Warning: Be sure to lock the door to your office before doing this. Having a co-worker walk in could cause some uncomfortable feelings in the workplace.
True. But apparently what they're going for here is augmenting the normal sound output of the earphones with a lower-frequency, tactile vibration. I guess to simulate a rattling bass speaker or something?
it's an attempt to sell a nicotine delivery system that provides the nicotine that a smoker craves (hence the trademarkable name "Krave") without the dangerous second-hand smoke and the obnoxious smell that bother other non-smokers.
That's the thing that gets me about fake cigarettes - who says there's no second-hand danger? It doesn't smell obnoxious - but people in the same room will still be breathing the same stuff...
. . . stuff like that happens in the comic books. Why is fighting multiple villains out of place in a comic book movie?
Because in the comic each of those villains got their own, separate introduction. They could take their time with it. In the movie, all those "new" characters have to be introduced all at once.
For three or four such freak occurrences to occur within a single story just strains the suspension of disbelief too far...
Are you kidding me? The Spiderman movies are about a freak who dresses up in a spider suit, shoots webs out of his wrists, and saves the world! If you didn't have to suspend disbelief to watch even a minute of any of the 3 Spiderman movies then you need to see a head doctor.
Yeah, fuck you too.
Of course there's suspension of disbelief involved in any Spiderman story. But suspension of disbelief is a matter of good storytelling. If the storyteller wants you to accept some strange new facts, or some rather significant coincidences, they've got to sell it, make it work in the context of the story. The fact that I accept, in the context of the story, that Spiderman gains impossible superpowers in an impossible way does not mean I automatically accept any other new occurrence in the story of equal or lesser improbability. They've got to make it work in the story.
That happened in "The Wrath of Khan", actually... "The Slow-Motion Picture" (which I like, BTW - and love to make fun of as well 'cause it deserves it) was their last real attempt at science fiction in a Star Trek movie...
3? Good? Never!! Do you remember the dancing? The dancing, I say! And the much lauded "plot continues during the special effects rather than during them" just meant "more random and pointless and hard-to-follow special effects scenes!"
What really got me in Spiderman 3 was the large number of "extra-ordinary super hero origins!" to take place within the span of that one movie... A meteor falls from the sky, a guy gets fried by dangerous radiation or something, the alien from the meteorite transfers to a different host, and the dude from Freaks and Geeks puts on the Goblin suit...
I mean, if one guy gets bit by a radioactive spider or merges with his robo-tentacle gear or whatever in a movie - it seems an extraordinarily unlikely thing to happen. For three or four such freak occurrences to occur within a single story just strains the suspension of disbelief too far...
I said it properly, too bad education is not really doing much good to anyone anymore, people should be able to distinguish various types of subtlety based on a written sentence, but there are quite a few who are just too dense.
Oh! I understand now... Like how your post (quoted above) is actually a harsh critique of the pyramid-scheme-like nature of real estate rentals: how wealthy landowners become more wealthy by charging people to live there, and these tenants themselves create a sort of miniature reflection of this system when they themselves rent the property they're renting out to someone else...
You know, I always suspected Mozilla's crash-reporting software was kinda lame under the hood - but I would've never guessed that its crash reporting mechanism was to post on Slashdot...
I watched the first 10 episodes of the first Season on YouTube recently. The storyline is still good it is at times more cartoon than amine though, if you know what I mean. I think Robotech survives the ravages of age a bit better.
Whatcha say we put "Shadow Chronicles" in a cage with "Macross Frontier" and see which one comes out alive...
You want those movies to get made again? I'd rather just move on and forget 'em. Just take one piece of useful information with me from episodes 2 and 3: "George Lucas is not a sufficiently talented storyteller to provide a compelling explanation of how a cute little kid can grow up to be the meanest, most villainous motherfucker in movie history."
To be fair, some are superior remakes. The new Battlestar Galactica is far better than the old one.
I really haven't seen the new Galactica - but I have to say I think the original tends to be grossly underrated. For sure the old series had its weak moments (for instance, the two-part episode that was like a dry run for Quantum Leap - except without the all-important mirror gag or, in fact, any productive use being made of Apollo's "assumed identity" at all... Or, you know, every frikkin' episode of "Galactica 1980") - but Dirk Benedict as Starbuck was great, and the chameraderie there was palpable. People rag on the show because the effects weren't that great, the villains were those chrome toaster things, and the annoying little kid had an annoying little robot ewok, but it was good TV.
Some things are best left in print, lest they suffer the same fate as Heinlein's Starship Troopers
And what was wrong with Starship Troopers?
It wasn't five hours long, with four of those hours devoted to Johnny's time in boot camp and OC school, listening to Heinlein's sockpuppet characters rant about social responsibility?
Either that or "no powered suits", I forget which... XD
The anime adaptation of Starship Troopers was excellent, IMO. Mecha design by Studio Nue doesn't hurt, either. XD
Well this got a reboot in the 80s with the movie, maybe a re-reboot is in order?
