that would rock actually Ewok Adventure: cute n' cuddly, you know, for kids! Wookie Adventure: brutal, savage, and just arms getting ripped from their sockets every other scene
but so what? Empire Strikes Back didn't have an ending, Back to the Future II didn't either. Or The Two Towers or Matrix Reloaded? Nope, pretty much no endings there either. could it be that Halo and Half Life are... *gasp* TRILOGIES!?!?!?!?!?!
seriously, why does everyone get all giddy when a major movie ends in a cliffhanger, but get really pissed off when a game does the same thing?
...unique new online campaign world how is it unique? every other mmorpg has expanded the basics of D&D to fit an online persistant world, what can they possibly do now to make themselves "unique" when everyone's already copied their style? force everyone to role-play somehow?
hmm, maybe have a filter that would translate OOG chatter, like the word "car" would become "horse-cart" and "yo whuddup bitch!" would turn into "forsooth yon shrewish maiden!"
yeah, i just threw 6 out there because that seems to be the average time most people around here head for home. that doesn't mean that some don't stay until 8 or 9 though
however, i don't understand most of my coworker's obsession with getting here so freakin EARLY. as an IT, i have to come in in the morning and make sure all the servers are ok before the majority of users log in, but some people get here before 7am! yeesh! sleep in!
Just don't forget to block Microsoft Windows Update server address on your firewall for clients. Even with SUS, and updates enforced through group policy, users can still click on the "Windows Update" shortcut on the start menu and update from Microsoft themselves.
I'm looking to check out WSUS soon, SUS is cool, but has no configurability or power.
(anyone else glad they changed the name to WSUS from WUS? hehe)
you know that one i mean... no no! not the techno-rock theme from the show, that's played out, i'm talking about the old school hair-metal rock ballad!
ok, the person who responded to this was an idiot the idiot who modded it "Troll" shouldn't be modding the 'Games' section because they obviously don't understand game humor
Not sure why people think they need to have Flash installed since it's nothing but a resoure hog and rarely provides any extra benefit. As a poster the other day said, if I see the missing puzzle piece when I go to a site that means the site is using Flash and isn't a site I want to visit.
simple, there's really one very good reason to have Flash installed: Strong Bad
I just can't go on without my weekly fix of email snarkiness!
good god i hope a tv producer doesn't read that, or else kids'll be watching that crap next season! it was bad enough when they messed up Transformers with "Robots in Disguise" and the one where they ran around collecting the little robots.
Believe it or not, your silly description of a potential transformers series is VERY similiar to what the WB was asking Bruce W Timm (of Batman: TAS fame) to produce. A futuristic world where teenagers fight cyborg mutant versions of Batman's old enemies using a card-based system of aquiring skills into their Bat-uniforms. The marketing people couldn't decide if one of the teens should be Batman, or if the kids were competing in yet another tournament to BECOME Batman. Needless to say, it fell apart under the weight of its own stupidity, and Bruce Timm was given the chance to create Batman Beyond, which was a pretty cool show.
Yeah, but so were He-Man and Transformers, just glorified toy commercials really. I see your point, but I guess we kids in the 80's had actually writers like Larry DiTillio and Joe Michael Straczynski working on our cartoons. They tended to infuse actual stories and characters in around the toy commercial aspects. Who knows, maybe this IGPX thing will be good, being coproduced with CN picks my hopes up a little. (i never saw the original micro-series)
A: CN is not a children's network, have you seen [adult swim] that was my first exposure to Cowboy Bebop, i, like many other people, never really knew about anime before that
B: this isn't a poorly dubbed show, this is coproduced in America, so the dialogue will be natively written and performed in both languages
C: they've been "riding this Japanese fad" for over 10 years, how long do fads last?
