oojason

Z6PO said:

The Star Wars: Concept Trailer

I love that video - also well worth watching the end credits’ sequences too 😃
 

‘Star Wars Darth Vader costume could go for $2 million at auction’…

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-auction-darth-vader/star-wars-darth-vader-costume-could-go-for-2-million-at-auction-idUKKCN1S309S?rpc=401&

A man who made appearances as Darth Vader at film premieres and fan conventions will sell a costume created in 1979 by the “Star Wars” design team at an auction of classic movie memorabilia next month, auction house Bonhams said.
 

‘Star Wars X-Wing VR - WIP - Project Stardust’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ItglRHeac
 

'Screen capture from a VR experienced developed by Dylan Stout for Oculus Rift in Unity3D. The game is intended to be a remake of the 1983 ATARI Star Wars arcade game originally developed by Mike Hally. This game was later reimagined as a coin-op arcade game: now it is presented to you in full HD rendered goodness and fully custom 4K texturing.

Many credits go to 3D model artists at scifi3d for making the some of the models seen here freely available for me to modify and drop into the game engine. See end credits for a full list of artists and contributors.

The game was created for the purpose of research at the University of Utah during a study in virtual reality related motion sickness. The study details the way in which vection and self-movement is impacted by reference points in a 3D space. The first level is to allow a single reference point: the death star. The second level allows a planar reference point: the surface. The third level allows fully encompassing reference points: the trench & obstacles. The research study is ongoing and will publish soon.’
 

My gif making skills aren’t up to much - but I think I demonstrated with the original gif as to what yotsuya posted, and more ^ (as there are a few scrapes and bumps after the initial part of the flying which were seemingly forgotten or overlooked so far), yet probably best to watch the actual whole scene from the film itself…

Re… ‘as if that justifies the immediate following minutes of footage of Rey expertly piloting the Falcon through ridiculously small spaces as if she’d been flying it for years’ - Rey flies through the innards of the Star Destroyer for a total of 20-21 seconds, pretty much in a straight line after a taking a slight turn, before exiting sharply (as the tunnel decreases in size, and the TIE is also about to ‘lock on’).

No snide, condescending tone, scoffing, or cherrypicking required.
 

I’ll leave it here as .Val is busy editing his post to include more veiled digs for 2 hours now. And I’ve got better things to do.
 

‘Possible ‘marsquake’ detected for first time on red planet’…

A Nasa probe has detected and measured what scientists believe to be a “marsquake”, marking the first time a likely seismological tremor has been recorded on another planet, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/24/possible-marsquake-detected-for-first-time-on-red-planet

&

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-insight-lander-captures-audio-of-first-likely-quake-on-mars (with video)
 

SilverWook said:

The list of things George could have fixed given his mandate for the SE’s but didn’t could make it’s own thread.

I finally managed to track down the thread which highlighted some of the things that George still hadn’t fixed in his 3 Special Edition attempts…

What HASN’T been changed on Blu-ray-- the uncorrected mistakes of Star Wars, by Gavin-, back in 2011.
 

For anyone interested, and as mentioned in the linked thread above, it’s also worth a look for at adywan’s Revisited Edition threads for a list of fixes that adywan has somehow managed to complete - whereas as George seemingly chose not to (or didn’t bother him)…

Star Wars: Revisited : Empire Strikes Back: Revisited : Return Of The Jedi: Revisited
 

The offspring of a minor local politician, one who’d been stirring up hatred and division online on facebook blaming anyone who didn’t look like, or think like them - for all of society’s ills, was arrested last week; for the very crimes their parent had been blaming on ‘those foreigners, innit’.
 

In 2008, a teenager in the UK legally changed his name to ‘Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk and The Flash Combined.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3369609/Teenager-changes-name-to-Captain-Fantastic.html
 

I wonder if he still got the same name, some 11 years on…
 

Documentary-wise, ‘Our Planet’ - by David Attenborough

https://twitter.com/ourplanet : https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80049832
 

LordZerome1080 said:

oojason said:

LordZerome1080 said:

oojason said:

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning.

