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#125532
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ESB in Robot Chicken
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On the Cartoon Network show "Robot Chicken" a couple of days ago, there was a sketch about classic movie climaxes, and one of them was ESB. It went like this:


Vader: Join me, and we can bring order to the galaxy.

Luke: I'll never join you! You killed my father!

Vader: No, I am your father.

Luke: No......that's not true......that's impossible!

Vader: And Leia is your sister!

Luke: That's...improbable!

Vader: And the Empire will be destroyed by...ewoks!

Luke: That's...[snorts]...highly unlikely.

[cuts to Luke smoking a cigarette and Vader with a cup of coffee]

Vader: And the Force? Why, that's just microscopic bacteria in your blood called midichlorians.

Luke: Look, if you're not gonna take this seriously, then I'm out. [Luke walks off camera]

[End]
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#124247
Topic
Comics Fans
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I'd have to say my current favorite graphic novel is Grant Morrison's "Arkham Asylum", but then again, I've only made it to Volume 2 of Sin City and plan to remedy that very soon.

Has anyone else here ever read "Arkham Asylum" or "The Killing Joke"? Both are awesome Batman books, and "AA" is actually kind of creepy in some parts.
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#124238
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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The emulator fuss that I don't understand is over Lucasarts' old SCUMM games. Anywhere I look for them (except for torrents ) they're always copy-protected, and this seems unfair to me because Lucasarts doesn't even sell them anymore. The oldest game available on their website, last time I checked, was Monkey Island 3. ScummVM's website says that if you want to find the games, look on eBay, which would be pointless because Lucasarts doesn't even get my money. So I say, torrent the hell out of these games
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#123498
Topic
Ain't it da truth!
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Has anybody here seen "Dead Alive", directed by a pre-"The Frighteners" Peter Jackson? I laughed my ass off at just the copious amounts of needless zombie gore. By watching that film, it's surprising that anyone let the man responsible for it anywhere near to something like "Lord of the Rings".

Best line from the movie:

[Priest] : I kick ass for Christ!! (proceeds to karate-kick a zombie's head off)
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#122914
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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You don't have to worry about the keyboard/mouse if you buy a gamepad

The way I see it, the only way I can get legit NES games nowadays is pretty much eBay. And when I buy from eBay, Nintendo doesn't get my money, some idiot who sells bootleg Star Wars DVDs that already bought the game gets it. So to me, there really isn't any point. I can understand getting angry over the legal aspects of emulating PS2 or Xbox games, but Atari 2600? Commodore 64? Sinclaire Spectrum!? Sega 32X?!?! What are the odds of me being able to find a Sinclaire Spectrum, not to mention games, even from eBay?

I have my standards for emulation: only download games that are out of print. How is this any different from downloading someone's .ISO of a Star Wars OOT laserdisc?
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#122973
Topic
Old School Adventure
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I got the torrent of Grim Fandango off www.mybittorrent.com , and it works great. I had to burn it onto a CD to get it to work first, but then again, I'm not that computer literate, so I'm sure you could find some way around that.

Do you use ScummVM to run the CD version of "The Secret of Monkey Island"? If so, how did you get the sound to work? The Read-me says something about ripping the mp3 off the CD and enabling MAD capabilities on ScummVM and a bunch of other stuff, but like I said before, I'm not that computer literate, so I don't know how the hell to do that. Any help?


By the way, was that Last Crusade game the Graphic Adventure (the one I'm looking for) or the side-scrolling action game, cuz I can't get ScummVM to run it. If I have to use DosBox, then I'm screwed cuz I don't know how in God's name that thing works.