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I liked the movie well enough. I didn't care too much about the "moral win" ending, but the movie was alright. I didn't notice any of these points, though, I just thought Atom had a certain sense of awareness that kicked in at certain points. Sure, they could have gone further on it, and made him a proper AI, but then the movie would be going in a completely different direction than it did.

Also, Atom didn't snag Max, it's arm was lying like that all along, and Max simply fell onto it. At least that's how I saw it.

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(85 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Yeah, that's beyond creepy.

As for panoramas, check out GIMP, and the Pandora plugin.

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(85 replies, posted in Off Topic)

That looks so... American tongue

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I'll have you know the picture was taken this summer, and right now it's whiter than FFFFFF out there. I'm loving the pre-alps style too. I guess you don't really appreciate your surroundings until you're either old, or coming back after being awol for years.

**And also, I guess I cheated, considering I stepped out of the carport to take the picture**

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As I've been told I live in a beautiful place in the world (Lofoten, Norway, look it up), I want to know what you guys see when you open your front door. As such, take a panoramic image of what your front yard(or parking lot, depending on where you live) looks like. Could be fun.

If you don't know how to take panoramic images, it's simple. Take multiple photographs in a horizontal fashion, and use pano for iPhone(or something similar for Android), or use Photoshop's Photomerge tool.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6089/6076036355_83789b1d65_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66770233@N … 508112682/

Here's mine. I guess to some, I'm raising the bar tongue

**Note: No, I'm not trying to gain traffic on my flickr account**

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(17 replies, posted in Episodes)

Let's not forget how mobile phones tend to be old models, yet extremely high-tech in films too. Able to film with perfect quality etc. I don't hear any complaints about that tongue

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(89 replies, posted in Episodes)

I'm all for the change, but if this becomes a weekly 30min thing, you're all dead. DEAD I SAY!

switch wrote:

I should have been clearer with my question.  I wasn't asking about your reasoning fro going pc over mac so much as desktop vs. laptop at home...


Personally, I'd always go with a desktop for home. At least when it comes to office-related tasks. I got a pretty decent system a couple of months back, and not only am I always sitting comfortably, without looking down on a monitor, my fingers are not restricted to a notebook keyboard, and I don't have to find space or a pad for my mouse all the time.

Not to mention the price. You can get a pretty solid desktop PC for $1000(ROUGH estimate), but a laptop in the same price range wouldn't be as good. It's bang for the buck.

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(7 replies, posted in Episodes)

I love this movie. If only for the line "What do you mean you people?" I'm with Teague with the bit with the severed head and it's consistency with the rest of the film, but overall, I love it.

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Trey wrote:

Hint: DIF did that one.
And the fiddles are lyres, if that helps...

1: hah. Of course.
2: ...of course. Goddamn you, Carrey.

answer post updated. The woman with the books was cruel.

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woo! 42, thanks to doc and Jimmy B.

I'll have to admit though, I had *some* help. I mean, I haven't even seen some films, and couldn't possibly understand the reference.

The most annoying now are the men with children, the book woman, the pirates, the italian/irish flag, the cars and the fiddles.

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I've made it to 39, but I'm 120% stuck.

I'll post some answers, sans picture clues:

1. Eagle eye
2. snakes on a plane
3. swimming with sharks
4. fishers king
5. pi
6. matrix
7. zodiac
8. monsters inc
9. hook
10. stardust
11. million dollar baby
12. signs
13. scream
14. ice age
15. two towers
16. flags of our fathers
17. iron man
18. anchorman
19. dark knight
20. pianist
21. moulin rouge
22. enter the dragon
23. 300
24. gladiator
25. thin red line
26. walk the line
27. attack of the clones
28. happy feet
29. cloverfield
30. bolt
31. saw
32. interview with the vampire
33. trainspotting
34. english patient
35. brick
36. butterfly and the diving bell
37. crow
38. no country for old men
39. crash
40. liar liar
41. traffic
42. pulp fiction
43. children of men
44. little children
45. milk
46. chocolat
47. green mile
48. iris
49. the last king of scotland
50. pirates of the caribbean

They're all in there, just mark the text. You're fuckin' welcome.

...that can be found here.

http://www.empireonline.com/crypticcanvas/default.asp

Get all 50, and you get a.... well, I don't know, thus far, I've only made it to 37.

In any case, enjoy, it's fun!

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(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Faldor wrote:

Glad you got your sound mix sorted big_smile

Eh, I didn't I just couldn't be fucked waiting any more. Thing's literally been done for months, and I wanted to move on tongue


This one's pretty cool. Titanic WIP in Cryengine 3.

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(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Does this count as cool? tongue

[video (cant extract ID)]

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(22 replies, posted in Episodes)

Slow as a motherfucker, but yeah, great stuff. Really brought me back, too. The days where internet videos spread like wildfire via email-attachments big_smile

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(44 replies, posted in Episodes)

...not sure if trolling.. tongue

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For a pixar trailer, that's pretty dissapointing. I mean, sure, I'll watch it, but I won't be all "OHMYGODTHISISGONABESOEPIC".

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(44 replies, posted in Episodes)

I used to hate Kill Bill, and for some reason thought that was the general opinion too. Then I listened to this, realised everybody loves it, and revisited the film.

Nedless to say, I'm now part of the masses. Once again.

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I miss the faces and the shiny logo tongue

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Let's not forget the supernatural wire-work etc tongue

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I had a discussion with the gf yesterday about comic book movies, why they work/don't work, and Fantastic four was listed as one that doesn't.

I think the main problem with F4, Hulk, Thor and Green Lantern, is that the premise works as a comic book, where the story doesn't need to wrap within a set time frame, but can easily span over several years. A movie always needs to deal with the origin story, an obstacle, and a resolution.

F4 made no sense at all, unless you've read the comic book, hulk COULD work, but I don't see how, to be honest. Thor raped Norse mythology. As for Green Lantern... Well, that shit is just weird any way you look at it. A guardian of the universe that uses a ring that replicates any object in green glass-esque material? WTF.

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Daredevil.

I hated the movie. I don't know whether or not it's the director, the story or Affleck... or even all of them, but it downright sucks.
So how to make it work? I think if they went a bit from the source material, and made the blindness occur somewhere in the second act, and have him deal with it, then maybe it could be done.

Lucas just has too much money.

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(37 replies, posted in Episodes)

Iron Sky is being made in Finland, not Norway.