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Tyrphanax

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#953938
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

ray_afraid said:
And you still get so upset at inanimate objects that you resort to smashing them?

It doesn’t take much to make me extremely angry.

Don’t put that on your online dating profle…

Come to think of it, do put it on your online dating profile.

I don’t do online dating. But it’s not something I bring up on first dates.

You honestly should look into managing it in some way. It’s not a healthy thing man.

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#953933
Topic
Darth Vader's suit
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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Never watched Rebels. Just youtubed Vader in Rebels. Kind of pathetic that they did a better job invoking 1977 Vader than ROTS. Red lenses, widow’s peak, proper robes, etc.

I agree it would’ve been better to take a completely different direction in Sith, but given that they tried to make him look the same, it shouldn’t’ve been hard.

EDIT: I also dig the yellow-green lightsaber flashes al a SW.

Yeah, they’ve undergone a lot of effort to make Rebels feel like Star Wars crossed with Realph McQuarrie concepts. It’s a great show for OT fans.

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#953695
Topic
Someone is posting the first draft of the Jurassic Park script on Facebook!
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56-59

Tyrannosaur.

The reveal is honestly a bit anticlimatic here, I feel like the goat bit in the movie really adds to it, as does the slower buildup. Regis is also a bit anticlimatic in the draft, the book was much more interesting. It’s interesting to see Crichton continually referring to the Rex as “he”, as well.

Malcolm visits the restroom. Tim climbs a tree.

The Hammond scene is a bit silly. I prefer his talks with Wu in the bungalow (which is a word that will forever instantly bring up memories of the book).

Arnold and Wu realize the gravity of the situation.

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#953688
Topic
Someone is posting the first draft of the Jurassic Park script on Facebook!
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darth_ender said:

Tyrphanax said:

40-43

Nedry’s Delimma, the Anne B, a no-show Rex, and we move on towards the stegosaurus as the storm builds.

Looks like the sick animal will be a stego again, like the book, considering we passed the triceratops already. I’m wondering if Harding has become Muldoon this time?

I also realized that we had no scene establishing Nedry’s relationship with BioSyn in this draft, unlike both the book and the film. Crazy! I see how it makes sense to preserve the reveal, but I prefer knowing about it. There’s something about Jurassic Park where you understand how Malcolm’s Chaos Theory predicts the collapse of the park (and a lot of this is delivered on the pages as you see the iterations become more complex).

Read the book for the fifth time last summer (the first time since high school though), so it’s still pretty fresh in my head. As I recall, the BioSyn scene never actually states that Dodgson is meeting with Nedry. He’s just meeting with an unnamed man. Crichton may have described his physique, but we never surely make the connection till he implements his plans. Since Crichton wrote the first draft of the screenplay, I’m sure he was still trying to keep this reveal as best as one can in the film medium. I agree though, the final film version is better. It’s still a bit of a surprise in the movie when Hammond asks if Nedry had butterfingers and the same guy who met with Dodgson turns around in the swivel chair. Better reveal for a movie.

Yeah I think you’re right about the book.

Uploading the next batch now!

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#953650
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Smithers said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Speaking of Zelda, the next game has been shown at E3 and it looks amazing.

Is that a voice actor I hear?! FINALLY!!!

Don’t get too excited. I watched many hours of gameplay today and only heard that voice a couple of times, in an objective guidance capacity saying maybe ten words total. The other NPCs they showed (very few, to be fair) were the standard text balloon only fare.

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#953569
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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ATMachine said:

^ It’s worth noting that until the Kepler probe started discovering such planets, many astronomers believed that for mathematics reasons, a planet couldn’t orbit both stars in a binary system in a stable orbit.

The universe is stranger than we can suppose, and all that.

That’s why I love science. Every time we think we have it figured out, boom. Arsenic-based life, or some other such weird discovery that turns everything we thought we knew upside-down.