Well, I guess I can excuse it, this time.
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Well, I guess I can excuse it, this time.
Teague, I've been running your tutorials on my second monitor while I play games, and you've intrigued me enough that I may go back and watch them in earnest. I've never used Lightwave (I'm a Maya guy) and you've got me interested enough to give it a try. P.S. the slash on the key with the questionmark (/) is the forward slash, the one by the brackets (\) is the backslash.
BDA, looking pretty good, but your topology is kinda scary. N-gons and poles everywhere. 0_o
I agree, I was more or less pointing out that there are exceptions and telling Dave that he should go see the movie.
Teague wrote:Doctor Submarine wrote:A twist works much better if you aren't expecting it.
Doctor Submarine wrote:I've told people that there's a cool twist ending.
You are a bad person.
This. I heard (Teague edit: title of a movie we've done here at DIF)
SPOILERnow I don't want to see it - it's ruined, the whole viewing will be me anticipating what's coming. Won't enjoy it at all.cabin in the woods has a twist,
Interestingly, the only reason I saw that movie is because someone spoiled it for me, otherwise I never would have watched it. And if it hadn't been spoiled for me, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did.
I didn't even get halfway through the main quest until I was level 47. MY main character is a sneaky assasin type who uses illusion magic (nightblade build, essentially) but with points in destruction magic and archery. So I became Dean of the College of Winterhold first, then became leader of the Assassins Guild, then I got Mehrune's Razor, then the Mace of Molog Bal, then the Sanguine Rose staff (perfect for fighting dragons), then I became leader of the Thieves Guild (the Nightengale Hood has an awesome Illusion buff), THEN I finished the main quest. Then I became a Werewolf.
This brings me back to when I played Morrowind the first time. When you first start the game, a dude gives you a package and sends you off to meet a man, and this starts you on the main storyline. I walked out the door, promptly got distracted and forgot all about this. Much much later, after I've maxed out all of my attributes and most of my relevant skills, acquired and enchanted a set of kick ass armor and weapons and other magic doodads, slayed a few gods, etc... I notice I've still got this package in my inventory and decide to figure out what the hell that's about. So I flip through my journal (Morrowind didn't have a quest log or even quest markers, when important shit happened, it put an entry in your journal. A quest entry would mention what you're supposed to do and where you were supposed to do it and who you were doing it for. Entries were chronological.) all the way back to the first entry on the first page where I discovered that this game did indeed have a main quest for me to be doing. Oops.
And Teague. Blame Teague.
Blaming Teague is the default and just assumed at this point.
That left me with a silly grin on my face. Also, you left out my favorite two letter scrabble word: za. Which is, apparently, short for pizza.
I went to go just watch that song in Sad Max to compare, and ended up watching all the way to the end. And then starting it over so I could watch from the beginning. I'd forgotten how good it was.
Man, watching Brave is like a guy showing off his gun collection, but then finding out he doesn't own any ammo. Sure, it's cool and all, but none of it actually does anything despite it's huge potential. And when you express this fact, he takes out some shitty squirt guns for you. You know, the kind made out of cheap clear plastic and the whole inside of the gun is the water reservoir and the cap doesn't stay on tight so it leaks all over your hand and it's small and awkward to hold in your hand and the trigger tends to catch and hurts your finger after a bit and it only shoots 4 feet anyway? Yeah...
Arguing with someone who ignores what you have to say and just repeats their one point over and over again like it explains everything isn't any fun anyway.
Well then you're almost there! All you have to do is to realize that, if someone has no intention of paying for something, and still makes a copy of it, then there is absolutely no negative consequence for anyone. Only a net positive for the person who made the copy.
I think this is the core of your argument, so I'll address this, even though it was posted several pages back.
Let me suggest yet another analogy: Let's say you own a roller rink, and for the sake of argument this rink will hold as many people as it needs to (you never have to turn costumers away because you're full). Now, operating your Rollerama cost money, of course, so you charge people to enter. So far, this all seems reasonable, yes?
Now, you're working the register, and you're feeling good because you've already exceeded your expenses for the month, and everything for the rest of the week is pure profit, and then this snot nosed kid comes in and says, "I'd like to get in, please." So you say, "Sure, that'll be $10." And he responds, "Bugger that, I'm not paying to get in." You're in a good mood though, and you think 'well, it doesn't actually cost me anything to let him in, I wouldn't be losing money and he'll have a good time. And hey, maybe he'll enjoy himself and be willing to pay next time,' so you say, "You know what? This one's on me, go have fun." and he heads in.
Now, the next day, you're working the register again, and the same kid comes up and says, "I'd like to get in." So you say, "Sure, that'll be $10." And he responds, "Bugger that, I'm not paying to get in." Now, you let him in last time, and by the logic I quoted above, you would keep letting him in, but lets pretend you're a more normal businessman and you tell him he has to pay to get in and he sulks off toward the bathrooms, so you turn to some import work you have to attend to. However, when you look up again that kid has snuck into the rink and is happily skating around. So you go over to him and tell he has to leave and he responds: "I wasn't ever going to pay you to get in so there is absolutely no negative consequences for anyone, only a net positive for me." And he skates off before you can grab him. Now, you could chase him down, catch him, and kick him out, but that would be a lot of effort and you have shit to do, so you shake your head angrily and get back to work.
The next day, you're once again working the register, and the same kid comes in and says, "Hey, let me in." And when you say, "Are you going to pay this time?" he just laughs and heads for the bathrooms to wait until you're busy. What do you do?
What's worse? Obscurantist academic writing, or fingernails on a chalkboard, or a dentist's drill, or this...?
Anakin: "You... are so... beautiful."
Padme: "It's only because I'm so in love."
Anakin: "No, it's because I'm so in love with you."
Padme: "So love has blinded you?"
Anakin: "Well that's not exactly what I meant."
Padme: "It's probably true."
Man, Twilight's even worse than I thought it was. ;P
Can you be clear in your meaning and funny? Can you be clear with your meaning and write with a pleasing rhythm to your prose, by the words you choose and how you arrange them? Can you be clear with your meaning and convey additional subtextual meaning simultaneously? Can you be clear and evocative, or emotional, or highly technical?
Better yet: can you be clearer because you are doing these things?
I love how this effectively boils down to: "Try to write like William Shakespeare."
So, when do I get to hear more about the adventures of the super twins, Vinyl Backflip and Leather Somersault, and their mission to thwart the plans of their nefarious archnemisis, Red-faced Motherfucker and National Association for Being Upset About Shit.
For the record, I'm actually on Dorkman's side. I brought up Taylor Lautner in an attempt to provide an example of what sexualizing men looks like so we can compare and contrast from an agreed upon point of reference. If the ladies around here could provide a better example, it would be appreciated.
Sexualizing [men] would tend to make the generally-heterosexual-male audience uncomfortable.
Speaking of, would you agree that this guy got sexualized?
Hey guys, it could be worse. They could have announced a Star Wars reboot.
I think it's time for another sitrap.
You should probably go pimp this at TFN now that the forums are back up again.
Somebody put us on Reddit, launch all upvote fighters!
http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/ … _pink_five
I actually posted to r/StarWars yesterday, but it didn't pick up any steam.
That's actually pretty cool. It kinda reminds me of the heads they put next to the episodes back on the old website to tell you who was on that particular episode. I thought those were cool and have always kinda missed them.
y'all should talk about MiB 2 and 3. Or do commentaries for them. Or something.
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