xhonzi

ferris209 said:

They changed the recipe to Ranch Style Beans, pisses me off. Now they're firmer, less spiced up, and generally just nasty. I wrote an email to Conagra and they replied by sending a coupon for more Ranch Style Beans, bastards.

lolz.

Nice to know it's not just me! 

How does it drive?

Which audio book?

Ah, I knew you'd pipe in here eventually, Anchorhead.  You're the only one I could think of that would be a definite 'yes' for this thread.

That's absurd.  Just because you were there first, you have some claim to being the stalkee in lieu of the stalker?

I have a Ryobi table saw (don't buy Ryobi).  It has these cheap crap plastic teeth  in the "rack" for the angle changing pinion.  If you leave the angle lock on, and try to adjust the angle, then you will shred the rack teeth with very little effort.  In fact, you're likely to shred the teeth even with the lock off... they're pretty much worthless.

Similarly, the mechanism that raises and lowers the blade is dependent on the same junk plastic.  I took the cover off of it, and little shavings of plastic fell out of the cup.

In my semi-professional assessment, $.05 worth of metal could have made my $100 table saw a lot more durable and long-lived.  But hey, $.05 is $.05.

C3PX said:

Really annoying, I beat it without using a single vita-chamber, turned the things off right after I started the game, and for some reason it didn't give me the achievements. Oh well.

 

I see you have this achievment now... did you have to go through some shenanigans, or did you not notice when it unlocked originally?

You lived in Copus Christi?  And Westminster?  I used to live in San Antonio and now I live in Thornton... are you on some sort of "live in a city for a couple years that neighbours a city that xhonzi will soon move to" kick?

1979 Ziggy Stardust Bowie said:

Frink, it's 1979 Ziggy Stardust Bowie... The media monkeys and the junket junkies will invite you to the plastic pantomime. Throw their invites away!

Yay, Inception.  I still have friends seeing this for the first time, and they say things to me afterward like, "Ben, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!"

Which, of course, I surely did tell them.

Cookie MOnster doesn't seem to still be around, but if he were- I know he'd love that joke, Frink.

I usually first think of JEWS IN SPAAAAACE! (Mel Brooks, if you don't know (or couldn't guess))... then I think of Bowies in Space... then... well, that's probably it.

EyeShotFirst said:

...so I really am of no importance.

QFT!

;)

Wow, a new thread by CO... what is this place coming to?  :)

To go along with the crowd here, I don't think SW would have the impact without at least ESB and probably also RotJ.  For my personal tastes, I'm glad to have the trilogy.  I do wish RotJ was a little more inline with ANH and ESB, but I'm happy to have it as is if the alternative is not having it at all.

I may only like it because it's about Luke & Co. (not to be confused with Luke and CO), but I think the action is exciting all around-

We watched chapter 28 of AotCs last night because I got some new sound equipment this weekend I wanted to check out.  I enjoy the soundscape of the scene and find it to have a good dynamic worthy of checking out my sound.  Anyways, at the point where SPOILER Jango shoots his magic missile at Obi-Wan... you remember the one, the missing that takes 90 degree turns at 100 MPH and effortlessly navigates the asteroid field pursuing Obi-Wan?  There's a shot in this scene where Ben's fighter is bobbing up and down, left and right to  dodge the asteroids.  It's much too fast and it looks, not due to the quality of the visuals, but due to the artistic direction of the animation, like a cartoon.  We're talking Looney Tunes style animation here.  At that point in time, my mind/spirit disengage from the action on the screen and it just becomes pretty colours.  And a nice guitar chord. 

And don't get me started on "Buzz Droids."

RotJ, with all of its faults, presents some exciting space combat and some thrilling ground combat.  And the duel at the end I still feel is top notch.  The prequels, in my esteemed opinion, can't compete at that level at all.

generalfrevious said:

he was mostly right ...

 You were riiiiiight.  Tell your sister... you were riiiiiiight.

Ditto.

Sounds good, I'll have to check it out.  I actually like Arnold, but it's kind of an aquired taste.

SilverWook said:

Boba Fee? ;)

Hey, cut me some slack!  I had to type that whole thing up... at least I know now that someone read it.  ;)

Since when has anyone ever been confused as to where Fett is hiding and who he is following???

 Yeah, you know George.  Messin' with stuff that doesn't need a messin'.  Poor John Knoll was more thrilled by the challenge of completing the shot in 6 days than asking, "Why?"  Would have saved him a lot of time.

Oh there he is...

SUCK IT, THOMAS!

Thanks, BW.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/?f=2161

Borderlands(PC/Steam) for $10 and all expansions are $3.33 each.  Pretty good deal if you're a wanting to play it on PC.

So, it came to an end.  With page/day 112, the Original Original Trilogy has come to closure and for a few pages I am reading about the SE work...  Then it's on to the prequels!  I thought of ripping the book in half and just keeping the OOT half... but the PT is quite interesting at a technical level.  So, I've decided to read it anyways...

But that's besides todays point- John Knoll shares this anecdote on page 115 about the production schedule for ESB:SE.

John Knoll:

I had just finished the final "final" on The Empire Strikes Back Spedial Edition.  It was a Friday (in January 1997) and I was at ILM's wrap party for A New Hope Special Edition.  There were tents in the courtyard, everyone was having a good time, and I ran into George, who said -- and this was exactly six days before we were supposed to ship the last CG film out for Empire -- "I have one more shot I want to do for Empire.  But we can talk about it Monday."

 

  And I said, "No, no -- we have to talk about this now!  What is it?"

  "After Han's Falcon is parked on the Star Destroyer," he said, "It's not clear that Boba Fee is in the junk, too, and that he's following Han.  I think we need one more shot in there to explain what's going on."

  So that night I went home and got out my Art of Empire Strikes Back book and used it as a reference for a really quick CG model of Boba Fett's ship, Slave I.  I paired that with an already constructed CG Millennium Falcon model.

  Over the weekend, I cobbled together an animatic (a three-dimensional digital storyboard) of Slave I clandestinely following the Falcon, and showed it to George on Monday.  He had a couple comments on the timing, so we started a revision.  Meanwhile, Rod Woodall had been working, as a personal project, on building a detailed CG model of Slave I, so I got him to give me a copy with the textures.  The rest of that Monday we worked on the shot revision, also completing the CG version of Slave I.  On Tuesday morning, I showed George the revision of the animatic, and he approved it.  The afternoon was spent lighting the shot, and by the end of that evening I was pretty much satisfied.  I spent Wednesday continuing to light and render elements.  Thursday, I put the comp together, and filmed it Thursday night.  We screened the completed version Friday morning, and George gave it the thumbs-up.  If anything had gone wrong during that week, we would've missed the deadline.

It's a pretty interesting story.  Hard to believe they only had a couple guys and a couple days to do a whole shot like that.  No wonder there are so many mistakes and whatnot in the SEs.

Don't say, "PM Requested?"

Because that will only lead to confusion.

I know.

From experience.

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:

 

Johnny Ringo said:

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:
No, my audio commentary wasn't in DTS so I didn't listen to it.

POST OF THE DAY :-)

Seconded.

Thirdeded.

Fourthed.

I'd like to thank the Academy...  And Steven Spielberg for single handedly inventing DTS.

Oh, and I'd like to tell Thomas Dolby that he can suck it.

IN SPAAAAAACE!

+1

C3PX said:

Stupid, friend of 005's! Ruined everything!!!

I wholeheartily agree as long as C3PX is the 'friend of 005' to which you are referring.

:)