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Tobar said:

I liked how the third sequel tied them all together.

Now there are... four... of them???

Bingowings said:

It is hysterical this nonsense about the Titanic anniversary (though I'm sure Cameron is pleased).

I don't think the anniversary of the Titanic is a big deal because we truly feel the need to remember those who died. I think it is a big deal in the same way ghost stories are a big deal. Or in the way Amelia Earhart's crash (death toll of 2) is a big deal. It is more the fascination and the intrigue of the story than anything else. I don't think that is in anyway a bad or disgraceful thing, do we really need to make an effort to commemorate every person who has ever died in an unfortunate accident?

The story of the unsinkable Titanic sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic filled with immeasurable riches became a modern day lost treasure story and had entertained and thrilled people for a very long time.

The Dona Paz sucked because a lot of people died, but the story is about as interesting as a car crash. Once there was a boat. Once there was another boat. They collided. It was tragic. Many people perished. So it goes...

The Herold of Free Enterprise was a capsize, even less interesting and intriguing. Again, not to say it doesn't royally suck that lives were lost. 

Accidents happen everyday and lives are lost. But it is a rare occasion that those events are so socking and unbelievable that people still enjoy hearing, talking, and speculating about it 100 years later. 100 years from now the Dona Paz accident will still be something people will have to search wikipedia for, by chance it is mentioned in conversation. 100 years from now we will still be fascinated with the RMS Titanic. The Titanic disaster is legendary, and not without reason.

laserdisc said:

I was invited to the wedding of the girl I always secretly wanted to marry.

That's what you get for being secretive about it!

Yeah, it's been a long time. I was C3PX back then. There are only a small handful of others from way back then that still post here. It is scary how fast the time goes. 2012 feels like it just started, and we are already almost a third of the way through it.

If memory serves, I seem to remember when you left here you said it was because you were started a new career. Hope that is going well/went well for you.

Hope you stick around, or at least pop in from time to time. Kind of nice seeing old faces around here (literally, in your case, since you have the same character as your avatar).

Dude, those were so dumb! I don't even want to talk about it... but I will for the sake of a fellow achievement hunter...

It involved me and my then girlfriend being very determined and leaving her Xbox on all night. If I remember right, we'd destroy all the dangerous guns, then hide behind a safe rock, and leave it running all night, then in the morning we'd wake up and run around looting. I think we did this over the course of three nights over two different weekends before we finally got everything we needed.

I am not sure which was worse/stupider, the Mad Moxxi achievements, the Claptrap achievements, or me and my GF deciding that we needed to get them.

Incidentally, I have only one achievement on Dead Island that I have not managed to get. The stupid orange weapons achievement (loot five orange (super rare) weapons). I need one more, but they are so rare I've only managed to find four out of five in nearly three play throughs, so who knows how long I'd have to play the game to just find one more. It is one of those achievements some people seem to get in a single play through without any effort or thought put into it, and others have to spend hours and hours and hours of effort to get.

Ricarleite!

Wow! It is like necroposting... but in reverse!

How's life on the other side of the equator?

I don't see how the trailer was misleading. It depicts a family in the hotel at the resort being overwhelmed and killed by zombies. I am not sure what kind of game someone might think the trailer was for other than one that... uh... that has a zombie outbreak taking place at a resort... which incidentally, is the premise of Dead Island.

I agree doubleKO, the sewers were kind of a drag. They were kind of hard and felt like they went on forever while being considerably less visually interesting than much of the rest of the game. I suppose they were a means to provide variety, but I always dreaded them. If you've only made it that far in the game, my goodness! Pick that sucker back up, it get much better!

It isn't just melee, there are a lot of guns in the game once you get about halfway through. If you are only at the first sewer, then you haven't even made it that far. I really liked the dynamic of having firefights with uninfected gangs, it really adds a lot to the game. Even if Dead Island got a few things wrong and wasn't as polished or expansive as it could have been, it was very much heading in the right direction on most things.

Dead Island

Yeah, yeah, it could have been better. It wasn't perfect. Could have been more polished, could have had more variety. If the game just game out five years earlier, it would have blown people away.

I just finished the Ryder White campaign, which to be perfectly honest, it kind of sucked (if you compare it to where they might have gone with it). There was so much potential there that they wasted. Yet I really loved it, and it reminded me of just how much I love this game. Where the main campaign tried to be an open world first person shooter/whacker (while failing to meet the standards of A-list titles such as GTA and Fallout 3), Ryder White removes all the open world and RPG elements of the game and goes with linear FPS (which I thought was fun). It is kind of fun being able to open fire on zombies and not having to worry about whether or not you'll be able to find more ammo in the near future. I thoroughly enjoyed the DLC, and as far as DLC goes, which never quite feels worth the money, this one felt pretty worthwhile. 

