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#341181
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Looked good overall, some of the mouth movements looked a bit "sharp" (too much movement) and the one blink that felt off was after Yoda says "what he was doing..."

After youve seen a scene enough times even the benign becomes apperant I guess. Never thought Yoda needed any updating though IMO.

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#335527
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Y'all better vote for Obama!
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FanFiltration said:

Like how Bush and the right wing talking heads blamed everything on Clinton for almost eight years?

 

 

 

So we can expect the same during the Obama years, and it sounds like we can not do anything about it since people are saying "center right." Looks like something will really "change" Lets not help ensure Obama the man you voted in overcomes these obsticals lets just say it will be the rights fault for whatever he can not fix. Business as usual vote for the guy and the involvement stops there...except to show how the other side caused all the problems. "Change' my a$$

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#335476
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Y'all better vote for Obama!
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C3PX said:

Man, it is going to suck when we can't blame Bush for everything anymore. Bush and his damn sub prime mortgages! err... wait a minute...

 

 

Says who, it's obvious from the posts on this page alone, If Obama doesn't wipe out poverty, bring the unemployment rate to 0% and ensure everyone owns a home it will clearly be the fault of Bush. Don't ya know thats the American way...blame someone else.  Obama has what may be a free pass with the overwhelming dislike for Bush. Obama could totally frig a lot up but all of it would be because of Bush, not because of his own actions. As much as people say Bush does not take accountability, Obama has the possibility of 0% accountiability for anything he does simply because he need only say I could not overcome these issues due to Bush. He hasn't even started and they are already setting up that scenario.

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#334779
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The Force Unleashed is true to the F.U. part
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C3PX said:

But at the very least, you know the bike is different in all those ways, if you choose to change it, it'd be your fault, if your mom or dad or sibling changed it for you, you'd have the right to be pissed, but even if you didn't have the bike any longer at all, you still have the memories of the races, those can't be repainted. That is what Tip and I mean, your coming at this from a different angle that doesn't relate to what we are saying. The past is static and cannot be changed regardless of what the future brings.

But I do get what you are saying GA.

That may be Sky's point, the films were not altered by him but by GL. Granted GL has the rights but it wasn't something sky changed.

The memory of a presons individual experience doesnt change but some people watch the movie to experience those "times" again (nostalgia) and when its not how you remember it, you may not get that same *insert emotion* as you did. Your pulled out of the experience because of the changes. Thats nit picking because you can say theres always variables and you can still watch them as they were (although in low quality transfers).

 

I understand how my point does not dismiss your point C3 or Tips' and that it is not inline with the original argument.  I was stating more for a different point of view..and we all  know that "many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view" :p

 

Bottom line though, its generally agreed upon that the current version of the Unaltered Original Trilogy has not been released in an "acceptable" format for this generation. And you can either complain about the issue and mostly like not get far or follow in the footsteps of the many forum members who chose not to just accept with what they were given.

 

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#334771
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The Force Unleashed is true to the F.U. part
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I'm not an old bat like some here (no offense) but, I think theres a difference between the memory of what your experience was with something and a memory of what that something was. Someone may remember playing with a certain toy when they were a child and the things they did with it and how much fun it was to them but it doesn't mean they remember everything about the toy exactly. For example I remember riding a bike as a kid and racing against other kids in the street but the heck if I remember the color scheme on it. So now if you apply that to the movies, its as if you kept that bike for 30+ years but every 5 years or so you re-painted it, you changed the wheels on it and added new accessories to it. Now 30 years later you have that same bike but because of all the changes it has undergone you don't necessarily remember it exactly like it was when you first started riding it. You obviously still remember the experiences you had when you were a kid riding it, but now if you were to go ride (you'd like goofy) it might be a different ride than you remember.  I'm not saying Tip is wrong and Sky is right I just wanted to give a different perspective on this.

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#334735
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The Force Unleashed is true to the F.U. part
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Tiptup said:
skyjedi2005 said:

He is still Raping peoples Childhoods, and crapping all over their memories.

I'm sorry to pick out this point, but I've never understood that argument. As far as I'm concerned that's not really possible.

What George Lucas is "raping" and "crapping" on are great works of art. My memories and childhood are static, unchanging moments in the past (ideally).

