Now you got me wishing for the ultimate 80's sci-fi team up: Venkman, doc Brown and Buckarro Banzai fighting pan-dimensional time-travelling ghosts! : )
"Scotty" on Star Trek has just got his star on the sidewalk
And he was given an honorary degree in engineering by the Milkwaukee School of Engineering where apparently half of the students polled said they were inspired to study engineering by his role in Star Trek.
Well sure, she'd have been stuck with Gilligan, that abusive fat guy and the old married koot. The professor, however, was "stuck" on a tropical island with Marianne AND Ginger, and their other options are listed above.
I'm peeved at the blending that sci-fi and fantasy get too, but, they are linked, for good or ill.
I like, for example, LoTR as much as anyone else and find it one of the best trilogies ever (as novels). But, what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
Magic: Any technology, sufficiently advanced, yadiyadiyada.
Castles: Engineering is fun!
Dragons: When I read LOTR, the descriptions of the Dark Rider's flying mount was, to me, clearly the description of a mutated pterodactyl. The movie's image was an adaptation of a glorious illustration that, as artistically adept as it was, did not really follow the book's description. I was pissed at first, but seeing them move made me accept them with joy. There is talk that our legends of giants and dragons might have their origins in prehistoric people discovering dinosaur fossils and drawing conclusions: There are/were huge monsters! From there you build up with some flourish as generations go by, and they become more and more fantastic.
I do wish that sci-fi and fantasy weren't all lumped in one big mess like that, but they are not completely independant of one another, so I can live with it.
Repeat after me: I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
I will not post articles from a VP of marketing. I will not post articles from a VP of marketing. I will not post articles from a VP of marketing. I will not post articles from a VP of marketing....
Good, now continue. Even if he's from Apple and he's got a brand new toy to talk about, he is still a VP of Marketing. : )
You know your wife's taste in clothes, you sucessfully come on to drunk women in bars, russians and brazilians have shared with you their insight into north american sluttiness. What does any of that have to do with discrediting the genetics theory of colour perception?
Despite your uncanny ability to pick up chicks in bars and to tell wheter or not you like an art piece in under a minute, this doesn't change any of the data that actually pertains to the matter at hand: Women have better colour vision than men because 2 of the 3 pigments are coded on the X chromosome, of which they have two, and men have one.
Main Entry: 1game
Pronunciation: 'gAm Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gamen; akin to Old High German gaman amusement 1 a (1) : activity engaged in for diversion or amusement
Ultimately though it came down to micro management and resource gathering.
Nothing revolutionary.
Well, I Villagers need food... really liked the game. In fact, I found it quite Villagers need food... addictive.
Hell, I had a game tester job back in those Villagers need food... days, and I would spend my evenings playing that after a hard day's playing something else. Villagers need food...
It even did stuff like tell Villagers need food... you you'd been playing for a long time in a fun way. Once I came home straight from work and just played until the little devil Villagers need food... helper told me "Hey boss, its gettin' kinda late. Maybe you should rest a little.", that was surprising, and it made me realise it was 11:30 and I'd been playing for over 5 hours straight! : )
Villagers need food... death...
But man, the last level was a bitch, I never actually finished it. I get the feeling the game was released unfinished. In fact, I'm sure it was death.... That's why I like console games better, at least there is an authority such as Sony or Nintendo that forces the devs and editors to actually FINISH the game before they release it. Villagers need food... On PC its free-for-all, "patch it later" mentality. Sad really. death... death...
There is no such evidence that anyone plans to launch a nuke-tipped ICBM at us.
Oh, Bush is busy convincing people that it might be a good idea, invade enough people, it'll happen. He realised his approval rating rises when America is threatened, he's bound to make sure it stays threatened.
As for the whole space thing, its just a smoke and mirrors game to funnel money to his defense contractors. Yeah boys, take that cash and er...plan a trip to mars of something./cynic
I don't get it when people complain about artists they like not being sold, if you're a fan, you already have the albums.
