ricarleite

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Post: #231255
Topic: Look at what I bought.....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231255/action/topic#231255
Time: 1-Aug-2006 12:43 PM

I'd rather go to David Gilmour's tour. Richard Wright is also on it, and on their setlist they are playing my favorite, "Echoes", in its entire form.

I was planning on buying that DVD but I have this thing about seeing Pink Floyd gigs on the screen, feeling kinda bad for not BEING there, you know? But since my Pink Floyd in Pompeii DVD is starting to get holes on it from repeated views, I might get this one.

You know what I bought yesterday? "Taxi Driver", out of a discount bin. I hadn't seen that one and wanted to very badly. Pretty awesome, sometimes kinda freaky. Has it's flaws, specially over editing, but it's great nonetheless.

Post: #231067
Topic: IN MEMORY OF WARBLER
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231067/action/topic#231067
Time: 31-Jul-2006 9:29 PM

Warbler I might be mistaken but, didn't I used to work for you?

(On that forum thread I mean)

Post: #230952
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230952/action/topic#230952
Time: 31-Jul-2006 3:40 PM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The Wikipedia article links to a site with the video. I almost watched it last night, but I decided that I probably shouldn't so close to bedtime. I don't know. Part of me wants to watch it, part of me thinks (probably rightfully so) that it will be extremely disturbing. Sigh, I probably will watch it soon anyway. I just can't keep myself away...

Don't.

Post: #230888
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230888/action/topic#230888
Time: 31-Jul-2006 9:05 AM

Originally posted by: none
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Dwyer

I saw the Budd video many years ago on VHS. One of my close friends was in the police academy at the time, and it was circulating through there. I imagine it came through official channels at some point and made it into the hands of an officer who made a copy.

Pretty gruesome.

I've seen it on the "Traces of Death" video series - on several angles and in slow motion as well, along with the aftermatch. Those Traces of Death movies - if you dare call those things "movies" - are one heck of a way to keep yourself awake for some days. After that I never again watched snuff films or have seen gory pictures.

Post: #230887
Topic: IN MEMORY OF WARBLER
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230887/action/topic#230887
Time: 31-Jul-2006 8:58 AM

Say, when and where is the funeral going to be? I mean, free food, a great place to meet some chicks and the always entertaining burial!

Post: #230704
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230704/action/topic#230704
Time: 30-Jul-2006 7:03 PM

Originally posted by: Jay

Originally posted by: ricarleite
I disagree with you there Jay. You can't compare one of the most horrible and memorable moments of human history with a forum troll.

Don't overreact. It was an analogy, not a direct comparison.

Everyone needs to calm down. If I locked a thread every time someone expressed a bit of apprehension towards the topic, this place would be empty.

AWK isn't Voldemort, and we're not going to elevate him to that status.

I know that I've said I would not post here again, but every single time I make such promise I have the tendency of breaking it. But since this topic has changed from AWK into the whole "dead thread" discussion and its implications, I feel it's still valid for it to go on.

First of all, I belive everyone's calm. And I agree and understand it was merely an analogy, but what I feel you expressed on it is that we shouldn't just keep ourselves quiet because someone came over and done something we disaproove. But I don't feel your analogy is entirely valid because the holocaust is an important historical fact, and a forum troll isn't. We are not elevating him to any status of any sort, I feel we are doing the opposite here.

On some threads we have come into heated discussions in which one ore more parts disagreed and had this aprehension towards what was being discussed, the politic discussions are such examples, and we've never come close of locking the thread just for that. Our thread locking has been used only in, basically, trolling - useless or senseless topics and offensive discussions. And I particularly feel that discussing the behaviour of someone who has done such things is also senseless, as there is no real point. Can such conversation evolve beyond the whole "I hated him, he did this and that"? Wouldn't that be an open invitation for this behaviour, as it shows we are shaken by this trolling episodes? Well, I know I've contributed with my part on the futility of it, with these two posts of mine on this thread, and for that I apologise. But I was merely expressing my opinion, the same way the owner of this thread was clearly doing. I don't condemn him for starting this thread or anything, but he is now aware of who AWK was.

I've always defended and praised freedom of speech, and let's not mix up both. It's like the analogy I've done with suicide. Like, take that live TV suicide by that north american politician, Budd something. Later that day some TV stations broadcasted the whole thing, some showed only a few scenes, some refused to air any images of it. Why? Because it serves no point. That's what I was trying to say...

Post: #230644
Topic: Rocky VI
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230644/action/topic#230644
Time: 30-Jul-2006 2:22 PM

What will move people to the theaters are boredom, and a mix of nostalgia over he original Rocky and curiosity on how the film will be. It's an easily predictable 2 weeks #1, and will probably be the highest grossing Rocky movie ever. Will it be good? Very unlikely. But audiences will pay.

Post: #230639
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230639/action/topic#230639
Time: 30-Jul-2006 2:12 PM

I disagree with you there Jay. You can't compare one of the most horrible and memorable moments of human history with a forum troll. It makes no sense discussing him, and it only gives reasons for more trolls to come in here, since we clearly demonstrate that they affect us, even when not here any longer. If you want to make an analogy, think of how TV stations and newspapers refuse to broadcast suicides (unless involving celebrities or under extreme circustances), because it has no valid point, not a good one anyway. You're the boss, but I gotta agree on the dead thread plee there, and I'll comply, no posting on this thread again.

Post: #230604
Topic: Rocky VI
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230604/action/topic#230604
Time: 30-Jul-2006 11:27 AM

Originally posted by: Warbler
This is going to be an all time flop.

Wanna bet this is going to be #1 on it's opening week?

