Dek Rollins

Thanks for the interest. What do you think of the new screenshots I posted above?

I’ve been working on some updated colors based on frames posted on fanres. Here’s a gallery, feedback will be appreciated:

https://imgur.com/a/xYrIn

These are the images posted on fanres (the top one was my primary reference):

Frames

No it’s the German pronunciation. 😉

But really I would assume the latter.

ray_afraid said:

Ah. I took that as sarcasm.
I still do. Could be wrong.

I’m 100% certain it was sarcasm. He hates what they did with the characters so he definitely wouldn’t like it if he did see it.

I guess the lack of winky confused me. Just didn’t want him actually feeling that I was typing with that tone.

dahmage said:

Dek Rollins said:

Dahmage, did you use a color select tool or did you choose the color manually? When I matched the forum color for April fools before nobody mentioned it being off color, so I’m not so sure it’s a software problem. Just use oojason’s I guess.

i don’t know what i did anymore.

just kidding, color select tool. I had tried to just use the CSS color at first but that failed horribly. probably me being confused about which of the 800 shades of blue-grey this site uses…

Yeah, I suppose you could’ve used the wrong shade.

So you are saying you are better than me? (it seems that maybe you are)

Hey now, I never said that. I just wasn’t sure what could’ve gone wrong in your avatar. Why people so touchy?

I can’t use oojasons, he just created transparent pngs,

Oh, I didn’t look at what they were.

Dahmage, did you use a color select tool or did you choose the color manually? When I matched the forum color for April fools before nobody mentioned it being off color, so I’m not so sure it’s a software problem. Just use oojason’s I guess.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Dek Rollins said:

Hey, for all I know that is a bad anime. I don’t recognize the character (and considering the quality of 100% of anime, I probably don’t want to).

ftfm

fupthatfupur

Hey, for all I know that is a bad anime. I don’t recognize the character (and considering the quality of 95% of anime, I probably don’t want to).

Ha, he got sucked in eh?

ChainsawAsh said:

Dek Rollins said:

If Frink were to watch Cowboy Bebop (which he won’t), I actually wouldn’t recommend the movie first. The plot is far less interesting because of the grander scale it tries to portray. Anyone who’s new to the series should just watch the first couple episodes to get introduced to the characters and what they do.

I suggested it because I’ve had bad luck a couple times with people not digging the first episode or two of the show.

Hm, interesting. Did these people take more interest in the movie?

TV’s Frink said:

None, as I’ve seen all of them.

*sigh*

Okay… okay…

If Frink were to watch Cowboy Bebop (which he won’t), I actually wouldn’t recommend the movie first. The plot is far less interesting because of the grander scale it tries to portray. Anyone who’s new to the series should just watch the first couple episodes to get introduced to the characters and what they do.

I managed to find that set and grabbed it. Is there a particular reason the broadcast audio is mono? I thought it was originally aired stereo, but perhaps the source captures weren’t in stereo?

dahmage said:

Dek Rollins said:

Frank your Majesty said:

chyron8472 said:

dahmage said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m going to go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and scream at the animatronics like I have schizophrenia. It’s my form of protest.

Don’t forget to make a video of it. And also to film vertically.

Actually you shouldn’t film vertically. it might seem easier to hold your phone that way, but it is actually quite annoying to watch things that were filmed that way. There is a thing referred to as Vertical Video Syndrome and i fear you have it.

=p

I think you knew I was being non-serious, but answered as though I was.

I’m happy he did, because that video is great.

Oh, I see how it is! When I post the video in response to something, nobody bats an eye, but when “That’s a lotta” Dahmage posts it, it’s the best thing since Bread was a good time for me! 😉

what?

It is joke. I posted a link to that video in response to something (I don’t remember what but it was a few weeks ago) and I don’t think anyone responded. Sorry for confusion my dude.

moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The “fire insurance” is the only reason to dedicate your life to Christ. You may say there are little benefits, but if you weren’t going to roast in hell there’d be no reason to suffer through church, evangelizing, praying, and all that. Life’s too short.

I feel like this is kind of a glass half empty or half full thing. Your reasoning isn’t incorrect, but I feel it’s more important to focus on the eternal reward of faithfulness rather than the eternal punishment of unforgiven sin (or whatever Hell may be).

The reward isn’t as desirable as the punishment is horrifying.

Dek Rollins said:
they spend more time wacking off than they do imitating Christ’s love.

The reason they do that is because it’s a natural urge and desire of human beings (which God supposedly created). It’s especially a very natural part of growing up and developing. Encouraging people, and especially youth, to repress themselves and be ashamed of themselves for something that’s biologically ingrained into them is one of Christianity’s biggest faults today.

I mean, that wasn’t my point, but okay. I don’t disagree with you.

Oh, well that’s how I took it.

I was just referring to the fact that they have no desire to express the love of Christ to others. The “wack” was just an example that I chose based on its place in religious society.

moviefreakedmind said:

The “fire insurance” is the only reason to dedicate your life to Christ. You may say there are little benefits, but if you weren’t going to roast in hell there’d be no reason to suffer through church, evangelizing, praying, and all that. Life’s too short.

I feel like this is kind of a glass half empty or half full thing. Your reasoning isn’t incorrect, but I feel it’s more important to focus on the eternal reward of faithfulness rather than the eternal punishment of unforgiven sin (or whatever Hell may be).

Dek Rollins said:
they spend more time wacking off than they do imitating Christ’s love.

