TV's Frink said:
Is anyone having issues with GIS?
I feel naked...in a bad way.
Wrong Thread?
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Is-avsforumcom-down/post/480225/
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Some of those pics seem to be the opposite of what Ziggy's experiencing.
C3PX:
I am really enjoying Rapture so far. Haven't been able to read as much as I'd like since I got it, only about 1/4th of the way through.
Well, blast. I had a sizable post here with my comments but I accidentally got away from it and now it's lost to the internets. :(
I got my copy, which was the paperback by the way, incase that makes you feel better for the price I got, and started reading it.
I can't say I'm overly impressed with the first 20 pages. I don't think Shirley has convinved me he knows Ryan. I think the first couple pages had Ryan saying things I can't imagine the Ryan in my head ever saying. I think the writing of Ryan in both BioShocks treated him as a very sympathetic character with some human flaws. The few pages I have read have shown me a really shallow Ryan. It seems to me that Shirley doesn't really have any idea what would make a man like Ryan tick...
Hopefully it gets better.
xhonzi: from (http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Video-Game-Thread/post/508226/#TopicPost508226)
Has anything you've seen made you think it won't feature anti-caricatured-extreme-patriotism theme? Or at least, not in a way that won't come across as condescending to actual/literal patriots?
I'm still not sure what 2K/Irrational think of Objectivism. I can't imagine making the world of Rapture the way they did if they just wanted to dismiss Objectivism as a false philosophy. I don't think people who simply dismiss it would go into so much depth (bad pun maybe intended?). But I think it's also clear they're Objectivists either. Since they handled that pretty well (I'm not an Objectivist, but I agree with them more than I don't) maybe I shouldn't be so worried about how they will handle the themes of patriotism.
C3PX: from (http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Video-Game-Thread/post/508239/#TopicPost508239)
I never actually quite understood your concern about the Patriotism thing to begin with, but no, nothing I have seen has given me that indication. However, I tend to feel patriotism can be, and often is, a really dumb thing. I am the guy who has refused to say the pledge of allegiance since he was in the fourth grade because it struck him as weird to force children to express their undying devotion to stuff they may not believe in or even understand on a daily basis.
Ken Levine kind of explained the premise of the floating city as a means to fly around the world and show everyone how great and wonderful the US is. This brand of extreme patriotism (and the idea of American exceptionalism taken to an extremist levels) rub me the wrong way to the extreme, so I am not going to be offended if they tear that sort of behavior apart.
But you and I might be coming from very different angles on this.
2 things:
I watched the 15 minute demo and found it eased a lot of my fear. It seems that Columbia's socialists have been fighting/defeated her capitalists and you get to shoot at least as many reds as red staters. So I'm less convinced that it will be a gross misrepresentation of my own patriotism.
Which brings me back to my own patriotism. 
I view my country's exceptionalism much the way I view my own. I have the right to be as exceptional as I can be. I'm sorry if that makes anyone feel inferior (real or imagined), but that's just the way it works. However- I am only really exceptional if I'm exceptional all on my own, and not putting other people down, robbing their exceptionalism, or actively trying to keep them from being exceptional in the pursuit of my own exceptionalism, or to make me feel exceptional by comparison.
Since I am exceptional, it means you can be exceptional too, if you choose to be. I choose to not hide my exceptionalism under a bushel because I don't want to, and also because it might inspire or instruct other people to be exceptional as well. To hide it could be considered selfish by some, though I also don't advocate a law to punish those who don't share. To bring it back to our discussion: I wouldn't consider Columbia to be an example of American Exceptionalism taken to a distasteful extreme. The United States really were a shining beacon to the rest of the world at the early part of the 20th Century and other countries ignored the lessons they could have learned from the US at their own peril. It maybe hard to really appreciate that now, 100 years later, since a lot of countries/cultures have learned those lessons- they have become more "Westernized" and "Americanized" over the years and there isn't always as stark a contrast as there used to be. At the same time, there have been very active and very successful forces trying to make our country less exceptional and "more like everyone else" which is also rapidly narrowing that gap. Which I find sad.
I think I said all I wanted to say.
What? No, I don't know what you're talking about. I saw Transformers 3 five times, like I told you.
Oh, a bongo bongo bongo, I don't want to leave the congo (oh, no no no no no!).
darth_ender said:
I'll be honest, I despise Shadows of the Empire on a number of levels.
Perhaps you mean Dark Empire?
TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
IT BEEPS LIKE R2D2!
Oh great, now I have to work this meme into my edit too?
That could be Obi-Wan's first reaction to meeting R2D2. And I think 005 should provide the voice.
On second thought, maybe it should just be an outtake or a deleted scene for TRM.
^On topic.
theprequelsrule said:
Yeah, Anchorhead should definitely pick up some of the Tales of the Old Republic stuff. Tom Veitch understood Star Wars.
I quite enjoyed the first Crimson Empire series as well.
Surely you mean Tales of the Jedi? http://www.comicvine.com/star-wars-tales-of-the-jedi/49-28243/
And perhaps Dark Empire? http://www.comicvine.com/star-wars-dark-empire/49-22516/
Some Mass Effect 2 DLC on sale on Xbox this week. I haven't started the game yet, but I did snag all of the DLC when it was on sale last Christmas. However, that was before The Arrival was released... so I'm contemplating getting that now.
Has anyone played the Arrival? Worth the points?
