xhonzi

doubleofive said:

 

CP3S said:

So what is the point of our village? By some of the suggestions, it seems we have modern technology, so we are not pretending it is the 19th century or anything.

Maybe in our village is made so we can all raise our families in a mid-nineties world where Star Wars is still cool and exciting and no special editions or prequels exist. Just three movies on VHS, a number of novels, stacks of comic books, and loads of silly merchandise that somehow actually still seemed cool back then.

If we made a movie about our island, it would feel like a period piece taking place in 1995 or so. Then by the end we discover they are really living in the 10's, and that they gave up modern life so that their offspring could grow up SW fans in a world where they don't have to experience the frustrations of all the rifts in fandom and the lack of originals on DVD and/or BD.

The dramatic twist could be one of our kids walking through the woods and finding a discarded Blu-ray of the Special Editions.

Xhonzi would be the one with the forbidden Blu-ray home theater system in a secret room in his basement along with his D-box chair.

 

Hey, now!  I was just thinking this Village already sounded like the 2/4 unapproved way I raise my kids.

Wait, are you suggesting that my BD equipped basement shows prequels of special editions?  If not, then I'm cool with this.

In fact, it sounds rad.

TV's Frink said:

Me, snarky?

;-)

No.  I meant the other Frink.

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:

Welcome to OT.com. You'll find we're passionate about our opinions, but I'd like to think we're fairly open to alternate opinions as long as you aren't troll-y about them.

 SHUT YOUR FACE!

Erm... I didn't mean to shut down this thread.  (I just meant to shut down 005's face).

So... please continue.

And, hurrah for Plot Development Analysis!

Warbler said:

as I said in the political thread, this one is a no brainer.  I nominate Ferris for chief of police.  He is the only trained cop amongst us.

 Nice call, Warbler!

If it were put to a vote, I would say "no" to the text on the viewscreen.  Is there a compelling reason it's there other than "cool"? 

Everything else looked great!

Hurray!  Tex Murphy just crossed $150k.  1/3 of the way there, baby!

timdiggerm said:

Wait wait wait, BDs are $10 now?

Man, I am really out of the loop.

Yep.  These are even the 4 Disc versions of the X-Men movies.  (Though I'd be just as happy with the 2 Disc).

BBy had some BD for $5 this week.  I didn't buy any of them.

doubleofive said:

Welcome to OT.com. You'll find we're passionate about our opinions, but I'd like to think we're fairly open to alternate opinions as long as you aren't troll-y about them.

 SHUT YOUR FACE!

Saw that bestbuy had a smattering of 20th Fox BDs for $10 that includes $10 movie cash to see Prometheus.

All X-Men movies (except First Class)

All Alien movies (single disc).

And more!

none- I think we're using Zombie to validate the "test" clips.  From what he said, I think he'd like to give a thumbs up or a thumbs down based on these test clips.  Based on that, I think he will talk to his publisher and make sure we're kosher.

Ziz- That's a cool idea, but I don't know of anyone here that wants to read all of the narration.  I surely don't.  And it sounds like a lot more editing work and coordination to make sure it all gets done.

Gaffer, Akwat, (and 005)- Are you all saying you don't have the print version of the book?  Does this mean that you just have the .pdf that Zombie was sending out pre-release?  If so, Shame on you!

So... if I came here first...

what do I do?

Nice anonymous donation, there, Tobar.  It's a good thing that I am not good at the maths, or else you'd be in realy trouble.  Like, the square root of -i trouble.

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:

Neat! I didn't watch the whole video, but I like what I saw. Unfortunately, I don't have the cash to back such a project, but I wish it well. Also found that the original games are on GOG.com, so I added them to my wishlist!

Shirley you have $15?!?

Ted Striker said:

I just wanted to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you.

Two people have pledged $10k. That's a ton of money. Were you one of them, Dr. Xhonz?

Sadly, no.  I wish I had that kind of scratch to privately fund this kind of stuff, but I don't.  Let's just say that my pledge was somewhere between $15 and $10k. 

Hey!  How did I miss this thread?

doubleofive said:

I'm seeing if Mrs. O'Five will let me buy the book soon. I should get Chapter 5...

Chapter 005?