Luke is the best stunt pilot in the outer rim territories, and has clearly been flying for years. And it’s notable that even he never does anything terribly flashy in the OT. Rey’s handling of the Falcon is about how you’d expect in the first few moments, but after that she successfully executes maneuvers far in excess of anything we’ve seen before. If anything, the contrast between almost crashing and ace-level piloting makes her abilities all the more noticeable.

Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren.

She has never seen Klyo use a Jedi mind trick or even successfully gain his desired information from interrogation, though she manages a successful and proper mind trick after a minute or two of trying.
She has never seen successful telekinesis or levitation, yet apparently learns this on the first attempt after only a moment of intention from Kylo. Interestingly, Kylo never indicates that he is aware of teaching Rey ‘You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!’ and Rey never acknowledges that she has gained knowledge from Kylo ‘The Force…’.

I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

If only there was some sort of Jedi mentor which has been established to help Luke from beyond the grave, or a time jump of several years to help the audience suspend their disbelief. Or both.

Pretty much all of this ^

It’s amusing how people that defend TLJ accuse the detractors of cherry picking but then do exactly that themselves in defending it. Someone comments generally about Rey’s unbelievable command of a ship she’s never flown before (if she’s ever flown at all??) and so the defense is to post a gif of her crashing in the first few seconds…before she’s pulling flips and advanced manoeuvres in the middle of a star destroyer wreck?

Cherrypicking? The gif was posted in response to this post…

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning. Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren. I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

… as quoted in my post with the gif.
 

I don’t think that’s cherrypicking - the first line of yotsuya’s post ‘I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off.’

Seems the gif represents that quite well, yes?

I wasn’t replying to KurganX’s opening post - nor ‘defending’ TLJ - just highlighting what actually occurred in the film - as yotsuya mentioned.

Wow.
 

Where in the posts your replying to do they mention your name? He’s saying people in general.

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning.

Luke is the best stunt pilot in the outer rim territories, and has clearly been flying for years. And it’s notable that even he never does anything terribly flashy in the OT. Rey’s handling of the Falcon is about how you’d expect in the first few moments, but after that she successfully executes maneuvers far in excess of anything we’ve seen before. If anything, the contrast between almost crashing and ace-level piloting makes her abilities all the more noticeable.

Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren.

She has never seen Klyo use a Jedi mind trick or even successfully gain his desired information from interrogation, though she manages a successful and proper mind trick after a minute or two of trying.
She has never seen successful telekinesis or levitation, yet apparently learns this on the first attempt after only a moment of intention from Kylo. Interestingly, Kylo never indicates that he is aware of teaching Rey ‘You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!’ and Rey never acknowledges that she has gained knowledge from Kylo ‘The Force…’.

I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

If only there was some sort of Jedi mentor which has been established to help Luke from beyond the grave, or a time jump of several years to help the audience suspend their disbelief. Or both.

Pretty much all of this ^

It’s amusing how people that defend TLJ accuse the detractors of cherry picking but then do exactly that themselves in defending it. Someone comments generally about Rey’s unbelievable command of a ship she’s never flown before (if she’s ever flown at all??) and so the defense is to post a gif of her crashing in the first few seconds…before she’s pulling flips and advanced manoeuvres in the middle of a star destroyer wreck?

Highlighted the relevant part for you mate - nobody else has posted a gif in here.
 

Sorry about that I hadn’t noticed.

No worries mate.
 

LordZerome1080 said:

oojason said:

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning.

Luke is the best stunt pilot in the outer rim territories, and has clearly been flying for years. And it’s notable that even he never does anything terribly flashy in the OT. Rey’s handling of the Falcon is about how you’d expect in the first few moments, but after that she successfully executes maneuvers far in excess of anything we’ve seen before. If anything, the contrast between almost crashing and ace-level piloting makes her abilities all the more noticeable.

Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren.

She has never seen Klyo use a Jedi mind trick or even successfully gain his desired information from interrogation, though she manages a successful and proper mind trick after a minute or two of trying.
She has never seen successful telekinesis or levitation, yet apparently learns this on the first attempt after only a moment of intention from Kylo. Interestingly, Kylo never indicates that he is aware of teaching Rey ‘You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!’ and Rey never acknowledges that she has gained knowledge from Kylo ‘The Force…’.

