Didn't Blizzard go to the people at Games Workshop years and years ago about doing a video game based on Warhammer? But they were turned away by Games Workshop and so Blizzard decided to just make their own.
If that's true, wonder how their feeling about it now.
No, of course you're entitled to your opinion. I was railing more on the "it sucks, nuff said" type of criticism. When I see or read something that I don't like and take the time to write about not liking it, I usually explain why I didn't like it.
I happen to love the books...read them back in the 70's when I was a teen and re-read them every few years. I knew from the beginning that the movies were NOT going to be verbatim like the books and some things in the movies really bugged me, but overall the movies turned into 3 of my favorites of all time. I can enjoy the books AND the movies...separating the two as two different things.
I also enjoy reading criticism of the movies in relation to the books...that is if the criticism offers something to me that's worth reading. When I just see "it sucks" from people, it means about as much as "it's great" from others. I want the "here's why I think it sucked". It's a very rare thing to actually see someone explain why instead of "he can't direct, he can't write, he ruined it". That's not an explanation, sorry. This goes for any movie or book.
Nevermind, you kind of explained it in another post. Opinions differ. I happened to think he did a great job of adaptation. But will my opinion change your opinion? Nope...same as yours won't change mine.
I may not like your opinion...but I will fight to the death for my right to fight to the death with you!
Cool...though you don't bring up specifics. "shit-fest" and "crap" don't really explain much on what you thought was wrong with the movies in relation to the books or what your criticism is at all. Don't take this the wrong way, but it seems rather juvenile...which would lead one to believe it's more troll than actual criticism.
Oh, and the scouring of the shire also...so after a HUGE battle...then another HUGE battle, you get the destruction of Sauron and the aftermath...then ANOTHER half an hour to 45 minutes of resolving stuff in the shire...THEN the Grey Havens, THEN Sam coming back.
Yep, the general public already complained that there were 3 endeds to Return of the King, why not throw a 4th one in there also....just so those 4 people in the world that complained that the LOTR wasn't word for word like the books will be happy. Happy with really long, boringly edited movies.
Or...you could just not go. You obviously didn't like the LOTR movies, and that would be apparent that you didn't like them right from the first movie...so I have to ask, did you also go and watch the second and third movie also? If so, why?
If you think that Peter Jackson ruined the movies for you, why did you watch all 3? Or did you? Or are you just a troll?
Well, if we care about the look and feel and tone to be close to the LOTR movies...then yeah.
The Harry Potter movies have different directors and every one of them since the second one has a slightly different look and tone to it. For instance, why totally change the way certain sets look? Hagred's cabin was the same in the first two movies (that had the same director), yet in the third movie they had to go and change it to look different. That's just a "for instance".
Granted, Bilbo will probably have to be played by someone other than Ian Holm.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, then remembered there are about a billion other sites for torrent files in the world and then they all just yawned and went about their day.
You're correct in all that regard....but bottom line is when running Azureus on my system, it bogs it down. I don't know why, don't know what.java file it is and I wouldn't begin to know where to look. But uTorrent hardly takes up any resources at all and is quite powerful....on Windows anyway because it hasn't been ported (yet) to other platforms.
So all your points are valid about it being portable and feature rich and all that...but doesn't quite fit the criteria of this whole thread while using it. It feels and acts bloated compared to uTorrent. If it feels bloated to the average computer user (me), then it IS bloated. I want something that loads in a second, hardly takes up any RAM or CPU power and just runs. Then when I quit it it's gone. Azureus doesn't do any of those things, at least for me.
It's like it was written in English by some insane paranoid in some bare-lightbulb, single-room apartment....then translated into Chinese....then French....then back into English.
People that don't know anything about a certain subject are making rules and precedents about it.
"It's en dem ma-sheeens! We git da masheeen, then we git who was a-stealin our movies! We will git us sum cypherers to figger out dis and weee'l put 'em all in jail!"
Ok, they don't all talk like that I'm sure. But you get my point. This is ridiculous and this judge and others that put this little gem of a ruling together should be openly ridiculed at every opportunity.
My family and friends are of the type to talk a good game...but to actually get off our asses and drive to Indy to go is another matter. I used to go all the time when it was up in Wisconsin, but no one wants to drive the 5 hours now to go.
Thinking of dumping my family and friends...It's time I venture forth into the world and leave them behind!
