 4 or 5 times each lol

But weirdly enough I hated his other work. I felt like he was just writing Belgariad again, but with different names.

yeah, you're not the only person to think that. He unashamedly admit to rewriting the same story again in the Mallorean, claiming that history can't move forward and everything has to happen again until the EVENT takes place. It made reading Belgarath and Polgara very easy.

He totally rips off his own characters for the next one - not identical, but the same sort of traits. I mean Talen = Silk, Aphrael = Ce'Nedra with Polgara's power, Sparhawk is a Garion/Belgarath combo, Kalten is Barak, Kurik and Durnik are pretty much completely identical, Bevier is Mandorallen, Ulath is also Barak and Tynian is Lelldorin without the retarded romanticism.

And then he did it again with the Redemption of Althalus, where every character there is a carbon copy with a couple differences from his characters in the Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli.

In his defense, he is a pretty good storyteller, so I didn't mind it too much, but you know.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

yeah, you're not the only person to think that. He unashamedly admit to rewriting the same story again in the Mallorean, claiming that history can't move forward and everything has to happen again until the EVENT takes place. It made reading Belgarath and Polgara very easy.

He totally rips off his own characters for the next one - not identical, but the same sort of traits. I mean Talen = Silk, Aphrael = Ce'Nedra with Polgara's power, Sparhawk is a Garion/Belgarath combo, Kalten is Barak, Kurik and Durnik are pretty much completely identical, Bevier is Mandorallen, Ulath is also Barak and Tynian is Lelldorin without the retarded romanticism.

And then he did it again with the Redemption of Althalus, where every character there is a carbon copy with a couple differences from his characters in the Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli.

In his defense, he is a pretty good storyteller, so I didn't mind it too much, but you know.

I was thinking the same thing but hey, that's why they call it a guilty pleasure.

Originally Posted by captain castle

Thompsons are actually pretty common and cheap out here in Utah. See, I misunderstood the term aperture. This is the real aperture sight from ww2:

http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/...tassembled.jpg

This is the one from CoD 5 that I was pretty sure was BS:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen010.jpg

when I read about Thompsons having "aperture sights" i thought it meant the red dot ish one. I didn't even realize that the small metal circle sight on the garand counted as an aperture sight.


I was a victim of nomenclature, and I'm a better man for getting it worked out in my head.

That "aperture" sight on WaW never existed. And it wouldnt work if it did. On non -magnified sights like that, the dot has to be able to move around in the sight. Like the EOTech I have on my AR-15. If you move your head to the side, the dot moves to the side, but stays on the target. When tey do that they are called parallax free.