Who are the pricks who modded me -1 Troll? Asking for a torrent was obviously a joke. Christ on a cracker, go fuck yourselves, you humorless right wing son of a bitch bloggers.
I can't possibly imagine why anyone would mod you down for trolling.
it makes sense that if they didn't see enough financial benefit to broadcasting it
Futurama, like firefly, was scheduled during a "sport overtime" timeslot, i.e. it aired rarely, and sometimes only the confusing second half of the 24 minuttes would air, etc.
Your options are:
The person in charge of the schedule has never watched sports in his life and doesn't know that it tends to go long, and therefore made a mistake.
The person in charge of the schedule didn't like Futurama and decided to have it cancelled by making sure no one can watch it regularly (that person cannot make the call on which show get financed and which get the plug pulled, but they have power over scheduling, and timing is everything on TV).
Mind bogging incompetance, or mean spirited abuse of power. I'm gonna go with mean spiritted: I don't think someone that incompetant would ever earn the right to make that decision, especially since it happened again to a similar show on the same network not long afterwards.
No commercials, new episodes, no network censors. I'll be the first in line
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Maybe there won't be commercial breaks, but as sure as [consummer food brand name] is delicious, there will be ads in those DVDs.
Why? It's a videogame based on a TV show. Unless this is the first videogame based on a TV show you ever had the misfortune to try, you know it's not going to be good... that's a fundamental rule of videogames: They suck if they are based on a TV show (i.e. the game devellopers are bound by contract to agree to every whim of the TV execs).
It seems to me that if they were interested in funding new episodes, they'd want to show them on their station, collect the ratings numbers and ad revenue, and THEN release them on DVD some time later.
You got your "they" confused.
They are the Fox DVD execs, they want to sell more Futurama box sets, because Futurama box sets have brought them great profit. The other batch of execs, the Broadcasting subdivision, don't want to air Futuramas, but the DVD people don't care if the Broadcasters want to air them or not, they want to sell DVDs.
A company as large as Fox isn't one big "they", it's a hydra with many heads. Just because the TV head doesn't like the taste of Futurama, that won't stop the DVD head from feeding on it.
You know, I kind of wish it did come out and was just a phenomenal platform, just to see slashdotters' response.
It's not that we don't want a Phantom console, it's just that I have this deed to the Brooklyn Bridge, and I'm strapped for cash, so I'm willing to let it go for cheap if you can pay cash right now...
The finger-in-the-food story about Wendy's was a scam.
But it's funny! It's a contemporary way of retelling the "mutilate the person instead of stealing their wallet/card" mugging strategy.
The "No officer, I didn't mutilate no ones! I founds it at the Wendy's, sir! I's swears! I didn't tell them because they'd just say I brought it with me to scam them..." defense will one day join the Chewbacca Defense in infamy...
FUD that Wendy's doesn't deserve.
It's the price to pay for the publicity. Look how many times we have spread their name on this page! And it's getting past adblock, too.
how come people aren't framed for crimes with this methodology all the time?
The fake print doesn't leave the oily residue that skin does. Unless you rub it on an oily person first... but then you leave DNA in the skin cells that come with.
Or, they are, all the time, and no cop ever noticed.
P.S. Someone mentioned severed fingers up there, there was a serial killer that kept the hands of his victims in a freezer. When he killed someone else, he would thaw out a hand and frame that person for this crime, and thus led police on a series of wild goose chases as they were investigating his victims as suspects on the run. I'm amazed he was caught, frankly.
You forgot "if I want to play my DVDs on an old television set without RCA input I can easilly use a VCR as an RCA/coaxial bridge to do so, without any Macromedia shenanigans".
... had to come up with a workaround. Thanks for forcing me to learn to bypass your nonsense, jerks.
He also borrows stuff from Tolkien, mainly names I think.
Tolkien recorded a reading of LOTR, you should hear his gollum... it's exactly Yoda.
Which is why I've beent telling people: Yoda is a sneaky one! He knows! He saw Anakin's future in ep1! That whole "cloudy" bit is all an act! He knows that the balance will be restored to the force by having the same amount of Jedis as there are Siths. 2 of each, so there is equilibrium, and he damn well intends to be one of the two!
Let me say first, that whilst Lucas has created a good universe
He borrowed the good ideas of so many people, it would have been sad if the whole hadn't reflected the parts. I'll give you a couple of examples, there's plenty more:
Tatooine = Arrakis: Sandpeople are Fremen, Jaba is Leto II, the Sarlack is Shaitan. The choosen one of millenial prophecies comes from this planet.