To me, the main problem with any new attempts at making "Twilight Zone" material is that people just seem to miss the point. I think people fixate on the trick ending, which was a big part of the show, but not the only thing... And any time I hear somebody trying to imitate Rod Serling I just want to smack 'em.
I think part of the appeal of remakes is that SOOO often the original ideas are complete and utter crap. If they started with Babylon 5 as a base for example, then I at least know they're starting with something good and have to try to screw it up (possible though - Star Wars TPM proves that). If it's something completely new though, it has about a 95% chance of sucking.
In general I think people are just tired of playing the odds.
But they can screw anything up. That's the thing. The fact that they started with something you like only makes you think there's a better chance of it not going wrong.
Let's take Babylon 5, for instance. For sure, there's lots of things that could have been done better... But Babylon 5, as it exists, is something I like. Why mess with it?
The drumming, Can't you hear it? Inside my head. I thought it would stop. But it never does. It never, ever stops. Inside my head. The drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming, It's everywhere. Listen. Listen. Listen. Here come the drums... here come... the drums...
No, no, that would never work - the rays would need to converge to get enough power - but the teeth are so crooked the rays get scattered all over the place
My dad told me the story of when he was 16 (around 1966) and the local hardware store had got in unbreakable dishes (Corningware I think), and being a young imp, he decided to give it a shot. He dropped the plate on its edge, which, apparently is the weak spot on such dishes, and it literally exploded. He did this, naturally, during a product demonstration, and was promptly banned from the store.
That sounds like Corningware alright... When that stuff breaks, it's very serious about it.
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Warning: Be sure to lock the door to your office before doing this. Having a co-worker walk in could cause some uncomfortable feelings in the workplace.
What if you have a cubicle?
All earbuds vibrate. It's called "sound"
True. But apparently what they're going for here is augmenting the normal sound output of the earphones with a lower-frequency, tactile vibration. I guess to simulate a rattling bass speaker or something?
It is a given that all professional live broadcasts are recorded by some means.
How often do you hear a news anchor saying "We are live, and on tape, down here at scene of an accident..."?
I don't recall ever hearing a news anchor say that...
it's an attempt to sell a nicotine delivery system that provides the nicotine that a smoker craves (hence the trademarkable name "Krave") without the dangerous second-hand smoke and the obnoxious smell that bother other non-smokers.
That's the thing that gets me about fake cigarettes - who says there's no second-hand danger? It doesn't smell obnoxious - but people in the same room will still be breathing the same stuff...
If they kill Loran, who's going to pilot the White Doll??
Great comeback. You should join a debate team.
What, not eloquent enough for you? I felt it got right to the heart of the matter. Why waste eloquence on you?
Only a comic dork debates the merits of how or how many people are endowed with superpowers in a movie. What's the cutoff? 2?
Right, 'cause you have to be a comic dork to care what the hell happens in a comic book movie.
. . . stuff like that happens in the comic books. Why is fighting multiple villains out of place in a comic book movie?
Because in the comic each of those villains got their own, separate introduction. They could take their time with it. In the movie, all those "new" characters have to be introduced all at once.
Are you kidding me? The Spiderman movies are about a freak who dresses up in a spider suit, shoots webs out of his wrists, and saves the world! If you didn't have to suspend disbelief to watch even a minute of any of the 3 Spiderman movies then you need to see a head doctor.
Yeah, fuck you too.
Of course there's suspension of disbelief involved in any Spiderman story. But suspension of disbelief is a matter of good storytelling. If the storyteller wants you to accept some strange new facts, or some rather significant coincidences, they've got to sell it, make it work in the context of the story. The fact that I accept, in the context of the story, that Spiderman gains impossible superpowers in an impossible way does not mean I automatically accept any other new occurrence in the story of equal or lesser improbability. They've got to make it work in the story.
They removed science fiction from star trek
That happened in "The Wrath of Khan", actually... "The Slow-Motion Picture" (which I like, BTW - and love to make fun of as well 'cause it deserves it) was their last real attempt at science fiction in a Star Trek movie...
3? Good? Never!! Do you remember the dancing? The dancing, I say! And the much lauded "plot continues during the special effects rather than during them" just meant "more random and pointless and hard-to-follow special effects scenes!"
What really got me in Spiderman 3 was the large number of "extra-ordinary super hero origins!" to take place within the span of that one movie... A meteor falls from the sky, a guy gets fried by dangerous radiation or something, the alien from the meteorite transfers to a different host, and the dude from Freaks and Geeks puts on the Goblin suit...
I mean, if one guy gets bit by a radioactive spider or merges with his robo-tentacle gear or whatever in a movie - it seems an extraordinarily unlikely thing to happen. For three or four such freak occurrences to occur within a single story just strains the suspension of disbelief too far...
