Leonardo

doubleofive said:

 

Leonardo said:

jeez what the hell was I on last night??

no wonder all my cars in gta kept exploding...

Drunk-GTA-driving? Sounds like fun. Too bad I sold GTA and would have to drunk-horse-riding on RDR...

 

It IS fun. a little frustrating, but fun. I couldn't kill more than 7 people (while in vigilante mode) before either the car exploded or the timer ran out (because of all the spinning and crashing). It's Vice City, BTW... The cars, the clothes, and the music... I don't know how close it is to feeling like Miami in 1986, but I love this game's atmosphere!

Booze adds that little extra touch to the experience, that I never enjoyed while playing other games; being tipsy always turned me off playing, cause I could never concentrate enough, too many mistakes. With GTA it somehow adds to the fun!!

....I should've posted this in the Video Games thread, shouldn't I?

Leonardo said:

i'm slightly drunk... had a galss of vodka and 3 lucky strikes... dumb shit one does when one goes out with three pals and there's no one around because it rained !!

Leonardo said:

i idnd't say i put them into the galss you carp eating megaman helmet wearing sixty five year old... frink

jeez what the hell was I on last night??

no wonder all my cars in gta kept exploding...

i idnd't say i put them into the galss you carp eating megaman helmet wearing sixty five year old... frink

i'm slightly drunk... had a galss of vodka and 3 lucky strikes... dumb shit one does when one goes out with three pals and there's no one around because it rained !!

Birthday cake. So far, along with the love of my family & friends, the only really sweet aspect of turning 23.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpsMGpMIqNk

This video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZa8Cji2CA

is so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes... *sniff* ¹

doubleofive said:

Xhonzi, is Frink just a floating pair of sunglasses, or an ancient man?

 

I think he's

with

maybe they were saying boo-urns.... ?

Dibs on Popeye.

This salad thread is getting stale.

The demo looks positively super, Puggo! :D

msycamore said:

Thanks for the explanation Leo, but why did they type it like this on the opening titles then?

 

" FUGGI' "

 

Maybe it's just a font variation? The original Italian poster have another style of it. That's why I was a little confused about it.

Short explanation: it's an error.

Slightly longer explanation, partly made of guesswork:

It's an error carried over from decades of people using typewriters, which didn't have many symbols. As a matter of fact, some typewriters didn't even have the number 1, so it was substituted by I.

msycamore said:

So what is the correct way when typing FUGGI' in the Italian title? I also see it typed like this, Fuggì ...are both ways correct perhaps? I just want it to be correctly done on the cover I'm doing. I'm talking about the accent mark or whatever it is after the letter "I".

 

Well, it's an accent mark, yes, and the correct symbol is " ì ". If you ever see it written like this " I' " it's because no keyboards have the capital version of that I with an accent, which is " Ì ", and some people can't be arsed to look for it on the character map, or don't actually know it's there, so we use that surrogate. Here's the explanation from Wiki:

Stress

The grave accent marks the stressed vowel of a word in Catalan and Italian. Some examples from Italian are città "city", morì "[he/she] died", virtù "virtue", Mosè "Moses", portò "[he/she] brought, carried". Especially with capital letters, or when using a keyboard without accented letters, an apostrophe is sometimes used instead of it in Italian, thus E’ instead of È "[he/she/it] is", though this is considered (at least) inelegant and inaccurate (though the phrase un po’ meaning "a little" is infrequently spelt as un pò, because it's a truncated version of un poco).

In Italian there are pairs of words, one accented and the other not, with different pronunciation and meaning, such as pero "pear tree" and però "but", and papa "pope" and papà "dad" (the last example is also valid for Catalan).

Interesting topic. Regarding a motion control camera, AFAIK it's basically a camera mounted on a guide that will always repeat the same movement, programmed by a computer, something many of us can do today with any piece of junk. Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivX-euthLSU

or a dedicated project, like this one I found:

http://vimeo.com/5537337

Just finished watching "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the movie, on YouTube. Well, I skipped many, many parts, the whole thing is like a huge collection of music videos. Needless to say, I can see why it's rarely mentioned. It's an odd film, some of the covers are good but the rest really don't work for me; most interesting parts of this movie, for me, were George Burns (yes, even the "Fixing a Hole" cover), Earth Wind & Fire, and Billy Preston.

Speaking of Billy Preston, here's something that I noticed, as a Star Wars fan: when he's shooting lasers out of his hands, the sound is unmistakably that of a lightsaber being turned on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jim4lQnHK-0

and earlier in the film, towards the beginning, I've heard the sound of Luke's speeder a couple of times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqaEbi8NmRM

the same sound is used with the machinery in Mr Mustard's van, along with a couple of sounds from the Millennium Falcon

what in blue blazes??

twooffour said:

And he does look like you :P

ok, now he does

twooffour said:

You actually look like Raul from MonkeyAndApple :DD

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jVz9Z2SBY

*watches a few videos*

wow, that guy is one of the unfunniest people I've ever seen. He's trying, oh you can tell that. But he fails miserably. I mean, seriously, all the videos I've seen feature the same annoying character, they're too damn long and repetitive, and just do not make me chuckle.

also, I don't see a resemblance.

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dude, I have that exact same shirt! and a double chin... I'm also trying to grow a beard... I've deleted many things from my past....

..

AAAAAAAAGHHH!!!!!!

I gave a shot to this project, too, but I couldn't find but five (5) photos of Mr. Shaw on the web.

(tm) made by yours truly :)

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

So my best advice is put down everything in plane English...

Er...

he obviously means the language used by flight attendants.

for example:

"My resumé can be used as a flotation device."

This thread is now about... George Gershwin