Tiptup

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Post: #316736
Topic: What should be bannable offenses on Originaltrilogy forums?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316736/action/topic#316736
Time: 27-Apr-2008 6:09 PM

I like forums with lax rules on discussion. I prefer things when people are able to discuss what they like.

Post: #316735
Topic: China
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316735/action/topic#316735
Time: 27-Apr-2008 5:59 PM

End Credits said:

Tiptup said:

End Credits said:

Ahm... not quite. Carbon dioxide concentration does have a direct relation with rate of photosythesis; however, too high a concentration can inhibit the light-independent reactions (though certain plants have evolved around this inhibition). Anyway, any increases in rates of photosynthesis are most likely negated by clearing trees and other plant life (lowering the amount of carbon dioxide that gets converted to oxygen) while continuing to burn more fossil fuel (increasing carbon dioxide concentration).

fsb

At which point we have even more carbon dioxide and even stronger plant growth to offset the destruction of forests and the like.

I do not believe that the empirical evidence supports this.

fsb

The empirical evidence supporting what? That carbon dioxide promotes plant growth? Or that wild vegetation will retake land when that land is left alone? Both are heavily supported by the empirical evidence that I'm aware of.

Post: #316635
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316635/action/topic#316635
Time: 25-Apr-2008 10:25 PM — Edited 25-Apr-2008 10:25 PM

It was quite a sensationalistic episode. A lot of stuff happened to be sure and if you like Ben (as I do) it was great. I like how the mystery seems more complex than where they were going before (the tension between Ben and Widmore), but, all in all, I would have liked some answers offered between all of that.

Post: #316623
Topic: China
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316623/action/topic#316623
Time: 25-Apr-2008 7:05 PM

At which point we have even more carbon dioxide and even stronger plant growth to offset the destruction of forests and the like.

Post: #316531
Topic: Discussion: Awful Star Wars Collectibles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316531/action/topic#316531
Time: 24-Apr-2008 4:00 PM

Yeah, you might be right. I just found his label interesting:

Thai Fighter

Post: #316530
Topic: China
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316530/action/topic#316530
Time: 24-Apr-2008 3:58 PM

FanFiltration said:

I would like to direct you to a great web tool that will help label and classify the "logical fallacies" employed by many of our forum members. This tool is for people such as myself that enjoy baiting, and also observing the types of debate tactics, reactions, and over reactions employed by the posters here. With this reference tool and also a bit of searching and reading over other subjects posted in the Off Topic area, you can identify and tag many members with ease. It's fun and educational. It may even help in your personal debate skills if you sometime feel the need to take one on.

http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html

Why, how ingenious and masterfully manipulative you must be, FF. If you could, would you please point out the most recent time when you fooled a person on this forum into committing a logical fallacy? I'd really like to analyze your handiwork. :)

Post: #316335
Topic: opinions - how the release of the original to theatres was different than the new three films.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316335/action/topic#316335
Time: 21-Apr-2008 5:30 PM

Anchorhead said:

Star Wars took the world by storm because that's exactly what it didn't set out to do. It was created with the idea of film first, franchise second. Once that changed, so did the quality of the story.

From everything I know of the production history of Empire, that art vs. franchise switch didn't really occur until the box-office returns came in for the film. Before that, George still had a passion for adding interesting story elements and he invented most of the key plot details. (Zombie can correct me if I'm wrong though.)

Post: #316330
Topic: State of the Trilogy/ annual SW depression
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316330/action/topic#316330
Time: 21-Apr-2008 5:19 PM

I understand your sentiments. Not having a version of the OT on DVD that is up to the common standard is a rather souring thing. However, I'd suggest you not let that get you down. Take out your VHS copies, in fact, and be satisfied by the fact that even in such low quality the OT is still better than the SEs and 2004 editions.

Post: #316316
Topic: Discussion: Awful Star Wars Collectibles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316316/action/topic#316316
Time: 21-Apr-2008 4:43 PM — Edited 21-Apr-2008 4:44 PM

I don't really know if this belongs in this thread, but:

http://www.yojoe.com/action/93/sagat.shtml

Post: #316247
Topic: Chuck Berry Remembers Call From Cousin About White Kid Playing 'Johnny B. Goode'
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316247/action/topic#316247
Time: 20-Apr-2008 6:26 AM

lol, the onion is always good for a laugh.

Post: #316164
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316164/action/topic#316164
Time: 18-Apr-2008 6:29 AM

lordjedi said:

Uh yeah, because, ya know, Boba doesn't hate all the Jedi for killing his father or anything like that.

