Your one-stop shop for completely* unconnected randomness! With any luck, having one big pit to siphon everyone's random thoughts into means we can keep the rest of the forum pretty neat and tidy. Well, that's my excuse anyway. Go hog wild.

To start the ball rolling, how about, I don't know... pizza! I like Hawaiian myself, which I appreciate makes me the mortal enemy of a good number of people. Don't care. I think it works well. Feel free to either talk about pizza or not talk about it at all, because you'd rather talk about screwdrivers or little solar powered spinny things or whatever.

* may not be completely, Dot Power Incorporated cannot be held responsible for sequences of posts that string together in an apparently coherent order, this does not affect your statutory rights although how it could I don't really know anyway whatever.

Please sticky this thread!

http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr169/xXVeNoM1995Xx/1333884838689.png

I have diarrhea.

I also disapprove of this heresy. :mad:

To start the ball rolling, how about, I don't know... pizza! I like Hawaiian myself, which I appreciate makes me the mortal enemy of a good number of people. Don't care. I think it works well. Feel free to either talk about pizza or not talk about it at all, because you'd rather talk about screwdrivers or little solar powered spinny things or whatever.

I'm cool with pizza; so long as there's no ****ing pineapple.

I have diarrhea.

I also disapprove of this heresy. :mad:
Worm Mad and bonz talked me into doing One Last Job. Sorry :-/

I have diarrhea.

I also disapprove of this heresy. :mad:

That doesn't relate to gender cells with noses does it? :<

Worm Mad and bonz talked me into doing One Last Job. Sorry :-/

Apology not accepted. I am disowning you and this thread. And bonz and Worm Mad.


And Melon. Specially Melon.

I am disowning Worm Mad.

Finally! I was fed up with being owned by you.

FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! W00t! Wahoo! Huzzah! :D

*runs off into the distance to the tune of 'Born Free'*

(also, I had pizza earlier. there was pepperoni)

Apology not accepted. I am disowning you and this thread. And bonz and Worm Mad.


And Melon. Specially Melon.
Are you sure you wish to cross me? I have connections and the backing of a pervasive media empire. You shall rue this day.

Paul, what manner of dark wizardry is this?

Are you sure you wish to cross me? I have connections and the backing of a pervasive media empire. You shall rue this day.

Yeah well, I stole your pants. You can't face the world pant-less!

Yeah well, I stole your pants. You can't face the world pant-less!

American pants or English pants? Because he could face the world pant-less if you mean English pants, if he didn't mind the shame of knowing he wasn't wearing any pants.

THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW WHICH PANTS YOU STOLE! :eek:

Both. I'm devious like that.

The fact remains, though: Bonz ate the last Jaffa Cake.

Wouldn't the act of keeping this thread off topic be keeping the thread on topic?
I'm going to the lab.

[a thing]

...

God I ****ing miss OD.

Wouldn't the act of keeping this thread off topic be keeping the thread on topic?
I'm going to the lab.
We have been wondering exactly that for the past decade in secrecy.
I believe people's acceptance of paradoxes has increased enough during that time to warrant the step of going public with this thread.

I warn you however; do not take this lightly, or you might get banned ridiculed confused! :eek:

Bonz & shadowman: any posts that are off topic will be removed. Once I figure out what the hell that means...

And as for pineapple on pizzas... the only fruit I'm willing to have on pizza is tomato - unless you don't class that as a fruit! Now, there's a question, is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?

Seeds are on the inside! Fruit.

Delicious!
http://i.imgur.com/oiMWr.jpg

God ****ing dammit!

God ****ing dammit!
You are right. :-/
There could actually be more pineapple on there.

I'm going to report you with thomasp for posting filthy pictures, bonz. :mad:

...

God I ****ing miss OD.

OD?

@bonz
OH SWEET JESUS

We have been wondering exactly that for the past decade in secrecy.
I believe people's acceptance of paradoxes has increased enough during that time to warrant the step of going public with this thread.

[pedantic asshatness]It's only a light paradox, as the sentence itself may sound contradictory, however the logic is that the thread and its content is off-topic to the forum in general and everything kept within the thread cannot possibly be off-topic to the thread.[/pedantic asshatness]

I love doing that :]

[pedantic asshatness]It's only a light paradox, as the sentence itself may sound contradictory, however the logic is that the thread and its content is off-topic to the forum in general and everything kept within the thread cannot possibly be off-topic to the thread.[/pedantic asshatness]

I love doing that :]

A forum rule is that any post not keeping within the bounds of a topic is removed.
This thread has no topic, hence no bounds. Hence any post is allowed.

Or, the rule is that any post not on the particular topic is removed.
This thread has no topic, and so no post can be on it. Hence no posts are allowed.

Maths analogy: If a topic is a large set and posts are members or subsets of that topic, then is an offtopic thread an empty intersection or an empty union? (Ignoring the required notion of a bounding set as per ZFC).

Regardless, this post uses the word Maths and hence is definitely not allowed.

Delicious!

I was gonna reply to this with a picture of an old MSN drawing featuring Zeor opening like a pez dispenser and unleashing a torrent of vomit wider than himself, but it's come up missing, so use your imagination. bWARRAFARGbFAFAraFBr

A forum rule is that any post not keeping within the bounds of a topic is removed.
This thread has no topic

Sure it has! The topic I read is The 100% Off-Topic Thread If I am not mistaken.

OD?

Oak Drawers. In Zero's old house he had oak drawers. Then he moved and his drawers are now made of cardboard.

He ****ing misses Oak Drawers! :(

And on a different note...

A-sharp!

A-sharp!
I prefer B-flat personally.

http://vgboxart.com/boxes/MUSIC/43629-the-be-sharps-19851993.png

Be vigilant player one.

I think we're missing about 20,000 posts in this thread. WHAT BLASPHEMY IS THIS?!

Clearly we'll just have to work on 20,000 more. So here I am all tricked out in Spiral Knights (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595845643021637865/C98A2FD971AB5F9A2B0635D0854B8B91D609C399/).

Remember when Firefox wasn't awful? me neither

I misread "Firefox" as "StarFox", and nodded sagely. I've never liked StarFox.

...

God I ****ing miss OD.
did they actually close it down for real

I misread "Firefox" as "StarFox", and nodded sagely. I've never liked StarFox.

Neither do I, only played a NGC starfox game and didn't liked it that much

did they actually close it down for real

Technically, yes. I think we can still post there, but it's now pre-moderated and we're not supposed to post there anymore.

did they actually close it down for realWe're all out in the open now.

Well that's really something...

Well that's really something...
I wish I could still see that comment you made where you compared S2K planning to reveal OD to what George Bush did to Iraq :(

I wish I could still see that comment you made where you compared S2K planning to reveal OD to what George Bush did to Iraq :(We decided not to make the forum public as one final jab at you, Iguana. :p

I wish I could still see that comment you made where you compared S2K planning to reveal OD to what George Bush did to Iraq :(

I completely forgot I was going to do that. Which might explain why I never did it.

Dragon's Dogma is a ton of fun.

I wish I could still see that comment you made where you compared S2K planning to reveal OD to what George Bush did to Iraq :(Oh good. You.

Please sticky this thread!

We ought to be able to keep it going without the need for any gooey substances.

