It's called 'irony'. The Mooninites have historically been able to spank much of anything. The closest they came was getting the Aqua Teens and Carl caught up in a multi-level-marketing scheme under the guise of defeating the Gorgatron. But yet, yesterday, they brought the city of Boston to its knees. Effectivly pulling their pants down, and spanking them with moon rocks.
That said I still think this was a very dumb publicity stunt.
I don't think *any* publicity stunt that makes the headlines of every major news outlet in America "dumb". These signs have been in place for two weeks. Prior to this, the only people who 'got the joke' were ATHF fans. Now, nearly everyone in America knows who the Mooninites are.
That being said, Blizzards time to cash in on the StarCraft name has got to be running out.
Starcraft was released nine years ago. To this day, you can still find copies of it on major retailer's shelves - not as part of a 'best of' collection, but as a standalone box. Name one other game in the history of PC gaming that can make that claim.
While I agree with you entirely on the principal, the Constitution explicitly forbids excessive bail or fines, not excessive jail times. A lawyer may argue (and I believe that the teacher is appealing on this) that the life sentence should be considered 'cruel and unusual'.
Funny, but noboby gets labeled a "murderer" for life. Murderers are released from prison every day. In fact, hundreds of them. They serve their sentence and move on. No reporting themselves to their neighbors. No exclusion zones. No "registered murderer" lists.
In Arizona, if you're convicted of a Child Porn crime, you're lucky if you even *get* released to be put on a Sex Offender's list. If the pictures in question are of a minor under 15, that means that every picture found will draw a ten year sentence - minimum to be served consecutively. If you posess ten pictures, you're going away for life - case closed. Several years ago, a school teacher went to trial for posession of 20 CP images. There was no evidence that he did anything beyond this. He didn't share, he didn't molest, he didn't produce, he just posessed. He is now into the fourth year of a two-hundred year sentence.
Maricopa county prosecutors (especially Reichsmarshall Andrew Thomas) use this fact to extort harsh plea bargains (with this, among other crimes). So if you want to protest your innocence, you have one of two choices: Risk a trial where a loss means you never see the light of day again, or cop a bargain, regardless of your guilt, which will usually still keep you in prison for 10-25.
Let's not confuse physically hard work with actual hard work. It's intellectually easy to perform grunt work for 80 hours a week for 40 years. It doesn't require any thought, any planning, any ambition or any risk-taking. In fact it is the path of least resistance, i.e. the easy route.
Karma-be-damned: That has got to be one of the most elitist, shallow, mis-informed, boneheaded, fucktard opinions I've ever had the misfortune of wasting a minute of my life reading.
Let's try this experiment, smegma-face. How about you come down here to Phoenix for a week or two in July to do eight hours of manual labor on a road crew. The heat radiating off of blacktop at this time of year can easily reach 140. I'd like to see how long you last until your foreman has to haul your passed-out candy-ass off the crew. You want to talk about risks? Try working in a position where the only thing standing between you and an SUV speeding by at 60mph is five feet and a plastic barrel. To say nothing of the bone and back injuries they face on a daily basis. The only physical "risk" we highly-paid technology workers take is our daily commute and carpal-tunnel syndrome.
I would add that the fear of losing beloved ones is a bad driving force for Anakin. Just plain greed and resentment the abuses he should have suffered as a slave child should have been enough. Anakin should have known no love until his adulthood. I would also avoid the "we could rule the Galaxy as something or other" as it became Darth Vader's trademark line and has been parodied just about everywhere (I even play with it with my own son ).
You obviously missed the point. Anakin's fall *centers* around the fact that he uses the power offered to him by the Sith as a way of doing something he thinks is good. It's the classic conundrum of using an evil means to a good end. If he fell simply because he was angry about his life as a slave, or resentful at his treatment by the Jedi Council, he would come off as being nothing more than spiteful or megalomaniacal. These traits didn't manifest themselves until *after* he became a Sith. Only once he tasted their power did he dream of killing his master and conquering the Galaxy for himself. Prior to his fall, his desires were benign - wanting only to protect those he cared about.