I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

If only there was some sort of Jedi mentor which has been established to help Luke from beyond the grave, or a time jump of several years to help the audience suspend their disbelief. Or both.

Pretty much all of this ^

It’s amusing how people that defend TLJ accuse the detractors of cherry picking but then do exactly that themselves in defending it. Someone comments generally about Rey’s unbelievable command of a ship she’s never flown before (if she’s ever flown at all??) and so the defense is to post a gif of her crashing in the first few seconds…before she’s pulling flips and advanced manoeuvres in the middle of a star destroyer wreck?

Cherrypicking? The gif was posted in response to this post…

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning. Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren. I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

… as quoted in my post with the gif.
 

I don’t think that’s cherrypicking - the first line of yotsuya’s post ‘I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off.’

Seems the gif represents that quite well, yes?

I wasn’t replying to KurganX’s opening post - nor ‘defending’ TLJ - just highlighting what actually occurred in the film - as yotsuya mentioned.

Wow.
 

Where in the posts your replying to do they mention your name? He’s saying people in general.

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning.

Luke is the best stunt pilot in the outer rim territories, and has clearly been flying for years. And it’s notable that even he never does anything terribly flashy in the OT. Rey’s handling of the Falcon is about how you’d expect in the first few moments, but after that she successfully executes maneuvers far in excess of anything we’ve seen before. If anything, the contrast between almost crashing and ace-level piloting makes her abilities all the more noticeable.

Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren.

She has never seen Klyo use a Jedi mind trick or even successfully gain his desired information from interrogation, though she manages a successful and proper mind trick after a minute or two of trying.
She has never seen successful telekinesis or levitation, yet apparently learns this on the first attempt after only a moment of intention from Kylo. Interestingly, Kylo never indicates that he is aware of teaching Rey ‘You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!’ and Rey never acknowledges that she has gained knowledge from Kylo ‘The Force…’.

I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

If only there was some sort of Jedi mentor which has been established to help Luke from beyond the grave, or a time jump of several years to help the audience suspend their disbelief. Or both.

Pretty much all of this ^

It’s amusing how people that defend TLJ accuse the detractors of cherry picking but then do exactly that themselves in defending it. Someone comments generally about Rey’s unbelievable command of a ship she’s never flown before (if she’s ever flown at all??) and so the defense is to post a gif of her crashing in the first few seconds…before she’s pulling flips and advanced manoeuvres in the middle of a star destroyer wreck?

Highlighted the relevant part for you mate - nobody else has posted a gif in here.
 

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning.

Luke is the best stunt pilot in the outer rim territories, and has clearly been flying for years. And it’s notable that even he never does anything terribly flashy in the OT. Rey’s handling of the Falcon is about how you’d expect in the first few moments, but after that she successfully executes maneuvers far in excess of anything we’ve seen before. If anything, the contrast between almost crashing and ace-level piloting makes her abilities all the more noticeable.

Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren.

She has never seen Klyo use a Jedi mind trick or even successfully gain his desired information from interrogation, though she manages a successful and proper mind trick after a minute or two of trying.
She has never seen successful telekinesis or levitation, yet apparently learns this on the first attempt after only a moment of intention from Kylo. Interestingly, Kylo never indicates that he is aware of teaching Rey ‘You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!’ and Rey never acknowledges that she has gained knowledge from Kylo ‘The Force…’.

I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

If only there was some sort of Jedi mentor which has been established to help Luke from beyond the grave, or a time jump of several years to help the audience suspend their disbelief. Or both.

Pretty much all of this ^

It’s amusing how people that defend TLJ accuse the detractors of cherry picking but then do exactly that themselves in defending it. Someone comments generally about Rey’s unbelievable command of a ship she’s never flown before (if she’s ever flown at all??) and so the defense is to post a gif of her crashing in the first few seconds…before she’s pulling flips and advanced manoeuvres in the middle of a star destroyer wreck?

Cherrypicking? The gif was posted in response to this post…

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning. Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren. I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

… as quoted in my post with the gif.
 

I don’t think that’s cherrypicking - the first line of yotsuya’s post ‘I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off.’

Seems the gif represents that quite well, yes?

