C3PX

Yes, one of the books in the series was called The Glove of Darth Vader. They were written for children and contradicted other SW EU from the very start (started coming out around the same time Timothy Zahn's first SW books were being released). Though perhaps other EU stories borrowed from this or also tried to turn Darth Vader's glove into a mythical Sith artifact.

When those books first came out, I was under the impression they were not meant to be taken as a serious part of the EU (after the battle of Endor, Lando goes on to buy a themepark), but rather part of some subcategory.

Yeah, I miss all of our old avatars, I was so used to recognizing people by them. I still have my old avatar set as my profile pic.

Good point none.

Actually, if you look in the right places, a 1tb external drive can be found for slightly above the $100 dollar mark, I might be mistaken, but I'd assume an internal drive would be a bit less. I bought my 500gb external drive over a year ago for $60USD off of amazon.

Hard drives are definitely not a bad way to go, but I would never be content with storing stuff I found of value only on a single hd.

Do you really think this community has produced 300-400 DVDs over all these years? I might have estimated it at somewhere around 100, give or take. I guess an ungodly amount of Prequel edits have been created, but I'd have a hard time believing the numbers to be that high. Not to mention, there are plenty of outdated releases out there and redundant material that would not need to be preserved.

So yeah, an ideal setup might be a 500gb external hd filled with image files (and a secondary 500gb backup drive kept in a safe place) that could easily be plugged into a PS3/Xbox/Wii/PC/etc. for playback. If someone wanted to go through the trouble and get really fancy, they could even make themselves a fancy slip cover or storage case for their HD.

Really? What makes you think he/she/it is a lady? You thought the Gaffer was a lady too. Perhaps you just have an inclination to assume people are ladies? Or maybe Octocrox actually is a lady and you know what you are talking about on this one.

As for me, I am still the old fashioned sort that doesn't believe in cursing in front of ladies, and since I have the unfortunate tendancy to let one slip on these forums ever now and then, I like to assume this is a mostly estrogen free zone (with the exception of vbangle, who I believe is made up entirely of estrogen; and who will never know I said this about him because he has me on ignore).

Octorox said:

(P.S. I realize that my avatar is not lending any validity to the seriousness of my argument)

Take a loot around. Very few of us have "serious" avatars. bkev is a picture of himself with a Megaman helmet, I am an Imagination Land Cylon, Ferris is Lord Helmet, Xhonzi's is Darth Vader being crowned by the Emperor, and ImperialFighter is a tiny stormtrooper with a huge head, Anchorhead's is a picture of a whiny farm boy. And here I have only mentioned a few of the more serious ones...

Anyway, rest assured, your avatar will have no bearing on the perception of your posts content. 

My feelings on Avatar, I was in the theater to see District 9 and the trailer for Avatar played before the movie. That was the first I had heard anything about it, and all I could think of the whole time the trailer was on was "What a load of rubbish!" It just looked ridiculously stupid to me. I had no idea it was a James Cameron film until I read it in this thread, which doesn't change my mind about the movie in the slightest. 

It is kind of funny looking at films you watched as a kid as an adult. I remember watching Empire Strikes Back as a kid being kind of a stressful event. Every time I watched that movie I'd squirm the whole way through. There is so much going on, and throughout the whole film you swing from one danger to another and it hardly ever lets us. I remember the part with Yoda acting all goofy being a nice moment to take a breath and have a little laugh.

One of my friends excitedly bought Star Wars when it was first released on DVD so his young daughters could watch it, I think the oldest of them was about eight or nine at the time. Before starting A New Hope, he warned them before hand that it was kind of scary at parts (he recalled his younger brother running out of the theater with tears in his eyes during Vader's first appearance on the Tantive IV back in '77). After the film was finished, he asked them, "Did you like the movie? You didn't get scared did you?" only to receive the response, "Dad, that movie wasn't scary at all! It was actually kind of lame." Needless to say, they never watched the other two movies and he was slightly heartbroken about the whole thing.

I guess kids are so used to seeing stuff like this now, it doesn't come off anywhere near the way it did to many of us when we first saw these movies.

No worries, ther are still plenty grey box faced peoples left.

Yeah, having to watch Chewie's dad masturbate for ten minutes is one of the most frightening and upsetting things I have ever seen on a TV screen.

Hehe, that is funny. There is a data base that it gets the info from, I forget the address it looks it up from (no there might very well be multiple places filling this same function). It finds the album info by comparing track lengths, I believe (though it probably uses more than just this one method). This feature usually doesn't work very well with audiobooks, since they usually have uniform track lengths, unlike music cd where every track is a different length. At least, I have never had any luck using it with audiobooks, though I have never come up with as interesting results as just have. Someone with too much time on their hands was probably just goofing around and submitted these mispelled racial slurs as an album, and by chance your audiobook's information just happened to match pretty closely to what was submitted.

Ripplin said:

C3PX, I can't tell if you're being serious, or if you really don't realize that Gaffer was referring to one of the Jeopardy skits of Saturday Night Live. :p But anyway, they y'go.

Hey, is Ric Olie some sort of non-accent aigu'd clone of Ric Olié?

Ah, no. I am unfamiliar with that particular sketch. Now I feel kind of silly having pointed out his "mistake". I am off to youtube to educate myself on the "penis mighter".

I don't know Editous, she isn't that cute. And she looks a little young... besides, I am pretty sure Santa isn't in the habit of handing out people.

Oh wait, when you said that is what you want for Xmas, you were talking about the titular "Geek girl" and not the toy, right?

Yay! Now we don't have to kill ImperialFighter anymore.

Gaffer Tape said:

Sheesh.  Everyone knows that the penis mightier.

