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#274207
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The Children of Hurin
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274207/action/topic#274207
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As C.S. Lewis once wrote about J.R.R. Tolkien, "He is a very great man. His published works (both imaginative & scholarly) ought to fill a shelf by now: but he's one of those people who is never satisfied with a manuscript. The mere suggestion of publication provokes the reply 'Yes. I'll just look through it and give it a few finishing touches' - which means that he really begins the whole thing over again." (The Letters of C.S. Lewis. New York:Harcourt Brace. 1993)

Tolkien has a fantastic number of works, it really is ashamed more of them didn't make it to the publisher in his life time. What Lewis wrote about his friend really is true, the man has so many drafts, the stuff that is publised is nowhere near all of it. It is very unfortunate that most of it is in fairly useless condition for the casual reader, as many people who unknowingly picked up a copy of anything from The Book of Lost Tales through The Peoples of Middle Earth might tell you. He has few works that were truely completed and those that were are true gems.

Skyjedi, why exactly did they block Tolkien's Beowulf from being published? That is really ashame.
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#274025
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The Children of Hurin
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274025/action/topic#274025
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I am very much looking forward to it, this is not just another volume of "The History of Middle-Earth". I have hopes this book will surpass the Silmarillion, which can be a pretty daunting read, and rank among The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Also unlike the Silmarillion (which had parts written by Christopher Tolkien) the text of Children of Hurin is completely J.R.R. Tolkien's words. At least this is what I understand.
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#273909
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273909/action/topic#273909
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
The Goombas in SMW, even if they look different, still aren't nearly as bad as the Goombas in the Super Mario Bros. movie.


Nanner, what are you talking about??? There is no "Super Mario Bros." movie. That would be a dumb idea, Nintendo would never dream of that. You're just being silly!

EDIT: D'oh! Double post.

Sage, about letting your Nintendo Power subscription lapse, no need to kick youself for that. A friend of mine subscribed to it back in the N64 days and it really sucked. It was at its prime back in the SNES days. As far as kicking yourself for not buying another Nintendo system after the NES... hang on a second, I will be right over to help you with the kicking.
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#273908
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273908/action/topic#273908
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Well, honestly, I think that the whole "evil mushroom" thing was just something the English localization team came up with for their instruction manual to SMB. Notice how they're rarely referred to as that in any recent game. And take the Goombas' real name: Kuribo, which is a pun on the Japanese word for "chestnut" (similar to Kuririn or Kuriza from Dragon Ball), and you might start to realize where these people were going with this.


I must admit, they do look very much like chestnuts in Super Mario World, however they are very mushroom like in any previous and following Mario game. In Mario RPG and Mario 64 they are very mushroom like. I am personally very fond of the mushroom shaped goombas. I could care less about the "evil mushroom" story, it is just that they have always explicitly resembled mushrooms and they were by far always the coolest Bowser's minions. I find consistency an admirable trait in evil minions.
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#273891
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273891/action/topic#273891
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Mario Sunshine was a lot of fun. It was not an amazing game by historical standards though. Miyamoto's last truly as-of-yet-undefeated, game-play feat was Yoshi's Island (in my opinion of course).


Never got into that one much. Tried playing it a few times, but ultimately found it annoying and not too entertaining. Perhaps I didn't give it enough of a chance. I had high hopes for it since it was subtitled Super Mario World 2 and all, but I felt it didn't live up to SMW (which was a near perfect Mario game in my opinion. Absolutely fantastic. Especially if you played it from the context of upgrading from an NES with the wonderful SMB3 to a SNES when it first came out). The one thing about SMW that has always bothered me from day one is that the gumbas don't quite look right. They look more like balls with feet than walking mushrooms.
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#273823
Topic
Young Indiana Jones... a preservation (* unfinished project *) - a mass of info & ideas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273823/action/topic#273823
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: 5acrifice
I am not rying to beat you to it or nothing but I haven't even seen these yet. They are supposedly real good copies and if they are I would like to make it available to those who want. It is not a question of quality, I trust they'll be decent enough, and maybe until you get your masters up I could just trade these or send these to people?


I didn't mean for this to come across as any sort of "race" to get them torrented. Clearly, if yours are better, get them the hell out there. I'll even torrent them for you. Plus, it will save me the trouble of torrenting mine. But if yours end up having questionable video quality and mono sound, I will definitely do better.


