So, we already have the ability to accurately calculate the exact location of an entire solar system years down the road, and the ability to use all of that data to gravity swing a probe into deep space (Or hell, even just land on one of the damn things) without any human intervention, (the mars 7 minutes of hell anyone?) But the ability to math that shit up for time travel. TOTALLY not happening?

Please. Spare me.

James man, I love you, but there is nothing right about this trailer. Horrid casting, the worst of what Alice in Wonderland was trying to do, and it just looks horrible. Ugh.

I'm totally not the guy to be writing this, but here goes.

Mad Men feels (Key word: feels. I wasn't there, so I don't know, but it feels) like this perfect little section of history (mid 60's New York advertising culture) perfectly lifted out of time and broadcast in HD. It's a show that relies solely and entirely on it's characters, there are no magic beans or serendipitous little deus ex machina plot twists, everything is driven by the choices these characters have made and make throughout the series. It's an absolutely facsinating look at why we do what we do, whether it's a white lie here or a left instead of right there, money or family; and how those choices impact us days, months, years or decades down the line. And all of this is cast against the backdrop of an america that still believes in the white picket fence, and the 2 and half kids nuclear family, and THAT (At least for me) provides this really interesting portal view into a world I've never seen before (Remember, little baby 20 year old here) and at times can barely even comprehened as the same world I grew up in, despite only being 40 or so years ago. And honestly, more than anything really, every single character on screen is just fun to watch, the way they interact, the weird dynamics that emerge, and every single actor on screen is...yeah...just amazingly fun to watch.

EDIT: On the subject of Breaking Bad. (I'm going to try to do this as delicately as I can, don't freak out)

I enjoy it... I'll put that out there first, I do like Breaking Bad. I think it's another great example of character driving the story. BUT.

And like we need it, but more proof that Nathan Fillion is the best person ever.

Context for those that need it: Zachary Levi said that he would give a kiss on the cheek to anyone who donated $100 to this charity. This fan walks in and drops $1000. And well...what happened happened.

Something a lot of people get confused about with exporting and codecs (and I'm no expert, I've just done a lot of playing around in my time) is that they think it's linear, you know that you have this straight line of low, medium and high quality exports. But what it really is is much more of a bargaining game.

Does it need to be really really high quality or do you need it to be small? And everything you're doing in the codecs is just pushing and pulling on those 2 variables until you find something you can live with.

So yeah, best advice, spend a day or two and just play around inside media encoder with a 10 second little clip, and then compare them to each other. And then decide what you need for whatever purpose you're doing it for (Eg: When I'm doing the videos for my minecraft stuff, I had to switch codecs to something that was a little bit worse quality, but was a third the size because the wireless upload speed here is absolutely useless.)

I absolutely agree (I mean that's at least a partial reason for me doing my LP series). But that's not what I was talking about. Or at least not the circumstances of what I was talking about. Dave asked if this type of thing posed any real threat to traditional forms of funding or the studios. And basically my point was that, until people don't have to already be famous before going to kickstarter in order to be able to actually make a profit on their thing right out of the gate, then no it's not.

People can make shit all day long (And they should), and they can lose money on those films all day long (Which sucks, but is basically the way it is right now). So until it's possible for people to market and turn a profit on their films, there is absolutely no threat to any established system; because right now it isn't a system, it's a flow, of cash moving from kickstarter investors into films.

EDIT: Just reread your post, I think lines are being crossed here. Let me clarify:

I'm not talking about the campaign itself,because I have plenty of friends who have successfully funded their campaigns despite being a relative nobody, and there are obviously a lot of things being funded for people that aren't Louis or Kaufman. What I'm talking about is afterwards, once it's done and released and they are selling it.

I mean take for example Louis CK's experiments, he sold his DVD for whatever you wanted to pay. Which is awesome, but the only reason he got so much free press and so many people flocking to it, is because he's fricking Louis CK, of course people are going to flock to whatever he's doing and give him money. but any Joe Schmoe comedian that tried the same thing would probably fail, because 1) Nobody would give a shit, because who cares about what some nobody is doing. 2) They don't have that established fan base that is going to flock to them and buy their stuff in bulk. And so while it's great that Louis CK can make a billion dollars or whatever doing his little experiment, no one else could (Or at least very few people).

Now just extrapolate that onto kickstarter. When Tippet finishes his film you know there are going to people lining up around the block because "Holy crap are you kidding me? Tippet made an indie film on kickstarter money?! I gotta see that!" Versus, me having to actually try and make people interested enough in my thing to bother spending a couple bucks on it and actually watch it (See my previous posts on why that doesn't work nearly well enough for it to be worthwhile from a business sense). One is financially viable, the other isn't.

And that's what it all comes down too, because it's great that you can get something funded and make it, but you're still going to have to work a day job to pay the bills. Until the whole kickstarter thing can become a self sustaining system and people can actually do that as their JOBS and not a hobby, it's not going to be a threat to anyone.

I will never fucking understand you people, Mad Men is easily one of the best things on tv these days.

I know there's an episode of Sg-1 kinda like that.

EDIT: My bad, Atlantis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709231/

Edit to the edit: Although really, every second episode of SG-1 and Atlantis includes some sort of time dilation gimmick.

*The Metering.

The story of the corporate takeover and taxation of all parking beds in the cars universe.

I enjoyed that way more than I had any right to.

Huh.

http://theasylum.cc/product.php?id=205

I might actually watch an Asylum movie with Sean Astin in it.