D: alot of kids watch anime on Cartoon Network because its their only exposure, this affects the next generation of sci-fi fans. alot of people on Slashdot probably have kids who are into Toonami and anime, and would be interested in this
E: because its cool, its news... its for nerds... and if you're an animation fan (like many/.'ers) its stuff that matters
Why do all these shows nowadays focus on some "competition" like a race, or a card tournament? The stupidest one I've seen is that kid's show on saturday morning where a giant arena of people gathered to watch kids fight with spinning tops! It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other, while prebuscent kids yelled at the top of their lungs to... I don't know... get the tops to hit each other harder or something. It made no sense. There's never any real conflict in these shows, the 'evil' character is just another player in the 'tournament'. When Optimus Prime and Megatron fought, they didn't pull out little decks of cards or summon holographic monsters to fight for them, they went out there and beat the shit out each other! And it wasn't for some lame 'tournament', it was because the Decepticons were trying to take over the whole freakin' world! I tell ya... thank god for Justice League Unlimited, or kids today would have no sense of proper cartoon violence! [end rant]
fans have been asking CN to use the SAP (second audio program) for the original Japanese soundtrack for a while, but no luck yet
when a network gets the broadcast rights to a dubbed program or movie (anime or foreign film, or anything), do they get the rights to the original soundtrack too?
my compliments to the author, i was chuckling throughout the article, by the end i was laughing out loud an entertaining review, and i now know to avoid this book, thanks Michael!
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what? no love for Katamari Damacy?
that would rock actually
Ewok Adventure: cute n' cuddly, you know, for kids!
Wookie Adventure: brutal, savage, and just arms getting ripped from their sockets every other scene
wow! i thought i was the only one who remembered that show! i could never remember the name though
i used to watch it for the "real" game segments (as a kid that's deleriously cool), but man, what a weird-ass cartoon
neither did Halo 2
but so what?
Empire Strikes Back didn't have an ending, Back to the Future II didn't either. Or The Two Towers or Matrix Reloaded? Nope, pretty much no endings there either. could it be that Halo and Half Life are... *gasp* TRILOGIES!?!?!?!?!?!
seriously, why does everyone get all giddy when a major movie ends in a cliffhanger, but get really pissed off when a game does the same thing?
...unique new online campaign world
how is it unique? every other mmorpg has expanded the basics of D&D to fit an online persistant world, what can they possibly do now to make themselves "unique" when everyone's already copied their style? force everyone to role-play somehow?
hmm, maybe have a filter that would translate OOG chatter, like the word "car" would become "horse-cart" and "yo whuddup bitch!" would turn into "forsooth yon shrewish maiden!"
yeah, i just threw 6 out there because that seems to be the average time most people around here head for home. that doesn't mean that some don't stay until 8 or 9 though
however, i don't understand most of my coworker's obsession with getting here so freakin EARLY. as an IT, i have to come in in the morning and make sure all the servers are ok before the majority of users log in, but some people get here before 7am! yeesh! sleep in!
in america, we don't work 9-5, we work, 7:30am to 6:00pm
(officially its 8am - 5pm, but ha! we're salaried!)
we've gotten some pretty big clues that its not 4orty 2wo, as they've been dropping hints that they're working on something BIG
Just don't forget to block Microsoft Windows Update server address on your firewall for clients. Even with SUS, and updates enforced through group policy, users can still click on the "Windows Update" shortcut on the start menu and update from Microsoft themselves.
I'm looking to check out WSUS soon, SUS is cool, but has no configurability or power.
(anyone else glad they changed the name to WSUS from WUS? hehe)
it will be the crappy rip off movie shown on tv, most likely SciFi channel, but Fox and NBC have both been known to do the same
don't you mean Zombi's?
(i know its an old story now, but i gotta give props to a Fulci reference)
ever hear of one of these?
seriously, what's wrong with you? anyone could figure out from the post that it was funny. shades of James H. Vipond (anyone else remember that guy?)
you know that one i mean... no no! not the techno-rock theme from the show, that's played out, i'm talking about the old school hair-metal rock ballad!
