twooffour

TV's Frink said:

It's curious that Ghostskeet hasn't been banned already.  That should seal it. ;-)

twooffour, your letting your own experience with sock accusations affect your assessment of the situation.  I'm willing to accept there's a reasonable chance you are not a sock.  But Ghostbusters is Janskeet.  There's no question about it.

Um, didn't I just say I'd "bow out" as far as "this sock business goes", because I didn't know enough?

As for myself, I'd add to that that there also ain't any reasonable reason to believe I am ;)

Seriously, since this thread is all about forum drama anyway, can I ask you a question? I've been reading through some of VINH's posts lately, and I've noticed two things:

1) He didn't act like a troll anywhere I've seen. Could sometimes get too pedantic and arrogant about his "opinions", but seemed pretty straightforward.

2) His posts aren't all grey and bleak, so I assume he wasn't banned.

So... why should a guy who's never been banned create a new account and start trolling all of a sudden? Trolling complete with disingenuous self-disagreements and self-condemnation, I might add?

@Ghostbusters

Yea, have studying work to do myself. Break it up into segments, highlight or type in the important parts into a Word file (or a graphical system of some kind, because your brain can relate to tangible images more easily), and do a short break all 30 minutes or so. You could even come to this forum for like 5 minutes, and then you go back to work ;)

Oh and yea, if you can't print it out, and it's a pdf or something, COPY AND PASTE THE TEXT INTO A WORD FILE, and there you can "highlight" all you want ;)

Going outside for a walk can do wonders for your brain capability, as well.

Diego said:

I think, most likely, a better question is what will be changed this time? Will Stormtroopers have different colors like the clones in the prequels? Will Alec Guinness turn into Ewan McGregor at the end of Jedi? Will every Imperial die of natural causes so our heroes don't look like cold-blooded murderers?

Yea, I guess they'll make Luke wish for the Imperials to have a heart, and they'll all explode under the sensation of guilt.

Okay, I'm bowing out as far as sock stuff goes, but Ghostbusters - as somewhat of a fellow internet addict, here's an advice: you should consider seeking out counselling if things are this serious.

I mean, you're asking other people to quit responding to you, because you just can't, can't quit on your own, but you have to because your studies require attention?

I know where I'm heading when it gets this bad (so far, I deem myself sufficiently in control),

Ghostbusters said:

Before I leave I would like to say that I apologize to those that I irritated. I have to admit that my spontaneity and immaturity gets the better of me on online forums sometimes.

If and when I come back in September, can you guys forget about what happened in the past? Could you put all this sock suspecting and resentment towards me behind us?

Another reason why I am leaving is because I am trying to sell things on ebay and I haven't been getting to it because I am spending too much time on here. I was thinking, is it ok for me to post links to my ebay auctions on here? I'm trying to sell things on ebay and I was wondering if it would be ok if I link my auctions here and ask people if they are interested in certain things?

For what it's worth (and I'd guess not very much), I've never noticed anything negative about your posts, and haven't seen any controversy or quarrel surrounding your comments, either.

Maybe I've been looking for the wrong ones?

And if being on this one forum is really your only source of internet addiction... then man, you're a rockstar! :d

PS: Lame sock suspecting, is Lame. Its lame.

So, um, a question - how many socks does this forum have, exactly? What... IS this place??

Ghostbusters said:

This has gotten pretty boring so I think I am going to retire from this forum until the blu-rays come out. I have hardly been doing any homework this semester and I have been cheating on this one test. But I even admitted to the teacher that I am cheating and he said he didn't care because I am only cheating myself. I just have one more question for TV's Frink:

If you are married, have kids and employed, how have you found so much time to be on this forum?

Well you know, you can always do homework like for 30 minutes, then go on the forum for 10, then get back to homework.., if you're this addicted to online entertainment, you'll quickly find yourself hanging around Youtube as a replacement, if the self-control ain't there. Or, you know... maybe not.

Well if we're gonna be nitpicky, the Empire only strikes back on Hoth and then leaves the rebel fleet be, but with the main characters fucked up by the Empire towards the end, even if it's technically just Vader, the title feels right regardless.

Or,.. um,.. Star Resistance! Space Fight... for Justice!!

...

:(

^^ Hear hear.

