Well, I suppose I can't fault them for wanting the movie to do well, particularly when you consider that the success of this movie will directly affect whether or not we get even more Firefly after this point.
Not that it makes me particularly happy.:-P
As someone who uses this, could you perhaps enlighten the rest of us on the security issues related to it? What prevents someone from simply waving a reader at you and ringing up a massive bill without you even realizing it?
It's hardly just the music. Cowboy Bebop is also known as a "western in space" of sorts. It features a crew taking on odd (bounty-hunting, usually) jobs to manage enough money for a bite to eat and keep their old lunker of a spaceship running. I've seen all of both Cowboy Bebop and Firefly, and I have to say, I'm pretty convinced that Firefly was at least partially inspired (if not in origin, than in execution) by Cowboy Bebop... it feels like Firefly is, as my sister put it, "channeling the spirit of Bebop."
Elijah Wood may be a stumpy little man-boy, but I never thought "gee, his skin texture looks kinda unrealistic" or "no real man-boy would move like that."
Well, of course you didn't. Any time you might have started to notice something that looked a little "off", you probably immediately discarded it because you know Elijah Wood isn't CG.
I know there have been many times in movies where a perfectly real scene can look "fake" if you're looking for it, due to the camera work, post-processing, or other factors. Because you know Gollum is computer-generated, however, you tend to take special note of any visible oddities and may inflate them beyond what you might otherwise have thought.
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... the FPS/RTS hybrid. A few years ago, a game appeared on the market called Battlezone. This game bore little resemblance to the arcade game of the same title, but introduced a whole new style of gaming. Like most RTS games, you created structures, built units, and waged war against the enemy, but YOU PILOTED ONE OF THE TANKS IN BATTLE. At the same time you were ordering strike forces into the enemy base, YOU were blasting away at the foe, leading units into battle, and managing resources. A lack of marketing success kept this game off the top selling lists, but it received rave reviews almost everywhere. The game spawned a sequel, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, and a set of other hybrids (Dogs of War, anyone?) I agree there are too many games that fall into the cookie-cutter groups, but new genres can develop right before your eyes.
On the occasions I'm able to catch the Powerpuff Girls, I've always enjoyed it. The show is well done, the narrator can be funnier than you'd expect ("The city of Townsville! But enough about that."), and I've always had a place in my heart for parodies... anyone not catch the scene in that episode with Patches the imaginary clown (I forgot the title) where Blossom is seen dressed like Cartman?:)
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Read up on your history if you don't believe it. No major war has ever been won without a significant space presence.
If you keep writing things like "meating" and "houndred," though, they're probably going to figure it out soon.
I initially misread the title as "Laser Printing Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term."
Needless to say, I was more than a little bewildered.
Perhaps... just perhaps... LucasArts decided that they didn't want to risk turning out a lackluster sequel, given the acclaim afforded the first one.
I like how your signature mocks the lack of individualism in the world, while the text of your post clings to the majority opinion.
You DO realize that no matter how badly Episode III sucks, it's still going to garner a massive box office take, right?
Well, I suppose I can't fault them for wanting the movie to do well, particularly when you consider that the success of this movie will directly affect whether or not we get even more Firefly after this point. Not that it makes me particularly happy. :-P
My mistake.
Answered my question, and did a fine job of it, too. The button-press acceptance is more or less what I'd figured.
As someone who uses this, could you perhaps enlighten the rest of us on the security issues related to it? What prevents someone from simply waving a reader at you and ringing up a massive bill without you even realizing it?
Just as long as they don't decide to promote the system with spam. I can see my inbox now...
...ad infinitum.
"EZ money! Get $100,000 CASH NOW!!!--znsdfjk"
It's hardly just the music. Cowboy Bebop is also known as a "western in space" of sorts. It features a crew taking on odd (bounty-hunting, usually) jobs to manage enough money for a bite to eat and keep their old lunker of a spaceship running. I've seen all of both Cowboy Bebop and Firefly, and I have to say, I'm pretty convinced that Firefly was at least partially inspired (if not in origin, than in execution) by Cowboy Bebop... it feels like Firefly is, as my sister put it, "channeling the spirit of Bebop."
Elijah Wood may be a stumpy little man-boy, but I never thought "gee, his skin texture looks kinda unrealistic" or "no real man-boy would move like that."
Well, of course you didn't. Any time you might have started to notice something that looked a little "off", you probably immediately discarded it because you know Elijah Wood isn't CG.
I know there have been many times in movies where a perfectly real scene can look "fake" if you're looking for it, due to the camera work, post-processing, or other factors. Because you know Gollum is computer-generated, however, you tend to take special note of any visible oddities and may inflate them beyond what you might otherwise have thought.
Didn't we AGREE to this when we signed up?
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... the FPS/RTS hybrid. A few years ago, a game appeared on the market called Battlezone. This game bore little resemblance to the arcade game of the same title, but introduced a whole new style of gaming. Like most RTS games, you created structures, built units, and waged war against the enemy, but YOU PILOTED ONE OF THE TANKS IN BATTLE. At the same time you were ordering strike forces into the enemy base, YOU were blasting away at the foe, leading units into battle, and managing resources. A lack of marketing success kept this game off the top selling lists, but it received rave reviews almost everywhere. The game spawned a sequel, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, and a set of other hybrids (Dogs of War, anyone?) I agree there are too many games that fall into the cookie-cutter groups, but new genres can develop right before your eyes.
On the occasions I'm able to catch the Powerpuff Girls, I've always enjoyed it. The show is well done, the narrator can be funnier than you'd expect ("The city of Townsville! But enough about that."), and I've always had a place in my heart for parodies... anyone not catch the scene in that episode with Patches the imaginary clown (I forgot the title) where Blossom is seen dressed like Cartman? :)