I can't help but feel they took it in the wrong direction though. It could have been so much more. Dead Island had some really good stuff going for it, and most people felt it didn't meet its full potential. The DLC was a good opportunity to add on and improve to the original game, leaning from their mistakes and taking the thing to the next level. Instead they kind of went the easy route and watered it down to more linear experience, which is still a lot of fun, but somehow missing the spark of what made Dead Island so special in the first place. For an open world game, Dead Island was too short and too linear to begin with, I feel like going from mostly linear to entirely linear for the DLC was a pretty big step in the wrong direction. Co-op really made the Dead Island experience that much more fun, so making the Ryder White DLC single player only, while serving the story well, was a pretty big let down.

Still, I really hope the Ryder White DLC isn't the last we see of this game. It is honestly probably my favorite title released in the last couple of years, and definitely the best co-op game I've played since Borderlands, regardless of its flaws. I'd really liked to see more of this game, and I'd most definitely love to see a sequel that manages to improve on the current game (hell, if it is even just as good as Dead Island, I still say it would be $60 well spent).

Silly people, once you start an FB profile you never really delete it...

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xhonzi said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Hell yeah!  Sherlock is simply amazing.  I'm particularly happy with what they did with Moriarty - I was wary of his characterization in Series 1, but after Series 2 I wouldn't have had him any other way.

"People have died!" "That's what people DO!"

Is this the thread where people spoilerificaly discuss the ending to Series 2 of Sherlock?

Wait... You mean you haven't seen season 2 of Sherlock???

IGNORED!!!

Ahhhhh! That damn picture getting reposted every single post has ruined this page of this thread.

Gaffer Tape said:

Script is already written.  Shooting it today! ^_^

WHAT??? You use SCRIPTS??? AND Intronaught Exploder??? That is SO lame! It is like lip syncing at a concert while using a crappy broken guitar with only three strings! Your excuse is someone gave you the guitar and who is to argue with free, right? The thing is, it isn't the only free guitar you've been offered, and all the others actually have all their strings and are really good quality instruments.

Glad to see you are using Firefox now. Though I am afraid I am still going to have to pull a xhonzi and put you on ignore for the script usage... I mean, seriously! If there were more squeaky chair in your videos, not winging it on the fly and using lots of "uuums" while you gather your thoughts would be excusable... All this to say... I really just want more squeaky chair.

doubleKO said:

When did South Park get good? I watched the first three seasons years ago and didn't care for it. The odd episodes I've seen here and there lately seem a lot better though - at what point did it grow the Riker beard?

I HATED South Park when it first came out. I felt it to be a really dumb show that relied entirely on a reputation of being shocking and crude in order to be "good". I had no problems with shocking or crude, but that is all the show had going for it. Each episode was a string of shocking and crude events tied together by a nonsensical storyline.

Over ten years later, on one of the rare occasions that I found myself in front of a TV with cable hooked up to it (I haven't had cable/an antenna since I was 17) I stumbled across an episode of South Park, watched it, and thought it was a lot of fun. It was the first part of season 11's Imaginationland episode. This prompted me to ask one of my friends the exact same question KO did, "When the HELL did that show get good?" He gave me a list of other episodes he thought I'd really like and told me about the South Park studios website where I could stream any episode for free.

Since then I have seen every single episode at least once. The answer to your question: Season 4. I think at that point they realized they couldn't keep it going on crude humor forever and decided to actually turn it into something intelligent. Not that four was amazing or anything, but I think it show heavy signs of changing trends for the show. Season five, IMHO, was considerably better than four, and year by year the show just kind of keeps going uphill from there.

The second half of season 14 was inexcusably awful, and the beginning of 15 continued that trend, but the show seems to have drifted back on course now.

So there you have it, a ridiculously long answer to your question.

Captiansolo's blog. Wow, good stuff.

I've always enjoyed his posts, and have admired his passion for film. He is the sort of film geek I have always aspired to be but fail miserably at. A few days ago I found myself thinking, I really wish this guy had a blog filled with movie reviews and glancing down at his sig I discovered that he does.

It's SIDRAT spelled backwards!

Just watched the BTTF trilogy for the first time since I was in my early teens, at least I am pretty sure that was the last time I saw them... Wow... uh, I remember those movies being over the top awesome, they were a lot campier and groan inducing than I remembered. Kind of wish I hadn't watched them again and spoiled the great memories.

The first one is still pretty cool. It stands up to time okayishly.

Johnny Ringo said:

the original story that POTA is based on is pretty different, it even has a completely different twist ending..

 

Yeah, I know, I've read it many times.

I love the original book.

