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DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Everything pertaining to computer games sounds needlessly complicated these days. What the hell ever happened to simply loading a disc in a computer?

 Loading a disk in a computer!? I remember loading 14 disks to play old Might and Magic, then tweaking the millions of settings to make it work on my computer. 

Apprently MANIMAL had a crossover with NIGHTMAN a decade later! Sadly, can't find a clip, but judging from this dude's costume, it must have been awesome!

Every article I see about this is followed by TONS of comments of people wanting the real movies.

We're not  a niche movement. Most people don't like creepy Hayden at the end. 

TV's Frink said:

Someone should teach a class on how to write a proper thread title.

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't ROBOTECH as we yanks know it an American invention, slamming together and simplifying the stories of like, twelve different Japanese cartoons about robot space ships?

SilverWook said:

This app would be more fun if you could at least replace the dirty words with suitable replacements, like kumquat, but it would probably censor that as well. ;)

 I read an example online. The real book read:

"If they don't think you're a person before sex, they won't think you're one after."

and CleanReader made it:

"If they don't think you're a person before love, they won't think you're one after."

Also apparenlty "breast" is a dirty word.

Women can chest-feed, and you can order a chicken chest sandwich. 

EyeShotFirst said:

I just don't understand why Star Wars wasn't big on television, until recently. Books, movies, and in some respects games, it has done pretty well. We could've had some amazing television programs in the 80's and 90's. Droids sort of fell by the wayside.

Maybe Lucas was worried they would tarnish his vision, like the Holiday Special. Maybe the failure of Droids was something he didn't want to repeat, but Droids wasn't near the cartoon we could've gotten.

 Possibly. Animation in the 80s wasn't the market for decent storytelling, and maybe Lucas thought if they focused to much there it would cheapen the whole phenomenon.

Or maybe it was his vision. He didn't want to do "Star Wars" half assed on a live-tv budget. "Young Indiana Jones" was practically a testing ground for all his new digital experiments to pull off the stuff he wanted to do. 

This dude? Hmmmm. Let's call that offense #7, even if it has nothing to do with Manimal.

AntcuFaalb said:

EyeShotFirst said:

Star Wars done in a style similar to Cowboy Bebop would be a huge hit. People would go nuts for it. I would hope a Japanese studio develops it. They are doing animation on a level that America just doesn't do anymore. Even our cartoons are done in computer programs that do all the hard work for us.

I share your appreciation for non-CGI animation, but do know that computer programs most certainly do not do "all the hard work" for modern animators.

 Compare Bo on the Go to Big Hero 6.

Talent, hard work, time and money make all the difference. Compare GI Joe (from DIC) to Nausica. 

Talent, hard work, time, and money.

Or Mad Monster Party to The Box Trolls

Talent hard work time and money.

It's not the medium, it's the craft.

I just read that the same screen-writer sold basically the same story as an episode of MANIMAL

but also to 

THE WIZARD

and a decade later, THUNDER IN PARADISE

So that counts as OFFENSES #4, #5, and #6

Fifty Shades of Grey is still a smutty book, even if you cover up the selected naughty words.

"He plunged his pulsating --------- into her quivering moist ---------, and they -------- all night, then she -------- his ------- until the sun came up."

Does that REALLY make it somehow better? 

The whole thing strikes me as morally questionable, as if the "good" people who use it are trying to trick someone (themselves? God?). Or is it so you can give your kid "American Psycho" and still feel like a good parent?

"Yeah, I read 'Naked Came the Stranger' but I covered up the bad words. See you at church Grandma!"

So there's this new app that lets you read ebooks and it takes out and/or replaces the naughty words as you read.

Some folks, especially authors seem upset about this.

I'm curious the viewpoint of this community, since taking out bits we don't like is more or less the heart of fan-editing (although fan-editors usually take out the kissy parts, not the swears). 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inktera.cleanreader

Warbler said:

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 Come to the Manimal Offense list. We're not a dreadful tyranny of age and paranoia. 

EDIT: And we have cookies.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Possessed said:

Why?

 Have you seen his recent movies?

That and he comes off as a jerk who is completely full of himself.

 I've enjoyed most of Smith's films, and would even call "Dogma" a truly GREAT film.

But when a dude made almost as many films about himself and how cool he is as he has made actual movies its hard to like him.

I think artists who complain about critics as much as Smith does shows a character flaw, and I thought it was classless the way he threw Bruce Willis under the bus for the mediocre 'Cop Out."

I also would say the way Smith doesn't finish the (IMHO lousy) comic books he writes shows a contempt for the medium he claims to respect. He's handed the keys to the castle to write "Batman" and takes a pee on the door and leaves.

LexX said:

Has anyone here seen any of those Lego Star Wars animation shows? Are they any good, the games were fun at least?

 They are a LOT of fun, and even have their own goofy little continuity if you watch the three specials, then the Yoda Chronicles. 

NeverarGreat said:

ATMachine said:

I liked the first name for Palpatine that David West Reynolds came up with for the TPM Visual Dictionary: "Ethril."

But then again, perhaps the anagram was a bit too on-the-nose. Maybe that's why GL directed him to cut it from the text.

But of course, that would require GL to be subtle and clever.

 What anagram would this be?

 Obviously the Emperor was the one who LIT HER.

TV's Frink said:

Thus is why the parroty thread exists.

 Stop trying to take credit for my thread.

#3. 

timdiggerm said:

ATMachine said:

What ever happened to stuff like that parallel-universe Infinities comic book series Dark Horse put out several years ago? I miss those days.

 But that was explicitly labelled as non-canon.

 An implicitly labeled as poop.

ATMachine said:

I liked the first name for Palpatine that David West Reynolds came up with for the TPM Visual Dictionary: "Ethril."

But then again, perhaps the anagram was a bit too on-the-nose.

 Seriously. It practically gives away that he's "The Lir"

DrCrowTStarwars said:

So where does eating a gangster in his own swimming pool fall on the list?

 In the top 20.

#2. 

#1. 

DuracellEnergizer said:

I wondered what it was, yes, but I didn't obsess over it.

 Honestly, it never even occured to me to ask.

So, in the NuEU/CANON is Palpy's first name a secret? Is it just a coincidence no one has ever used it before? In the novel, did someone break into a safe and find his birth certificate? Or did it just slip out "Oooo, good morning Sheev."

Has anyone actually spent the last 30 years wondering what Palpatine's first name was?

I didn't even know Empy had a NAME until the mid-90s and I was happy.

What the hell is a WEG?