Yoda Is Your Father

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
To put some more specifics as to why I can't... well, my mother seems to think that if I get married, I'll lose my scholarships. In actuality (although I didn't tell her as I didn't want her to think I was considering getting married), I did talk a person in my school's financial aid office who said that my federal scholarship money would actually increase a bit if I was married. Conversely, though, the loans that my fiancee has require her to be a depedent. And we've talked about just leaving everyone else out of the equation and eloping. But her parents still very much try to control her, and they offer all kinds of financial support to her, so I really don't want to jeopardize that by sneaking around behind their backs. Her dad would probably end up making her a widow if I did that. ^_~ I'm still a bit younger than you two were when you got married, so I still have plenty of time to get things together. And I know a perfect "ready" time will never come. But we'll just see.

Originally posted by: ricarleite
What I enjoy about being single is the freedom it gives, but not between a husband and wife, but to myself. I can be by myself and isolate if I want to, and not feel guilty about it. Or, I could see whoever I want, and have the kind of relationship I wish. And yet, being married to someone you love is great, because you'll always have that person for you. Being single and being married are like two sides of a coin, like yin-yang... in a way...

Originally posted by: Everescent
How dare you question my use of prolific words. I meant what I said. In order to explain why I said this, I will resort to quoting Davy, even though it's something I normally try to avoid. My thoughts exactly. I'm so badass I'll let you all see loads of pictures of me right here. What you gonna do about it??? (triple-question-mark for Everescent).

Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
BTW Jay, I hear someone cooked up a new name for me in the IRC (to replace "Double Secret Probation"). Can you give me any hints?

Originally posted by: vivsavage

I'm begging you... please email me about this. I am a professional video editor (like yourself, I am guessing???) and have re-edited TTT and am starting ROTK, both to coincide with the books as closely as possible. I would love to swap ideas, DVDs, etc. PLEASE! excaliburvideo@adelphia.net

Originally posted by: greencapt
And yes even though DarkFox's post were well written (and compared to many I've seen they *were* well written if not well intoned) they still had an inflammatory nature to them them that pre-judged this site and everyone on it. And not only were his views seemingly contradictory but they also quickly escalated into almost outright threats towards Jay and the forums here in general. There's a BIG difference between expressing your opinion and making pretentious balnket statements. And like many people have pointed out there are several different areas of this forum and no one either has to A) Visit the forums AT ALL or B) frequent any one area of the fourm at all. And by my reckoning the only areas of this forum that discusses either preservation projects OR fan edits are the areas that are CLEARLY MARKED. As has been stated if you don't like the 'General Star Wars' section either don't visit it or try and contribute to it in a way that encourages better discussion. I personally do both- if a thread/area gets too idiotic I look elsewhere. But the *strength* of the overall community keeps me coming back.

Perhaps on the new site there will need to be further forum areas such as Pro-PT areas. But keep in mind in the meantime that this site was founded by and initially populated by people who FOR the release of the OOT and as such *many* (not all as I don't make blanket statements) of those people were *against* changes (makes sense) and *many* of the people who were against changes were more than likely dedicated fans of the OOT. From that one can make the logical deduction that the *majority* of *those* people would approach the PT with a much higher level of criticism than the general public or more casual SW fans- hence more bitching about it. Now bitching, when done with thought behind it and when trying to constructively add certain points, is perfectly fine and sometimes downright fun. When bitching turns to 'Lucas is a$$' (as it was for quite some time) it just is juvenile and annoying- and best avoided. But if one's only reason for avoiding the 'General Star Wars' area is PT bashing then one may be at the wrong SW forum. I look at it like this- we all have our opinions. But its just as annoying to have someone blindly *defend* something as much as it is to have them stupidly *argue* something. What pisses me off is when ANY part of the forums start to be idiotic PERSONAL attacks on each other. I *personally* think the PT are steaming cinematic turds but I would NEVER tell another member that because they like them that means THEY are steaming human turds. Trust me- I like quite a few cinematic turds. But I just do. And I don't get offended when other people don't. In fact, outside of the little geek community we have here, the vast majority of the world seems to enjoy the turds the that Hollywood monkeys fling at us every week.

That said, there's just as many poo-flinging monkeys in the 'Off Topic' section as there is in the 'General Star Wars' section. Oh it may be different monkeys and different poo but the effect is the same. Remember that like any online venture what we do here is make-believe. Seriously. I know it may not feel like but it truly is. Very few of us will ever have contact with each other in real life. Most of us have no idea what each other does in real life, what we look like, etc. There is no 'ownership' on the net, or at least only so much as any one idividual puts forwards. So everything one reads, see, hears, smells or tastes online has to be taken with a grain of salt as they say. Just try to have a good time. And like I said in a previous post here we all have freedom of choice to be here or to be anywhere. The only time the poo-flinging monkeys win is when we LET THEM WIN. They crave easy targets to aim their poo at and when we run away screaming from ANY poo-flinger all we do is get poo on our backsides. And I for one can't stand poo on my backside.