Its relative, how you remember something 5 years after you initially experienced it and after 25 years are not necessarily going to be the same or unchanged. Especially when that memory is of a film that has gone through countless alterations.

 

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#334609
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The Force Unleashed is true to the F.U. part
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I played through the game a few weeks ago and I thought it was really lack luster. As the name implies it's all about force powers so you run around attack with a force power wait for your powers to replenish and repeat. The lightsaber is completely worthless unless you are fighting the standard pawn enemies. I gave up upgrading the combo's half way through the game since there pointless. The fighting and overall game play were incredibly repetitive. Also charging full price for a game that has nothing other than a single player campaign (Xbox360) is ridiculous. I really thought the new technologies sounded promising but they were executed poorly. The story was alright but its still a video game story. The fact is, I think it could have been much cooler to see all that in the movies but GL really scrwed up the PT so we get a a terrible game to play with a half-a$$ed story to fill all the gaps. Glad I just rented it.

 

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#334083
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Can GhostAlpha26 just be banned?
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Jay said:
GhostAlpha26 said:
Jay said:

I've asked him to use a text editor if he simply must copy/paste his posts.

 

Where and when?

I sent an e-mail to the account you have on file asking you to use a plain text editor.

I also deleted your signature since that was apparently pasted from Word as well.

Never check that e-mail *Edit* Just went into preferences and looked up the e-mail addressed I have on file. I had not signed on to it in so long the account was deactivated.

I actually removed my sig a week or so back. I don't know if you stopped it from being viewed by others but when I went into my preferences I took out the text and the link.

 

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#330491
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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skyjedi2005 said:

Since i have not played the Full Force Unleashed game maybe those scenes were flashback scenes when he was a good guy before being taken on as vaders apprentice after vader killed his father.  I don't know if when he was a boy and a jedi padawan having a blue saber would make sense.  But if it is when he is older working for vader it makes little sense.  Unless he is doing a contract killing or something and wants it pinned on the Jedi only sith use red sabers.  Maybe a red saber would draw suspicion on Vader. Only Vader and the Emperor are the Sith left alive in the universe.

 

I dont believe so. If you re-read the quote from the review, it states "Unforgivable is the Secret Apprentice wielding a blue lightsaber during multiple cut-scenes yet using a red one in the gameplay segments surrounding those scenes." If you think about cut-scenes they often are in direct relation to what is being played. So if you take what the reviewer has said it sounds as if the cut-scenes are taking place during the gameplay. Its still possible that the cut-scenes are from flashbacks but the way the reviewer talks it seems as if its a blatant folly on Lucasarts part, and with the track record, I would not give Lucasarts the benefit of the doubt.

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#330452
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Looks like Lucasarts has some serious issues getting lightsaber coloring correct in all aspects of entertainment.

 

Quote taken from a review for The Force Unleashed

 

"One would think LucasArts would have paid closer attention to quality control on a game in development for approximately four years. Forgivable are some sparse jitters and lag considering the sheer amount of destruction going on at any given time at the hands of the Force and DMM and how great the game looks – and sounds -- in high definition. Unforgivable is the Secret Apprentice wielding a blue lightsaber during multiple cut-scenes yet using a red one in the gameplay segments surrounding those scenes. This error sticks out like a sore thumb on more than one occasion and detracts from otherwise strong CGI animation."

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#328050
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C3PXs XXX Links
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lordjedi said:

Murphy's law isn't so much a law of reality as it is a statement of poor choices and improper planning anyway.  Driving down the road, you might get a flat. The flat is murphy's law, the spare is the contingency for it. 



The fallacy is that you think there is always a plan for every situation and that plan can always be executed before something goes wrong.

And so we can state that poor choices are possible but just not for a person who drinks responsibly.
 
 
lordjedi said:

(there's that control thing).


Yes everything in everyones life is always in perfect control. And as stated before outside influences could never occur and never interfere with someones life/choices. You should have told me reality was inconcequentioal in this discussion  :p

 


  
lordjedi said:

The problem with your logic is that it always assumes that those people who are drinking are always drinking at a bar/club/pub.


Oh so you mean like someone who assumes that it is not possible to drink responsible and then drink irresponsible. Hmmmm

lordjedi said:

The sun could explode by the time I finish this post, but that doesn't mean it will.