Basically, the truth is that the title "Star Wars" is pretty overblown and deceptive, especially if applied to the originals ;)

Now this technically isn't a proper post on the topic because it's not about free music, but all about the score of a commercial video game (even though the score itself was never released), but I'd just like to demonstrate in a good example how extremely the quality can vary between different tracks from THE SAME COMMERCIAL PROJECT.

The talk is about the (now long closed) MMORPG The Matrix Online. 

Its quality ranged from absolute amazing stunning, distinctive genius stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/36/GRo2JKAz44o

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/39/x9S-_086BvI

to bland, cheap sounding direct rip-off stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/11/Y81suATzTSw

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/18/4d1XPvMhfL4

or plain old boring-ass uninteresting "fighting" tracks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/1/HpXO6kdgmrE

or actually pretty cool ones like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/32/DCSxqixDOlU

Again, music "written" and produced for THE SAME GAME, afaik by the same people, and yet one sounds like inventive, originally produced "ambient" music kicking the living shit out of quite a few "meditation albums" out there, while the other sounds like a kid typed some of the movie score in his Guitar Pro at home.

Well, yea, the creation of the clone army is kinda an "attack" since it's, uh, preparing the TRAP, and "attack of the clones" sounds catchier and cheesier.

The only problem with it, the title implies that clones attacked the good guys... which it probably should've been in the first place.

TheBoost said:

I finally watched "Star Wars" with my baby son! (22 months)

It's been a long wait. We watched up until Tarkin has his board meeting (about 30 min?) and then the baby got bored.

He loves Vader (named: Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) and Artoo (named: Beep Beep) and was less interested when they weren't on the screen. Otherwise he seemed more interested in this than any other non-Elmo TV he's been exposed to.

Well, it's good he got bored right before the choking started :)

Don't show him Empire :DDD

While we're on the subject, why is it that the Stormtroopers have a constant de niro face on?

Baronlando said:

Even if the changes were better, ultimately, the most distracting thing is just the ever-present knowledge that this guy can't be bothered to do something so incredibly basic when selling his product. With all the hard work and effort many other people do to put out the best possible value for your bucks, that is some feeble shit, who wants to support that? (Seriously, right now, people are scouring the earth, looking in vaults for years at a time, following paper trails, hunched over in a lab, to make a great transfer of some movie you've never heard of that'll sell about 62 copies.)

Hey, I agree.

Anyone disagree? Step right up! :D

bkev said:

Hence stock-footage. It wasn't shot for the purposes of the scene, unlike occasional SE shots (such as Boba Fett in the new Jabba scene).

Sorry, a termal.. terminal.. I mean, terminological misunderstanding - I now get it ;)

bkev said:

If memory serves, Hayden here was composed of stock footage; I believe he didn't even know he'd been put in until afterwards.

Not stock footage, the part where Obi-Wan goes off to fight Grievous and Anakin gazes after him. Look and compare.

And no, PALPATINE has the pedo smile, not Anakin.

Anakin smiles like a horny dudebro speaking highschool jock .

Tyrphanax said:

Yeah, the Clone Wars sure ruined a bounty hunter who got smoked like a joke in his one minute of screentime in Star Wars.

 

The Clone Wars is a pretty great show, really. Sure there's some lame stuff, but the good really does outweigh the bad so far. I'd consider myself a OOT purist as far as Star Wars goes and I still really enjoy TCW. There have only been a few instances where something that's happened in them has made me angry.

ROTJ ruined Boba. I wonder if anyone noticed that the ROTJ Boba is basically a completely different... "character" from the ESB Boba. NOTHING in common WHATSOEVER.

SilverWook said:

twooffour said:

Davnes007 said:

TV's Frink said:

Go outside for a bit?

 

Out......what?

 

I'm sure he means... IIIIn SPAAAAAAAACEEE!!!!!

 

PS: "Pain"? Really? I mean, come on, the most important and iconic scenes in those films weren't even touched. I mean, Han shot first, that stupid Mos Eisley arrival, Jedi Rocks... everything else is just nitpicking and can't be this... PAINful.

Are you sure about that? ;)

Because these were important iconic images to me!

Oh sorry, about that, totally forgot the Anakin ghost one, how could I? Yea, that truly sucked - what I liked was the alternate ending music instead of the silly "yub nub", but they should've left out Coruscant and fucking Jar Jar. "Weesa free"... what??! Stupid.

