xhonzi

So... hows about that finale, eh?

*SPOILERS*

*ALMOST THERE...*

*ALMOST THERE......*

*ALMOST THERE.........*

So... Morgan?  Shark=jumped or no?

*It's away!*

*END SPOILERS*

2007-

Transformers and Transmorphers.

Holy crap, you started a thread!

Ziggy Stardust said:

The only reason Clockwork Orange is my new favorite movie is because my new favorite issue of National Geographic is from 1971 as well, so it makes sense. ;-)

Just kidding. I'm not THAT stupid.

Man, you should start a thread about what your favourite ish of NatGeographic is!

TheBoost said:

"I care."

 WRONG PHOTO!

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

[Back to the Future]

4 out of 4 balls

I've never been comfortable with the language. My parents had to tell my brothers to be very careful when quoting BTTF, a lot of what he says isn't nice.

It's true, and this was a concern for me as well.  I watched this a tonne at more or less the same age and got in trouble for quoting "Let's see if these ba*ds can do 90!" because I hadn't heard the word before.  And I likewise learned "OMG!" from Superman.

My son didn't seem to pick up on it.  I did explain to him in full detail what manure is and what the joke is when Biff slams into it and yells, "Oh s***!"

And I learned "H-E-double-Hell" from Sluggo.

greenpenguino said:

xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

toho-scope said:

the nhs

Naboo High School is still around.

It sure is.  Ahh... those were the days.

Shut up xhonzi, no matter how hard you try, you can NEVER be Naboobian

Are you callin' wikipeadia a lair, boy?

Tobar said:

For all the Disneyland fans....

I was there that day and heard they were walking around and on some rides.  Too bad we didn't run into them...

skyjedi2005 said:

Kind of sad though that the abridged recordings [of the Thrawn Trilogy] from audio-cassette are not being reissued on CD, the first one read by Wedge Antilles Dennis Lawson, and the other 2 read by C-3PO or Anthony "tony" Daniels.

 But the abridgments are terrible.

It also says Bing on Xbox, which I'm not sure what that means.  Does that also mean (limited) browser ability?

TV's Frink said:

Hey, where the hell did Sluggo go?

 He's still active on Facebook, so he's apparently okay.  Probably just taking a little time away.  Even lovers need a holiday.

What would ChuckLand be, exactly?  Besides a walkthrough of the BuyMore and maybe of Castle.  Here's your chance to go all out, twist-  Tell us in vivid detail what a Chuck rollercoaster would be like.  But please, there are children here.  Keep it TV-14.

TV's Frink said:

toho-scope said:

the nhs

Naboo High School is still around.

It sure is.  Ahh... those were the days.

E3 News so far:

bkev said:

The only science fiction I need involves Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan.

On that note, I made a list of movies to see with my 8 year old son now that he's old enough.  It started when we were at Universal Studios and I got my picture taken with Doc Brown.  I figured it was time to show the little man Back to the Future.

I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to the BDs, but I couldn't find a deal on them, so we just rocked the older DVDs.  I put a really nasty scratch in BTTF(1) that made the "I didn't have enough time to make a proper model of town square" scene skip and freeze a lot.  But the PS3 just played through it LIKE BUTTAH.  We were about to start the 2nd one this weekend, but ran OUTTATIME.  Which was just as well, because Amazon had the BD set for $25 yesterday and I ordered it.  So we can watch 2 and 3 a la mode (from the French, meaning "covered in ice cream").

The important bit is this: It was really awesome to watch it with an 8 year old seeing it all for the first time.  He got really worried when *26 YEAR OLD SPOILER* Marty pushed his dad away from his grandpop's car.  He was following the plot really well and kept asking questions right as the movie would answer them.

It never struck me before how carefully structured a lot of the dialogue is.  Watching it with my son drove home how intentional (and expository) the dialogue is laid out to make sure you're tracking with the paradoxes and general threats to the space time continuum.

