xhonzi

Too late?

Heh heh....

Yeah!

ChainsawAsh said:

Oh, and Warb:

Thanks for being calm and rational about all of this - if only we had more conservatives like you in this country.

Er... he's not a conservative.  So, by that definition, I guess he's the type of conservative than non-conservatives want: more non-conservatives.

Anchorhead said:

xhonzi said:

It might be that the memory cheats...  People discussed more how they could be better and discussed positive aspects of the OT and even parts of the EU without just taking a dump on the whole franchise.

Perhaps your disappointment with this site and the members is really just your coming to the realization that you've reached a turning point - a true, personal disappointment with what Lucas has done, and continues to do, to ruin and contaminate the franchise. Just a thought.

It's possible, but I'm not sure.  A couple years back, I was very down on Star Wars myself and stopped coming here.  I really disliked the PT and it sort of hung like a lodestone around the franchise to me.  Then I somehow snipped the ties the PT and to some degree the SEs had to the OOT... and I fell back in love with it again.  I started hanging out here more at that time... and life was good.  It just seems in the year or so since I've been back here... this place has just changed to be a lot less positive- as I said in my first post.

Wow, well said, Warb.  Maybe without my fellow conservatives getting you all riled up all of the time, the conservative side of Warbler will appear and fight on our side from time to time.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.  Wait, no it's not.

If you live here and are anti-American, try spending some time outside of the US every now and then.  Man, does that always make me grateful to be an American.  And grateful towards all of those that have sacrificed to create and preserve my freedoms.

Now I'm done.  Wait, still not yet.  I shall show my patriotism (let my flag fly, so to speak) by singing the new national anthem:

Well I'm not paralyzed but I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move because you're standin' still
If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

<Nuh, nuh nuh nut nuh nuh.>
<Nuh, nuh nuh nut nuh nuh.>

You'll probably move right through me on my way to you!

Great first post, GOB.

*shame* Oops.  Hey, there, bkev...  um... about my first post...  *blush*

Just kidding.  Don't think that I don't not mean the opposite of this: but you're one of the good young'uns.  You can hang here anytime, and I mean that.  I mean it, insofar as I understand it.

C3PX is taking a little break.  I haven't heard from him outside of OT.com for a week or two either, so that might be a sign he's never coming back.

I've really been enjoying Red Faction Guerrila.

Which has me concerned... I've pretty much really loved every game I've played recently.  Is there something wrong with me?  Have I lost my discerning edge?  Or have I captured it in a bottle to the point that I only buy games that I'm going to absolutely love?

Symphony of the Night, BioShock 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Banjo Kazooie, Dark Siders, Red Faction... each one has hooked me as much as the previous...

In fact, the only other games I've really played through in the sime time frame were Batman Arkham Asylum and Uncharted 2, both of which I enjoyed but not to the degree that I enjoyed the other ones.  But those two games were "Game of the Year" nominees/winners and for the most part the other ones weren't.

IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME?!?  (Don't answer, Frink... I already know what you're going to say.)

You're just chicken.  (Cheep, cheep, cheep!)

Forgive my ignorance, but what is what in your comparison shots?

Or is it just me?

Nanner:

You know what, I'm with you on that. I'll put it in my signature to spread the word.

Yay!

Frink:

Still haven't listened, btw.

Boo!

Not to be confused with skyjedi's thoughts, which soon became a thread about how to ignore yourself: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/My-thoughts-on-the-State-of-O-T-dot-com/topic/11895/

I have to say that this site (or you, the people of this site) are disappointing me as of late.  This place used to have more positive energy, and now it seems more complainy/whiney than anything else.  I know it's a site whose main feature is/was a petition, so maybe that's where the whineyness comes from... but it seems it wasn't so bad a couple years ago.

It might be that the memory cheats, but I think people were more positive here while the prequels were coming out and we hated them.  People discussed more how they could be better and discussed positive aspects of the OT and even parts of the EU without just taking a dump on the whole franchise.  Or an "I love it, but the thing I love is gone, so I hate all of it" kinda thing.

