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#271121
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Doomsday Clock changed - 5 minutes to midnight
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271121/action/topic#271121
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Originally posted by: Johnboy3434

Whoa! So you're saying that TWO bombs will wipe out the human race? We've set off what could collectively be compared to that in the past (especially considering North Korea doesn't have the "Big Boomers" yet; oh God, I just quoted Jar Jar in a conversation about politics! The end IS near!). Nuclear weapons are damn dangerous, but they're not frickin' asteroids.

He's saying that if NK nukes Japan, then we nuke NK, China nukes us, we and the west nuke China, Russia nukes all of us, we nuke Russia, India and Pakistan nuke each other for the hell of it (peer pressure), Israel nukes whatever they can hit in the middle east, everybody nukes Israel.

South Africa, Australia, and South America then rule the world until the atmosphere collapses.
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#270832
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270832/action/topic#270832
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There are parts where it seems to stutter, but it is actually the background plate, which is how the original Oxford Scientific footage was. I know the part you're talking about. A very blue part that appears behind Mark Pillow's name and later behind the name of the writers.

Or were you talking about a different part? I watched it again and isn't a problem in the actual titles.
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#270574
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270574/action/topic#270574
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If there's any flaw, it's in the source. I thought the sync was okay myself. It could be an issue of the player stuttering around an edit point but I'm watching my copy right now for me it checks out perfectly.

There is some definite out of sync AV about Lois' return from vacation as I edited the audio there. Mostly it's masked by the filing cabinets they're walking behind. Aside from a couple spots like that, the AV is 100% in sync with the source.
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#270540
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ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270540/action/topic#270540
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Is the original source in 5.1? If not, you're better off leaving it in 2.0 and letting your decoder do the pro-logic treatment to it. If you're mixing 5.1 and 2.0 sources, then the doom9 guide works great for upmixing your 2.0 stuff to 5.0 (sadly the .1 remains empty). Read the Vegas part of my guide for re-mixing your final result in 5.1 if you have a 5.1 source to work with. Good luck!
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#270306
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270306/action/topic#270306
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What if it was set in modern day? Since Indy and Henry Sr. drank from the cup of life, they could pull a Green Mile and have them aging very slowly. Not that I think this would happen, but it would be a very interesting plot twist. Perhaps more interesting than Soviets-under-Kruschev as the bad guys.

Maybe in a star-powered crossover, Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon can debate about whether or not the Holy Grail really was a cup.
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#269881
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Mandatory Tipping Poll
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269881/action/topic#269881
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Immediately I thought of Mr. Pink when I read this thread. Jeeze, it's one thing to bitch about how much one pays in taxes, but to avoid tipping 15% on good service? That's cheap, man. Totally Steve Buscemi.

Really BAD service gets little to nothing. I will often leave a penny on really bad service just to drive home the point that I thought about it and established worth accordingly. If the service was adequate, 15%. If it was awesome, 20%. Usually it falls somewhere in-between as I like to round the bottom line to whole dollars when practical.

For those who don't know the etiquette, you should tip on the pre-tax value of the meal, not the bottom line. Also, check the bill to see if the gratuity was automatically added in. That's often the case with large parties. My family all went out for Thanksgiving this year and the gratuity was added in. We almost missed that. Adding another 20% onto 20% would've been, what, a 45% tip in the end?
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#269827
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crawl generator (link)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269827/action/topic#269827
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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Very interesting. I am running it now. I will let you know what the results look like.

Update - It actually makes a series of BMP stills - now all I have to do is figure out how to make them into a video file...


You can load those into VirtualDubMod and generate an AVI from that. Usually you pick the first one in the sequence and the program knows how to put them together from there ... assuming they're named correctly.
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#269505
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Recreational drug use
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269505/action/topic#269505
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The problem is, using illicit substances means funding into a system that is far more corrupt than politicians or oil barons. Unless you're living on a commune growing your own stuff for your own personal use, then you've likely gotten it from somebody whose business involves theft, extortion, murder, and terror. Forgetting the whole "body is a temple" mindset (which is noble, but unlegislatable), this is the strongest case for not doing them AND for working to have the laws changed.

I'm in that freaky minority who doesn't do drugs and has no desire to start, but nonetheless wants them legalized. Remove the criminal element from it and half of our society's problems would go away. Sure there would still be addicts, but I hypothesize they'd be fewer, because there would be less of a desire for anti-social types to engage in the "bad" behavior to begin with. If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, dump more resources into education. If the common person had the level of education about some of these substances that I have, more people would eschew them as I do.

Then maybe if we didn't have our law enforcement, coast guard and troops fighting a war on drugs, we might actually be able to focus more of their energy on the assholes who actually want to kill us for existing.
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#269126
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269126/action/topic#269126
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Using Boba Feta's ADM SW covers as a guide, and a bunch of Jim Bower's excellent artwork from CapedWonder.com, here's what I've come up with.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2365/admsupermanfrontsyc5.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6265/icadmstmcopyby9.jpghttp://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7715/icadmsiicopyum4.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5098/icadmsredeemedcopyjh6.jpghttp://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5247/icadmsreturnscopyli4.jpg

Hi-res download is here.

Report any typos and I'll fix as quickly as I can.

I'm also working with DAYV to fix a small typo on one of the menus. If my trick doesn't work, it's not a big enough deal for me to lose sleep over. Stay tuned.