hairy_hen

Firefly is definitely my favourite show ever.  I like the movie a lot too (and am still amazed it actually got made at all) but I like the series more.  The story just lends itself to tv format more easily, and Joss had to retcon a few things in the movie to make the exposition more succinct, which bugs me a little bit from a continuity perspective.

It took me a few episodes to get into the show, mostly because Mal seemed like such an arse early on, but it really grew on me, and nothing has come close to supplanting it in my regard.

I shall upload it for you as soon as I can.

The copy I have is the one that was level-reduced to resemble the 1993 mix in average volume.  The first file he uploaded had the peaks at 0 db, but I don't have that version.

While I'm at it, are there any others you don't have yet?  Mono, 1993, 70mm . . . ?

Oh, Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer,

Du reitest durch die Lande.

Oh, Albrecht, Albrecht Dürer,

Du Held mit Deiner Bande.

Gefürchtet von den Bösen,

Geliebt von allen Guten, Guten,

Du Dürer Albrecht, Du.

I've never been reasonable in my life.

Fink, on the other hand, is the most reasonable of folk that I know.

(I can admit this since we're not the same person anymore.)

Shakespeare's "Who's On First?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGHVWKrcpQ

What do you think his reasoning is for this?  Does he actually believe that his new versions that much better?  Is he just a stubborn old man with a giant ego who won't admit his mistakes?  Is he saving the cleaned-up remastered GOUT for... I don't even know what at this point, just trying to keep people buying different editions?

All of the above.

Dear Sir,

I wish to complain about the number of complaints on this site.  They are clearly not written by the general public, and are merely included for a cheap laugh.

Yours Sincerely,

William Stoat-Pamphlet (Mrs.)

Weird Al sex tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S9N1oCX_nI

I have it on good authority that BadJanGhostCornholeBuster or whatever the hell his name is has been responsible for the site going down.

The best method I know of would be to open the HD video through AviSynth using DGAVCIndex and create a simple script to resize to 720 x 480 (using Spline36 resize or one of those) while encoding as a 16:9 m2v with HCEnc, or another encoder of equivalent or better quality that accepts .avs scripts.

If using AviSynth isn't something you want to get involved in, I might actually be able to do this for you; the only difficulty I foresee is that DGAVCIndex requires the raw h264 stream demuxed from everything else, so I'd first have to find something to do the demuxing of AVCHD on a Mac.  There's also FFmpegSource, which is supposed to be able to able to open h264 in container formats, but that hasn't worked for me yet.

Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly?

TV's Frink said:

Your mom likes old junk.

Aha, but since I am you, it's really your mom who likes old junk!  Wahaha!

I ar lyk, mad olde 'n junke . . .

I, TV's Frink, am not remotely confused.

I'm still looking for the ideal avatar among those used by others . . .

xhonzi said:

Before that?

Nothing, those were the first movies I've ever seen.  ;)

TV's Frink said:

hairy_hen said:

Are you depressed?  Irritable?  Tired of life?

 

Keep it up.

Is this a commercial for Viagra?

lol nah, it's just a parody of those 'depression hurts' type of commercials.  Having been depressed myself about seven years ago, I'm qualified to make cracks about it.  ;)

Shadow of a Doubt.  Interesting film, said to be Hitchcock's favourite among his own body of work.

Before that, Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Before that, The Truman Show.

Are you depressed?  Irritable?  Tired of life?

Keep it up.

xhonzi said:

What is this I don't even...

If, like me, anyone was wondering where this meme phrase comes from, see here to find out: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-is-this-i-dont-even

The comment first appeared from anonymous49 in response to the image linked to on that page, and the inarticulate incoherence is well deserved.  Truly, it's horrific.  I thought 5,000 pound human!Bender on Futurama was bad, but this . . . let's just say I laughed so hard I cried and then wanted to gauge my eyes out.  Follow the page's rule34 link at your own risk . . .

I think we should switch to using other people's avatars instead of our own.

I despise laugh tracks.

Even Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of my favourite shows ever, could not escape the debilitating presence of the laugh track.  The ending to the hilariously inappropriate 'Undertaker' sketch was pretty much ruined by the forced participation of the audience, to the point that you can't even hear what they're saying in some parts.  Fortunately the same sketch on LP can be heard without interference.

The Pythons themselves often mocked laugh tracks by having announcers obviously switch them on and off, which is much funnier than hearing them anywhere else.

One time my avatar didn't leave . . . but then I woke up.  Teasing wretch . . .