CP3S

darth_ender said:

CP3S said:

So what is the point of our village? By some of the suggestions, it seems we have modern technology, so we are not pretending it is the 19th century or anything.

Maybe in our village is made so we can all raise our families in a mid-nineties world where Star Wars is still cool and exciting and no special editions or prequels exist. Just three movies on VHS, a number of novels, stacks of comic books, and loads of silly merchandise that somehow actually still seemed cool back then.

If we made a movie about our island, it would feel like a period piece taking place in 1995 or so. Then by the end we discover they are really living in the 10's, and that they gave up modern life so that their offspring could grow up SW fans in a world where they don't have to experience the frustrations of all the rifts in fandom and the lack of originals on DVD and/or BD.

 I think this is a fantastic idea!  Imagine...the Backstreet Boys on our radios all the time...white boys sagging their jeans...dial-up Internet hitting the market...okay, maybe it wouldn't all be cool, but the idea of pressing rewind on my VHS player so I could rewatch one of those letterbox versions of the OT that came out around then...fun nostalgia.

It might be hard for us to step back and let go of some of the technology we have learned to rely on, but we are doing it for our children's sakes. If they only ever know VHS and LD, they'll always be happy with SW on VHS and LD. And they will all be united as Star Wars fans sharing a love of the same one trilogy (except for those damn Anchorhead kids who are always slamming TESB and ROTJ!)

Tobar said:

CP3S said:

As for Monkey Island, we need to get Ron Gilbert interested in a kickstarter for his original vision of Monkey Island 3. Complete with old graphics and all (I am so tired of hearing about this kickstarter fad, everybody and everything has a kickstarter now and it is all anyone talks about. Maybe it is a good idea, maybe good things will come of this. It just seems everyone has become true believers in this, and it is still too early for anything to have come from any of it). 

While that is my dream I don't see that happening under Lucasarts current regime. Ron doesn't own any of the rights to Monkey Island and Lucasarts has a general policy of never selling the rights to any of their properties period.

But yet Tales of Monkey Island exists.

I don't remember all the details behind that project or how it came to be, but from what I remember, Lucasarts had absolutely no creative involvement (other than maybe some overseeing for the sake of quality control) on the game and their name is on the project simply because they own the rights to the franchise. Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman where both involved on that project too.

I could see it happening again. Especially if it is proven it could be profitable. 

Sometimes I am afraid Valve has lost interest in Half-Life. They've had two huge unexpected successes since the HL days in Left 4 Dead and Portal, and have already made sequels for both of them. Hopefully DOTA 2 doesn't blow the world away and becomes Valves next big obsession that they drop everything else for. I'd hate to think we might see Left 4 Dead 3, Portal 3, and DOTA 4 before a Half-Life 3 is announced.

As for Monkey Island, we need to get Ron Gilbert interested in a kickstarter for his original vision of Monkey Island 3. Complete with old graphics and all (I am so tired of hearing about this kickstarter fad, everybody and everything has a kickstarter now and it is all anyone talks about. Maybe it is a good idea, maybe good things will come of this. It just seems everyone has become true believers in this, and it is still too early for anything to have come from any of it). 

All the better. I don't see why people get so pissed off about release date delays. I'd much rather have a game delayed a year and come out nice and polished, than end up getting a game like Fallout: New Vegas on its original release date that is so glitchy your Xbox freezes every 30 minutes.

So what is the point of our village? By some of the suggestions, it seems we have modern technology, so we are not pretending it is the 19th century or anything.

Maybe in our village is made so we can all raise our families in a mid-nineties world where Star Wars is still cool and exciting and no special editions or prequels exist. Just three movies on VHS, a number of novels, stacks of comic books, and loads of silly merchandise that somehow actually still seemed cool back then.

If we made a movie about our island, it would feel like a period piece taking place in 1995 or so. Then by the end we discover they are really living in the 10's, and that they gave up modern life so that their offspring could grow up SW fans in a world where they don't have to experience the frustrations of all the rifts in fandom and the lack of originals on DVD and/or BD.

SilverWook said:

With all due respect, Deep Space Nine opened that can of worms the minute Koloth, Kang, and Kor showed up with ridges. I was perfectly happy to overlook the issue until the Tribble episode made a big deal of it. So don't go blaming Enterprise for trying to clean up that mess. ;)

Koloth, Kang, and Kor showing up with ridges was appropriate, not having ridges on Klingons now that it has been established that Klingons have ridges would have made a bigger mess.

