yoda-sama

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

SilverWook said:

No more off topic derailment, or this thread gets locked until mverta returns.

Agreed, I’m not going to respond directly to it, jokingly or otherwise… besides responding that I’m not going to respond… this being that response about not responding…

Speaking of mverta (shocking, I know), does anyone know what he is up to in addition to Legacy? Is he on an actual work project that’s keeping him from talking here, or have there been no updates purely because he shouldn’t talk about it right now?

TV’s Frink said:

Earl said:

Here’s another idea, replace all Mace Windu dialogue with lines from this guy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0X7BC1GLp8

“Master Windu, I take it General Grievous has been destroyed then. I must say you’re here sooner than expected”
“Bring yo ass here. activates lightsaber This stick right here’ll whoop yo ass.”
“Are you threatening me? Master Jedi?”

No.

Okay just watched it, and no. Hella no.

Fair enough. Maybe beyond all possibility it’ll be mverta’s work that is going to play at Celebration, then we’ll have all sorts of stuff to talk about.

The episode numbering was quite the looming question in the decade and a half before the prequels… the sad thing was how much promise it held… Ignoring discussion about all that disappointment, I have to say, that episode numbers seem far more often used to identify between prequel movie than they are used to refer to any of the OT films. As much as I support pre-ANH naming, I have gotten caught up in the confusion of the name of the original movie also being the name of the franchise (actually had to delete “first” and put in “original” just in this sentence alone, for clarity, haha). It is a bit of a pain (though, I actually think it is acceptable in conversation to simplify it to episode 4), but overall it is worth calling it by its original name of Star Wars to show we are not ignorant of the true history of the film; much like it is easier to say “Han shot first” when it is really “Han shot Greedo… period”, and both are confusions brought to us by Lucas’ endless tinkering… Case in point, I guess.

So, anyway, it seems to me the better and more distinct Star Wars films may largely find themselves referenced generally by name, with numbering only used to help narrow things down for the less initiated, while terrible Star Wars movies will probably just be known largely as their numbers… If current trends are to be followed.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Yeah it’s great everyone has equality and can work and succeed (i think whomever is better suited to be financially successful should be the breadwinner, gender regardless) but… The generations that decided “we’re BOTH going to get the career we want AND have kids” are the ones teaching kids that its possible to have your cake and eat it too.

Well, I know my wife and I are doing at least our part to improve the next generation, as she is staying home now while I work, it isn’t easy, but it is the right way to do it (shame she wasn’t earning more than me…).

DominicCobb said:

We’re way off topic.

And yes, we’re way off topic, but there kind of has to be some sort of news about Legacy for there to even be a topic…

Dek Rollins said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

Sidenote: Has anyone on here put together an '81 crawl with '77 starfield?

Isn’t that what the SE crawl is?

But, I will ask, IS the SE crawl the '81 text on a '77 starfield? Kind of a best of both worlds, if so… That ESB starfield really sticks out (though not as much as the '81 scroll, of course).

Wazzles said:

My point is it left us ill-prepared for the world. When you are incapable of actually doing anything, there’s not much you can do. I’m going to generalize here, but in my high school, we were given absolutely no vocational training. I still barely know how to do my taxes. Practical things like that were not taught to us since that’s not related to reading, writing, or math. Or classes only focused on typically academic subjects, ignoring practicality. Basically, we weren’t taught anything that cannot be tested for. add that on top of the shit we were left with and is any surprise that there’s not anything we can do?

Maybe it wasn’t handed to you, but no one but yourselves is stopping you guys from learning skills now, or at the very least, using what you know to try to push to give the next generation greater access to shop and home economics classes, etc.; if you know the problems that you had, don’t make it worse by going around making the world more P.C., make it tougher on your future kids. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t have a great hands on computer maintenance class in High School, to be fair. Though, honestly, what kid would get anything they should out of a class on doing taxes years down the road (I think you over reached on that one)? Yes there are things that suck for you, but you’re not incapable of improving things on your own; the way it appears to everyone else is that you’re stamping your feet, complaining and crying loudly that things aren’t fair the way you were told they would be and you want us to all acknowledge that and feel sorry for you, you just haven’t figured out what to do once you’ve accomplished that.

