xhonzi

Pfttt!  You're still using that Yoda?  What, are you from the Dark Ages?  Why don't you get with the times and use this Yoda?

Bingowings said:

Whovians tend to get a bit hot under the collar if you call the show Dr Who (just a warning before the guys in long scarfs come to take you away) :-D

Wait... What I am supposed to call it?

Yay teeth! 

I tried hippie... but ultimately decided against it.  :(

But what about the show?

I deserved that.

Get a haircut you HIPPY!

Oooh... I always wanted to be Eddie Reyes Jr.  Way back in Sidekicks, the Last of the Electric Nights and then in TMNTII...

And what about this: He's playing both me AND Darth Maul?  Is that some forshadowing?  And!  Looking at the rest of the cast, I'm sure to be the best played character!

Daddy like VERY much!

From the Dr. Pepper Drinkers thread:

Any other opinions on Young Indy?  I'm about to start reading the pre-TV Young Indy books to my son.  Here's hoping they're as good as I remember them!

No.

Narrow mouthed soda cans.

That plastic cap that went on the bottom of 2 litre soda bottles.

That long blue communal hand towel in public restrooms that we all got to share.

Okay, not really... but sometimes it's amusing to think of what has disappeared and you haven't had cause to think about for a while.

xhonzi said:

My Order:

SW-R

SW-R

ESB*

SW-R

ESB*

RotJ*

 So I meant this with a little wink in my eye... but I wanted to be serious here for a minute.  I think to properly understand the power of many serialized fictions, it is necessary to consume the early parts many times prior to consuming the later parts.  For those of us who watched SW in 1977, ESB in 1980 and RotJ in 1983, those three years between films were critical to our immersion in the films...  The waiting and the repeat viewings of what was available.  For those of us who saw them all later, as a complete package, we didn't get the experience of wating 3 years to know if *SPOILER* Vader really was Luke's father.  We didn't have to see ESB several times without knowing the conclusion of RotJ, and analyzing ESB to find clues as to what it would bring.

It's also one of the reasons that certain people have strong feelings against RotJ and others don't mind at all, so it can have negative consequences as well...  And I'm sure as time goes on, the Prequel Acceptance Rate (PAR) will go up as people won't know the SW before the PT (or the SE's for that matter) and they will see the 6 movies as a whole, as opposed to 2 different parts.  But I'm digressing.

Recently, examples can include: Episodes of Lost, LotR, Matrix, Pirates, Harry Potter books, etc...  There's something about watching these in a metered way... and also in lock step with the rest of society.

I'm rambling, but while it is too late to experience the OT again for the first time, it does make me wonder how I should show it to my kids?  Do I make them watch only SW for several years, and then throw ESB into the mix?  Then let them watch the pair of them for a couple years...  Or do I just work the trilogy in as they move to solid foods and call it good?

BarBar Jinkx said:

Cultural lesson 101

 

Eire is pronounce kinda like Era or streached it would sound like Ear Rah!

 

(I would't mind but I hated irish growing up) LOL

 Good, because I pronounce 'dire' like deer-RAH!

That is to say I could do- and your face looks like poodoo.

Sorry, Rogue Leader...  It looks like no one wants to discuss the review in the review discussion thread.  That's how it made it to page 14, anyhow.  If it was just the review discussion, then it would have made it 9 posts tops.

Well, I stand very corrected.

I always assumed they were in a post RotJ context since the Ewoks spoke Basic and were friendly to humans.  Also, the Towani family seems to be in that "post war casual travel" mode.  And didn't Quaker Oats crash there during the war???  How long do Ewoks live, anyways...?

I'm sure they can't exactly be fixed in the timeline and have it make tons of sense.  It's too square a peg to fit in the canon.

BAM!

THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

 it was £€€&ing cold

What's that in Farenheit?

I'm not sure if the system is different in Eire but the out of hours GP service in UK is dire.

I don't speak UK, but is this a rhyming couplet?  Man, posts like this are rare, like Mr. Clean with hair!

My Order:

SW-R

SW-R

ESB*

SW-R

ESB*

RotJ*

*2004 unfortunately

???? Ewok Movie was made for TV, was it not?

Yay Big Fish!

Yay Mask of the Phantasm!

But I'm not currently doing Lent, so I can't really give it up... can I?

I'm not Catholic, so my eternal soul's not really on the line here... but I'm thinking about playing along and giving something up for lent.

To be honest, it should probably be coming to OT.com while I'm at work.  Especially if ABC keeps his NASFWing pictures coming.

That seems neato... and maybe I'm not the power-user I used to be... but what advantages are there to doing this?  Is it just centralized access to all of the features hidden behind fancy icons and GUIs in control panel?

Also, I'm starting my first play through of SystemShock.  I thought about trying to emulate the KB/M controls to my Xbox controller (I'm playing on my laptop and don't want to deal with an actual mouse) but it seems that the cursor is sort of required too much to do that.

Has anyone played this recently and have any advice for a modern gamer playing an old game?