Don't forget Lorne Greene. None can compare to the "Voice of Canada" and Badass cattle rancher, Lorne "Adama Cartwright" Greene.
Yeah, I felt so sorry for him when I was watching Galactica 1980. It just seemed like he was really giving it his best, despite it all...
I said it properly, too bad education is not really doing much good to anyone anymore, people should be able to distinguish various types of subtlety based on a written sentence, but there are quite a few who are just too dense.
Oh! I understand now... Like how your post (quoted above) is actually a harsh critique of the pyramid-scheme-like nature of real estate rentals: how wealthy landowners become more wealthy by charging people to live there, and these tenants themselves create a sort of miniature reflection of this system when they themselves rent the property they're renting out to someone else...
Or maybe, you know, it was just a typo.
I have, myself, reconsidered, after reading this summary, what good writing is.
William Shatner?! Is that you?!
OMG...OMG...OMG...OMG...OMG...OMG...
No, actually he is Kirok.
Want to see your Firefox crashes? Enter about:crashes into the Firefox address window, and press the Enter key.
The URl is not valid and cannot be loaded.
WTF??
Ah. I see what happened, he got the URL wrong. It's supposed to be "about:gullibility"
You know, I always suspected Mozilla's crash-reporting software was kinda lame under the hood - but I would've never guessed that its crash reporting mechanism was to post on Slashdot...
I watched the first 10 episodes of the first Season on YouTube recently. The storyline is still good it is at times more cartoon than amine though, if you know what I mean. I think Robotech survives the ravages of age a bit better.
Whatcha say we put "Shadow Chronicles" in a cage with "Macross Frontier" and see which one comes out alive...
All Star Wars movies made in the last 20 years.
You want those movies to get made again? I'd rather just move on and forget 'em. Just take one piece of useful information with me from episodes 2 and 3: "George Lucas is not a sufficiently talented storyteller to provide a compelling explanation of how a cute little kid can grow up to be the meanest, most villainous motherfucker in movie history."
To be fair, some are superior remakes. The new Battlestar Galactica is far better than the old one.
I really haven't seen the new Galactica - but I have to say I think the original tends to be grossly underrated. For sure the old series had its weak moments (for instance, the two-part episode that was like a dry run for Quantum Leap - except without the all-important mirror gag or, in fact, any productive use being made of Apollo's "assumed identity" at all... Or, you know, every frikkin' episode of "Galactica 1980") - but Dirk Benedict as Starbuck was great, and the chameraderie there was palpable. People rag on the show because the effects weren't that great, the villains were those chrome toaster things, and the annoying little kid had an annoying little robot ewok, but it was good TV.
And what was wrong with Starship Troopers?
It wasn't five hours long, with four of those hours devoted to Johnny's time in boot camp and OC school, listening to Heinlein's sockpuppet characters rant about social responsibility?
Either that or "no powered suits", I forget which... XD
The anime adaptation of Starship Troopers was excellent, IMO. Mecha design by Studio Nue doesn't hurt, either. XD
Well this got a reboot in the 80s with the movie, maybe a re-reboot is in order?
To me, the main problem with any new attempts at making "Twilight Zone" material is that people just seem to miss the point. I think people fixate on the trick ending, which was a big part of the show, but not the only thing... And any time I hear somebody trying to imitate Rod Serling I just want to smack 'em.
I think part of the appeal of remakes is that SOOO often the original ideas are complete and utter crap. If they started with Babylon 5 as a base for example, then I at least know they're starting with something good and have to try to screw it up (possible though - Star Wars TPM proves that). If it's something completely new though, it has about a 95% chance of sucking.
In general I think people are just tired of playing the odds.
But they can screw anything up. That's the thing. The fact that they started with something you like only makes you think there's a better chance of it not going wrong.
Let's take Babylon 5, for instance. For sure, there's lots of things that could have been done better... But Babylon 5, as it exists, is something I like. Why mess with it?
The drumming, Can't you hear it? Inside my head. I thought it would stop. But it never does. It never, ever stops. Inside my head. The drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming, It's everywhere. Listen. Listen. Listen. Here come the drums... here come... the drums...
The yellow sun rays from his teeth did it?
No, no, that would never work - the rays would need to converge to get enough power - but the teeth are so crooked the rays get scattered all over the place
My dad told me the story of when he was 16 (around 1966) and the local hardware store had got in unbreakable dishes (Corningware I think), and being a young imp, he decided to give it a shot. He dropped the plate on its edge, which, apparently is the weak spot on such dishes, and it literally exploded. He did this, naturally, during a product demonstration, and was promptly banned from the store.
That sounds like Corningware alright... When that stuff breaks, it's very serious about it.
You sir, completely missed the point. See, there, right there it goes *woooooosh*
Is there a joke somewhere in that post? 'Cause to me, it seems not so much like a joke going over my head as simply the absence of joke-stuff.