Yeah this forum is about as active as... well, this thread really. :p

back in my day I'd post 3 times a day

the posts were awful but I liked them

because I was awful

my day was dumb

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

caught in a landslide.

No escape from reality!

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies

and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Really need to dust the sheet music off to that again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
:cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
:cool:
That is quite possibly one of the most awesome things the Muppets have ever done!

Found an ant on my desk at work. I just put them in the trash. I figure that will keep them occupied for a while.

Found an ant on my desk at work. I just put them in the trash. I figure that will keep them occupied for a while.

Did it multiply?

Not in front of me. I think my ants have a sense of modesty, should I be worried?

I started a Tumblr, which I intend to update with drawings daily as a motivational exercise.

I also uploaded a picture of the Cluedo set I built:
http://mrphillby.tumblr.com/post/25611153133/heres-a-blurry-mobile-photo-of-the-cluedo-set-i

I also uploaded a picture of the Cluedo set I built:

Oh awesome. :D

ARGH! THE LIGHT! IT BURNS!

I HAVE noticed that, though idiots come and go, the forum regulars mostly still remain, albeit not all too actively. RELATIVE LACK OF STUPIDITY WILL PREVAIL!

Oh yeah, I've also started getting into amateur radio (ham radio to you Yanks). I have my foundation licence now and a little cheap 2m/70cm radio (one of those Chinese UV-3Rs that everyone seems to have). I also have a Trio TS-530SP that doesn't transmit at the moment, hoping to at some point get that working.

Nobody else is into amateur radio are they?

Nobody else is into amateur radio are they?
I got a pair of these.
http://i.imgur.com/eOlV7.jpg

So, when you should happen to come within 3km of my home, contact me and I'll turn them on.

Nobody else is into amateur radio are they?

I'm not very good at turning my radio on. Does that count?

I'm not quite sure what to think :/

ARGH! THE LIGHT! IT BURNS!

I HAVE noticed that, though idiots come and go, the forum regulars mostly still remain, albeit not all too actively. RELATIVE LACK OF STUPIDITY WILL PREVAIL!

I've been noticing that the General Video Game Gabbin' thread is notably less active :/

HTML ain't so hard!

http://www.planetscraper.net/

HTML ain't so hard!

http://www.planetscraper.net/
Yet that image alone is offending my various sensibilities. :p

It's the colours isn't it?

I am bad at colour.

Ach nein, mein eies

Yo there's an entire page over at PlanetScraper.net (www.planetscraper.net) now!

It's the colours isn't it?

I am bad at colour.
Maybe this will help. (http://kuler.adobe.com/)

Hmm, I see there's not much danger of this thread falling onto the 2nd page any time soon! What's everyone busy with?

Probably one of these new-fangled "life" things I keep hearing about.

Hmm, I see there's not much danger of this thread falling onto the 2nd page any time soon!

you mean the 4th. :)

e: i borked this post

I'm busy eating an apple right now.

you mean the 4th. :)
No, I mean the 2nd page of The Lounge section, which doesn't even exist yet.

I'm busy eating an apple right now.

I just ate an orange :O OMG

I just ate an orange :O OMG

Dude, apples are better.

transcription of my last few seconds:

bu-uuUUUrrrrhhhp

I just ate an orange :O OMG

Dude, apples are better.

NEVER!!! Pineapples all the way!

NEVER!!! Pineapples all the way!

I didn't say best. :rolleyes:

NEVER!!! Pineapples all the way!

Pomegranates!

transcription of my last few seconds:

bu-uuUUUrrrrhhhp
Pretty sure you missed a letter there.

I'm actually eventful for once!

In two days, I'm moving across the country to California, where I will start attending CalArts' Character Animation program.

I'll also be in a prime location to pester S2K, so added bonus points there.

Oh nice. Good luck!

Thanks! I'm rather extremely excited.

Though a day into my trip and I've decided that Texas is entirely too large a state.....

NEVER!!! Pineapples all the way!
Especially on pizza.

Especially on pizza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

One of those "where's the Like button" moments which leaves you hating yourself a little bit. I can't be the only one who does that.

I'm gettin' a better 'puter. :D

Havin' a hard time with my PC home build. Won't start. Won't even beep!

e: Got it, motherboard had another power supply connection.

there's ALWAYS another power cable to attach.... it never fails....

Havin' a hard time with my PC home build. Won't start. Won't even beep!

e: Got it, motherboard had another power supply connection.

Yep, done that a couple of times. Always as frightening!

there's ALWAYS another power cable to attach.... it never fails....
The best part is when you forget the extra power connector to the graphics card and your only clue is the PC screaming loud annoying beeps at you. :p

NEVER!!! Pineapples all the way!

Speaking of pineapples: I'm going on a trip to my childhood in 2014. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UX1t9n7IXw#t=1m30s)


If you don't get it (I'm sure you don't): A second SpongeBob Squarepants movie has been announced and scheduled to release in 2014 - with Stephen Hillenburg as the executive producer. I'm totally going to whatch this.

Thurbo, your avatar's animation makes me want to punch several babies and an old woman.

Thurbo, your avatar's animation makes me want to punch several babies and an old woman.

It just wasn't going to be any better. It's just three frames, mostly black and white and yet nearly reaching the max file size.

I do, however, not accept responsibility for any babies or old women you harm or kill :mad:

It just wasn't going to be any better. It's just three frames, mostly black and white and yet nearly reaching the max file size.

How the **** is that nearly the max file size? It uses two colours with some antialiasing!
Here:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7171/thurbocompressed.gif

That's the first time I've loaded up Animation Shop 3 for years. Your gif used a whopping 32 colours.

It was 8kb and a pass through Ani Shops (rather poor) optimiser at max quality got it to 5.5kb.

It just wasn't going to be any better. It's just three frames, mostly black and white and yet nearly reaching the max file size.Jones could make a fully developed character run across a screen with three looping frames. You can get a mouth to animate a little less terribly.

And use a different program, ffs. Your compression is terribad.

Jones could make a fully developed character run across a screen with three looping frames. You can get a mouth to animate a little less terribly.

Making a running character or a properly moving mouth are two different things, I'd almost say the character is easier :p Anyway, try animating a mouth from 2 artwork images using Corel Draw and a free gif program :(

And use a different program, ffs. Your compression is terribad.

Same problem as above, I haven't had a decent art program since I lost my PSP7 folders when I reinstalled Windows over a year ago. I've been in a real computer crisis of some sort. The free gif program I found on the web is indeed terribad at compressing datas.

And after all, I only wanted to see what the heavy talking would look like with that giant mouth he has. I'd also take into consideration I have about zero experience with animating.

Making a running character or a properly moving mouth are two different things, I'd almost say the character is easier :p Anyway, try animating a mouth from 2 artwork images using Corel Draw and a free gif program :(



Same problem as above, I haven't had a decent art program since I lost my PSP7 folders when I reinstalled Windows over a year ago. I've been in a real computer crisis of some sort. The free gif program I found on the web is indeed terribad at compressing datas.

And after all, I only wanted to see what the heavy talking would look like with that giant mouth he has. I'd also take into consideration I have about zero experience with animating.Wow. You're really good at making excuses for mediocrity. Keep it up!

