Tyrphanax

I know like five Canadians, so about half of Canada.

Hope it's a good 'un!

xhonzi said:

Tyrphanax said:

dark_jedi said:

...but according to all sources online, the EE is exactly how PJ wanted it...

Familiar this sounds. Dangerous, that path is.

 Released them both, he has.

True this is. The EE I still prefer and annoy me these supposed colour changes will. Perhaps still jumpy about Lucas am I...

This new version I must see before a conclusion I can come to.

dark_jedi said:

...but according to all sources online, the EE is exactly how PJ wanted it...

Familiar this sounds. Dangerous, that path is.

It's kinda sad. I have two years or so of good memories of good times in SWG.

At the same time, though, SWG has been dead for me for years thanks to the NGE. I made it through the CU okay since it was still the same game at the core, but the NGE just killed it off.

As for saving it? No... no. Put a bullet in it and remember it as it was instead of the continuity-breaking, immersion-smashing, junk-collecting joke it became. I mean, you could seriously get the Star Wars movie posters in that game. And little dioramas of the Phantom Menace saber battle. And much more dumb shit like that. Forget it. The game is dead, and we should celebrate what it used to be at launch: a pretty fun game with a lot of potential.

I'm just glad that if I ever want my classic SWG fix, I can hop on over to the SWG emu and get it.

Hey, isn't there, like... I dunno... a thread for this?

I don't want TWO threads I can't click on. C'mon.

Pussies are for dicks.

I like a lot of bluegrass. Country doesn't do much for me. My musical tastes are all over the fuckin' map, though.

KRS-One, Ghetto Boyz, Busta Rhymes, and House of Pain are pretty great. Gotta get some Kurtis Blow and Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation in there, too, though. Snoop and Dre and Ice Cube as well. Bel Biv Devoe? <_<

Generally for "newer" stuff I go for guys like Ludacris, Wildchild, Madlib/Quasimoto, Heiroglyphics, Deltron 3030/Del the Funky Homosapien, Jurassic 5, Dr. Octagynecologist/Kool Keith, Lootpack, Wu-Tang Clan... I also admit to a soft spot for Kanye West and DMX.

I'm sure there's more than that, but that's all that are coming to me. I love the underground stuff, it's just way better than the popular rap/hip-hop they put on the radio.

That's going deep into the Will Smith archives. I like that.

Never have I heard a truer song, by the way. Parents just don't understand.

Enough.

I think we should force Ziggy to listen to "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" until he likes it.

Most people are impressed that it's more than one.

No pleasing some people.

Like I said in the other thread, I think they're okay movies, but there's a ton of wasted potential. Like games like Star Wars: Galaxies or Knights of the Old Republic II, a few things they did get right, but there was so much they they got wrong that it overshadowed the good. If you narrow your eyes a whole lot you can see that the PT could have been a great series of films. But alas they are crap.

For a long time, though, I thought they were good movies. I always knew they weren't as good as the OT, but I admit that I was nine years old when TPM dropped and I was taken in by the flash and action of the PT. I may even have laughed at Jar-Jar *shudders*, but my mind has thankfully chosen to repress that memory.  (Though I do know my brother had a Jar-Jar t shirt, but he is also three years younger than I am, so...)

As I got older, the bloom started to come off the rose for the prequels. They became progressively less important to me as the OT became progressively more important to me. I am glad that I saw the OT first, even though I grew up with the 1997 SE and didn't learn of the plight of the OT for a long time, because I think that it stuck in my mind much better being my first experience with the films rather than TPM.

Even though I was growing out of the PT more and more as time went on, I didn't really acknowledge them as the piles of tripe they were until started hearing concentrated arguments against them, pointing out all the flaws and poor quality of the films in detail. This is when I started to get angry about them being bad. I think Red Letter Media's reviews were the final nail in the PT coffin for me.

I was an SE-lover for a long time to, as it was the version I grew up with; I was always a "Han Shot First" person, but the rest of it didn't really occur to me that it really affected the movies. It wasn't until I started talking to Tobar a few years ago that I started to get over it. And of course hearing of the change to Boba Fett's voice was inexcusable.

Seeing Ady's theatrical edition of ESB was like seeing a totally different and better movie, which surprised me, but in a good way. I never knew how much the SE affected the viewing of the movies for me, and how much removing all those little distractions made the movie better.

I can still watch the PT and it'll be an okay experience. The action is neat and eye-catching. But that's about all I can say for them. The OT is where it's at still, to this day.

Ramble mod disengaged.

Jango Fett vs. Obi-Wan.

Qui-Gon.

Obi-Wan (mostly).

The overall story concept.

Darth Maul.

Dooku's saber.

Christopher Lee.

Battle droids (until they started talking).

The design of the clones.

Most of the Republic equipment, actually.

Naboo. Just seems like a neat city to walk around in.

Coruscant. The entire planet is one big city.

I'm sure there are a few other things, as well.

I, in general, like the prequels as well. But I like them in the same way that I liked games like Star Wars: Galaxies or Knights of the Old Republic II in that the idea is fundamentally sound, and a few things were executed pretty well, but overall they just weren't fully realized and poorly executed and suffered because of it. Which is sad, because they all could have been pretty awesome.

There's a comic featuring BoShek, actually. I don't know much about it aside from the fact that exists.

Greenie was so surprised that he flippin' BROKE the side of the post.

Explosions.

He sure was funny in Murder by Death. Probably one of my favourite films.

I miss when Will Smith rapped...

greenpenguino said:

TV's Frink said:

There was a time when every off-topic thread was in some way about Bond.

It sucked then, and it sucks now.

This is the best day ever.

The mythical "All Bonds" code?

I think blood was bad with Lazenby since he was fired, more or less.

The concept of the movie was sound. I just didn't much like Lazenby. *shrugs*

Moore wasn't bad. Obviously a funnier/goofier Bond. I thought he did a good job of it despite that. Fun movies to watch if not exactly like Bond.

Dalton was quite a bit more gritty. He was more like the books, in my mind. I liked that.

Brosnan was a nice between-Bond. Little like Moore in the humour, little like Dalton in the grit.

Craig I like a lot for the same reason I liked Dalton. He certainly has the realism and grit. I do miss Q and the gadgets, though, even though they're not so true to the books. I know he has some more believable gadgets like smartphones and whatnot, but it's not the same as a watch laser or briefcase plane or submarine Lotus.

Connery will always be the best, though. =P

I have nothing to say about that other than I weep for the writer's soul...

Dalton was a pretty good Bond. Lazenby, however...

TV's Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

Hey, I totally mentioned Kraftwerk in the first post!

Rule 29.

Too many bloody rules!