Gaffer Tape

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Post: #278670
Topic: The Secret History of Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278670/action/topic#278670
Time: 22-Mar-2007 11:50 AM

I've gotten through the first 20 pages, and I have to say I'm very impressed. Will definitely keep reading.

Post: #278604
Topic: The Secret History of Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278604/action/topic#278604
Time: 21-Mar-2007 11:06 PM

Yes, in today's vernacular, mythology is interpreted as a work of fiction, but it really simply means "story".

Post: #278298
Topic: The Secret History of Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278298/action/topic#278298
Time: 20-Mar-2007 1:11 AM

But wouldn't he require some sort of license from LFL to be allowed to publish a book containing such information about Star Wars? And, even though I have yet to read it (I will, though, I promise. It sounds very enlightening), it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that George would want out there.

Post: #278212
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278212/action/topic#278212
Time: 19-Mar-2007 6:57 PM

Please tell me you said something to her about the serious ramifications of her actions! I'm angry right there with you, and it didn't even happen to me!

Post: #278108
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278108/action/topic#278108
Time: 19-Mar-2007 1:48 AM

Don't tell me there's a law where you come from that says you have to be 14 to buy a game console. ^_~

But I admit I got mine far from the launch date. It was Spring Break '03. I'd actually broken away from Nintendo for the first time due to the backlash of the cel-shaded graphics of Wind Waker. So I got a PS2 instead, my first (and only) non-Nintendo system. But then when I got my head out of my ass and realized how good Wind Waker was starting to look, I got a GameCube just in time to preorder WW. And my GameCube came with Mario Sunshine to boot! Sadly, I lost the Memory Card 59 that came with it during my freshman year of college. Don't know what happened to that sucker, but it still pisses me off.

Post: #278086
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278086/action/topic#278086
Time: 18-Mar-2007 10:23 PM

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
When did you think I'd gotten it?

April 13, 2002. Just a shot in the dark. ^_~

Post: #278022
Topic: OT.com Demographics Poll
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278022/action/topic#278022
Time: 18-Mar-2007 1:15 PM

I'm going to say 3,716. And you can quote me on that. I deduce that it's quite a logical figure.

Post: #278021
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278021/action/topic#278021
Time: 18-Mar-2007 1:10 PM

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Black all the way.

In fact, I've had a black Gamecube since Christmas 2001, and sometimes I forget that the 'official' color of the system was purple.

Wow, when I wrote my post, I was wondering what responses I would get, but I knew that you were going to say exactly that (except for when you got your GameCube).

Post: #277974
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277974/action/topic#277974
Time: 18-Mar-2007 2:48 AM

For some reason, my GameCube is sitting next to me while I type this, and it's gotten me to thinking. From the mid-'90s until Wii, Nintendo has been all about brightly-colored systems. First it was the "Play It Loud" collection of Game Boys, and then the biggie was the multiple colors of N64 besides the original dark gray. But it was only with GameCube that colorful console systems (as opposed to gray or black or whatever neutral color) became the norm for them. In fact, I own the "standard" indigo-colored GameCube along with an indigo contoller and a black Mad Katz controller I just got the other day (after four years, I just now get a second controller for it... for shame). Anyway, to get to the point, I was just wondering what color GCNs were in abundance here.

Post: #277881
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277881/action/topic#277881
Time: 17-Mar-2007 4:50 PM

You will be happy to know that it is indeed 1,000 posts for Jedi Knigthood. Twelve-hundred don't mean shit around here, sir!

Post: #277880
Topic: ROTS Easter Egg - I Am Highly Frightened
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277880/action/topic#277880
Time: 17-Mar-2007 4:48 PM

They did. There was a two-hour long documentary detailing every thing that went into making one minute of the Obi-Wan/Vader duel. It was interesting the first time, but it's just too tedious for me to want to watch very often.

Post: #277804
Topic: I'm leaving.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277804/action/topic#277804
Time: 17-Mar-2007 2:31 AM

Originally posted by: Lord Phillock
What? Jay leaves? WHO IS JAY anyway!? I thought he was the OWNER of originaltrilogy.com

what the crap... please explain this to me... one of you.

"I thought he was the OWNER of originaltrilogy.com." CORRECT!

"Please explain this to me..." I certainly shall, sir. It was simply a joke in response to not only the abundance of "I'm leaving" threads but also the relatively recent moderator-bashing trend. So just laugh it off!

Post: #277802
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277802/action/topic#277802
Time: 17-Mar-2007 2:28 AM

Yeah, I actually just played that game a couple of days ago (and I can actually consistently beat it now), but I've found a better way to do it. I don't know if it spares my controllers any more than the palm, but it certainly spares my hands. Rather than using the center of the palm, I use the area of my hand just below the thumb. It seems a lot tougher. It's never hurt me at the very least. Nintendo Power once suggested putting a sock over your hand. Honestly, I've never been as worried about my hand as the controller. My hand will heal. The control stick won't.

Post: #277745
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277745/action/topic#277745
Time: 16-Mar-2007 7:07 PM

I just got Mario Party 7 for my birthday after a several year Mario Party hiatus (play one Mario Party, play 'em all, right?). But I'm having a lot of fun and have introduced my girlfriend to Mario Parties 1 and 2. It really brings me back to being 13 years old again when my friends and I would get together and play Mario Party and Super Smash Bros. together, and my N64 controllers slowly died... sigh. All of us used to have raw palms minus a layer of skin due to all the controller spinning games in the first Mario Party. Ahh, memories!