Wow. You're really good at making excuses for mediocrity. Keep it up!

Well, it's sort of random to throw in criticism for my avatar in a non-art-related thread anyways, and since I

1.) did not draw the images in the animation
2.) don't have any better art programs than Microsoft Paint and Corel Draw
3.) have no experience in animation whatsoever
4.) only did it for fun,

I'm not even sure what you are up to anyways :p I wasn't looking for criticism on work that wasn't even half done by myself and especially not on this thread.

non-art-related thread

This is an off-topic thread so it is in fact, related.

Tried to get a promotional TF2 item via some f2p shooter, ended up discovering that GameGuard is considered a very malicious rootkit which is usually not technically classified as malware for some strange reason. So that's neat.

Not only did I waste four hours getting malware instead of an item, but I learned that ol' Pangya used GameGuard as well. Upsetting.

Tried to get a promotional TF2 item via some f2p shooter, ended up discovering that GameGuard is considered a very malicious rootkit which is usually not technically classified as malware for some strange reason. So that's neat.

Not only did I waste four hours getting malware instead of an item, but I learned that ol' Pangya used GameGuard as well. Upsetting.
Pretty much every koreanish game uses GameGuard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameGuard), not sure if that backs up the malicious claims or not. Maybe that's why Pangya runs like ass. :p Granted knowing the community, they probably need it.

Granted knowing the community, they probably need it.

And that is truly the ***** of it.

Lovely. Send one email from a laptop at work, and Microsoft decides to lock my account for my safety. Worst of all I filled out the form they sent me with as much information as possible, but they still aren't satisfied. Ironic that I found out when I was trying to check the status of my order, I finally decided to buy an Xbox, and when I tried to check the confirmation email, acsess denied.

If only they offered that kind of security for Xbox Live accounts.

Write a blog about it and link it on Reddit. That seems to work.

Lovely. Send one email from a laptop at work, and Microsoft decides to lock my account for my safety. Worst of all I filled out the form they sent me with as much information as possible, but they still aren't satisfied. Ironic that I found out when I was trying to check the status of my order, I finally decided to buy an Xbox, and when I tried to check the confirmation email, acsess denied.Oh gawd I had to rescue one of my friend's Hotmail account from that mess once. The form to "prove the account is really yours" asks you the most absurd crap nobody would ever remember (like the exact date you registered the account, or the exact subjects of the last 10 emails you've received), and apparently they mark down everything you get wrong. In the end the only solution was to just call up support directly (http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support) and whine to them about it, because arbitrarily locking people's email accounts causes a ton more issues than it solves.

Oddly enough, after resubmitting the form last night, only changing ONE word, they decided that was sufficient proof it was really me. The one word happened to be "information" in an email subject line, not "info". As if the rest of the private data regarding addresses and such could be fake, but the word "information," is vital. :rolleyes:

Sorry, what was that? I can't hear you over the sound of my Gmail ;)

My gmail's what I used to recover my live account, which is what I use for business and my association email. Gmail for the rest where I can use my regular crazy name.

I posted this in the wrong thread a second ago because I'm an idiot but anyway! In regards to OD's original 100%OT thread, it looks like Paul.Power finally won out with a grand end total of 1490 posts. I was in second with 1322, and MtlAngelus gets bronze with 1270. Honorable mention to SupSuper who was in 4th with 1161.

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun

Edit: My post count is 2,110

I talk too much....

I talk too much....
Essentially over the last 9 years you've made roughly 3.86 posts per day, on average.

How does it feel?

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453
I'm still #4 with 9,206 posts.
Without being a mod or a blabber.
:cool:

I stopped posting once I hit 4000.

And I haven't posted since.

How do you find your post count again?

Use the member search function and some brains.


EDIT: Why does Plasma have so many? Seriously, he must be some kind of ninja chatbox.

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun

Edit: My post count is 2,110

Given Andrew hasn't posted in ages, he's got a pretty epic postcount!

Essentially over the last 9 years
9 years

That's the bit that gets me more than anything.

8 years for me, but still. Yikes.

I still find it really weird that so many people are above svenneundulat.
I know he hasn't posted in years, but it's still weird.

Use the member search function and some brains.

My post count's in the 3000's how do I find the actual ammount? Sorry I don't beg off forums anymore.

So, how many posts do you think it'll be before someone makes the obvious crude joke?

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun
I gave some of my best years to this forum.

Edit: Oh geez, the join dates are so weird! Not because of how long ago they were, but that... well, at time time, Akuryou seemed ancient! I remember Paul remarking on how he was at the forum for four years. And now it's like "Oh, yeah, he joined two years before me. That's hardly anything."

Although I did still technically join in 2003.

I'm still #4 with 9,206 posts.
Without being a mod or a blabber.
:cool:
When you make another 300 posts, I am officially declaring you a Blabber.

EDIT: Why does Plasma have so many? Seriously, he must be some kind of ninja chatbox.
Made a fangame, did a few LetsPlays, went out with two people I met here... I did a lot here.

Actually, we should really do more LetsPlays or something. There's like an entire sub-forum here doing nothing. Anyone up for some good ol' Dwarf Fortress succession games?

I posted this in the wrong thread a second ago because I'm an idiot but anyway! In regards to OD's original 100%OT thread, it looks like Paul.Power finally won out with a grand end total of 1490 posts. I was in second with 1322, and MtlAngelus gets bronze with 1270. Honorable mention to SupSuper who was in 4th with 1161.Woo honorable!
You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun

Edit: My post count is 2,110
And those people barely even post anymore. This forum is a sham. :p

Anyone up for some good ol' Dwarf Fortress succession games?Iunno, but I do miss those "hey I'm running a fortress where everybody is named after forum members" threads. Such drama!

Essentially over the last 9 years you've made roughly 3.86 posts per day, on average.

How does it feel?it feels like I talk too much...

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun

Edit: My post count is 2,110As I now look totally pathetic to you guys... 157 (including this post). Having been here for four years and all, that is actually rather pathetic. I could do that many posts in probably a month more or less in other places (depending how active it is).

As I now look totally pathetic to you guys... 157 (including this post). Having been here for four years and all, that is actually rather pathetic. I could do that many posts in probably a month more or less in other places (depending how active it is).well bear in mind that this place USED to be insane. There were times where I would have 30 active thread subscriptions after a single day of not visiting.

I guess a hurricane and a separate storm front are closing in from opposite directions to do a weather high five and kick the ass of Pennsylvania and pretty much all neighboring states, so, this'll be interesting. I think we're already technically in a state of emergency, but it's hard to tell how much actual danger there is through the giant piles of embellishment and general misleadingness the media gets paid to tell us. Anyway, bad weather coming. Might lose power for a while. Probably won't personally come to harm in this particular geographic spot. But if I stop posting for a long time, just assume there's a tree trunk in my skull.