That whole episode is a campy "all in good fun" type episode. I thought Worf's "we don't talk about it" comment was an amusing and appropriate wink and nod to the Klingons' change in appearance. Acknowledging the change and brushing it off lightly. But I also think that comment fed a lot of fans uptightness about the whole matter and strengthened their zeal in getting to the bottom of the "mystery" at an in universe angle.

Silly Nerd Trek fans.

Actually, if I were you, I'd just go ahead and repost it in the General SW Discussion thread. All the Off Topic regulars have been around, and if none of them have bothered to comment yet, they aren't going to. The thread is destined to sink into oblivion.

I think there are people in the General SW section who never wander in here who would appreciate it. I mean, I can't be the only one here who liked it.

ray_afraid said:

Johnny Ringo said:

 

We just don't know how things will play out yet, maybe humanity is plunged into a sort of technological dark age?

Riddley has stated that the difference in tech is there because he didn't want to make a movie that looks like it's from the 70's. Simple as that.

I think this is perfectly reasonable.

In TOS Klingon's had smooth heads. Then once the movies and TNG came along they stepped it up with the alien makeup and they had ridged foreheads. I liked the ridged foreheads and am glad they decided to make one of the more prominent alien species in the series more alien looking than they were in TOS. Having Klingons forever be brown people with goatees would have been kind of lame. Unfortunately, this made overly anal Trek fans spend years sitting around with wrinkled brows trying to come up with the most reasonable in universe explanation for this discrepancy. To me, it always felt that the real life explanation of different time periods the series were made in, along with tech and budget restraints, should have been more than reasonable enough for anyone. But fans continued to agonize over this issue until Enterprise wrote a really dumb explanation that soothed their aching sphincters.

Does Scott really need to limit himself and make a film that looks like it was made in the 1970's? I admit, I think it would actually be really cool if he were to do that. But how realistic is it to have ships running such primitive technology in the future? You know there is never going to be a mining vessel in the future sporting old CRT monitors. That was a great vision of future technology for 1979, but today your average 10 year old has their bedroom decked out in far more impressive looking technology. While old hardcore Alien fans like some of us might eat up a film where the technology was made to look like that of a 70's film, I don't think the general audience would buy it.

I don't think it is fair to judge this film based on the fact that it doesn't mesh technologically with a film made in 1979. I think some of us are being a bit unreasonable in this regard. Maybe this is why Scott adamantly maintains that it isn't an Alien prequel, because he wants to revisit an old idea he thinks he can make an interesting film out of, but he doesn't want to be restrained by anal retentive nitpicky fandom.

FINALLY!!! Got some time to play The Walking Dead. I was a bit skeptical about it, regardless of positive reviews, but I liked it far more than I thought I would. In fact, I loved it! Not sure how well it will stand up to repeat playings, though the decision system should help make that more interesting, it is still basically the same story you'll be playing through, just with a few different faces and different attitudes from certain people in your group.

One of the best five dollars purchases I have ever made on Xbox Live. Of course, if I get them all it will be $25 by the time all is said and done...

Looking forward to the next one. For some reason I assumed there'd be one a month (maybe because that is how frequently I am used to getting the comics, or maybe I only read the release dates for the first two and assumed they'd all be only a month apart since those two were), so I am kind of disappointed to see the release dates are stretched out until the end of December. I feel like it would be a lot more fun just to play the whole way through, rather than waiting three months between episodes. Maybe I'll just drop it now, and pick it up again in January when I can marathon the thing... Errr, well, maybe I'll go ahead and start on that strategy after part 2 comes out next week.

Ziz said:

Lesser of two evils, man.  They may have been cool to you in public but you don't know what they would have been like in a private relationship.

;)

That's the part I regret.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Dania Wilson-Holland

That poor girl is probably going to google her name someday, stumble on this post, and be absolutely mortified. ;)

There are two girls in my past I used to really regret not making a move on, one when I was in high school, one in college. They both showed interest in me, but I was hung up on some other girl. Dumb ass. If I were to dig through my archive CDs of old photos, I could probably find pictures of them... but that is kind of creepy.

