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Post: #280543
Topic: Help Wanted: Shadows Of The Empire - cutscenes of the N64 game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280543/action/topic#280543
Time: 3-Apr-2007 10:30 AM

Actually you probably could do that, but since they are somewhat animated I think davey wants video captures, not just snapshots. Also for russs, I think you should be able to record from you N64 to your DVD recorder no problem. My friend and I once hooked up an N64 to a VCR and recorded a documentary on Wompas using SOTE and the quality came out great, I imagine a DVD recorder should record about the same as a VCR.

Post: #280542
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280542/action/topic#280542
Time: 3-Apr-2007 10:24 AM

Originally posted by: motti_soL
Clearly you should have laughed at him, because when it comes down to it, he is a ponce and wouldn't have dared do anything. All talk and no walk.

No, this guy was big. Have you seem Goldfinger? Remember Oddjob? Remember Oddjob's massive neck? The guy looked like that, only Hispanic. He was thick all around. I weight like 220, but this guy dwarfed me.

Another casino I visited had Darth Vader on a mannequin behind a glass display case. It was really cool to stand next to, even the lights on the chest were light up, it stood a good six feet tall and was on top of a base so I had to look up to it. It literally gave me a chill. It claimed to have been one of the ones used for filming but I don't know if it really was, the casino could certainly afford it though. I do remember it had a small rip on it some somewhere, don't remember where exactly.

Post: #280540
Topic: French Presidential Elections
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280540/action/topic#280540
Time: 3-Apr-2007 10:10 AM

I think "nigger" and "kike" may forever remain on the non-PC list. Even if we are so fortunate to leave the PC obsession behind us. Why is there no unspeakable word for white people? I mean crackers? Is any white person actually offended by being called a cracker? Anytime I have ever been called a cracker I have failed to contain myself and laughed out loud. Whitey? Okay, I fail to find that one offensive in the least? WASP? Sure, nothing. I am sure there are some more offensive words for white people, but I can't think of them and I doubt I would find them offensive. Maybe it is that white people just don't offend so easily (white males at any rate).

Edit:

Added quotes. Wouldn't want to be too unPC.

Post: #280538
Topic: Help Wanted: Shadows Of The Empire - cutscenes of the N64 game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280538/action/topic#280538
Time: 3-Apr-2007 10:00 AM

That would be awesome! I really liked SOTE a lot. I had considered making something like this myself before but never got around to it and finally just gave it up. I would highly recommend the abridged audio book. It is very well read and even has sound effects and music from the SOTE soundtrack, and it is a decent abridgment. In fact, that is what I had intended for my DVD, to play the audio from the audio book and show the relevant pictures from SOTE concept art (using the N64 stills, scans of the trading cards and perhaps some things from The Secrets of Shadows of the Empire for the particular part that is being read. Unfortunately I really don't have the time anymore to do something like that or I would still consider it.

Post: #280536
Topic: Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280536/action/topic#280536
Time: 3-Apr-2007 9:45 AM

The Luke and Leia thing never worked from the beginning. I always liked the "I am your father" thing, but it was clearly made up also. I like how Star Wars has been hijacked and it is now the Anakin Skywalker Saga. I wish it had stuck to its roots as a piece inspired by the Sci-fi and fantasy of Lucas' time. I think all of that is pretty much lost in the PT and to a lesser extent in ROTJ.

Post: #280533
Topic: 'Serenity' dethrones 'Star Wars' as UK's favourite sci-fi film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280533/action/topic#280533
Time: 3-Apr-2007 9:20 AM

It says SFX magazine. I see "The Sun" nowhere.

Anyway, it doesn't really mean that Serenity dethrones Star Wars as UK's favorite, but that the majority of people they surveyed liked Serenity more than SW. It is hard to get non biased statistics. If they really asked every single person in the UK, I am willing to bet there would be a lot of people who have seen Star Wars who would say "What is Serenity?" and very few who have seen Serenity but have no idea what Star Wars is.