I guess a hurricane and a separate storm front are closing in from opposite directions to do a weather high five and kick the ass of Pennsylvania and pretty much all neighboring states, so, this'll be interesting. I think we're already technically in a state of emergency, but it's hard to tell how much actual danger there is through the giant piles of embellishment and general misleadingness the media gets paid to tell us. Anyway, bad weather coming. Might lose power for a while. Probably won't personally come to harm in this particular geographic spot. But if I stop posting for a long time, just assume there's a tree trunk in my skull.Looks like it's predicted to be a Category 1 or 2 at landfall, so you'll be fine. Depending on how well equipped for heavy rain you guys are, it may be rough, but Cat 1s aren't much more than normal Thunderstorms in Louisiana. It's a different beast in your region, of course, but still. I doubt it'll be enough wind to knock a tree into your skull :p

well bear in mind that this place USED to be insane. There were times where I would have 30 active thread subscriptions after a single day of not visiting.I use to think this forum wasn't active daily, until recent I decided to look more into other sections like lounge and fan frenzy (basically, all I came here for was the worms games beforehand. :P). I wish it still was as insane now as it was back then.

Just a thought, should I change my username to the one I use everywhere else? I pretty much only use this username here... although I do kinda like it (probably because I've gotten use to it).

On another note, why is the size limit for the avatar 9.8 KB? Has it always been like that? I mean I had to reduce the size to 77x77px which was the smallest size that could be compressed to fit in the limit (compressed 33%). Even 5 KB more in the limit would be a huge improvement.

Just a thought, should I change my username to the one I use everywhere else? I pretty much only use this username here... although I do kinda like it (probably because I've gotten use to it).I don't think it matters enough to bother.

On another note, why is the size limit for the avatar 9.8 KB? Has it always been like that? I mean I had to reduce the size to 77x77px which was the smallest size that could be compressed to fit in the limit (compressed 33%). Even 5 KB more in the limit would be a huge improvement. The size used to be 50x50 px, so you've got more wiggle room now than we used to. Years ago, however, the file size limit used to be 20kb. I don't remember why it was reduced.

I think it was reduced when the forum was having major database issues. The same thing that caused most of the old posts to be deleted.

I think it was reduced when the forum was having major database issues. The same thing that caused most of the old posts to be deleted.
Yeah for some reason the database doesn't take well to files, so the avatar and attachment features have very arcane limitations. At least they looked normal in the 90s. :p

So Disney now owns Lucasfilm(and all subsidiaries) and is wasting no time in setting up a new Star Wars trilogy with a date of 2015 mentioned for Star Wars Episode 7. Honestly, I will give it a chance, as Disney has done quite well with Marvell. I just hope they bring the series closer in line with the originals, but I do worry they'll end up a little too light hearted.

So Disney now owns Lucasfilm(and all subsidiaries) and is wasting no time in setting up a new Star Wars trilogy with a date of 2015 mentioned for Star Wars Episode 7. Honestly, I will give it a chance, as Disney has done quite well with Marvell. I just hope they bring the series closer in line with the originals, but I do worry they'll end up a little too light hearted.

George Lucas is being relegated to "consultant" for the new films, so they'll immediately be better than anything he's made since, and including, Return of the Jedi.

Well JarJar should be long dead by the time Episode 7 takes place, so there is hope. I just wonder how Disney will take the overall theme, episodes 4-6 are considerably darker than 1-3, even in just the battle scenes, in eipisodes 4-6 atleast the rebels had faces which added some humanity to the battles. Episodes 2/3 had two faceless armies battle it out, and one being droids has less of an impact on the viewer. I hope the new trilogy does not take this aspect, as only so many movies can involve chopping up robots. They can leave the clone wars show for that.

And I think thats enough mindless blabbing about a movie I know nothing about.

Edit: As for rotj, although I agree it is the worst of the first trilogy, to improve it vastly, replace those teddybears with some other alien, something not deliberately cute, and already the movie would improve. I enjoy most of the rest of the movie, and, in my opinion, it has some of the best space battles in the series, although the only redeeming factor is ep3 is its opening battle, it doesn't have the same desperate last stand of ep6.

Well JarJar should be long dead by the time Episode 7 takes place, so there is hope. I just wonder how Disney will take the overall theme, episodes 4-6 are considerably darker than 1-3, even in just the battle scenes, in eipisodes 4-6 atleast the rebels had faces which added some humanity to the battles. Episodes 2/3 had two faceless armies battle it out, and one being droids has less of an impact on the viewer. I hope the new trilogy does not take this aspect, as only so many movies can involve chopping up robots. They can leave the clone wars show for that.that's a sign of the times too, though, isn't it? violence is evil now, and parents don't want their kids exposed to films with personalized battles like the old trilogy had.

Not so much a sign of the times as it was Lucas' insistance that the political minutiae of the Star Wars universe would be fascinating to fans, when obviously it isn't.

Lucas isn't involved anymore as anything other than a consultant, which is bloody marvelous - the two good films in the series are the ones that he made when he wasn't surrounded by toadying yes-men.

Not so much a sign of the times as it was Lucas' insistance that the political minutiae of the Star Wars universe would be fascinating to fans, when obviously it isn't.

Lucas isn't involved anymore as anything other than a consultant, which is bloody marvelous - the two good films in the series are the ones that he made when he wasn't surrounded by toadying yes-men.agreed. The man has good vision, be he is AWFUL at executing it. I'm ecstatic that he's stepping down from the helm.

Its ages since I saw the film, but could someone remind me why JarJar Binks is so hated?

Its ages since I saw the film, but could someone remind me why JarJar Binks is so hated?
He was basically a klutzy, cartoonish comic relief in an otherwise serious film. Imagine if C3PO was a clown.

To be fair though, he was about as best you could get for what he is, and he was actually rather popular among children.

Meesaah wacky bunny man who talk like had bad head injury! Meesah take up screentime with badly-aged CGI wobblyface and slapstick.

While it's unlikely Disney would produce anything as worthless as the prequels, I'm not exactly enthused at the prospect of more Star Wars.

Well, JarJar being a clumsy clown isn't inherently bad.
C3PO is basically the same, with added annoying smartassness.

What really annoyed me was the battle against the droid army, where he single-handedly took out tanks and several enemies without a scratch in a Buster Keaton slapstick sketch.

Also, it's weird to see the same clown become an ambassador for Naboo in Ep. 2.
replace those teddybears with some other alien
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I think he should have kept the initial idea of a Wookie planet.

Ewoks flippin' rule and are a prime example of how the prequels sucked all the grit out of starwars. I don't recall any lingering shots of dead Gungans in Episode I.:p

More like stupidstorm Sandy.

I think he should have kept the initial idea of a Wookie planet.

They changed because Chewie was shown to be adept with technology, so they made mini wookiees. Honestly though, it would have been reasonable that Chewie could learn about technology while traveling with Han, and the rest were ignorant of how it works. Although the entire sequence of them being captured would have to be reworked.


Ewoks flippin' rule and are a prime example of how the prequels sucked all the grit out of starwars. I don't recall any lingering shots of dead Gungans in Episode I.:p

If only we had been so lucky...

You've encouraged me to work out who the top 3 highest post count members are:
Akuryou13: 13,233
Plasma: 10,171
AndrewTaylor: 9,453

Stats are fun

Edit: My post count is 2,110

How do you view your post count? Doing a search of my posts says I have made 500 which sounds like some kind of hard limit is in place on the search system.

More like stupidstorm Sandy.how's that going, btw?

Speaking of Star Wars minus George Lucas, has anyone actually seen the Clone Wars cartoon? Like, more than just bits of it?