Kind of weird, they were both really pretty blonds, but back in my younger days I was all about the brunettes. I didn't really think much of either of them at the times, I saw them nearly everyday, and hung out with them from time to time, and was aware they had a thing for me, but was entirely uninterested. Now looking back, I feel they are probably two of the more attractive women I've ever had the fortune of meeting. Damn me for not seeing it at the time. So it goes.

Fuck! I only mentioned it because Duracell mentioned how annoying it was, and I was pretty sure I am not the only one who thought the joke was a bit worn. 

Far too big of a deal is being made of this. Stupid joke is stupid, end of story.

And my wrists are pretty dainty. I rarely have to use them to get off.

Crap! You just posted a picture of her without the drag thing going on! Quick Anchorhead, edit your post and delete it, her public character will be ruined!

;)

Of course he has every right to post it. But come on, you know full well he is doing it for attention and not because he thinks that picture is hot.

It is a really lame joke that has ran its course, and there's nothing wrong with telling him it isn't funny anymore. 

Batman: Year One

Even though it was pretty close to the comic, which I love, it felt really over the top a lot of the time. I think some of the things worked better in still images. However, I still found it really enjoyable.

Bryan Cranston may well be the perfect James Gordon. I love Gary Oldman, but I think Cranston nailed the character (of course, comparing voice work to a full live action role isn't always fair, Cranston also has the look for the role, and no doubt the ability).

Not clicking reveal on those last two posts, but I imagine both of them are that same pic. Or that one isn't a pic and the other is a different pic of the same person, thus making the joke new again. Yeah, still not funny.

Fink, you realize your not really being funny, right?

It doesn't bother me I don't even have to look at it since I have you on ignore, but I am assuming that every single post of yours in the last several pages of this thread is that dumb Ga Ga picture.

I am pretty sure not too many people thought it was funny to start, and anyone who may have been guffawing about it has grown bored by now. Old joke. Move on.

Just sayin'.

CP3S said:

Grrr. I got The Walking Dead game, but have still been too busy to play it.

Fixed.

Grrr.

Can't believe nobody else responded to this, the song was epic. I showed it to a couple of friends and they loved it too.

Maybe it should have been posted in the General Star Wars discussion section...

Wow. That was truly awesome. Loved the video!

Grrr. I got The Walking Dead game, but have been too busy to play it.

Warbler said:

doubleKO, why do you object to getting something for free?

Besides having to throw the annoying things away (I don't recycle, but I feel my miniscule amount of paper trash makes up for it), you have to walk out into the driveway/lawn everyday and pick them up. If you forget them for a couple of days and get a hard rain... it is pretty awful.

Reminds me of back when I was married. I was having breakfast with my father-in-law at an Indian casino out in the middle of the desert in New Mexico (don't ask). An older Native America gentleman was having breakfast a couple of tables over and had just finished with his paper and offered it to us. I didn't feel the need to read about the local on goings and my father-in-law didn't know a lick of English and wouldn't be able to read it anyway, so I politely declined it and he passed it off on someone else. My father-in-law stared at me for a few moments, then told me, "Whenever someone offers you a newspaper, you need to take it." He never explained why, but it was spoken with grave matter-of-fact authority. This was a little old man with an epic and frightening past that'd I'd never live up to, done things I could never dream of, and would never want to do. I wasn't about to question his words.

Now every time I am offered a newspaper, I still politely decline it, but his words echo in my head. I find myself wondering what his answer would have been if I had asked him why. I imagine it would have been either about manners, or about the practicality of having an inky wad of low quality paper at your disposal. Every time I decline a paper a very faint and short lived wave of concern that I am being rude or missing out on making some badass makeshift weapon rolls over me.

Like Tic-Tac-Toe?

That is a fun game when you are in pre-school, but when you get two first graders with equal mental faculties going at it with one another, every round ends in a draw. It is a very poorly designed game. If both players know what they are doing, it'll go the exact same way every round without there ever being a winner.

Anchorhead said:

Keep us posted.

They keep doing it, and every single time it is on a day that goes from sunny to cloudy to stormy (which is happening a lot here lately). They start to swarm at the very beginning of the cloudy interlude, but usually with enough time to notice and recapture them before the rain hits.

One day he had just finished catching a swarm and got his bee gear put away, when another hive started to take off. He's never seen anything like this before, and the bee books we have don't seem to cover exactly what we are experiencing.