Wazzles said:

That doesn’t sound particularly neutral- it’s an extremely biased point of view. This “everybody wins” thing has begun to fall by the wayside. That was a big thing of the 90’s and 00’s, and we have begun to learn from it (we as in a collective society, not as in my generation). You also have to look at what we’re stuck with, what we’ve inherited from previous generations: wealth inequality, a shrinking middle class, climate change, extreme debt (be it the US nationally, or through student loans), No Child Left Behind and Common Core, wages that don’t reflect necessity, and I’m sure I could come up with more if I thought about it for a while longer. The mentalities that we were brought up with have affected our attitudes in a life-long way. Blaming us for our own upbringing is insulting and ignorant.

My point is that I SHOULD be in the position to be neutral, as I’m not old enough to really be part of the group that put you into what you consider a mess, but I also got through the system before things like No Child Left Behind, etc. really got put into effect. Yet I’m coming down firmly negative on the plight of the Millennial generation (though in all fairness, I’m not praising the previous generations), as there is plenty they can do OTHER THAN bitching about how they can’t do anything because the world that’s been left to them isn’t ideal.

Tobar said:

Just as a head’s up, from a sociological perspective, anyone currently at the age of 18 or younger is considered a “Plural” or Gen-Z and not a Millenial.

Millenials were the last generation before this current internet age.

Not to say they won’t be much, much worse, but right now most of the stuff the older generations have been up in arms about revolves around Millennials: those that have been in college during the last number of years or those entering the workforce, all with skewed ideas of the world being this super fair and all inclusive fantastical place, and being bummed that it isn’t.

I’ll continue to be frank, I’m scared shitless about just how much worse the even more over-protected, sheltered, yet hyper-connected next generation will be when it is their turn to run head first into the real world. It won’t be pretty.

Wazzles said:

yoda-sama said:

nightstalkerpoet said:
I think it’s a little unfair to blame us for this.

Which is why you’re a Millennial.

We get blamed for everything. I’ve gotten used to it by now. I also use a Chrome extension that changes every instance of the word “millennial” to “pesky whipper-snapper”, exposing our feelings towards older generations using it as a derogatory term. An older generation, mind you, that is largely to blame for their own complaints against us.

I fall into a gap which is covered by both the end of GenX and the start of Millennial, and the lunacy of these safe space loving hippy dippy retards (it is okay, Frink, I’m using the Chaz_Solo definition) has driven me to associate with the older generation (which is my right), as being in the position of being close to and having to chose between them has made me acutely aware of just what has gone so horribly wrong with this touchy feely, everybody gets a medal (hell they don’t even have to show up), special snowflake generation; though make no mistake, yes, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to disassociate from Millennial, but I’m not one of the ones that handed you this sugar coated world, and I still judge you Millenials from what was should be a neutral perspective (being between those that caused problems [and over-protected the Millenials], and those younger folk that were presented with some bad advice/examples growing up, but still could have chosen not to drink that Kool-Aid). I saw all of these changes that messed up the Millenials go into effect behind me throughout my life, like the boulder that chased Indiana Jones. Yes, you were dealt a weak hand, but you guys could really try harder as a whole to make up for it… There is plenty the older generations did wrong to the Millennials, but there is PLENTY the Millennials can do to improve things, and they’re not doing it, they’re just bitching.

pittrek said:

Now this is fascinating…

I downloaded the ISO from usenet and my SHA checksum is 9b5df42aa7a7d346711dd969f8650f18b6d5e99f
So do I have the “corrupt” version? That would explain why Kodi refuses to play it. But shouldn’t the usenet version be the “correct” version?

I was about to mention the same thing, which has bothered me for a while, Kodi has steadfastly refused to play the ISO for me, if I select to navigate into the image instead and launch the individual .m2ts files, they play (actually, trying to play the ISO wasn’t refused, it just sits there forever and generally forces me to have to kill the whole process to recover). Has anyone gotten the “correct” version of the ISO to play under Kodi?

Williarob said:

Chewtobacca said:

This happens every time someone extracts the ISO. Why extract it? Why do anything to it?

