I was one of the fortunate few who got to see this at the Lucasfilm Premier Theater in San Francisco this Tuesday. Best theater I've ever experienced...digital projection, awesome sound system, comfortable seating...it was a treat! I liked the movie. It was pretty good...maybe not great, but definitely worth the price of a ticket. The monster was very cool!
I only have two complaints. 1.) I needed some Dramamine for some of those shaky camera shots. Maybe the point was to make you feel disoriented, but I think it detracted from the experience as I had to look away at times. 2.) I thought the last shot of the monster made it seem smaller than all the other shots. This thing was as big as a sky scraper in the beginning and it looked significantly smaller during the closeup shot. Anyone else notice or is it just me? Maybe the camera was zoomer in.
Keep in mind, Jack started this anti-game crusade after he discovered his son was playing them. So like any batshit crazy parent void of reason, instead of actually acting like a sensible parent and monitoring his child's activities, he's attacking the whole industry like a mother grizzly bear separated from her cubs. I guess he thinks it's easier to sink the video game industry than teach his kid the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, fantasy and reality...actually, I'm not so sure he can tell the difference between those last two.
Here's hoping somebody adds a "Jack Thompson's Grave" level to Dance Dance Revolution until we have the real thing to get down on.
Agreed. True fans will appreciate the new material even if they don't think it's as good as the original stuff. Fanboy-purists will never be happy with anything outside the original trilogy...never! Luckily, I think the good folks at LucasFilm have long since realized this and learned to ignore their whining.
It's not really about loudness, it's about dynamic range. Let's say the pre-mastered mix of the song has a peak of -1.0dBFS and an average volume of -9dBFS. Now what a lot of mastering engineers in the "loudness war" will do is limit the hell out of the song by setting the peak at 0dB (the loudest level a digital signal can be before distorting) and pump up the average until there's almost no different between peak and average volume. Some of them do it to the point of creating broadband distortion (there's a Jane's Addiction song that's notorious for this..."True Nature" I think.)
Imagine watching Star Wars where everything is as loud as the Death Star explosion.
I don't know about the 10% part, but MP3s do not sound good...decent maybe, but not good. For my iPod, I encode my CDs to AAC 320kbps and even that's not great. I don't necessarily consider myself an audiophile, but, due to my work, I definitely hear things better than the average listener.
Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but I find it near impossible to bring myself to pay $50 for a game. $30 is acceptable, even $40 if the game is good enough with a lengthy amount of play value. I did pay $50 for WiiPlay, but only because it included a Wiimote.
I've used HandBrake and it's successor MediaFork, both good for DVD-to-file conversion, but if you want to go DVD-to-DVD-R, MacTheRipper and Roxio Toast are your friends.
Ditto. My mother, who hasn't played a video game since the original NES version of Super Mario Bros., tried the Wii for the first time last week and loved it. She must have played Wii Play fishing for an hour.
Given all the DRM/DCMA/Patriot Act rules, half the stuff I do on my computer is probably illegal. Lucky for me, words on paper have never prevented me from doing any of it and I doubt putting more words on paper will either.
How about just not buying the product/service being advertised? I hate that mindless "head on, apply directly to the forehead..." commercial. Therefore, no matter how much my head may hurt, I'll never buy or use that product. When the consumer support for a product disappears so will the advertising for it.
My favorite games of all time! I still play them with Nestopia and BSNES emulators. I'm not sure what it is about them that I like so much, but whatever it is, most new games just don't have it.
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Cue the whining fanboys to cry some more over the prequels.
I was one of the fortunate few who got to see this at the Lucasfilm Premier Theater in San Francisco this Tuesday. Best theater I've ever experienced...digital projection, awesome sound system, comfortable seating...it was a treat! I liked the movie. It was pretty good...maybe not great, but definitely worth the price of a ticket. The monster was very cool! I only have two complaints. 1.) I needed some Dramamine for some of those shaky camera shots. Maybe the point was to make you feel disoriented, but I think it detracted from the experience as I had to look away at times. 2.) I thought the last shot of the monster made it seem smaller than all the other shots. This thing was as big as a sky scraper in the beginning and it looked significantly smaller during the closeup shot. Anyone else notice or is it just me? Maybe the camera was zoomer in.
