xhonzi

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Post: #526288
Topic: How would YOU re-do the prequels?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526288/action/topic#526288
Time: 23-Aug-2011 2:18 PM

Bad place to have this conversation... but I would show them the OT many many times before showing them the PT. Let it cement in her mind before moving on to the new stuff.

Of course, you can read my thoughts elsewhere, I don't show my kids the PT at all... but if you were going to do it, I'd make sure it wasn't after a single watching of the OT.

Post: #526284
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526284/action/topic#526284
Time: 23-Aug-2011 2:03 PM

CP3S said:

Weird. I had Fawkes with me at that point in the game, and it gave me the option to ask him to go in for me... and he gave me some speech about how this is my story and that it was something I had to do on my own. I figured they made him say that to negate a super mutant companion being the perfect solution to having a good karma ending without the self sacrifice.

I wonder if certain conditions determine whether Fawkes will go in and take care of it for you rather than just pontificate about character development, or if when they released the Broken Steel DLC they decided they ruined the dramatic ending already anyway, and changed things to allow the reasonable solution of Fawkes going into the chamber for you.

Interestning! I'd bet it was Broken Steel. I didn't do much with Fawkes one way or the other before going to Project Purity.

CP3S said:
Just out of curiosity, with the ending you got, what happened after the ending narration? As I said, for me with my character "dying" at the end, it has him wake up from a coma at the Brotherhood of Steel's base. You said they rolled the two week later card, so do they have you starting off with the Bro. Hood of Steel base still?

Project Purity faded to white when Fawkes was doing his thing. Then I got the video. Then I got fade to black, with the 2 weeks later card. The doc at the base said that Sarah and I both absorbed a lot of radiation and that I had been in a coma. She's still in one.

Now that I think about it, the end narration said something about how I followed in my father's footsteps- except that I didn't learn self-sacrifice from him and I let "the true hero" do it for me. But he's fine, so it's not like he actually sacrificed much.

CP3S said:

xhonzi said:

What did you do with the modified FEV? I didn't think it sounded like such a bad idea...

Kill all of the feral ghouls and supermutants whilst purifying the water? Sounds good to me!

Weird hearing the guy who is proud of having a super mutant and a ghoul as a companion thinks killing all the ghouls and super mutants would be a good idea.

Hey! I said FERAL ghouls, FERAL! And I wasn't thinking about my mutant supermutant. I was mostly thinking about all of the ones I kill on sight. But the hitch is that it will also kill/make sick anyone suffering from any small amount of radiation sickness... I.e. basically everyone.

From the wiki:

In the DLC Broken Steel, if the player had chosen to contaminate the purifier with the Modified FEV, the medical facility of every city is filled with new patients dying from FEV poisoning. The new patients hold their stomachs and repeat dialogue along the lines of, "it burns on the inside." When the player speaks with the doctor at any given town, they state that the condition is not contagious. In Rivet City, Dr. Preston comments that they are burning the corpses just to be safe. In Megaton, Doc Church comments along the lines of, "it would be ironic if we were so used to the crap we had been drinking that pure water is killing us."

I also read that drinking the water will kill you... because you've obviously soaked up a lot or rads in your time.

Post: #526277
Topic: Strikeout and the Simple text editor
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526277/action/topic#526277
Time: 23-Aug-2011 1:41 PM

Is there a way?

How?

I tried [s],
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[strikeout]
[strikethrough]
<> variations of the same,
s-t-r-i-k-e-o-u-t-,
and even:
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Post: #526274
Topic: Lucas' attitude
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526274/action/topic#526274
Time: 23-Aug-2011 1:36 PM

I agree with all comments in this thread. Even the contradicting ones.

Post: #526270
Topic: Okay, who actually LIKES the Prequels
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526270/action/topic#526270
Time: 23-Aug-2011 1:23 PM — Edited 23-Aug-2011 1:24 PM

Darth Bizarro said:

xhonzi said:

Darth Bizarro said:

We read the Jedi Prince series when we were kids and I guess we just never quite fully recovered.

You're saying Jedi Prince made you daffy and unable to judge correctly?

You know, I don't take issue with skyjedi or Puggo coming over here and sharing their distaste for the prequels because all they are doing is sharing their opinions of the movies. I don't hear either of them calling our opinions wrong though.

Sorry, I thought I was riffing off of your comment about the Jedi Prince series. Perhaps I mistook your meaning. What did you mean by bringing up Jedi Prince?

Darth Bizarro said:
I think you're just bitter because we are able to enjoy them and therefore have 6 movies to watch instead of only 3.