I wasn’t replying to KurganX’s opening post - nor ‘defending’ TLJ - just highlighting what actually occurred in the film - as yotsuya mentioned.

Wow.
 

LordZerome1080 said:

I don’t know how to feel about this, but I just did color restoration work on some porn for my own use.

Probably best to discuss that further on a porn site (or porn restoration site of choice) - and not here. Though thanks for sharing that ‘random thought’ mate.
 

yotsuya said:

I just found this and read the first post. I had to laugh at the idea that Rey flew the Falcon so well. She practically crashed the thing trying to take off. Once they were in the air she did pretty good, but when you compare that to Luke, he flew his X-wing like a pro from the beginning. Rey has to try things before she succeeds, pretty much the way Luke did. And she does have a teacher. She learns just about everything she does from Kylo Ren. I’d still like to know who taught Luke to lift his lightsaber in TESB.

Aye, this is Rey flying the Falcon “at least as well (if not better than) Han or Lando do” - according to the OP.

^ a good point that, mate.

There is this video comparison for Despecialized and the official 2011 blu ray release:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-g2TNqk4m0

^ from the ‘Star Wars Video Comparison’ YouTube Channel
 

Really enjoyed watching that - nice one and cheers for posting.

Here’s to all the video stores still out there - and please remember… be kind, please rewind 😉
 

‘Lyra McKee: 29-year-old journalist shot dead in Derry – video obituary’:-

‘Lyra McKee was fatally wounded during rioting in Derry on Thursday night, becoming what is believed to be the first journalist killed in the UK since Martin O’Hagan was shot in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 2001. The 29-year-old was an acclaimed Northern Irish journalist, who wrote about the Troubles and campaigned for LGBT rights.’

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2019/apr/19/lyra-mckee-29-year-old-journalist-shot-dead-in-derry-video-obituary
 

I really hope that we’re not regressing back to the bad old days of The Troubles - yet unfortunately it does seem to be escalating to a point where we’ll be there soon enough.
 

Edit: Lyra McKee killing: ‘New IRA’ admits responsibility - from the BBC.
 

RIP Lyra McKee.
 

eterno said:

Hi.
Does anyone have this edition?. I’m looking for a transfer.
I am willing to reach an economic agreement.

No mate - we do not have economic agreements on here. If a project is available then it is always free to obtain 😃

Thank you.
 

Haarspalter said:

• 'Gary Kurtz - on the Star Wars Special Edition’ youtube video, - by gordongecko1975
• 'Gary Kurtz - on Return of the Jedi’ youtube video, - by gordongecko1975

Now i feel honored that my youtube uploads contributed to this awesome thread. 😃 A truly intricate collection of sources oojason! Great work.

^ Ha! Brilliant mate 😃 I’d no idea of that - though am really pleased to find more of the sources used for this are from members of our own community ❤️
 

And many thanks everyone for all the kind words - they are very much appreciated ✊

Hopefully we’ll see more of this - including gameplay footage - at E3 in June (or hopefully sooner…)
 

An intriguing concept, TK42-WAN - good luck with this 😃
 

The Champions League Quarter-Final Draw:-

Spurs beat Man City, 4-4 on aggregate (Spurs go through on away goals) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=insYFfPrrFo
Liverpool beat Porto, 6-1 on aggregate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp3i_TVlI5k
Barcelona beat Man Utd, 4-0 on aggregate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84nbLfT95w
Ajax beat Juventus, 3-2 on aggregate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5g8kD92nY

^ Man City thinking they’d scored a 93rd minute injury-time goal, in a fantastic end-to-end and topsy-turvy match, to take them through to the Semi-Final - yet to only have it ruled out by VAR for offside… that must hurt…

The CL Semi-Final Draw is:-

Spurs 0-1 Ajax, Spurs come back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in the 2nd leg… in injury time!

Barcelona 3-0 Liverpool, then Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona in the 2nd leg - https://streamable.com/cf1zg 😃

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague : https://twitter.com/ChampionsLeague : https://www.facebook.com/ChampionsLeague/
 

Well in Mielr - and congrats and best wishes on the new career 😃
 

That looks a quality and intriguing documentary…
 

Terminator 2’s T-1000: The “Splash Head” Effect…