Some people just like them without being fanatic who own every single piece of consummer product with their name on it. That's why.
Some people like star trek and do not own their own spock ears, some people like radiohead and do not already own every album released. Casual fans, if you like, not hardcore fans.
do we really need to make a fucking sequel of every god damn movie that found even partial success either in the theatre or cult/home markets? Baby Geniuses 2 [...] a lame fucking sequel
Oh fuck you man, the only thing these two have in common is that they are both sequels. Don't go comparing a stupid SFX gimmick movie with Clerks. Just don't.
Do we really need its status as a cult classic scarred by some overpriced, overhyped, overaged wannabe sequel? If he really loves the fanbase he created he would listen to us on this one. It's a bad idea for all those involved, seriously.
First of all, you don't know its going to be bad. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Secondly, I'm in the fanbase, I say make it. Why should he listen to naysayers like you instead of fans who are eager to see what he's actually going to make, instead of just simply assuming he is an incompetant looser who couldn't possibly know what he's doing? The characters were reused for Clercks Animated, in Jay and Silent Bob, etc, its not like this is a first you know.
What, he made a good movie, so now he should die young to keep it pure for you?
Cars used to overheat because of serious problems... Now they overheat because the $5 sensor (that costs $200 to have replaced) went out, and the electric fan didn't kick on when things were getting too hot... Meanwhile, a mechnical fan, connected to the engine shaft, would have worked just as well, never failed, and would have been cheaper.
The fan's drive belt breaks...
Things were not magically indestructible in the past, buster.
Although Logans Run is one of the best sci-fi films from its era (possibly ever)
I'm sorry, Logan's Run is an excellent sci-fi story, but the movie was horrible, and Star Wars came out the next year and blew it away out of the collective conciousness by being such a better film.
Brian Singer has been talking about remaking it. THAT is a good idea! Planet of the apes did not need to be butchered, Psycho did not need to be re-shot, but Logan's Run could use some competent direction.
Example of badness: When they escape the collapsing ice cave, there are chunks of ice falling over the exit. They stop to let them through, and as soon as the heros are through, thei otherwise uninterrupted stream of falling blocks of ice resumes. That's just ackward.
The fireball is shaped like a ball. But as it rises it creates a mushroom cloud, which is, well, shaped like a mushroom.
Here's a little trick to help you remember what they are shaped like, the one called a ball is shaped like a ball, and the one with the 'mushroom" adjective is shaped like a mushroom;-)
Wednesday, 22 January, 2003 Speaking on French television, President Chirac said "an extra delay is necessary" to give the weapons inspectors more time to search Iraq for banned arms.
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Wednesday in Paris they were not convinced a war with Iraq was necessary while U.N. arms inspectors were still searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
France, Russia and China -- all permanent members of the council -- have made it clear they will not be rushed by any pressure from Washington for action against Saddam Hussein, and have backed a call by U.N. inspectors for more time to carry out their searches in Iraq.
And lets throw in the Beligians in there, while we're at it: Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said the planning pandered to the "logic of war." In an interview with Belgian daily Le Soir today, Michel said: "Iraq seems ready to cooperate. Let's not rush things."
he company disputes that copyright has expired, so the song has not been liberated and other "infringers" could still be sued. This hasn't prevented anything in the future.
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Ahhh... Peter Venkman. Yes.
Now you got me wishing for the ultimate 80's sci-fi team up: Venkman, doc Brown and Buckarro Banzai fighting pan-dimensional time-travelling ghosts!
: )
"Scotty" on Star Trek has just got his star on the sidewalk
And he was given an honorary degree in engineering by the Milkwaukee School of Engineering where apparently half of the students polled said they were inspired to study engineering by his role in Star Trek.
Scully would have fixed the damned boat!
;-)
Well sure, she'd have been stuck with Gilligan, that abusive fat guy and the old married koot.
The professor, however, was "stuck" on a tropical island with Marianne AND Ginger, and their other options are listed above.