The other trend, I think, is that the older members are starting to disappear and the members replacing them are of a younger age (I'd be looking at you, bkev, if you weren't ignoring me!) and with that younger age seems to come a lot less identifying with my "Star Wars Generation".  Kids that say the prequels are great because they loved them as kids- therefore they're just as good as the OT which those of my generation loved as kids.  It's the sad sign that as time goes on, there WILL be LESS separation of OT and PT, just as we long feared there would be until one day soon there will cease to be any separation.  If that is happening at originaltrilogy.com, then that just depresses me even more so.

I'm glad Adywan is here sharing his revisited work with us, because it seems sometimes it's the only positive thing really happening here anymore.  Apologies to others with their own restoration or related projects, since I'm sure those are positive too... even if they don't receive the same amount of hype.

I used to like coming here to discuss Star Wars.  Now it seems people just come here to mourn Star Wars.

At least Off Topic is silly.  But while that is a nice diversion- it's far from the reason I've been coming to OT.com for all of these years.

Nanner Split said:

I nominate this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf4eu5y0418

Fine, I nominate this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvWgJz6ees

Warbler said:

I guarantee you that is not going to happen.  It's not my kind of music.

What kind of guarantee is this?  Because I guarantee you to the value of 5 Zimbabwe dollars that it will.

I was thinking about this again recently, and thought I'd figured it out.  Then I re-read the first post and saw that I had the exact same thoughts six months ago.

At any rate, I've been listening to the Creative Screenwriting Podcast a lot recently (highly recommended) and several screenwriters shared a similar experience.  They wrote a scene in their movie that they dearly loved.  They then realized that the scene "wasn't necessary" and so it was cut.  It made me wonder when "necessity" was the rule of law by which screenplays were written?  I think screenplays, or movies for that matter, are an excuse to get emotional thoughts in our heads.  If a scene is doing a good job at getting to our emotions, who cares if it is 'necessary' to the plot of the movie?  The emotion is good, the plot is what is needed to get to the emotion, but if you can arrive at the emotion any other way, is it not equally valid?

But still, I wonder if they don't know what they are talking about...  It makes me think of the editing Ridley Scott did on the Director's Cut of Alien.  For the most part, it's not scenes, and it might not even be seconds that are added or cut... it's frames.  Not anything that would affect your logical/rational response to the movie, but something that might very much affect your emotional response to it.  But who can tell?

And can you logically plan how people will respond to something emotionally?  Of course you can, but don't people see through that and call it shallow or cheap?  Calculating, instead of feeling?

How much does sound quality, invisible music, video quality, video resolution, colour, screen size, etc... all play into our emotional response to things?  It probably doesn't affect our rational response, right?  But it can totally change our emotional response.

Warbler said:   

btw, I just listened to Paralyzer.  Why in hell should that be our National Anthem?  It not even a patriotic song.  Its just a rock song.   

Look.  I'm going to give you a few days to think this one over.  When you're humming it doing the dishes, and you start spinning the radio dial endlessly trying to find any station that is playing it... we'll talk then.

YES!  Thank you!

No, I think it starts with a "B", but thanks for trying, Slugoo.

No, that's not it...  it's on the tip of my brain....

GRRRRRRRRRR!  This is going to drive me NUTS!

And C3PX (and possibly Ferris) is taking a semi-permanent break from OT.com.

TheBoost said:

There are so many other good songs that could be the National Anthem. "God Bless America" "America the Beutiful" "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven. We need to change.

I entered this thread prepared to disagree with you 100% Boost, but you've really got my imagination going...

Paralyzer, eh?

And Warb, you can't say much to soldiers that have fought and died for this country.  Because they are dead.

TV's Frink said:

Added hairy_hen, Puggo, A-Man, and Tobar to the ignored list.

EmpireSB said:

I am not ignored by Jedi Temple34.  Should I feel special??

You and xhonzi should feel special.

:(  Now I feel less special, now that I have to share it.  Frinkin' EmpireSB.  I HATE YOU!