"I watched "Plan 9 from Outer Space" recently - I had a similar reaction. Like, it wasn't particularly entertaining to watch how bad the thing was, rather, it was just really, really dull. The complete lack of potential to entertain the audience is the mark of a truly bad film."
But riffing in the MST3K styles makes them all watchable!!
By the same token, one could watch paint dry, and riff over it MST3K style, thus making it watchable...
I think most MST3K fare does have the capacity to entertain its audience - and the fact that MST's of those films are successful is evidence of that. A movie that's "unintentionally funny" is still funny... I feel that Plan 9 and the Star Wars Holiday Special lack even that...
I've seen this. But I wonder if Santa Claus Conquers the Martians wasn't more mind wrenching-ly horrible. I've been afflicted by both so I am in no position to judge. Now that I think about it, though, was there any singing in SCCM?
Oh, how easily you forget...
Let me refresh your memory. Santa's at the North Pole, preparing for Christmas. He's got a cozy little sweatshop filled with broad cultural stereotypes of children from all around the world... As the narrator tells us all about the different nations from which Santa has plucked his indentured workforce, each one gets to sing a little song...
Still, I'd take Santa Claus Conquers the Martians over the Star Wars Holiday Special any day. In my book SCCM is "so bad it's good", while the Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad it's painful...
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
OMG, yes. Yes it really is worse. I mean, I was able to sit through Ewoks: Battle for Endor all the way through. I couldn't finish watching the Christmas special. I would liken it to being digested in the sarlacc pit (pre-special edition) for thousands of years.
"Battle for Endor" - you mean the second half of "Return of the Jedi"?
I watched "Plan 9 from Outer Space" recently - I had a similar reaction. Like, it wasn't particularly entertaining to watch how bad the thing was, rather, it was just really, really dull. The complete lack of potential to entertain the audience is the mark of a truly bad film.
I thought I was going to have to inject silicon under the skin on my shoulder. Funny, didn't think all those implant leakages produced well adjusted, although a little quiet and drooley, bar wenches.
No, no, no... You've got your facts all wrong! It's silicone that's used in the implants...
Can't find anything wrong with the rest of your information, though...
But really, we have a lot of otherwise useful metals being punted around in the form of money at the moment. We should use digital money and put the metal stuff to better use.
You make a good point, but why stop there?
We need these electrical conductors to get electrons from one place to another, right? If we could just tell the people at the other end to use the electrons they've already got at the other end, we'd save all sorts of trouble...
The only possible downside to this plan is we'd have to go out to the local pharmacy from time to time, buy a box of electrons to sprinkle over everything to de-ionize it again...
Chromes extensions install without you having to restart the browser. if they crash, they crash only the extension, and they are also very easy to make (just javascript). I find the extension model much better than firefox's.
Unfortunately I can't stand webkit's middle click behaviour years of middle clicking on everything are not easily forgotten, so i'm sticking with firefox.
I've never been too happy with Firefox's middle-click behavior, though. It seems to be mapped to a bunch of one-click operations that have apparently nothing to do with each other...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go Middle click on link: open link in new tab (this one is actually useful) Middle click on tab: close the tab
So if you mistakenly middle-click while you're not over a link you get sent to some random place - quite possibly the badly-behaved DNS server's ad page... It all seems very arbitrary, like they just randomly mapped out a bunch of functions to the middle button.
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"I watched "Plan 9 from Outer Space" recently - I had a similar reaction. Like, it wasn't particularly entertaining to watch how bad the thing was, rather, it was just really, really dull. The complete lack of potential to entertain the audience is the mark of a truly bad film."
But riffing in the MST3K styles makes them all watchable!!
By the same token, one could watch paint dry, and riff over it MST3K style, thus making it watchable...
I think most MST3K fare does have the capacity to entertain its audience - and the fact that MST's of those films are successful is evidence of that. A movie that's "unintentionally funny" is still funny... I feel that Plan 9 and the Star Wars Holiday Special lack even that...
It really can't be worse than Mark Hamill on the Muppet Show can it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMPdDa90pLY
The bit with him running around in character was kind of dumb but otherwise it seemed like a fun bit...
Yes, I would say the Star Wars Holiday Special is infinitely worse.
I've seen this. But I wonder if Santa Claus Conquers the Martians wasn't more mind wrenching-ly horrible. I've been afflicted by both so I am in no position to judge. Now that I think about it, though, was there any singing in SCCM?
Oh, how easily you forget...
Let me refresh your memory. Santa's at the North Pole, preparing for Christmas. He's got a cozy little sweatshop filled with broad cultural stereotypes of children from all around the world... As the narrator tells us all about the different nations from which Santa has plucked his indentured workforce, each one gets to sing a little song...