Post: #277733
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277733/action/topic#277733
Time: 16-Mar-2007 5:37 PM

No, I'm not necessarily saying that. I wouldn't say I have a short attention span, but I do go through interest phases, where I totally obsess over one of my interest for a period of time and then it gradually dies out and is replaced by something else. When I first decided I had to have a Wii (right before Thanksgiving), I got on a very big Zelda kick, and I played all my Zelda games over the course of the next two or three months, doing nothing else video game-wise. And about the time I got to the point I mentioned on Twilight Princess, I finally got tired of Zelda (and for the aforementioned reason). Soon after, my interest turned to classic video games (Mario in particular), so I broke out my NES and SNES.

Post: #277710
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277710/action/topic#277710
Time: 16-Mar-2007 3:08 PM

I don't know. It wasn't really a conscious decision. I stopped in between the Master Sword and the desert thingy. I think I just got too tired of the endless number of stupid things to collect and just stopped playing. Before I knew it, I was on a really big Mario kick and was playing my NES while my Wii collected dust (that thing collects dust faster than any console I've ever seen before... and because of the smooth white surface, it sticks horribly).

Post: #277621
Topic: I'm leaving.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277621/action/topic#277621
Time: 16-Mar-2007 1:21 AM

Really? I could have sworn I'd seen him relatively active in the General Star Wars section. And, yeah, you're right. It slipped my mind that Charlie Chaplin made it famous before Hitler. But if you copy it (unless you're wearing a bowler and twirling a cane), people will call it a Hitler mustache, not a Chaplin mustache.

Post: #277620
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277620/action/topic#277620
Time: 16-Mar-2007 1:19 AM

Well, I'll probably never play Four Swords Adventure, and I stopped playing Twilight Princess a while ago (and even if I get to that point, I probably won't recognize the retcon, having, like I said, never played Four Swords Adventure), so what I'm sure is a brilliant inside joke is lost on me.

Post: #277609
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277609/action/topic#277609
Time: 16-Mar-2007 12:00 AM

Well, that's less retconning and more continuous series of prequels with nearly-identical stories. ^_~

Post: #277600
Topic: The vocalizing in the PT.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277600/action/topic#277600
Time: 15-Mar-2007 11:25 PM

I agree. But I found it quite surprising when I got the soundtrack that the climax of that piece (you know what I'm talking about) was much shorter than it seems in the movie. I never can get enough of that reckless soaring feeling that part of the piece gives me.

Once again, it's been a while since I've seen you around much. Don't be a stranger, Jenny.

Post: #277598
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277598/action/topic#277598
Time: 15-Mar-2007 11:09 PM

Yeah, the way I see it (and probably you too) is that Mario lived on Earth (Brooklyn) during the events of the Donkey Kong games. Sometime after that, Mario switches occupations from a carpenter to a plumber, either joining his brother Luigi or bringing him along for the ride. Then, during or after the events of Mario Bros., Mario and Luigi discovered a warp pipe to the Mushroom Kingdom, setting up the events for Super Mario Bros., and the rest is history. But either Nintendo has retconned those early games, or we are meant to assume those early games take place in the Mushroom Kingdom or surrounding fantasy land, or (another theory I've heard) that they were born in the Mushroom Kingdom but, as infants, found their way to the real world, and were adopted by their Brooklyn parents.

Post: #277581
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277581/action/topic#277581
Time: 15-Mar-2007 9:07 PM

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
So has anybody here played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Sage for the GBA (I hope I didn't ask this a month ago, but I don't think I did)? It's not an incredibly hard RPG, but it's just so much fun! Honestly, it's the closest I've come to watching a continuation of the old TV series, where the Mario Bros. work as a team. And back in the NES days, when game narratives were limited, it was really the old DiC cartoons that shaped my image of the Mario universe.

SuperStar Saga is a frickin' awesome game. Too bad the sequel had to be full of those blasted continuity-complicating babies. (How can Mario be an Italian plumber from Brooklyn if he knew Princess Peach as a baby?)

Yeah, I have no idea how far I am into it (don't want to know, so don't tell me), but I just did that quest where Luigi was hypnotized into thinking he was Mario. That was hilarious. Honestly, Chaltab, the whole Brooklyn-transplant thing has never been mentioned in any official game as far as I know. It was just the cartoon/movie that did that. We just accept it as canon because it's a much better backstory than what the games present. But since I don't have a DS, I haven't played Partners in Time anyway.

Oh, and Tiptup, that was the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I love it. I'd seen links to it on YouTube forever, but I never clicked it because I didn't realize what it was. Thanks for that gem. Have to watch them all now.

Post: #277578
Topic: I'm leaving.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277578/action/topic#277578
Time: 15-Mar-2007 8:30 PM

Damn that Hitler for making so many innocuous things taboo! Like the swastika/manji/what have you. And also his rockin' stache! I wonder how common that little bugger would be now if Hitler hadn't hitlerfied it?

Post: #277577
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277577/action/topic#277577
Time: 15-Mar-2007 8:27 PM

Congratulations, Dayv! You were stagnant at 12,200 for so long that it's quite refreshing to see a new milestone reached by you. Maybe some new life will be breathed back into this thread, hmm?

Post: #277576
Topic: The Darth Chaltab's Jedi Spirit EXTRAVAGANZA Celebration
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277576/action/topic#277576
Time: 15-Mar-2007 8:24 PM

Damnit, I missed that milestone too, because, as you can plainly see, TheCassidy is now a Jedi Knight. Congratulations, man!