Corruscant = Trantor: A planet covered in one gigantic mega city, every land mass is covered, even the oceans are partially claimed by the steel city. Capital of the Galactic Empire, from there goes forth a fleet of giant spaceships to enforce the central authority on far away worlds.
Lucas doesn't create: He recycles. There's nothing wrong with recycling, he did it well, but it's just not the same thing as having original ideas.
there's a few films where you wonder what he was thinking (like his positive review of "Anaconda").
I liked Anaconda: It's decent for a movie about a giant snake.
Once you're willingly going to see a movie about a giant snake, you let go of the premise when formulating a opinion on the actual quality of the movie itself, as opposed to rating the idea behind the movie.
Much like when I talk to people who've never heard of Firefly, I make sure to tell them right up front that it's Space Cowboys. If they can't deal with the concept, there's no point in continuing, they know all they need to know to base their opinion. If the concept of Space Cowboys is something they can swallow, then I tell them about the wrtiting, editing, lighting, acting, SFX, drama, pretty people, and all the other ways in which Firefly was excellent.
Hayden Christensen isn't helping matters either with his acting "talents".
To be honest, I'd have a hard time acting lines that are basically "whinning that I have superpowers", or "being very upset that I offed the people who kidnapped, tortured and killed my mom"...
Especially since he massacres people who are simply trying to stop him from trespassing in their droid factory, without any kind of afterthought, no regret, nothing. Apparently, he got over killing people on the way from Tatooine.
Kinda hard to get a grip of a character that makes no sense at all.
Rotten Tomatoes is one of the best examples of this. They simply assess a review as either favorable or unfavorable
Keep in mind their system isn't perfect. I've read reviews they had that were posted as "rotten" and the reviewer seemed to like it, but he put forth what he thought were the flaws up front, and then subtlely listed the qualities.
Still a good way to get a general feeling of how it's being recieved by the "community" though.
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Who are the pricks who modded me -1 Troll? Asking for a torrent was obviously a joke. Christ on a cracker, go fuck yourselves, you humorless right wing son of a bitch bloggers.
I can't possibly imagine why anyone would mod you down for trolling.
Futurama, like firefly, was scheduled during a "sport overtime" timeslot, i.e. it aired rarely, and sometimes only the confusing second half of the 24 minuttes would air, etc.
Your options are:
Mind bogging incompetance, or mean spirited abuse of power. I'm gonna go with mean spiritted: I don't think someone that incompetant would ever earn the right to make that decision, especially since it happened again to a similar show on the same network not long afterwards.
Maybe there won't be commercial breaks, but as sure as [consummer food brand name] is delicious, there will be ads in those DVDs.
I'm still waiting for the video game to come out.
Why? It's a videogame based on a TV show.
Unless this is the first videogame based on a TV show you ever had the misfortune to try, you know it's not going to be good... that's a fundamental rule of videogames: They suck if they are based on a TV show (i.e. the game devellopers are bound by contract to agree to every whim of the TV execs).
family guy is [...] NOTHING like the simpsons.
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I am speechless.
It seems to me that if they were interested in funding new episodes, they'd want to show them on their station, collect the ratings numbers and ad revenue, and THEN release them on DVD some time later.
You got your "they" confused.
They are the Fox DVD execs, they want to sell more Futurama box sets, because Futurama box sets have brought them great profit.
The other batch of execs, the Broadcasting subdivision, don't want to air Futuramas, but the DVD people don't care if the Broadcasters want to air them or not, they want to sell DVDs.
A company as large as Fox isn't one big "they", it's a hydra with many heads. Just because the TV head doesn't like the taste of Futurama, that won't stop the DVD head from feeding on it.
Hold your horses, the comics are coming this summer, then the movie this fall, and then we'll see.
Personally, I'd prefer if they kept their new alliance with Universal instead of going back to the deepest pits of hell to meet with the Fox execs.
At the risk of sounding like the schoolyard bully pleading with the teacher... who started it?
The MPAA.
It's older and bigger than me, too.
I live near one of the very very few cinemas in Britain that have a licence to sell alcohol
;-)
Best idea ever.
There's a lot of movies, such as epIII, that I wouldn't recommend seeing sober
For heaven sakes people! Lucas was only able to make $50 million on Thursday! HE HAS CHILDREN TO FEED
;-)
You misspelled "younglings"
clearly ethically wrong, that is pirating movies
The MPAA is in no position to give me, or anyone else, ethics lessons.
