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You need to see The President's Analyst (1967). There is a wonderful bit about the phone company and what you say that you desire.

Look, it's not too late yet... Google hasn't achieved full power and it's still limited by the physical world constraints. But once this is built, it's all over for us. We must stop it now, before

Sounds like an offshoot of Colossus: The Forbin Project.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/

I'm not too proud to admit I wasn't sure exactly what Cirrhosis of the liver was despite hearing the jargon several times in the past. Here's some reference.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cirrhosis/DS00373
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_cirrh osis

And here's me, remembering from one of the Looney Tunes: Sir Osis of Liver

Please post a link to said "moving skeleton movies."

No problemo

I dare you to find one large-scale engagament before June 6th, 1944 in which French troops caused the Germans serious casualties. France fell in 40 days, most of it spent sitting behind the Maignot line wondering where the Germans were.

Hell, the french were fighting with the Nazis in northern Africa. Look up Operation Torch if you don't believe me. (The Big Red One is one depiction of this operation.)

I read, play softball, train in kung fu, play board games and video games, go to a Twins game, jog, clean... What do I do if I need to just wind down and not think? I play some non-thought intensive games, like an FPS for some amount of time, but as opposed to TV, games at least require thought or interation. I play a lot of strategy and puzzle games, but I also like to play Mario Kart or Halo with friends.

And as far as DVDs goes, I have about 20 of them. They gather dust in a pile out of sight. I'll buy a movie used on rare occations, almost never new. I may watch them once or twice with people, but almost never by myself. Except Ronin has a special place in my heart, and I occationally will play it in the background while I'm cleaning my house.

GS: On that note, can you explain the concept of Storytronics? If there is such a way to give a brief description.

CC: It's interactive storytelling.

Okay, Either I saw this in the movie, Big, or we've been trying for this all along. Anyone who's played an "Open Ended" game such as Chrono Triger knows what mutiple endings try for. Blood Omen:Legacy of Kain had an open ending where you could be good or bad guy.

This guy is huge pessimist (admits it in the article). He just seems like he doesn't have a clue. After reading TFA I'm not clear on what the goal of his "Storytelling" games is, but it sounds an aweful lot like he's trying to create a truely, open ended game, but failing miserably... over and over. It's a noble quest, indeed, but trying to say it's an original idea is really laughable.

Do you have a link to back that up? Because the entire fscking show was "Canadian Content" - *ALL* of it (which you'd know if you'd ever read the CanCon regulations.) CanCon has nothing (as in ***NOTHING***) to do with the subject matter of a program. At all.

Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

Woah, how old do you think NES fans are? Try late 20's and early 30's. I'm 29, and while I had an Atari when I was very young, the Christmas after the NES came out holds the most memorable video game experiences of my childhood

No no, you did not understood. Nintendo is aiming to NON PLAYERS and Casual players in this generation. Have you seen the promotional videos of the Wii? a lot of them have those grandmas and Joe/Jane Sixpack in them.

That was what I was talking about when saying "people nintendo is aiming", and, a lot of them where "non players" when the NES came in. That is why I stated that, for them Nintendo *means* home video-game system.

Anyone remember the movie "Hudson Hawk". In some of the lines, the main girl asks the main character if he "wants to go to her home to play nintendo", he asks "what is to play Nintendo?" as he was in jail for a lot of time [note, she was referring to have a Sublime eXiting eXperience].

I think, that demonstrate the level of "common knowledge" that Nintengo had in those times. And again, as I said before, a lot of that people are now 40 to 60.

I always thought reverse engineering was something that is very frowned upon. Is Ben Affleck behind this?

I think this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477457/ (not safe for work, maybe) is what you're looking for. Some day I will figure out this HTML malarkey.

Seriously, the kids will know this kind of watching is being done and will either turn off their phone...

You need to go back and re-watch Max Headroom (a.k.a. Max Headroom - 20 Minutes Into the Future). In the future, it's illegal for televisions to have an "off" switch. (I imagine you now saying, "Yes, but this is about phones, not TV's." Then suddenly that look of sad realization as you realize why cell phones have been adding video displays...)

