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#170909
Topic
Any GOOD memories of the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170909/action/topic#170909
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I belive the whole antecipation before the films, specially for TPM, was a much more positive experience than the movies themselves. I remember I was so preocupied and nervous of not being able to see the films, calling people to see if there were going, and calling movie theaters to see if they were selling tickets already, and going on my lunch time to the theaters and buying those, 2 weeks or so before the movie (because I didn't trust buying over the internet)...
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#170908
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170908/action/topic#170908
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
for those who are interested i figured i would let you know that the 360 is very close to being cracked...
they're not far away from figuring out how to crack games and once that happens it will be open season...


So I suppose there is NO way for a videogame company to protect their games, eh? I mean, when Half Life 2 came out, the security behind that was so tight and so annoying that I thought no one could crack that. I was wrong, took only a month after the game was released to open the whole thing... I do belive you cannot play online with a cracked version though.
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#170733
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170733/action/topic#170733
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
You know, if I was a billionaire with nothing better to spend my moeny on, I think I would pay someone to build me a Spiricom.

I would too (by the way, it's Spookyphone 2000 now, not Spiricom ). But I wouldn't use t, I would hire someone to use it, and then ask him how it was. If I used it myself, by the time I got my first "hello" from a dead guy I would scream and turn the thing out of the plug. "Gaaah that was too scary! Why did I build that damn thing!?"

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"The supernatural does not scare me."

...where angels fear to tread...


But, is there any reasons to fear it? I mean, if those "spirits" are real, what can they do to us? Harm us in which way, besides scaring us?
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#170624
Topic
Green screen, CGI and the 'Minute' documentary from ROTS
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170624/action/topic#170624
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
It almost seems like Lucas only had one or two takes on most of the dialogue in the film. Maybe once for rehersal, a second time, and then a third time to make sure that they said all the words in the script. I don't think that any emphasis was placed on HOW the words were spoken.


Which explains all the looping required later, a practice I considered to be awful. If you can't record the dialogue live, there's something wrong with your scene, that's what I think.
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#170620
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170620/action/topic#170620
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Welcome Ainnem!
Anyone want to help me build my own Spiricom?


LOL for some reason I don't belive he'll post again here, but oh well.

Some people have claimed to have built the Spiricom following the specifications on the technical document, and claimed some degree of success contacting dead people.

I am not an expert in electronics and radio, and I'd be too scared to turn the damn thing on after completed, or else I would build on too. Perhaps this would be a good "show-and-tell" or science show demonstration at school? Or maybe some electronics magazine might want to write an article with the specs for that? Although Spiricom is a bad name... Spookyphone or Ghostcall would be better suited.
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#170456
Topic
Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170456/action/topic#170456
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
Learn Chinese in 5 minutes! Think about your future
(read them aloud):

1) That's not right ................................. Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive?............. Hu Yu Hai Din
3) See me ASAP..................................... Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man ....................................... Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse ...................................... Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the beach? .................. Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table ............. Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni
8) I think you need a face lift .................Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here ........................ Wao So Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet .......... Wai Yu Mun Ching?
11) This is a tow away zone .................. No Pah Kin
12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week ... Whan Yu Kum Nao?
13) Staying out of sight .......................... Lei Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile ............ Wa Shing Ka
15) Your body odor is offensive .............. Yu Stin Ki Pu
16) Great ............................................... Fa Kin Su Pah



I have an hilarious list of japanese names, some not real but sounding real, that make up a whole story of a gang of japanese people who robbed a bank (the names of the people arrested IS the story of the bank robber), it's a well known joke here, unfortunally it's absolutely untranslatable. My favorite is Fujiro Nakombi, which can be phonetically read in portuguese as "they ran away in the van".
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#170448
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170448/action/topic#170448
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One anomalous phenomenon would have been the amazing SPIRICOM, some sort of 2-way phone that allowed conversations with dead people! The only dead people who sucessfully was able to comunicate with the scientists involved in this bizarre project is Dr. George Jeffries Mueller, who died in 1967 and had 20 hours of spooky conversations recorded between 1979 and 1982, when he got bored and returned to his post-mortem lair. Some creepy recordings can be heard here.
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#170006
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170006/action/topic#170006
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Exactly, what was trying to say, and I don't think I was fully able mostly because of language barrier (although I'm fluent, there are some words with no equivalent in english), is that although some people would possibly take such event as being a negative one, for some reason or another, I think you should take it as being positive (and I belive you do), not only that your friend is somewhere, someplace we don't know or don't understand, but that he is thinking about the people he cared for.

