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How Episode IV Should Have Ended
OverNeith writes "An excellent cartoon film showing how SW:Episode IV would have ended in a non-Lucas reality. Enjoy!" From the cartoon: "Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people."
Did I read that right?
Also, these two movies.
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Does anyone non-Bittorrent anywhere since the company's firewall is blocking those BT ports.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Great animation, very impressive visually. But I must digress, that was very dull. I am a raging SW fanboy who loves just about anything that parodies or takes from SW, but this was boring. For something more fun, see www.ultracheese.com which is what I consider a FUNNY film.
"WARNING!! The torrent file distributes a .WMV file!"
Warning? What, are we supposed to wave our pitchforks because they chose a format that most people have a player for?
"Derp de derp."
Star Wars apologists are almost as bad as Star Trek apologists. After-the-fact justifications for continuity/script errors/mistakes/bad calls is lame.
Thought it would be interesting to point out Opera now has support for bittorrent transfers right there in a browser alongside ftp and http transfers. take a look
An interesting question just popped into my head. What keeps the spirits of dead Jedi from teaching their ways to others? I know they couldn't do the physical, but they could teach the philosophy, and possibly even council, even during the old Jedi council meetings, not all people were physically present, they showed up via hologram. Seems like the same thing as the spirits.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Two points: (I never, ever thought I'd become a SW apologist, but here goes...) 1.) Who says the Empire can't track interstellar communications? They should have some pretty impressive listening systems, methinks. 2.) As long as the recharge time of the deathstar beam-o-death is longer than 30 minutes, it makes sense to hold off firing. IIRC, that is far from impossible. There, George - do I get a check or something? Please?
The reason I found it so funny was because I had the *exact* same discussion of this plot hole with my friends when we were last watching Star Wars
In deep space, you have to aim the parabolic antennae at the destination. Presumably, "subspace" transmissions would behave the same way.
Thus, all the Star Destroyer (or whatever) has to do is notice which direction the antennae was aimed, and go That Way.
How do you miss an enormous plot hole like that?
It's called a plot device. It's also why laser cannons aren't radar controlled, like the CIWS in service since 1979, the AMRAAM, in service since 1991, and the AGM-84 Harpoon, around since 1977.
Oh, and don't forget heat seekers like the AIM-9 Sidewinder and IR targeters like the M1. Abrams, since 1980.
There are more, and I've not even mentioned non-US systems, but you get the picture.
And how can we forget Noise In Space? Just tonight on SG:Atlantis, when a ship blew up, you could hear the explosion on other ships.
What ever happened to, "In space, no one can hear you scream."?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
That said, the recent prequels don't entirely jibe with the books. *sigh* Lucas, Lucas, Lucas...
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I'm using Opera's inbuilt BT client. Infact, I didn't even notice it was a BitTorrent link until it was 15% here already. Very impressed with how seemless it was.
Came in at 32KB/s at first (I'm on a 300kbps line). Averaged at 11.8 KB/s according to the transfer window. Not bad considering the circumstances.
Opera doesn't seem to be listening on port 6881, and I have a firewall in the way. Even so i've been uploading. Which is also very impressive.
Go Opera!
I realize that all us open-source zealots are supposed to be promoting bittorrent as much as possible but when the site hosting the torrent gets slashdotted then we're in a bit of a pickle. This file is only 7 MB in size so I don't see why no one could have shared it. Well, I'm going to go the right thing and do it anonymously so I'm not seen as karma whoring: link
I'm not sure I'm really doing you guys that much of a favor because the humor is pretty childish. In fact, I feel so guilty about wasting your time that I'm going to post a bonus clip that most of you will get more enjoyment out of.
Because the clients cache the addresses that the tracker gives them, but the tracker doesn't rescind them. They ought to be doing some kind of backoff algorithm, so each client with your address will try after 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, and so on. They'll probably stop when they get to a few hours. Or finish downloading the file. Or whatever.