ray_afraid said:

 

Side note- Love your avatar chyron! LOZ FTW!

Thanks. :)

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is my favorite game. Of course, Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past and Wind Waker are also way up there on the list.

Skyward Sword is okay, but it's not my favorite. I prefer WW's boat controls to SS's bird controls; SS has too many reused bosses and eyeball bosses; and a couple of the bosses look too much like Pokemon.

doubleofive said:

 

xhonzi said:

I borrowed a DVD from the library the other day.  I had to bring the empty case to the this redbox style vending machine which spits out the discs.  A monitor shows an animation of a DVD case being scanned, the disc being vended, and the disc going into the case.

What's on the case?

The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Which is sadly not available at my public library.

The animation on the vending machine is of the Holiday Special? You have to take pictures of this.

 

Yes, I just checked out Brick.

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:

 

xhonzi said:

I borrowed a DVD from the library the other day.  I had to bring the empty case to the this redbox style vending machine which spits out the discs.  A monitor shows an animation of a DVD case being scanned, the disc being vended, and the disc going into the case.

What's on the case?

The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Which is sadly not available at my public library.

The animation on the vending machine is of the Holiday Special? You have to take pictures of this.

 

PICTURE

Yes, I just checked out Brick.

Does the machine pull cover art from some WWW database or something?

AntcuFaalb said:

Does the machine pull cover art from some WWW database or something?

It always shows the Holiday Special, regardless of what you're borrowing.  However, the library catalogue does have cover art for probably 99% of their DVD titles.  They probably just scan them (and book covers) when they get them.

xhonzi said:

It always shows the Holiday Special, regardless of what you're borrowing.

I'm now imagining a vending machine from Hell that dispenses the Holiday Special, regardless of what you try to borrow...

A sequence in Assassin's Creed Revelations is called Heir to the Empire.  Coincidence? 

So.......this is a thing. =|

SilverWook said:

If only PTY could have looked this good...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fatalblades/8135918512/sizes/l/

Everytime I see an illiterate limpdick misspell Leia's name as "Leah", I want to assist him/her in commiting seppuku.

Mrs. O'Five has a random thought:

Mrs. O'Five said:

look at this interesting drawing on a fabric designers blog I love: i dont get it, if it's a message.

http://heatherross.squarespace.com/view-portfolio/illustration/5196440

han solo is evil? guns are evil? trick or treating is evil? han shot first?

Twisty said:

xhonzi said:

It always shows the Holiday Special, regardless of what you're borrowing.  

 

 

But.... why??

For the lolz, I think.  But I'm not much of a philosopher, I'm afraid.

Bubba Feets: Terrible at Everything

Interested to hear Tyr's reaction to this. =P

Tobar said:

Bubba Feets: Terrible at Everything

Interested to hear Tyr's reaction to this. =P

I've actually given this a lot of thought (obviously).

It's totally true that if you look at Boba's accomplishments onscreen in Empire, it's not an impressive record; he's only onscreen for a short time, doesn't have any huge explosive battles where he does cool stuff, his name is never mentioned, he only has a couple lines, he doesn't really do all that much, and if you watch that prototype video of his armour, you see he doesn't even get to use half the functions they built into it. Honestly, if he didn't look so damn cool, people would probably not like him so much, and that coolness is his complete appeal.

The thing about Boba that makes him so cool is his subtlety, and for that we have to give Jeremy Bulloch his due. He took a character that otherwise did really nothing exciting (onscreen) and turned him into a badass (beyond already looking like one), just by playing it cool and confident. And he did do cool stuff in the film; just subtle stuff: somehow knowing the Falcon was disabled and would hide in the garbage to escape, tracking it to Bespin undetected, talking back to Vader/staring him down like it was nothing, almost blasting Chewie, knowing Luke was there and almost blowing his head off, and capturing one of the most-popular main characters of the series.

I'm not going to claim Jeremy Bulloch as the greatest actor ever just because I'm a Fett fan, but I really do think his acting was the complete difference between a forgettable secondary, background character, and a fan-favourite, cult-following-level primary character with a ton of EU about him. Bulloch managed to make the character stand out by just taking a cool-looking character and complimenting that with cool-looking acting; just making very slow, very concise, very deliberate, very confident movements turned Boba from scenery into a real character that people wanted to learn more about.

Also not to be ignored is Jason Wingreen's vocal performance; Boba not only looked badass and moved like a badass, but sounded like one as well. Just the perfect gruff, hardened, gravelly voice you'd expect a guy like Fett to have.

I utterly hate that Lucas took the route he did with the whole origin story crap. Bah. Now Wingreen's great voicework has been totally replaced and I have to deal with a reminder of the prequels whenever I play a game with Boba Fett in it now, which I fupping hate. That's part of why I'm not super torn-up about 1313's likely cancellation: I was NOT looking forward to hearing Temuera Morrison (or worse, Daniel Logan) as Boba and wishing it had been a Wingreen sound-alike instead.

It's one of the worst changes of the films, honestly, regardless of your standpoint on Boba. In most games/shows/whatever, you can ignore prequel/SE nonsense, but Boba's new voice is there to stay, sadly, and will just follow us wherever we go.

^ The Morrison substitution isn't even done very well. Morrison sounds confused and puzzled with each line reading rather than declarative and menacing like Wingreen did. The whole thing might have been a less bitter pill if the performance wasn't the complete opposite of what it should have been.