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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.
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Jim Butcher (Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7))
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I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
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Haruki Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3))
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…Magic is often a tricky thing. Often it is explainable. People fly through the air in planes and live underwater in submarines. Plants grow within weeks and cities operate and sustain millions of people. A person can talk to practically anyone almost anywhere around the world instantly. People’s images are transported by photo in the time it takes to press a button. Dinosaurs seem real, huge apes exist, and other worlds are a movie ticket away.
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Obert Skye
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The sun was just dipping below the western horizon when we pulled up to our little house on the prairie. Despite the obvious turmoil I knew was swarming in the periphery, I couldn’t help but instantly smile when I saw our little home. Home, I thought to myself--a strange response, considering I’d never spent a night there. But, being back there, I felt the heartbeat of our love affair that had started on that very ranch, the drives we’d taken, the dinners we’d cooked, the nights we’d spent watching submarine movies on his old leather couch, which Marlboro Man had already moved to our new little house so we’d be able to enjoy it immediately.
Poor couch. It must have been awfully lonely without us.
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Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels)
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Driving home that night, I felt so much better. I was no longer a freak of nature--the kind of freak that spends every waking hour with a man for months on end but has some sort of bizarre mental defect that prevents her from articulating her feelings for him--the kind of freak that allows the man to express his love time after time but gives nothing in return. I felt good about it, too, that I’d had the uncharacteristic boldness to tell him I loved him before he’d had a chance to say it to me first that night. I wanted to say I love you, not I love you, too. I knew there was a reason I liked submarine movies.
I had no idea where our relationship was headed. But I did know that I meant what I’d said.
I slept like a baby that night.
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Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels)
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The most prominent word on the page was Bathyscaphe. “Get it?” the guy said. “A submarine,” Chang said. “Capable of going all the way to the ocean bed.” “Originally I called it Nemo. After the guy in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. He commands a submarine named Nautilus. I liked him because nemo is Latin for nobody. Which seemed appropriate. But then they made a movie about a fish. Which ruined it.” He typed another command, and a search box came up. He said, “OK, start your engines. Thirty-two seconds is the wager.
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Lee Child (Make Me (Jack Reacher, #20))
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We ate dinner and talked, and I sipped chilled wine slowly, savoring every single swallow, even as I savored every single moment with the man sitting next to me. I loved looking at him when he talked, loved the movement of his mouth. He has the best mouth, I’d think to myself. His mouth drove me absolutely wild.
We wound up on his couch, watching a submarine movie and making out, with the chorus of “The Navy Hymn” in the background. And just like that, it happened: the executive officer had just relieved the captain of command of the ship. It was a tense, exciting moment in the movie, and I was suddenly so overcome with emotion, I couldn’t control myself. My head rested on his shoulder, my heart rested entirely in his hands. And in a whisper, my words escaped: “I love you.” He probably hadn’t heard them. He was too focused on the movie.
But he had heard me; I could tell. His arms enveloped me even further; his embrace tightened. He breathed in and sighed, and his hand played with my hair. “Good,” he said softly, and his gentle lips found mine.
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Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels)
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...at Warner Brothers, the casting debate for the bad guy’s off-sider continued unabated. Jon Peters suggested Gary Busey. Now Gary was the villain’s off-sider in Under Siege, and was killed at the end of that movie when he was hit by a 16-inch shell from the USS Missouri while in a submarine. The scene seemed to leave little chance that he could have survived. Jon was undeterred by this and suggested we give him a scar. He then went ahead and unilaterally made Gary an offer. It turned out that Seagal had a clause in his contract that gave him right of approval over decisions concerning the key cast members, and he regarded this as such a decision. He was enraged: his contract had been violated by Jon’s unilateral action. He had been fighting with Jon over a number of issues for some time and had had enough — it was time for a showdown.
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Geoff Murphy (Geoff Murphy: A Life on Film - I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill)
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Context: The sonar operator shouts an emergency situation where the submarine right in front of them has sudden stopped engines and turned to he side to listen for anyone following them … like they are. Only in the movie does it say: Conn, sonar! But, that adds to the effect … when something wildly unexpected happens, and you say this quote out loud to yourself or whoever is in the vicinity.
Jonesy: Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!
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Tom Clancy (The Hunt for Red October / Red Storm Rising (Boxed Set))
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>b>Context: The sonar operator shouts an emergency situation where the submarine right in front of them has sudden stopped engines and turned to he side to listen for anyone following them … like they are. Only in the movie does it say Conn, sonar! but it adds to the effect … when something wildly unexpected happens, to say out loud to yourself or whoever is in the room, this quote.
Jonesy>: Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan
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Tom Clancy (The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3))
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Having now spent four extremely long and tedious hours kooked up inside this submarine
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T.W. Brown (Midnight Movie Creature Feature)
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No I didn't draw a background because dude do you have any idea how long it takes to draw a proper background? I'm supposed to be relaxing after that huge battle, not slaving away in my journal!
