ATMachine

Nonetheless, it will serve. Yes, it will serve.

generalfrevious said:

ATMachine said:

You mean, the sun hasn't been swallowed by Fenrir?

 I don't get it. 

 I bet one year from now (3/16/16), we will still be without an official OOT release on Blu-Ray.

 I'm not a betting man, but I'd advise you not to put money on that.

If you really fancy a flutter, you'd likely be better served finding the most outlandish predictions for the ending of A Song of Ice and Fire, and betting on those instead.

No, nor the game I looked for, either.

Ironic, that Possessed should end up misusing his possessives. ;)

Of course, what he did is a very common mistake... I myself am tempted to make it frequently.

DuracellEnergizer said:

...

 "No longer wanted."

Hey! I might have wanted that deleted text!

A TFN poll asks whether the forum-goers prefer to refer to Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi as Obi-Wan or as Ben.

I can't really I'm surprised, but I am dismayed to see that most of the respondents simply say "Obi-Wan" without further elaboration or justification.

It shows the way the PT takes precedence in their minds... if more of them had been introduced to SW 1977 first, they might follow Luke in thinking of him as "Ben" first and foremost.

My own preference, for the record, is to distinguish between Obi-Wan Kenobi (the character in the theatrical version of SW 1977) and Ben Kenobi (his actual name as given in the 1975 third draft).

Ben Kenobi, for instance, is a cyborg with a mechanical right hand like Luke's in ROTJ; but Obi-Wan is not.

I might as well ask: What are the feelings of the OT.com community on the question of General Kenobi's name?

To be honest, I didn't find Desplat's score for the last two Harry Potter films very engaging. I much preferred the work of Nicholas Hooper on the Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince films.

I'll have to listen to Desplat's score again to see if it's really as "meh" as I remember, or if associated Harry Potter fatigue simply made me tune it out.

You mean, the sun hasn't been swallowed by Fenrir?

Sad to hear. I always liked the soundtrack to David Lynch's Dune.

canofhumdingers said:

ATMachine said:

Yeah, it's interesting to see that 1970s-era Marvel put word balloons on their covers--almost as if prospective buyers actually wanted to read the dialogue inside.

Now that we have digital coloring in all the hues of the rainbow, the text balloons are gone. Imagine that.

Have you read any comics in recent years? The ones I read still have text boxes and word balloons...

Most people would correctly guess the implicit qualifier to that last sentence: I was only talking about the covers of modern comic books that point.

"There are some mistakes it takes a Ph.D to make."

“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”

'Well that's splendid,' said Frodo, 'now we all have Elvish names, but what is yours, dad?'   

'Well, that's rather peculiar,' said Sam, 'for in the Elvish part, if you must know, what the King says is Master Perhail who should rather be called Panthail, and that  means, I believe, "Master Samwise who ought to be called Fullwise". So now you know what the King thinks of your dad you'll maybe give more heed to what he says.'

'And ask him lots more questions,' said Frodo.

'Well that's splendid,' said Frodo, 'now we all have Elvish names, but what is yours, dad?'   

'Well, that's rather peculiar,' said Sam, 'for in the Elvish part, if you must know, what the King says is Master Perhail who should rather be called Lanhail, and that  means, I believe, "Samwise or Halfwise who should rather be called Plain-wise". So now you know what the King thinks of your dad you'll maybe give more heed to what he says.'

'And ask him lots more questions,' said Frodo.

"What is this?" he said. "There are moon-letters here, beside the plain runes which say 'five feet high the door and three may walk abreast.' "

---

"Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks," read Elrond, "and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole."

"Durin, Durin!" said Thorin. "He was the father of the fathers of the eldest race of Dwarves, the Longbeards, and my first ancestor: I am his heir."

"Then what is Durin's Day?" asked Elrond.

"The first day of the dwarves' New Year," said Thorin, "is as all should know the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter. We still call it Durin's Day when the last moon of Autumn and the sun are in the sky together. But this will not help us much, I fear, for it passes our skill in these days to guess when such a time will come again."

---

"Last leaf of the year."

--

"The last leaf of autumn."

--

"The asteroid has been named Attila, after the war leader of the Huns, who devastated Europe just before the fall of the Roman Empire."

--

And so now, when their hearts are-brought anigh to each other, great cheer they made: then came Grimhild to Gudrun, and spake.

"All hail to thee, daughter! I give thee gold and all kinds of good things to take to thee after thy father, dear bought rings and bed-gear of the maids of the Huns, the most courteous and well dight of all women; and thus is thy husband atoned for: and thereafter shalt thou be given to Atli, the mighty king, and be mistress of all his might. Cast not all thy friends aside for one man's sake, but do according to our bidding."

Gudrun answers, "Never will I wed Atli the King; unseemly it is for us to get offspring betwixt us."

Grimhild says, "Nourish not thy wrath; it shall be to thee as if Sigurd and Sigmund were alive when thou hast borne sons."

Gudrun says, "I cannot take my heart from thoughts of him, for he was the first of all men."

--

"Changi was set like a pearl on the eastern tip of Singapore Island, iridescent under the bowl of tropical skies."

"Fly away while you can, young Threadbare! And know that we will most assuredly meet again."

"We abandon no one! When our side of the Pattern is mended, we will return and put an end to your evil!"

"Take your rightful place among us now."

"It's time!" shrieks the bird woman.

"Bobbin. It's time!"

The door opens. A man you recognize as one of the head lab scientists stumbles into the room. He appears to be in serious need of some Abdo-Seal abdomen filler!

