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Topic: Achilles would eat Bean and Ender and spit them back out only to eat them again.
lastfez
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posted February 08, 2009 02:13 AM
Achilles is better than Bean and Ender, so stop making Bean v Ender threads.
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BlueWizard
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posted February 08, 2009 02:32 AM
Really? That's the best you can do? If Achilles is so great, why does he have a bullet hole in his head?
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Elmer's Glue
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posted February 08, 2009 02:40 AM
He doesn't, it was all staged!
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Dogbreath
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posted February 08, 2009 07:37 AM
What about... Achilles + Bean > Ender?
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JennaDean
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posted February 08, 2009 08:55 AM
Depends on what you mean by ">".
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Xann.
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posted February 08, 2009 04:12 PM
quote: Originally posted by JennaDean: Depends on what you mean by ">". Well, it is obvious that If you make Achilles and Bean soup, Ender would >(hungry alligator) eat them. It's basically a mathmatical representation of Ender eating soup
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T:man
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posted February 08, 2009 05:21 PM
quote: Originally posted by lastfez: Achilles is better than Bean and Ender, so stop making Bean v Ender threads. No, Bean could easily beat both Achilles and Ender combined. He had already beat both of them.
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Sean Monahan
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posted February 08, 2009 06:20 PM
quote: Originally posted by Xann.: It's basically a mathmatical representation of Ender eating soup Wrong. It's Ender eating pancakes.
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JennaDean
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posted February 08, 2009 06:41 PM
Bean pancakes? Yuck.
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ketchupqueen
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posted February 09, 2009 06:26 AM
Mmmm, Chinese pancakes with Mung bean paste!
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Damian313
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posted February 09, 2009 04:23 PM
quote: Originally posted by lastfez: Achilles is better than Bean and Ender, so stop making Bean v Ender threads. Did you set up a logon and everything just to post that? Im open to any reasonable argument, why not explain what you mean in the interest of a discussion rather than a highly innacurate and only mildly annoying statement?
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Achilles
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posted February 09, 2009 04:30 PM
quote: Originally posted by lastfez: Achilles is better than Bean and Ender, so stop making Bean v Ender threads. I agree completely.
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Sterling
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posted February 10, 2009 05:08 AM
My fictional character can beat up your fictional character...
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Achilles
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posted February 10, 2009 01:58 PM
Probably. In a google fight, "Achilles" loses to both "Ender" and "Bean".
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adenam
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posted February 10, 2009 06:53 PM
Why are you guys even bothering with Bean, Ender, or Achilles. ULLYSES beats them all!!!
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CRash
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posted February 11, 2009 03:06 PM
Ulysses got "hit by a truck," remember? He never even got NEAR the soup.
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Mocke
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posted February 11, 2009 09:00 PM
You gave no parameters for your assertion. Is it chess? Go? swordfighting? a fistfight? how is Achilles better? Ultimately, BlueWizard is right. He got killed by Bean. If he is better, why is he dead?
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Sean Monahan
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posted February 12, 2009 12:41 AM
Technically, if it's a contest between 3 people, it's "best", not "better".
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Samprimary
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posted February 12, 2009 05:25 AM
quote: Originally posted by Samprimary: goku thread over
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DDDaysh
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posted February 14, 2009 10:34 PM
Nope Sudoku!
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Stephen Sunday
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posted February 15, 2009 11:59 PM
I never found Achilles compelling. Only annoying. And the Bean books never did for me. Sure, he's smart, awesome, but Ender won, and the Bean books just weren't as interesting, because Bean never became a sympathetic character, in my opinion. It kind of felt like the latter-day Star Wars to me, the whole bit. And I really tried, cos I love OSC's work... but yeah. Sorry.
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