It may not, but your saying anythings possible.... Anything that is unless a person states that I can drink responsible and it can therefore be concluded that the person could never ever possibly drink irresponsibly, and that statement holds true for every single solitary person who drinks responsibly.  And its therefore logical to believe there is no way, no possible concealable unknown never could happen way for someone to drink responsibly and then one time drink irresponsibly. Your standing by the statement that anyone whose anyone can state they can drink responsibly and know there limits and blah blah blah but could never ever drink irresponsibly (Your joining the ranks of Nacy Pelosi when she talked for the entire Catholic religion). You have dismissed every rational logical and concealable realistic situation/idea the world over.


You have in essence stated you are perfect and free from fault or misjudgment when alcohol is involved and others who drink responsibly are also perfect and totally incapable of making a bad choice and that is totally and 110% logical.  For your next act can turn water into wine? Better go with soda, it could be said that those days you spent getting wasted didnt exactly help your cognitive development. Actually it all makes sense now, "beer muscles," who else could make such irrational statements than the guy who has the  massive superiority complex from all that alcohol :p

 

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#328000
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C3PXs XXX Links
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lordjedi said:
GhostAlpha26 said:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Your totally right "it can never happen to me" nothing could ever go wrong. Everyone knows their limits and those who do have never had something slipped into their drink. Seriously nothing can ever go wrong when your drinking and responsible. Its not documented at all that motor skills decrease even with a couple drinks, and since thats not true someone could never misjudge something simple like a step and fall down stairs. Heck every convicted murderer need only state they are now a different person and they will never do anything criminal again and as long as they make a statement like that we should with blind devotion believe it. I mean living in a world based in reality how could anything go wrong. Everything is always totally and 100% controllable in life, there are never any exceptions to the rule. Outside factors are never important, and everyone always always makes the right choice in every situation. Murphy's Law is a total fabrication and everything always goes according to plan. And it would be completely unreasonable to not believe any of that :p

 

Actually, knowing that Murphy's law exists, it can be fairly well planned around.  If you know that everything that can go wrong will, you can usually plan around anything that might happen.  As a network admin, I actually deal with Murphy's law on a fairly regular basis.

Murphy's law isn't so much a law of reality as it is a statement of poor choices and improper planning anyway.  Driving down the road, you might get a flat.  But if you've taken proper care of your car, you'll have a spare and you can go on.  The flat is murphy's law, the spare is the contingency for it.  And that's just one example.

Anyway, have fun in a world where you can't trust the people you drink around.  I don't put myself in those kinds of situations (which are almost always in bars and clubs, so basically around people you don't know), so my chances of having that happen are pretty low.  Oh, I know, I'm sure a close friend or relative could do it, but I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery and I almost never play the lottery (there's that control thing).

BTW, you are aware that the effects of alcohol are related to your weight, right?  So a 200 lb person will show different effects (almost none that is) than a 100 lb person after just one drink.  The 100 lb person won't be safe to drive for at least one hour after one drink, whereas the 200 lb person can have 2 or 3 drinks in one hour and still be under the legal limit and still not notice the effects of alcohol.  Obviously if someone slips something into either drink, it's game over.  But since when did drinking responsibly have anything to do with people spiking drinks?

 

 

Hmm I dont know how much I should write to someone who took offense from what another said they consider to be "retarded" hahahaha

Again it seems you see the point. Just because someone can drink responsibly does not mean something cant go wrong (i.e. slipping something in a persons drink) but again nothing can possibly go wrong as long as someones responsible :)

And Im glad you could "disprove" ~3 of the numerous reasons I listed, covered all the bases :p 

 

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#327971
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C3PXs XXX Links
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C3PX said:

 

Yeah, no, for some reason the whole childish gay joke just doesn't bother me. With this thread you have really managed to insult yourself more than anybody else. Fortunately for you, you don't care what others think about you. If you did, then you'd be the one wanting this thread dead and buried. I am just thrilled that your immature nonsense is now being confined to this thread for the most part, rather than plaguing any other discussions on these boards.

