Durakken
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Quote:Seen Shaolin Soccer, haven't seen Drive. It's not on Netflix so until it is I won't see it. Yes you should watch those cuz they be good...Originally Posted by Mandu
I've seen everything everybody listed except for about half of Durrakens list although I've meant to get around to watching those. And looking at your taste Durraken I insist you check out the 97 move Drive. And Shaolin Soccer but you've probably already seen that one.
Also...
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I II and III
Hook
Drop Dead Fred
Edward Scissor Hands
Lawnmower Man
Tank Girl
Warriors of Virtue
Suburban Commando
Sidekicks
Space Jam
Hackers
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Quote:There isn't an old one that I know of, but never know.
Daybreakers The new one? or is there an old one? The new one I have seen, but I didn't like it :0(.
And how could you no recognize Micheal J. Fox? Next you'll be telling us you don't know who Molly Ringwald is or Matthew Broderick is. -
Quote:I'm pretty sure most of the seminal works in the world happened only once internet became extantOriginally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Yeah, 'cause there were no seminal movies before 1980, only penny operated kinetoscopes of people boxing.
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I doubt that most people have seen most of these... They're good in my opinion and are a broad range ^.^ Most have a comedy element to them though.
edit: didn't see the 80's/90's thing... not editing my list though, cuz i'm me ^.^
Little Big Soldier
The Lazarus Project
Zu Warriors
My Future Boyfriend
Kung Fu Dunk
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
Daybreakers
The Experiment
Chaos Theory
The Infidel
Gamers
11 Minutes Ago
Outsourced
Enemy Mine
SLC Punk
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i don't know when it happened... within the last few days, I think, but there are 10 sticky threads before the "new" threads and I always find that any more than couple is highly annoying so could you maybe make a new sticky compiling other stickies, something like...
Best Costume
Costume Re-design
Fan Videos
Compilation Thread with the Network, How to, art request, ustream, art forum archive, guides and resources sticky...
and then can we please remove the malicious link sticky and simply put that as a general warning in the compilation sticky or something like that? Cuz 10 stickies is just way too much. -
Quote:Someone is clearly painting a target on themselves for getting broken into.Originally Posted by Starflier
I'm just trying to visualize this cannonball flying and bouncing all over this neighbourhood since it apparently flew through houses and walls while not making enough sound to wake a sleeping family then across a highway and into a vehicle. Sure, why not. Especially the part where the family doesn't hear it and wake up? It broke down your door, rolled UP your stairs and shot out of another wall and you didn't hear that?
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except those are UK based and as far as I can tell only exist in the UK... or Hollywood as the one article notes. And the Meals of Wheels thing is for 60+.
but it's good to know someone somewhere thought it might be a good idea and put it into effect in an area. -
I was thinking... wouldn't it be great if there was a group where someone who didn't care about food preparation or care to look at calories could go and be like "I'll give you my budget for food and you cook me 2-4 meals a day that are healthy and balanced, and then deliver them to my house, so that I just need to eat them and/or microwave them... not in that order."
I hate cooking, but I have no problem with eating various foods prepared properly. I hate reading calories and thinking about food, from buying it to preparing it to sometimes even eating it.
Some are you thinking "go to a restaurant." which I can understand, but thinking it through restaurants you have to go, look at what they have, try to figure out the calories, order the food, wait for it, then eat it and you're really not taking anything out of it other than you're sitting doing nothing instead of cooking the food.
Some of you are thinking how is that profitable to do that... Well If a number of people hire a person then that person can buy bulk and prepare in bulk thus their costs are cheaper so they get profit easily from that. Also if they make it refridgerable then they could deliver once a week to once a month and so I don't think it would be as big a deal as one might think to deliver the food.
I think this would be great for both sides, non-food thinking people don't have to think about food and cooks get to cook up lots of food and apparently there are people that like doing that so the food they cook doesn't go to waste and they get to be happy cooking.
Just an idea I had a few moments ago... think it could work? -
Quote:Sure there is... clones... and robots.Originally Posted by Caemgen
No other way to explain a fat guy in a sleigh delivering all those gifts in one night.
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Quote:>.> Since when? They just want an account in good standing, not a cell phone as far as I know.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Actually you're going to have long uploads for long videos regardless.
Just make sure you unlock your YouTube account's ability to host long videos (requires a cell phone that can accept text messages). -
I wrote 16,500ish words writing reviews for all of DCnU in November... I figured I wrote like 1000 words per review, but apparently not. That is divided up into like 4 days which is pretty nice when you consider it's 4000 words per day.
I'm using the reviews to help me to force me to write at least once a week so it's nice to know that I can at least come up with words to say ^.^ -
Quote:1) No i don't think so as that is to keep videos at manageable sizesOriginally Posted by LadyGrimrose
1) Is there some secret to getting vifs past the 3.95 gb limit I'm experiencing? Totally, newbie here, so lamen terms would be appreciated.
2) Since I seem to be stonewalling into this gig limit, is there a way to splice two or more vids together, maybe even once uploaded to YouTube?
3) Annd lastly, is there a good way to compress the file sizes and still be able to upload them to YouTube?
(Kinda in a bind atm, Vid series Starts Monday! So any help will be greatly appreciated.)
2) Yes... they are called video editors. I use Magix, but there are a number of programs that do it. Don't use the Windows default one.