We can probably make that happen.

doubleofive said:

Neat! I didn't watch the whole video, but I like what I saw. Unfortunately, I don't have the cash to back such a project, but I wish it well. Also found that the original games are on GOG.com, so I added them to my wishlist!

Shirley you have $15?!?

Sluggo, Frink, and Bingo-

You three have been active in this thread without quite volunteering, so I've left you off of the chapter list for now.  If I was meant to take your snark as volunteering to read, please let me know and I will sign you up.

Others- I made assigments in the order your volunteered.  Chapters 2 and 3 are quite long, so if need to split those up, let's do that.  If you're cool with reading all of that, then have at it.  If there's a different chapter you'd rather read, let me know and we'll see what we can work out:

From 1st post:

Forward/Intro: Zombie

Chapter 1: xhonzi (~24 pages)
Chapter 2: 005 (~88 pages)
Chapter 3: Gaffer (~52 pages) (nice to have a female voice here, methinks)
Chapter 4: xhonzi(~12 pages) 
Chapter 5: Akwat (~36 pages)
Chapter 6: Ziggy S. (~15 pages)
Chapter 7: <>       (~43 pages)
Chapter 8: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 9: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 10: <>      (~34 pages)

Conclusion: Zombie

*Chapter list and page length taken from e-book v 1.2.  Though the official text for this version would be either the first printed version or the revision due 2013. 

If that's not a "Audiobooks are GO! For Launch!", it's at least an "Audiobooks are GO! For Test!"

So let's get cracking!  I suggest a 5 minute sample of you reading your chapter.  That way, if it works, you might not have to rerecord those 5 minutes (5 minutes down, 3 hours to go).  (Except, you know, when we get our hands on Zombie's revisions).

I'll revisit* the first post and make Chapter Assignments.  005, I guess I'll give you chapter 2, since it's in the first 100 pages.  However, I should really give your chapter 5 since that means you'd have to buy the book.  ;)

Zombie- where do we send the clips once we're done?  Do we post links here, or do you want them somewhere more private? 

Happy recording folks!

To flip your flip side, sir, (courteously), a lot of my favourite audiobooks are non-fiction, and possibly academic.  Freakonomics, Malcolm Gladwell, etc...

*See what I did there?

TV's Frink said:

Please tell me that "opera crown" was your typo and not his.

Why is the only conversation I can stir up in this thread about my typos?!?!

And no!  It's not a typo-  Ask you friend (the traitor) Olie about which crown he wants to wear when he sits upon the "Handsome Thrown" and I can tell you I already know his answer!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora?ref=live

Just covering my bases here folks.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora?ref=live

Kickstarter is up.  For the love of Tex, please pledge something!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora?ref=live

Alright, folks.  It's 17 hours old and 17% funded.  I expect that the biggest fans didn't wait and all made their pledges.  So now it's up to you, you middle sized fans.

It's $15 to get the game, and, of course, it goes on from there.

I didn't back Tim Schafer's project because I knew he didn't need my money.  I knew this because it had already passed the mark by %300 when I first heard about it.  I backed Jane Jensen's Moebius because I thought they might need my money.  But I sunk a lot of money into Tex Murphy because I know they need my money.  But what's more- now I need your money.  Because my money is not enough.  Without your money, my money will not get a game in my hands.

Nicely done.  Hey, wait... is this a drive by?

Tobar said:

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantastic book! Looking forward to reading the rest.

 

I just finished reading (er... LibriVox listening to) the first three.  I definitely enjoyed the first one best.

The other 2 were good.  I'm curious to think of how they would have adapted them for the "trilogy" they were planning.

Day 305:

Since Episode I, I've been trying to persuade George to make a cameo appearance.  A couple of times there were opportunities: He could have been of the dignitaries a the Naboo peace celebration, but he thought it was too cheesy.  I tried once more on Episode II, and failed again.  So I gave up.  It took his daughter Katie to convince him to join the opera crown in Revenge of the Sith.

Good job, John Knoll.  I'm sure Lucas is glad that you (er... his daughter) talked him into it, even though he thought it was cheesy.

It's not like anyone else thinks that cameo (and the attendant name) are cheesy.  *eyeroll*