TheBoost

OK. Without resorting to Wookieepedia, here's my understanding of the huge number of Sith organizations in the EU. 

• The Sith Race
• The Sith Empire (The Revan made)
• The Sith Triumvirate (KOTOR 2)
• The Other Older Sith Empire (TOR MMORPG) 
• The Brotherhood of Sithness (that Darth Bane killed?) 
• Darth Bane's Pair o' Siths, leading to Darth Vader
• Lost Tribe of the Sith
• Jacen Solo aka Darth Caedus... a Sith of one.
• The Krath, who weren't Sith.
• Darth Krayt and the Tattooed Sith of the Future

Am I missing any?

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TV's Frink said:

That's the point.  If it was just your post, fine, but those types of posts always open the floodgates for lengthy discussions I have no interest in reading and belong elsewhere.

 Who's a grumpy gills? Do you need a juicebox? 

Bingowings said:

But did the prison really travel in time?

 It did. After the 14 day experiment, they found out they had somehow moved two whole weeks into the future. 

Sadly, they have no been replicated in lab conditions.

Leonardo said:

TheBoost said:

"The Stanford Prison Experiment,"  a famous sociology experiment, proved nothing except that people have no idea how a good experiment is designed. 

When you bring it up, and I rip every single aspect of the experiment to shreds, you can't follow up with "Yeah, but don't you agree with the results anyways?"

 I've studied it for uni and found it fascinating. I'm interested in hearing your rebuttal.

It's not about people being good or bad. It's the 'experiment' itself was flawed on so many levels it's not even worth reading about.

-Sample size was 24 white male Stanford students.  This is so unacceptably small as to make the experiment worthless out of hand.

-Self selection. All the volunteers specifically came in because they were attracted to an experiment about prisons. This alone would make any results borderline meaningless. 

-No control group. No pre-testing. No repeatablility.

-But the main kicker for me is overwhelming bias. Zimbardo, the experimenter, specifically wanted to prove people were bad. Then he himself took a play-acting role in the experiment guiding the process. That alone makes all his results garbage.

He should have designed the experiment, then not even been involved. To jump in and manipulate it as "The Warden" changed it from science to really intense LARPing.

It wasn't an experiment by any real scientific standard. It was a publicity stunt 

Two days after being inducted into the Wrestler Hall of Fame, the Ultimate Warrior shuffles off this mortal coil.

Warbler said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Possessed said:

Microsoft is planning on killing Windows XP next week, and governments around the world are giving them gobs of money to keep supporting it for them.  Seriously, why kill it.  MANY important programs are still ran on windows xp.  (Security programs at government facilities, hospitals, schools, and many more are still using xp for a variety of reasons)

 

Yeah i don't understand how this is good business. They are keeping Windows 8 a program no one wants and killing one people are begging them to keep. My guess is they could make a ton of money selling updates for XP.

Oh well. No one ever accused Microsoft of caring about their costumers or being good at what they do.

 hmmm . . . getting rid of the version that everyone is begging them to keep and keeping the version everyone hates . . . this reminds me of something . . .

 (sees what you did there)

darklordoftech said:

- How Karpyshan totally ruined Bane.

 What was Bane before Karpyshan? I dont remember him at all. 

Bingowings said:

And why in the name of Charles Berlitz would they want to make a prison invisible anyway?

 Because convicts are ugly?

FrankT said:

Now if there was a recreation of the theatrical presentation itself...

 I made my parents one of those as a gift. There first date was to see Star Wars, and they were late. 

It opened with this awful CGI of walking into a theater from some movie production logo, then started with the GOUT (to simulate the shitty theater they saw it in) when the Jawas capture Artoo. 

I also added hooting and hollering sound effects when the ship goes into hyperdrive. My dad said people went crazy. 

I think CGI is awesome. I think digitally combining takes is brilliant. Technique is cool, but what I care about is the movie I'm watching.

If those takes in AOTC were the digitally combined best takes, I'd hate to see the worst takes. 

And as that screenshot shows, if CGI is a distraction, making something that should look real (a man in armor) into something that looks fake, then it's dumb.

"The Stanford Prison Experiment,"  a famous sociology experiment, proved nothing except that people have no idea how a good experiment is designed. 

When you bring it up, and I rip every single aspect of the experiment to shreds, you can't follow up with "Yeah, but don't you agree with the results anyways?"

Warbler said:

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We just adopted a cute litte black toy poodle!   We got him from an animal shelter which rescued him from somewhere in North Carolina.   We don't know much They estimate that he is about 3 years old.  He has had all his shots and has been neutered and microshiped.  He seems to be in good health.  He seems nice, well behaved and friendly.    We like him very much.    Its good to have a dog again! 