... or leave it behind

It isn't exactly a Quantum Leap to imagine phones you can't leave behind... Moms in my day used to grind up birth control pills and sneak them into girls' orange juice in the morning. In the future we'll probably have parents making secret deals with the people selling piercings so that when they finally, unexpectedly agree to a piercing you'll later find that it was because there's an embedded GPS device going into your navel. Or perhaps an inertial sensor that can track your incremental movements and for later download -- just in case your friends build a network of Faraday cages for you to get lost in.

Does it support sand storms and DEEP HURTING?

Alice has been on the market for over 5 years now. I had a ton of hope for American McGee at the time because Alice was fantastic but it seems like that promise is gone. Maybe he's spending too much time on that "film".

I disagree. This documentary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076504/ shows otherwise-

It's the pile on the plush carpet lining the walls of your spaceship that is most important.
That, and Duran Duran must be stopped!

There was a movie based on I, Robot? Woah! I had thought that there was only a 115 minute commercial advertisement based on I, Robot.

ISLE OF MAN - June 1, 2006 - At a press conference today, Canonical CEO and Free Software spokesnigger Mark Shuttleworth announced the immediate availability of version 6.06 of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The latest version, known by its code name, "The Diaper Drake," includes special features designed to make Linux easier and more comfortable for niggers the world over.

"Niggers have always had trouble understanding new technology," Shuttleworth began. "Computers are no exception. Some people have said this is because niggers are dumb, but I believe the real problem is that technology has traditionally been designed for white people. Ubuntu changes all that. It was developed from the ground up with niggers in mind. It will usher in a whole new era of Afro-ergonomic computing."

Shuttleworth presented an overview of some of the features users could expect in the latest version of Ubuntu, including an Ebonics-to-English converter, African "tribal beats" sound and desktop theme, and a collection of rap music and gay pornography, "which of course will be encoded using patent and royalty-free formats," Shuttleworth added, smiling. He proceeded to elaborate, but OpenOffice.org Impress crashed at that point.

"But this release isn't just about new features," Shuttleworth said, making a quick segue to the humanitarian and ideological concept behind Ubuntu. "This new version brings black men closer together than ever in the spirit of Ubuntu." Shuttleworth then demonstrated the concept of Ubuntu by getting on his knees and sucking a young black boy's erect penis.

About Canonical

Canonical Ltd. is committed to the development,distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to providing tools and support to the open source community. Canonical is a global organization headquartered in the Isle of Man, with employees throughout Europe, North America, South America and Australia. Canonical is a technology partner of the Gay Nigger Association of America, of which it holds a 36% equity stake.

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Are you GAY ?
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Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to

Did the Washington Post have to prove Ron White wrong?

Erin Brockovich isn't really a movie about whistle-blowing. On the other hand, this is.

Yeah that’s cliché. However it’s true no matter the circumstance. You see, I’m a diagnosed narcoleptic, and for those who’ve seen “Deuce Bigalow” she had cataplexy which is a complication of narcolepsy. Thankfully I don’t have that.

I used to take Provigil which is a popular drug among college students who want to cram all night and still be “fresh” the next day for an exam. Coincidentally I’m also a college student. The reality is that while this drug does have short term benefits to academic performance, I can’t lie about that, the reality is that in the long-term I did not realize that the drug was affecting my ability to cope with stress and emotions. I would have mood swings and behave in ways that were harmful to myself and others, not physically, but mentally. When I realized that my marriage was in jeopardy I decided it was a good idea to approach my narcolepsy from a different perspective. I stopped taking the medication, started exercising, ate better, and regulated my daily routines. I still have persistent tiredness but now I can cope with it. The reality is that I feel a lot better today not taking the medication than I did while on it, despite the tiredness.

The sobering truth is that these medications alter your perceptions and despite the short-term benefit the people who take them for granted are gabling their futures. It's unfortunate that people are so naive.