Because from what I've seen (just bits of it), it actually seemed pretty good.

...although I may just be saying that because General Grievous is the massively ass-kicking swordsman that I expected him to be, rather than in the actual moves where he's all "Haha, pathetic Jedi! What do you think you can do with a single lightsaber that I can't do with four? There is no chance that you can surv- OH WHERE DID MY HANDS GO?! SWORD FIGHTS SUCK TIME FOR A SILLY BIKE RACE INSTEAD!"

How do you view your post count? Doing a search of my posts says I have made 500 which sounds like some kind of hard limit is in place on the search system.
Member list search + brain + a little bit of time = profit.

... Because that helps ^^

And never watched Star Wars. Barely any films, really.

But yeah. Not all of us are as sad as some with the forum features.

Speaking of Star Wars minus George Lucas, has anyone actually seen the Clone Wars cartoon? Like, more than just bits of it?

Because from what I've seen (just bits of it), it actually seemed pretty good.

...although I may just be saying that because General Grievous is the massively ass-kicking swordsman that I expected him to be, rather than in the actual moves where he's all "Haha, pathetic Jedi! What do you think you can do with a single lightsaber that I can't do with four? There is no chance that you can surv- OH WHERE DID MY HANDS GO?! SWORD FIGHTS SUCK TIME FOR A SILLY BIKE RACE INSTEAD!"Ok. The Genndy Tartakovsky mini series was UTTERLY FANTASTIC.

The TV series currently still playing on CN needs to die in fire. I bought the first season dvd set to study the 3D models (because the show is based on Tartakovsky's work, and I'm fascinated by the transition), and the writing, directing, and acting all make me want to murder babies. Unless that show has MARKEDLY improved, you're insane. Or you're talking about the Tartakovsky work, in which case good on you.

Yeah, the original Clone Wars episodes are magnificent! The single thing of worth to come out of the prequels.

The 3d Clone wars movie and series, not so much. To sum it up: 'Darth Maul still alive, now with robot legs'.

Member list search + brain + a little bit of time = profit.

And completely unsurprisingly that yields no information relevant to what I requested. It lets me see my name and my avatar and if I click my self and go to statistics and choose any of the options there it will cap the results to 500.

And completely unsurprisingly that yields no information relevant to what I requested. It lets me see my name and my avatar and if I click my self and go to statistics and choose any of the options there it will cap the results to 500.
Community>Member List>Search Members>Advanced Search

It lets you search the forum's member list by post count ranges, you can use that to find out your post count.

Ah Advanced Search, okay. So 6,027 posts then (Including this one)! That's... a lot of posts.

He was basically a klutzy, cartoonish comic relief in an otherwise serious film. Imagine if C3PO was a clown.

To be fair though, he was about as best you could get for what he is, and he was actually rather popular among children.

When I was a kid, Jar Jar was my favourite character

No, to be honest, I was mostly attracted to C3PO and R2D2. They are basically functioning as both a comic relief and important characters, less cartoony than Jar Jar. Perhaps Jar Jar WAS a bit over the top.

Anyways, having a comic relief in a film is theoretically never a bad thing. For instance, pirate wars and romances are not really my favourite topics, so how did Pirates of the Caribbean become one of my favourite films? It's humorous. Most specifically, apart from all other silly scenes, I love the character of Jack Sparrow as a whole, including everything from his excentric behaviour to the hilarious quarrels with the undead monkey.

In my opinion, the best films out there are the ones that got everything. At times they make you cry or shock you, at other times they brim with excellent humour and action scenes.

No, to be honest, I was mostly attracted to C3PO and R2D2. They are basically functioning as both a comic relief and important characters, less cartoony than Jar Jar. Perhaps Jar Jar WAS a bit over the top.

While there is no problem with comic relief, Jar Jar serves no other purpose. None of his actions are deliberate and he serves no real benefit to the main characters, at least intentionally.

R2-D2 and C3-P0 on the other hand provide much benefit to the characters. R2-D2 performing tasks that help the main group, and C3-P0 acting as R2-D2's(and some alien's) mouth piece for the audience, helping to sell the setting and atmosphere of Star Wars.

Same with Jack Sparrow. He's funny and eccentric, but also has a much deeper level of character and has obvious motivations and is in general is a fairly rich character.

Jar Jar is just there. Being annoying, and to give him some sort of purpose his blundering actions sometimes benefit the characters. Sometimes.

I never defended Jar Jar being in the film, but I haven't whatched it for a long time either. As a kid I certainly didn't realize he had no depth to his character, he was just funny :p

I never defended Jar Jar being in the film, but I haven't whatched it for a long time either. As a kid I certainly didn't realize he had no depth to his character, he was just funny :p
Yeah, that has a lot to do with it. Characters in kids' media literally don't need depth, they just need to be simple archetypes. It sounds like it's a bunch of "kids are stupid" talk, but the proof is in pretty much anything by Roald Dahl.

Ok. The Genndy Tartakovsky mini series was UTTERLY FANTASTIC.
Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of. I didn't actually realise that there was a 3D Clone Wars series at all.

Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of. I didn't actually realise that there was a 3D Clone Wars series at all.Yes, and somehow it keeps getting renewed for new seasons when actually good animation, like Thundercats, is getting cancelled.... I hope the CN execs in charge of that drown in a lake....

Yes, and somehow it keeps getting renewed for new seasons when actually good animation, like Thundercats, is getting cancelled.... I hope the CN execs in charge of that drown in a lake....

I just started to watch Thundercats recently (This week) and I have to say, the animation and story is pretty great. It doesn't dumb the story down as though you're 4 with a mental disability or short attention span.

Speaking of Star Wars minus George Lucas, has anyone actually seen the Clone Wars cartoon?My bro has a few seasons. As of now we are currently somewhere in the middle of season 2 (having started from the beginning of season 1). I like it so far. :D

Adventure Time Fans!

My school hosted a talk from Frederator Studios, the original owners of Adventure Time, and they showed us a new show by the name of Bravest Warriors, and given that they gave me a comic book for the show, I feel the need to pimp them out. The show is from Pendelton Ward, the same guy behind Adventure Time, and it uses the same sort of humor and visual style.

The show will be one of the shows to premier on YouTube's new Channels section as of next week. Check it out!

Just like Adventure Time, Bravest warriors originally featured on Nickelodeon's 'Random cartoons' animation showcase back in 2009. You can watch the original short on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJOq2vYfe8

Windows 8 trip report:

- Desktop is awesome! It's faster, smoother, nicer and cooler than it ever was! Even faster performance, built-in ISO mounting, PDF reader, queuable file operations, explorer ribbon, swankier task manager, etc. Definitely makes this a worthy upgrade.

- Metro is horrible! It's slower, bulkier, clunkier and weirder than anything else! And I don't just mean "oh no they changed the Start Menu" because frankly if you were still using it by Windows 7 instead of pinning everything to your taskbar and desktop what is wrong with you. But every single app is somehow much worse than even their Microsoft desktop counterparts. You will be amazed as they managed to make even Solitaire take a million years to startup and even clunkier versions of Windows Live Apps. Just ignore it and hope it goes away (if you really crave for a start menu, just get this (http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/)).