We would have done the same
What about Samantha Carter from Stargate?
Its fave scientist, not hottest scientist.
Beaker n a bikini though...that's notion.
Doctor who came in third. (sigh)
;-)
Buck up, I'm sure he'd win if it were a contest of time travelling scientists...
Bah, who am I kidding, doc Brown, hands down
From Star Trek Voyager. He's awesome :)
;-)
I liked him better when he wore the big green H on his forehead.
Homer : Is it Batman?
Marge : He's a scientist.
Homer : Batman's a scientist.
Actually, Marge says "No, its a scientist".
Then Homer points out that just because its a scientist doesn't mean its not Batman...
I'm peeved at the blending that sci-fi and fantasy get too, but, they are linked, for good or ill.
I like, for example, LoTR as much as anyone else and find it one of the best trilogies ever (as novels). But, what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
Magic: Any technology, sufficiently advanced, yadiyadiyada.
Castles: Engineering is fun!
Dragons: When I read LOTR, the descriptions of the Dark Rider's flying mount was, to me, clearly the description of a mutated pterodactyl. The movie's image was an adaptation of a glorious illustration that, as artistically adept as it was, did not really follow the book's description. I was pissed at first, but seeing them move made me accept them with joy.
There is talk that our legends of giants and dragons might have their origins in prehistoric people discovering dinosaur fossils and drawing conclusions: There are/were huge monsters! From there you build up with some flourish as generations go by, and they become more and more fantastic.
I do wish that sci-fi and fantasy weren't all lumped in one big mess like that, but they are not completely independant of one another, so I can live with it.
What does this statement mean? It's pretty much throwaway. I hate apple marketing.
Don't be a hater. Its not Apple specific, its marketing.
Salesmen and con artists are the same kind of people. : (
Repeat after me: I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
...
I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
I will not post articles from a VP of marketing.
Good, now continue. Even if he's from Apple and he's got a brand new toy to talk about, he is still a VP of Marketing. : )
I liked the death... whisper. It was deliciously creepy.
I just wished the damn villagers would work the fields instead of running away from it when I dropped them in it and watered it...
Stupid villagers.
What the hell?
You know your wife's taste in clothes, you sucessfully come on to drunk women in bars, russians and brazilians have shared with you their insight into north american sluttiness. What does any of that have to do with discrediting the genetics theory of colour perception?
Despite your uncanny ability to pick up chicks in bars and to tell wheter or not you like an art piece in under a minute, this doesn't change any of the data that actually pertains to the matter at hand: Women have better colour vision than men because 2 of the 3 pigments are coded on the X chromosome, of which they have two, and men have one.
It was a... unique game.
Well, I Villagers need food... really liked the game.
In fact, I found it quite Villagers need food... addictive.
Hell, I had a game tester job back in those Villagers need food... days, and I would spend my evenings playing that after a hard day's playing something else. Villagers need food...
It even did stuff like tell Villagers need food... you you'd been playing for a long time in a fun way. Once I came home straight from work and just played until the little devil Villagers need food... helper told me "Hey boss, its gettin' kinda late. Maybe you should rest a little.", that was surprising, and it made me realise it was 11:30 and I'd been playing for over 5 hours straight! : )
Villagers need food...
death...
But man, the last level was a bitch, I never actually finished it. I get the feeling the game was released unfinished. In fact, I'm sure it was death.... That's why I like console games better, at least there is an authority such as Sony or Nintendo that forces the devs and editors to actually FINISH the game before they release it. Villagers need food... On PC its free-for-all, "patch it later" mentality. Sad really.
death...
death...
There is no such evidence that anyone plans to launch a nuke-tipped ICBM at us.
/cynic
Oh, Bush is busy convincing people that it might be a good idea, invade enough people, it'll happen.
He realised his approval rating rises when America is threatened, he's bound to make sure it stays threatened.
