I don't know if I agree on the plotlines being simple. If you watch any episode in the past 10 or so years, you can easily forget how the episode started at all. I happen to like the convolutedness(real word?) of it. It makes the episodes seem longer and it's funny just for being so absurd. I think it would be easy to make a movie just by extending some of the twising, non-linear plotlines of the episodes.
It seems that most commercials and tv shows over-compensate for female equality. On the rare occasion that I catch a new prime-time "family" sitcom, the dad is usually a big idiot and the mom is the one who holds the home together. Especially in commercials when the wife will leave the man of the house in charge of dinner, and he doesn't know how to boil water or something. It's pretty lame. Personaly, I've found that this formula only works on The Simpsons, Family Guy, and maybe a couple of other, genuinly funny, shows.
I guess this is a concept that would confuse most slashdotters. Most of us just think of it as "that thing you used to in gym right before a pain rips through your side and takes you to the ground, out of breath".
Baby Leia is under the care of Bail Organa on Alderaan. R2-D2, C-3PO and Jar
Jar Binks are with them.
Soooo... let's asume Jar Jar dies when Vader destroys Alderaan. If this is the way it happens, it only provides another reason for Vader being my favorite character.
Let's cut the B.S. here folks. We all know that Harrison Ford is what made all the "Good" movies above as "Good" as they are. It's no wonder Lucas got jealous and castrated Solo's BadAssness in the "Remastered" movies by having Greedo shoot first.
It seems to me that if those things are OFF TOPIC, then any recreational activity is as well. Should we do nothing in life except sustain ourselfves just enough so that we can follow worthwhile causes? If that's the case, then I must be a pretty terrible person, since the only hungry person I help feed is my room-mate.
Not to be cruel or anything. But what has gotten into Americans/Japanese about this irrational fear of dying and the desire to be breathing (not necessarily alive) for incredibly long periods of time.
Your opinion on this is worth jack until you reach the age of 65, at least.
The eskimo had older people in thier societies as well. When they got to an age where thier wisdom, skills, etc were of no value to the society, it was understood that the older person would take a walk on the ice and go to sleep, and not wake up.
Yeah, like they didn't want to kill themselves anyway. They lived in the artic tundra for christ's sake. I'd wanna take a eternal nap too.
"Asian", as a denoter of a human ethnicity, is a lousy word. You can't lump in Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Polynesians, and Russians in the same group--doing that widens the grouping so much you might as well include everyone.
C'mon, it's being used as a cultural term, not a geographical one. When you say someone is "Asian", no one thinks you're talking about a Russian, or Arab person. You would've said "Russian", or "Arab".
Regarding the whole, racism in America thing, the reason many people think that racism isn't such a big deal anymore is because the people who still feel that way know how to hide it. You don't see as many brutal hate crimes on TV anymore, but my roommate still gets pulled over 2 or 3 times a month (they're looking for drugs, which he has never done or sold), and I still get people talking about moving thier kids to a different school district so that they don't have to be with "those black people" or whatever, not knowing that I have a son who is mixed. These kinds of things really worry me. My son is black as far as society is concerned, and he may be sitting accross the interview desk from one of these bigots someday.
Are you serious? Does this really puzzle you? It's just the way that the term has been used in the past when addressing women. Wife beaters throughout history have been barking orders at women while calling them "woman" just to remind them that they aren't men, and don't deserve the same respect. Of course it's gonna offend your "female friend" when you use it in the same context.
remember all of those people playing the leaked alpha and seeing the "doom 3 slideshow"?
I've got a radeon 8500le with a XP1800+ and 512MB DDR. It ran ok on my system. I imagine that since that was an alpha version they will probably optimize the code a little before it's released. That's not to say that I won't be upgrading before then, but I bet a 9500pro could run it pretty well (around your price range).
Just because some toy company marketing drone puts out toys that limit the imagination doesn't mean kids play with them that way.
I remember when they started coming out with g.i. joes with ridiculous backbacks that made battle noises, and huge, stupid looking guns that shot water and little projectiles. I said basically the same thing you're saying. "What's wrong with the kid making the noise! You can make it sound however you want! Kids are lame now" Then I had a son. All his toys have some soundmaking button, or remote or some other automated fun feature, but he hardly ever uses them. He's four now and is completely capable of using the remote for the crappy little cars he has, but he doesn't. He pushes them around on whatever little obstacle course he fasions out. He doesn't push the button on the 12in power ranger figure he has, he makes the WOOSH and ZAP noises himself. From my own experience kids hardly ever play with toys in reality the way the actors play with them in the commercials. The toys may have changed, but the way kids play hasn't.
That's like saying the people who design home security systems for a living should have been criminals at some point in their lives.
Haven't you ever seen Beverly Hills Cop? Having "bent the occasional law" in the past makes you an extraordinary law enforcement officer. It also lets you show the button down squares how to solve a case in the most hilarious and zany way possible.
Actually, there's plenty of PA defamation going on. I guess batjew is one of thier friends, but on the forums at his site they have a lot of stupid (and a few funny) parodies.
I like how a joke response to an April Fools joke is modded as offtopic. No, wait....I don't like that. Hold on. Actually I don't care. Forget I said anything.
I'm sorry, vi..de..o? Oh I see, it was a spelling error. It's supposed to be "DVD".