The reason they do that is because it’s a natural urge and desire of human beings (which God supposedly created). It’s especially a very natural part of growing up and developing. Encouraging people, and especially youth, to repress themselves and be ashamed of themselves for something that’s biologically ingrained into them is one of Christianity’s biggest faults today.

I mean, that wasn’t my point, but okay. I don’t disagree with you.

^The way you posted it.

chyron8472 said:

being a Christian is merely fire insurance.

Sadly it seems that this is exactly how most “Christians” see their “faith.” I have multiple friends who are Catholic Christians because their parents are, and they go through all the Church ceremony and everything, but then they spend more time wacking off than they do imitating Christ’s love.

I’m not that much better, but I’ve been trying to be closer in faith recently.

chyron8472 said:

Dek Rollins said:

The Disney films are the director’s vision being made with massive amounts of input from Disney/LFL overlords who don’t care about Star Wars.

Citation needed.

Would you prefer Solo to be directed by people who turn Han into a lovably comical rogue, or to have KK step in and replace them with a director who will do justice to the character?

I would prefer that Disney allows the people who they hired in the first place to make the picture they feel works best. And maybe I’m wrong about the studio execs not caring about Star Wars, and I apologize for making baseless claims, but I’m not getting any glimpses of the contrary from what has been happening with the new films.

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

chyron8472 said:

Giving George all the artistic credit for the OT vastly overlooks the many people on staff at the time who overrode ideas of his that would have ruined the films.

The OT was built out of more talented people bringing a good end product from George’s ever-changing vision for the story. The PT was built out of George’s (still ever-changing and seemingly unfinished) personal vision being controlled by himself alone because nobody else wanted to take the helm from him. Both were still built around his artistic vision, the thing that brought the OT to perfection was that everyone else added their own vision into George’s.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I didn’t give the prequels a pass. I just said they are slightly less soulless.

I would argue the opposite because their writer/directors are people who actually care about making Star Wars.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I didn’t give the prequels a pass. I just said they are slightly less soulless.

I’m not sure though how working for Disney automatically leads JJ Abrams, Gareth Edwards, Rian Johnson, or Ron Howard (among the many others involved) to create soulless works.

The Disney films are the director’s vision being made with massive amounts of input from Disney/LFL overlords who don’t care about Star Wars. They care about money. George Lucas cared about money and his personal vision of Star Wars. I also might argue that Rian Johnson doesn’t care about Star Wars, but I don’t know how much of TLJ was interference from the studio heads, and I actually don’t want to argue about that because it would amount to flinging basement cat poo. I also don’t like JJ Abrams (as a filmmaker).

You don’t have to tell me you don’t know much, that’s plainly evident. Don’t talk about shit you know nothing about.

Could you phrase this as an actual response to my opinions? I see no reason for the overall insulting tone. My apology is below.

chyron8472 said:

Giving George all the artistic credit for the OT vastly overlooks the many people on staff at the time who overrode ideas of his that would have ruined the films.

The OT was built out of more talented people bringing a good end product from George’s ever-changing vision for the story. The PT was built out of George’s (still ever-changing and seemingly unfinished) personal vision being controlled by himself alone because nobody else wanted to take the helm from him. Both were still built around his artistic vision, the thing that brought the OT to perfection was that everyone else added their own vision into George’s.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I didn’t give the prequels a pass. I just said they are slightly less soulless.

I would argue the opposite because their writer/directors are people who actually care about making Star Wars.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I didn’t give the prequels a pass. I just said they are slightly less soulless.

I’m not sure though how working for Disney automatically leads JJ Abrams, Gareth Edwards, Rian Johnson, or Ron Howard (among the many others involved) to create soulless works.

The Disney films are the director’s vision being made with massive amounts of input from Disney/LFL overlords who don’t care about Star Wars. They care about money. George Lucas cared about money and his personal vision of Star Wars. I also might argue that Rian Johnson doesn’t care about Star Wars, but I don’t know how much of TLJ was interference from the studio heads, and I actually don’t want to argue about that because it would amount to flinging basement cat poo. I also don’t like JJ Abrams (as a filmmaker).

They also have more memes.

Time for a bit of the best movie.

moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Possessed said:

Why do you find specifically Disney’s treatment of star wars so bad compared to before? We didn’t have the oot then either, so yes that’s bad but it’s not something Disney put in place. And I understand you don’t like the sequel trilogy and while I do I understand people not liking it but I don’t see how anybody could rationally say they aren’t better than the prequels. Even if they are less original than the prequels, they are way more competently made.

I can appreciate that the prequels at least came from somewhere that wasn’t a corporate board-room meeting. Rogue One being almost entirely reshot is an example of the soulless corporate meddling and the lack of any real vision. I get that the films are more competently made, but there’s nothing particularly interesting, memorable, or stylistic about the technical aspects so it doesn’t mean too much to me since I find the Disney movies at least as boring as the PT. I also think that the PT was slightly more creative than the new movies, and that means something to me.

Yep.

Really?

Yep.

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

Possessed said:

Why do you find specifically Disney’s treatment of star wars so bad compared to before? We didn’t have the oot then either, so yes that’s bad but it’s not something Disney put in place.

But it is something Disney has continued. They have had the rights to Star Wars for multiple years and we still don’t have a release of the oot.

I’d also like to add that at least George Lucas had psychotic creative reasons for withholding the OOT. Disney and LFL today are just being corporate assholes.