Honestly, after all the hard work that went into making it a proper blu-ray, it pains me to see people just ripping out the video to make MKVs, but I get it.

Well, it was bound to happen immediately, as people are quite fond of hairy_hen’s 5.1 mix, it is honestly the only way I seriously view the movie these days. I appreciate the effort that went into SSE 1.6 and will archive it in full quality to disc once the last few bugs are worked out, but without the 5.1, it is more of a novelty to me than a completed product I’d watch by default. I know that 5.1 isn’t exactly something that would have gone along with a 35mm print, and that’s fine, though there does frustratingly seem to be room left on the disc to fit it… Anyway, I’ll archive it, but will most likely instead keep handy an extracted '77 crawl MKV with the DTS-HD MA 5.1, for actual viewing.

Not trying to push a point, just saying that not including the 5.1 creates a fervor to rip the GOUT synced movie out and put them together as quickly as possible; which sadly makes the effort of the Blu-ray menus, etc. seem under appreciated, and I feel for you for that.

Possessed said:

If star wars isn’t episode IV, why is ESB episode V? I know it’s a change, but it’s a change made before ROTJ even came out. Nobody cared until 1997.

To be fair, no one knew what a slippery slope of endless alteration would be heralded by the acceptance of that first notable change (ignoring '77 audio mix inconsistencies). It wasn’t a big deal then, but now it is basically “first blood” in this war of SE aggression, which is why many of us are adamant about rolling the changes all the way back (past changes predating the SEs). I, for one, was a little miffed when I found that I grew up watching a version of Star Wars that was modified more than just to “fit my screen”. I’ve developed a new fondness and attachment to the '77 crawl since then, and whenever I think of the '81 crawl what should be nostalgia for it has been replaced with distinctly negative feelings about the lie it was perpetrating.

(And, Hell, if they’d even at least used the original star field and tried to make it all aesthetically fit the original, that might have been one thing, but it is the freaking ESB star field, and if the current SSEv1.6’s '81 crawl is at all accurate, it stands out like a sore thumb. Lazy and shoddy, no thank you.)

nightstalkerpoet said:
I think it’s a little unfair to blame us for this.

Which is why you’re a Millennial.

SilverWook said:

He could even be browsing the forum. 😉

That would be a fun touch.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

A lot of millennial fans wouldn’t know what the hell that meant

We can’t and shouldn’t be held accountable for the warped views of Millennials.

TV’s Frink said:

yoda-sama said:

How about while playing back the killing of the younglings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCFJR0_phJA

Okay, well done as is.

I’ll say this, it would be interesting for Disney/Fox to take Mike’s work, and show it at a big event like this as a trial to see how people react when it isn’t the SE… But I doubt that’s what’s going on.

How about while playing back the killing of the younglings?

Dek Rollins said:

^He doesn’t like it there either, though.

What? Is he a girl?

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

The idea I came up with is that you tried to create the credits using the new forum software.

Not sure how I would convey the idea, though.

All I can think of is like the closing credits of Murder She Wrote, where the guy is typing a script on a type writer and then throws the finished product in the air (not saying that would work or anything, just that it is what comes to mind).

Heh, I wonder if the two files could be joined with a simple commandline “cat” of the two files (that’s how I seamlessly patch together AVCHD recordings from my camcorder which are automatically split every 4GB).

Every hologram, every screen, they all have markdown instructions overlaid. Let’s do this.

Oh, and just had a thought, perhaps the moment Padme tells Anakin she’s pregnant, you could throw up a Windows Blue Screen of Death (or replace his face with one) for a beat (comedic length of your choosing). Or a pop-up error over his face… (the markdown thing inspired this comment).

I’d say it’d have to be during a computer display (or on all computer displays) or when someone/thing bangs on something that isn’t working, in an attempt to get something to work, or ends up breaking something… In short, either something that is “mistakenly” included on some or all electronic output, or pops up as a giant error code in response to an aggressive action.

I’d have to actually watch the damned movie again to narrow it down… Should I?

As long as the correctly named files are where they’re expected, I don’t see why there’d be a need to run it through any special programs.