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Please note: the above picture isn't 100% accurate. There was a chest behind Zain, the lantern light looked way more beautiful, and there were ice cream sandwiches on the counter and in Zain's hand, oh and speaking of hands I was holding Bre I mean uh, that's totally it as far as inaccuracies go!
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Ninja An upgraded Thief that specializes in stealth, martial arts, and some basic spells. Has a dodge ability that makes them harder to hit with melee attacks.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Elementalist Fire, earth, air, water—an Elementalist picks one, and focuses on it to the exclusion of all else. An Elementalist focusing on fire, for example, would be otherwise known as a Pyromancer, and with enough levels could gain any fire spell in existence.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Other countries pass laws requiring that their movie theaters, television networks, and radio stations have to play a certain percentage of homegrown entertainment. Because if they didn't, Hollywood would wipe it all out. We're not a world leader because we have nuclear missiles and submarines. We are because we have Bugs Bunny and Friends. Our planet is what Hollywood has made it.
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John Scalzi (Agent to the Stars)
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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store’s ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.
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Jim Butcher (Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7))
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Void Mage The most obscure mage vocation. Not much is known about them, exact that they can gain the abilities of monsters.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Assassin Experts in the rapid elimination of a single target. They gain access to a wide variety of abilities that increase their effectiveness with stealth, poisons and critical hits.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Berserker A warrior driven by emotion. Particularly anger. Gains bonuses related to critical hits, as well as resistant to many mental status effects such as Charm and Fear. Only class that can access the 'Undying Rage' ultimate, which prevents death for ten seconds upon activation.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Swashbuckler Similar to a Duelist, although even more flamboyant and flashy. High mobility, favors dual wielding and gains access to a few musket related abilities.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Caller A summoning specialist. They can pull monsters from pretty much any dimension, and said monsters will fight for them. Or at least do something cool, like breathe fire or heal the caster's allies.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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the military classified Patent 2,292,387 as top secret and, in the 1950s, gave it to a contractor for the construction of a sonobuoy that could detect submarines in the water and then transmit that information to an airplane above using Hedy’s unjammable frequency-hopping idea. Later, the military and other private entities began to make their own inventions using this interpretation of spread-spectrum technology—without any recompense to Hedy, as the patent had expired—and today, aspects of her frequency-hopping idea can be found in the wireless devices we use every day. Hedy’s role in these advancements was unknown until the 1990s, when she received a few awards for her invention, recognition she considered more important than the success of her movies.
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Marie Benedict (The Only Woman in the Room)
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The original flagship for the company was the MS City of New York, commanded by Captain George T. Sullivan, On March 29, 1942, she was attacked off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German submarine U-160.
The torpedo struck the MS City of New York at the waterline under the ship’s bridge, instantly disabling her. After allowing the survivors to get into lifeboats the submarine sunk the ship. Almost two days after the attack, a destroyer, the USS Roper, rescued 70 survivors, of which 69 survived. An additional 29 others were picked up by USS Acushnet, formerly a seagoing tugboat and revenue cutter, operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. All these survivors were taken to the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia.
Almost two weeks later, on April 11, 1942, a U.S. Army bomber on its way to Europe spotted a lifeboat drifting in the Gulf Stream. The boat contained six passengers: four women, one man and a young girl plus thirteen crew members. Tragically two of the women died of exposure.
The eleven survivors picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter CG-455 and were brought to Lewes, Delaware. The final count showed that seven passengers died as well as one armed guard and sixteen crewmen.
Photo Caption: the MS City of New York
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Movie Mirror
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A rare and almost forgotten class of knight. Once common during the Second Great War. Has an affinity with dragonkind and can employ both items and abilities related to dragons. Can also gain a dragon mount which grows in strength as the Dragoon advances in level.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Hexblade A rare and unusual class of knight that can equip cursed items without any negative effects. Can even utilize the curses such items contain to cast spells or turn the curses onto enemies. Weird, but cool. I might want to look into this one.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Oracle A mage that specializes in divination spells, or spells that provide information. The only vocation that has access to the powerful ultimate 'True Sight', which allows one to see through almost any type of invisibility or magical concealment. Can study monsters while in combat to amplify any potential weaknesses they may have.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Samurai A warrior with finesse, a code of honor and a mystical side. Can cast many basic wizard spells. Has access to some of the best 'Dash' type abilities, and damage caused by a Samurai's blade can autokill instead, resulting in instant death.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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Illusionist A mage that focuses on illusions. Can create permanent illusionary walls for asecret room. Or fake bushes to hide behind. Even fake monsters to create a distraction. One spell can create an illusionary mosnter so real, it can actually deal damage. Illusionist is only vocation that has access to the ultimate spell 'Wizinvis', the strongest form of invisibility which cannot be detected by any means.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)
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potions require like 2,000+ Brewing skill. The maximum for any skill is normally 1,000, but bonuses from classes can go over that.
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Cube Kid (Wimpy Villager 16.5: The Ebook: The Movie: The Game: The Submarine: The Schoolbus: The Just Kidding It's Actually An Ebook)