 

@ everybody other than GA, I have no idea why you guys are still arguing over this. It is the dumbest argument. Of course people can drink responsibly, people do it all the time. Why would you even consider arguing with somebody who makes such an outrageous claim that it is impossible to drink responsibly? This whole argument is so painfully idiotic. It is like having a serious debate as to the exact number of licks it really takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop, so unbelievably futile. Feel free to continue if you like, but please step away from the computer and reflect on how dumb it is to argue about this before deciding to go on and prove GA wrong.

 

I didnt think it bothered you, I think its funny. I know how important it must be to you that awful bad arguments arent affecting the rest of your frequented forum, its such a tragedy when an Internet forum is not up to its usual stellar topics. What a bad day it must be when an Internet forum isnt producing really deep thought provoking discussion, whats the point in getting out of bed with out that :)

 

Yes make a general delceraion to the others to stop and dissest when you have contributed to this thread more than most. Ignore the fact that you have been unable to simply not contribute to what you consider worthless and stupid nor have you soiled your prestine image on the net what so ever, your truly a "cut above" lol.

 

C3PX said:

Why would you even consider arguing with somebody who makes such an outrageous claim that it is impossible to drink responsibly?

 

 

GhostAlpha26 said:

you can be responsible today

 

Obviously you got the point hahahaha

And maybe you could explain why you would consider it to them since you have LOL

 

I mean you had already made your judgment about me before this thread was created and yet you still continued to come back kept coming into a thread that should be dead and buried. I guess it takes a little while for ya to grasp somethings, its ok theres a lot of people with special needs :p

 

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#327957
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C3PXs XXX Links
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lordjedi said:

GA26, you're retarded.  It really is that simple.  I take offense to your implication that people who say they can drink responsibly might one day not drink responsibly.

How is it foolish to know ones limits?  Seriously, answer that question.  If I know that as long as I'm not sick, I can drink 1 or 2 beers per hour (that's not very much either) and be totally fine, what's the problem with that?  What, am I going to lose count of how many I've had while the empty's are stacked on the counter?  Am I not going to notice that I'm getting a little drunk if I have 3 or more in one hour or even over 2 hours?  Do I not have the capability to stop?  To simply say "No thanks" when the waitress comes by to ask if I'd like another?  Or to just not grab another one out of the fridge at home?  Even when I was getting plastered on the weekends, which was over 10 years ago mind you, I knew I was getting plastered and wasn't stupid enough to go anywhere (yes, we always put the car keys away and never went out for more liquor).  If/when I have a bad cold, I simply don't drink.  And yes, it really is that easy to decide "hey, I can't drink tonight because I have a bad cold and I don't want to make it worse".

Maybe in your world people can't think for themselves.  Maybe in your world people have such low self-esteem that any kind of offer or "pressure" makes them cave.  In my world, people don't have to drink if they don't want to.  And if they do want to, they can be stopped from going overboard (yes, I have taken keys away from people before) or they know when they've had enough.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Your totally right "it can never happen to me" nothing could ever go wrong. Everyone knows their limits and those who do have never had something slipped into their drink. Seriously nothing can ever go wrong when your drinking and responsible. Its not documented at all that motor skills decrease even with a couple drinks, and since thats not true someone could never misjudge something simple like a step and fall down stairs. Heck every convicted murderer need only state they are now a different person and they will never do anything criminal again and as long as they make a statement like that we should with blind devotion believe it. I mean living in a world based in reality how could anything go wrong. Everything is always totally and 100% controllable in life, there are never any exceptions to the rule. Outside factors are never important, and everyone always always makes the right choice in every situation. Murphy's Law is a total fabrication and everything always goes according to plan. And it would be completely unreasonable to not believe any of that :p

 

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#327954
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C3PXs XXX Links
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Tiptup said:

My interest in people being wrong may be vain in many ways, but I do have my own reasons for dwelling upon it. At the very least, it's not anymore worthless than what you're doing on the internet.

You dwell upon it? Hahahahahaha Jeez man thats intense you have got to discuss more in here, it is just way too hilarious how much this stuff means to you. Worthless? No way like I said, moderately entertaining :p but Im starting to think having you talk about the importance of the Internet would make the level of entertainment go much higher :p

Tiptup said:

Why, GhostAlpha26 is asking for his thread to be locked. Let's hope a moderator grants that wish.

Far from it I think its funny seeing it "up," there so the longer it stays the better.

The all knowing all logical member seems to have completely misinturperted something on the internet...doesnt get much better :)