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[Xavori]

As my enemies spout epithets at my LRM fire
Ay, that I had not fired a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the range of my missiles
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a mech, or else devise his death,
Ravish a Raven, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some Atlas and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two Timberwolves,
Make poor men's Urbies break their necks;
Set fire on Ebon Jaguars and Kit Foxes in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead mechs from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear pilots' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Inner Sphere letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

[Bud Crue]

Dear PGI, get this man a mech called "The Bard" or perhaps (at least for today) "The Titus" asap.

Good stuff Xavori.

[Xavori]

Bud Crue, on 24 March 2016 - 11:18 AM, said:

Dear PGI, get this man a mech called "The Bard" or perhaps (at least for today) "The Titus" asap.

Good stuff Xavori.

Wow. Someone recognized that one.

I had doubts because while I think Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's best work (and would make for an R rated movie easy), it's not quite so well known...prolly because of just how brutal, violent, and just flat out evil so much of it is.

[Bud Crue]

I liked your Julius Caesar one too. I thought about answering that one with something more modern (William Carlos Williams maybe...so much depends upon a red War Hammer, glazed with rain water, etc. or maby someone even less well known like Frank O'Hara) just to see how goofy one could get mixing mechs with poetry, but I just couldn't work up a good effort (I am at work after all). Again. Good stuff.

[Kargush]

Xavori, on 24 March 2016 - 11:30 AM, said:

I*snip*I think Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's best work*snip*

I must contest thy claim. He hath better works (one word changed due to word filter).

Hath not a Freeborn eyes? Hath not a Freeborn hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Trueborn is? If you stab us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Freeborn wrong a Trueborn, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Trueborn wrong a Freeborn, what should his sufferance be by Trueborn example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

[Xavori]

Bud Crue, on 24 March 2016 - 11:39 AM, said:

I liked your Julius Caesar one too. I thought about answering that one with something more modern (William Carlos Williams maybe...so much depends upon a red War Hammer, glazed with rain water, etc. or maby someone even less well known like Frank O'Hara) just to see how goofy one could get mixing mechs with poetry, but I just couldn't work up a good effort (I am at work after all). Again. Good stuff.

Why not William Blake?

Archer, Archer burning bright
In the forests of the night...

[ColdPsyker1]

I wish I could like this more than once

Now to do a live action Battletech themed play based off of Shakespeare...
-Could do like base it loosely off of Romeo and Juliet; but with Davion and Steiner
-Or Macbeth, and focus it on House Liao... starring either Romano Liao or the head of the Marisokova as the scheming Queen


I'd watch it, and in the process spend more money than I would care to admit to do so...

[Bud Crue]

Kargush, on 24 March 2016 - 11:45 AM, said:

I must contest thy claim. He hath better works (one word changed due to word filter).

Hath not a Freeborn eyes? Hath not a Freeborn hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Trueborn is? If you stab us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Freeborn wrong a Trueborn, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Trueborn wrong a Freeborn, what should his sufferance be by Trueborn example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Man, I don't know. Going with Shylock...given the whole religious conversion angle. Maybe not a good analogy with trueborn/freeborn dichotomy. Can ya convert to Clan?

ColdPsyker, heaven help me, but I would put up easily as much $ for that production as I have for this game, and that is saying something.

Edited by Bud Crue, 24 March 2016 - 11:53 AM.

[Kargush]

Bud Crue, on 24 March 2016 - 11:51 AM, said:

Man, I don't know. Going with Shylock...given the whole religious conversion angle. Maybe not a good analogy with trueborn/freeborn dichotomy. Can ya convert to Clan?

While you have a point, I was looking at it divorced from origins, and as a way of pointing out that aside from an accident of birth, they're the same. Freeborn, trueborn, it's all artifical anyway.

[Xavori]

Kargush, on 24 March 2016 - 11:45 AM, said:

I must contest thy claim. He hath better works (one word changed due to word filter).

Hath not a Freeborn eyes? Hath not a Freeborn hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Trueborn is? If you stab us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Freeborn wrong a Trueborn, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Trueborn wrong a Freeborn, what should his sufferance be by Trueborn example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Ya, but Shylock has nothing on Aaron when it comes to outright evil. After all, it's possible to portray Shylock as tragic or clownish, but Aaron...no way...he's just a right ******* beginning to end.

[Wiley Coyote]

There once was an Archer from Nantucket...

Am I doing it right?

[ColdPsyker1]

I always got the impression that Shylock was more tragic than outright evil

Like a Jewish Batman

just sick and tired and fed up with ****

[Bud Crue]

What a thread. Well done all. I see this moving down to off topic, but so what.
Also as a preemptive strike on behalf of the portion of the community who is invariably not amused by this, yes, its okay we are:

[Damia Savon]

Who says you cannot be well read and like Mechwarrior.

Awesome stuff.

[Xavori]

Damia Savon, on 24 March 2016 - 12:12 PM, said:

Who says you cannot be well read and like Mechwarrior.

Awesome stuff.

If you "read" Shakespeare's play, you are totally doing it wrong

[Alardus]

Xavori, on 24 March 2016 - 11:30 AM, said:

Wow. Someone recognized that one.

I had doubts because while I think Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's best work (and would make for an R rated movie easy), it's not quite so well known...prolly because of just how brutal, violent, and just flat out evil so much of it is.

Nah, sounds like my day to day life. Or rap music.

[thehiddenedge]

Alardus, on 24 March 2016 - 12:20 PM, said:

Nah, sounds like my day to day life. Or rap music.

[Xavori]

Alardus, on 24 March 2016 - 12:20 PM, said:

Nah, sounds like my day to day life. Or rap music.

Aaron would totally be a gangsta rap artist

[Alistair Winter]

Are we not human!? If we pick, do we not bleed?

I am not an animal!

Btw, I very much approve of the Shakespeare stuff.

Edited by Alistair Winter, 24 March 2016 - 12:55 PM.

[Lugh]

Xavori, on 24 March 2016 - 11:47 AM, said:

Why not William Blake?

Archer, Archer burning bright
In the forests of the night...

Because that's a good poem and the Archer is by and large (especially based on the scores seen so far) an abysmal mech

Xavori, on 24 March 2016 - 12:14 PM, said:

If you "read" Shakespeare's play, you are totally doing it wrong

If you don't 'read' Shakespeare's plays and assume that the manuscript you are being handed is accurate.

You're totally doing that wrong.