TL;DR: Ignore Metro and it's awesome.

Metro is horrible! It's slower, bulkier, clunkier and weirder than anything else! And I don't just mean "oh no they changed the Start Menu" because frankly if you were still using it by Windows 7 instead of pinning everything to your taskbar and desktop what is wrong with you. But every single app is somehow much worse than even their Microsoft desktop counterparts. You will be amazed as they managed to make even Solitaire take a million years to startup and even clunkier versions of Windows Live Apps. Just ignore it and hope it goes away (if you really crave for a start menu, just get this (http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/)).

TL;DR: Ignore Metro and it's awesome.

I actually disagree with this. I find Metro refreshingly clean and fast (similar to my thoughts when I first started using Google Chrome). I dont use many Metro apps on my desktops and laptops but I can see myself using them a lot when I buy a Surface Pro next year.

My only issue with Windows 8 is that Metro and the old desktop are sort of inter-mingled. I wish they'd either gone full hog and Metro-fied the desktop (by which I mean had Metro-style icons for Recycle Bin, Documents etc, and Metro-style icons for the built in Windows apps like Notepad) or made sure that Metro did not appear at all when you're on the desktop.

As it is, you can be working on the desktop and a Metro style notification appears on the right, or when you want to search the computer or shut it down you're forced to use the Charms bar.

Thankfully Metro won't be left as it is for the next three years. It is likely that Microsoft will release feature packs of sorts that will improve Metro, and hopefully by the time Windows 9 ships it'll be a much better product.

Also, since most of you would probably be interested in this: Windows 8 is pretty much about as fast as Windows 7 when it comes to playing games.
EDIT: actually, that might not be true if your computer doesn't have much RAM (2GB or less, I suppose). From what I've heard, Windows8 is a lot better with handling memory, so... maybe?

Personally... well, the new features are nice, but I really don't like the whole sterile UI. I always loved the shinier, see-through window borders and things like that. And now you have Windows 8, where everything's just a single solid colour without even any gradients, and it's just so... dull and lifeless.

Also, I'm at that annoying stage in getting used to it where I'm unable to tell if a small design thing is really genuinely annoying or if I'm just not used to it yet. In this case, the only thing I used the Start Menu for: searching for files.

I think Metro and the Desktop should have been available in separate products, not combined in to the one product. So desktop users get the desktop and tablet users get the touchscreen/metro and there is no intermingling/mess.

I think Metro and the Desktop should have been available in separate products, not combined in to the one product. So desktop users get the desktop and tablet users get the touchscreen/metro and there is no intermingling/mess.That's the problem in itself, though. If they'd have just made ONE product, rather than trying to make two, there wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, they thought the same thing you're thinking in that they needed to have separate products for the two types of computers, and yet they didn't want to alienate their old users, and so it's a tangled, sloppy mess.

Not that I've used it, but I keep hearing the same things from everyone who has.

Well, just got my Xbox a few days ago, of anyone here wants to add me, it's Roboslob92. Right now I only have halo 4 but am looking for recommendations for games.

Okay, I was right on that Windows 8 wasn't worse for searching for things, it was just that I wasn't used to it enough. Once I got the hang of the keyboard shortcuts (for efficient searching alone, you need four of them), and figured out that that whole "Making files searchable" thing was *off* by default, I think it's pretty fine now.

If you couldn't tell, I've only been using it for about a week.

That's the problem in itself, though. If they'd have just made ONE product, rather than trying to make two, there wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, they thought the same thing you're thinking in that they needed to have separate products for the two types of computers, and yet they didn't want to alienate their old users, and so it's a tangled, sloppy mess.
I'd completely disagree, actually. Visually speaking everything's a bit of a mix between Windows 7 and Metro, although I'm not so against it as Cyclaws I guess, but functionally they're still kept rather separate. If you use the desktop only, then you won't use Metro at all except as a full-screen start menu, and if you have a tablet PC then Metro is not nearly a complete replacement for an ordinary Desktop.

looking for recommendations for games.
Plants vs. Zombies

That's pretty much the only reason why I would want to have an Xbox or PS3.
I want to play multiplayer against a real human zombie.

Well, just got my Xbox a few days ago, am looking for recommendations for games.

FEZ, a great, huge game to enjoy and all the remakes of RARE games like Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie etc.

There is literally no reason not to play Fez. Bring a pencil and a notepad if you want to get all the cubes!

These aren't 360 exclusives, but I've recently played and enjoyed:

De Blob 2! The original was wii exclusive and hampered by unnecessary motion control (shake to jump :p), the sequel streamlined the gameplay, nicked a few ideas from Mario galaxy and got released on HD consoles. It's a feast for the eyes and has a technical marvel of a dynamic soundtrack. Not very long, but you can find it for a fiver these days.

Darksiders! The story is a little po-faced, but a competent zelda-clone is nothing to be sniffed at. Couple that with a fun God-of-war-lite battle system and you're on to a winner. Again you can get it pretty cheap these days (the sequel's out too).

SplitSecond! Set on a fictional TV show where people race on special courses rigged with explosives, this game doesn't make a lick of sense. If you like burnout style risk/reward arcade racing and you also like everything to be exploding all of the time this is the game for you. Also has the most epic racing music.

Bastion! Listen to an amazing soundtrack while a gravelly voiced narrator guides you through one of the best videogame stories ever written. It's also a fun but simple linear action RPG with a fair amount of meat.

SplitSecond! Set on a fictional TV show where people race on special courses rigged with explosives, this game doesn't make a lick of sense. If you like burnout style risk/reward arcade racing and you also like everything to be exploding all of the time this is the game for you. Also has the most epic racing music.I played the PS3 demo and it did seem pretty slick, but I wondered if all the exploding traps in distinct spots might get repetitive after a time?

Dude, Dark Souls. Also, Spelunky HD.

And if you like JRPG's, specially ones from the SNES era, you should definitely play Lost Odyssey. It's awesome.

Spelunky HD.
Say, how is it compared to the original, ridiculously luck-based game?

*Points and laughs at Plasma for sucking at Spelunky.*

Say, how is it compared to the original, ridiculously luck-based game?

Dunno, haven't bought it. I'm waiting for it to come to a different platform.

Also, what KRD said.^

I played the PS3 demo and it did seem pretty slick, but I wondered if all the exploding traps in distinct spots might get repetitive after a time?
Honestly there's so many traps you'd have to race each course a fair few times to see them all. There's also a little strategy in learning what each trap does. You're going to want to set off the bus explosion closer than the giant swinging digger arm. There's also the strategy of 'do I save my power for the upcoming shortcut, or do I blow up the car in front and hope the one in front of that one activates it for me? Or should I hoard power for the course changer at the end of the current lap? Some traps are one use, some multiple and some open up additional traps on later laps: for example on one stage you can explode the supports on a bridge to drop them onto the track, do this on the first two laps and on the 3rd you can drop the entire bridge and change the course.

Dunno, haven't bought it. I'm waiting for it to come to a different platform.

Also, what KRD said.^

But it's freeeee (http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html)! :eek:

But it's freeeee (http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html)! :eek:

Yes. The original version is free. We're talking about the improved XBLA version.