"You know how to whistle don't you?
You just put your lips together... and blow"

It's just not mainstream. Outside of the hard-core, Johnny Exreme balls-to-the wall type gamers, it just doesn't get name recognition. Besides that, you have a small percentage of the total population buying most of the games. Sci-fi is in the same boat IMO. They have a rabid fanbase loyal to one series or another, having Inet debates about whether Darth Vader could pwn Captain Kirk. The problem is that the same people are buying all the Sci-fi. The same people who watch Star Trek went and camped out in line for "Revenge of the Sith", and are likely the same ones that are actively campaigning for the return of Firefly. If you look at the numbers for any one show, it's pretty small.

IMDB Top 100

If you look at the numbers, Passion of the Christ beats Empire Strikes Back, but if you looked around slashdot, more people were excited for Empire than Passion. I know that more people here saw The Voyage Home (ST4) than little mermaid.

Same with games -- a small portion of the population are the ones argueing about Wii,PS3, and Xbox (and will likely end up with all three). My guess is that less than 20% of the population of the US owns more than 10 games total. They may be vocal, but the number is tiny compared to 100% of the population that owns a TV, and 95% that sees a movie either in theaters or on DVD.

The Earthling Who Went To an Asteroid But Came Back From a Planet

Plot Summary:
Two Earth astronomers visit the small Kuiper Belt Object of Pluto, to measure what is claimed to be the "last planet inside of the Solar System". It's 2117, and the Jupiter-Saturn war continues. The settlers are very proud of their "planet", and are understandably dissapointed and furious to find that it is in fact an "asteroid". Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Earthlings who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their asteroid into a planet, but to do so they must keep the Earthlings from leaving, before the job is done.

(With apologies to the writers of this film.)

A witness went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing ...

Oh no! I've seen this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/

Do you remember the MTV show Popup Video? They showed older music videos with popup balloons that gave extra information, like actors in the video that later became famous or mistakes made during production. If Google analyzed the sounds coming into your laptop and gave you a link to a site like the Internet Movie Database then you could have Popup Television. Learn more about the specific episode you are watching, and even have the ability to edit that information yourself.

It'd make an interesting toy. I'm sure that anyone with some imagination could think of even cooler applications.

AlpineR

we need to know about trusting norwegians with things that fall from the sky

Am I the only person on /. that's seen The Lawnmower Man (1992) ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/

Someone's acting awfully aluminum!

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

what? this isn't what it was supposed to look like! Where's the 3D holographic interface?

Catch 22

Lt. Col. Korn, XO: All you have to do is be our pal.

Colonel Cathcart: Say nice things about us.

Lt. Col. Korn, XO: Tell the folks at home what a good job we're doing. Take our offer...

Colonel Cathcart: Either that or a court-martial for desertion.

It is with great regret that we in the glorious GNAA were called to arms against a revered institution known as Star Trek. Impi, while in training as a high priest in the popular religious cult scientology, was approached by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to contract the services of the Black Ops wing of the GNAA.

Both Shatner and Nimoy, on which the Star Trek franchise and legend were built, expressed serious concern with regard to the affront of a little known "television station" called G4TV.

"Star Trek prides itself on boldly going where no man has gone before. Not boldly sitting on your fat ass and playing computer games and talking about it in a failed IRC channel!" said Shatner. "G4TV is taking the very ethos of Star Trek and perverting it for profit. They have targeted a segment of the population known as Fatmerica. Their actions in sanctioning such an event promote obesity and diabetes within our youth and we as Star Trek representatives do not want to be associated with this sentiment."

Leonard Nimoy was instrumental in crafting the attack on #startrek20 on the IRC network irc.gamesurge.net. Using an exploit that allowed a redirect from the www.g4tv.com to the infamous Last Measure, many fatties were tricked into being Last Measured.

"They turned on us," said Neal Tiles, president of G4TV. "It was like stampede at a buffet, there was nothing we could do. People were ping timing out all over the place. Mothers were calling the station asking why their children were looking at gay porno. It was a nightmare. Our moderator of the channel, Ravager|CH, tried valiantly to keep things together, but he was eventually g-lined due to massive complaints against the channel."

