I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the previews when it came out. I thought it would be a musical with some original music.
Technically there was some original music in the movie, but it was dwarfed by the new versions of the pop songs, Can Can, etc. "Come What May" (the Secret Love Song for the play) was an original song. The elaborate scene with the Hindi singing may have been as well, but that I don't know.
Personally, I expect Moulin Rouge to win on a few awards, but I'm really hoping Memento and Amélie come away with something.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that on NPR a few months ago. The talking head, er, voice talked about how the Taliban had tried curtailing opium for that subsidy from the U.S. When the U.S. started up their campaign against them and thus wouldn't be giving them aid for that anymore, they effectively said "Screw that! Go ahead and start growing the poppy again"
Don't forget the tangent FF games: "Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest" and the Final Fantasy Legend series. Mystic Quest was essentially a dumbed-down RPG for the SNES. Haven't played any of the Game Boy ones.
Well, I don't know about other stuff at MS Zone (as I don't use it), but Asheron's Call is a Microsoft game. It's been said already, but I don't see a problem with this case of pushing Passport. The others on the other hand...
And as nobody has mentioned it yet, may I point your attention to 8-Bit Theater. If you hadn't heard of it before, it's a webcomic set in the world of the first Final Fantasy game, and is very, very funny. They actually just hit their 100th comic. (At least, it's #100, that does not count a few extra ones the creator threw in along the way.) Black Mage and Fighter are a riot, and between the two of them there are plenty of great quotes that I've sprinkled into conversation.
I personally liked xenogears far more than the FF efforts on the psx(too much sitting back to watch FMV which you cant skip which gets annoying the second time through)
XG has too much dialogue which you can't skip which gets annoying the second time through (and the first). ^_^
Just joking, Xenogears is my favorite game as story goes, with Secret of Mana as my favorite RPG , period. Xenogears is definitely a worthy game and I'd recommend to anyone who has the time to play through it. It is as long as the parent poster said at about 60 hours if you don't dawdle much. But it's artificially long, as the game has LOTS of dialogue, and it prints text at a slow speed that you can't speed up. Though all the dialogue can get tedious at times, it does wonders for the story. The plot manages to incorporate numerous ideologies on religion and science, some being from very obscure sources, into an elaborate allegory. The game almost didn't come out in America because Square was afraid it would be protested because by the religious groups, but I'm glad they did translate XG and bring it over.
I'd like to find a copy somewhere, ebay i guess.
It is hard to find new, but I actually spotted it in a Babbage's on Sunday while doing Christmas shopping. So it is still out there.
I would like to see a sequel or game in a similar format by square.
Well, it isn't being done by Square, but may I direct your attenion to "Xenosaga". It's a prequel to Xenogears coming out for the PS2, is slated to need 2 DVDS (!), and everything I've seen for it (when I bother to keep up on this kind of stuff) is awesome. They also have Yasunori Mitsuda back composing the music, and the three or four tracks I've heard are utterly incredible. I'm a sucker for Latin Chorus style music, and I am pleased! ^_^
I've heard that you've attended or popped by a few conventions for anime, science fiction, etc. because you were in the area and heard about them. I'm sure you've seen your share of fans (rabid or otherwise) from being a cult icon, but I'm curious what your thoughts are about them?
Yes, the show is written by Ben Elton, creator of the original comic book as well as the animated series
Just a quick correction, the creator of "The Tick" is named Ben Edlund, not Elton. You are correct in that he is writing for the live-action show and the rest of your information. I've been waiting on Fox to get off their duff and air it for a while now, but at least the comics have continued.
Actually it's not a good idea to call 800 numbers of untrusted sources. Some 800 numbers are actually "pay per call" numbers (think of 900 numbers) and it's a scam to make money.
I'm pretty laidback so I wouldn't be calling numbers from spam in the first place (heck, I delete this type of spam outright), but if I did call I would do so from a pay phone.
I thought the rule was, "Never answer spam. Answering only serves to validate the spammers database."
Yes, that's a good point. Another one is where it mentions:
in addition to 1-800 numbers, 888 and 877 numbers are also toll free, a recent innovation of the phone company as the supply of 800 numbers began to diminish. An 800, 888 or 877 number is just like a regular number, except that the owner of the number pays for all calls to it, rather than the originators of the calls. Every time you call an 800, 888 or 877 number, the owner of the number gets billed.
Well, I'm not sure about all three numbers, but never call a "toll-free" number you don't trust. You can get an 800 number in the Caribbean Isles, that works like 900 numbers in the States.
On a slightly unrelated note, I'm planning to start a mail server in the near future, and avoiding spam is one of my main priorities. I don't know if I'm willing to go as far as making a safe-list of trusted addresses, but I'm considering making my email account abuse@.. or webmaster@.. or something similar due to this. Any suggestions of which would be the most effective one to get past address-harvesting bots? (I plan to do a few spam honeypots on my site as well) And yes, not posting my email address around and using suffixes or identifying addresses when using an email w/ a company are also good ideas.
