DuracellEnergizer

I’ve been reading this:

Really makes me wish I’d read more than one Seuss book in my childhood. I think I really would’ve appreciated his visuals and imagination as a youngun.

ChainsawAsh said:

Oh, sure, the picture of me as a fucking teenager is the one that survived more than a decade in this thread, and I can’t even get rid of it since all you bastards quoted it!

Serves you right for ever having been a teenager.

Good. Goood.

I’m exceptionally partial to “The Imperial Suite” and “Hope”, myself.

yhwx said:

You were all faceless voices to me yesterday… now you’re just voices with faces.

Faceful voices, you might say.

doubleofive said:

Adywan doesn’t like the prequels, but does like the new movies. So yes?

Unheard of! Absurd!

I can’t help but believe Alderaan’s avatar should be changed to a debris field in his absence.

Twenty-four days until season 2 of Stranger Things is released.

No puppet, no puppet. You’re –

Damn. That phrase won’t fly here.

Husezni … Trump … same difference.

“Dislocated shoulder, bump on the noggin. My diagnosis: bad babysitting!”

Bingowings said:

Still loving STD 😆

You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.

😛 😉

Feeling persecuted makes him feel special, so he deliberately seeks out persecution to feel extra special. I believe it’s one of the top 10 signs of fundamentalism.

If only he could be banned from the planet.

yhwx said:

Covert 2013 image of my figure…

Are you the shoulder hand?

chyron8472 said:

ray_afraid said:

I’m not so young or old that I need someone to read to me. 😉

Hey. I’m only 39, and I love audiobooks. My wife and I have listened to Harry Potter (by Stephen Fry) and The Belgariad enough times to have lost count. And Orson Scott Card went on record in the afterword for the 30th Anniversary audiobook of Ender’s Game to say that he thought “hearing it read aloud is the superior way to experience this story.”

Before the majority of the populous was literate, and long before the advent of film and television, being a storyteller was actually a thing. Hearing a story told to you by an accomplished narrator can be an enjoyable experience.

For one reason or another, I find it very hard to listen to audiobooks unless I stop anything else I’m doing, close my eyes, and concentrate entirely on them. Otherwise they just become background noise.

Suffice to say, I haven’t “read” many audiobooks.

This photo’s almost two years old, now, and doesn’t showcase my currently shaved head, but it’s still a reasonable representation of I.

THE CRANBERRIES: NO NEED TO ARGUE

TRACK RATINGS:

• “Ode to My Family” – 8/10
• “I Can’t Be with You” – 8/10
• “Twenty One” – 9/10
• “Zombie” – 10/10
• “Empty” – 8/10
• “Everything I Said” – 9/10
• “The Icicle Melts” – 9/10
• “Disappointment” – 8/10
• “Ridiculous Thoughts” – 10/10
• “Dreaming My Dreams” – 9/10
• “Yeat’s Grave” – 8/10
• “Daffodil Lament” – 9/10
• “No Need to Argue” – 10/10

ALBUM RATING: 10/10

ALBUM COVER RATING: 6/10

ALICE IN CHAINS: DIRT

TRACK RATINGS:

• “Them Bones” – 9/10
• “Dam That River” – 10/10
• “Rain When I Die” – 9/10
• “Down in a Hole” – 10/10
• “Sickman” – 7/10
• “Rooster” – 8/10
• “Junkhead” – 7/10
• “Dirt” – 7/10
• “God Smack” – 8/10
• “Iron Gland” – 6/10
• “Hate to Feel” – 8/10
• “Angry Chair” – 9/10
• “Would?” – 10/10

ALBUM RATING: 9/10

ALBUM COVER RATING: 5/10

LEONARD NIMOY: LEONARD NIMOY PRESENTS MR. SPOCK’S MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE

TRACK RATINGS:

• “Theme from Star Trek” – 9/10
• “Alien” – 8/10
• “Where Is Love?” – 8/10
• “Music to Watch Space Girls By” – 9/10
• “Beyond Antares” – 7/10
• “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth” – 8/10
• “Mission: Impossible” – 7/10
• “Lost in the Stars” – 8/10
• “Where No Man Has Gone Before” – 8/10
• “You Are Not Alone” – 8/10
• “A Visit to a Sad Planet” – 8/10

ALBUM RATING: 8/10

ALBUM COVER RATING: 7/10

MOTHER LOVE BONE: APPLE

TRACK RATINGS:

• “This Is Shangrila” – 8/10
• “Stardog Champion” – 8/10
• “Holy Roller” – 7/10
• “Bone China” – 8/10
• “Come Bite the Apple” – 7/10
• “Stargazer” – 7/10
• “Heartshine” – 8/10
• “Captain Hi-Top” – 7/10
• “Man of Golden Words” – 8/10
• “Capricorn Sister” – 7/10
• “Gentle Groove” – 8/10
• “Mr. Danny Boy” – 7/10
• “Crown of Thorns” – 8/10
• “Lady Godiva Blues” – 7/10

ALBUM RATING: 8/10

ALBUM COVER RATING: 8/10

I once thought the title of this album was Burning Down the Horse.

LOL. That’s amusing, considering I definitely have OCD.

Not really, no.

^This.

DuracellEnergizer said:

CHANGE #5

Recolour all Imperial blaster bolts green.

IMPETUS FOR CHANGE:

From the beginning, I’ve disliked that Imperial blasters fire red bolts. Imperial ships fire green blasts, distinguishing them from Rebel ships, so why shouldn’t their hand-held weapons do the same?

I’ve decided to roll back this change. Instead, I’d recolour the bolts of Rebel hand blasters/blaster cannons blue.

CHANGE #18

Change this line of Han’s

“It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.”

to

“It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.”

IMPETUS FOR CHANGE

To make it a bit clearer that a parsec is a measurement of distance, not time.

I’ll amend that to “It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run short of 12 parsecs.”. Why? “Under 12” doesn’t really say anything different from “less than 12”.

CHANGE #19

Recolour the blaster bolts from Han’s blaster/the Millennium Falcon orange.

IMPETUS FOR CHANGE

He’s not an Imperial, and he hasn’t joined the Rebel Alliance yet, so he and his ship should have a “neutral” blaster colour.

I’ve decided to make all non-affiliated blaster bolts white instead.

I was so looking forward to that unsimulated sex scene.

ElectricTriangle said:

Mike O said:
I’ve always kind of wondered what the rationale of hiring him was, especially given that Frakes was chosen instead of some bigger-name directors, apparently on the last two.

I think he was brought in because Berman wanted to “liven things up” with an action director, and Baird was who he came up with.
I imagine this was probably in response to Insurrection, which feels cheaper and more like TV than the the first two films.
Does anyone know why that is? I know they didn’t go with ILM, so that’s why the effects work isn’t great, but Insurrection has the same director, cinematographer and a larger budget than First Contact but looks worse.

Going the “human aliens” route probably didn’t help.