The shock... rings... were sort of silly and distracting, but meh, can't say I have any particular problem with them. I mean, they're just... there... and that's it. "Shock rings" are really cool in nuclear mushrooms, but do they really make sense in space? But who cares about that, right?

As for young Anakin, there are few words to describe just how much that one sucks... which really means there are lots. I mean, Lucas just took this shot from an EpIII scene, without Christensen's knowledge!

Now could Anakin have smiled and then looked down at his feet in humility twice the same way? I guess it's possible... anything is possible in Star Wars. But you know what I think? I think Lucas is being fucking cheap... cheap like my wife, that's why I killed her in that fake house fi- I mean

Baronlando said:

The changes aren't painful, it's more like sitting next to a guy who just keeps  farting the whole movie.

Oh, but that'd be painful :D

Davnes007 said:

TV's Frink said:

Go outside for a bit?

 

Out......what?

 

I'm sure he means... IIIIn SPAAAAAAAACEEE!!!!!

PS: "Pain"? Really? I mean, come on, the most important and iconic scenes in those films weren't even touched. I mean, Han shot first, that stupid Mos Eisley arrival, Jedi Rocks... everything else is just nitpicking and can't be this... PAINful.

Just to throw it out there, I personally happen to not really care that much about this issue personally (as long as the original films, or snippets of them, are in some form or shape on youtube or the internet, or Laserdisc, it's fine with me, but I do understand the objective importance of this all.

I don't think anyone here claimed that the OOT was supposed to be released in the near future just after this Bluray?

However insisting on its release only occurring after Lucas' death orsomething as the only possibility is equally silly.

The guys up there appear to have lost some of their marbles, and no one can predict when they change their minds next.

As far as I know, "life-saving operations" aren't anywhere as dependent on "wealth" as, say, beauty surgeries and the like.

Actual "stem cell" therapies that are implemented on patients, rather than being the object of research and studies, to my knowledge, is mainly limited to bone marrow transplantation and the treatment of leukemia and the like - and since when do people only get treated for cancer when they're billionaires?!

What if he's diagnosed with Stage IV at some point in his life and there's simply NO TREATMENT FOR IT? Can he still live 100 years because, you know, billionaires with some meat on their bones generally do that?

What was stupid of you was bringing up this "topic" in that context in the first place, at all. Hey, maybe he makes it so that no one will have the right to release the OOT 70 years after his death, then none of this will matter anyway. I mean, why not? ;)

Jesus H. Christ and his Holy Momma, DEFINITELY THE FREE ONE!!!

I kinda like how the commercial one sounds, but honestly, it's just fucking boring and lazy.

By the way, since everyone's talking about Justin Bieber on that youtube clip... JUSTIN BIEBER IS A COMMERCIAL ARTIST. You know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEFlUkktDps

'nuff said.

generalfrevious said:

Fang Zei said:

Back on topic:

I'm curious how Lucas is going to re-package the movies further down the line. TPM in 3D should be hitting theaters this time next year. Will he release a bd3d of it later on in 2012? Meanwhile, will the PT, OT and Saga boxes still be the only way of getting those movies or will he do individual releases sooner rather than later? It would be great if they made the bd3d of TPM an all-out multi-disc ultimate edition, complete with the theatrical cut.

Here's the big picture to consider: LFL can only re-package these movies so many times before they run out of new shit to sell us. This initial blu-ray release will give us the deleted scenes, plus the novelty of watching the PT and the messed-up version of the OT in hi-def video and audio (....woohoo). Then, as the movies are converted into 3D, we'll get those on video as well. Just what the hell do they have left to sell us after that besides the holy grail that is the OOT?

They could release the Ewok movies, the old clone wars series, the new clone wars series, the droids cartoon, etc etc a hundred times on Blu-ray before they release the "holy grail." Then it would come in DVD quality on a Blu-ray. And then we would have to wait until the next format for a HD quality version of the OOT, which by that time will be inferior to whatever future standards people will have. 

And since Lucas is a billionaire and can afford medical procedures to prolong his life, he will still be in charge of LFL and block the release for decades to come. Plus he will have released more SW related garbage, including the sequel trilogy, which in my opinion (if released) will be worse than the PT.

Bottom line, LFL will not release the OOT for as long as they possibly can.

I didn't know going outside and working out costed lots of money only a billionaire can afford... in fact, Lucas may be not the fattest man on the planet, but you get the point.

Probably the stupidest thing I've read on these forums so far.