Still, I'd take Santa Claus Conquers the Martians over the Star Wars Holiday Special any day. In my book SCCM is "so bad it's good", while the Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad it's painful...
Before we say something we later regret, we should consider that without the Star Wars Holiday Special there would be no Boba Fett.
Right, 'cause it's not like he made any other appearances...
Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
You forgot the Timothy Zahn novels.
You can't jeer, you can't make comments - you're too busy laughing. It's that bad.
No, the laughter is false, just intended to cover the noise of the weeping. It's that bad.
For those of you awaking in your tauntaun right now
As a matter of fact, I was.
Yeah, Me too!
William Shatner: Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes...And she's gone. [weird echo effect]
It's more like:
"Look for the GIRL? With the SUN IN HER EYES?? .. ANDSHE'SGONEGONEGONEGONEgonegonegone..."
OMG, yes. Yes it really is worse. I mean, I was able to sit through Ewoks: Battle for Endor all the way through. I couldn't finish watching the Christmas special. I would liken it to being digested in the sarlacc pit (pre-special edition) for thousands of years.
"Battle for Endor" - you mean the second half of "Return of the Jedi"?
http://xkcd.com/653/
Yeah, seriously...
I watched "Plan 9 from Outer Space" recently - I had a similar reaction. Like, it wasn't particularly entertaining to watch how bad the thing was, rather, it was just really, really dull. The complete lack of potential to entertain the audience is the mark of a truly bad film.
Check out the middlemouse section of about:config. You'll probably find that one of them is set to non-default (bolded).
Seems you're right... Weird, I can't account for that.
Natrium is called SODIUM in English.
Well, whatever it's called, it's just the thing for blowing up evil fish monsters!
Also, there is no such thing as voodoo...
Phew!
I thought I was going to have to inject silicon under the skin on my shoulder. Funny, didn't think all those implant leakages produced well adjusted, although a little quiet and drooley, bar wenches.
No, no, no... You've got your facts all wrong! It's silicone that's used in the implants...
Can't find anything wrong with the rest of your information, though...
Bolivia, on the other hand, has a socialist government and has been playing hardball with their lithium reserves.
And believe me, nothing hurts like having a ball of Bolivian Lithium thrown at you... It's not worth it, just for a walk...
Ahh, I thought 1014 tons didn't sound like much.
Oh, but you could build a submarine with that much copper!
Galvanised steel (steel with a very thin zinc coating) is routinely used for fencing.
Well, yes, but how important is the choice of metal when you're not actually dueling to the death?
Just use gold instead!
But really, we have a lot of otherwise useful metals being punted around in the form of money at the moment. We should use digital money and put the metal stuff to better use.
You make a good point, but why stop there?
We need these electrical conductors to get electrons from one place to another, right? If we could just tell the people at the other end to use the electrons they've already got at the other end, we'd save all sorts of trouble...
The only possible downside to this plan is we'd have to go out to the local pharmacy from time to time, buy a box of electrons to sprinkle over everything to de-ionize it again...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go
I believe that this is a Firefox on Linux feature. On windows a middle-click in the window brings up a scroll widget, like all good windows apps.
I would have thought so, too - but no, it's on Windows, too.
Chromes extensions install without you having to restart the browser. if they crash, they crash only the extension, and they are also very easy to make (just javascript). I find the extension model much better than firefox's.
Unfortunately I can't stand webkit's middle click behaviour years of middle clicking on everything are not easily forgotten, so i'm sticking with firefox.
I've never been too happy with Firefox's middle-click behavior, though. It seems to be mapped to a bunch of one-click operations that have apparently nothing to do with each other...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go
Middle click on link: open link in new tab (this one is actually useful)
Middle click on tab: close the tab
So if you mistakenly middle-click while you're not over a link you get sent to some random place - quite possibly the badly-behaved DNS server's ad page... It all seems very arbitrary, like they just randomly mapped out a bunch of functions to the middle button.
What, you don't recognize transport transport protocol when you see it?
No, no, it's text transport protocol... It's a special protocol that they came up with for exchanging ordinary text over the internet.
but must admit that this strikes a blow to their reputation for competence and effectiveness.
There's a reason they're called "Those Stupid Asshats"...
Q: What do you call the guy who graduates in last place from the police academy?
Steve Gutenberg?
Yo dawg, I herd you like tired-ass memes so I put some shut the hell up in your face.
Just like how some people ask why they don't make planes out of the same material black boxes are made out of...
Why don't we just make the security lines out of the same material black boxes are made out of? Or, better yet, why not make people bomb-proof?
And with those words, the Age of the Daleks began...