I don't think so. If I'm "bitter" (though that's not quite the word for it) it's that I don't want the PT in my OT, and as has been put better recently by some others here, that's getting increasingly hard. I didn't come to OT.com because it was a "bashers" sanctuary so much as it was an "ignorers" sanctuary. Yet, as time goes on, anything Star Wars is increasingly becoming saga focused (with a heavy PT/TCW bias) and likewise OT.com (the membership, anyhow) is progressively becoming "saga" minded. That is to say, that the members here are less "ignory" than it used to be and I find that I don't enjoy coming here as much as I did 5 years ago. Even this sanctuary moon site has fallen to the PT machine.

And I find that very sad and frustrating.

Also- RE: the 3 vs 6 deal. I guess maybe you're right. I really wanted to like the PT and assumed I would... Right up until the fall of 1998 when the flags started to go up. But a couple years back, I basically liked 0 SW movies. The PT had tainted so much of my once and former passion for SW... I had to take a hardline "ignore" stance just to get back to liking the 3 of them again. I'm somewhat envious of anyone who like's all 6... but I also think there's something wrong with you.

Post: #526257
Topic: Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526257/action/topic#526257
Time: 23-Aug-2011 12:54 PM — Edited 23-Aug-2011 12:57 PM

Coov said:

TV's Frink said:

Coov posted this on Bluray.com

tee-hee

I updated it a bit... :)

That.

Rocks.

Post: #526256
Topic: Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526256/action/topic#526256
Time: 23-Aug-2011 12:53 PM

doubleofive said:
The Aluminum Falcon said:

R2D2 said:

An article from the DVD & Blu-Ray Review magazine, Issue september 2011, confirms that Matthew Wood has put his voice in the audio tracks of all 6 movies:

WHAT? His voice didn't originally exist in the movies, so much for restoration... I hope that sound mix does sound really good enough to make me forget he's in it.
So we went from the original soundtrack, to a "Best Of" soundtrack in 97, to a messed up mix, to a completely recreated from scratch and messed with who knows how?

Greeeeat.

Better get started on those comparison screenshots, 005. Of the... sound... changes.

Post: #526251
Topic: anothe example of lucas changing things to appeal to a new generation lightsaber dueling styles of OT vs PT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526251/action/topic#526251
Time: 23-Aug-2011 12:42 PM

skyjedi2005 said:

The other movies were bad 99-2005 and were nothing but a cross between a videogame cutscene and action figures toy sales promotion.

You leave videogames out of this.

Post: #526232
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526232/action/topic#526232
Time: 23-Aug-2011 12:08 PM

QED.

Post: #526231
Topic: Last movie seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526231/action/topic#526231
Time: 23-Aug-2011 12:06 PM

RedFive said:

captainsolo said:

The thing about Kane is this: no one wanted to push the envelope at the time. Welles pushed anything and everything he ever came into contact with. They thought he would do great in Hollywood. He sat around and couldn't get a project off the ground for over a year. So, you can definitely say that he came tearing out of the gate. However, they gave a young Orson Welles full control of the production. Kane is simply undiluted Welles on crack, with a great writer and brilliant and innovative people who actually wanted to do more than the same 9-5. Also, one must mention the fact Welles was usually on Benzedrine at this point in time. That's what makes it stand out. And all of the primary gushers for the film wouldn't even consider letting the man make another film. It took decades for it to even be considered as good, let alone even be shown.

I get all that, and I consider it one of the few all-time greats as well, but it's still a movie about a newspaper mogul, and that can only not be boring for so long before it gets boring.

I get all of that too... but I think context should be carefully handled when rating a film.

Best for its time? Or best ever? I think, perhaps, we should have a list of most influential or most historically relevant, or best in its time movies apart from the "best ever" list. Yes, Kane was groundbreaking in its day and dared to take on Hearst in such a way that everyone involved in the project should have been committed. That's great. But also, at the end of the day, a film is a film and not the people who made it or the way or reasons that they did. In those terms, I think the notion that no one has made a better film than Citizen Kane in the past 70 years to be ridiculous.

Post: #526224
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526224/action/topic#526224
Time: 23-Aug-2011 11:59 AM

doubleofive said:
xhonzi said:

005- have you looked into PlayOn? You have to pay an annual subscription now, but it's key in our "no cable, no satellite (and soon to be) no netflix" plan.
Its one of those "too-good-to-be-true" things for me. Paying a third party to get content on my Xbox that MS already offers seems wrong. I'll have to read up on it.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I paid $10 or $20 for it a couple of years ago before there was an annual fee. That makes me a "basic" member for life, but some of the "advanced" features are walled off to me. I haven't yet decided if it's worth $20 a year for them...

