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Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Obama is many things but a lefty he is not, he makes Tony Blair look left wing and that's saying something.

 Obama not a lefty?!?!?!?!    Please prove this.

TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

Obama is many things but a lefty he is not, he makes Tony Blair look left wing and that's saying something.

 We have a very odd definition of 'liberal' in the US. 

 please prove that it is odd.  I do admit that is different than how many Europeans define it, but odd?

 I'm just gonna say that since we here in America are only allowed two viewpoints, what we call liberal really isn't very liberal. 

Bingowings said:

Obama is many things but a lefty he is not, he makes Tony Blair look left wing and that's saying something.

 We have a very odd definition of 'liberal' in the US. 

TV's Frink said:

New.

Thread.

Thread.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Podcasts/topic/13434/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/PODCASTS/topic/3870/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Podcasts/topic/11182/

 The one I started was best.

So, the wife and I are chaperoning a field trip of my toddlers and their class going to the market. I introduce myself to another parent, 

• Me: Hi, I'm Morgan
• Her: Oh... I know.
  
  

? So I must know this chick, but I'm drawing a blank. I know a lot of people. After I spend a few moments with a blank smile racking the old memory banks, she says

• Her: You never called. 
  
  

A few more seconds pass, and it hits me. She's not a hippy chick with long dirty blonde hair and hemp jewelry anymore, but I am able to place her as I girl I met when I was part of the local music scene about eleven years ago. We were friendly, and she was kind enough to engage in the physical act of love with me a few times before I guess I got distracted and I guess I never called.

So maybe I was a bit of a cad at 22... but it's been over a decade, and we're both parents now. Does she still harbor a grudge? Was that still so close to the top of her mind it was the first thing she said?!? Seriously?! 

And in my defense, she changed a lot so I didn't recognize her, and I still wear the same unfashionably long sideburns and jorts I've always worn. 

We didn't exchange any other words, and I'm fine with that... but really? Really!?

Warbler said:

 

I am getting really sick of the attitude of some in this forum of either

A: you completely totally accept homosexuality and not sin and just as natural and normal as heterosexuality and you accept  they should be treated 100% equal under the law and should be allowed to marry

or

B:You're a Westboro Baptist

I don't care if you like gays, Jews, Tutsis, Armenians, or Indians. I don't care a whit who likes who or what you think. What matters is action, and if a person is willing to draw a line and say: "someone deserves less than me because of what they are" then the only thing separating that person from Fred Phelps is one of them is concerned what the neighbors would think. 

I think someone who blatantly hates gays, but supports equal rights is a better human being than the person who "hates the sin, not the sinner" but would deny equality. 

Possessed said:

I still think it's the best fanedit, because even though there are others that technically did 'fix more problems', this is the only one that to me, feels like a film, and not like a mashup.

 I love his commentary. Without coming across as dismissive of other excellent fan edits, Phantom Editor wanted to make a better version of George Lucas's movie, not the version he personally wanted. 

SilverWook said:

I'm envious! I'm sure Temuera Morrison is a good actor, but I think the SE lines were recorded when he had a bad case of jetlag. ;)

 I think Morrison was imitating the delivery of the original lines. I just don't think his voice sounds as cool doing the sinister monotone as the original voice sounded. 

OBI-WAN37 said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Oh yeah you're right there's hardly any CGI in the PT and it all looks stunning. I've just removed my eyes and given them a proper telling off for lying to me all these years.

Knowing this fact really makes me appreciate how agile pensioners like Christopher Lee and Ian McDiarmid really where. They must have done some Yoga training because their bodies twisted and bent into shapes that you'd think were impossible. Neato! (Also the puppeteering on general Grievous was sick!).

 Did you not see that thread I linked? http://boards.theforce.net/threads/practical-effects-in-the-prequels-sets-pictures-models-etc.50017310/ It proves that there are a lot of models in the PT. I would suspect that that battle in AOTC actually did use some models, you can see a model AT-TE in the thread I linked, not to mention models of Mustafar, Naboo Royal Cruiser, a HUGE miniature city of Mois Eisley,the streets of Coruscant, that thing in the second picture down, the huge Geonosian arena, the corridors of the Jedi temple, the huts of the tusken raiders, the podracers, naboo, Kamino, the place where Anakin and Obi-Wan fought Count Dooku, the Trade Federation interior, life-size podracer, some different costumes for the aliens on Mustafar, the Podracer stadium, the AAT, Feluccia, the hanger in the Invisible Hand, the Jedi Temple, a life-size Naboo Starfighter, C-3PO half-built, what seems to be half of a life-size podracer for Sebulba, several places where Anakin and Obi-Wan fought eachother, and this is probably only a fraction of the stuff they actually used.

I have to agree.

 To be fair, there is LOTS of great sets, model work, and masks/makeup in the PT that everyone seems to overlook in all the CGI hate.  The puppetry that realized half done 3PO was really cool. 