As for the whole space thing, its just a smoke and mirrors game to funnel money to his defense contractors. Yeah boys, take that cash and er...plan a trip to mars of something.
I don't get it when people complain about artists they like not being sold, if you're a fan, you already have the albums.
Some people just like them without being fanatic who own every single piece of consummer product with their name on it. That's why.
Some people like star trek and do not own their own spock ears, some people like radiohead and do not already own every album released. Casual fans, if you like, not hardcore fans.
They have to pay for that, not him. What do you call that?
I call that a public library.
Will it still be in black & white?
No, because now he has one million dollars to pay for colour film.
That stuff is expensive...
do we really need to make a fucking sequel of every god damn movie that found even partial success either in the theatre or cult/home markets? Baby Geniuses 2 [...] a lame fucking sequel
Oh fuck you man, the only thing these two have in common is that they are both sequels. Don't go comparing a stupid SFX gimmick movie with Clerks. Just don't.
Do we really need its status as a cult classic scarred by some overpriced, overhyped, overaged wannabe sequel? If he really loves the fanbase he created he would listen to us on this one. It's a bad idea for all those involved, seriously.
First of all, you don't know its going to be bad. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Secondly, I'm in the fanbase, I say make it.
Why should he listen to naysayers like you instead of fans who are eager to see what he's actually going to make, instead of just simply assuming he is an incompetant looser who couldn't possibly know what he's doing? The characters were reused for Clercks Animated, in Jay and Silent Bob, etc, its not like this is a first you know.
What, he made a good movie, so now he should die young to keep it pure for you?
First Swift Boats are against Kerry.
;-)
Now bikes are against Bush.
This is only the beginning. The machines will soon rule us all...
I want to see "vibrators against bush"...no seriously, where are those pics?
Cars used to overheat because of serious problems... Now they overheat because the $5 sensor (that costs $200 to have replaced) went out, and the electric fan didn't kick on when things were getting too hot... Meanwhile, a mechnical fan, connected to the engine shaft, would have worked just as well, never failed, and would have been cheaper.
The fan's drive belt breaks...
Things were not magically indestructible in the past, buster.
Although Logans Run is one of the best sci-fi films from its era (possibly ever)
I'm sorry, Logan's Run is an excellent sci-fi story, but the movie was horrible, and Star Wars came out the next year and blew it away out of the collective conciousness by being such a better film.
Brian Singer has been talking about remaking it. THAT is a good idea!
Planet of the apes did not need to be butchered, Psycho did not need to be re-shot, but Logan's Run could use some competent direction.
Example of badness: When they escape the collapsing ice cave, there are chunks of ice falling over the exit. They stop to let them through, and as soon as the heros are through, thei otherwise uninterrupted stream of falling blocks of ice resumes. That's just ackward.
a mushroom-shaped fireball
;-)
Tsk tsk tsk
The fireball is shaped like a ball. But as it rises it creates a mushroom cloud, which is, well, shaped like a mushroom.
Here's a little trick to help you remember what they are shaped like, the one called a ball is shaped like a ball, and the one with the 'mushroom" adjective is shaped like a mushroom
When did Germany and France say there was no WMD?
Wednesday, 22 January, 2003
Speaking on French television, President Chirac said "an extra delay is necessary" to give the weapons inspectors more time to search Iraq for banned arms.
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Wednesday in Paris they were not convinced a war with Iraq was necessary while U.N. arms inspectors were still searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
France, Russia and China -- all permanent members of the council -- have made it clear they will not be rushed by any pressure from Washington for action against Saddam Hussein, and have backed a call by U.N. inspectors for more time to carry out their searches in Iraq.
And lets throw in the Beligians in there, while we're at it:
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said the planning pandered to the "logic of war." In an interview with Belgian daily Le Soir today, Michel said: "Iraq seems ready to cooperate. Let's not rush things."
he company disputes that copyright has expired, so the song has not been liberated and other "infringers" could still be sued. This hasn't prevented anything in the future.
Dang, I had misunderstood.