darth_ender

So you've included the BD material and Rinzler stuff?  That was pretty fast!

Yikes, that was a mistake on my part for sure.  FF-10j

Yes, from the last move.  I don't think it's necessary to backtrack at all.  Even if I might have made a different move here or there, I probably would have played largely the same.  It's no big deal.

But with that, I'm not sure how your bishop gets to d4.

Your ideas are interesting and quite true in my mind.  The major difference between your views and mine is that God is willing to reveal himself to those who seek him on a level of comprehension they can understand.  It may be simplistic, but it's a finite way to understand the infinite.

I'm no Lucas apologist, but I imagine he's a pretty decent fellow and wish him the best.  Sorry I'm a day late, but happy birthday Georgie!

More than 36 hours with no replies.  It's amazing how the silence has revealed far more about the opinions of folks here than 100 replies might have done.

FF-9i

Well, I'm just trying to put some pressure on you.  Don't have much else I can do right now.  Still figuring this game out.

I do have the correct file, I was just using a different one.  It's no big deal.  I've got the right one now, and I'm ready to make a move :)

HD-e6

^ALLOL

^People often mistake the motives of someone they haven't gotten to know sufficiently well.  And I'm talking about a personal familiarity, not merely a theoretical understanding based on hearsay.

Well, here's your post suggesting Forward FIDEs.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Who-d-like-to-try-a-chess-variant-Now-playing-Chess-with-Different-Armies-where-carefully-balanced-but-drastically-different-armies-face-each-other/post/702555/#TopicPost702555

It's not a team I even have as an option on the zrf file I am currently using.  It's not one of the traditional, balanced teams, and since I'd mentioned Fabulous FIDEs a couple of posts before, I guess I didn't notice.  Oh well.  I know I'm awfully slow to move these days, but I will have to find the time to set up the board with the correct armies in place.  I don't mind playing where we are and switching, but it will take a bit to make the switch, so you will have to be patient.  It likely won't be today.

VW-7f

We were always playing the fabulous FIDEs I thought.  I played against the Fabs last game too.  That was my intended plan.  Now I'll have to look at the old posts and see if I mistyped or read something.

So I guess I thought I was playing against the Fabulous FIDEs, the traditional chess set, not the Forward FIDEs, who apparently move as you describe.  Is that right?

Wow.  I hadn't thought that LFL was lying in this case.  I thought they had intended to use SFX for Jabba.  But you won't need to piece it together.  It's available on Star Wars Begins and Deleted Magic: Revisisted.  With permission, you should be allowed to borrow their work.  I doubt they'd mind.

Bingowings said:

If I were to create a piece of software with the potential to complain, run it on hardware with a short shelf life and not update the operating manual regularly I wouldn't be surprised if my program lost faith in my skills and doubted my existence. Particularly if there were lots of competing derivative or wholly original operating manuals which offered different and sometimes better satisfaction.

 This is why God needs to provide modern prophets in a modern age.  Of course, now I am just putting in a plug for my faith ;)

In all seriousness, my point isn't to point out any need to update the Bible.  It's about the fact that when people read the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, and attempt to judge God by giving a revelation to an ancient culture.  We are talking about an ancient culture and commandments consistent with what that culture is prepared to accept.  And do not forget that God did update those commandments with the higher law taught by Jesus Christ, laws that liberals and conservatives, progressives and traditionalists agree with.  Love your neighbor as yourself.  Love thine enemies.  Pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.  Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.  Etc.  Good laws that require a little of one's own wisdom to apply them appropriately to particular situations.  The problem is too many people do not live by these laws, fail to apply them sufficiently, do not trust in the long-term success of many of these laws and instead cling to the short-term rewards, often to their long-term detriment.

But my point is that if we are dealing with people of a different culture and the commandments God gave to them, do not judge God for granting what the people were capable of accepting at the time.

In other words, the Old Testament is not Mein Kampf.

Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (the Robert Downy movies)

I really like both films.  Downy and Law have such a different take than the traditional Holmes and Watson characters.  They are fun and interesting, and very different from each other.  One is more supernatural in plot, more of a suspense.  The other is far more political, something of a political thriller.  I enjoy them for their differences.  The villains are played well as well.  There's probably not much I could add that anyone else isn't aware of.

But...

SPOILER

I do have one complaint about the connection between the two: Moriarty was present in the first film, and his involvement was rather intriguing.  The major plot obviously involved Lord Blackwell.  But Moriarty cleverly took advantage of the whole situation.  But there is the disconnect.  Moriarty stole the radio control device on the chemical weapons machine, as if this were a crucial part to his ultimate plot.  But in the second film, he makes absolutely zero use of such technology.  None!  Why?  He should have.  It would have better tied the two films together.  Oh well.  But one other thing bugs me, also about Moriarty: he doesn't feel like the same villain.  Don't get me wrong, I like the portrayal in the second film very much.  But he doesn't seem to be the same man as in the first.  For instance, where are the cool retractable sleeve pistols that in part defined him?  They're not used even once in the sequel.  He never wears a top hat or seems so intent on hiding his face in the second film.  He's cool.  He's just not the same guy.

There's my little rant.

I think this is a great project.  I honestly would not care about pacing or special effects or differing visual quality were I to watch this.  What I would care about is the most complete story.  I mean, clearly the better the FX, the more enjoyable the movie, but it is not a priority to me.

I will say, however, that if you are wanting to use the human Jabba in Bay 94, it seems there is no problem in showing the shouting woman with no speeder to shout at.  They would both have incomplete effects.  Truthfully, as unsatisfactory as CGI Jabba is, I would vote to keep him, and only splice in the additional quick shots that were ommitted in the SEs.

So I have been thinking about addressing a concern for many with regards to the Bible.  Let's indulge in a little hypothetical scenario:

God has decided to update his Bible for the benefit of all mankind.  He speaks to his prophet, who invites all to help him write it.  Nearly everyone on earth participates, providing input and helping God create the perfect book of scripture, with modern day stories that are applicable and instructive as to what we actually morally believe.  That way, the majority of humanity and God are always in agreement.  Commandments make sense to us today.  Life is good.  When the Bible is completed, we are left with a book that should last for all time, filled with stories that truly teach us right and wrong!  And mankind uses this book for a couple thousand years.

The year is now 4014 CE.  People still read this new Bible.  They still worship God based on an understanding from time the book was written.  But many "modern" people of the day are deeply offended at the nature of the book.  Many of the stories are completely not applicable.  Sure, there are good moral lessons in some of them, but some of them are simply implausible or unacceptable by "present-day" standards.  Some things are downright offensive.  Surely no God could have been involved in the composition of such a barbaric book.

Now indulge in another hypothetical story:

God has come to earth to update the Bible.  He wishes to instruct mankind in really the ultimate, correct values.  God knowing all, always knows what is absolutely right and wrong in every situation and across time.  So he has his prophet compose a Bible based on his knowledge.  The ideas are utterly radical.  Even the most progressive thinkers could not have possibly conceived such a book.

Sadly, the book is not well received.  The ideas are far too radical.  The moral lessons do not fit our concept of right and wrong at all.  Few believe that a divine being, a benevolent God, could possible formulate such a radical book that does not compare with what we believe to be right and wrong.

Hopefully my stories are illustrative and need no clarification.

VW-7g

Presumably you meant B-d4.

O-O

Oh, oops.  Silly me.

My move remains the same: VW-7h

d5

No, whether I'm overlooking something stupid on my part or not, I meant my treacherous fox.  If you wish to keep your move, then I move VW-7h.  If you wish to make a different move, go ahead and we'll go from there.

HD-c6