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#193125
Topic
DVD Face Label Recommendations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193125/action/topic#193125
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Originally posted by: lobot
Can anyone recommend a good circular image that might go on the face of a DVD? One DVD that might represent Ep IV, one for Ep V and one for Ep VI?

This is not to suggest that these will be printed on DVDs that were made from the original trilogy laserdiscs. Because that would be wrong in some way that I simply cannot see right now.

Thx

PS - Has anyone else had trouble uploading icons? I tried to upload an icon of the JPEG seen in this post, but the system kept telling me it wasn't a valid GIF or JPEG.

http://www.projectmeatball.com/images/lobot.jpg


They don't work yet - there's a thread set to sticky at the top of the Off Topic section, with people asking the same question. We'll just have to wait 'till the new forum software comes along...
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#192988
Topic
Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192988/action/topic#192988
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What's with you Yanks always giving Canadians crap? And what's with you Canadians taking it on the chin?

All a Canadian has to say to rebut any American's insult is:

I have mounties and maple syrup, what do you have? George Bush, world-class obesity, and a whole lotta psychos with guns!

All in jest, k, fellaz?
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#192986
Topic
hot like fire thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192986/action/topic#192986
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Whats flaking on you mean? And what do you mean by call her out on it.


Flaking is not turning up/calling when someone says they're going to (like standing somebody up on a date). Calling them out on it is basically seeing the situation for what it is - girls make up excuses so that they don't have to meet up with you, and often they're just waiting for you to call their bluff and give them a hard time about it.

Friends or not, this is what your attitude needs to be: you are a cool guy who's worth hanging around with; anyone would be lucky to spend some time with you; your time is very valuable and not a thing to be wasted.
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#192982
Topic
Star Wars Kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192982/action/topic#192982
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Originally posted by: Mikes-Atomic-Dustbin
http://www.jedimaster.net aaaaalll your Ghyslain info, plus every edit of the video.

This kid has had some hard times, and if you read the site you will see that he's got through them by people like him and people who support him, there was a pettition to get him cameod in episode 3 lol, anyways i thought all the vids were great and i think anyone who says your insenstive just for finding the videos funny is a jackass!


Yeah, there used to be a whole domain dedicated to Star Wars Kid videos (like starwarskid.com or something like that) too. A lot of people have chipped in and donated money to buy him stuff like an iBook and other things, so it's not all bad. I think half the stuff's done out of admiration for him, or at least a strange fascination.

I too signed the petition to have him in Episode III. I thought the PT was such a dead loss that I could at least use a good laugh in there somewhere...
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#192719
Topic
Torrents Noob.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192719/action/topic#192719
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
I'll take them one by one...

-MySpleen.net is the best place for fan-made projects that are talked about on here. ThePirateBay has some, but no one hardly ever seeds them (I'll get to this in a bit). Demonoid is good, but registering there is next to impossible.

-Typing "Moth3r" into the search box should do you just fine. "Star Wars" will net you all the releases.

-It's more or less uploading from my understanding, once you've fully downloaded the torrent its advised to share at least once or twice over (Torrent programs have a share ratio indicator). Someone else can probably explain this better than I can.

-Depends. Some torrents have a VIDEO_TS folder that you can burn with Nero as "Burning DVD video files." I'm sure other programs have similar ways as well. Others are ISO, which you just burn like a normal DVD.

-Just downloading it will be enough. VIDEO_TS files can be opened with your DVD player easily enough.

These are just some basic answers to get you started, I'm sure others have more complete answers because I'm not exactly an expert myself. Hope this helps though!



Thanks, Karma. I'll give it a go...
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#192715
Topic
Star Wars Kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192715/action/topic#192715
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
I felt really sorry for him.

You guys know that he pretty much retreated from public life and refused to go back to school for a while because he was so humiliated, right?

I mean, not to sound all ABC After School Special here or anything, but who hasn't danced around like an idiot waving around an imaginary lightsaber? Poor little guy just got caught doing it...Yeah, he taped it and left the tape in the camera, but my heart still goes out to him.

Who's the bigger geek? Him, who was probably just screwing around on his lunch break, or the guy that shows up at the theatre 8 months before a goddamed movie startes, wearing full on Jedi robes and a $300 laser sword? Come on!


Or the guy who makes spoofs of the original Star Wars Kid video!