After only a few steps, he hits the floor with a disconcerting thud.

His lips move.

Just before his systems cease all functions short of decay, he looks over toward the shelves full of cartridges and utters "Astral Bodies." With one last gasp, his lifeless form slumps to the floor.

I did not come here to die, but to demand my right of challenge! I respectfully challenge thee, Death, by throwing down this gauntlet!

"Man may pass the Portal, and seek its Master, Death.

Man may pass where Death has trod, and challenge, like Scheherazade,

He Who Reigns Beneath the Sod, to spare a mortal's breath."

"Nur der Reinste darf passieren,

Dessen Herz ist rein wie Glas,

Dessen Seele rein wie Feuer,

Schreitet höher durchs Portal."

IT'S HARD TO BE A HERO WHEN YOU'RE ONLY 4'6''

"Five feet high is the door and three abreast may enter it."

"I am ready ... Mother. Let's go."

Illustrated by Mark Ferrari

Art and Animation for Disk 22

Jenny Sward

Welcome to the Age of the Great Guilds.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things:

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--

Of cabbages--and kings--

And why the sea is boiling hot--

And whether pigs have wings."

"I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob."

"I told you 'bout the walrus and me, man

You know that we're as close as can be, man

Well here's another clue for you all

The walrus was Paul."

"Now I am become Death, the destoryer of worlds."

"I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun

See how they fly."

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Were walking close at hand;

They wept like anything to see

Such quantities of sand:

"If this were only cleared away,"

They said, "it would be grand!"

"By the light of your eyes my spirit soars!"

"You will hear for all eternity the cries of those you have abandoned, Bobbin Threadbare."

"LOOM was an enormous task for me. I basically had worked 70- or 80-hour weeks for about fifteen months. So by the end of it, I was gray, they told me. I looked... you know, my skin looked gray."

"You be good to my baby, Boston, you hear me?"

"We'll be back soon, Cora. Try not to miss me too much. Low out."

"The Dead One is correct, my son.

Your final draft tore the Pattern in half.

This is a sad fate indeed for the innocents trapped on the other side.

However, it is also a chance for we on THIS side to begin a second Pattern, cleansed of wickedness!

Come. It is time for us to weave our destinies anew."

SilverWook said:

An album only one person will be able to listen to. Everyone else will have to wait 88 years! And no, it's not a plotline from This Is Spinal Tap II...

http://theboombox.com/wu-tang-clans-single-copy-album-seized-at-jfk-airport-rza-explains-88-year-clause/

I've heard that bedtime story before.

What disappoints me is that in this instance, there's apparently no way to shorten the specified interval in which the album must lie hidden. After all, I'm sure a lot of people are curious about the music therein--even more so now that it's been publicized.

Well, according to legend, on the day of the assassination, Caesar's wife warned him that she'd had a dream where she saw a statue of him covered in blood. But he didn't listen to her, and went to the Senate regardless.

Perhaps he should have followed his own maxim:

"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."

I had to look it up, and I confess, I still don't quite understand it, even if I do get the reference.

Creepypasta isn't really my thing. I prefer spaghetti... or sometimes fettucini.

Unfortunately, the description of the film given at a shareholders' meeting (see link above) doesn't so much suggest a space-dogfight film as much as a ripped-from-the-consoles space-marine shooter-type movie.

If the writers meant the film's title to evoke Rogue Squadron, it appears they really didn't know what "Rogue Squadron" used to mean in the old EU (or, as we must now call it, the Legends continuity!!)

Shame, too. AFAIK, there haven't really been any good dogfight movies--in air or in space--in decades.

I don't know... I think there is room for many Batmen in Hollywood, under that name and others.

But really, fuck sepia color grading. It's way too overused.

And blue and orange coloring can share its fate.

Viewed properly, this seems like a wonderfully amusing joke.

(Fortunately, it's not up to WWI weapon status yet.)

Here's one possible definition:

"This is a library! WHISPER! Now, what is it?"

Ah, but some things are more likely than others.

And this, I say, is not impossible, merely improbable.

Even a stopped (analog) clock is right twice a day, after all... and I'm sure you're familiar with ANALOG devices.

"At least four hours. With luck, maybe six."

"Four hours, most assuredly. Perhaps six, with a bit of luck."

"The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!"

"Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, / Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?"

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

"The board is set, and the pieces are moving."

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Um... thanks.

Because, happily, a year so named may be both right and wrong at once.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I used to love adventure games and have been meaning to get back into them, why can't you tell use about this one?  Are you some sort of secret beta tester or something.

You know I am still looking for a new game or series where the characters draw me in the way the ones in Mass Effect did.  It's too bad EA ruined Bioware because before that they put out quality games that worked with characters I really liked and their tone was just right for me. Most games are either too light and kiddy or way too dark for my taste, Bioware got the tone just right for me before ME3.  I really miss them, the only other game that strikes just that perfect heroic escapist tone where while still having some dark moments and giving me a fun time is the Fable series, but thanks to my Xbox breaking down I can't enjoy that any more.

DARN IT EA, WHY DO YOU ONLY SEEM TO EXIST TO DESTROY THINGS THAT BRING ME JOY?!!!

 "Secret beta tester" is essentially correct... though the game is actually still in alpha stage.

Yeah, the rabbit hole goes way down. You could spend eternity looking further up and further in.... a mind forever voyaging, as it were.

You just have to know when to take a break, is all.