That would be the best part! An uneasy alliance would provide great tension to the story. ;)

Post: #316155
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316155/action/topic#316155
Time: 17-Apr-2008 11:19 PM

My friend told me that he hopes a young Boba Fett will show up to help Anakin rescue Jabba's child (and thereby have the movie depict how Boba became a permanent employee of Jabba at a very young age). I think that would be awesome too. ;)

Post: #316153
Topic: Leading To War
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316153/action/topic#316153
Time: 17-Apr-2008 11:06 PM

FanFiltration said:

Gosh! No need to be so defensive, as I was only asking for clarification of the term "We". No need to over react so. I am in no way "worried", and only trying to participate in the discussion. Seems like many around this forum are a bit to oversensitive about simple comments in a forum meant to communicate ideas from all perspectives of it's user base. The need for name calling and juvenile put downs are a bit to common these days in this and other message forums around the net. Yet another example of our societies current lack of capacity to communicate and discuss issues in a civil and educated way.

I'd suggest you look at your own behavior first. Nowhere was I being defensive. I was more annoyed by your worthless point than anything.

Post: #316104
Topic: Leading To War
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316104/action/topic#316104
Time: 17-Apr-2008 11:24 AM

FanFiltration said:

When you say "We" I hope you are not saying the entire nation felt this way. There was warning after warning that going to war was going to lead to this end, but anyone who opposed the wisdom of the war hawks got shouted down as "hatters of America' and "lefty morons". Only the sheeple who followed the Bush call to war with his lie coated propaganda are shocked with this outcome. Please don't try to include everyone and say that there was ever some kind of united consensus for this war amongst the population. Objection to the war and predictions of this kind of turn out had been stated well in advance, but the Bush administration and right wing media worked overtime to suppress any decent to the war plan. To use an old phrase, "Told you so".

"We" is a statement that includes all of us in the sense that what our government does, we do. This is a government for the people and by the people, even when we disagree with what happens. We give lots of money to people in the form of welfare spending every year (far more than we spend on military or war) and I still say "we" even though I find that to be incredibly stupid. If you disagree with my wording, then I don't really give a shit (since your distinction and worry is a little too anal retentive).

Otherwise, there have been many who supported the war thinking the Bush administration would have performed it in more intelligent ways. The war was not and is not unjustified in their minds. It's been poorly managed by misguided and simplistic thinking.

Post: #316055
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316055/action/topic#316055
Time: 16-Apr-2008 6:40 PM

Johnboy3434 said:

I like how you're judging the entire plot of the movie on one comment made in the trailer. That is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You ever think that the Republic might have something to gain by helping the Hutts? You know, something that might not be in the 2-minutes worth of disjointed scenes we have available? I don't need the Force to sense predetermined bias in your thought patterns.

I don't need to be biased to know that giving so much importance to Tatooine is incompatible with the original portrayal of it as a poor, unimportant place. I also don't have to be biased to know that this makes the Star Wars universe into a smaller, more-repetitive place (and thus less entertaining).

Post: #316008
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316008/action/topic#316008
Time: 16-Apr-2008 5:40 AM

This Jabba stuff is really fascinating. I don't think I ever really expected him to be on Tatooine either. I know I didn't expect him to have a gigantic palace (since he was a gangster), but the fact that he was based on Tatooine was something I just accepted because he was there.

It could be equally likely that he was a denizen of that general sector of space. He was certainly a rich guy with a lot of gangsters that followed him, and the idea of him being able to travel works. This could have actually been used in RotJ to make the beginning seem a bit less plodding and disconnected from the rest of the film. It could have been an interlude in the movie's primary story (instead of of the beginning). Hmmm.

Post: #316007
Topic: Ollie Johnston, Last of Disney's "Nine Old Men," Dies
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316007/action/topic#316007
Time: 16-Apr-2008 5:28 AM

I remember watching stuff with this guy when I was little. I really liked him. The way he described being an animator made me really want to be one.

I'm currently re-watching the "Disney Family Album" that featured him (all these years later on Youtube). I love his philosophy about animation and making things come to life in a way where they exist as themselves and we identify with them as a form of entertainment. That type of approach is why I've always preferred what Disney did over other animation projects like Loony Tunes (which I also like but not as much).

Post: #315983
Topic: Leading To War
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315983/action/topic#315983
Time: 15-Apr-2008 5:43 PM

zombie84 said:

The American Revolution was a choice a nation made for itself, not one forced upon them by an outside occupier.