If only The Matrix was not on that list, I would say the United Kingdom has some pretty good taste in Sci-fi.

Post: #280524
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280524/action/topic#280524
Time: 3-Apr-2007 9:07 AM

Life, the Universe, and Everything read by Douglas Adams (it is really great hearing it read by the author).

Post: #280523
Topic: Help Wanted: Shadows Of The Empire - cutscenes of the N64 game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280523/action/topic#280523
Time: 3-Apr-2007 9:01 AM

The PC version has real cut scenes with 3D models and voice acting (at least I think there is voice acting, but I know there are 3D model), the N64 version only has still images or sometimes semi animated 2D scenes (for example a still image of Xisor's face will go from straight faced to evil smile. Or a shot of IG-88 will have blinking lights) also in the N64 version all dialog and development is all written. Other than that I think the two versions are identical as far as gameplay goes.

Whatcha planning davey? A Shadows of the Empire movie? That would be pretty cool. But if that was the case I am not sure why you would want still scene from the N64.

Post: #280522
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280522/action/topic#280522
Time: 3-Apr-2007 8:53 AM

Seriously, what kind of an idiot announces something important on April 1st? I give Zion a lot more credit than that. People are too cautious about the info they receive on April 1st. Had this come on any other 364 days of the year, I would take it with grave severity. Does anybody think that by chance it came on the 1 day out of the whole year where it wouldn't be taken seriously? After all the time, money, and dedication these guys put into it, do you think they are going to drop it just like that? I think these guys are making it up as they go too, the minute somebody say "I am surprise there was no fake letter from LFL." Zion posted one. Of course if it was real, this could be a really crafty way of Zion telling us that they were ordered to cease and desist, but that they will in fact be carrying on regardless. By telling us it is cancelled he is complying with the email request, but by telling us on April 1st he prevents mass panic and cryptically tells us "Yeah, its cancelled alright!" (cue Singing in the Rain).

Post: #280518
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280518/action/topic#280518
Time: 3-Apr-2007 8:40 AM

There are books on how to be hardcore? Ouch. My faith in humanity.

Ha, there was this time I was staying at this casino in Navada. If anyone knows anything about these places they will give you fantastic hotel rooms and meals extremely cheap because they want to stay with them so you will play their game and loose all your money. So, I was eating at this $1.99 buffet (real steak and every) and this big guy with gold chains, a goatee, hat on backwards, the whole getup, comes walking into the dining area after paying picks up a plate and says out loud, to nobody in particular, "I'm a badass, I need meat!" He said it in such a way as to re enforce his coolness, but I nearly lost my milk through my nose it was so funny (fortunately I hadn't been drinking milk, but if I had been, he probably would have broken me in half. He was a big guy).

I could so imagine that guy reading a book on "being hardcore".

Post: #280446
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280446/action/topic#280446
Time: 2-Apr-2007 9:09 PM

Eh, at least I have real body mass and can actually touch things. You force ghosts just pop up during troubled times and stand there are nobel like spitting advice at the living. "Use the force" yeah thats alotta help being said to the guy in the middle of a very difficult trench run.

Post: #280444
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280444/action/topic#280444
Time: 2-Apr-2007 9:05 PM

Ah, but Woody Allen is white. So that makes all the difference.

Am I the only one who frequently forgets Micheal Jackson use to be black? It boggles the mind, seriously. The whole Jackson phenomena is going to be looked back on by future generations as one of history's strangest chapters.

Post: #280395
Topic: I have decided...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280395/action/topic#280395
Time: 2-Apr-2007 3:56 PM

I had originally intended the name to be www.originaloriginaltrilogyfaneditedfanedits.com but I decided the trilogy didn't really make much sense, so I got rid of it. Nobody came to me and offered to join my revolution, so that really bummed me out and took away my fire. A revolution with one revolutionary isn't much of a revolution. But if in the future anybody wants to revolt againt Jay and move to someplace else, they are free to use my domain name.

