xhonzi

You learned all of that at church?

vote_for_palpatine said:

xhonzi! Wake up!! You're babbling - who or what is popcorn? Wake up!

No, I'm not on the island!  I'm simply watching this fine internet production through my computer screen.  I'm watching.... and eating popcorn.

*popcorn*

Nanner Split said:

Larry the Cable Guy - As terrible as his jokes are, I have to commend him for finding a persona that would make him outrageous amounts of money (he's not actually a redneck, if you weren't aware: Proof

Hmm... looks like he was just as unfunny before.  Laughs at his own jokes. 

Watched Lars and the Real Girl last night.

Um....

Wow.

If you're complaining about the lack of originality in Hollywood, and you saw Transformers, Avatar etc. and didn't see this... well, shame on you.

It's a little weird at first, but if you stick with it, I think most of you will find it to be a very interesting movie.

That never came out, right?  Sega had one, but I don't recall one for the SNES...

Dang it, I can't even spell the word consistently sentence to sentance.

Brian Regan.  Oh wait, he is the best comic in the world!

vote_for_palpatine said:

You're welcome, xhonzi:

 That's it!  The Rebels are There! </vader>

Wow, C3PX- we're totally on the same page here.  I really liked Halo 2 as well, though I might have preferred 3 overall.  In 2, I liked the alternating Chief/Arby thing and thought the story was a lot more interesting than Halo CE's as well.  It's fairly common for the first part of a story to draw simple white/black lines and then for the 2nd part to bring out the grey or the blurred lines, and I thought Halo 2 did this well.  I thought Halo 3 was really strong in the sense of the scale of the battle.  It was much larger in terms of number of troops and also of combat hardware.  (looks like Reach is going to have even larger scale set pieces).

Likewise, the Spartan design in what I've seen of Reach puts me off in almost the same way.  Spartans are supposed to be 8 or 9 feet tall and it makes them look a little thin... The Reach Spartans totally looked to have that bulked up Gears of War look to me.  Here's hoping that we're both wrong in that regard.

I was watching the Reach ViDoc "Into the Breach" and it had lots of people gushing over Halo CE and how its some kind of highwater mark that they're constantly trying to get back to.  I think the games have only gotten better since CE, but I seem to be in a minority.

C3PX- how much weight did your friend lose?  How much wait did you drop?

Davnes007 said:

No matter what people say about a subject, someone is going to have something else to say about it.

 No they won't.

I searched for a picure of the cap... but I can tell you it was thin plastic and it was black for Coke and Green for Sprite.

C3PX said:

I am not Catholic either, but I am very fond of the idea of giving stuff up for a period of time. I find it keeps me from growing too soft. Has to be something you rely on a lot though to really be any kind of a big deal. Most of the things in life we feel are necessities really are not, so I definitely think it is a good idea to force ourselves to learn how to cope without them.

 It's true.  Our refrigerator died last fall.  I ordered a part off of ebay to fix it, and it took 5 days to get here.  We bought blocks of ice and stuck them in the fridge and kept the door shut.  The freezer was a lost cause, but we lived without "refrigeration" for almost a whole week!  And it wasn't too bad...

As a joke, it's actually pretty funny.  It's also terrible in the sense that it might get carried away with itself and become a big thing.

Yoda Is Your Father said:

But Hot Rod was 'the one', and proved it by opening the Matrix, which is something Ultra Magnus failed to do. You might say Hot Rod had 'the touch'

Wait... I thought I had the touch.

Seriously, I love Optimus Prime.  He's like your dad or your big brother. But Hot Rod... he's like "me."  So... yeah.

bkev said:

I'm totally reviving the oldest available thread in this section for shits and gigles. Sue me.

Also, does Jar-Jar count?

 What, the cartoon rabbit that steps in the poopy?  Yeah, I'd say he counts.  He may be CG, but he's still a stupid cartoon sidekick.

Touché.

Crap.  This thread will never be about Halo, despite the title.

Specifically Halo Legends.  Has anyone seen this yet?  I got it from Netflix this week.  I would have just bought it due to my love of Halo, but the Animatrix, Batman Gotham Knight, etc... have taught me that my love of various franchises cannot actually weather the Anime treatment.

Overall, I would say it's okay.  There are 8 videos, 4 of which I liked, and 4 of which I didn't.  There is one sooooo laughably bad, you have to take it as a joke.  I think it's meant to be a joke, but who can really tell?

The 4 good ones, according to xhonzi, were:

The Package
The Duel
Origins I
Origins II

Maybe Odd One Out gets an honourable mention for being so terrible to be entertaining.

Not good, according to xhonzi, were:

Homecoming
The Babysitter
Ptotype

Origins I and II were interesting.  In some ways, it's drawing the curtain WAY back on some of what they've been hinting at.  The episode starts 1 kajillions years BC and shows the fall of Forerunner civilization.  It covers the original creation of and firing of the Halo rings.  And then the repopulation of the human and alien races that were saved on the Ark.  It quickly covers Earth history as we know it and then gets into the future UNSC stuff.  It covers some of the human v human stuff occuring at the beginning of the Spartan program and then starts the covenant war.

This is where I get confused.

I can't tell if Cortana is retelling the events of Halo 1-3, but in a very screwed up way...  Or is she is retelling some event prior to Halo 1, but involves the Flood somehow?  I've read most of the books and played all of the games, so I figured I pretty much knew what there was to know... but this scene through the ending really confused me.  I listened to the commentary, and the only help Frank O'Connor was to say that the video was purposefully shown from Cortana's perspective.  And since she is bordering on rampancy, her recounting of events may be inaccurate.  Which sort of gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card for later contradicting anything in the video.

But if anyone else would like to speculate on it, please let me know.

Darth Solo said:

Snagg ;-)

 gle Tooth?

Smells like.... Victory!

Curls and teeth.

So... Tuesday's episode:

Who was the kid?
Whose list was on the cave ceiling?
Do the names have The Numbers next to them... or do the numbers have The Names next to them?
Who wants to see a spin-off show about Locke and Ben as history teachers?
If the alt2004 is "course-correcting" as we watch it... is it possible that like Desmond who was on the plane and then off of it again- that Locke actually DID go on the Walkabout when he was telling Boone about it and then as the plane landed (and Desmond had disappeared) that his legs stopped working, he needed the wheelchair, and he, at that point, didn't go on the walkabout.
If Cooper didn't push him out the window to cause his back injury/paralyzation... what did?
Is the alt2004 timeline different not only because of the bomb, but did Jacob not touch the Losties in that timeline?  Is that why Locke is happy, Hugo is lucky, Kate didn't kill her father, and Sawyer (potentially) is not a Con man?
(Who wants to see a spin-off show where every week Sawyer tries to Con Hurley out of his millions, but is foiled until the next week?)
If the Valenzetti equation is about manipulating the "variables" (4 8 15 16 23 42) to prevent the end of the world, does the number next to the names in the cave mean that those 6 people are the actual "variables" that must be manipulated to prevent the end of the world?  Without Jacob's touch, are those people unmanipulated and will the alt2004 timeline end with the end of the world?

Ernie... Eddie... as long as "Go Ninja, Go!" by Vanilla Ice is kicking whilst I hit the scene, you all!