826

(35 replies, posted in Off Topic)

From what I understand of Rupert's Drops, it would probably depend on how they were attached to the shaft whether the exploded on firing. The weakest part of the drop is the long filament, as soon as that gets broken the entire thing goes. I think the bulb would be a little more sturdy.

That said, I'm sure there's actually as much of a shrapnel effect as you think there it. Unless they're specifically firing them directly into the enemies eyes or thereabouts, it wouldn't do that much damage. I mean considering these guys are holding them with thier bare hands and breaking them:

Which btw, awesome video /\ highly recommend watching it all the way through. Destin does a great job breaking it down.

827

(649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

828

(649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Im amused you guys think this would be anything other than a high energy nostalgia holy shit this was awesome -fest.

Like have you met Owen?

829

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

I'm kinda with Teague on this one. The mostly solid look with the horizontal chunky scanlines is kinda cool. If anything I might bump the overall opacity down just a hair and add some kinda of volumetric projection laser light type of thing coming from the wrist watch thingy.

830

(24 replies, posted in Off Topic)

What on earth is that from??

Also obligatory:

"Come a day there won't be room for podcasts like us to slip about at all. This forum goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge."

and...

"Y'all got on this community for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another site, maybe on this very forum swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make movies... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave."

831

(156 replies, posted in Episodes)

Zarban wrote:

...this place is special

This is an absolute truth. This place amazes me every single time I turn a corner.

832

(156 replies, posted in Episodes)

fireproof78 wrote:

Dude, you were maul2? I never made that connection.

Granted, I haven't been on tfn in forever but still, I feel rather dumb.

Haha, yep, that was me waaaay back in the day. I used maul2 back in the TFN days, and for the first couple years on here.

Although I haven't been on TFN in probably a good 4-5 years at least.

833

(156 replies, posted in Episodes)

In may of 2009, some asshole called Teague posted a link to his dumb movie commentary podcast on the TFN forums. A couple of days later an idiot 16 year old going by maul2 saw it and decided to give it a listen. 6 years later I'm still here, and this place is my home. This forum, the friends I've made here, and this ridiculous podcast have gotten me through the worst times in my life, the best ones, and has always been there for every step of the way as I went from idiot high schooler to a working independent filmmaker.

It's not an exaggeration to say I wouldn't be who I am today without this place. It has shaped my views on film making, storytelling, art in general, and a lot of what it means to be a decent human being. I know a lot of the people on this forum better than I do my irl friends and I've known a lot of you longer than I've known just about anyone, short of my family. And that fact always blows my mind. This place, and this podcast has been the single largest constant in my life for the past 6 years, and for that I will always be eternally grateful.

So thank you Teague for starting this mad project 6 years ago and letting some idiot kid tag along all this while. And thank you to everyone else who joined in and made this place a truly singular island of amazing-ness. There is no way I can ever express how much that means to me.

834

(670 replies, posted in Creations)

I made another minecraft thingy:D

835

(32 replies, posted in Episodes)

avatar wrote:

Before Michael Bay, he's the original frame fucker.

Excuse me, I think you're missing the part where it looks fracking awesome (...for the most part).

836

(114 replies, posted in Creations)

New website is live!

http://zangrethordigital.ca/

I honestly can't tell if y'all are serious. Your posts read like parody versions of cynical assholes.

Cheer up guys. Have a little hope.

The willingness to allow even the concept that joy can still exist in the universe into your life?

839

(41 replies, posted in Creations)

Also, I just figured out what was bugging me about the original video Boter.

During the attack runs, like the car coming towards the camera at :22, there aren't any snowballs or anything coming at the car. So you don't get the same feeling of "being shot at it in the trench" as you do in the original clip, it's just a car driving down the road. And especially when the X-Wing gets taken out, there's no actual shots beind fired, so it just looks like the car is spinning out on it's own, not "being blown up".

On my first watch through I remember being confused about what was happening, because I couldn't remember the original shot-for-shot, so it was weird trying to follow the action without actual shots being fired.

Just my two bits.

840

(41 replies, posted in Creations)

I was legit considering offering to head up, but I'm still trying to figure if I'll have anything even remotely approaching time. I don't think I will.

Although I still really like the idea of doing a custom written battle, and continue the tradition of cramming as many inside jokes in as possible. tongue

*waits for the inevitable wave of cynicism and complaining about reboot/sequels*

But until then...OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!

842

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Invid wrote:
Eddie wrote:

I started Documentality to dispel this very idea.  Docs are NOT educational films.

I think part of the problem is we need a name for films that ARE that.

*cough*

843

(41 replies, posted in Creations)

Hell. The talent in this communiry we could write our own fight sequence and shoot it ourselves. Xwing road trip tongue


Hold on...i gotta go write a thing...

844

(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

i don't know how I missed this, but this is absolutely gods damned fantastic. Really wish I could have seen the show.

845

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Alright, my google-fu has entirely failed me. What the hell is an acid pool?

I'm assuming it's not some sort of James Bond-esque villain trap.

846

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Awwwe yeah baby, dat fresh Browncoat smell.

847

(17 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Then I have no idea what to say. I haven't seen anything out in the real world that could even be close to what you're describing (other than the couple people I know who are psyched about Star Wars, and love to argue).

So... *shrug*.

848

(17 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I'm sorry Fire...but you're saying the internet went full steam on the hype train for a new Star Wars trailer?

I...frankly...am shocked.

Also why I actively avoid those sorts of sites as much as humanly possible. I'm hyped enough already, I don't need the internet killing it for me.

849

(356 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Awwee yeaah.



Dub FX is one of those guys that just has waaay too much talent. His pure acapella looping stuff is amazing and is like an insta-nostalgia button for me, but his collabs are pretty frickin spectacular.

850

(149 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Tomahawk wrote:

...we picked up LittleBigPlanet 3 a little while ago. It's fun, but compared to the other two; a tad too hard.

When it released 4-5 of the Lper's I follow started playthroughs of it in collab mode. None of the series' got past about 10 episodes because the game was SO DAMN BUGGED. At one point, one of the boss battles was impossible to complete because every once in a while the entire world would just go entirely invisible until you reset the game, another level was impossible to finish because...it was impossible to finish, the game was broken such that you just physically couldn't do one of the things you needed to do.

No clue if it's the same in single player, or if they've fixed it since, but it was hilarious the extent to which that game didn't work, in so far as I wasn't the one that paid for it.