Which is slightly odd since the heart of the movie seems more to be- "What if you could go to highschool with your parents?" (Also see the vastly inferior: 17 Again) and not "What are the consequences of using a time machine and changing the past?"  Inasmuch as heavy exposition is considered a bad thing, this movie still works extremely well.

At least, on my 8 year old son.  And his pop.

4 out of 4 balls

asterisk8 said:

Gentlemen Broncos

A weird film that shares Napoleon Dynamite's fascination with rural America and the humorless oddballs that supposedly live there. I liked it in places, specifically the science fiction scenes with Sam Rockwell, who's one of my favorites. Mostly, it felt like a retread of the same uncomfortable humor from Napoleon Dynamite.

5/10 boules.

Gentlemen Brocos- Just the Sam Rockwell Bits- 10b/10b

The other bits- 3b/10b.

That's my opinion.  If you agree come over here and blow on this friendship rock with me.  Puwh, puwh, puwh.

BloodnoseThePirate said:

I just dropped my Ipod touch in the toilet. It doesn't work. And my hand smells.

Take the battery out if you can.  Put it in dry rice.

(Your ipod, not your hand.  But if your hand has a battery, that would be rad.)

^What, no ChuckLand?

^On your way uphill to school, barefoot in the snow?

Bingowings said:

We have electricity.

CONFIRMED!

doubleofive said:

 

CP3S said:

Unfortunately, my one and only Blu-ray is in storage in another part of the country.

Note that he doesn't tell xhonzi which movie it is.

 IGNORE!

CP3S said:

Full Metal Jacket.

It was mentioned recently in another thread that I own it on BD even though I don't have a BD player, and Fink asked me to explain how that happened.

Oops.  It's too late, I already IGNOREd you.

CP3S said:

Where do you find these deals on MS points?

I watch slickdeals.net where you'll see them on sale from time to time.  Recently it's been buy.com selling 4000 pt cards for $40 (instead of $50) on ebay.  That's only 17% off, but it's better than nothing.

Amazon used to have the odd sell on them now and again.

There's also a thread at cheapassgamer.com that tracks sales on them and the Live cards.

Looking forward to trying out the Blu-ray player.  <snip>

Not to continue complaining about the PS3, but I can't believe they sold this thing as a BD player... but didn't make it compatible with universal remotes.  It doesn't have an IR remote interface at all.  Someday, in the near future, I hope ALL remotes can be bluetooth or some sort of RF like the PS3, but until then I think they should have included an IR eye on the console for legacy remote support.  You can buy a PS2 IR remote + dongle and put that in your PS3.  You won't be able to turn the consol on (or off) with it, but you can use your harmony or whatever to, you know, remotely control the BD player that way.  They cost about $10.

Or, you can use the controller as a remote.  Or buy the PS3 BD remote.  Or buy the logitech bluetooth adapter module.

TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

Someone at the library told me "Speaker for the Dead" was "brilliant". I almost hit her. 

I read that Card only wrote Ender's Game as a means of setting up the book he really wanted to write- Speaker for the Dead. 

If that's the case then perhaps he's a little like George Lucas. IIRC "Ender's Game"  was originally a novella that he expanded. Maybe he inadvertently crafted something great.

From wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game :

The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.^[2]

Card stated that Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.^[8]

BloodnoseThePirate said:

Comedians! I consider myself a comedy fan. I'm no expert but I feel like I know slightly more about comedy that the average joe.

My top 3 well known comedians are

3: Jim Gaffigan

2: Mitch Hedberg

1: Brian Regan

(I hear Carlin is great but haven't seen anything by him yet)

Lesser known comedians:

3: Junior Stopka

2: Drew Michael

1: James Fritz

(Mostly know them from http://redbarradio.com/ My favorite podcast.)

 

So, who are your favorite comics?

Hmm... We are huge Brian Regan fans and I quite enjoyed Gaffigan when we watched one of his shows...  It seems I'll have to follow up with this Mitch Hedberg of which you speak. 

It's occured to me that 90% of "theme parks" are actually casinos.

So...