You can sue for stupidity if it falls under negligence. I don't know if there's a way to do that with this case, though. Prior art and time delay are the only ones I can think of, which were previously mentioned.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, here's hoping she says yes. But would she be answering on Slashdot herself, or will you be posting a followup so we know the response?
Don't leave us hanging, man!
I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the previews when it came out. I thought it would be a musical with some original music.
Technically there was some original music in the movie, but it was dwarfed by the new versions of the pop songs, Can Can, etc. "Come What May" (the Secret Love Song for the play) was an original song. The elaborate scene with the Hindi singing may have been as well, but that I don't know.
Personally, I expect Moulin Rouge to win on a few awards, but I'm really hoping Memento and Amélie come away with something.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that on NPR a few months ago. The talking head, er, voice talked about how the Taliban had tried curtailing opium for that subsidy from the U.S. When the U.S. started up their campaign against them and thus wouldn't be giving them aid for that anymore, they effectively said "Screw that! Go ahead and start growing the poppy again"
Don't forget the tangent FF games: "Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest" and the Final Fantasy Legend series. Mystic Quest was essentially a dumbed-down RPG for the SNES. Haven't played any of the Game Boy ones.
Well, I don't know about other stuff at MS Zone (as I don't use it), but Asheron's Call is a Microsoft game. It's been said already, but I don't see a problem with this case of pushing Passport. The others on the other hand...
I knew that Namco was publishing it, but didn't know about the stock agreement. Thanks for the info.
And as nobody has mentioned it yet, may I point your attention to 8-Bit Theater. If you hadn't heard of it before, it's a webcomic set in the world of the first Final Fantasy game, and is very, very funny. They actually just hit their 100th comic. (At least, it's #100, that does not count a few extra ones the creator threw in along the way.) Black Mage and Fighter are a riot, and between the two of them there are plenty of great quotes that I've sprinkled into conversation.
I personally liked xenogears far more than the FF efforts on the psx(too much sitting back to watch FMV which you cant skip which gets annoying the second time through)
XG has too much dialogue which you can't skip which gets annoying the second time through (and the first). ^_^
Just joking, Xenogears is my favorite game as story goes, with Secret of Mana as my favorite RPG , period. Xenogears is definitely a worthy game and I'd recommend to anyone who has the time to play through it. It is as long as the parent poster said at about 60 hours if you don't dawdle much. But it's artificially long, as the game has LOTS of dialogue, and it prints text at a slow speed that you can't speed up. Though all the dialogue can get tedious at times, it does wonders for the story. The plot manages to incorporate numerous ideologies on religion and science, some being from very obscure sources, into an elaborate allegory. The game almost didn't come out in America because Square was afraid it would be protested because by the religious groups, but I'm glad they did translate XG and bring it over.
I'd like to find a copy somewhere, ebay i guess.
It is hard to find new, but I actually spotted it in a Babbage's on Sunday while doing Christmas shopping. So it is still out there.
I would like to see a sequel or game in a similar format by square.
Well, it isn't being done by Square, but may I direct your attenion to "Xenosaga". It's a prequel to Xenogears coming out for the PS2, is slated to need 2 DVDS (!), and everything I've seen for it (when I bother to keep up on this kind of stuff) is awesome. They also have Yasunori Mitsuda back composing the music, and the three or four tracks I've heard are utterly incredible. I'm a sucker for Latin Chorus style music, and I am pleased! ^_^
I've heard that you've attended or popped by a few conventions for anime, science fiction, etc. because you were in the area and heard about them. I'm sure you've seen your share of fans (rabid or otherwise) from being a cult icon, but I'm curious what your thoughts are about them?
Quick correction, "Wakka wakka wakka!" was Fozzie the Bear's catchphrase, not Gonzo's.
Yes, the show is written by Ben Elton, creator of the original comic book as well as the animated series
Just a quick correction, the creator of "The Tick" is named Ben Edlund, not Elton. You are correct in that he is writing for the live-action show and the rest of your information. I've been waiting on Fox to get off their duff and air it for a while now, but at least the comics have continued.
I'm pretty laidback so I wouldn't be calling numbers from spam in the first place (heck, I delete this type of spam outright), but if I did call I would do so from a pay phone.
Yes, that's a good point. Another one is where it mentions:
Well, I'm not sure about all three numbers, but never call a "toll-free" number you don't trust. You can get an 800 number in the Caribbean Isles, that works like 900 numbers in the States.
On a slightly unrelated note, I'm planning to start a mail server in the near future, and avoiding spam is one of my main priorities. I don't know if I'm willing to go as far as making a safe-list of trusted addresses, but I'm considering making my email account abuse@.. or webmaster@.. or something similar due to this. Any suggestions of which would be the most effective one to get past address-harvesting bots? (I plan to do a few spam honeypots on my site as well) And yes, not posting my email address around and using suffixes or identifying addresses when using an email w/ a company are also good ideas.
(you can't sue for stupidity)
You can sue for stupidity if it falls under negligence. I don't know if there's a way to do that with this case, though. Prior art and time delay are the only ones I can think of, which were previously mentioned.