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Puzzle: Lawful-Chaos & Good-Evil
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| pacomartin Member since: Jan 14, 2010 Threads: 547 Posts: 6207 | Movie Characters on a two dimensional Lawful-Chaos & Good-Evil scale. Can we collectively guess the actor/character/title of each square (if character animated the voice actor) without having to internet search?
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| pacomartin Member since: Jan 14, 2010 Threads: 547 Posts: 6207 | No takers?
Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly -Edgar, betrayed son of Gloucester in King Lear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 17th, 2011 at 5:36:40 PM permalink | |
| ItsCalledSoccer Member since: Aug 30, 2010 Threads: 42 Posts: 734 | Interesting posit. The only meaningful response I can think of is, lawful does not always = good. In a few nations throughout history, it has been lawful to slaughter Jews. In our own nation, it was once lawful to own humans. Currently, it is lawful to abort a baby. But that doesn't = good. (Yes, I macro-fied the question, but sometimes pop culture can be a great catalyst and illustrator of larger concepts.) EDIT: Maybe I would add that it doesn't surprise me that neutral is hard to identify. It's hard to be neutral when it comes to that stuff. I would say that "call it" is chaotic evil rather than neutral. I would also say that neutral can't happen when you're talking about good and evil. I'm neutral to Brazilian soccer. I'm not neutral to "it belongs in a museum." Museums and identification of what belongs there is, I think, good and NOT neutral. |
| July 17th, 2011 at 6:37:45 PM permalink | |
| MathExtremist Member since: Aug 31, 2010 Threads: 46 Posts: 2520 |
You've never played Dungeons and Dragons, then? Character alignment in D&D "In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice."
-- Girolamo Cardano, 1563 |
| July 17th, 2011 at 10:00:30 PM permalink | |
| pacomartin Member since: Jan 14, 2010 Threads: 547 Posts: 6207 |
I didn't realize the puzzle was from D&D. I just thought it was clever. It looks like the players of D&D had trouble with the 2 dimensional alignment as well, it was later reduced to a 1 D scale. No takers on guessing the answer? Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly -Edgar, betrayed son of Gloucester in King Lear |
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| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3107 | Chaotic Good is Rorschach from the Watchmen. D&D turned into AD&D as well, which kept the two dimensional alignments... Micheal Moorcock's Eternal Champion also deals with a world that's balanced between order and chaos, and the anti-hero's of his world have to balance between the two competing forces (as extremes of one or the other are as "evil" as the other). It's a common trope in sci-fi and fantasy (see "Babylon 5" for another world that used this idea of ultimate order being as threatening as ultimate chaos). "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| July 18th, 2011 at 7:47:09 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5727 | Lawful Evil - Darth Vader, but what hasn't been identified in your prior post was his voice: James Earl Jones. The "actor" under the costume, was nobody of significance, and if I'm not mistaken, was not the same actor seen in the death scene at the end of Revenge of the Jedi. Chaotic Evil: I believe that's Jack Nicholson as the Joker in one of the Batman movies. All the remaining have me stumped. Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
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| July 18th, 2011 at 8:08:15 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3107 | It's Heath Ledger, in The Dark Knight. Earth Vader was played by David Prowse, a UK west country actor with a thick accent. He was also the Green Cross Code man, a series of public service films teaching kids to cross the road. (edit got the name wrong) "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
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| Mosca Member since: Dec 14, 2009 Threads: 74 Posts: 1628 | The first one isn't a movie, it's a TV show, Lost.
NO KILL I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3107 |
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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