Pay attention, soldier! :mad:

I concur with Philby4000 and MtlAngelus, Darksiders, Bastion and Dark Souls are all great games.

Bu-uurrrRRrrrp

I drew a new forum comic

Moving. I particularly like the part it shows a montage of all the forum activity going on right now.

This forum is active only when a game comes out and people complain about it.

:D I got a new PC, was kind of long overdue for one. I should get back into gaming a bit more I think.

If the Mayans were so smart, how come they're dead?

Bad news, I just looked outside and there's no world

I can't see the world either. It's covered in snow

It's covered in asphalt here. "You maaaniacs!"

You blew it up!

A year and a bit into buying it, I'm still loving my 3DS, against all odds. I still think it's a really nice console. Can't wait for homebrew.

I'm getting rather good at surviving these apocalypses :D

I'm not. Yesterday, my body collapsed for a few minutes for pretty much no reason. As in, extremely weak muscles, massive temperature, and breathing shallow enough to cause slight suffocation. Oh, and pain. If there was a reason to take the whole end of the world thing any seriously, I'd have been completely freaked out by that.

The good news is that it instantly cured my sinuses from that cold I have. ...I have absolutely no idea why.

I have a new keyboard; it glows red and has nice mechanical switches.
I like birthdays.

Although being hungover kinda sucks.

I'm not. Yesterday, my body collapsed for a few minutes for pretty much no reason. As in, extremely weak muscles, massive temperature, and breathing shallow enough to cause slight suffocation. Oh, and pain. If there was a reason to take the whole end of the world thing any seriously, I'd have been completely freaked out by that.

The good news is that it instantly cured my sinuses from that cold I have. ...I have absolutely no idea why.

Looks like your body just needed to do a hard reset to win the war, or alternatively: Nuke the ever loving **** out of the infection in one big epic attack.

The good news is that it instantly cured my sinuses from that cold I have. ...I have absolutely no idea why.
The Ebola virus probably infected all the bacteria in the mucus of your sinuses too.

Well, I, uh, guess I'm just gonna have to learn this electric guitar I got. :D

TF2 is on to you Zeor: http://video.adultswim.com/presents/valve/

I begrudgingly admit approval of Heavy Carl.

I begrudgingly admit approval of Heavy Carl.
Too bad it doesn't drop and costs €5 to buy.

What do traders charge for it?

www.galagiveaways.com

A new platform for giving away unused Steam keys for games.
Has an automatic auctioning/bidding system and randomly determines a winner.
Uses a virtual currency, based on your Steam account value (login via Steam API required).
(1$ = 100GW points)

Still requires trust in the other parties to actually send you a (valid) key, but a thorough reputation system is in place too.
The main advantage is, that there is no real money involved and people are basically giving away the masses of duplicate keys from all the indie game bundles.
(No idea whether giving keys away violates the TOS of those indie game bundles.)

www.galagiveaways.com

A new platform for giving away unused Steam keys for games.
Has an automatic auctioning/bidding system and randomly determines a winner.
Uses a virtual currency, based on your Steam account value (login via Steam API required).
(1$ = 100GW points)

Still requires trust in the other parties to actually send you a (valid) key, but a thorough reputation system is in place too.
The main advantage is, that there is no real money involved and people are basically giving away the masses of duplicate keys from all the indie game bundles.
(No idea whether giving keys away violates the TOS of those indie game bundles.)
From my experience, it's just another site like www.steamgifts.com, where you have the same random odds of winning anything as getting a hat drop in TF2 (read: none).

From my experience, it's just another site like www.steamgifts.com, where you have the same random odds of winning anything as getting a hat drop in TF2 (read: none).
True.
I was thinking about www.steamtrades.com, where people are selling virtual crap for ridiculously high monies.

From my experience, it's just another site like www.steamgifts.com, where you have the same random odds of winning anything as getting a hat drop in TF2 (read: none).

It's 1% chance each drop. As for myself, I recieved 6 hats/miscs in approximately 600 in-game hours. A clear 1 hat per 100 hours rate :C

From my experience, it's just another site like www.steamgifts.com, where you have the same random odds of winning anything as getting a hat drop in TF2 (read: none).
Funnily enough, I did actually win something from SteamGifts once.

But it was The Polynomial, which is an absolutely rubbish game.

.....buuut getting the achievement in it won me Avadon: The Black Fortress in the (ridiculously hard to get anything good in) Steam Winter Giveaway in 2011. So - by ridiculous luck - it all worked out in the end.

(1$ = 100GW points)
Apparently, I have ~$2.75k worth of games on Steam.

Considering that I like to hoard money Scrooge McDuck style, that's quite an accomplishment!

THE WINDWAKER IN HD. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-23-nintendo-announces-zelda-wind-waker-re-make-out-this-year)


Welp, I guess I gotta buy a WiiU now.

If they can sort out the shading, I'll be happy. Right now the lighting is simply treating the models as 3D models, which really doesn't work well with the visual style. If they can punch up the cel-shaded look from the original, maybe make it look a little more like Okami, it'd be a day one purchase for me.

The screens shown so far are proof of concept stuff, intended as an exploration of possible art styles for the new WiiU Zelda. I imagine the actual product will look much better.

The WiiU controller seems like a shoe-in for the Tingle tuner. My main interest is whether they add in the dungeons cut from the original, and maybe do something about the Triforce quest.

THE WINDWAKER IN HD. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-23-nintendo-announces-zelda-wind-waker-re-make-out-this-year)


Welp, I guess I gotta buy a WiiU now.
Wouldn't this be better suited to General Video Game Gabbin'?

The screens shown so far are proof of concept stuff, intended as an exploration of possible art styles for the new WiiU Zelda. I imagine the actual product will look much better.

The WiiU controller seems like a shoe-in for the Tingle tuner. My main interest is whether they add in the dungeons cut from the original, and maybe do something about the Triforce quest.
I'm hoping they'll add an extra difficulty setting (Possibly mirroring the world like they've done for TP & OoT 3DS), boss rush mode, make the triforce quest less tedious, make the Command Melody faster to use (Don't have the game repeat the song perfectly whenever it is played?) and tone down the bloody bloom.

And yeah Tingle Tuner is virtually guaranteed to take advantage of the Gamepad.

THE WINDWAKER IN HD. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-23-nintendo-announces-zelda-wind-waker-re-make-out-this-year)


Welp, I guess I gotta buy a WiiU now.

Why? Did your previous Nintendo console break?

Wouldn't this be better suited to General Video Game Gabbin'?
Huh, somehow I posted in the wrong thread. WHOOPS.

Why? Did your previous Nintendo console break?
I will buy Nintendo consoles till the end of time as long as they keep making 3D Mario Games.

I will buy Nintendo consoles till the end of time as long as they keep making 3D Mario Games.

I will buy Nintendo consoles till the end of time, period. :(

I wish I could say that, but... eeeeven I can't seem to muster much interest for the Wii U. :-/

While I don't think the lighting is quite there yet, but it looks nicer than the original. I didn't really at first, but then I looked at screenshots from the original and changed my mind. Sure there's no texture detail that needs higher resolution, but the crisp shadows are nice.

