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  1. Re:Best I've seen on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    The scene with him getting swept up onto the horse from the last movie was one of the most fake looking things I'd seen in a movie,

    I completely agree. It was horrible. I was completely shocked when I found out a friend of mine really liked that scene.

    The scene with the Oliphant was horrible, too. When he slid down the trunk it reminded me of the beginning of the Flintstones when Fred slides down the mammoth's trunk.

    Overall, I think there was some pretty bad CGI in the movies. It was really easy to pick out at which point they switched from makeup to CGI during Gollum's deterioration. The physics of a lot of objects (like most of the stones being launched from trebuchets) just looked wrong. And the scenes with Gollum have a look and feel similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

  2. Re:Eyes on Videogame Injuries - The Ugly Truth · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Huh? on Sci-Fi Channel Looks for LGM in NASA Files · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never read Katz, huh?

  4. Re:Something wrong with the picture on Jocks v. Nerds: Detecting Gene-Dopers · · Score: 1

    Arnold certainly has genes that are advantageous to bodybuilding. Most people think if you spend enough time in the gym and take steroids, anyone can look like Arnold, but it's not true. Bodybuilding is not just a matter of muscle size, but also shape, proportion and symmetry and most people cannot ever look like Arnold.

  5. Re:trailer analisis... SPOILERS... on The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer · · Score: 1

    The person in the chair exploding in Matrix code with three people around him.

    If you look closely, it is Smiths standing in the Oracle's apartment, with a being made of light (ala Neo's view of Seraph in Reloaded) sitting in a chair, who is probably the Oracle.

  6. Re:restricted airspace on Space Elevator Going Up · · Score: 1

    the damage is limited to a hole the size of my living room

    Did you see the whole section that was replaced? They completely replaced an entire section of the building.

    This shows the damage was more than just the outer wall.
    And this shows which part they demolished and later rebuilt.

  7. Re:Some Hybrids make me wonder... on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1

    chicks dig the bright yellow.

    So do whiteflys.

  8. Those pesky Pakistani-Indian-Arabians! on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let this be a lesson...

    When you're caught being grossly negligent and incompetant, blame terrorists.

  9. Re:ohhhh... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 1

    The heart icon doesn't get your health up to 125, though, which comes in handy for difficult missions.

  10. Exact Audio Copy on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    ExactAudioCopy is ripping software that will allow you to make exactly the same rips using differents computers with different CD-ROM drives.

    If two people start with the same source, it is entirely possible they will encode with the same options and produce the exact same file.

  11. It's a Good Thing on Olmos Tells Fans: "Don't Watch Galactica" · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing SciFi got rid of Farscape. Now they can distance themselve from that "spacy" image they detest.

  12. Re:New Galactica is the Cylon "Why We Fight" on Olmos Tells Fans: "Don't Watch Galactica" · · Score: 1

    the Sci Fi Channel can concentrate on a smaller niche

    That "can" should read: "could, but most definately won't,".

  13. Ultima? on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's played too much Ultima...

  14. Re:Ignores Red Shift on Solar Sailing and Physics · · Score: 0

    But then what would you do?
    Drink a brew?
    Maybe a few?
    Just don't spew.

  15. Re:Protect them from themselves? on He Blows Things Up So You Don't Have To · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, no kidding. How likely is it that a jar of peanut butter, labeled "Peanut Butter" actually contians peanut butter? They should label those things better. I got fooled once. Man, that ruined my nachos...

  16. Re:Some of us expect those attitude problems on Zynot Foundation Forks Gentoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know
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  17. Re:So?? on Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what the front office is for?

  18. Re:I do on Senator Orrin Hatch a Pirate? · · Score: 1

    who would deliberately copy something that he/she would never buy?

    Welcome to the internet. You must be new here.

  19. Invalid application on U.S. Imposes Big Tariffs On Korean Chipmakers · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read your own link. Nowhere did the parent poster make a comparison to Nazis, merely mentioned them in historical context.

  20. Re:15 workers for a jackhammer?!? on Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water · · Score: 1

    Ok, now I feel stupid. I suppose I could try to argue that I was trying to capture the essence of Lister's accent.

  21. Re:15 workers for a jackhammer?!? on Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water · · Score: 1

    "It's stuped anyway, all this maintenance business. The only reason we don't give this job to the service robots is they've got a better union than us."

  22. Re:another mis-step down the slippery slope on FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers · · Score: 1

    Spam is hardly a life-or-death matter. At most it's an annoyance. It's more like chopping off your arm because you have a splinter.

  23. Re:Competition on Wal-Mart Enters NetFlix's Business · · Score: 1

    Yes, maybe Netflix will finally "innovate" and start offering decent porn.

    Try Flicksmart. I believe they are run by the same company. They at least have almost identical envelopes, only grey instead of red and changes to the wording. But the layout is identical. My guess is that Netflix is trying to keep their service "pure." Besides, they can get 2 subscription that way.

    Errr....um...so I hear, anyway.

  24. Re:Ah yes.... on Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation · · Score: 1

    Money that never gets spent has no value.

  25. Re:Security-wise... on Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy · · Score: 1

    a bad idea security and stability-wise

    and usablity and compatability-wise, too.