"Their T-shirts, socks and underwear have a special silver thread lining that absorbs odor and keeps items wearable longer."
"Now this is made from a space-age fabric specially designed for Elvis. Sweat actually cleans this suit!"
More spoilers in the explanation below. But really, why are you reading this deep if you haven't seen it?
The "paradox free time travel" was more of a comedic and dramatic device to parody the paradoxes and seeming paradoxes that usually crop up in popular time travel tales than an attempt to eliminate them. In the commentary, they talk about how the "paradox free time travel" started off as an over the top comedic device, but as they went along in the writing process, they kept on trying to clean up the plot holes.
The only "paradox correction" the time code makes is that is if you travel back from time T2 to T1, creating a new timeline/parallel universe/whatever you want to call it, you must once again travel back from time T2 to T1 in the new reality or you are doomed. (And it's the you that was already in the timeline at time T1 that becomes doomed, not the one that appeared in the bubble at time T1). Bender probably did pull a very confusing maneuver to get the duplicate body for Hermes. (I assume he went back to before the start of the movie, grabs Hermes and travels further back in time with him. Upon emerging from the time code the second time, he then leaves the Hermes he just traveled with to get decapitated by the saber. He grabs the other Hermes from the time he just emerged at and keeps him from traveling back in time with Bender in the first place, thereby creating a paradox and dooming him. He waits to catch up to the point Hermes asked for the body, and delivers it to him, having decapitated it himself. I actually suspect in the next movie we'll find out he did something even more complicated and there's at least one more Hermes floating around.)
In creating Cinematic Titanic, particularly in coming up with the basic format and premise, how often do you find yourselves saying 'we can't do this, it's too much like mst' or 'here's something we always wanted to do, but couldn't inside the mst framework'?
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Well, they won't make the same mistake they did with the new R+S - I'm sure they'll get Billy West back.
Seriously, there are a lot of factors that led to the failure of the Ren and Stimpy's adult swim or whatever it was called that aren't present here. There wasn't the bloody custody battle like John K. had with Nick and the resultant split of the creative staff. The show's not going from "a kid's show written for the adults who make it" to "a show for adults. or at least, not for anybody under 18". The gap in production, while long, is nowhere near a decade. While David X. Cohen hasn't gotten a lot of (any?) projects of the ground in the iterim, he and Matt Groening are not the "do not play well with others" personalities who had to spend the post Fuuturama time coasting on their past success.
Though, I will agree that there's a good chance the show will not come back on track, but there's little chance it won't come out better than Drawn Together (Damning with faint praise, I know).
Anyhow, this is probably the first time I've had a good feeling towards Comedy Central since they canned MST.
Malda and company would be living off ramen and store-brand Mountain Dew in less than a week.
Would this be any different from their current state of affair?
...I'll point out that they prefer to be called just plain "University at Buffalo" now, none of that low class SUNY stuff (even though they still are part of the SUNY system).
My Douglas Adams signing story:
I was in a group that put on live perfomrances of the plays on our college radio station. When DNA and several other authors were having a reading/signing nearby, we all headed off to see him. During his reading, he did a very good performance as Marvin the paranoid android. So, when my turn came, I explained what our group did and told him he was welcome to drop by and play Marvin for us any time. He laughed politely and my fannish compliment. But, the guy who was playing Marvin for us at the time was right behind me in the line, heard what I said and felt immediately threatened - "But I'm a good Marvin!" he blurted out. Fortunately DNA either didn't hear him, or pretended not to.
It seems that they're comparing models of a software developed with frequent releases (Bazaar, which they declare to be "OSS") against infrequent releases (Cathedral, which they declare to be "closed"). The always better that they come up appears to be based on the release cycle, not the visibilty of the code.
(I haven't quite been able to parse how well their theory maps tot eh data they mined from linux and mozilla, though)
From the article: TNN is expected to bring back series creator John Kricfalusi
It sounds like they may do new shows without him. Ouch. And if he does return, I'd be surprised if he didn't do Ren's voice. I'd be more worried that he wouldn't ask Billy West back to do the voice of Stimpy, on account of West sticking with Nick.
Actually, once he gets done arguing in defense of old code and gets down to talking about what to with the old code that has to go, refactoring is exactly what he's arguing for, both in is his response here:
<Joel>If a piece of your code is ugly and doesn't work, by all means, rewrite that piece.</Joel>
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"Their T-shirts, socks and underwear have a special silver thread lining that absorbs odor and keeps items wearable longer." "Now this is made from a space-age fabric specially designed for Elvis. Sweat actually cleans this suit!"
