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Star Wreck Trailer
ultramarweeni writes "'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire is now nearing its completion. Today, December 13th, the trailer was published at 0:00 GMT after 14 hours of technical problems. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning tells the story of the crew of P-Fleet starship C.P.P. Kickstart, which was stranded on Earth after an accident after a battle against the Korg. With the help of the technology to come, their leader, Captain Pirk claims himself as the emperor of the Earth. He conquers the world and rebuilds the P-Fleet. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning has been in the making since 1999 and will probably be completed in spring 2004. Or maybe not. Time will tell."
This was mistakenly assigned a star wars topic thingy. Please, let's keep those universes separate.
Got the trailer, got the teasers, am i missing something? This is a spoof on star trek obviously, but i didn't laugh.
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It doesn't help that the whole trailer isn't in english. So that takes away from the humor for me. That, and the fact that they have really GOOD special effects in the trailer takes away from the humor.
Most spoofs i've seen are cheezy, hilarious knock-offs of the orignials with a heavy dose of humor. hell, make the actors a bit more convincing, and use real black actors, i would have taken this trailer as a trailer for a new star trek series, not a spoof.
Anyway, analysis complete.
A Penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off!
I'm VERY sorry for your problem, but I have a suggestion...
.torrent file STILL gets you hits, and as long as its live, everyone gets decent bandwith.
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You could even be the seed, and just limit that invocation of bts bandwith, and the bigger "hit" you get, the more bandwith there is--And you don't pay for it for the most part, save for the seed, and tracker traffic.
Bittorrent is included in Debian and Mandrake for sure, and certainly available for all other platforms, save possibly C64, and I'm not sure about that.
(As someone else suggested, with enhancements)
Read the parent link.
And anyone who mods it underrated is an asshole.
Go ahead, rob me of 3 karma. This post is offtopic as is the one above, but both still need to be said.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
It's one thing to make light of stereotypes, it's another to take them seriously, and go around frothing at the mouth about how awful and evil Americans are. I know all Europeans aren't complete gutless self-hating liberals. You should know that all Americans aren't like Dubya.
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You could always block access to your website where the "linked from" http header contains Slashdot.