Yeah, I definitely understand where you're coming from, but on its own merit, it is still very funny. If anything, it makes us all laugh at the geek within us.
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#192714
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192714/action/topic#192714
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Oh dear, some of those symptoms sound like me. I can't for the life of me maintain eye contact for more than a few seconds in conversation, and my social skills are relatively lacking.


Yeah, but you *can* maintain eye contact for a few seconds or less. A lot of people from a lot of cultures are uncomfortable with eye contact, so that symptom alone doesn't mean you have Asperger's. As for lack of social skills, the fact that you said 'relatively' means that you have enough of an understanding of social skills to be able to measure yours against someone else's. Most Asperger's people (if not all, I would say) have such an impairment when it comes to social interaction, that they wouldn't even be able to tell, let alone compare their social skills with other people's.

I hope that reassures you a bit.
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#192709
Topic
Oscar Night...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192709/action/topic#192709
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Yeah, this thread prompted me to hire out 'Crash' last Tuesday and watch it. It is a brilliant movie, and one of the best commentaries on racism and prejudice that I have ever seen (if not, the best). It's not even contrived either - just the characters bring it out...it's really about the human experience in general.
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#192706
Topic
segaflip thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192706/action/topic#192706
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I'm a Sega man myself, and while I used to get into heated arguments with Nintendo fans and bash their systems as a kid, I have a great deal of respect for Nintendo nowadays - a respect that Sony or Microsoft will never have. And even in my Nintendo-bashing days, my best friend owned a SNES while I owned a Megadrive (Genesis). We would visit each other's houses almost every day and play each other's systems. We'd pretend not to enjoy it *too* much, but we both knew that we did. I secrectly loved playing Donkey Kong Country and Mario Kart, he secretly loved Sonic 3 and Toejam & Earl. We both loved Earthworm Jim and Street Fighter II. But the point was, we were loyal fans to great game-makers, and lovers of great games.

At the end of the day, Sega and Nintendo are the creators of great games, always trying to innovate, and they clearly haven't always been the most commercial paths to take.
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#192700
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192700/action/topic#192700
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Originally posted by: segaflip
Diagnostic Criteria For 299.80 Asperger's Disorder
A. Qualitative impairment in social interaction, as manifested by at least two of the following:

1. marked impairments in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social interaction
2. failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level
3. a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g. by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people)
4. lack of social or emotional reciprocity


B. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:

1. encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus
2. apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals
3. stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g., hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements)
4. persistent preoccupation with parts of objects


C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning


D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by age 3 years)


E. There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood


F. Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Schizophrenia



I have a friend who pretty much follows this to the letter. He'll often wear his favourite shirt at the time every day of the week until someone teases him about it, after which he'll wear another shirt every day of the week, and so the cycle (read: ritual) continues...

He keeps Strawberry flavoured Milk in the fridge ALL the time. If somebody has some, he is noticeably worried that they might drink too much of it, and if somebody finishes the bottle, he becomes noticeably agitated.

He doesn't seem to have any of his own opinions on anything - social issues, politics, etc. When people are in a room discussing these types of issues, he becomes noticeably quiet. He doesn't even really have his own likes and dislikes. If a majority of his friends play X-Box on a regular basis, he has to go out and get an X-Box and buy all the same games for it. If his friends start playing poker, he has to go out and buy a set of playing chips, a poker table, etc.

He gets infatuated with a different girl each week, and he will ask each one of them out via mobile phone message using the SAME message with their name inserted in it (and of course, be rejected). He has no shame in this regard, which in any other context would be admirable, but in this case, he is just enacting a ritual.

My mate's a top bloke and everything, and he's not *really* mentally deficient, but I would say that in a way, he is 'socially retarded'. Sounds harsh, I know, but I believe that he displays true symptoms of Asperger's.

If you just have a few of those characteristics, I wouldn't get too worried. Some people will hear their own thoughts in their head, or their conscience you could say, equate that to 'hearing voices', and then all of a sudden worry about whether they're schizophrenic or not. It's not like that - you have to display a pretty strong combination of those symptoms before someone can make an accurate assessment on things like that.
Post
#192695
Topic
TheForce.net
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192695/action/topic#192695
Time
Originally posted by: kev
What do you mean

"your mum makes a great statement"

???


It's just a ridiculous 'mum-joke', if you get my meaning...you know, throwing the phrase 'your mum' into any old context, no matter how ridiculous.

Like, in this circumstance, you could respond with, "your mum gets my meaning!" or something like that...