Oh wait...they're buying me pizza. Ok, I'll stay a little longer....then I'm outta here! Ooooo...they brought beer too!
There will be targeted ads WHILE you watch. On the side of of viewing something.
Like watching the new Showtime show "Californication"? Imagine a scene where the character Hank is having sex with some hottie and a condom ad pops up on the side like some bizarre Ad Sense clicky!
This in itself may end illegal downloads forever! Or maybe not...
Then it occurred to me, at least with D&D you're actually interacting with real, identifiable people. No griefing, no gold farming, no bots,
You've never played with my group of friends.
When we started out, it was cool...but gradually we introduced new people into our group and now all that's left when I play are a bunch of asian people who barely speak English who just want to stand in one spot in a dungeon I'm running and farm for gold. Some have even just resorted to sending a laptop with canned responses in their stead....so the last time I hosted a D&D group, it was me DMing and 5 laptops sitting around a table.
I think I'm going to give this up soon. But the laptops ARE pretty polite.
OK, what am I missing? What difference does does it make who's house is what in relation to not being able to see his girlfriend and kid?
It didn't say anything in his blog about being ordered by a judge not being able to see his family...he just says he can't. Where are his GF and kid staying at the moment? Can't he stay there? No other place in the world he can stay? No friends? No other family? Her family?
Or is this him trumping up his situation, making it sound worse than it is for sympathy from the Net community?
You mean Bernie Taupin writes songs that are autobiographical, about people that are important to him. It's Taupin that wrote all those love song lyrics of the past...usually written to his girlfriend at the time. Elton put them all to extremely beautiful music.
I know, you did say "things important to his lyricist"...but I just wanted to make sure Bernie Taupin's name got out there.
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Is he one of the ops here or something? Never heard of him.
Nah, I'm just kiddin...way to go Taco!
Actually, my son was very happy that Sonic is now included. He's a big fan of Sonic.
Didn't Blizzard go to the people at Games Workshop years and years ago about doing a video game based on Warhammer? But they were turned away by Games Workshop and so Blizzard decided to just make their own.
If that's true, wonder how their feeling about it now.
No, of course you're entitled to your opinion. I was railing more on the "it sucks, nuff said" type of criticism. When I see or read something that I don't like and take the time to write about not liking it, I usually explain why I didn't like it.
I happen to love the books...read them back in the 70's when I was a teen and re-read them every few years. I knew from the beginning that the movies were NOT going to be verbatim like the books and some things in the movies really bugged me, but overall the movies turned into 3 of my favorites of all time. I can enjoy the books AND the movies...separating the two as two different things.
I also enjoy reading criticism of the movies in relation to the books...that is if the criticism offers something to me that's worth reading. When I just see "it sucks" from people, it means about as much as "it's great" from others. I want the "here's why I think it sucked". It's a very rare thing to actually see someone explain why instead of "he can't direct, he can't write, he ruined it". That's not an explanation, sorry. This goes for any movie or book.
Nevermind, you kind of explained it in another post. Opinions differ. I happened to think he did a great job of adaptation. But will my opinion change your opinion? Nope...same as yours won't change mine.
I may not like your opinion...but I will fight to the death for my right to fight to the death with you!
Cool...though you don't bring up specifics. "shit-fest" and "crap" don't really explain much on what you thought was wrong with the movies in relation to the books or what your criticism is at all. Don't take this the wrong way, but it seems rather juvenile...which would lead one to believe it's more troll than actual criticism.
Oh, and the scouring of the shire also...so after a HUGE battle...then another HUGE battle, you get the destruction of Sauron and the aftermath...then ANOTHER half an hour to 45 minutes of resolving stuff in the shire...THEN the Grey Havens, THEN Sam coming back.
Yep, the general public already complained that there were 3 endeds to Return of the King, why not throw a 4th one in there also....just so those 4 people in the world that complained that the LOTR wasn't word for word like the books will be happy. Happy with really long, boringly edited movies.
Or...you could just not go. You obviously didn't like the LOTR movies, and that would be apparent that you didn't like them right from the first movie...so I have to ask, did you also go and watch the second and third movie also? If so, why?
If you think that Peter Jackson ruined the movies for you, why did you watch all 3? Or did you? Or are you just a troll?
Well, if we care about the look and feel and tone to be close to the LOTR movies...then yeah.