Really?!?

twister111 said:

The "true fan" statement is so pompous, bombastic, and nonsensical. It's completely unnecessary and only serves to break fandoms apart.

That is the thing though, more often than not these days that "fandom" isn't even connected in the first place.

To make a shorter version of my previous point: I went to visit a cousin of mine many years ago. I was perusing his DVD collection and excitedly came across the Planet of the Apes box set. I had no idea he was a PoTA fan like myself! Seeing me with his Apes box set in my hand, he rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, that thing was the biggest waste of money. Good lord those movies are terrible! Trust me, they're nothing like the new one."

Turns out he liked Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake so much he had seen it in theaters numerous times, and at the point of my visit he was anxiously awaiting the DVD release. He'd never seen any of the old PoTA movies before buying the box set and was extremely unimpressed.

I am a Planet of the Apes fan. He is a Planet of the Apes fan. But the reality is, we're not even fans of the same thing. I can't stand the remake, he hates the originals. We're not part of the same fandom at all. Not to say we should be petty and fight about it, but there seems to be this idea that we all just need to hold hands and be happy because we love the same things.

I guess I feel something akin to that "true fan" BS quite often. But it isn't that I think I am better or a truer fan than someone else, in my cases, it is that I often find I am a fan of something entirely different from other people who are fans of things bearing the same name as things I am a fan of.

I started watching The Walking Dead last year, and really liked it. It prompted me to read the comics, which I really enjoyed despite not being a comic book kind of guy. But I only made it about ten issues in before getting distracted. I was really disappointed with season 2 of the TV show, and after the season finale I decided to pick up the comics again to get some of the bad taste out of my mouth. I started from the beginning again and now just a couple of weeks later I am on issue #70. I love it and I'm hooked! Now when someone mentions how mind bogglingly awesome the TV show is, it is hard not to want to say, "The TV show is crap! You should really read the comics..." This isn't because I am insecure, or because I want to prove I have better taste. I was genuinely very disappointed with the second season of the show, and have found the comics to be a pleasant addiction.

Another example is The Legend of Zelda. My first Zelda game was the original on the NES, my last Zelda game was Majora's Mask on the N64. While I loved it back in the day, I just have zero interest in anything with the Zelda name on it that came out after Ocarina of Time, its the same thing over and over again, but with more baggage and dumber things that don't seem to fit the games universe (steam boats, trains, robots). I recently encountered a young Zelda fanatic, and mentioned how much I like Zelda myself. Turns out the only game we've both played is Ocarina of Time. His favorite is some new one that I don't know anything about. My favorite (A Link to the Past, SNES) he tried to play but said it was so boring to him that he couldn't stand it. We are clearly fans of two different things and there is no common ground between us.

We could argue who is the "truer fan", which would essentially be arguing what is the real Legend of Zelda or the real Walking Dead. But it would be pointless. They're all the real or the better one to someone.

I think the reason there is so much of this lately, is that so much is recycled, adapted, rebooted, re-imagined, sequelled to death, etc. these days. Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, [insert just about any mainstream comic books title here], Planet of the Apes, BSG, and a million others that I am sure anyone reading this could add to the list off the top of their head. It is inevitable that any given fan of anything is sooner or later going to encounter something bearing the name of the series he loves that he finds to be far removed and completely untrue to the things that made him love it in the first place; and it is also inevitable that sooner or later he is going to encounter someone who loves those very things, and finds the stuff he likes to be archaic boring forerunners or prototypes to the things they fell in love with.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Lady Caca Gaga

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 No, no, no, no, no, no! This thread is about beautiful women.

PROBATION!!!

captainsolo said:

The Python's masterwork, and yes for the last time this definitively kicks the crap out of Holy Grail.

Agreed. I love Monty Python's Holy Grail for what it is, which is just bunch of over the top silly humor, it is great fun, but The Life of Brian is just plain brilliant. Monty P's Holy G ain't got nothin' on it.

darth_ender said:

Found a whole thread devoted to a very strangely named Darth!!!

Daerht Sdrawkcab Tsop Eht!

Best thread ever!

darth_ender said:

So sean wookie, you ever gonna let us know what happened here?  Did she come back?  Did she like the plush doll?  Are you married with 1 and 7/9ths children?  Did she dump you for a real loser that thinks the Enterprise-E could take out the Star Destroyer Avenger?

PS I wanted to bump an old thread like everyone else, and this one really tugged at the heart strings ;)

Well, when Sean and I hung out several months ago, he wasn't married at that time... so...

Maybe he should have been meaner to her, as per Shawn's advice.

EDIT: WHOA!! This is what happens when you load a thread, fall asleep at the keyboard for a few hours, then wake up and post a reply without hitting refresh.