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#266438
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266438/action/topic#266438
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
There's no doubt it has, which is why I only support the death penalty in cases where it's obvious beyond all doubt that the victim is guilty as sin. (IE the OJ Simpson case)

It's best to err on the side of caution than to excecute an innocent person.


Instead of applying the death penalty, why not have the person locked forever on some place, working as a slave planting something or producing something? Wouldn't that be more productive?
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#266417
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266417/action/topic#266417
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
That sounds eerily similar to the late '90s Extreme Ghostbusters cartoon, only that had Egon in the instructor role, which makes more far more sense than Peter doing it. Plus, I've read that the main reason there was never a Ghostbusters III was because Bill Murray had no interest in reprising the character. Also, a few years ago, a company was trying to make a line of Ghostbusters action figures, but Bill Murray wouldn't give his consent to let them use his image, so I'm surprised he would let it be used for this game.


I remember reading an interview with Harold Ramis, in which he described his and Dan Aykroid's draft script for Ghostbusters III as "Ghostbusters Go to Hell", that took place not on Earth but on a bizarre and spooky afterworld, but the reasons for not doing the third film was: 1- They felt they have aged too much to do a Ghostbusters again, 2- Bill Murray expressed no desire in reprising his role, and 3- They were unhappy with the script. Perhaps now that Rocky 6, Indy 4 and Rambo 4 are out or being produced, the studios might want to pick that idea up.
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#266416
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Doomsday Clock changed - 5 minutes to midnight
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266416/action/topic#266416
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The Doomsday clock has been changed and moved two minutes foward towards midnight. So we're back to the "Threads"/"Day After" early 80s nuclear era. India and Pakistan, the United States, whose GW Bush backed out of the Missle Treaty and thrown away what Kennedy and Reagan worked, Iran and North Korea performing nuclear tests and developments under the UN incompetent and abrasive sight...

We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
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#266306
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266306/action/topic#266306
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GTA is the one and only game title that has achieved a cult status that allows celebrities to really give in their voices to it due to the title itself, but to quote Ray Liotta when asked why he did Vice City: "For the money."

Remember how Wing Commander used to feature Mark Hammil and Malcom McDowell? And that back in the early 90s, where videogames were nothing close to Hollywood flicks...
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#266292
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Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266292/action/topic#266292
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Uh... okay. This isn't an issue of complaining about a dictator and being questioned for it. I know WESHALLPRESERVE can get carried away from time to time with his CAPS LOCK, he gets pretty passionate about these issues. I think the reason why he posted as he did was because he thought you were doubting that US and UK troops are being attacked in Iraq.


It was a paralel comparison on how people take their biased political opinions on a personal level - the first sign of braiwashing is angrily denying so and defending the concepts installed on one's mind.
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#266277
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266277/action/topic#266277
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I remember that I've posted here, when ROTS was released, that that particular scene could not have take place so fast, like, days after Vader got his suit. Apart from the whole Death Star discussion, the imperial officers were seeing using the OT imperial uniform - or something close to it - and were at their posts and working. Now, I don't remember seeing anything like that on the PT, and I don't remember Palpatine having a shitload of boxes filled with uniforms for his new officers, so...
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#266186
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Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266186/action/topic#266186
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Easy there, I've found the report weird because 1- Attacking a base is not really something easy to do on land, let alone on foot, and I haven't heard any reports of a massive base attack - no "Tet offense" yet, and 2- Google Maps is outdated and not precise enough to make any military attack any easier. By the way, loved the way you guys got offended by my comments, reminds me of that scene in Fellini's Rome in which an old man complains about Mussolini during the war and is angrily questioned by some other fellow.
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#266163
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266163/action/topic#266163
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This is a huge inconsistence on the saga, and all the explanations to it are, for me, merely FANON (well, there are a lot of those to correct plot holes GL left behind).