This is very true and reflects the largest mistake that the Bush administration has made and is still making today. We thought we would be greeted as wonderful liberators when we should have been ready to be tough occupiers. While I don't believe that Iraq is an unredeemable mess, and I don't believe the current tactics are worthless, we should be doing more and I fear the United States is going to be left with many problems for years to come.

Post: #315982
Topic: Oliver Stone's "W" with Josh Brolin playing George W. Bush
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315982/action/topic#315982
Time: 15-Apr-2008 5:33 PM

FanFiltration said:

Yes, calling Bush a drunken spoiled rich kid (who never did an ounce or real work in his life, and who also skipped out and went A.W.O.L. from his military duty) would have been much more accurate.

Perhaps to you, but not to an objective mind.

Post: #315923
Topic: Oliver Stone's "W" with Josh Brolin playing George W. Bush
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315923/action/topic#315923
Time: 15-Apr-2008 5:37 AM

FanFiltration said:

Stone has said that the film, which will focus on the life and presidency of Bush, won't be an anti-Bush polemic, but, as he told Daily Variety, "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"

Fair and true, eh? I highly doubt that. The term "alcoholic bum" already tells me that he'll be twisting the story to put too large of a focus on certain things.

Post: #315919
Topic: A Long Time Ago... - Share Your Star Wars Story
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315919/action/topic#315919
Time: 15-Apr-2008 5:14 AM

I like the story of finding your girlfriend. Very romantic. ;)

Your mom is also nice for putting that much work into a cake.

My Star Wars story is very simple. I saw it on TV a long time ago when it was first put on broadcast television. I was blown away and thought the movie was spectacular. Over the years I then had a copy that was taped off the old Disney channel (without commercials) that I watched well over a hundred times before I switched to watching it via the last, big VHS release of the trilogy in its original form (1995 I think). It is one great film and one that will affect the way I see all art and entertainment for the rest of my life.

Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were a bit more complex in the sense that I hadn't seen them in detail or cared about them as much. I think I had a hazy notion that Darth Vader was Luke's father before properly watching Empire, but if I had I must not have actually registered that information considering the fact of how shocked and dramatically moved as I was. (Darth Vader was a very cool villain but also very evil and you can really understand Luke's pain.) Then Return of the Jedi with its sensational battles, gorgeous music (best of the trilogy in my mind), and incredibly meaningful, moral victory by Luke actually made it my favorite for a while (before realizing some of the movie's small faults).

That's it for me.

Post: #315916
Topic: Spike TV ROTJ Summary
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315916/action/topic#315916
Time: 15-Apr-2008 4:52 AM

Speaking of names, why does the synopsis at the top of this thread say "Anakin Skywalker is thus redeemed"? He was called Lord Vader throughout most of the movie. It's also the way he's supposed to be regarded through the whole film except when Obiwan discusses him a bit. Since when did the redemption of "Anakin Skywalker" figure as a major focus of the film? We used to think it was Lord Darth Vader that was redeemed, but now that George doesn't like that idea it doesn't really work as a major point of the movie anymore; it involves crap from the prequels and crap from George Lucas' own mind, but it isn't touched on in the actual film.

Post: #315573
Topic: R.I.P. Charlton Heston
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315573/action/topic#315573
Time: 10-Apr-2008 4:33 AM

That was strangely one of his memorable roles for me. He made the cheesy spy commander with an eyepatch work as a likable character.

Post: #315433
Topic: Lucas to sue Star Wars designer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315433/action/topic#315433
Time: 8-Apr-2008 8:00 AM

bigbaddaddyvader said:

What has Jango Fett or the prequels got to do with this case?Neither are relevant.
Ainsworth worked on ANH which the case centers on.

Ahh, so this is over original Stormtrooper Helmets . . . I was thinking it was something new since it's in the "news."

Oh well, I still don't see much wrong with what this guy is doing. A basic helmet design is no big deal to me.

Post: #315395
Topic: Lucas to sue Star Wars designer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315395/action/topic#315395
Time: 7-Apr-2008 6:02 PM — Edited 7-Apr-2008 6:04 PM

I don't see how he's a devil for selling a product people want. If I were a fan of the shitty prequels, I think it would be fun to own a Jango Trooper costume made by the same guy who made the actual Jango Trooper costumes that were used in the films.

Copyright laws are important, but in the case of Star Wars and what George Lucas has done to it, it's a bad example to defend "intellectual" property rights with.