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#1103807
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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CatBus said:

Warbler said:

What do you mean Republicans are saying the name of their party wrong?

“Their” in that context meaning the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. As an exercise, go through any official Republican press release, speech by a Republican national candidate, or opinion piece by a Republican political operative, for the past ten years, and see if you can find even one saying the words “Democratic Party” when talking about their opposition. Just one reference using the actual name of a major US political party in the age of the Internet when anyone can look anything up, shouldn’t be a problem, right? Yeah, not so much. Now go back thirty years, and the same exercise is easy.

They once got it right every single time, and then suddenly they all got it wrong every single time. Staying on message is one thing the Republicans tend to do very well, even for petty name-calling. Shit, look at Freedom Fries or Death Taxes or whatnot. They even rode with Homicide Bombers for a week or so when even their own people couldn’t bear how stupid it sounded from the get-go. They practically have their own Newspeak division.

Although calling them the ‘Democrat Party’ was an insult by Republicans, it has been so ingrained in their speech patterns that they probably think theirs is the ‘proper’ way of saying it. There’s some sense to that after all. The Republicans and the Republican party are the same word, so it makes sense that the Democrats and the Democrat party would follow the same rule. It’s stupid, sure. But at least there’s some consistency in that thought.

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#1103804
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The all-purpose ART thread!
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Damn, Duracell, you’re prolific! I also really like your Episode 1 poster sketch. Very Struzan.

Apart from Duracell’s work, this thread has been gutted by Photobucket’s general crappiness. The broken links make me sad. Hopefully Deviantart will be better - I just made an account in order to re-upload what was my original avatar in 2012:
Vader Unmasked
This was right after buying a graphics tablet, and was trying to get a feel for the medium. It’s sort of an alternate universe Vader. I only wish his head had turned out better.

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#1103738
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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Troy said:

NeverarGreat said:

Troy said:

Get Dave Prowse & reshoot the end of RotJ with HIM! Right the original wrong. Shaw yeah fine, better than nothing but Dave earned that reveal big time.

Someone did this already. The problem would be getting the go-ahead to release the footage.

How do you mean?

It’s in a documentary on Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbExdNBjOfQ

The guy shot the footage, and the behind the scenes stuff is in the documentary, but for legal reasons he couldn’t release the actual scene.

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#1103736
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Here’s the link 😃

Having recently watched ANH Revisited as well as (of course) ESB-R, the look of ANH-R is very different than the Technicolor look of my project. For example, the Death Star walls and exterior surfaces are various shades of blue/green in my project, whereas Adywan has gone with a neutral gray. I wouldn’t suggest changing the look of ANH-R, since ESB-R follows the same look and I think it really works in modernizing the feel of the films, rather than romanticizing them as I have tried to do.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that Ady would have to start from scratch with the color no matter what. Though with all of the gradient and detail fixes in my project (hundreds of them at least), it would probably be worth it to work from that, even with the different look.

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#1103729
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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Troy said:

Get Dave Prowse & reshoot the end of RotJ with HIM! Right the original wrong. Shaw yeah fine, better than nothing but Dave earned that reveal big time.

Someone did this already. The problem would be getting the go-ahead to release the footage.

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#1103706
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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Good luck on this most massive endeavor!

I’m sure there will be suggestions aplenty in this thread, so let me just say that your (relatively) few substantial, well considered changes are worth more than many hundreds of small cosmetic alterations. I’m glad that this edit seems focused on those big changes. Don’t sweat the small stuff. 😃

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#1103701
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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I hope their reveal is handled similarly to ESB. The Republic recon guy is looking through the binoculars and sees a giant foot hit the ground.
Pan out, and it’s an AT-ST.
Then a giant foot hits the ground in front of the AT-ST.
Pan out, and it’s an AT-AT.
A giant claw hand thing hits the ground in front of the AT-AT…

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#1103664
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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Last Jedi Poster
Hey y’all, 'member The Empire Strikes Back?

But yeah, underwhelmed is a good word for it. My brain automatically comes up with rationalizations like ‘I’m sure the callbacks are merely visual, while the story boldly subverts audience expectations’. Please be right, brain.

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#1103533
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If you need to B*tch about something <strong>other than originaltrilogy.com</strong>... This is the place
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Possessed said:

Some people actually don’t like cats without having an allergy to them.

I’m among them. At the moment the roommate’s cat has leaped onto the bed, awakening my girlfriend. Now she (the cat, not the girlfriend) is rubbing herself on every corner of the apartment. Earlier tonight she threw up all over the stairs.

So yeah, not a fan.