That. That was fantastic.

Not really much more to be said, saw it last night and it exceeded my wildest dreams.

Which weren't high, to be honest. With Pixar's recent string, and the trailers that just REALLY weren't doing anything for me (The concept was amazing, but what the trailers were showing just weren't anything to get hyped up over) I fully expected another mediocre note in a dying song.

But wow, this movie. Like whoah dude, man, this movie. I never in my life would have thought A) Pixar would make a movie about an 11 year old girl getting depressed and running away from home, and B) That it would make me laugh out loud in a theatre more than any movie I have ever seen in a theatre in my life and then turn around and gut punch me right in the childhood. I mean...what? Why? How?? WHAA? Not cool Pixar, so not cool. I was totally not prepared for that.

So yeah, enough on that, can we talk for a second here about that short? Lava?

Was I the only one SERIOUSLY underwhelmed by it? Probably my least favorite pixar short to date, almost verging on just straight up un-enjoyable.

The song was one note and grating to have to listen to for more than 5 seconds, and the entire thing was based on a SERIOUSLY bad pun? I mean, really guys? That's what you're doing? Uuuugh, fine.

I mean it was gorgeous...ish...the design of the two volcanoes were...uh...well...good...try...uh guys. Solid attempt. *thumbs up* I was about the say that all of the animation and rendering and everything was great as well, but even then the opening couple shots flying over the volcano were gorgeous but then it just...stopped doing that. And then the rest felt really bizarrely flat and kinda half measured.

Maybe I just really wasn't in the mood for it or something, but it just really wasn't making it work for me.

I can dig it. So here's the plan. I'll set up a new thread for the Preferential Voting suggestions, give everyone a week to suggest, and a week to vote. Then this week just pick a new random movie to cover those two weeks?

That enough time you think?

ugh. Dude. You have no idea.

Someone claimed MY intro, like 100% my own visuals that I made in after effects from the ground up, on like 15 videos one time. My last episode of Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den got flagged for the custom soundtrack music used in the closing montage, even though it was written FOR that game and should technically fall under their blanket release for LPer's, because it's a licsenced piece of music through another company, I get fucked for the whole video.

I could fucking rant about ContentID bullshit all day man.

The issue is that no one really knows who to talk to, LucasArts doesn't exist in any real fashion any more, and I'm not even sure if Disney knows they own the responsibility for this stuff. I'm gonna talk to my network about it, but there are tons of rumours and stories of people getting their stuff pulled even for having something Star Wars video game related.

It's not like Nintendo where they outright said "LOL, no, we'll claim that shit like it's gold". It's just a cluster of confusion for anyone trying to get permission legit, and there's to many stories for me to just say f- it and go for it.

Yep im good. Gonna be a crazy couple weeks for me anyways.

They've been building up to it, but every single time we see him he always revert back to Reek. And in this, his switch is basically entirely off screen. It's just all off a sudden Reek throws the evil chick off the bridge and Theon's back. At least a shot of his face making a decision or something would have been nice.

And alright fair enough, crazy russians. I guess it's just getting exaggerated in my head because of how weird everything else about that scene and the episode is.

Oh, okay, if that's the case I rread that wrong as well. Although I'm trying to think what there is outside European, Asian or African. That kinda encompasses the whole ancient world that thesse kind of stories build on.

Although I mean I could tell you the stories of the mighty Moose wars, and the Beaver tribes I guess.

Its not really a fantasy story in this setting. But Tad Williams' Otherland series includes a lot of concepts and imagery inspired by some South African aborigines tribes. One of the lead characters is a man from a tribe of bushmen in South Africa that wants to preserve the stories and mythology of his people using the modern VI tech the rest of the story is based around.

From what I understand a lot of what Tad came up with and uses is inspired by a lot of real aborigines stories, although none of it is "actual" mythology.

Edit: Typing on phones is hard guyz.

That's not even close to what I'm saying. Have Stannis head roll off completely off screen for all I care, that's all it would take to confirm it. But you're really telling me you're okay with not seeing what that does to Brienne? This man she's vowed to get vengeance on  for the past 3 seasons suddenly at the end of the sword. They have a great little interchange but then it just cuts away, and sure we can speculate and probably make a pretty accurate guess of how Brienne will react to it, but we never got to see it. And I'm not saying there needs to be some giant soliloquy on her part, one shot would do it. But as it is right now, it's robbing the audience of closure for Stannis timeline, and robbing Brienne of closure in the mind of the audience UNLESS they're pulling some bullshit, and she didn't actually kill him.

As I said toa firned last night, he felt they were going to come back after a commercial break and Brienne was going to swing into the tree instead and not kill him for some bizarre reason. Cause that's exactly how you do that if you're going to do that.

As for Jon, it's kinda the same thing. And what Faldor said, it all just feels too loose. Game of Thrones has never had an issue before saying "Nope this guys definitely dead, like all dead." whenever it happens. So to have so many kinda wishy washy "maybe they dead?" conclusions (Stannis, Jon, Theon, Sansa) it just feels strange.

Hey give me a little credit.

It was like 6 months ago.

But I wasn't really talking about the "longing" aspect of it, just the game mechanics part. I was never a gamer growing up, so I don't really have anything comparable anyways.