Post: #280391
Topic: I have decided...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280391/action/topic#280391
Time: 2-Apr-2007 3:21 PM

Eh, I'm a Jedi now, and I realize I am better than this (and it is no longer April 1). So I have now decided to stick around. I hereby declare www.originaloriginalfaneditededits.com officially dead, never having actually been born in the first place.

Post: #280371
Topic: YIYF's Long Bridge Club
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280371/action/topic#280371
Time: 2-Apr-2007 1:27 PM

I was actually thinking about resurrecting this thread just the other day. Good to see you YIYF.

Post: #280369
Topic: Movie6.Net...?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280369/action/topic#280369
Time: 2-Apr-2007 1:23 PM

Anyway, it is good this is down. Things like that are just blatant, shameless piracy. It makes all of us folks trying to obtain non-released material, fanedits, theatrical cut that are not commercially available look bad. We are all kind of thrown into the same bucket. I am on the fence with the whole deal. I think it is retarded that ten years ago I could tape ever episode of X-Files, cut out the commercials, and archive them on a vast quantity of VHS tapes. But now that it has become easy to digitally record them off TV in high quality, seamlessly remove the commercials, and burn them on to DVDs compounded by the fact that the studios can finally produce, market and sell entire runs of TV shows at an "affordable price", now it is really cracked down on. I think spending up to $400 for an entire run of a show is absurd and unreasonable. I would be perfectly happy with my digitally recorded and divxed episodes, I wish I could legally own them (yes, recording things off TV has for a long time been kind of a "gray area", but I think now it is generally seen as competely black).

However downloading brand new movies still in the theater, that should not be tolerated, IMHO. I am not sure I believe the statistics on how much they effect ticket sales, I think they are more of a scape goat for the "failing ticket sales" actually. I still think people should just wait and rent the thing for two bucks if they don't want to pay the ticket price.

Post: #280363
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280363/action/topic#280363
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:58 PM

Originally posted by: ThatArtGuy
It's still free distribution of a copyrighted movie. Doesn't matter if it is being sold or traded. That's the main reason why we'll never see the Legacy version of Star Wars.

It is not free distribution. The project it is a private preservation effort, and the site will serve as a tutorial and instructions on how to do your own cleanup. Check the faq.

Hmm, the site is still the same as on the 1st. If it is a joke maybe you ought to take it down. Though, with all the crap they get from people about this (see LID project for example), I wouldn't blame them for leaving things as if they really are cancelled until they have the first film finished.

Post: #280359
Topic: April's here but I am the fool...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280359/action/topic#280359
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:52 PM

Originally posted by: TheCassidy

Originally posted by: daveytod
so sorry to hear that skot, i've been there and it sucks

but that photos so hot!

Meh...probably better if she put the helmet back on...

I have to agree with Cassidy. That tatoo doesn't really do much for me either.

Post: #280357
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280357/action/topic#280357
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:47 PM

Also in Europe you often have the case where a single product is made at a single factory, then send out to multiple countries. In cases like this printing only one box with multiple languages writen on it makes sense to cut down on costs. But in our case we want to be a truly international country and are wanting everything to have dual languages written on them. Arnie, you couldn't have said it better, when you move to another country the first thing you do is learn their language. Adapt. Humans are very adaptable, even a middle age person who has a slower learning ability than some one in their preteen years can pick up the gist of the practical aspects of a language in about a month, if they will fully emmerse themselves in it. But when you are not obligated to do something, why bother?

Post: #280320
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280320/action/topic#280320
Time: 2-Apr-2007 1:57 AM

I hate how people will stare at you like your a looney for carry a towel around with you all day on May 25th. It really discourages me from participating. I also hate that Douglas Adams died at such a young age. I imagine he would have put a great many more things to pen had he not fallen victim to a fatal heart attack.