For <$2 a month, it will let you stream media from your PC to your mobile phones/pads/whathaveyous/whatisits... even over 3G.

I tried it on my google phone last night, but my optimus doesn't support flash, so it was a no go.

Post: #526222
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526222/action/topic#526222
Time: 23-Aug-2011 11:54 AM

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

Frink, you don't have an awesome gaming computer

Prove it.

You are old.

Post: #526220
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526220/action/topic#526220
Time: 23-Aug-2011 11:54 AM

Fallout 3 Ending Spoilers herein.

CP3S said:

xhonzi said:

The "ending" video was pretty clunky. I don't think it was any different for having the DLC installed...

If the DLC isn't installed, the game ends with you dying in the chamber. Unless you made the Brotherhood of Steel girl go in there to take care of it for you.

Actually I forgot to mention this. As I have mentioned, I've been rolling the Wasteland with my gang- my obnoxiously talkative Mute Ghoul Servant Charon, and my faithful dog(s) Dog Meat's Puppy(ies). When I went to vault 88, we were friendly to Fawkes because that's how my gang rolls. (We be bein' kind to evry foo' who cross our path!)

When I got near the end of Raven Rock... I'd realized I had passed through a one way door without grabbing the bobble head. So I had to reload and play it again. While looking for said bobble head, I accidentally passed through the one way door again- reload, try again. Eventually I got it, got out of Raven Rock and found Fawkes waiting for me, accepted him as a new companion (I'd lost Dog Meat's Puppy and Charon when they captured me). I figured I'd go look for Charon and DM's Puppy after I dropped off the last 2 bobble heads at my Megaton appartment. But then I had go to bed. To save time, I googled "Where are my companions after Raven Rock" and found out that the game wouldn't let me keep both Fawkens and Charon. I was really torn... because I have (in my mind) an awesome relationship with my mute ghoul servant Charon and we have a lot of history, but Fawkes has a gatling laser. Luckily I saw that you can cheat and get both if you fast travel away from Fawkes before he joins your gang (I call it the "Nice to Everyone Friendship Gang of Death") go get Charon (or whomever) and then come back to Fawkes. I didn't have a save right there, so I had to play Raven Rock. Again! Get the bobble head, defeat President Eden, blow up a lot of soldiers, and the rest.

But I have a 4 person (alright- 1 person, 1 mutant supermutant, 1 mute ghoul, and 1 puppy) gang now and I'm pretty stoked about that.

But the point of all of this- I didn't die nor did I have the chick die at the end. I just sent my mutant supermutant in to handle it. He was glad to do it and the radiation didn't hurt him any.

CP3S said:

If you have the Broken Steel DLC installed, then as you saw, they retcon the ending and have you wake up from a coma. If you beat the game without any DLC installed the first time like I did, then once you install Broken Steel you have to load a save right before the end of the game (which I had), or play back up to that point to access the DLC which automatically starts right after the ending.

They rolled the "end video" then came up with the 2 week's later card. Apparently Sarah and I were still in bad shape, but neither of us died. Can I assume the "have Fawkes do it" option was open before the DLC? Or did they add that so that neither of us had to die?

What did you do with the modified FEV? I didn't think it sounded like such a bad idea, but I sort of accidentally didn't mean to give it to Elder Lyons. And I would have totally forgotten to do anything with it at the end, despite having looked at the injection point a couple of times earlier in the game. Kill all of the feral ghouls and supermutants whilst purifying the water? Sounds good to me! Feeling like maybe I should play Raven Rock (again!) I turned to google again to see what I was missing. If you didn't use the FEV or haven't read about it, I recommend you do the same. I'm glad I didn't do it, but I was impressed with the ramifications.

Post: #526213
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526213/action/topic#526213
Time: 23-Aug-2011 11:41 AM

Frink, you don't have an awesome gaming computer, so your arguments (and jokes) are invalid.

Post: #526205
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526205/action/topic#526205
Time: 23-Aug-2011 11:33 AM

I think we should all post our specifications... like, in our signatures. So we know at all times who has the best rig and therefore whose opinions matter the most.

EDIT: When I said "specifications, I meant, of course, computer specifications... ;)

Post: #526003
Topic: If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526003/action/topic#526003
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:55 PM

Bingowings said:

xhonzi said:

(And then the Mini Death Star blew up).

