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#585256
Topic
Star Trek TNG on BluRay confirmed !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/585256/action/topic#585256
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http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/okuda3.html

Part 3 of the Oduka's interview is up on TrekCore. They mention in "The Naked Now" that they discuss the TOS Enterprise in the episode but show a diagram of the refit. They've made a diagram of the TOS Enterprise to use in that shot.

I asked Oduka about it on Twitter:

@doubleofive said:

Are you planning on fixing many mistakes like that? You've got to be torn between recreating the original FX & making them better

@MikeOkuda said:

In vast majority of cases, we try to re-create original FX, including artistic decisions with which we disagree.

Not sure why this mistakes warrants fixing when others won't be, but perhaps it was because it was his mistake to begin with, though they're keeping the graphics green even though Oduka wanted them white.

I don't mind fixing little mistakes like this, I guess, but I'm worried because TOSR started as a shot-by-shot enhancement of effects that turned into a bit much at times.

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#585200
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/585200/action/topic#585200
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muddyknees2000 said:



Monroville said:

...what about those 2 stormtroopers that were watching Solo be loaded aboard?  Would we see them walking away on the platform? 


 That would actually make alot of sense.
More work for you. ;-)

But seriously, they could be the ones that show up behind our heroes. Turned around when they heard Leia shooting at Slave 1.

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#585146
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The Official All-Purpose Board Game Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/585146/action/topic#585146
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zombie84 said:


Yeah, it's weird that as a mouse your goal in the game is to actually get caught (and in real life, presumably die).
The goal was to catch the other players before they caught you.

I've been putting off buying Settlers of Catan, mostly because its a 3+ player game and the Mrs and I usually play by ourselves. Now that we have friends who live in town, we'll be expanding our horizons.

I'm glad I put it off so I can get this:

http://mayfairgames.com/news.php?id=175

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#585122
Topic
The Official All-Purpose Board Game Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/585122/action/topic#585122
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The wife and I bought it, you collect cheese pieces, and when you get to a certain point you can add another piece to the trap, then you circle around the end and if someone lands under the trap you can spend cheese to set off the trap, but if it fails along the line you have to reset until the next person lands under it. Basically, the game is an excuse to build a Rube Goldberg machine.

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#584978
Topic
The Official All-Purpose Board Game Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/584978/action/topic#584978
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darth_ender said:



doubleofive said:

Thanks to TableTop, Mrs. O'Five and I are getting more board games and the like.


I meant to ask: what games have you been trying out?  What have you enjoyed and what have you hated?  I always have enjoyed wargames, but I know there are plenty of other fun games out there.  I just don't get to try them out often enough.  Input from others is useful in figuring out which to pick up.
I can't recommend TableTop highly enough, as you can see how the games are played and decide if you like it, but some things we've got because of or in relation to it:

Ticket To Ride

Deceptively simple. You collect cards of matching colors to lay tracks, gaining more points for the longer routes and having the longest continuous train. the catch is that you have a set of goal routes to connect, say LA to Dallas, or San Francisco to New York City, or Dallas to Nashville. You draw three of those at the beginning of the game, and you're able to discard one if you don't think you can make it. Each turn you can either draw two colored train cards, place a route using your plastic trains, or draw three more route cards (you have to keep at least one). You get bonus points at the end of the game for each route card you've completed, but you lose that many points if you don't complete them. There's light strategy as you can can place trains anywhere on your turn, so if you see someone obviously trying to go for a route, you can block the easy way so they have to go around.

Zombie Dice

Another simple game. You roll three colored dice at a time. Each color has a different combination of brains, shotgun blasts, or footprints. Each brain scores you a point, you can reroll the dice with the footprints, and if you get three shotgun blasts, you lose the points you've gained that round. You kind of take risks and "bank" your points before you get shot too many times. Its a quick and easy game to fill time. I may have my players play it when I have to stop our D&D to set up the next battle...

Lords of Waterdeep

Speaking of D&D, this board game takes place in the same "world" as most of D&D, but its a resource collecting game. Instead of collecting wood or grain, you collect gold, wizards, rogues, fighters, and clerics by sending "agents" to different parts of the city each round. You "spend" the adventurers to turn in quest cards, which give you points, some of which give you bonuses for the rest of the game. The neat part is that at the beginning of the game you've each drawn a different Lord of Waterdeep (which fits into the mythos because no one knows who the Lords are, not even one another). Each Lord gets bonus points for particular types of quests you've completed, so the game score can change drastically at the end.

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#584933
Topic
Extremely Silly Website: digital-fanedits.com (Was: Extremely Silly Article About Star Wars Prologue On DVD)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/584933/action/topic#584933
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TV's Frink said:


http://digital-fanedits.com/services/help

Relevant to our interests:
Once a fanedit is put to a usable medium, it meets the legal definition of a bootleg.  Contrary to what other fanedit websites may want you to believe, there is nothing you can do as a movie consumer to change this fact. It is for this reason that fanedits must never be sold, bought, or associated in any way with trade and commerce. Sadly, there are established fanedit websites that defy this principle every day by using their content to attract advertising revenue. The Digital Fanedits website is 100% commercial free--both in principle and in practice.

In keeping with these legal and ethical interpretations, fan-editors are not permitted to accept payments or other financial gifts in connection with their work. We can cite the author of Star Wars: Revisited  as a perfect model for how not to conduct yourself as a fan-editor. Digital Fanedits has a zero tolerance mandate for fan-editors who solicit donations into PayPal accounts to subsidize their projects.


lol
Good for them?

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#584890
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/584890/action/topic#584890
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Captain Antilles said:


Awesome!

The color correction is awesome, the new sky <span>behind the Slave I's landing platform looks fantastic, and I love--ABSOLUTELY LOVE--that Leia's line about trusting Lando (around 2:52) has been restored to pre-SE completion! Music to my ears!

Thanks, Ady! =)
I'm not sure how many time Ady can say its just the GOUT audio. ;-)

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#584885
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/584885/action/topic#584885
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Shame that a quick photoshop shows that Adywan simply took the original walls and moved them into the SE position. The wall could be seen the entire time. They DELIBERATELY covered up the focal point of the scene to show off the CG.

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ubC2JvZJf-o/T_wb_8Ot4WI/AAAAAAAAN3s/Th7Nxsw8qAI/s640/R2Cover.jpg

If your Special Edition-ing requires you to cover up one of the main characters with a wall so people will notice your changes, you're doing it wrong.

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#584879
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/584879/action/topic#584879
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HotRod said:


I always thought that once they added the balcony it created one massive continuity mistake. 

Hadn't we just seen Artoo get the door shut in his face? Was no balcony there. 

Unless of course he wondered off!!!
It had been a few minutes, and he does roll into the hallway as we watch him, so yeah, he's be wandering. You expect R2 to just bang his dome against a door for 5 minutes? Naw, he's trying to find a point to use his jets to fly to Luke! ;-)