TheBoost

This thread is now about COFFEE!!!!

Without coffee, I'd hate everyone I encounter even more. Is there anything in life that's no improved by having coffee with it? When you see an old friend, all you want to do is have coffee with them.

TV's Frink said:

My favorite part is the thread title.

 Mine is when he said "I've been working on this script for 2 years" and then said "So, does anyone have any plot ideas?"

Chewtobacca said:

TheBoost said:

So I found this picture on the internet. The characters are very recognizable as the heroes of the "Belgariad" a fantasy book series from the mid-80s that I'm a big fan of.

 

A fellow Eddings fan!  I like the Belgariad very much, but I have to confess that I think the writing in the Elenium and the Tamuli is a little better. 

I'd be interested in knowing where this image comes from and what it says too.

 I think the story in the Elenium is less predicatble/Tolkienian, and the world is more sophisticated and compex.

But its hard to  get over our first love, and I read Belgariad in the 6th grade and it changed my life (which is admitedly easy to change in the 6th grade).

Geez, I had forgotten Crazy Chritisan "Spritiually Mature" guy who said "Dont lie or I'll quiz you on christianity."

Good times. 

C3PX said:

You might go looking else where to solve this mystery. There are plenty of Japanese people on the internet, I am just not sure how many hang around here. I bet if you find some anime forum, you could post an inquiry from them and get a quick answer.

 Yeah... bu that would require work.

A google search... registering on a forum... copy and pasting my Original post.

Just typing the list of what I'd need to do makes me tired... ... ...

TV's Frink said:

Well, you have to elaborate on that one.

Ric Flair/ Ric Ollie 

Great Hair.

A penchant for big collars.

Ric Flair would frequently hold up his World Champion belt and say "I'm the champ!" or even start speeches with "I'm Ric Flair!"

I wonder how much of Ric Ollie's character was inspired by Ric Flair. There are many markable similarities.

Bingowings said:

TheBoost said:

That's just my opinion, and to be fair, there are two Dracula adaptaions I havent seen yet (Dernhelm Elliot and Jack Palance as the Count).

 

The real surprise however was the first half of the much derided Patrick Bergin modern version (the second half goes right of the rails). I dreaded putting the disc into my player after hearing how awful it was and the second half is pretty awful but the first part wasn't that bad.

Even though it's updated to the present it keeps reasonably close to the source material though the acting isn't very top drawer.

 I'll have to give the Patrick Bergin one a shot. I've always avoided it up until now.

So I found this picture on the internet. The characters are very recognizable as the heroes of the "Belgariad" a fantasy book series from the mid-80s that I'm a big fan of.

I'm trying to figure out what this pic is from. The author's website doesn't mention any Japanese editions.

If anyone can tell me what this damn thing says, I'd be grateful.

Kurgan said:

... the term "Sith" wasn't even invented by Lucas, but borrowed by him from the time of the early drafts and appears in the novelization ("Sith Lord") referring to Vader...

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but you're saying Lucas didn't come up with the term "Sith" but borrowed it from the early drafts (that he wrote?).

So I'm playing "Bully"  on my PS2 (I know I'm 5 years behind on technology).

Suddenly my skateboard is accelerating without me pressing any buttons, and the world around me stops rendering, until I'm floating in a grey void. Then the game freezes.

I try again, and this time my character falls through the solid floor and dies. A third time I try, and when I go to the load screen the game freezes agani.

The other games I own for the PS2 seem to work, but the "Bully" disc doesn't seem to be damaged.

Any ideas what woudl cause such madness?

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

So I'm playing "Bully"  on my PS2 (I know I'm 5 years behind on technology).

Suddenly my skateboard is accelerating without me pressing any buttons, and the world around me stops rendering, until I'm floating in a grey void. Then the game freezes.

I try again, and this time my character falls through the solid floor and dies. A third time I try, and when I go to the load screen the game freezes agani.

The other games I own for the PS2 seem to work, but the "Bully" disc doesn't seem to be damaged.

Any ideas what woudl cause such madness?

THREAD IS OPEN!!!

(lol)

Sorry Boost, but that kind of question is better served in the actual video game thread:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Video-Game-Thread/topic/1456/

This thread isn't intended to be useful.