It's noteworthy for fandoms self-evaluation that there's sure been a lot of shit slung at "Puppet Yoda" from a group (us) that supposedly appreciates that type of thing

Johnny Ringo said:

I've had an idea for a logo. Not sure if it would suit. I'll sketch it up later if I can find some time.

Are you planning on having things like music or wil it be pure dialogue?

So far I've collected some Creative Commons music (incompetech.com rules!) and am using an old opera recording in the public domain (go Wagner!), but am always looking for more. 

Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

there is a HUGE difference between supporting Prop 8 and what the Westboro nutcases do. 

 Is there?

 yes, there is.    Do keep in mind, that I do not support Prop 8.

TheBoost said:

 I mean, homos are either people like us, or they're not. After that it's just a question of how polite you feel you have to be.

 huh?

 The way I see it you can have two stances

• a) gays are people just like me.
  or
• b) gays are less than me.
  
  

If your choice is B, then even if you smile at gays on the bus, or have gay coworkers you're polite too, or you picket funerals, you're kind of in the same boat. 

Look at every genocide in the world, from Rwanda to Aushwitz. It's not a big step once you say "that person is not really a person like me" to horrible atrocities. 

Possessed said:

So anyways.  The phantom edit I won't be doing.  But attack of the phantom I will recreate the "cut" of the edit, synced to the AOTP original audio track from a blu ray source.  It will NOT include the phantom edit crawl, the crawl will be the original crawl.  Visual tweaks/fx shots he pulled will not be recreated, simply because I lack the skill.

 I really look forward to this. That cut, more than any other, turned a movie I loathed the first time I saw it into something I can kinda enjoy. 

Warbler said:

there is a HUGE difference between supporting Prop 8 and what the Westboro nutcases do. 

 Is there? I mean, homos are either people like us, or they're not. After that it's just a question of how polite you feel you have to be.

Tack said:

OK, there's other reasons. 

1. Don't know if I have the equipment.

2. Most likely I'll still sound like a kid.

3. Don't know how to upload it.

So, I wish you well Mr. Boost.

Umm, Mr. Boost is my father.

No worries. 

Anchorhead said:

 

 All kidding aside (and you may not have been), but for the life of me I cannot, nor have I ever been able to, figure out the attraction to this character. Cool looking when he isn't speaking, mysterious, and plays a somewhat minor role in the second film.

 That's it right there. End of line. 

I was Boba Fett for Halloween 1987-1988

Leonardo said:

You know another famous stutterer? James Earl Jones.

I'm recording my audition right now. Came out horrible, nevermind.

 :( 

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

In what way am I pigeonholing atheists or telling them what they believe?

Many atheists would disagree strongly with this:

Nothing in an atheistic cosmology ultimately matters in the end.

as well as any religion that doesn't believe in an afterlife. 

Warbler said:

 

no, its not.  Barely anyone in the country approves of what the Westboro nutcases do.   We merely approve of them having the right to do so.

 

 I don't think it's "barely."

While maybe most people are bound by decency not to protest soldiers funerals, or hold a "God Hates Fags" sign in public, I saw enough people, including my seemingly decent neighbors out rallying with great enthusiasm for Prop 8 (anty gay marriage) here in California. So it seems they agree, it's just a matter of degree. 

This is fine. Given that Boba Fett as a character DOES NOTHING OF NOTE, and apparently isn't as bad ass as everyone thinks since after a big payoff he's happier to chill in Jabba's party palace than do anything else. 

Put a suit like that on anyone, and they're equally cool looking... which is all Boba ever had going for him. 

Tack said:

I'd audition myself as a John Hurt type.

If I wasn't a minor...

 Age ain't nuthin but a number.

Can anyone do impressions of any of the following? Let me know, I might have a neat little role for you if you're interested.

• James Mason
• Sean Connery
• Liam Neeson
• John Huston 
• Richard Burton
• John Hurt
• Max Von Sydow
• Jean Reno
• Vincent Price
• Boris Karloff
• Christopher Lee
• Andre the Giant
• Peter Ustinov

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

Nothing in an atheistic cosmology ultimately matters in the end.

Pigeonholing all theists into a set mold, I see.

You're not only pigeonholing atheists, but you're having the presumption and gall to tell them what they believe. 

Watching this edit with great interest. 

What if Aunt Beru was seriously passive aggressive? How would that have changed the OT?

RicOlie_2 said:

Neglify said:

Picked up this free little book at the train station today. 222 pages, made by Jehovah's Witnesses. Read a little bit, interesting stuff. Maybe I'll also get around to finally reading that Bible book people are so up in arms about.

 Just be aware that the Jehovah's Witnesses have a different interpretation of the Bible than just about everyone else. 

 You mean as opposed to the 5,000,000 other Christian sects who all interpret it the same?