The overwhelming success of the operation was reflected by the failed moderator Ravager|CH own words: [23:37] <Ravager|CH> another ruined night..

About G4TV:

Jews4Profit

About GNAA:
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Are you GAY ?
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Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating

They seem to be acting much like a heroine addict, in that they're moving from one crime to the next, getting bigger and bigger fines but no matter how much you fine the company it is still pathologically anti-competitive... Is it a rule that all big companies go the way of AT&T eventually?

Quite possibly. The documentary The Corporation pointed out how such corporations, while legally people in some respects, would be more like psychopaths than any other kind of people, as they do whatever they can get away with on their quest for more profit, showing a complete disregard for morals and the law.

If it's cheaper to break the law and pay a fine than it is to obey the law and profit less, they'll break it.

It's one of the best shows I've ever watched. Intelligent, and wait till you see what this guy invests in. Start watching it from the first season, as everything builds on everything prior.

You may repent by watching Office Space ;)

It was revealed today that three minutes before his 'Drowned Alive' was due to end, David Blaine was forced out of his water-filled glass bubble early with an unknown cause.

The Gay Nigger Assocation of America is proud to announce that this was due to the heroic actions of GNAA member 'trogg', a recent recruit to the proud legion of Internet niggers. During the last few minutes of his stunt, the GNAA can reveal that images of famous internet celebrities 'goatse' and 'tubgirl' were taped to the outside of his bubble, where Blaine could see them in all their glory.

As Blaine turned to look at this explicit imagery, he began to have convulsions of the anus as his poop began to flow out of his rectum. This caused the water to turn a muddy-brown colour. Blaine then attempted to take off his oxygen mask, possibly hoping to ingest the diseased water in order to get a real taste of rectal prolapse.

The organisers of the stunt then feared for his safety as Blaine reached for his erect penis, as the palms of his hands were suffering from myosis. With this, two divers jumped into the water to save Blaine before he had a chance to touch his throbbing rod, and succeeded in pulling him out in time. He was out of breath as he was rushed to hospital, suffering from the effects of the stunt upon his body.

When Blaine was interviewed in hospital by the Gay Nigger Association of the America, he had this to say: "JEWS DID WTC".

About David Blaine:

Kike magician.

About GNAA:
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Are you GAY ?
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Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
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Never heard of this game before, but the instant I read the review I thought of the movie Blow: http://imdb.com/title/tt0221027/

I'm waiting for the realization of cool fusion.

Does this mean I could have people pilot me in hybrid jets/helicopters while my car drives me home and I can chat with my friend in the near future?

I've purchased both of the current albums and I think you understand the facts in this case, yet you appear to side with the person wishing to restrict it's use, while touting fair use of a common phrase. The phrase was in common usage long before Steinman decide to co write and co produce two albums named with this phrase. My Banana bike jumped a plywood and cinder block constructed ramp in my cousins backyard "Like a Bat out of Hell" twenty years before either album was released.
Aday is also an accomplished actor:
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/id/385892
And stared in one of every true geeks favorite movies "Roadie"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081433/
In which he played a geek who could fix anything with damned near nothing. In the movie aliens landed and asked him to fix their space ship.
He is not a "Back Street Boys" boy toy and is hardly a singing sensation, except to those who've followed his work. I'll explain: at any party remove whatever is currently playing and insert any "Bat out of Hell" CD and watch what happens. If you force the party to listen to the CD, all but about ten people will eventually leave. Those ten are your real friends and soul mates.

First, you picked three children's series. Children's books have featured serial characters since well before Hollywood (Mary Poppins, Tom Swift, and the Oz books, for example) because children attach more easily to characters than to plots.

Secondly, you picked on the horror genre, which feeds itself on the possibility that no matter how many times you "kill" the monster, he may return - it in fact revels in the immortality of its villains. It's spawned a lot of in-jokes, but the genre has never apologized for this behavior - the killers *are* the stars people pay to see. Again, characters drive these movies, and if characters don't resonate, horror movies flop big-time (witness the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, which despite an excellent premise, featured much-less truly creepy baddies.)