 We have an actual video game thread???

(that's both a legitamate explanation of surprise, as well as on topic, since it's an obvious observation based on your previous post. Double points for me.)

So I'm playing "Bully"  on my PS2 (I know I'm 5 years behind on technology).

Suddenly my skateboard is accelerating without me pressing any buttons, and the world around me stops rendering, until I'm floating in a grey void. Then the game freezes.

I try again, and this time my character falls through the solid floor and dies. A third time I try, and when I go to the load screen the game freezes agani.

The other games I own for the PS2 seem to work, but the "Bully" disc doesn't seem to be damaged.

Any ideas what woudl cause such madness?

While all this interesting stuff is happening,  I contiune to do enigmatic things in the backgroud, such as playing chess against my own shadow, and finding pages from the book of Revelation nailed to the trees mysteriously.

Hardcore fans will remember me doing this, and hope it someday pays off.

I sit on the beach, being calm and sexy and doing something odd but ambiguous... let's say I'm whittling. But I'm whittling a machinegun.

Oh snaps! A polar bear!!

In college I once went 6 days fasting. (to be fair, I had a glass of apple juice each morning to placate my girlfriend who thought I'd die).

It had occured to me that I had never been hungry in my life. Maybe a bit peckish, but never really hungry.

After a few days, the gnawing hunger transformed into a kind of quiet listlessness.

I was aiming for a week, but only made it 6 1/2 days because there was a fire drill and I was night security, and no way was I marching around the dorms all night with a flashlight without some caffiene and sugar.

It wasn't a spiritual thing, and i didn't have any kind of fasting-manifesto worked out, but it changed my worldview a bit.

If I skip breakfast, I no longer say, "man I'm hungry" when lunch rolls around four hours later.

(I think I lost a few pounds, but a Nurse firend told me that when fasting, the body shuts down non-essential stuff, so you burn less calories)

Nanner Split said:

Dennis Miller: picked up one of his audiobooks one time. Lamest attempt at comedy ever.

 I saw Miller live in 2004.

He did 15 minutes of an hour routine on Clinton/Lewinski jokes.

In 2004.

...

2004!!!!!

Father Guido Sarducci is the least funny man in the world. I don't just mean commedians either. There are mercenaries in Botswana who are legitamatly more amusing than this man. There are deaf mutes born and raised in caves the Australian outback who are funnier than him.

He's an easy punching bag but Carlos Mencia.

Seriously, for every joke he tells, he mentions three times how edgy and un-PC he is. Even if his jokes were funny that's 3/4 of not-even-trying-to-be-funny.

And really, he's not that edgy or un-PC. He's about middle of the road for modern commedians. 

Rogue Leader said:

Okay... Z-95s in the prequels... What do people think? They are the predecessors to the X-wing and Lucas totally forgot about them so they made those Incom Arc, starfighters...

 

Forgot about them? As with most of the EU I doubt GL even thought about/knew about/gave a damn about them in the first plance

I rather enjoyed the show for what they were... a coming of age story set in historical settings aimed at a young audience.

I rather liked the geezer. I think that's exactly how Dr. Jones would turn out... one eyed and grizzled, probably having had all sorts of crazy adventures until he was in that wheel chair huffing on oxygen tanks.

Bingowings said:

At least we were spared the Nelvana animated Doctor Who series for CBS :

 

 Crap! That looks flippin' awesome!!!!! The new Doctor should rock an outfit like that, clock and all!

rcb said:

last i checked, he was having trouble getting props for the wampa. Patience my young Padawan ;)

 Ady should have no trouble getting props for the wampa.

I's got nothin but mad props for that homie.

Reviz-iz-ited for liz-ife!

WEST-SIIIIIIIIIIIDE!

I was briefly Catholic in college, and giving up stuff for Lent is something that stuck with me.

This year I'm giving up sweetner in my coffee. It's not much, but I'm not particuarly pious.

TV's Frink said:

Easy Rider.

Maybe not hate, but again, meh.

 I'll go with pure unadulterated hate for every single inch of film used for that piece of boring crap, except the brief ten minutes that had both Jack Nicolson and a plot at the same time.