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I HATE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY'RE HOT. IT'S MUCH BETTER TO BE HOT AND ACT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW IT THEN TO THROW IT IN EVERYBODY'S FACE. IT'S PATHETIC. THOSE PEOPLE MUST BE STARVING FOR ATTENTION.

Originally posted by: Warbler
BTW: the HQ and the ground it is on is being sold to a company called FrobozzCo International it is run by a troll(not the spamming internet kind). I am told he plans to produce lamps, swords, axes, dam controls, and other treasures and he plans to breed grues.

Originally posted by: HotRod
Wait untill the 'World Cup' starts in the UK - and around the 'World' of corse. Apart from you guys in the States that is. Why fooball never cought on there I'll never understand? Not that I'm much of a footy fan, but I do like watching the world cup. Especially when Italy beat Englands ass, untill Italy get kicked that is, then it's "Come on England" Unless England are out first then it'll be "Champione"
It's hard supporting two sides!

But anyhow, there's gonna be plenty of pissed off and bored women aroun - June, July time.
So if your a single lad going on a holiday this year, make sure you go when the world cup's on.
It's a fact that most girls go on holiday around that time.
I wish I knew that when I was a little younger

Originally posted by: JediSage
Then there's the "You just can't wiiiiiin" factor. They can tell you the sky is pink at midnight, and no matter how you try to reason with them, it makes sense to THEM.

Then there's the "Hey, My husband just picked up, and very deliberately thumbed through a book to get to a certain page, now he's being intensely studious about it. He must want me to blab in his ear for the next 25 minutes non-stop".

OK...this has officially become the b#tch about your spouse thread...

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I'm practically 20, and I have been in a relationship with the same girl for nearly three years now. We became engaged a year ago, but we don't tell anybody about it for fear of disapproving parents finding out or people thinking that it's silly to do so at such a young age. Right now, it's college and money (or lack thereof) keeping us from getting married. Beyond that, I feel that I'm ready for marriage, as naive as that may sound, but I really do believe it. And I really do believe that she is the one. As far as it actually happening... I'm not sure when yet. Once the opportunity presents itself, I suppose. But like JediSage said in the married thread, I really don't feel I'd be missing out on anything if I got married early.

Originally posted by: Everescent
Do you really think anyone cares if you don't? Is there a reason you're even here? Judging from the content of your posts, it's fairly easy to make the observation that you have nothing to contribute except baseless criticism and hostility. Is being an annoying twit your sole purpose for posting on this thread? Why do you even continue to check it?

I don't expect an intelligent response to this post, or even an answer to a single one of the questions I have posed. I expect a statement like "ZOMG I HAET YOU TOO everescent (or some derivative thereof, and in lower-case letters to signify your hatred) AND YOU SHOULD DIE (or do something else that would not be beneficial for myself or my dignity) !!!"

Excessive use of punctuation marks has been uncontestably linked to low IQs and small penises, by the way.

Hmm… I can see why some of the antics taking place here might upset/irritate/anger you, but I really think you should take back what you just said about Dayv, or eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me and this pencil. We're all just having a bit of fun, letting off some steam in an internet forum where, let's face it, nothing really matters. No need to get bent out of shape, as the saying goes.

Originally posted by: Everescent
Excessive use of punctuation marks has been uncontestably linked to low IQs and small penises, by the way.

Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Hey Matt -- I finally got round to writing Nick Phillips.

The email bounced back - no such user.

I wonder if I should try and call him, all the way from the US ... or write him ....


UPDATE: The email address had "Philips" in it, just one L. I've written again spelling his last name with two Ls, which I think is right, and that hasn't bounced back yet, so maybe that was the address.

Originally posted by: Shimraa
wow you knwo i never really did realize just how far this forum had fallen, man oh man, wow. here we have a guy who comes in and peacefully and nicely discusses his feelings about the site, and what do we get from the members "go F*ck yourself" man oh man, i really do wonder where this site went wrong.

i really cant wait for you to make the change jay cause i want to remember OT.com as the place it was, where we had good talks in the SW threads, where people would post fan fiction and what not and go from there, i still think one of the best memories i have of this site was reading rebels revised screenplays of ep 1, or some of the naming threads b4 ep 3 was released. now all i see is people whining about how the PT sucked, and how lucas sucks, and how every movie that comes out sucks and how peoples lives are ruined cause someone made a movie. its jsut wa wa wa all day long about how shit happened and people cant deal with it. its just getting rediculas.

so plz jay change the site as fast as you can, cause the scenery doesnt match the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is starting to ruin the scenery.

Originally posted by: Number20
married for two years. Just had our first child a week ago. A healthy little girl.

Originally posted by: HotRod
Yes Adam, this is from your web site!!!! Don't get too excited now!