But speaking of anime on american tv, I really enjoy watching lupin III on adult swim. I had seen cagliostro (or whatever) and enjoyed it, but I never saw the series. Very funny stuff. Except for the out of place pop culture references. In one of the eps a guy says "I bet that guy could bench press Shaq!" I mean really. This show was made in the 70's. Anyone watching at 11pm knows this. Or maybe I'm just too sensitive.
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I don't know if I agree on the plotlines being simple. If you watch any episode in the past 10 or so years, you can easily forget how the episode started at all. I happen to like the convolutedness(real word?) of it. It makes the episodes seem longer and it's funny just for being so absurd. I think it would be easy to make a movie just by extending some of the twising, non-linear plotlines of the episodes.
It seems that most commercials and tv shows over-compensate for female equality. On the rare occasion that I catch a new prime-time "family" sitcom, the dad is usually a big idiot and the mom is the one who holds the home together. Especially in commercials when the wife will leave the man of the house in charge of dinner, and he doesn't know how to boil water or something. It's pretty lame. Personaly, I've found that this formula only works on The Simpsons, Family Guy, and maybe a couple of other, genuinly funny, shows.
That's right, The Simpsons can do no wrong.
I don't know the technicalities, but my roommate plays N64 roms on his, and they run fine.
I guess this is a concept that would confuse most slashdotters. Most of us just think of it as "that thing you used to in gym right before a pain rips through your side and takes you to the ground, out of breath".
DUN DUN DUUUUN!!!!
I always liked "Dropping a deuce".
you can get iTunes for Windows
I think he knows it's on windows since he said "I'm only using it on Windows"
Hmmmm....
The first three SW movies = Good
The Indiana Jones movies = Good
The most recent 2 SW movies = Bad
Let's cut the B.S. here folks. We all know that Harrison Ford is what made all the "Good" movies above as "Good" as they are. It's no wonder Lucas got jealous and castrated Solo's BadAssness in the "Remastered" movies by having Greedo shoot first.
It seems to me that if those things are OFF TOPIC, then any recreational activity is as well. Should we do nothing in life except sustain ourselfves just enough so that we can follow worthwhile causes? If that's the case, then I must be a pretty terrible person, since the only hungry person I help feed is my room-mate.
You don't need a new shirt. You need new peers.
Yeah, like they didn't want to kill themselves anyway. They lived in the artic tundra for christ's sake. I'd wanna take a eternal nap too.
"Asian", as a denoter of a human ethnicity, is a lousy word. You can't lump in Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Polynesians, and Russians in the same group--doing that widens the grouping so much you might as well include everyone.
C'mon, it's being used as a cultural term, not a geographical one. When you say someone is "Asian", no one thinks you're talking about a Russian, or Arab person. You would've said "Russian", or "Arab".
Regarding the whole, racism in America thing, the reason many people think that racism isn't such a big deal anymore is because the people who still feel that way know how to hide it. You don't see as many brutal hate crimes on TV anymore, but my roommate still gets pulled over 2 or 3 times a month (they're looking for drugs, which he has never done or sold), and I still get people talking about moving thier kids to a different school district so that they don't have to be with "those black people" or whatever, not knowing that I have a son who is mixed. These kinds of things really worry me. My son is black as far as society is concerned, and he may be sitting accross the interview desk from one of these bigots someday.
Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John, 1980
Sonny, when asked by his boss when a painting would be turned in replied, "When it's done".
I win!
Are you serious? Does this really puzzle you? It's just the way that the term has been used in the past when addressing women. Wife beaters throughout history have been barking orders at women while calling them "woman" just to remind them that they aren't men, and don't deserve the same respect. Of course it's gonna offend your "female friend" when you use it in the same context.
Just because some toy company marketing drone puts out toys that limit the imagination doesn't mean kids play with them that way.
I remember when they started coming out with g.i. joes with ridiculous backbacks that made battle noises, and huge, stupid looking guns that shot water and little projectiles. I said basically the same thing you're saying. "What's wrong with the kid making the noise! You can make it sound however you want! Kids are lame now" Then I had a son. All his toys have some soundmaking button, or remote or some other automated fun feature, but he hardly ever uses them. He's four now and is completely capable of using the remote for the crappy little cars he has, but he doesn't. He pushes them around on whatever little obstacle course he fasions out. He doesn't push the button on the 12in power ranger figure he has, he makes the WOOSH and ZAP noises himself. From my own experience kids hardly ever play with toys in reality the way the actors play with them in the commercials. The toys may have changed, but the way kids play hasn't.
This is the strip that always comes to mind when someone mentions PA. Granted, it's pretty old, but it hits pretty close to home.
Actually, there's plenty of PA defamation going on. I guess batjew is one of thier friends, but on the forums at his site they have a lot of stupid (and a few funny) parodies.
I always figured it was because most of the workers that I see go into them are round. *rimshot*
I like how a joke response to an April Fools joke is modded as offtopic. No, wait....I don't like that. Hold on. Actually I don't care. Forget I said anything.
But speaking of anime on american tv, I really enjoy watching lupin III on adult swim. I had seen cagliostro (or whatever) and enjoyed it, but I never saw the series. Very funny stuff. Except for the out of place pop culture references. In one of the eps a guy says "I bet that guy could bench press Shaq!" I mean really. This show was made in the 70's. Anyone watching at 11pm knows this. Or maybe I'm just too sensitive.
Tightest...Budget...Ever.
"Hey man, you wanna go see this movie in 3 years when it's done?"
"I don't think so. I gotta save up for that glasses 'script I'll be renewing around then. Those lenses ain't cheap."
I wish I had your disipline.