I will look forward to seeing these sometime soon via 5acrifice, I hope. And I will be looking forward to an excellent release sometime in the future from digitalfreak, who really does come out with some amazing releases.
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#273822
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That's quite enough for now
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273822/action/topic#273822
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One of the greatest problems this forum has, is that everyone just complains how much this place sucks now. It doesn't have to suck. I have been visiting these boards since 2004, I just never saw fit to register until later. I remember reading posts from the "all the good old posters of yore" things were thriving in those days yes, but it wasn't that everybody talked about things so much more exciting or intelligent than we do now. Just check out the Mangler Bros. thread or the Rankings thread and you can see this. This is the Off Topic area and it has always been about fluff and hogwash. I don't see what made them such extremely fantastic posters. It is just no longer filled with your old friends you used to enjoy posting with, and it no longer gets as much business as it use too. As Ferris said, this forum could still be great again. Things can only be as great as we let them. If everybody gives up on these forums then they haven't a chance. Forums generally suck, this is the only one I have ever seen worthy of registering for.

Good luck with your new professional situation Ric, I know change can be frightening, I hope this change works out for the best for you. It was enjoyable posting with a "liberal brazillian", always good to have a fresh perspective from other parts of the sphere, I would never have considered you annoying. Try not to be so down on yourself, you're a good guy. Take care. I'll sure miss the Kubrik references.
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#273434
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273434/action/topic#273434
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I'm REALLY looking forward to the virtual console when I get my Wii. The lineup I saw on their website is tremendous. I never had another Nintendo console after the NES (until GC), so I've never played the stuff like Link to the Past, SMB64, SMWorld, etc. I'm excited to play this stuff that so many people consider classic.



I take it you have never experienced Ocarina of Time then either? Perhaps that game isn't as great as we all make it out to be, but for those of us who had played the Zelda games from the beginning this was long awaited and the first time we got to see our much visited world of Hyrule in 3D. It was amazing.
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#273370
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273370/action/topic#273370
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Like I said, it was just a chef showing off how skillfully he could fillet a fish. It isn't that the Japanese traditionally fillet fish then release them. Even the guy eating it was shocked. Even in that culture it is common practice to kill your fish before you fillet them. This is not a wide spread thing. There would be no point to it being so.
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#273369
Topic
Young Indiana Jones... a preservation (* unfinished project *) - a mass of info & ideas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273369/action/topic#273369
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Originally posted by: tweaker
Definitely illegal, be careful where you're ordering from, some of these gray market dealers are sheisters. Do a little research before you order. TVDVDPlanet (and all of its pseudonyms) is one of the biggest of the bad guys.


Some of those bootlegs are terribly done too. My friend bought the entire series of Star Trek The Next Generation off of ebay, he knew they were bootlegs because they were so expensive and they admited that they were "Asian" copies. They were direct rips of the commercial ones, only during the conversion from DVD9s to DVD5s they cut the last five minutes or so off of the last episode of each disc. So every fourth episode was missing five minutes. So yeah, watch out.
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#273331
Topic
Young Indiana Jones... a preservation (* unfinished project *) - a mass of info & ideas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273331/action/topic#273331
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I would be happy to see them in any quality and very grateful to anyone who would share these. You said you would be getting them as long as they are not illegal, since there is no official release of these and the guy is selling them they would have to be illegal. Of course since there is no official release yet I suppose it fits under the preservation category. I would recomend you don't spend too much money on this, since about the time Indy 4 hit the theaters we can be expecting an official release of this. But then again the official release very well may not have all the features this set has, it seems pretty inclusive.
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#273269
Topic
Windows Vista
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273269/action/topic#273269
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I had always heard Master of Orion was really good, but I never got an opportunity to play it.

The Escape Velocity games are fantastic, and unfortunately very little known among Windows users. My friend who was a Mac guy introduced me too it. The third game in the series finally got a Windows port, you can get the demo here: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

The demo is exactly as the full version, only you cannot board enemy ships after damaging them and steal their cargo. Also after a few days of playing the demo a ship will come on screen, tell you to register then blow you up, this makes the game very difficult to play, but you will have a couple of weeks to play without this happening.

To slip back on topic, I bet this game doesn't work on Vista.
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#273266
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273266/action/topic#273266
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: C3PX
No, I am in the states too. I guess I was wrong. But it really seemed to slip under the radar, it seemed like nobody had ever heard about the thing. I had never even heard of it till long after the N64 was out. I remember it was still $60 bucks when most other SNES games were falling below the $30 dollar mark.


I don't know why, but for some reason I could have sworn you said you were from Europe. Sorry 'bout that. But, yeah, it came out early '96 because I remember at the end of my 4th grade year (95-96), a boy had his birthday party at class, and he got that game.



I used to live in Europe. I think I did when I first started posting here so I might have said at one point.