When Darth Maul and Qui-Gon Jinn are waiting for the force fields to part, there could have been some dialog about the rivalry between the Sith and the Jedi, possibly referring to the prophecy about balance in the Force.
I disagree. That scene was done perfectly in silence. Qui-gon: Meditating quietly, preparing for what he expects will be his death (the novelization brought out the fact that Qui-gon knew from their encounter on Tatooine that he could not defeat Maul). Darth Maul: pacing like a rabid, caged animal, waiting for the opportunity to deliver his death blow. Obi-wan: Standing pensively, inexperienced, and seperated from his Master, he doesn't know what to do.
A good point for some trash-talking dialog could have been when Maul was gloating over Obi-wan as he was dangling in the reactor shaft. But, oh well.
The Midichlorians should have been left out. The Force lost a lot of it's mystique.
Methinks you need to watch the Original Trilogy again.
Obi Wan: It is an energy field created by all living things.
Yoda: Life creates it. Makes it grow.
Midichlorians are simply an elaboration on this. They are the link between "Life", and "The Force", which both Yoda and Obi-wan had mentioned as being intertwined. Also, it leads in to Palpatine's revelation in RotS, that Midichlorians can be perverted to *create* life. This implies that the 'god-child' Anakin, prophesized by the Jedi, was created through the Sith's eternal quest to dominate the force.
This is the very duality of Anakin's character that is lost on so many prequel haters. He *did* fulfil the prophecy, he was "born of the Force" (with the Sith's manipulation) and he did "Bring Balance to the Force" (but only after falling to the Dark Side).
He never claimed he didn't know them. All he said was "I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid.
The "I am your father", which is quite a dramatic climax in the original serie doesn't work anymore if you watch Starwars in the correct order.
Ohh, come *on* now. It's called "suspension of disbelief". We empathize with Luke's character at this point because for *him*, it's a shock. Seriously, bubbalaroo, this revelation was made nearly 27 years ago. You're not going to surprise anyone by hiding this fact in the prequels. I bet even an Austrailian Aboriginal knows that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father by now.
I think that was a rather big oversight on the part of Lucas, considering the Jedi Master who instructed Ben was Qui-Gonn, not Yoda. That one might be a little more difficult to explain away.
Yoda trained Obi-wan as a youngling. We saw Yoda in this role in AotC. When he was ready to be a full Padawan Apprentice, he took Qui-Gon as his master. This is easy to infer on it's own, but many books in the EU elaborate on this fact.
You think Anakin's motivations in RotS were well-realized? Huh?
You ever read Oedipus Rex? Faust? Anakin's fall in ROTS is archetypical of the classical 'tragic hero'. So yes. His motivations were very well realized.
And Palpatine just wanted to take over, and wove a nice and complex plot to do so, I admit. But that plot isn't 'motive', the motive is the incredibly simple 'I wish to rule the galaxy as a Sith'.
And what's wrong with having a simple motive? It's the *means* that achieve these ends that make Palpatine such a compelling character.
Lucas can conceptualize great.
He just can't actually write characters or dialog.
We've known Lucas can't write dialog since the 1970's. That didn't make the OT any less fun, now did it? And I would argue strongly against your point that he can't do characters. Granted - Jar Jar and Anakin from TPM weren't realized on screen in the way that they were intended (which is the argument that is brought up ad nauseum as definitive 'proof' that Lucas has lost his mind). But take a look at the PT characters that were done *right*, especially Palpatine/Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan, and Anakin in RotS. I would say that these character's motivations are even better realized than the characters in the OT.
Is it really necessary for Lucas to defecate on another one of our beloved 80s trilogies?
Ahem... One of your trilogies? Need I remind you that Lucas fucking invented both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises? If it wasn't for Lucas, there would be no Darth Vader, Han Solo, or Indiana Jones. Without him, much of our Western pop-culture lexicon as we know it today would not exist.
Now, if six years after the fact, you still have your purty pink panties in a knot over Jar-Jar, that's your perrogative. But at least give the guy credit where it is due.