Dear Taliban/Al Queda/Nutso Islamic Terroritst,
RIAA has a big image of Muhammad in all their offices and regularly mock the good name of Islam. Just thought you'd like to know.
~
Keep in mind, Jack started this anti-game crusade after he discovered his son was playing them. So like any batshit crazy parent void of reason, instead of actually acting like a sensible parent and monitoring his child's activities, he's attacking the whole industry like a mother grizzly bear separated from her cubs. I guess he thinks it's easier to sink the video game industry than teach his kid the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, fantasy and reality...actually, I'm not so sure he can tell the difference between those last two. Here's hoping somebody adds a "Jack Thompson's Grave" level to Dance Dance Revolution until we have the real thing to get down on.
...right after Axl finishes Chinese Democracy.
But I don't see what monitoring hours and hours of porn surfing is gonna do for them.
They are just cleverly disguised as elevator animations and other transition scenes.
What was your favorite movie riffed on the show? Were they any bad movies you wanted to riff that MST3K never aired?
I've torrented gigs of it so far with little or no problems :-)
Agreed. True fans will appreciate the new material even if they don't think it's as good as the original stuff. Fanboy-purists will never be happy with anything outside the original trilogy...never! Luckily, I think the good folks at LucasFilm have long since realized this and learned to ignore their whining.
No, no. He needs a new Johnson rod in there.
It's not really about loudness, it's about dynamic range. Let's say the pre-mastered mix of the song has a peak of -1.0dBFS and an average volume of -9dBFS. Now what a lot of mastering engineers in the "loudness war" will do is limit the hell out of the song by setting the peak at 0dB (the loudest level a digital signal can be before distorting) and pump up the average until there's almost no different between peak and average volume. Some of them do it to the point of creating broadband distortion (there's a Jane's Addiction song that's notorious for this..."True Nature" I think.)
Imagine watching Star Wars where everything is as loud as the Death Star explosion.
It worked for the music industry with their "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics/Content" stickers.
I don't know about the 10% part, but MP3s do not sound good...decent maybe, but not good. For my iPod, I encode my CDs to AAC 320kbps and even that's not great. I don't necessarily consider myself an audiophile, but, due to my work, I definitely hear things better than the average listener.
Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but I find it near impossible to bring myself to pay $50 for a game. $30 is acceptable, even $40 if the game is good enough with a lengthy amount of play value. I did pay $50 for WiiPlay, but only because it included a Wiimote.
The tentacles had been badly damaged, so the overall length of the animal could not be determined...
So hentai girls can now breathe a little easier.
I've used HandBrake and it's successor MediaFork, both good for DVD-to-file conversion, but if you want to go DVD-to-DVD-R, MacTheRipper and Roxio Toast are your friends.
Politicians continue to destroy the country, the world, and life in general. Doing their job as usual I see.
Tell me again why anyone even votes at all.
Ditto. My mother, who hasn't played a video game since the original NES version of Super Mario Bros., tried the Wii for the first time last week and loved it. She must have played Wii Play fishing for an hour.
Given all the DRM/DCMA/Patriot Act rules, half the stuff I do on my computer is probably illegal. Lucky for me, words on paper have never prevented me from doing any of it and I doubt putting more words on paper will either.
"...if you happen to want what Apple has decided you need"
Like what? Wardware, software? What exactly does this guy think Apple is cramming down his throat?
How about just not buying the product/service being advertised? I hate that mindless "head on, apply directly to the forehead..." commercial. Therefore, no matter how much my head may hurt, I'll never buy or use that product. When the consumer support for a product disappears so will the advertising for it.
My favorite games of all time! I still play them with Nestopia and BSNES emulators. I'm not sure what it is about them that I like so much, but whatever it is, most new games just don't have it.
followed by "Care for another?"
and not just hidden by Dharma beneath some electromagnetic field?