Full Throttle 2 will be released next year. And if you missed Grim Fandango a few years ago, well, get to your local $10 bin posthaste! It's a masterpiece!
But other than the Monkey Island games, LA has been less than productive in the adventure game market they once ruled. IJ and the Infernal Machine wasn't bad, but it was in the Tomb Raider vein.
You see? Just weeks after the featherless chicken is achieved, science finds a use for the feathers. You never know what wonderous breakthough you're inadvertently breeding out of existence.
That guy rulez! A bit of trivia: his brother Murray Head plays Judas on the original recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and was an 80s one-hit wonder with "One Night in Bangkok" (from the musical "Chess")
Man, if only someone could come up with a method for selling other products the same way the record industry sells them.
Yeah, just imagine, you hook your car up to your computer, and boom, you have another car exactly like it! Which you only do in case your other one breaks, of course. That way, you don't have to run to the car manufacturer every time it gets in a wreck or stolen to get our free replacement that you're automatically entitled to, because dammit, you already paid for one car, you have a right to that car no matter what happens to it once you buy it!
Note to the unwise - vinyl sales are on the up, they have been for 5 years. At least 50% of the major single releases each week are available on vinyl. 100% of dance oriented ones are. The vast majority of dance music (the biggest selling sector in europe) is ONLY available on vinyl.
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... AAY!"
And turntables regularly out-do guitars in the annual christmas gift surveys
I don't care, I'm still going to replace my record collection with my own guitar playing.
But what do you think will happen once there's no alternative? the same thing that happened to CD prices, maybe? We'll see how happy the/. community is about this in a year.
At my high school, 4 seasons of sports got you out the the phys ed requirement. Oddly, marching band counted as a "sport" for this purpose. An hour of DDR is probably more rigorous than a whole season of marching band, at least at my school.
I can think of two reasons: 1) Lucas didn't want him to, or 2) Yoda is really pretty stupid.
For that matter, why didn't the Jedi:
just float the entire arena into orbit?
Or the arena monsters?
disengage the locks on their handcuffs?
flip the Federation ships so they launched into the ground (I haven't seen anyone mention the "Concentrate all guns on the nearest ship"/"Concentrate all firepower on the Super Star Destroyer" parallel)?
This tech will allow people to "drive a car simply by thinking about doing so"
Of course, thinking about driving will be an entirely new skill, now only inherent in about 10% of the population.
Beauty and the Beast is the worst example you can use. If it ended with Beauty happily married to the devastatingly ugly (but intelligent, kind etc) Beast then it might support your case.
That's just plain old Hollywood beauty. I don't question Hollywood favors beauty in general. We're talking about ugly villains here, and Gaston is portrayed as quite the hunk of man.
Besides, "devastatingly ugly"? The "beast" is actually a very handsome creature in Disney's version; more Hollywood beauty. But I don't think it takes a lot of imagination to realize why he had to become human to become Belle's lover.
Socalist, Capitalist, Communist, Terrorist. *ist==government
Really? In that case, I think I'll run Preident under the Physicist party. Maybe the Pianist. Therapist? Racist, perhaps? No, Absurdist!
-ist
suff.
1. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
2. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
3. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
4. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist.
5. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist
See: almost every disney movie. Especially snow white.
In which the attractive witch murders the beautiful girl out of jealousy? Yeah, great example there. If anything, SWatSD expounds the evil of vanity.
Then there's Beauty and the Beast, where the vain stud is the evil character.
In fact, the only Disney movie I can think of offhand where the evil are clearly ugly is The Little Mermaid.
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That's not what LucasArts says.
Full Throttle 2 will be released next year. And if you missed Grim Fandango a few years ago, well, get to your local $10 bin posthaste! It's a masterpiece!
But other than the Monkey Island games, LA has been less than productive in the adventure game market they once ruled. IJ and the Infernal Machine wasn't bad, but it was in the Tomb Raider vein.
I need a copy of DoTT, badly!
...the unread masses will poo-poo it as a Dogma ripoff, and it will unfortunately tank.
There are those miniature Swingline staplers, though. Those are red and Swingline, aren't they?
