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Deadliest Fiction, one of the oldest and most well-known battleboarding sites today. [1] [2]Battleboarding, also known as Versus Debating and "Who Would Win" Debating, [1] [3] [4] is an activity that involves discussing and debating around hypothetical fights between individuals; most popularly, fictional characters.
David Amidon from PopMatters desired for West to utilize his rap skills from The College Dropout and that the songs may be good yet he misses "the opportunity to provide us with answers", in spite of the lush production on one of hip-hop's "most bloated, egotistical, fantastical, flat-out amazing release[s]" for a while.
A few years following the demise of Jesus Chrysler Supercar, Corman started Mr. Fantastical where his production over the years has ranged from his largely instrumental debut, to his second effort, a "funny children's album "Ham Hocks and Guitar Strings" on the Sunset Alliance label that just stopped short of having a Parental Advisory sticker slapped on it."
A portal-quest fantasy typically tends to be a quest-type narrative, whose main challenge is navigating the fantastical world. [38] Notable examples include L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), [39] and Stephen R. Donaldson's late-1970s series The Chronicles of Thomas ...
Fantastic components may be magic, paranormal beings, recognizable mythic or folk-tale plots, or thematic tropes (such as a quest, or a battle of good and evil). Authors may use current urban myths , borrow fictional technologies, or even invent occult practices, as well as using established supernatural characters and events from folklore ...
Classical mythology is replete with fantastical stories and characters, the best known (and perhaps the most relevant to modern fantasy) being the works of Homer (Greek) and Virgil (Roman). [1] The philosophy of Plato has had great influence on the fantasy genre. In the Christian Platonic tradition, the reality of other worlds, and an ...
Rather than necessarily sharing the digitally and mechanically focused setting of cyberpunk, these derivatives can display other futuristic, or even retrofuturistic, qualities that are drawn from or analogous to cyberpunk: a world built on one particular technology that is extrapolated to a highly sophisticated level (this may even be a ...
Epic Battle Fantasy 2 - released on August 20, 2009, on Newgrounds. [3] Epic Battle Fantasy 3 - released on September 1, 2010, on Steam and two weeks later, on September 12, on Newgrounds. [4] [5] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - released on February 24, 2013 on Steam and on March 10 the same year on Newgrounds.