Post: #230479
Topic: General Anime/Manga Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230479/action/topic#230479
Time: 29-Jul-2006 9:36 PM

The "animatrix" is as much anime as the holiday special is Star Wars cannon.

Post: #230392
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230392/action/topic#230392
Time: 29-Jul-2006 9:15 AM

Clint Eastwood Look Alike got into his black horse and went to Sergioleone. Johnson and John Wayne were on the move for their duel as well. They were all going to face each other soon...

Post: #230303
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230303/action/topic#230303
Time: 28-Jul-2006 9:38 PM

What Johnson didn't know, as he loaded his gun with the acronym I can't recall at the moment, was that the bullets sold by the little prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince were magical bullets... On the meanwhile, Clint Eastwood Look Alike was setling his deal with Kenny Rogers:

"I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. Get a coffin ready."

"But I'm hiring you to kill both John Wayne and Johnson!"

"My mistake. Two coffins."

"Cut the movie references and go kill them! Ten grand, right? Here's my credit card."

Post: #230242
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230242/action/topic#230242
Time: 28-Jul-2006 5:07 PM

John Wayne, after winning the #1 prize at the science fair and borrowing it to his son to exibit on school's "show and tell", decided it was time to use his weapon on a deadly duel of "gunner" versus "deus ex machina-esque insane technical gizmo". So he took his 1800s cell phone, which was the size of a camel and powered by steam, and called Johson, to arrange a duel in front of the small Sergioleone church, the following day at noon. Pacific time. Daylight saving time.

Post: #230143
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230143/action/topic#230143
Time: 28-Jul-2006 9:49 AM

Seeing that his new found nemeses always had the most bizarre set of events ocurring to him in a positive way, such as pokemon powers and future-set doctors coming to save his horse, John Wayne realized that a common weapon was not going to kill Johnson and Horse the way he wanted them to be killed: in a deadly, fatal way. So, drawing on the bluprints, he came up with an ingenious yet bizarre weapon that could end Johnson's life once and for all, a weapon the next person here will describe:

Post: #230069
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230069/action/topic#230069
Time: 27-Jul-2006 11:36 PM

A weird scene, that was. In the middle of the desert there was this kid, no older than 12, selling bullets in exchange for a drawing of a lamb! Sadly, Johnson did not get at first the obscure literary reference.

Post: #230050
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230050/action/topic#230050
Time: 27-Jul-2006 10:13 PM

Soon, Horse was out of his "Mr. Orange on Resevoir Dogs" position and was healed! Before Johnson could say anything, the Doctor went inside this weird booth, something he had never seen in all the Wild West, and the booth disapeared!

Post: #230011
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230011/action/topic#230011
Time: 27-Jul-2006 9:03 PM

And, sadly, he had those bullets on the losing bet, handing those precious bullets to his new found nemesis, who could use those in a not-so-great way. But, at that moment, everyone looked around to see where the shot had been fired and to where, since no one seemed injured.

EDIT: bad grammar

Post: #230009
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230009/action/topic#230009
Time: 27-Jul-2006 9:01 PM

Well, Zagallo was an ex-player and took over the role as coach for the 1970 World Cup, and we all know how it went (pretty well), but that was a whole different era, a whole different team, and Zagallo is somewhat of a genius. Dunga, on the other hand, is not. Apart from lacking football coaching experience and not being THE greatest strategic player Brazil has, he dosen't have much of a leadership skill, even though he was the captain in 1990, 1994 and 1998. Terrible, terrible choice, made purely by desperation, with no real thought put into it. Sadly Scolari shows no signs of coming back from Portugal - ever - so I guess that's pretty much what we'll have, mediocrity. A coach nicknamed Cuca would be the perfect choice for the role, or... oh well, what the heck, even ex-Barcelona's Luxemburgo, but I guess we'll have to take Dunga at least for an year.

Post: #229994
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229994/action/topic#229994
Time: 27-Jul-2006 8:36 PM

Most of you won't understand how bizarre this is, but the new coach for the Brazillian team will be 1994's team captain Dunga. That's kinda like having Carrie Fisher directing a PT movie.

Post: #229993
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229993/action/topic#229993
Time: 27-Jul-2006 8:34 PM

And... they stared some more, since none of them knew exactly what to do in such a bizarre situation. Until...

Post: #229964
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229964/action/topic#229964
Time: 27-Jul-2006 7:09 PM

And since this was set in the Wild West, it didn't matter much, since the real John Wayne wasn't born until decades later. Johson grabbed his gun and yelled "This poker game ain't fair! I didn't have any cards, only props used for comical effects on card game situations!"

Post: #229923
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229923/action/topic#229923
Time: 27-Jul-2006 5:08 PM

It became clear for Johnson he didn't have a good poker hand when he noticed his cards were "Rules for Poker and Blackjack", Pikachu for Pokemon Card Game, A Cardcaptor Sakura card, an American Express and a slice of cheese.

Post: #229887
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229887/action/topic#229887
Time: 27-Jul-2006 3:26 PM

Jonhson rided with his horse to the small town of Sergioleone, not knowing what to expect.

Post: #229884
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229884/action/topic#229884
Time: 27-Jul-2006 3:24 PM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Yeah I pretty much forgot about it too until I got the newspaper and then I noticed the void in my life. Then again, my life is rather empty at the moment so under normal circumstances I would probably be the same as you.

You have absolutely NO idea how much of an identical situation I am right now.

Post: #229882
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229882/action/topic#229882
Time: 27-Jul-2006 3:21 PM

Who lived in the Wild West with the only two things he cared for, his gun and his horse named... Horse.