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It's called 'irony'. The Mooninites have historically been able to spank much of anything. The closest they came was getting the Aqua Teens and Carl caught up in a multi-level-marketing scheme under the guise of defeating the Gorgatron. But yet, yesterday, they brought the city of Boston to its knees. Effectivly pulling their pants down, and spanking them with moon rocks.
for a story that involves taking psychic control of one's own explosive farts?
*shoots AC in the head for botching the line.*
Plus, Toys For Bob are trying to get Activision to green light a new StarControl game.
How I learned to dread ever hearing, "WE COME IN PEACE".
Star Control 3 addressed this. Albeit poorly.
-1 Botching memorable quotes.
Don't you think Knights of the Old Republic qualifies as a 'graphic adventure'?
While I agree with you entirely on the principal, the Constitution explicitly forbids excessive bail or fines, not excessive jail times. A lawyer may argue (and I believe that the teacher is appealing on this) that the life sentence should be considered 'cruel and unusual'.
Maricopa county prosecutors (especially Reichsmarshall Andrew Thomas) use this fact to extort harsh plea bargains (with this, among other crimes). So if you want to protest your innocence, you have one of two choices: Risk a trial where a loss means you never see the light of day again, or cop a bargain, regardless of your guilt, which will usually still keep you in prison for 10-25.
The 'bots' on his PC uploaded kiddie porn to a Yahoo Group. Yahoo notified the authorities with his IP address.
Let's try this experiment, smegma-face. How about you come down here to Phoenix for a week or two in July to do eight hours of manual labor on a road crew. The heat radiating off of blacktop at this time of year can easily reach 140. I'd like to see how long you last until your foreman has to haul your passed-out candy-ass off the crew. You want to talk about risks? Try working in a position where the only thing standing between you and an SUV speeding by at 60mph is five feet and a plastic barrel. To say nothing of the bone and back injuries they face on a daily basis. The only physical "risk" we highly-paid technology workers take is our daily commute and carpal-tunnel syndrome.
You obviously missed the point. Anakin's fall *centers* around the fact that he uses the power offered to him by the Sith as a way of doing something he thinks is good. It's the classic conundrum of using an evil means to a good end. If he fell simply because he was angry about his life as a slave, or resentful at his treatment by the Jedi Council, he would come off as being nothing more than spiteful or megalomaniacal. These traits didn't manifest themselves until *after* he became a Sith. Only once he tasted their power did he dream of killing his master and conquering the Galaxy for himself. Prior to his fall, his desires were benign - wanting only to protect those he cared about.
A good point for some trash-talking dialog could have been when Maul was gloating over Obi-wan as he was dangling in the reactor shaft. But, oh well.
Methinks you need to watch the Original Trilogy again.Obi Wan: It is an energy field created by all living things.
Yoda: Life creates it. Makes it grow.
Midichlorians are simply an elaboration on this. They are the link between "Life", and "The Force", which both Yoda and Obi-wan had mentioned as being intertwined. Also, it leads in to Palpatine's revelation in RotS, that Midichlorians can be perverted to *create* life. This implies that the 'god-child' Anakin, prophesized by the Jedi, was created through the Sith's eternal quest to dominate the force.
This is the very duality of Anakin's character that is lost on so many prequel haters. He *did* fulfil the prophecy, he was "born of the Force" (with the Sith's manipulation) and he did "Bring Balance to the Force" (but only after falling to the Dark Side).
I like the story in the prequels *better* than the OT.
There.. I said it! Kiss my midichlorian-loaded ass, Slashdot Community. :P
Ohh, come *on* now. It's called "suspension of disbelief". We empathize with Luke's character at this point because for *him*, it's a shock. Seriously, bubbalaroo, this revelation was made nearly 27 years ago. You're not going to surprise anyone by hiding this fact in the prequels. I bet even an Austrailian Aboriginal knows that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father by now.
Just like we buy meat by the pound, but cocaine by the kilo!
Now, if six years after the fact, you still have your purty pink panties in a knot over Jar-Jar, that's your perrogative. But at least give the guy credit where it is due.