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Whenever I hear a name like "Pirate World" I always think "what would it be like if the entire world was populated with pirates?" How would they conduct trade? Would pirate law be any worse than historical law? What would pirate literature be like? (I know, I know, lots of Rs.)

"Carpet World" is my favorite. Imagine an entire planet completely covered in a thick, shag-carpet like vegetation. No trees. No deserts. The carpet goes right down the beach and under water along the bottom of the oceans and lakes.

Has somebody already written a story like that?

I imagine a world like that would have lots and lots of snakes.

And golf courses.

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No. I am not high right now.

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2,177 Reply by Zarban

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Don't be muscling in on my Nigerian prince deal, man. I'm about to sell him my car just as soon as I can wire the shipping and handling fee to his chosen shipping company.

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2,178 Reply by Zarban

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Altho Tron has plenty of faults, the cool thing about it is how it is both hi-tech and operatic at the same time. This piece shows that off. Really cool—and really well played. I've listened to it three times in the last couple of days just for the heck of it.

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2,180 Reply by Zarban

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I blame the Navy Seahawk helicopter co-pilot's Navy submarine helmsman twin brother for not calling him and explaining everything.

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In my practical experience, I watch NTSC video and slow PAL commentaries down to .967 using Windows Media Player  (View > Enhancements > Play Speed Settings), which maintains the original pitch. Regardless, the aforementioned variables—including the occasional computer stutter and need to pause for short breaks—make it necessary to resync from time to time, so sync lines and direct references are helpful.

YMMV. I'm as obsessive about sync as you're likely to find. I have no significant troubles with DIF.

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2,183 Reply by Zarban

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A terrible camera phone? pimp

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I don't understand Fox's motiviation for suing script sites. They can't imagine they'll sell an extra 10,000 copies of a movie to screenwriters, directors, and producers who really just wanted to read the script. It feels like make-work for lawyers who are telling their client, "That's your IP out there WILD on the Internet! It's out of CONTROL!"

Seems like they'd have a better return-on-investment case for suing Bollywood film makers.

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2,187 Reply by Zarban

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I've made some changes that I'll try out for a while. I think I still want a page that lists all titles somewhere, but now the front page features an alpha index and the most recent commentaries, with posters.

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2,188 Reply by Zarban

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I've found a way to group titles under a letter and then create a page for each letter. Then I can create fancy letter icons for the front page. I'll play around with that and with simplifying the left column. It'll be easy to undo if I want.

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Thanks for the feedback! The site is almost 3 years old now, so it's no surprise that it's due for an overhaul.

It's not practical for me to classify commentaries by style or video format, since people don't self-report consistently. It wouldn't be too hard to separate iRiffs and Rifftrax from others, tho, which might be helpful.

I think making the front page a gateway to commentaries by first letter of the movie title is a practical way of simplifying it. I've been thinking of ways to do that for a while now.

I'm not a huge fan of tag clouds myslef, but it is a compact and common way to list the most popular entries by type. Maybe I overestimated people's interest in Tim Burton movies vs John Hughes movies vs Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. I could just leave them for the All Tags page and keep only the commentators, turned into a bulleted list of top commentators by output.

This gets me thinking. Thanks!

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2,192 Reply by Zarban

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Michael is my favorite again!

/fickle

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I just didn't understand what it was about. Why were the Americans acting evil and succeeding at everything? It was like Death Wish except Charles Bronson doesn't just shoot street thugs, he tortures and mutilates them. And they didn't kill his family; they're just petty criminals. And no one really tries to stop him. And the main villain who really actually is evil has no idea who Bronson is until they meet at the end, and then they make a deal. And then Charles Bronson pretty much welshes on the deal.

It was just a weird, totally amoral revenge fantasy dreamed up by a 9-year-old. "And then... they kill Hitler!" Um. How do you square that with the history books? "What? Hitler is dead, right?" Right, but we know this isn't how he died. "I haven't read any history books. I'm only nine."

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Jeffery's rewrite is great, but he's also right that you absolutely need Shia to be integral to the story. Gregory's take on who is what is slightly better. No kid would want robot toys that transform into a locomotive, a turbine generator, an ICBM, or the Large Hadron Collider, but we might need some other alternatives to the Pentagon and the Utah Jazz. We obviously need an iPhone and a PS3 and whatever else kids think is cool. Jet boots or something. Electric toothbrush, maybe. Kids still think that's cool, right?

But if the Autobots are hiding from the big bad Decepticons, why would the Autobots kick ass when the Decepticons arrive? Maybe... the Allspark has been carried to earth by Bumblebee and Shia has found it and befriended Bumblebee, bringing Shia into the story and giving the Autobots the advantage they lacked in the prolog.

And Megan Fox is still the superhot chick. Only this time she isn't orange, okay? Seriously. Can we address this?

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It's important to note that I was 19 when Transformers (and GI Joe and also Australian rules football) was on TV, and I only watched it one time when I was sick and hopped up on four cold medicines.

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