Unless that scene was set some years before ANH it makes no sense at all, and is thrown there (along with Moff Tarkin) just to please fans with something that looks like it's from the OT (and just for a few seconds!!). BUT since the baby delivery scene is shown AFTER that scene, and GL is no Tarantino and dosen't move foward and back in time on his films, we are to assume that the Death Star was being constructed for some time before the events on ROTS, maybe at the end of AOTC. So it took something like 22 years to build the first one, and 4 years to partially build the second one. Plot hole? To me, yes.
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#266136
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Global Warming
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266136/action/topic#266136
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Heheh. My family isn't Jewish, but we bougt a Menorah when we went to Israel last year. Recently a Jehova's Witness autovangelist came to our house and I told my mom she should light the Menorah and answer the door holding it in her hand.


LOL, holding a dreydel on the other hand and exclaming "Oy vey! Another Jehova nudnik...!"
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#265749
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265749/action/topic#265749
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Originally posted by: dark_jedi
what exactly do you get for beating the Cave of Ordeals? is it worth it,I went 20 levels in and warped back out,I totally forgot about the magic armor LOL,how long does this last with 600 rupees?
has anyone actually gotten all 60 POE souls? this is friggin hard too.


I got about 30 poes. I was so pissed when I returned 20 and the guy just gave me a freaking bottle with fairy tears or something in it! After that I didn't care anymore.
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#265747
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265747/action/topic#265747
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You guys are not posting it like this, but I will: SPOILERS!!!

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Okay. I do have one complaint about this game now: why in all the blue blazes is Hyrule Castle Town shown from a fixed perspective... again?! I thought we left that garbage behind in OoT! At least it's not pre-rendered like the Market in that game, but it pisses me off not having the same kind of freedom you have in the rest of the game. At least the perspective they gave you in OoT allowed you to see sky! But with Twilight Princess's camera, the whole thing feels very claustrophobic. What the hell were they thinking?!

Yes, that bothered me as well. Looks like they rushed in that map, as maybe 50% of the city (the part on the camera's side) dosen't exist. You can climb on a towers there, where Gorons sell stuff, and see the plaza from the opposite side, but it's another set of graphics (you cannot equip the hawk vision thing there, I guess that would show how fake that map below is).

Originally posted by: Nanner Split
You get the Double Clawshot in the City in the Sky level. Once you get that, the STAR minigame is a breeze, because you can just attach to the grating and bounce back and forth across the cage.


The first STAR game is quite easy to be done with the single clawshot. For the second one, you gotta have the double clawshot.

The saddest part is: I've finished the game without being able to fish anything with the non-sinkable rod at the pond. The fish escaped every time!
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#265303
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265303/action/topic#265303
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Originally posted by: Number20
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Did you know they are starting to make DC games again in Japan? Also Earthbound was one of my favorite childhood games.


Are these basically homebrews or fan-releases of nearly finished games that didn't get released before the system died, or corporate releases? You can go on sites like www.atariage.com or www.songbird-productions.com and find homebrewed games for various Atari systems, unfinished games, and finished/nearly finished games that didn't get released back when their systems were active. So I wouldn't be suprised to find that the Dreamcast has something similar. The Dreamcast seemed to always have a dedicated following.


These are totally original games, by third party developers. Sega itself only stoped publishing games for the DC in Japan in 2004. There is still a huge market for japanese DC owners, specially for 2d space shooters like Ikaruga. While on the US the DC completely died in 2002, it had a small following in Japan, up to this day.
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#265284
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Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265284/action/topic#265284
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Frank, the Eternal Optimist

Frank constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism. No matter how horrible the circumstance, he would remark, "It could have been worse." To cure him of this annoying habit, his friends decided to invent a situation so bad, so terrible, that even Frank could find no hope in it.

On the golf course one day, a friend said, "Frank, did you hear about Tom? He came home last night, found his wife in bed with another man, he shot them both, then turned the gun on himself." "That's horrible," Frank said. "But it could have been worse." "How could it have been possibly any worse?" the friend asked. "Well," Frank answered, "if it had happened the night before, I'd be dead now."