All this talk about Wind Waker's graphics reminded me of this awesome thread (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415)on polycount which breaks the game down and looks at how they made some of the graphics work. Maybe I'm the only one here who cares :p

All this talk about Wind Waker's graphics reminded me of this awesome thread (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415)on polycount which breaks the game down and looks at how they made some of the graphics work. Maybe I'm the only one here who cares :p
That's pretty great, actually!

I'm particularly interested in how light shading on objects comes from the closest light source alone. Because it was simple, but I remember it looking quite good in-game.

I find the new graphics makes the character models look like plasticine stress reliever dolls.

All this talk about Wind Waker's graphics reminded me of this awesome thread (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415)on polycount which breaks the game down and looks at how they made some of the graphics work. Maybe I'm the only one here who cares :p
I love this stuff, thanks for sharing!

I will buy Nintendo consoles till the end of time as long as they keep making 3D Mario Games.
I will buy Nintendo consoles till the end of time, period. :(Nintendo ftw!

http://www.indiegala.com/

New indiegala indybundle!

Pay what you want for:

Pathologic sort of brilliant, sort of unplayable horror game about surviving an epidemic from the extremely Russian Ice Pick Lodge
The Abbey cel-shaded murder-mystery point-and-clicker from the very Spanish Alcachofa Soft
Miner Wars Arena Top down 3rd person arena shooty action I guess?

Pay more than the Average (currently $5.30) and also receive:

Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon Americanized spin-off from the amazing EDF series. Flawed but fun b-movie bug slaughter with online co-op.
Miner Wars 2081 First person space shooty action in a persistent voxel-based world. Sounds a lot more like Minecraft than it looks.
Paranormal "A fully dynamic haunting-experience. Experience the horrors of a haunting that's never the same twice." apparently?
AN ADDITIONAL UNREVEALED GAME

Somewhat eclectic collection. I grabbed it for a steam copy of EDF:IA and because The Abbey sounds right up my alley. Pathologic is a game everyone should experience, but not necessarily one everyone should play themselves. The MinerWars titles look pretty dull, but Paranormal sounds absolutely nuts and could be interesting.

Edit: d'oh how do I keep missing the games thread?

So... Age of Empires 2 is going to get a Steam release with some upgrades. You can preorder now. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/) :cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

So... Age of Empires 2 is going to get a Steam release with some upgrades. [URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/"]You can preorder now.[/URL

Holy hell yes! :D

YEEEES! Looking good!

I'm not sure how I feel about paying £14 for a game I already own...

I'm not sure how I feel about paying £14 for a game I already own...

I don't mind. Now I'll have a digital copy that has been updated to work on current pc's, supports current resolutions, and will no longer require me to bang my head against my router repeatedly to get it to work online(hopefully?).

I'm also deluding myself into thinking this will help revive interest in the franchise and result in a proper sequel. :p

"I spent my childhood dreaming of being a musician and aged 16 I achieved an end of year school report which read 'Troy seems to be out at sea... and it looks like he's never coming back'" - Troy Donockley

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

I went to the midnight premiere for this area (not the London one ;)) last night/this morning/whatever.

I haven't had time to form a real opinion on it yet - I'd like to see how well it holds up to repeat viewings first - but my preliminary view that might change over time is that it's a good spectacle like the first one (Star Trek (2009)) was, but also significantly better than the first one with regards to plot, etc.



So, we now know that the "odd numbers suck" rule can be amended to "odd numbers suck, even numbers that are not multiples of 10 are good".

I am well jelly. Star Trek 2009 was great fun, a real step up from the dross of TNG films.


My personal best to worst Star Trek list:

The Undiscovered Country (so good)
The Wrath of Khan (a close second)
The Voyage home
Star Trek 2009
The search for Spock (Christopher Lloyd is the worst Klingon ever, but a fun baddie nether the less)
The Final Frontier (Don't you judge me, bad plot but great character moments)
The Motion Picture (Glacial pace, but great imagery.)
First contact (a half decent action movie staring actors completely unsuited to being in an action film)
Insurrection (closest to capturing the feel of TNG on the big screen. Like a feature length, but slightly rubbish episode)
Generations (astonishingly poor)
Nemesis (Misery and whispering. Parallels to Khan don't help any)

As we're chatting about films GO WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER FOR THE WORLDS END RIGHT NOW DO IT NOW NOT LATER NOW (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-4c8U-mUI)

I think you're being slightly unfair on First Contact - yes, the actiony bits on the ship were crap, but the bits on the planet were good.

Star Trek (2009) was indeed great fun to watch once, but it really doesn't hold up well to more than one viewing - there are a significant number of plotholes, the villain is very poor, etc. - I'm hoping/thinking the new film possibly isn't like that, but I'll have to see it again to pass judgement fully.


EDIT: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to The World's End.

Looks alright. What was so urgent about the teaser trailer though? :p

This is probably the best dissection of the film I've seen: http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-trek/star-trek-09/

The most interesting part is when he compares it the original Star wars films. Just as it's not important that Luke can apparently just fly his X-wing all the way to Dagobah, it's not important that Scotty can teleport kirk half way across the Galaxy. The character's actions and motivations trump technical details.

Nero wasn't the greatest villain and is a little too close to the baddie from Nemesis for my liking.
I thought the idea of their crappy (and inexplicably pointy) mining ship being an incredible military threat just because of their future technology was at least a little interesting.

Still, I should hope Benedict Cumberbatch does a better job in the new one!

edit:

Looks alright. What was so urgent about the teaser trailer though? :p
I'm just a little bit hyped for it because it is a film directed by Edgar Wright and staring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The last time that happened they made Hot Fuzz. The time before that they Made Shaun of the Dead. these are two of my favorite films ever.

I agree that minor technical details are unimportant, but I believe this isn't a minor issue - the whole star trek universe would be different if such things were "really" possible, and it would generally undermine a few things. That, however, is not my main gripe with the film. I'm talking about plotholes like, how does red matter destroy things half the time and send things back in time the other half? How did kirk manage to end up in the same cave as Nimoy; that's pretty damn lucky? Those are just two examples. The villain is incredibly weak as you said - little motivation and one dimensional. I do believe the same can be said for most characters - more caricatures. They do seem much more developed in this new film

I finally got around to finishing my Dota 2 item for lich (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=147813665). I think I started working on it two months ago or something like that and then it's just been forgotten. I'm sure I could have presented it better and so on, but I was getting tired of it and I really just wanted to get it out there so I could stop feeling bad about not finishing it. :)

I've looked back at some of my posts on the BTP forum and this one, and worked out that I started making good use of capital letters and punctuation at approximately the start of 2004. It feels quite bizarre to know this...

I've looked back at some of my posts on the BTP forum and this one, and worked out that I started making good use of capital letters and punctuation at approximately the start of 2004. It feels quite bizarre to know this...Oh, man. I don't ever want to go back that far and look at my posts. I remember how much of an ass-hat I was only too well....

Science confirms that my past self didn't exist. I'm zero years old.

In other news, some time ago I started an attempt to meet Nedroid's 200 Bad Comics (http://www.nedroid.com/bcpage1.html) challenge. Well, sort of, the scope of mine drifted slightly and I'm calling them Dumb Comics. But yeah, I'm only up to 42. They might have to start getting dumber.

I'm not looking forward to the mad scramble to be last in this thread.