IT BEEPS LIKE R2D2!
Great list. I'll get right on making sure all of my kids know these things... just to hold back the dawn a little longer.
Yes, the odd change in definition to poodoo has always annoyed me. But I know I've already written it out here somewhere.
Too bad the Death Star book didn't turn out for you, Anchorhead. I had stayed away from it since I knew it was riddled with PTisms... sad to find out just how true that was.
I think/hope you'll enjoy Zahn's EU. As I've also said elsewhere, he (and a young Tom Veitch) had some very specific ideas about the clone wars that we see small glimpses of... but never really get the full scoop. I wish I could trap him in a room somewhere and get his notes, because I think he probably thought it through much more than anyone who actually worked on the prequels.
But it was probably this one. It's too much of a coincidence.
I heard it was based on a bed that Lucas really liked:
This one, I think.
On the forum settings, not something on the phone, right? I'll try that.
Normals aren't worth your time. Just stay here and all will be well.
ONE OF US. ONE OF US!
Am I the only one that can't make a post from my Android Phone? It's an LG Optimus without a physical keyboard. When I select the text box, it flashes orange but doesn't bring up the virtual keyboard for me to actually type.
I'm able to write on most other websites. So far it's just this one.
*Not sent from my LG Optimus
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
I don't know what's wrong with me! Instead of spending the day playing Fall Out 3 like I said I would, I went and saw Transformers 3 in the theatre... FIVE TIMES!
You know what is really sad? I think I might actually believe you.
I might be serious.
CP3S said:
I don't think my young mind would have spent any time considering that sort of thing, anymore than I spent time wondering what must have been inside Bugs Bunny to make him work.
Now that you mention it, what does make Bugs work?
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
So, I felt like I finally had to watch Transformers 2...
Let me ask you something Xhonzi: You are suppose to be____________
(a) spending 2.5 hrs PLUS the time it took to write that post on stupid Micheal Bay films.
or
(b) binging on Fallout 3 like there is no tomorrow.
:( Bad Xhonzi! Bad!
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
I promise. FO3 starts tonight!
So many empty promises, Xhonzi. I am not even sure those words have any meaning coming from you anymore.
I was about to pack up my things and go stay at mother's. But I guess I can give you this one last chance. *tears* I am such a fool....
I don't know what's wrong with me! Instead of spending the day playing Fall Out 3 like I said I would, I went and saw Transformers 3 in the theatre... FIVE TIMES! And it just got worse and worse EACH TIME!
C3PX, you were right to leave me. And, I wasn't going to tell the board this, but my wife and kids left me for the same reason- lack of comittment to Fall Out 3. :(
Anchorhead said:
xhonzi said:
But sir, the odds of surviving a direct attack on a level 26 thug at level 14 are 3,720 to 1!
Never tell me the odds!
Oh bullshit! - get off me - you were all thinking it. ;-)
It was precisely the answer I was fishing for.
I think also that C-3PO (and Z3PO, CP3S and C3PX for that matter) is too human shaped to be instantly recognizable in xbox shape. R2D2, however, is already appliance shaped... so he's more recognizable in xbox shape.
And C-3PO doesn't beep like R2-D2.
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
C3PX:X-Files: I Want to Believe
I actually really enjoyed it. For some reason I didn't think much of it when I saw it just after it came out.
Last time I saw it I hadn't seen past season six of the TV series, so it was nice knowing more about the context of Mulder and Scully's situation this time through.
Crap. Are you telling me I'll have to watch it again and that I might actually like it if/when I watch the T-1000 seasons?
No, you don't have to watch it again. But yeah, if you didn't like it the first time I'd encourage a second viewing. Especially after you've watched the whole series, if you are watching the whole series.
The main thing I remember about the movie was the "Can you believe an idiot like George W Bush is our president?!?!?" joke that was a little late to the party. Cutting edge humor there, Chris Carter. And quite bold and daring if I must say so myself.
I now own the whole series. Since they were so expensive when they were first released (>$100/season) I just had to grab all of the seasons when they were $15 per. Maybe I'll actually get around to watching them seriously once I cancel the ol' netflix. I've seen all of seasons 3-6, and most of 1-2 and I think practically none of 7-9. I imagine there was a quality drop after 6, but I'm still looking forward to cathing up with it some day.
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
So, I felt like I finally had to watch Transformers 2...
Let me ask you something Xhonzi: You are suppose to be____________
(a) spending 2.5 hrs PLUS the time it took to write that post on stupid Micheal Bay films.
or
(b) binging on Fallout 3 like there is no tomorrow.
I had to play "cut the rope" on my phone just to feel like I wasn't completely wasting my time.
That's because you were wasting your time. Maybe "Cut the Rope" made you feel better about wasting that precious time, but it was wasted. And you can never get it back.
:( Bad Xhonzi! Bad!
Well, the library needed it back and I wanted to save my FO3 for a more meaty space of time. And I had some other stuff I had to do on my phone/laptop and I couldn't very well play FO3 and do that at the same time, right?
I promise. FO3 starts tonight!
Ziggy Stardust said:
xhonzi said:
My thoughts on everyone else's thoughts:
Ziggy Stardust:
Adaptation. Talk about a misleading trailer!
9/10
Forgive me for playing the age card, Ziggy... but can you really appreciate this movie at 13?
Appreciate in what way?
I don't know how to answer that. The normal way?