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#213687
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213687/action/topic#213687
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Hey everybody, sorry I've been gone for a while - I've been out of town without a constant internet connection since November.

I have to say that the past month has been a real rollercoaster regarding the website. I, for one, am secretly happy that this community still has a purpose and that my previous investment in the X0 project (and subsequent investments as well ) will not have been wasted.

George Lucas is still the revisionist hack he's been since Return of the Jedi, and it takes a voice like ours to put his wrongs right.

In any case, x0 project... not to keep repeating rhetoric, but keep up the good work.
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#153116
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What the Hell is Going on in France?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153116/action/topic#153116
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Having lived in France for 5 years, I can tell you a bit more in depth at what's happening.

After the 2nd world war, France needed men to help re-build their country so they looked to their North African colonies for manpower. They brought them in, gave them jobs, but didn't aid them in providing housing. They were forced to live in slums for quite a while until the government stepped in and built project housing. These "banlieus" or "suburbs" located outside of major cities became the major living space of these immigrants.

A lot of jobs that were given to these immigrants were somewhat hapless: garbage collectors, street sweepers...civil servants basically. The children of these immigrants and their children began to feel like outsiders. On one hand, their parents were Arabs but, the children could not relate to them at all having never grown up in their parents' country. On the other hand they had French nationality, but white French citizens refer to them simply as "Arabs". These 2nd and 3rd generation citizens began accepting Hip Hop and American gang/rap culture into their lives. They could relate to Black Americans who struggle to this day to be fully accepted into society. So unemployment, poverty, gang culture and disaffection: a natural breeding ground for criminal behavior.

When this crime started affecting citizens in the more "white" areas of France, there was alarm for concern. Most of this crime is beatings, bullying, grafitti and theft and the white citizens don't feel safe (this explains the scary popularity of the Front National: a radical right political party bent on restoring France's "soverignty" by kicking out immigrants and creating programs to send Arab citizens back to their "home country") The government in the past few years or so have decided to crack down on spiraling crime rates. They began to get tough in these hard hitting areas that had been largely ignored by police.

You can pretty much guess the vicious circle that this has created: the residents of these poor neighborhoods have had enough of being treated like 2nd class citizens, and the more affluent residents of France tired of all the crime that seems to come from the "banlieus". The two youths that were killed was the straw that broke the camel's back.

So what do you do? As you can see there is no easy solution. You can't just snap your fingers and create respect and jobs for the minority. You can try to fight it, but you're only adding fuel to the fire.

But please know that the fires are caused by a minority, there have been peace protests by the residents of these neighborhoods as well. Not everyone in these neighborhoods are doing this.

I hope I've explained this clearly enough.... I do excuse myself if my rhetoric sounds too simplistic (creating two groups: white and arab/black). I'm just trying to explain as simply as possible.

EDITED for clarity and content.
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#150727
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I need help for a Drama Class project
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150727/action/topic#150727
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Here's a quote from The marriage of Figaro just so you see how funny it is. (perhaps? yes?) Basically, Figaro is a servant to an idiotic Spanish aristocrat and he's giving him a piece of his mind:

"No, Monsieur le Comte, you shan't have her! You shan't have her. Just because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointments to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born - nothing more. Moreover, you're really a pretty ordinary fellow. While as for me, lost in the crowd, I've had to use more knowledge, more brains, just to keep alive than your likes have to spend on governing Spain and the Empire for a century. And you want to contest with me."
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#150726
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I need help for a Drama Class project
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150726/action/topic#150726
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"Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead", "Look Back in Anger" (rather serious but it does have its moment), Anything by Oscar Wilde.

There's an obscure play called "One Way Pendulum" that's absolutely absurd. A little too absurd, maybe...

"The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Barber of Seville" by Beaumarchais are hysterical (even after 300 years). Moliere can be funny, but it's rather high-brow and I have no idea how it translates into English.

Shakespeare can be funny but that's demanding for a monologue.


So yeah, there you go. Have fun!
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#147407
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Howl's moving castle
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/147407/action/topic#147407
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I seriously hope that's not what the original script said, or otherwise someone needs to revoke Miyazaki's genius liscence, because that line is just BAAAAD.


No, that particular sentence is not said in the film, but that's how I'd define cheesy Japanese humor.

There are moments kinda like that, but not that bad.
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#146396
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NES games that you haven't beat
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146396/action/topic#146396
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
A question: I have a lot of NES and SNES games. If I want to play them on the revolution, I'd have to pay the same a person who didn't own the games would? Isn't that unfair? And isn't that charging twice over the same product?


What *I'd* like to know is, will one be able to play their ROMs on this new console? Perhaps someone will write a program where you can burn a CD or DVD of your ROMs and use the emulation provided on the Revolution to play them.

That would be cool. But I'm sure nintendo will add tags or something to make sure that only their ROMs are compatible with their console.
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#146264
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Howl's moving castle
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146264/action/topic#146264
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I saw it and liked it. But the one problem I had with it was its cheesy Japanese humor and awkward storytelling devices (lots of expositionist dialogue). It seemed worse in this film than in Spirited Away or Princess Monoke. Anyone else think this?

Apart from that, Billy Crystal was hilarious - my girlfriend and I were reminded of his character in Princess Bride ("He's mostly dead.")
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#146262
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Most Underrated Console System
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146262/action/topic#146262
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For me, the N64 is one of the most underrated consoles. Everyone hated it because it used cartridges and there weren't many games for it - and yes, some of them were really crap (Superman, anyone?). I remember when I bought mine in 98, I was in a shop and the guy working there was trying to convince me to buy the Playstation because it had more games. I looked over and just saw a crapload of Final Fantasy and Fighter-type games, looked back and said, "But they're all shit."

Anyway, the graphics were better than Playstation IMO, and the games were better too.
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#144840
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NES games that you haven't beat
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/144840/action/topic#144840
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Originally posted by: Anakin's Mannequin
I know this is Off Topic a bit, but has anyone ever beaten Super Metroid on SNES? Barring the now dated graphics, I still say that is the best non-spoken drama and best ending in a video game.


Yeah, Super Metroid was awesome. Just beat that recently. Wasn't too difficult. Not as difficult as the original Metroid (you're forced to draw your own maps so you don't get lost!)