You know, I kind of wish it did come out and was just a phenomenal platform, just to see slashdotters' response.
It's not that we don't want a Phantom console, it's just that I have this deed to the Brooklyn Bridge, and I'm strapped for cash, so I'm willing to let it go for cheap if you can pay cash right now...
er, I think you meant Macrovision shenanigans. Macromedia is the company that made Flash.
;-)
Right.
The flash ads sorta merged those hatreds into one
The finger-in-the-food story about Wendy's was a scam.
But it's funny! It's a contemporary way of retelling the "mutilate the person instead of stealing their wallet/card" mugging strategy.
The "No officer, I didn't mutilate no ones! I founds it at the Wendy's, sir! I's swears! I didn't tell them because they'd just say I brought it with me to scam them..." defense will one day join the Chewbacca Defense in infamy...
FUD that Wendy's doesn't deserve.
It's the price to pay for the publicity. Look how many times we have spread their name on this page! And it's getting past adblock, too.
how come people aren't framed for crimes with this methodology all the time?
The fake print doesn't leave the oily residue that skin does.
Unless you rub it on an oily person first... but then you leave DNA in the skin cells that come with.
Or, they are, all the time, and no cop ever noticed.
P.S. Someone mentioned severed fingers up there, there was a serial killer that kept the hands of his victims in a freezer. When he killed someone else, he would thaw out a hand and frame that person for this crime, and thus led police on a series of wild goose chases as they were investigating his victims as suspects on the run.
I'm amazed he was caught, frankly.
they both have to sit through around 10 minutes of adverts and trailers before it starts
I've long ago gotten the habit of the player (for movies or games) before I turn on the TV, or switch it to the channel on which the player shows up.
There's only so many times a man can watch the same pointless logos before he gets fed up.
You might need more caffeine...
He also borrows stuff from Tolkien, mainly names I think.
Tolkien recorded a reading of LOTR, you should hear his gollum... it's exactly Yoda.
Which is why I've beent telling people: Yoda is a sneaky one! He knows! He saw Anakin's future in ep1! That whole "cloudy" bit is all an act! He knows that the balance will be restored to the force by having the same amount of Jedis as there are Siths. 2 of each, so there is equilibrium, and he damn well intends to be one of the two!
I'm for the comeback of the death penalty ;-)
Luke: I thought my father was a NAVIGATOR ON A SPICE FREIGHTER
Can't believe no one has commented on this before.
I guess 'cause I wasn't the only one to hear that as "space freighter" : )
He borrowed the good ideas of so many people, it would have been sad if the whole hadn't reflected the parts.
I'll give you a couple of examples, there's plenty more:
The choosen one of millenial prophecies comes from this planet.
Capital of the Galactic Empire, from there goes forth a fleet of giant spaceships to enforce the central authority on far away worlds.
Lucas doesn't create: He recycles. There's nothing wrong with recycling, he did it well, but it's just not the same thing as having original ideas.
there's a few films where you wonder what he was thinking (like his positive review of "Anaconda").
I liked Anaconda: It's decent for a movie about a giant snake.
Once you're willingly going to see a movie about a giant snake, you let go of the premise when formulating a opinion on the actual quality of the movie itself, as opposed to rating the idea behind the movie.
Much like when I talk to people who've never heard of Firefly, I make sure to tell them right up front that it's Space Cowboys. If they can't deal with the concept, there's no point in continuing, they know all they need to know to base their opinion. If the concept of Space Cowboys is something they can swallow, then I tell them about the wrtiting, editing, lighting, acting, SFX, drama, pretty people, and all the other ways in which Firefly was excellent.
Hayden Christensen isn't helping matters either with his acting "talents".
To be honest, I'd have a hard time acting lines that are basically "whinning that I have superpowers", or "being very upset that I offed the people who kidnapped, tortured and killed my mom"...
Especially since he massacres people who are simply trying to stop him from trespassing in their droid factory, without any kind of afterthought, no regret, nothing. Apparently, he got over killing people on the way from Tatooine.
Kinda hard to get a grip of a character that makes no sense at all.
Rotten Tomatoes is one of the best examples of this. They simply assess a review as either favorable or unfavorable
Keep in mind their system isn't perfect. I've read reviews they had that were posted as "rotten" and the reviewer seemed to like it, but he put forth what he thought were the flaws up front, and then subtlely listed the qualities.
Still a good way to get a general feeling of how it's being recieved by the "community" though.