Post: #280313
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280313/action/topic#280313
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:45 AM

I hate when people tell me I am not a seventeen foot ape.

Post: #280312
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280312/action/topic#280312
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:43 AM

Originally posted by: sean wookie
You know the universe is a very silly place C3PX.

It sure is.

Great sig Sean. I love Douglas Adams.

Post: #280309
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280309/action/topic#280309
Time: 2-Apr-2007 12:25 AM

Originally posted by: sean wookie
How are we ever going to be like the rest of the world if we can onoly speak one language?

Speak two languages? Ha! We have a hard enough time with the one we do know. (I know it is a typo, I am just playing. I am sure you can find any number of typos in my own posts)

Are we talking about putting more emphasis on teaching our children Spanish? Or are we talking about flipping the dang cereal box around fifty times trying to find the one side that is in English? I do not want us to become like Canada where every DVD requires the title to be in English and French. That is unacceptable to me. Also what you brought up about being like the rest of the world goes for the other side to.

If the foreigners don't learn English, and become citizens and vote, still not knowing English, I don't think that does anybody any good. I worked with a bunch of legal aliens for about six months during a temporary job I once had. They got paid the same as rest of us, but did a lot less work. The job required filling out a lot of paperwork, and they would always have to ask us to do it for them because they couldn't read the forms. As a result we had to stop what we were doing and help them while they stared over our shoulders watching us fill out their paperwork for the next couple of minutes. This was only tolerated because the supervisior happened to be of the same nationality as them, and told us to help them fill out their forms. Later when that supervisior was transfered, one of the first things the new supervisior did was to sack all of them because they couldn't do their own work. With minimal effort they could have learned enough English to fill out their own papers and they wouldn't have been fired.

I agree with Ferris, I think we often cripple our imigrants by accommodating to the level we do.

I also somewhat agree with Sean, as a person who is bilingual myself (trilingual, depending on whether of not you count a dead language), I think it is a terribly useful skill to have, and if began from a young age, a very easy thing to learn. I think we should teach foreign languages starting in the 1st grade or so, Spanish in High School is too little, too late.

But I also disagree with Sean, In England you go just a short ways and you are in France. In Germany you go just a little ways and you are in Italy. In Greece you go just a short ways and you are in Macedonia. There are any number of other directions you can travel just a short ways in any of these countries and run across as many languages. In Oregon go just a little way and you are in Washington, in Washington go just a little ways and find yourself in Idaho or Canada. Maybe in Canada you might run into some French speakers, but chances are good that they will know English. From Oklahoma travel a ways and you may find yourself in Kansas or Texas. America is an English speaking country. There may be a lot of immigration, but I really think it is their duty to learn our language.

Traveling around the world I find this to be very true, "When in Rome do as the Romans do, but when in America be yourself" Every country you go to you are expected to fit in, but when visiting America you'll find we are very tolerant to foreigners showing an ignorance of our culture. I think this is a good thing, no doubt, but I think we take it too far sometimes. Anytime I have to fill out any documents that require information from my passport I have to sift through "Name/Nombre/Nom/Nome", and the same thing for age, eye color, hair color etc. Seriously, it really gets on my nerves. It is just going a little too far.

Post: #280299
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280299/action/topic#280299
Time: 1-Apr-2007 11:40 PM

In the Ghetto....

Man, I get get Mr. Presleys song out of my head, it pops in there everytime I see this thread.

Post: #280289
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280289/action/topic#280289
Time: 1-Apr-2007 10:03 PM

Originally posted by: Doctor M
Wouldn't a better April Fools joke be something unlikely?
We've been expecting an announcement like this for years.

How about "We're finished!"
That would be funny as hell.
Mind you no one would believe it.

It would have been more of a disappointment to for it to have been announced as finished, then turned out not to be than for it to have been cancelled. After all this watch it turn out to have really been cancelled and the fact that it was announced on April first was an oversight on Zion's part.