Leonardo

You're going to make a C64 loading screen?

A couple of minutes ago, I was in the kitchen with my mom as she was flipping tv channels, and among the plethora of cooking shows that now plague the airwaves, we stumbled upon a program that had a chef with a Moe Howard haircut, and he kinda resembled the Stooge, too. I started giggling like a silly goose, mom had to change the channel. Whatever, I'm making up my own Stooges short in my head... XD

TV's Frink said:

poita said:

I'm pretty crook

Er, what?

Moth3r said:

Australian for "I'm not feeling very well".

So that's what Nixon meant! He did not lie after all!

Abe Vigoda is still around? Wow... bless him!

I got a little idea.

How about some sort of war against a robot army, you know, technology either turns evil (no Force or Sith bullcrap though) or revolts against humans or something.

Did the EU ever use similar concepts?

I'm sure I'm not the first one to conceive an idea like this one.

Well, I'm 25, I'm not 10 lol ;P

I've been messing with tapes my whole life.

Nice to see traffic in my thread, even if it's not on topic. :)

And to stay on the same theme, here's a couple of photos of my new vcr playing a tape from... I'd say more than 10 years ago.

Good ol' Fred looks stunned, he's probably amazed the vhs format still holds up so well. It helps that Hanna Barbera cartoons from the 60s had these really large areas of solid color, all you really need is a decent luma signal. :)

Wilma, Barney and Betty look very pleased. Maybe they know part of the merit for this nice snapshot is due to my Samsung LCD TV, seems to process vcr signals really well.

According to Wikipedia, that Rete4 logo dates back from at least 1999. Seems about right, but man, a long time ago that was!

Possessed said:

Yes, it's much better when the movies are listed out of order. Duh.

Er.. no, you missed a South Park joke, but that's ok.

Nice one, hadn't found that one yet.

Doctor M said:

My head almost exploded when I saw they even repainted the dwarf names on the beds in Italian.  Weird.

That was done by Disney, they used to care about international versions... I don't believe that text is on the Dvd or Bluray release, now. As a matter of fact, what you hear in the clip is the 1972 redub. There was a theatrical dub in 1938, but Disney just doesn't care about it nowadays. They just ignore it and pretend it never existed, just like Cinderella and Peter Pan's  original dub tracks.

I've just "discovered" nun jokes. My life is now complete.

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Two nuns who were driving along, a vampire jumps out in front of their car and starts to walk menacingly towards them..
Sister Anne says to Sister Bernadette..."Show him your cross!"

Sister Bernadette wound down the window of the car and says "GET OUT OF THE ROAD YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"

Nice, we finally found a sample!

The clip mainly showcases the many widescreen inserts I spoke about, those were spliced in because they had the italian text in it. But you can get a glimpse of the colour of the print. How does that look to you?

Panasonic NV FS200. Is.. is that incorrect, Moth3r?

I think he's talking about my tape. EDIT: You're a quick one, Mr Ant!

I now have a Panny NV FS 200 but my hard drive is fried. I'm looking into hdd recovery options, there was tons of stuff in that drive that I'd hate to lose.

Great idea for a thread. I also now have the Pal equivalent to the AG 1980, I love this machine already.

Capture card reccomendations? I'm stuck at DV now, which is fine, but I'm aware of limitations of the format in regard to colorspace.

As soon as I have my pc back up and running, I'd love to do a couple of tape transfers, and it would be nice to do a "done once and done right" kind of deal.

My Panasonic NV-FS200 arrived today.

Unfortunately, due to my recent hard drive crash, I'm unable to do anything other than hooking it up to the tv and watch the pretty pictures. And they really are pretty! :)

Oh, yeah, about the preservation currently on the Spleen: there should be a couple of people trying to download it right now. Sorry, folks. Can't seed at the moment. :(

What if I don't want anything?

The root of all suffering is desire. Without desire, there is no suffering.

^ And this actually made me feel a bit better. :)

Thanks Ant, Warb and Bingo for the kind words.

I've heard of toothpaste for cds, but what really works (apparently) is Brasso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasso

or so I've heard. Never tried it, so I cannot reccomend it nor warn people against using it.

Getting back to the matter at hand, has any of you ever heard of Donordrives.com?

These people offer the service I seem to require, and they'll do it for 60$. This could potentially save me hundreds!

http://www.donordrives.com/package-hard-drive-circuit-board-replacement-part-and-adaptation-service.html

Thoughts?

Yes, I reckon putting my head in it should calm my boiling blood.

What a fuckhead I am. Why do I never back anything up... why, why, why...

I'm fucking pissed off and filled with murderous rage... my main computer's hard drive bit the dust!!!!

E v e r y t h i n g  was in there!!!

I just wanna punch a wall now.

I like the idea of dogfights, although to be honest I don't really like the lightsaber used as a boomerang, and the ships look out of scale when near the stormtroopers. That could put off some people, but there you go, can't please everybody.

Looks very nice! I've never played Halo and this actually makes me want to.

I'm guessing the music was added in post, wasn't it?

My father just told me this one:

Two lesbian vampires on a night out:

- Slurp slurp suck slurp

- Suck slurp slurp suck

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- Alright, see you in 28 days.

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SilverWook said:

Contrary to popular belief, mods are not omniscient. If you see shenanigans, tell a mod.

 

Can they fly, at least?

Come back, Tack! I've won the auction! Cannoli for everyone! :)