The Harry Potter movies have different directors and every one of them since the second one has a slightly different look and tone to it. For instance, why totally change the way certain sets look? Hagred's cabin was the same in the first two movies (that had the same director), yet in the third movie they had to go and change it to look different. That's just a "for instance".
Granted, Bilbo will probably have to be played by someone other than Ian Holm.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, then remembered there are about a billion other sites for torrent files in the world and then they all just yawned and went about their day.
They also announced they won't be supporting the Motorola 68000 line of Macs nor the MOS Technology 6502 that was in the Apple II.
Users of those systems were outraged and the nursing homes they were in had to cut back on their applesauce rations.
You're correct in all that regard....but bottom line is when running Azureus on my system, it bogs it down. I don't know why, don't know what .java file it is and I wouldn't begin to know where to look. But uTorrent hardly takes up any resources at all and is quite powerful....on Windows anyway because it hasn't been ported (yet) to other platforms.
So all your points are valid about it being portable and feature rich and all that...but doesn't quite fit the criteria of this whole thread while using it. It feels and acts bloated compared to uTorrent. If it feels bloated to the average computer user (me), then it IS bloated. I want something that loads in a second, hardly takes up any RAM or CPU power and just runs. Then when I quit it it's gone. Azureus doesn't do any of those things, at least for me.
It's like it was written in English by some insane paranoid in some bare-lightbulb, single-room apartment....then translated into Chinese....then French....then back into English.
Lol, it was a JOKE. Ok, not the best joke in the world, but I thought it was pretty obvious I was kidding. I see now it wasn't.
Lighten up peeps.
Maybe watching this will help you in your situation.
Ah, I see what you did there...
Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....
Hang on, my wife is having me go wash the dishes....
I don't know, I thought the gasoline fight was pretty funny too.
People that don't know anything about a certain subject are making rules and precedents about it.
"It's en dem ma-sheeens! We git da masheeen, then we git who was a-stealin our movies! We will git us sum cypherers to figger out dis and weee'l put 'em all in jail!"
Ok, they don't all talk like that I'm sure. But you get my point. This is ridiculous and this judge and others that put this little gem of a ruling together should be openly ridiculed at every opportunity.
My family and friends are of the type to talk a good game...but to actually get off our asses and drive to Indy to go is another matter. I used to go all the time when it was up in Wisconsin, but no one wants to drive the 5 hours now to go.
Thinking of dumping my family and friends...It's time I venture forth into the world and leave them behind!
Oh wait...they're buying me pizza. Ok, I'll stay a little longer....then I'm outta here! Ooooo...they brought beer too!
There will be targeted ads WHILE you watch. On the side of of viewing something.
Like watching the new Showtime show "Californication"? Imagine a scene where the character Hank is having sex with some hottie and a condom ad pops up on the side like some bizarre Ad Sense clicky!
This in itself may end illegal downloads forever! Or maybe not...
Yes, it was an April Fools joke from what I remember.
This can't be for real...can it?
Then it occurred to me, at least with D&D you're actually interacting with real, identifiable people. No griefing, no gold farming, no bots,
You've never played with my group of friends.
When we started out, it was cool...but gradually we introduced new people into our group and now all that's left when I play are a bunch of asian people who barely speak English who just want to stand in one spot in a dungeon I'm running and farm for gold. Some have even just resorted to sending a laptop with canned responses in their stead....so the last time I hosted a D&D group, it was me DMing and 5 laptops sitting around a table.
I think I'm going to give this up soon. But the laptops ARE pretty polite.
my friends and I played Fantasy Hero and Danger International all the time. You do get some pretty quirky characters, which was great for our group.
Our favorite was Call of Cthulhu though...by far. I never played it when it converted to d20 though.
OK, what am I missing? What difference does does it make who's house is what in relation to not being able to see his girlfriend and kid?
It didn't say anything in his blog about being ordered by a judge not being able to see his family...he just says he can't. Where are his GF and kid staying at the moment? Can't he stay there? No other place in the world he can stay? No friends? No other family? Her family?
Or is this him trumping up his situation, making it sound worse than it is for sympathy from the Net community?
You mean Bernie Taupin writes songs that are autobiographical, about people that are important to him. It's Taupin that wrote all those love song lyrics of the past...usually written to his girlfriend at the time. Elton put them all to extremely beautiful music.
I know, you did say "things important to his lyricist"...but I just wanted to make sure Bernie Taupin's name got out there.