doubleofive

World of Warcraft. Mrs and I are playing again. No particular reason, but this time we don't have all the friends dozens of levels higher than us pressuring us to level faster. It's much more fun at our own pace. She started playing Saturday, I wasn't going to play, but started anyway. We tried the recruit a friend thing so we'd get 3x experience, but it doesn't work yet for some reason.

I LOVE that the glitch is in the preview video. I will be content without the bonus features then. No new/fixed transfer = no purchase.

Hell, I just told my wife about the glitch and that this is the same messed up transfer and she said "we won't buy it then!"

It's certainly ridculous! I couldn't really tell the difference between the two videos until I watched them a couple times, but the no music one seems slightly more clear.

No background music, I suppose.

Isn't he referred to as "he"?

doubleofive said:

theprequelsrule said:

You're right! We would all be crazy for not being complete consumer whores and replacing are completely functional 360 consoles with these new ones!

I'm pretty sure the components to add to my xbox to make it like the R2 box would even out the cost:

Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures: $150
250 GB Hard Drive: $130
Kinect Star Wars: $60
New Controller: $50

That's a total of almost $400. So for $150 more, I could get all that, a bigger hard drive, and an xbox that isn't pushing 4 years old that gets really hot when you have it on for more than half an hour that I can sell for at least $100.

Sounds better all the time.

GoldenEye 007: Reloaded was just announced for the 360 and PS3! Supposedly its the same as the Wii-make, but with HD graphics and no waggle controls!

ChainsawAsh said:

I try not to Internet too much while I'm here, as it's all "monitored,"

Sucky part is, I still live in Indiana (Chicago rent is too expensive for a broke fucker like me), so I have to wake up at 5AM in order to be at work at 9 every day.  And I can't get home any earlier than 7:30PM.  I've been trying to maintain the same social life, but that ends up giving me about 3-4 hours of sleep per night, leading to me falling off the wagon (well, both wagons, really - I'm smoking and drinking caffeine again).

I've got a wife who would enjoy some of the Kinect features and an older (it was refurbished) Xbox with no HDMI and a 20 GB hard drive that I've just made the centerpiece of my entertainment life. This works for me, very well. I don't need a fourth controller, but it couldn't hurt with games like Goldeneye 007: Reloaded coming out.

theprequelsrule said:

You're right! We would all be crazy for not being complete consumer whores and replacing are completely functional 360 consoles with these new ones!

xhonzi said:

And C-3PO doesn't beep like R2-D2.

Can you imagine how gaudy a gold xbox would be?

The bunker scene looks usable. If its in 1080p and has audio we could work with or cut around, we could maybe color correct it and expand the Endor battle! Not having the blaster effects to figure out who is shooting whom would be a challenge, but it doesn't seem impossible.

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:

I think so. I probably would, honestly.

Your previous false enthusiasm makes me sad.

I think so. I probably would, honestly.

Why let LFL do the effects half-assed when we can go full-assed ourselves!

(that didn't come out right)

Anyway, this is a rare opportunity to have basically original Star Wars elements for us to clean up and do what we will. Awesome.

That wampa is hilarious. I'm not sure how Empire would have gone with that still in it.

Bingowings said:

Rubber

A friend at work heard I got Netflix and told me I should watch this. Its a fake art film about a tire that rolls around and murders people with its mind. It's REALLY slow and we only got about a half hour into it before we stopped watching. But it supposed to be parodying really slow films with no purpose. My favorite part is right at the beginning, where a cop climbs out of the trunk of a car to deliver this speech to the audience (who is a character watching the events through binoculars):

In the Steven Spielberg movie E.T., why is the alien brown? No reason. In a love story, why do the two main characters fall madly in love with each other? No reason. In Oliver Stone's JFK, why is the President suddenly assassinated by some stranger? No reason. In the excellent Chainsaw Massacre by Toby Hooper, why don't we ever see the characters go to the bathroom or wash their hands like people do in real life? Absolutely no reason. Worse, in The Pianist by Polanski, how come this guy has to hide and live like a bum when he plays the piano so well? Once again, the answer is no reason. I could go on for hours with more examples. The list is endless. You've probably never given it a thought, but all great films, without exception, contain an important element of no reason. And you know why? Because life, itself, is filled with no reason. Why can't we see the air all around us? No reason. Why are we always thinking? No reason. Why do some people love sausages and other people hate sausages? No f***ing reason.

The link I posted shows the Kinect. It's just white. They wanted to put a Star Wars logo on it, but decided against it.

I'm such an ignorant American about the British Isles. I know that Irish are on their own island, and that Scots are on the north of the main island, but where do the Welshes fit in?

Please don't ignore me (see, on topic!)

They're trying to promote "Kinect Star Wars" by making a Star Wars Kinect system.

it beeps like r2-d2?

(last time)

R2-D2!!!!!

IT BEEPS LIKE--

Oh yeah. My wife is already tired of the idea.