There is another...

<img src="https://sn2files.storage.live.com/y1pgPeEcg1_2ufmmRVAJOAHKKHSXSl3OtxLB5l0CS1NaBPwS1lEzxk7Cabm5TaCuw6VYXvxKEq9q-QCQ36pWxVyvQ/Mini%20Death%20Star.jpg?psid=1" width="286" height="200" />

That's it! The Ric Olie is there!

Post: #526000
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/526000/action/topic#526000
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:51 PM

005- have you looked into PlayOn? You have to pay an annual subscription now, but it's key in our "no cable, no satellite (and soon to be) no netflix" plan.

Post: #525998
Topic: Last movie seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525998/action/topic#525998
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:49 PM

TV's Frink said:

My daughter has basically been watching Secret of NIMH on a non-stop loop the past few days.

Sorry, I would have posted this in the "Last movie your daughter seen" thread but I couldn't find it.

Roger Ebert said:

Secret of NIMH is okay, but doesn't have enough hardcore mouse nudity in it. SELLOUT!

Post: #525997
Topic: Okay, who actually LIKES the Prequels
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525997/action/topic#525997
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:47 PM

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

Is there a truly correct way to judge things though?

Yes. If that's not a sufficient enough answer for you, however, I probably can't help you.

Post: #525995
Topic: Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525995/action/topic#525995
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:44 PM — Edited 22-Aug-2011 4:45 PM

Rock the vote? http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/314096/lucasfilm-on-star-wars-the-complete-saga-blu-ray-hands-on-report

I guess... option 4? If you're boycotting. Still, I call them chicken for not including the "no OOT = no sale" vote button.

Post: #525974
Topic: Okay, who actually LIKES the Prequels
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525974/action/topic#525974
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:04 PM

Darth Bizarro said:

theprequelsrule said:

These films are unsalvagable. They have no narrative drive, no sympathetic characters, atrocious to mediocore acting, wooden dialogue, inauthentic (and increasingly obsolete) special effects, and no apparent character motivation for actions (characters do things because it is written in the script).

Only the soundtracks are in the same league, although still not as good as, those of the OT.

There were only two scenes in the entire PT that I found entertaining; both of the lightsaber duels from TPM.

How anyone can like these movies is beyond me.

We read the Jedi Prince series when we were kids and I guess we just never quite fully recovered.

You're saying Jedi Prince made you daffy and unable to judge correctly?

Post: #525971
Topic: Chance to talk to Lucasfilm about the new SW Blu-rays. What do YOU want to know?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525971/action/topic#525971
Time: 22-Aug-2011 4:02 PM

TV's Frink said:

Not banned:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-The-Vintage-Edit/post/289330/#TopicPost289330

Oh, he's not banned. At least, not yet.

Sluggo said:

YOU know him?!?!?

Of course I know him. He's me!

Post: #525960
Topic: General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525960/action/topic#525960
Time: 22-Aug-2011 3:50 PM

none said:

File under : depression

http://www.ign.com/blogs/bugsy326/2011/08/20/yes-i-am-geek-star-wars-sound-off-in-a-good-way/

Well in a time far far away from this date..I was I little kid waiting in line for the movies with my mother, my aunt, and my two cousins to see Star Wars. The very first Star Wars was not particularly big on special effects. They had to use actual models made from different materials and put together mainly by hand. They filmed scenes over and over again to get just the right touches just the right special effects for that time period.

To people that see those movies today in there original form they don't seem like much. They have released and re released those three original movies over and over again as the technology is updated.

Man... I'm going to go jump off a bridge (and scream all the way down (or maybe not)) or shoot myself in the head... but Greedo would probably shoot (near) me first.

:(

Post: #525957
Topic: Last movie seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525957/action/topic#525957
Time: 22-Aug-2011 3:46 PM

We watched Citizen Kane this weekend. Mrs. Xhonzi had never seen it before and it's been 15 or so years since I last watched it.

I still enjoyed it, my wife enjoyed it... but I still get a chuckle when people refer to it as some kind of "high water mark" of moviemaking perfection. It's good. It did a lot of things first. It changed the industry. But I don't think it's a better movie than... Secret of Nimh 2.

Post: #525956
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/525956/action/topic#525956
Time: 22-Aug-2011 3:42 PM

Anyone here watch Eureka? It's actually one of my wife's faves. It's back on and the episodes have been pretty decent. It's more like a warm sweater these days than... you know... some exciting new shirt or something.