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Cool! Really fast like someone wanted to fit a fifteen second ad into five seconds but I got the gist of it, partially because I'm used to (and employ) like/subscribe/support splashes at the end.
Also it reminded me of an AT&T commercial. (That brand because of the color but in general, a phone company commercial. Color it pink and it's T-Mobile, red for Verizon, etc.)
I am shocked and appalled that it wasn't readily available.
And overjoyed that it now is.
Well come on, share with the class!
Oh I sure as hell was the kid. Enjoyed the prequels too, well enough, though not at the same level as the OT.
I'll take it too.
To add to Inigo Montoya-ness, "I want my daughter back," which I jokingly said to my wife in the theater a few seconds before it was said. So definitely an intentional homage and I ate it right up. Loved this movie, and to use the catchphrase that won't get as worn out as LEGO Movie's, I am satisfied with my care.
I was a fan of Free Willy, in addition to numerous others already stated.
Oh thank God you guys generally seem to like/love it. I was worried for some reason, since the fandom in general, as expressed by the internet, seems to hate the thing and want to nitpick at it. Totally agree with the tone poem sentiment.
Having wrapped a Let's Play series with Mini Ninjas and doing a couple of one-shot games, I felt ready to continue onto one of my all-time favorite games, a space sim called Descent: Freespace. Sorry, Star Wars space sims, but Freespace beats you guys hands-down. (Though the time for TIE Fighter again is now near...)
In the same vein as my cooking show, the Let's Play series is called Boter Plays Something. I had fun creating the introduction for the videos (and will be re-recording with better audio soon, hopefully) as well as how to position the video overlay.
Enjoy the first two missions of Descent: Freespace!
Make sure to take out the "s" in "https" when embedding.
I sent a postcard today.
*kicks dirt*
I wrote a postcard then realized I'd written on the wrong side, so I'm grabbing another today to write on.
Oh frickin- sorry, I read it elsewhere and forgot I'd seen you post it first. Sorry!
Anyway. Bad couple of days for private space ventures. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two crashed during a test flight today, killing one of the two pilots aboard.
One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/
Yes, it's coming from the head of SpaceX, a competitor, but this was an interview from two years ago, not an after-the-fact "I-told-you-so".
Edit: Totally missed or forgot that paulau said this already >.<
I finally picked up a Saratoga Springs postcard. Not sure what he'd think of horse racing? Decent chance he doesn't have an opinion even. TIME TO FIND OUT.
At what point do they find themselves on their own list?
Something convoluted with aliases and bam.
True. It's more of a medium distinction than anything, and still has some distinctions that set it apart from other mediums.
For instance, last month we had a bunch of people over and watched all three Appleseed films - Appleseed, Appleseed Ex Machina and Appleseed Alpha. The second is a sequel to the first, and the third is a prequel/reboot. It was also a painfully American film; it had the same director as the first but a lot of the staff, including Executive Producer, had changed in the intervening, what, ten years. (Ex Machina was produced by John Woo, and it shows.) While visually it was evolving along lines that could be traced back to the original films and slightly more recent efforts like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, its plot was pure mindless American blockbuster. Going in expecting the former and getting the latter was jarring, and the other way around can be just as disorienting.
Edit: (Oh, and under the guise of recommendations: The first two are great, skip the reboot. Genre: sci-fi, utopia built after a cataclysmic world war, big mechs, biomechanical humans and obligatory moral "How human are they," quandaries, and military action.)
The only anime I've actually seen is Kill la Kill, which is famous chiefly for being the most batshit crazy thing to ever hit television. The writing can be really hamfisted and the fanservice is frequently gratuitous, but the afore-mentioned batshit craziness makes it entertaining enough to be worth it, and about halfway through its run it transitions from Monster of the Week filler episodes to solely plot-based ones and achieves a much better quality than it previously had.
Kill la Kill is on our list but I don't expect it to out-crazy Excel Saga. My wife was showing me different series, and after a few episodes would ask what I thought so we'd know whether to continue to move onto another. Every few episodes of Excel Saga she'd ask, and every time, right through the entire season, I just sputtered, "I have no idea what to make of this and will watch more until I have formed a cogent opinion," or some variant thereof.
Cogency is not something to expect of that series.
My recommendations for starting out with anime would be first, Cowboy Bebop and two, Trigun. These are the only series we watch dubbed rather than subbed, because the dubs are great.
I've gotta run for now but later this weekend I'll make a post of series I've watched and my thoughts on them. It's still a relatively short list.
Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are the two I'd recommend (and are the two that we watch dubbed rather than subbed since the dubs are so damn good). An anime thread would definitely be a good idea.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.
What he said.
Are those individual cargo containers? I just thought the underside of those things were uneven, but, wow.
Also that drop dead sexy Nebulon-B. Unf.
It's actually the only Mad Max I have seen, I really enjoy it.
Home town? Or where we live?
Yeah! I'll grab one from the gift shop below our office tomorrow.
"Hey Mike, we were going to send you a huge group get well sorta gesture that woulda been awesome, but you weren't here to coordinate our asses. We miss you."
I'm down. Probably a "deadline" to get in on it, and mail it around with an address list. Cross yours off and forward to the next person.
As for the publicly posted address, I was surprised it wasn't a P.O. box. If that's someone's residence I'd recommend getting a box for people to send stuff to.
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