3) Yes... Those video editors give you various compression format to save in and it makes a huge difference. Video editing takes a lot of RAM and time btw so I wouldn't suggest it unless you have a fairly good PC -
Christmas = Quantum Physic holiday?
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Quote:<pst... the 12 days of Christmas are whenever I say!>Originally Posted by Zombie Man
<pst... the 12 days of Christmas are the 12 days *after* Christmas culminating on the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan 6>
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Quote:My Fetish senses are tingling.Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
Maids a milking hmm....
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Quote:No idea who that is but sure... it should be so!Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Sounds kinda like Projectionist's CoH Advent calendar a couple year's back. Interesting idea.
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There are tons of characters with that power in various different ways. Flash for example can do it for fun by altering the speed force.
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Sooo... to celebrate season let us post up art that reflects the 12 days of christmas with a CoX twist...
Starting the 14th of December post a piece of art that works with that day
Day 1(14) - Partridge and a Pear tree
Day 2(15) - 2 Turtle Doves
Day 3(16) - 3 French Hens
Day 4(17) - 4 Calling Birds
Day 5(18) - 5 Golden rings
Day 6(19) - 6 geese laying eggs
Day 7(20) - 7 swimming swans
Day 8(21) - 8 maids milking
Day 9(22) - 9 ladies dancing
Day 10(23) - 10 lords leaping
Day 11(24) - 11 piperps piping
Day 12(25) - 12 drummers drumming
I think it might be fun to see the addition of the CoX twist to this ^.^ -
I saw some stuff in DC that is clearly them ripping off CoH too... kinda messed up
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I have countless back issues in my closet that I just kept on saving over the years... I'll probably never read them again, but I'd say that they probably are a good resource, just like a physical encyclopedia or Dictionary simply because you can flip through the pages and get random information that can inspire you.
Digital is great for instant access to data, but for that random access print is quite a bit better. -
Quote:Are you talking about the dubs or the animation... many 90s/00s anime was still 80s stuff... and the 80s animation was from earlier than the 80s... Dragon Ball Z for example comes from the 80s.Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Ah, that does help. It's usually the voice acting on the '80s dubs that I can't tolerate (I still can't get all the way through the first episode of Voltron).
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It's hard to believe that you could mess up a guy getting experimenting on some bikers and it goes completely wrong when one of their subjects goes nuclear... but they did. I'm impressed... at least they did that.
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It'd be really nice if they could stop sucking... I don't even need to watch that to know it is likely garbage what with what seems to be a total misunderstanding of the peter parker character, the wanting to be dark, the super old mother and father, the crappy costume, the ugly looking sets, the obvious not knowing how the powers work, and the awful CG v.v I mean seriously, would it have been that hard to get someone to run around a set in a spider suit that is deigned to look like it is a wall...I can think of a way easily with practical effects. That whole first person sequence is so crappy v.v Why would you end on that...
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Quote:The problem I have with Ebert's post is that it seems that he thinks art must be static and in which case I don't think he has much ground to stand on. But more to the point it raises a question that if the major problem with games is their interactivity and their ability to be changed by the player, what makes them any different than a play or something like that? I think perhaps the problem is not that it's not possible to create a piece that is "art", but rather the times we live in art isn't really a high priority and so people aren't trying.Originally Posted by Count_Scottula
I think for all media the point is to entertain. That is a broad thing and as others note, is very subjective.
Some etymology is helpful here. You know what entertain means, but it comes from old french, to hold together. And the meaning still holds true if you think about it. What entertains might be fun, scary, funny, or move other emotions, but if it doesn't hold your attention, it will fail as media.
That is not to say as art. I think that many would agree that people with a profound appreciation of art often admire works that never reach mass appeal.
Roger Ebert (the movie critic) once wrote a blog saying that video games could not be art. In his response to the initial blog by his estimation of "4,547 comments" "300 supported [his] position."
I certainly agreed with the overwhelming majority. Video games can be art. It was an embarassing thing for him to say. It confused objective 'art' with subjective 'art I like.' Games have all the components of various media considered art forms, including Ebert's own, writers, visual artists, actors.
But I did agree with some comments that some games may only be for entertainment and did not try to be (intent argument) or result in being (objective criteria argument) art.
See, http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010...n_my_lawn.html
The question still remains is the point to entertain or to communicate or to follow some sort of rule set that makes it "technically good." If it's to be entertaining then how can anyone say that a game/movie that is "entertaining" in some way is anything but good...
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Quote:Part of the question is, "isn't fun the wrong word?"Originally Posted by Frostbiter
Games are purely for entertainment. If I wasn't having fun then they didn't really fulfill their purpose. Fun is entirely subjective, which is why you have so many diverse genres to pick from. That's not saying that games can't be art just like movies, but trying to get approval from the actual arts has been a long road. Just look at all the trouble comic strips and comic books have had trying to break into the literary awards. And games are even less commonly accepted.
Because when we say something is bad or good we almost never look at how entertaining it is. Again I point out "The Room" which people find massively entertaining but technically it is wrong on so many levels.
If something is Entertaining, and the point of games/movies is to be "Fun" then isn't something that is entertaining technically good?
Also "fun" is such the wrong word imo...because I can be amused, enthralled, interested, challenged, etc. I wouldn't consider doing something challenging entertaining... I mean you'd never say "I entertained myself with fighting..." because it doesn't quite work. I also wouldn't consider playing a game that somehow expresses philosophy or teaches a concept as "fun" per say.