 Good on ya. Dogs are the best.

imperialscum said:

 

Still it is fair to admit that a scene like that is practically impossible to reproduce in non-CGI fashion. I am not defending PT btw, just CGI.

 But imagine if Temura and Ewan and that third foreground dude were on a greenscreen set together, in real costumes, with a CGI background, where distance and smoke make the flaws less noticeable.

All the people in the foreground would look like they were in the same movie, and  we wouldnt have creepy FAKEHEAD syndrome on the clone. 

DuracellEnergizer said:

TheBoost said:

Heck, my sister used to paint my nails and make me sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra D." from Greese, and I still never wanted to snuggle up to a man.

It did make you want to make a woman suit for yourself, though, right? ;-) 

 Well that's a given. 

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that a Frosted Pop Tart has the exact same nutritional value as an unfrosted one. 

RIJIR said:

I'm a bit confused.  There are already tapes from the 1984 airing.  Why would you need to recreate it?

 Oh, is there? I really hadn't thought of that. Makes sense.

Whenever I hear about someone upset with gays for "promoting" their lifestyle, I'm confused.

I want to ask Putin and his ilk, hey, if you had a My Little Pony backpack as a kid, would you now want a penis in your mouth? 

I'm pretty sure if I'd seen two dudes holding hands when I was a kid, I still am gonna grow up to like boobs. 

Heck, my sister used to paint my nails and make me sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra D." from Greese, and I still never wanted to snuggle up to a man. 

I've never liked the "homophobes are closet cases" argument, but sometimes I do gots to wonder. 

Pro wrestling is a wierd thing. It's often exciting, sometimes dumb, occasionally impressive and frequently silly. 

But at it's best, the line between real and unreal ceases to matter, and it is larger than life pageant of the mythic made real.

Last night, The Undertaker lost.

The count of enchanted objects in the world has diminished by one.

The thing is, any comparison is unfair, because while the OT is a fairly unified planetary romance/ science fantasy kinda thing, there's never been one Star Trek.

Even Star Trek TOS varied widely between smart Sci-Fi, (The Cage), light comedy (Trelain, Tribbles), social parables good and bad (Frank Gorshim and Space Hippies), stupidly bad sci-fi (Spocks Brain), aliens that convieniently look like Nazis or Gangsters (Coms and Yanks even) and always a heaping of punch punch punch. 

Star Trek: Phase Two, the fan series, had a cool DVD of one of their episodes, done up like it was on TV in the 1960s.

Has anyone ever made a veiwable experience recreating what Star Wars's first showing on CBS in 1984 might have been like? With commercials, and promos, and those great old bumpers they use to have on movies? 

That would be neat. 

Some stuff I learned:

Beginning in September of 1982, Star Wars was shown on pay-per-view "subscription services" scattered throughout the country, despite the fact that only half a million households were wired for pay-per-view . HBO showed the film during the winter of 1983 and was disappointed at the lack of interest, due to the earlier pay-per-view showings and the film's release on video cassette. Star Wars failed to rank amongst HBO's top ten most popular films .

By the time CBS got around to airing Star Wars for the first time on network television, the film had not only been shown on pay-per-view and cable and issued on video, it had also been re-released in theaters several times. CBS scheduled Star Wars on Sunday, February 26th, from 8:00PM to 11:00PM, with a 22-minute "making of" feature to help fill the three hours.

DuracellEnergizer said:

To be honest, I think Episode VII should be set close to a hundred years after ROTJ rather than a mere thirty. After all, shouldn't people who are part of an advanced interstellar civilization have a better quality of life than people in the real world? Shouldn't they age at a slower rate than we would? 

 So 100 years later it's all the same characters as if it was 30 years later.

Why make the change? 

thejediknighthusezni said:

 

        Food production is FAR more immediately essential to survival than health care. All of human history teaches us about what a wonderful idea it would be to have the government totally manage that.  

 You know what's more important than food? Excretion of waste. You die even faster than starvation if you're body can't filter blood. I cant wait to see how the lib-tard fascists try to take over my kidneys and screw it up! Damn Obama!

(For reals though, your rhetorical flourishes are often exhausting to even try to think through)

darth_ender said:

^Hey, I'm reading the same book(s), albeit very slowly.  I'm on Revenge right now.  It does feel like it takes a while to get anywhere.  I actually enjoyed Star's End quite a bit.  I really like Bollux and Blue Max: a droid duo, but very different characters from R2 and 3PO.

 I totally dug those guys too. As a kid I had lots of drawing of them on my wall. 

Just started "Ringworld" by Larry Niven.

HOW DID I MISS THIS! Rightfully called a classic, and I'm only 1/3 in.