More spoilers in the explanation below. But really, why are you reading this deep if you haven't seen it? The "paradox free time travel" was more of a comedic and dramatic device to parody the paradoxes and seeming paradoxes that usually crop up in popular time travel tales than an attempt to eliminate them. In the commentary, they talk about how the "paradox free time travel" started off as an over the top comedic device, but as they went along in the writing process, they kept on trying to clean up the plot holes. The only "paradox correction" the time code makes is that is if you travel back from time T2 to T1, creating a new timeline/parallel universe/whatever you want to call it, you must once again travel back from time T2 to T1 in the new reality or you are doomed. (And it's the you that was already in the timeline at time T1 that becomes doomed, not the one that appeared in the bubble at time T1). Bender probably did pull a very confusing maneuver to get the duplicate body for Hermes. (I assume he went back to before the start of the movie, grabs Hermes and travels further back in time with him. Upon emerging from the time code the second time, he then leaves the Hermes he just traveled with to get decapitated by the saber. He grabs the other Hermes from the time he just emerged at and keeps him from traveling back in time with Bender in the first place, thereby creating a paradox and dooming him. He waits to catch up to the point Hermes asked for the body, and delivers it to him, having decapitated it himself. I actually suspect in the next movie we'll find out he did something even more complicated and there's at least one more Hermes floating around.)
In creating Cinematic Titanic, particularly in coming up with the basic format and premise, how often do you find yourselves saying 'we can't do this, it's too much like mst' or 'here's something we always wanted to do, but couldn't inside the mst framework'?
Well, they won't make the same mistake they did with the new R+S - I'm sure they'll get Billy West back. Seriously, there are a lot of factors that led to the failure of the Ren and Stimpy's adult swim or whatever it was called that aren't present here. There wasn't the bloody custody battle like John K. had with Nick and the resultant split of the creative staff. The show's not going from "a kid's show written for the adults who make it" to "a show for adults. or at least, not for anybody under 18". The gap in production, while long, is nowhere near a decade. While David X. Cohen hasn't gotten a lot of (any?) projects of the ground in the iterim, he and Matt Groening are not the "do not play well with others" personalities who had to spend the post Fuuturama time coasting on their past success. Though, I will agree that there's a good chance the show will not come back on track, but there's little chance it won't come out better than Drawn Together (Damning with faint praise, I know). Anyhow, this is probably the first time I've had a good feeling towards Comedy Central since they canned MST.
Yeah right. I'll believe it when I don't see it.
That trailer makes the Star Wars III trailer look like a stupid cartoon.
But then, an episode of Clutch Cargo would also have that effect.
Here's the video used by te Ig Nobel researchers:
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http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.htm
Malda and company would be living off ramen and store-brand Mountain Dew in less than a week. Would this be any different from their current state of affair?
...I'll point out that they prefer to be called just plain "University at Buffalo" now, none of that low class SUNY stuff (even though they still are part of the SUNY system).
...they should add the technology to this robot?
My Douglas Adams signing story:
I was in a group that put on live perfomrances of the plays on our college radio station. When DNA and several other authors were having a reading/signing nearby, we all headed off to see him. During his reading, he did a very good performance as Marvin the paranoid android. So, when my turn came, I explained what our group did and told him he was welcome to drop by and play Marvin for us any time. He laughed politely and my fannish compliment. But, the guy who was playing Marvin for us at the time was right behind me in the line, heard what I said and felt immediately threatened - "But I'm a good Marvin!" he blurted out. Fortunately DNA either didn't hear him, or pretended not to.
They're just a Segment of the population.
Are you sure this is a George Lucas film?
They mention screwing 4k lightbulbs into the Heart of Gold. Anybody else flash on another sci-fi franchise when they read that?
It seems that they're comparing models of a software developed with frequent releases (Bazaar, which they declare to be "OSS") against infrequent releases (Cathedral, which they declare to be "closed"). The always better that they come up appears to be based on the release cycle, not the visibilty of the code. (I haven't quite been able to parse how well their theory maps tot eh data they mined from linux and mozilla, though)
From the article:
That said, a six-man writing team (including [Al] Jean himself) are on the job, working on the script of the first Simpsons movie.
Don't know who the other five are, but Al Jean was there in season 1 and I think just about every season since.
TNN is expected to bring back series creator John Kricfalusi
It sounds like they may do new shows without him. Ouch. And if he does return, I'd be surprised if he didn't do Ren's voice. I'd be more worried that he wouldn't ask Billy West back to do the voice of Stimpy, on account of West sticking with Nick.
Actually, once he gets done arguing in defense of old code and gets down to talking about what to with the old code that has to go, refactoring is exactly what he's arguing for, both in is his response here:
<Joel>If a piece of your code is ugly and doesn't work, by all means, rewrite that piece.</Joel>
and in his longer piece about saving old code on his site (about two thirds of the way down).
But as a pretty regular reader of his site, he sometimes seems to have an almost religious devotion to old code.