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TV's Frink said:

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xhonzi said:


We need to have one.  005, do you have Reach?  I can't remember...
I do, about 2.5, 3 feet.

And I have Halo Reach!

 

 Any idea what that is from?  Looks a bit like Sam Rockwell.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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xhonzi said:


 Any idea what that is from?  Looks a bit like Sam Rockwell.
Galaxy Quest, featuring Sam Rockwell.

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That must be why it look so much like him.  Are you sure it's not just some Guy?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:


That must be why it look so much like him.  Are you sure it's not just some Guy?
Of course it is.

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Wooooo! Had kind of a depressing bum day for no reason in particular. Could have gone out and bought a bottle of something to get my mind off (not really my way), but instead I used it as an excuse to waste that money that might have been spent on booze on the over priced First Strike map pack for Black Ops.

Warb, you should totally save up your alcohol money and buy an Xbox, buddy. I think many a good time could be had between the two of us. I just realized that none of my friends have been on LIVE all night and it made me slightly more depressed. You can grab used ones for $100 easily... maybe we should throw together an OT.com "Buy Warb a 360" thread. I'd totally chip in $20 or so.

Okay, maybe I have been drinking a little... ever so slightly...

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Been playing Syberia and Syberia II all week. I gotta say, aside from how frustrating getting around is, it was a very solid and intelligent game. It reminded me of Lucasarts games from the 90's.

I was disappointed with Syberia II though. I felt it ended to abruptly, where Syberia ended on a solid note.

I hope Syberia III has more to do. Hopefully they keep the formula of the first 2, with some slight tweaks, and more to do. I wouldn't mind a freer roaming game.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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CP3S said:


Wooooo! Had kind of a depressing bum day for no reason in particular. Could have gone out and bought a bottle of something to get my mind off (not really my way), but instead I used it as an excuse to waste that money that might have been spent on booze on the over priced First Strike map pack for Black Ops.

Warb, you should totally save up your alcohol money and buy an Xbox, buddy. I think many a good time could be had between the two of us. I just realized that none of my friends have been on LIVE all night and it made me slightly more depressed. You can grab used ones for $100 easily... maybe we should throw together an OT.com "Buy Warb a 360" thread. I'd totally chip in $20 or so.

Okay, maybe I have been drinking a little... ever so slightly...
How much does one have to drink before thinking Warb would want to play an FPS? Isn't he antigun? ;-)

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I'm fairly anti-gun...and I used to love FPS.  I would still play Quake 2 today if I wasn't so busy here instead. ;-)

I'm able to divorce fantasy from reality reasonably well...

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EyeShotFirst said:

Been playing Syberia and Syberia II all week. I gotta say, aside from how frustrating getting around is, it was a very solid and intelligent game. It reminded me of Lucasarts games from the 90's.

I loved the first Syberia. I used a walkthrough to pass probably most of the game (if not all of it), but I enjoyed it anyway. The story, the visuals...Except for the fact that at the end of the game,

**SPOILERS**

I was in the hotel lobby in Aralbad, and I don't remember exactly what happened, but the game glitched on me. And the only save I had always led me to that same point where it glitched. I got so pissed that I couldn't finish the game withouth restarting from an earlier point, I never saw the ending. I plan on trying it again someday.

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TV's Frink said:


I'm able to divorce fantasy from reality reasonably well...
Are you? Pretending to be a middle-aged man with kids when you're really 90 in a nursing home is pretty fantastical.

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doubleofive said:

 

TV's Frink said:


I'm able to divorce fantasy from reality reasonably well...
Are you? Pretending to be a middle-aged man with kids when you're really 90 in a nursing home is pretty fantastical.

 

Speak up, boy!

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doubleofive said:

 

How much does one have to drink before thinking Warb would want to play an FPS? Isn't he antigun? ;-)

 

Well, I had about a shot glass' equivalent of wine, so not much. I have other friends who are anti-gun and enjoy a bit of Halo or COD. He has never complained about the depiction of firearms in film, or other entertainment media. Just the fact that a lot of people are killed every year by firearms.

So, in all seriousness, I am thinking a 360 could do Warb a lot of good. It can be really fun going online and interacting with people. Video games have traditionally been considered anti-social, but with things like Xbox LIVE and being able to chat with other players it is actually a far more enjoyable social experience to me than many things traditionally considered overly social, such as hanging out at bars, going to a ball game, watching televised sports on TV in group gatherings. I feel like there is far more interaction with others going on when I play with them online than I do when I am at a Super Bowl party or making small talk with some sad desperate woman at a bar.

So, yes, I am entirely serious in my "Buy Warb a 360" movement, and becoming more serious about it the more I think about it. If many of us as a community came to the conclusion that Dayv needed money because he was in a bad place, cancer or not, then I think Warbler needs a 360 just as much. For under $200 we could get him hooked up with a year of LIVE, a couple of games that he might like that we can play with him online, and of course an actual 360 itself. I think it could be a very positive thing for him, and still being one of the mass number of American who are unemployed at the moment, he obviously doesn't have money to buy one himself.

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But there really isn't anything stopping him from getting a job and buying one himself, right?  Wouldn't an xbox only continue to discourage him from finding a job?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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Hmmm... I am at a loss of words... Putting myself in those shoes, McDonald's is always hiring and a low level minimum wage job is better than no job...

Xhonzi, you know what? You can just take your logic and shove it into Wal-Mart... right before we get rid of it! Wooooooooooooooooo!!!

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A man's soul may benefit from some meaningless entertainment...

But a man's soul truly benefits from knowing he's done a good day's work, right?

The worst thing about never doing any work: you can never take a break (and play your xbox 360 with friends online).

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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inceptionfan94 said:

TV's Frink said:

  Looks a bit like Sam Rockwell.

Close, he's actually a clone of the original Sam.

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CP3S said:

Hmmm... McDonald's is always hiring and a low level minimum wage job is better than no job...

 

Warbler said:

You want *sigh* with that?

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http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/23511/More-DLC-Coming-To-Left-for-Dead-2/

More L4D2 DLC coming.  Better that than L4D3!

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:


More L4D2 DLC coming.  Better that than L4D3!
I could go for some L4D2... We need to get The Sacrifice. And one of the other DLC is the REST OF L4D1?! So. Awesome.

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ricardo said:

I miss C3PX.

Me too. :-(

Hope he is doing okay for himself... where ever he is.

 

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:


More L4D2 DLC coming.  Better that than L4D3!
I could go for some L4D2... We need to get The Sacrifice. And one of the other DLC is the REST OF L4D1?! So. Awesome.

I am excited! The only thing I didn't like about the L4D2 No Mercy port was having the L4D2 special infected present. I think I would have preferred if they would have just used the original special infected. I felt they kind of changed the old dynamic I was used to (feature to turn them on or off would be nice. I do love having the melee weapons in it though. A pack of all the old levels would definitely be worth while, and new DLC is always welcome. I assume these will probably be a Fall release though... long way off. :(

I am with Mr. O'five on this, we definitely need to play sometime soon. Very soon!

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Woooohooo!!! No get online RIGHT NOW and play!

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or don't.

 

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CP3S said:

Woooohooo!!! No get online RIGHT NOW and play!

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or don't.

 

It worked! I need to start harshly ordering people around more often! ;)

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I think we should all play Hard Corp: Uprising. Gotta love a Contra sequel (or prequel of a sequel? whatever it's still Contra)...

So how goes the Xbox For Warbler movement? Did it stop because of the job issue? If not, i'd pitch in a few bucks...