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No, your dream is perfectly reasonable.
Are either of your parents a god?
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I know, I know, I just love to wallow in self-pity from time to time, and use self-deprecation as a way to cover my unjustifiably large ego (see, I did it again; deep down inside I'm even more of an egotist!). I'm a glass-half-whatever-my-mood-dictates-at-that-precise-second type of man.

In the end, all I've ever wanted was to be extremely handsome, smart, powerful and be worshipped as some sort of demigod. I ask you; is that so much?

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No its not my friend.
You ask for so little and the gods have spurned you.

I one day dream of transcending the boundaries of the physical flesh and ascending onto the empyrean plane as a being without beginning, end or limit - I will become what the simple minded once called a god and even to my own eyes I shall be wonderful and terrible to behold, my thoughts and dreams as unknowable, distant and inhuman as the cold light of the stars themselves.......

Its not much to ask.

But I had to settle for academia.




The AI/technological singularity will hit way sooner than that. All this bickering will seem trivial.

Thats something to look forward to!
I do wonder what flavour of Singularity we are heading towards - Asimov, Clarke or something a little more low-key like Terminator! :ROFLMAO:
 
No its not my friend.
You ask for so little and the gods have spurned you.

I one day dream of transcending the boundaries of the physical flesh and ascending onto the empyrean plane as a being without beginning, end or limit - I will become what the simple minded once called a god and even to my own eyes I shall be wonderful and terrible to behold, my thoughts and dreams as unknowable, distant and inhuman as the cold light of the stars themselves.......

Its not much to ask.

But I had to settle for academia.






Thats something to look forward to!
I do wonder what flavour of Singularity we are heading towards - Asimov, Clarke or something a little more low-key like Terminator! :ROFLMAO:

Maybe you'll be able to upload your consciousness into the cloud before you die - is that an acceptable consolation prize?
 
No its not my friend.
You ask for so little and the gods have spurned you.

I one day dream of transcending the boundaries of the physical flesh and ascending onto the empyrean plane as a being without beginning, end or limit - I will become what the simple minded once called a god and even to my own eyes I shall be wonderful and terrible to behold, my thoughts and dreams as unknowable, distant and inhuman as the cold light of the stars themselves.......

Its not much to ask.

But I had to settle for academia.


Same, same... Hey, at least there's the Collapse to look forward to. In such a environment, even men can become gods! But they better not trigger it before I've got my Doom Dollies...

Neither are mine, alas....
If only we lived in the Antiquity. Some god would've ****** our mums and given us superpowers...
 
Well I have went pretty deep in the HP line as I'm a big fan of the series. Honestly with some work to the Star Ace figures some of them look pretty good imo. Others there is no saving, as they are horrible. Depending on what Inart does I will definitely be willing to upgrade some of the characters. Really hoping they can eventually give us the Deathly Hallows version of the trio.
 

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Well colour me excited!
These books (And the far superior Terry Pratchett Discworld series) were the first books I learned to really read for the fun of it... and given that reading/writing define both my career and my leisure time that is a really important connection to me.
I remember starting with the Goblet of Fire which had just came out because I didnt understand they were a series with a singular story, getting really confused albeit intrigued, learning from my teacher I was reading them out of order and then DEVOURING the books - as a child I read the entirety of Order of the Phoenix in a single day ( a book so thick and heavy you could realistically clobber an ox to death with it)

The movies share a very special place in my childhood to me, and no matter how much JK seems intent on burning her own legacy to the ground, the movies remain timeless in a way - a comforting slice of nostalgia.

Super excited to see how this turns out and feeling a little apprehensive about the amount of money I would find myself spending on the HP characters I really love.
For me the must-haves are:
- Harry - obviously (would limit myself to a Philosopher's Stone/Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire only)
- Snape
- McGonnagal
- Dumbledore (I prefer Richard Harris, but would be seriously tempted to pick up Gambon as well)

The strong contenders (pretty much must-haves but price depending) are:
- Hagrid
- Voldemort

The "would love to but at this point I'm worried about becoming homeless" are:
- Professor Quirrell (with Voldy on back of head)
- Mad Eye Moody
- Sirius Black (in Azkaban escapee look)
- Bellatrix Lestrange
- Lucius Malfoy

There are character I love but didn't care to include because I didnt really want a shelf entirely composed of teenagers or men in roaring '20s three piece suits.

One character, who is a great character with a strong and individual visual presence that I don't want is Umbrage - I hate that evil ***** so much I abhor the idea of collecting her on my shelf! :ROFLMAO:
I like Oldman (who doesn't?) but I agree with Mad Eye as a hopeful offering as his character design was always interesting. And as much as Harris is more book accurate I much preferred Gambon in the role, and while I know it won't happen, a spare "HARRY Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?!" head sculpt would be pretty cool.
 
“Daisy……daisy…”
Sorry HAL. Might have to pull the plug on you before then!🤣
Touch any of these:

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Then you're leaving via this without a helmet:

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I like Oldman (who doesn't?) but I agree with Mad Eye as a hopeful offering as his character design was always interesting. And as much as Harris is more book accurate I much preferred Gambon in the role, and while I know it won't happen, a spare "HARRY Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?!" head sculpt would be pretty cool.

I have both SA Dumbledores and look at them the same way you do. SA Mad-Eye was one of my fav' SA releases, but it can be vastly improved. As I've said before, I'm praying for a Bellatrix from Inart, because the SA version is an abomination.
 
I'm just thankful that Star Ace at least knew how to make a body that won't self destruct. My POA Harry is still very sturdy 6 years later.

No self destructing joints unlike Sideshow's animated Clone Wars figures.
 
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