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Gaffer Tape

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#491851
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...and WE get the bad rap!!!!!
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Mielr, I'm so sorry you have to put up with crap like that.  Thankfully my YouTube channel has mostly well-mannered people post on it, but every time I get an e-mail saying that someone has posted on one of my Dragon Ball-related videos, I hesitate to see what it says, for fear it's going to be a, "U liek the japonese version?  wut a gay little faggut u are.  english version rocks. grow up y ou little bitch!"  On their own, they're no skin off my back, but, cumulatively, they do start to wear me down.  So I can certainly understand why you'd want to disable comments eventually.  I just don't know where that person gets off.  It's your video!  You have every right to choose how and if people are allowed to react to it.  Damn sense of entitlement...

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#491605
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Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/491605/action/topic#491605
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Thanks, bkev, although I'd already found the answer through Googling.  But, for some reason, it's still not working.  When I tried to try it out in Word, it said there was insufficient memory or disc space.  But more specifically, how do I use it for other programs, say image manipulation or editing software instead of word processing?

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#491601
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Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/491601/action/topic#491601
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RedFive said:

Anyone have/remember the old A/B cable?  Growing up I remember the channels were 1-22A and 1-22B, and there was a little black switchbox hooked to the cable box you'd have to flip.

 Yep.  I used to have that for my NES for years!

Anyway, quick question.  So, yeah, I'm in the middle of making a new video, and I need some help.  Um, when you download a font, how do you actually... use it?

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#491015
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Starwars.com closes its forums
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/491015/action/topic#491015
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Anchorhead said:

That's the saddest part of the entire franchise to me - the ever changing original vision and some people's inability to see that there is no such thing.  Nor was there ever such a thing, beyond the 1977 theatrical release.

Exactly.  Anyone new coming into the franchise, and especially people born after it was created, are only going to believe what they are told, as they have no frame of reference to dispute it.  I came into the franchise in 1995.  While that meant I could mostly see the revisionist history concerning the prequels and the special editions, I don't think I realized until I came here that, for example, the original Star Wars didn't always say "Episode IV A New Hope."  I'd assumed that was always there.  My frame of reference was 1995 and the set of interviews that came with the Faces set.  So I always just took it as a matter of course what Lucas said in those:  that the trilogy was one big movie split into three parts because it was just soooooo damned epic and amazing and long.  Since I wasn't there at the time, I had no reason to question it!

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#490693
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Star Trek is Gay
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/490693/action/topic#490693
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Gaffer Tape said:

He also played Warlord Shank on Space Cases. I'm not a Star Trek fan, but he was good on that show. Not having seen him as Sulu, I wouldn't have assumed he was gay, because he was pretty threatening (well, as threatening as you can get on Nickelodeon) on Space Cases.

Wow, look at the young me!  All not into Star Trek and in college!

*sigh*

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#489822
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Natalie Portman in "Your Highness"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/489822/action/topic#489822
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Oh, I see.  Forum threads are only one-on-one conversations.  Forgive me for intruding on your private message.  But since we're having this conversation anyway... what false conclusions did I jump to with your post?  You assumed he was being sarcastic.  I disagreed and *gasp* assumed that maybe he actually seriously thought George Lucas was a bad writer, so I said so.  "Whatever gets you through the night" was just a little friendly jab at you.  Hell, as I just said, my post agreed with you that George Lucas's ability or lack of ability to write probably had nothing to do with how Natalie Portman looked, hence my asking if you even bother to read my posts.  So, yeah, I'm pretty sure my facts are straight, but I do appreciate your concern.

In all seriousness, though, I do generally find your attitude in threads to be a bit snide, and while I haven't directly conversed with you often, the few times I have you never really came across as anything other than unpleasant.  So I probably am quicker to assume you're copping an attitude than with other members of this forum, even if that's not the case.  If I did indeed misinterpret the intention of your response earlier, then I do apologize.

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#489805
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Natalie Portman in "Your Highness"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/489805/action/topic#489805
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WhatsMyName said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Whatever gets you through the night.  But I doubt it's sarcasm.  George is a crappy writer.  Even George admits it... or he used to before his head became three sizes too large.  Although in regards to the Natalie Portman question, I'd say it has more to do with his deficiency in directing actors...

 Uh, if he was a crappy writer, why do you watch Star Wars?

Uh, because he is a good idea man.  He just can't write a decent script.  The Star Wars movies I like were helped along by other writers, because, as I said, this is a deficiency he used to be big enough to acknolwedge and brought in his friends to help him.  George brought the ideas to the table, but Willlard Huyck, Gloria Katz, and especially Lawrence Kasdan and Irvin Kershner, helped give those ideas proper form.

Actually, I used to express the same incredulity as you.  My best friend in high school, who was also a huge Star Wars fan, used to always bitch about what a terrible writer George Lucas was.  And I would say the same thing:  How can you love Star Wars if you think that George Lucas is a terrible writer?  It's only when I got older and learned more details about how Star Wars was actually made that I figured it out.  Late in college, I tracked him down and admitted to him that he was right all along.