You got the touch!
You got the pooowwwww-er!
holy crap! 3/4 down the page too!
are people here forgetting their geek heritage?
you'll be able to pick it up eventually...
you just need some more stamps, erasers, bugs, pencils, and thumbtacks first!
ok, the person who responded to this was an idiot
the idiot who modded it "Troll" shouldn't be modding the 'Games' section because they obviously don't understand game humor
if i had mod points, you'd get +1 Funny
whoops, that was the link to the main Homestar Runner page, but go there too.
Strong Bad's page is at:
Strong Bad Emails
Not sure why people think they need to have Flash installed since it's nothing but a resoure hog and rarely provides any extra benefit. As a poster the other day said, if I see the missing puzzle piece when I go to a site that means the site is using Flash and isn't a site I want to visit.
simple, there's really one very good reason to have Flash installed:
Strong Bad
I just can't go on without my weekly fix of email snarkiness!
good god i hope a tv producer doesn't read that, or else kids'll be watching that crap next season! it was bad enough when they messed up Transformers with "Robots in Disguise" and the one where they ran around collecting the little robots.
Believe it or not, your silly description of a potential transformers series is VERY similiar to what the WB was asking Bruce W Timm (of Batman: TAS fame) to produce. A futuristic world where teenagers fight cyborg mutant versions of Batman's old enemies using a card-based system of aquiring skills into their Bat-uniforms. The marketing people couldn't decide if one of the teens should be Batman, or if the kids were competing in yet another tournament to BECOME Batman. Needless to say, it fell apart under the weight of its own stupidity, and Bruce Timm was given the chance to create Batman Beyond, which was a pretty cool show.
Yeah, but so were He-Man and Transformers, just glorified toy commercials really. I see your point, but I guess we kids in the 80's had actually writers like Larry DiTillio and Joe Michael Straczynski working on our cartoons. They tended to infuse actual stories and characters in around the toy commercial aspects.
Who knows, maybe this IGPX thing will be good, being coproduced with CN picks my hopes up a little. (i never saw the original micro-series)
yes we do, because:
/.'ers) its stuff that matters
A: CN is not a children's network, have you seen [adult swim] that was my first exposure to Cowboy Bebop, i, like many other people, never really knew about anime before that
B: this isn't a poorly dubbed show, this is coproduced in America, so the dialogue will be natively written and performed in both languages
C: they've been "riding this Japanese fad" for over 10 years, how long do fads last?
D: alot of kids watch anime on Cartoon Network because its their only exposure, this affects the next generation of sci-fi fans. alot of people on Slashdot probably have kids who are into Toonami and anime, and would be interested in this
E: because its cool, its news... its for nerds... and if you're an animation fan (like many
Why do all these shows nowadays focus on some "competition" like a race, or a card tournament? The stupidest one I've seen is that kid's show on saturday morning where a giant arena of people gathered to watch kids fight with spinning tops! It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other, while prebuscent kids yelled at the top of their lungs to... I don't know... get the tops to hit each other harder or something. It made no sense.
There's never any real conflict in these shows, the 'evil' character is just another player in the 'tournament'. When Optimus Prime and Megatron fought, they didn't pull out little decks of cards or summon holographic monsters to fight for them, they went out there and beat the shit out each other! And it wasn't for some lame 'tournament', it was because the Decepticons were trying to take over the whole freakin' world! I tell ya... thank god for Justice League Unlimited, or kids today would have no sense of proper cartoon violence!
[end rant]
fans have been asking CN to use the SAP (second audio program) for the original Japanese soundtrack for a while, but no luck yet
when a network gets the broadcast rights to a dubbed program or movie (anime or foreign film, or anything), do they get the rights to the original soundtrack too?
my compliments to the author, i was chuckling throughout the article, by the end i was laughing out loud
an entertaining review, and i now know to avoid this book, thanks Michael!
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