Errr, so the pre-WWII workplace insisted on multicolored objects?
Seeing as color wasn't invented until the late 1930's, how could it?
You see? Just weeks after the featherless chicken is achieved, science finds a use for the feathers. You never know what wonderous breakthough you're inadvertently breeding out of existence.
That guy rulez! A bit of trivia: his brother Murray Head plays Judas on the original recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and was an 80s one-hit wonder with "One Night in Bangkok" (from the musical "Chess")
Man, if only someone could come up with a method for selling other products the same way the record industry sells them.
Yeah, just imagine, you hook your car up to your computer, and boom, you have another car exactly like it! Which you only do in case your other one breaks, of course. That way, you don't have to run to the car manufacturer every time it gets in a wreck or stolen to get our free replacement that you're automatically entitled to, because dammit, you already paid for one car, you have a right to that car no matter what happens to it once you buy it!
Just a second. It's for you. AAAAAAAAAH!
Note to the unwise - vinyl sales are on the up, they have been for 5 years. At least 50% of the major single releases each week are available on vinyl. 100% of dance oriented ones are. The vast majority of dance music (the biggest selling sector in europe) is ONLY available on vinyl.
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... AAY!"
And turntables regularly out-do guitars in the annual christmas gift surveys
I don't care, I'm still going to replace my record collection with my own guitar playing.
But what do you think will happen once there's no alternative? the same thing that happened to CD prices, maybe? We'll see how happy the /. community is about this in a year.
At my high school, 4 seasons of sports got you out the the phys ed requirement. Oddly, marching band counted as a "sport" for this purpose. An hour of DDR is probably more rigorous than a whole season of marching band, at least at my school.
Um, neither are Galaxy-spanning Empires woven together with FTL starships and communicators...
That's my point. Why ponder how so much plasma could be fit in something so small, etc. etc. It's fantasy.
I can think of two reasons: 1) Lucas didn't want him to, or 2) Yoda is really pretty stupid.
For that matter, why didn't the Jedi:
just float the entire arena into orbit?
Or the arena monsters?
disengage the locks on their handcuffs?
flip the Federation ships so they launched into the ground (I haven't seen anyone mention the "Concentrate all guns on the nearest ship"/"Concentrate all firepower on the Super Star Destroyer" parallel)?
float Amidala back up into the ship?
Never mind that the central weapon to the series, the lightsaber, is impossible in known physics.
I seriously doubt that Lucas had even thought of Vader being Luke's father at the time Episode 4 was filmed
Then it's coincidence that "Vader" is Dutch for "father"?
This tech will allow people to "drive a car simply by thinking about doing so" Of course, thinking about driving will be an entirely new skill, now only inherent in about 10% of the population.
Beauty and the Beast is the worst example you can use. If it ended with Beauty happily married to the devastatingly ugly (but intelligent, kind etc) Beast then it might support your case.
That's just plain old Hollywood beauty. I don't question Hollywood favors beauty in general. We're talking about ugly villains here, and Gaston is portrayed as quite the hunk of man.
Besides, "devastatingly ugly"? The "beast" is actually a very handsome creature in Disney's version; more Hollywood beauty. But I don't think it takes a lot of imagination to realize why he had to become human to become Belle's lover.
what about the morons behind you who are riding your rear bumper when you stop?!
If you aren't following so close that you need to slam on your brakes, then it shouldn't be a problem. And if you're behind a bus, be prepared, idiot!
Socalist, Capitalist, Communist, Terrorist. *ist==government Really? In that case, I think I'll run Preident under the Physicist party. Maybe the Pianist. Therapist? Racist, perhaps? No, Absurdist! -ist suff. 1. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist. 2. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist. 3. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist. 4. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist. 5. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist
See: almost every disney movie. Especially snow white. In which the attractive witch murders the beautiful girl out of jealousy? Yeah, great example there. If anything, SWatSD expounds the evil of vanity. Then there's Beauty and the Beast, where the vain stud is the evil character. In fact, the only Disney movie I can think of offhand where the evil are clearly ugly is The Little Mermaid.