Chaltab, I am as skeptic as you are, and religiously agnostic, but I've heard of things told by me by other people that have absolutely no logical explanation and would blow any skeptics minds (cannot go into detail).

Bossk, about the dead air thing, I've heard radios go out for minutes/hours/days without explanation from the radio stations (happened this week with my favorite radio station), but that was not the case with you.
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#169958
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169958/action/topic#169958
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Yeah, exactly whay I thought, wow... Must have been quite an emotional moment, Bossk, but I belive it shouldn't be a sad or a, let's say, "anomalous" moment, but a happy one, as if your friend is comunicating with you (sort of "teasing you" ) through whatever means he had.

Some people would get scared or freaked out at such phenomenon, but I don't belive we should, as it is proof that there is something out there taking care of us, right? I mean, it's not something bad, something evil there.

On a side note, I have sometimes thought of a song, that poped in on my head for no reason, and turning on the radio and hearing that very song. But nothing compared to what you have experienced...
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#169902
Topic
Anomalous phenomenon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169902/action/topic#169902
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I had this conversation with a friend the other night, about all those unexplainable things that happen once and a while. Stuff like ghost or spirit sightings, UFOs, EVP, you know, all those creepy things. So I was wondering, does anyone here have any thoughts on that, or have witnessed or heard about strange things? UFO sighting perhaps?

Let me start this by narrating a brief episode that happened to me as I was about 13 or 14 (I can't recall the exact year). I was on the computer, which had those old battery operated white soundspeakers, one at each side of the monitor, and I started to hear a voice through the speaker. It spoke very fast, in some language I did not understand, which was somewhat metalic (reminded me of the pilots voice at the radio on Yavin battle) and it ended with a brief laugh, almost evil or ironic, then coming back to silence. That scared the heck out of me!

I listened to it about four more times, that very same voice, speaking for 3 or 4 seconds, but with no laugh this time, and suddenly silence. I got so scared sometimes I used to take the speakers out of the computer and lock then in the closet, only getting those when I really needed audio. At that time, I considered it was some sort of interference from radio or something of the sort, but it was kinda creepy.

I didn't hear anything anymore, but I've heard some stuff other people has witnessed (which I was asked not to reveal). So, anyone got any thoughts or stories to share?
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#169722
Topic
Careers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169722/action/topic#169722
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
What about the Holy Grail? Is there proof that it actually still exists, or is that just an old "bedtime story?"


(The villain goes old and becomes dust)

Knight: "He chose... poorly'."

(Indiana then looks arond and picks up a simple, poor cup)

Indiana: "This must be it, it's the one a humble poor carpinter would have."

(Indiana drinks it, and... he drops the grail and starts to go old and dies the very same way)

Knight: "He ALSO chose poorly. There was an even simple cup here, behind this one. See? That was the real one. Now scram!"
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#169638
Topic
Any GOOD memories of the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169638/action/topic#169638
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
"my mum said no to toys this time cos I was supossedly too old"

I hate it when parents try to tell you you're too old for something. (Hmm, I guess I'll end up writing this in the Things That We Hate thread) Damn societal pigeonhole rules. I'll do what I want, and idiots shouldn't be able to judge me. I just got back from a park where I was swinging on the swings fifteen minutes ago. Too old? Bah! Only when I can no longer stand will I be too old to play on a playground!


Exactly! You're just as old as you feel like, and I'll forever be like I was when I was 14. I still play videogames, I eat child-marketed products, I watch anime, I went to this gamecube contest where I was teorically old enough to be everyone's father there, and I don't really care!

The only thing that I get a bit embarassed is to be on a movie line to see some animated flick or something, and the whole line is made of 9 year olds and their parents.
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#169637
Topic
Careers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169637/action/topic#169637
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Originally posted by: sean wookie
sad thing is until about a year ago I thought the arc was made up in raiders.




What so I spelled ark wrong!


Me, I wasn't shocked for the spelling mistake, but for the fact you thought George Lucas created the Ark!
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#169436
Topic
Any GOOD memories of the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169436/action/topic#169436
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When TPM came out I was in my senior year on high school, dragged two other friends to see it. One of them hated it, the other liked it, I was in shock, SW was dead.

For AOTC, I was in college back then, I dragged two other friends, who complained all the time midnight was too late to see a movie. I kinda liked it better but was still unimpressed.

For ROTS I was able to bring 10 other people with me, co-workers, ex-co-workers and friends. They all hated it, but I thought it was the best prequel by far, which is to say it kinda sucked. I remember posting pictures of it here.

For me, the must fun of the whole PT era was not the films itself, but the hype, the rumors, waiting in line at midnight, all that stuff.