Hehe, Gaff just accidentally said the word "penis". I feel like a 9 year old pointing that out, but it is pretty funny that it took me a few minutes to realize he meant to say the "pen is" and wasn't trying to make some perverse joke about Alex Trebek.

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

ImperialFighter -

I always felt like ImpFight needed an avatar, but this one just blows my mind.  Why?

I ought to make him one, a nice one...

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to ditch my 2d cylon and go with this demonic teletuby myself. I'd have to rank it as one of my top ten favorite avatars of all time. It is a very pretty avatar, don't you think?

So, who would win in a Chuck Norris vs. Owen Lars match?

I have all my bonus feature stuff stored in a couple of six disc Amarays with sticky notes for labels, though I don't think I have near the quantity you have. My LD transfers of each of the OUT have their own cases with covers. I think I have a copy of the Holiday Special with its own case and cover floating around somewhere too. So, that gives me a total of 2 six disc cases and 4 one disc cases. Those six disc Amaray cases are pretty nice, I'd recommend going with those.

A CD wallet isn't a bad idea, but no matter what the packaging claims, it WILL scratch your discs. A spindle, though awkward and not too attractive on the shelf, not to mention inconvenient when you want access to a disc toward the bottom, is a pretty decent, cheap, and safe way of storing discs.

I only became a 360 owner one year ago (can't believe it has been that long actually!) without ever having really played one before or having ever played the original Xbox, and was extremely impressed with the controller. I have always felt the PS2 controller was a very good controller, and I have also often considered the 64 controller to be one of the greatest inventions since the wheel. That said, I think the 360 controller makes both of then feel like absolute crap.

Errr... but yeah... then there is that d-pad... oh MS, you come so close to greatness sometimes, but you always seem hell bent on screwing it up...

That said, I have never cared much for Sony's d-pad either. I still think Nintendo's pre-Wii/DS d-pads were the ideal design.

ZION!!! He lives!

I guess it is kind of pointless to chime in now, since so many have already decided to "boycott" this discussion, but I have to side with the Warbster on this one.

I really get what TheBoost is saying, but I think the use of the word boycott in the case of Star Trek is more accurate than he realizes. I agree, if someone simply didn't want to see something, then it wouldn't be a boycott. But in the case of Star Trek, many long time fans were very upset at the treatment of their beloved franchise, and THAT is the reason they choose to "boycott" it. Not simply because they didn't want to see it because they didn't think they'd like it, but because they didn't want to support it. They are making a point not to see it on principle.

For example, let's say I never shop at Wal-Mart, not for any particular reason, but simply because I have no desire to. That would most definitely not be a boycott. But let's say a few months down the road Wal-Mart does something that ticks me off and I decide to refuse to shop there. Even though I never shopped there anyway, I'd still be boycotting it because my reason for not shopping there would be based on something more. Back when I didn't shop there just because I didn't want to, I might run in to pick up a pack of batteries or some juice just because it is the closest and most convienent place at the moment, but if I were boycotting it, I would go out of my way to avoid it.

Many of the boycotting Trek fans might not have had a desire to see the new movie, but ontop of that, many of them wanted it to fail because they didn't like what was being done to it. That is an accurate use of the term boycott.

Sluggo said:

The Bespin Ice Cream Man

This may look like the match of the decade, but the man who's only friend is vanilla will be too busy thinking about sprinkles to put up a good fight.  Owen will throw sand in his eyes with his left hand and break his nose with his right.

 "All right, shut up".

I think you fail to appreciate just how much the Bespin Ice Cream Man loves his ice cream. The man isn't an ice cream addict, as you seem to think he is, rather he is an ice cream connoisseur. Ice cream isn't an addiction to him that brings him down; it is a love that inspires him. That is why Owen would fail in this fight, the Bespin Ice Cream Man has a great passion for his favorite frozen treat, and you can BET he will bring that passion into the fight with him, and use it to give ol' Owen a beating he will never forget.

You're probably right in your assuming that Owen would have to resort to cheap tricks, like throwing sand in his opponents eyes, in order to win this fight. Maybe it will give him a bit of an advantage, but I'd still throw my money on the side of the man with previously frozen sugar and passion flowing through his veins than the old cheater of a water farmer (I mean, seriously, who the hell farms water? Why not just import the stuff? Other planets seem to have more than enough of it. If Owen had any intelligence at all, he'd invest in a decent sized cargo vessel, have the cargo area converted into a huge water tight tank, go to a planet where water is inexpensive and fill the thing up, then bring it back to Tantooine, bottle it, slap a pretty label on it, and sale it to the local corner stores and restaurants).

Owen's Glacier Water
Melted from the cold, refreshing
snows of the ice world Hoth

Think about it, that would totally sell like hot cakes on a planet with two suns! Reading that even makes me thirsty, and I live in a place that is currently cold and wet, imagine the effect it would have on someone living on a hot, arid desert planet.

Well, the whole genocide thing was actually sounding like a lot of fun, I even went through the trouble of ordering sarlacc bulbs off of ebay (sarlacc sprouts in just thirty days, or your money back!)... but this new, more peaceful idea is kind of amusing too. The pictures Xhonzi posted had me busting up.

"Regardless" being a real word and all, probably doesn't bother him.

Whoa, Gaffer Tape, OT.com's resident "Keeper of the Peace" is suggesting genocide as a solution to our annoying "grey box" problem that has been plaquing the site since the software update. Well, if Gaffer is cool with it then I am in.

Xhonzi, I must say, I am very glad you joined the ranks of the regular posters. It was cool and all back when you'd pop in and write a post or two from time to time then disappear for a while, but now I am afraid I'd find this place a bit boring if your posting frequency were to go decrease.

Oh, and I am not just saying this in hopes of keeping myself off your ignore list, irregardless of the fact that it may seem that way.