YIYF's Long Bridge Club — Page 26

I must live in an incredibly boring area, because nothing like that ever happens around here. The only time stuff gets brought back into theatres is official re-releases like the Star Wars Special Additions or the Passion Recut.

LOL, The Passion has a recut? Can't even imagine.

Well, maybe the problem is you don't live in a boring enough area. At the time I was living in a very small town where there was The Wal-Mart, and then a bunch of tiny little shops. At the time I lived there, I did most of my grocery shopping at a dollar store, because that was the only real alternative to Wal-Mart within 40 miles.

That little town had a regular full priced expensive movie theater with a whopping three screens. Then they had an old dilapidated theater with a single screen, which got movies a few weeks to a month before they came out on DVD and only charged $2 (and on Tuesdays they had a two tickets for the price of one thing). Even thought the theater was falling apart, their projector and sound equipment was pretty decent.

It was kind of funny, because they used old reel projectors so during each of the LOTR moves they had an intermission to change reels. They even had an "Intermission" card that popped up on the big screen. It was one of those old theaters that had the opera house sort of design to them, fancy pillars, statues of naked under aged angels carved everywhere, weird devil head thingy above the center of the screen, etcs. All that and the intermission thing really gave it a unique experience.

I remember seeing ads for tickets for the big three movie in a row marathon thing at the time ROTK came out. Those took place in select theaters, which always seemed to be in the bigger cities.

C3PX said:

It was kind of funny, because they used old reel projectors so during each of the LOTR moves they had an intermission to change reels. They even had an "Intermission" card that popped up on the big screen. It was one of those old theaters that had the opera house sort of design to them, fancy pillars, statues of naked under aged angels carved everywhere, weird devil head thingy above the center of the screen, etcs. All that and the intermission thing really gave it a unique experience.

Sounds brilliant.

This thread should really really be used more.  We need a general chat thread that ISN'T related to politcs or anal-rententive fandom.

I agree. So, what did you want to talk about?

Hopefully something we haven't seen yet in space.  Maybe a cosmic anomoly (spell?), or perhaps aliens - but that's pushing it.

Hopefully we'll be able to see all the way to the Mirror Universe with this one.

Time to bring back the ol' bridge club so I can make a rant that nobody will read and it can quickly sink back into obscurity...

Anyway, I just really feel like writing about my Nintendo DS. It truely is one of the most amazing devices I own. It never ceases to amaze me. The minute Mr. Hanky (that is my Ds' name) dies, I will immediate replace it. I really love my DS.

The weird thing is... I don't own a single DS game. Not one. Nor am I interested in purchasing any. There is not one single game Nintendo or any third party company has released for that system that I have the least bit of interest in. Home brew is where the DS really shines.

Imagine, all those old regular Nintendo games you used to play as a kid all stuffed into your pocket and playable at a moments notice. Same thing goes for Super NES or Genesis games, and Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. Old PC classics like the old Infocom text adventure games Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the classic point and click LucasGames/LucasArts classics like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Zak McCraken and the Alien Mind Benders, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom, as well as a vast number of other point and clicks from other developers. Old PC games like DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D. All these play brilliantly on this little device. And this isn't even a fraction of the stuff that is available out there, I have only listed some of the things that I am personally interested in. Oh yeah, and it has a built in Gameboy Advanced.

Not to mention audiobooks, ebooks, comic books (works really well actually, one screen shows the whole page, while the other screen shows a zoom in of the section of the page you touch with the stylus), mp3s, pictures, and even video files.

These are just a few of the things packed onto my 2GB microSD card right now (and newer devices support mircroSDHC cards up to 16GB).

It is kind of sad to see all the DS owners out there that never have nor will ever realize the full potential of their NDS, doomed to spend their time playing gimmicky games with a stylus... 

So, anybody else into DS homebrew?

I may invest in the DSi merely because of it. Nintendo's only use right now is homebrew - and those shiny looking remakes of Gold & Silver.

If the DSi (which I know absolutely nothing about, other than the fact that it is the new version of the DS and sports a camera and a slightly larger screen) has the same homebrew abilities as the original DS and DS Lite, then it is definitely worth it. I think I have heard talk of concern for potential future Nintendo firmware updates on the DSi to block homebrew (unfortunately, the same devices that allow homebrew also allow very easy piracy of DS games :(

If you are on a budget, a regular DS or a DS Lite can be obtained very inexpensively these days (I use a "DS phat" as they have come to be called, paid $60 for it a few years back, bet they are really cheap now, and it works wonderfully and can do everything the Lite can do, save for the being able to adjust the screen brightness. The battery still lasts a good long while too, I go weeks at a time without charging it when under fairly heavy usage, months when all I use it for is light reading before bed.) A cheap DS or DS Lite and $20 more for a device to allow homebrew, and you've got yourself the swiss army knife of insomnia boredom fighters. The things are quite durable to, Nintendo still builds quality stuff, it is just too bad their native software is so mediocre.

But, the DS doesn't have a regular SD slot whereas the DSi does. that's why I'd go for that. Much much much easier.

Hmm, but isn't that just for "official" purposes? Such as mp3 files, videos, pictures, and memory for the on board camera? I doubt you can run homebrew through it, but maybe I am wrong. Would definitely be a plus not having to mess with the incredibly tiny microSD cards, though they honestly aren't that bad. Two GB holds so much content, I rarely ever take it out to add anything.

Same on the wii, but you can crash the system and load homebrew with it. While loading, install; and then no more do you need to crash the wii to use it, just load the homebrew channel and have your SD card in.

Double post! Remember X-Men the animated series from the '90s? The popular one that WASN'T Batman? Well, Buena Vista (aka Disney) decided to throw its fans a bone this summer by releasing some of the episodes - in fact, they've gotten 4 volumes out with at least 15 episodes each. The problem? Transfer, transfer, transfer! The episodes that don't suffer from heavy ghosting could have been from DVDs back in 2003. They even put PAL speed episodes - yes, that's right, PAL - on NTSC DVD's! They're not lacking materials to make a proper release - the episodes that look like ass on these sets look fine on their own channels! It's a wonder they get away with this... oh well, least they're cheap.

I miss this place too.  Random chat is good chat.

Hey guys, I've always noticed that Random Thoughts tends to lead to less conversation and more twitter-feed antics*. Maybe we should have casual conversation over here. How's it going everybody? And for those lucky Americans, did you guys enjoy your Fourth?