Now back to the topic, if Hollywood could learn anything from the game industry, it's that people like original and inspired characters. Gamers would be quick to name their favorite characters: Mario, Zelda, Solid Snake, Master Chief, Sephiroth. It's hard to find similar affinities within the demands of the 2 hour movie, but when exceptions are made, those characters *really* *really* resonate: a quick look at the top 25 grossing movies in the US of all time reveals:

Jack and Rose.
Star Wars. Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo ...
Shrek, ET, Harry Potter, and Spiderman
the Lord of the Rings. Great characters that translated wonderfully from book to screen.
Jesus Christ (the Passion.)
Captain Jack Sparrow
Forrest Gump

And just below it you see a litany of interesting, riveting characters worth watching over and over again. Even adjusting for inflation, we see characters like Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, Moses (The Ten Commandments), and Jaws and Captain Quint.

If I haven't said it enough, characters, characters, characters that people can relate to and admire drive all interest in entertainment, both gaming and filmwise. Hollywood has spent too much time lately dredging up characters only a few people were interested in (apologies to the niche markets of Fat Albert, Dukes of Hazzard, and Josie and the Pussycats aficionados) and trying to pass them off as something bigger.

But the truth (of course) is that this is nothing new! Hollywood has been making cheap forgettable pictures since its inception - we just never see the treacle in between all the goodness on the filtered Turner Classic Movies - or even in the bargain bin at Best Buy. Want proof?

Check out the filmography of Andy Clyde. A lifetime vaudevillian at heart, as a bona fide *star* (equivalent to Adam Sandler or at the least Tim Allen) he made 300 (!) movies from 1923 to 1950, mostly playing himself or California Carlson, his alter ego. These movies were made for Columbia Pictures, and were decent draws in their day. Yet I'd be surprised if anyone here had ever heard of Andy Clyde until now.

We can go more modern, too - beach movies from AIP, blaxploitation in the 70s, bad spring break movies of the 80s, it doesn't matter. http://us.imdb.com/company/co0020206/ There is a link to every movie MGM has put their stamp on. There are of course some great ones, some very good ones, and some average ones. Look at the movies distributed between 1984's excellent The Terminator (#328) and the equally excellent 1986 film Hoosiers (#287). Of those 49 movies, I have seen exactly 4 of them - A Chorus Line, Rocky IV, Poltergeist 2, and Haunted Honeymoon - none of which were that great. The other 45? I've hardly heard of any of them. And you can do this for any era of movies, with any company.

The simple truth is that for every good movie, 20 bad ones are made, at every level, from Hollywood to Bollywood to indie cinema. Sturgeon's Law holds true, and no amount of "learning" from the gaming industry is gonna change that.

... The Perfect Storm?

I just hope someone tells Clooney and Wahlberg before it's too late this time! :-)
OH NOES!!!!11!!one!1

j/k
Wait

No really. j/k

OT but semi-related.

The movie "Man of the Century" explores the premise of a 20's/30's era reporter unaware that he is living in the modern world as a fish out of water. It doesn't really explore the issue of modern conveniences but It's packed full of funny outmoded slang and cultural references. The story is a little weak but it's worth it to see the character's perforance. The brief commentary track is also funny. It also has Kevin Weisman (the tech guy Marshall from Alias) playing a heavy.

One line I can remember is this:

Samantha: "Are you gay?"
Johnny T.: "Sure I'm gay. I'm gay as the day in May."

"And while we have had some luck with voice recognition software and querying and controlling the house with that, we are still working to improve the recognition rate,

"The atomic number of zinc is 30"
(*door opens*)

Assassination of forign leaders and other people 'We' (as in We The People as in whoever the powers that be are at the time) happen to want erradicated. Sheesh, don't you watch movies?!? Have a look at the first few minutes of 'Air Force One' . Once they get these things perfected and working over extended range i'd guess they'll go after Castro (again). Oops, excuse me while i remove my tongue from my cheek.

When's the last time a game made $600,779,824 or even $100,003,492? Movies learn from computer games? LOL,sometimes people try to hard to prove how smart the computer guys are compared to everyone else! This is one of those times.