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Dooey Jo wrote:I think Stas may be a bit more left.

Well, that's why I said "most of". Even Stas's not the most left-wing, but the neo-Stalinist and left-communist/anarchist homeschooled teenager don't post much, and rarely post about politics.

Yeah I actually think AotC is the worst out of all the prequels. TPM's plot isn't that good but AotC's literally contradicts itself when Yoda turns up with the clone army - the clone army which we were lead to believe were mixed up in a plot to destabilise the Republic, was based on a genetic template of the dude who was trying to murderise the chief opponent to the 'militarise the Republic bill', and when Obi-wan investigates he is told by the kaminoans that a Jedi Master ordered the army's creation which Obi-wan and the rest of the council knew to be FLAT OUT BULLSHIT

but apparently no everyone's cool with leading clones into battle

I mean that's way worse than the whole taxation thing not even getting mentioned really in TPM.

Rev. Jim Bakkers wrote:

Dooey Jo wrote:I think Stas may be a bit more left.

Well, that's why I said "most of". Even Stas's not the most left-wing, but the neo-Stalinist and left-communist/anarchist homeschooled teenager don't post much, and rarely post about politics.

who

Neo-stalinist hasn't posted in years. He went by Sean Mulligan. Meanwhile, a guy named Cycloneman doesn't actually strut his leftist credentials on SDN except in the odd thread about Communism, but over on SomethingAwful, he's a bit of a laughingstock for being a homeschooled, self-proclaimed asexual 15/16-year-old put in college because he's so brilliant, who starts threads about how you shouldn't use the word "homophobia" because linguistic prescriptivisim. He's also a left-communist/anarchist type, but that's honestly the single least funny thing about him.

Also, mad props to adr.

wait who are you over on sdn anyway

Stofsk wrote:or hearing the smug rebuttal of 'yeah but the ot was crap too' :V with the subtle implication that prequel haters are somehow hypocrites or something

I only use that if someone compares the quality of the prequels to the OT. Oh, there's shit dialogue in the PT? Look at the interactions between Han and Leia. They have chemistry, but the dialogue is atrocious. It's not as bad as some of the shit in AotC and RotS (LOL IT'S BECAUSE I'M SO IN LOVE WITH YOU!) but it's still cringeworthy.

I think the most ridiculous defense of the PT's terrible dialogue comes from Wong, where he asks readers if they have heard young people try to swoon someone. Yeah, it's bad, but guess what? I'm not watching a movie to get realistic dialogue. That shit doesn't work on film. I'm not supposed to laugh and roll my eyes when two lovers talk to one another unless the purpose is to be comedic. It obviously isn't.

Stofsk wrote:wait who are you over on sdn anyway

i thought that was gands?

FbMinusFa wrote:

Stofsk wrote:or hearing the smug rebuttal of 'yeah but the ot was crap too' :V with the subtle implication that prequel haters are somehow hypocrites or something

I only use that if someone compares the quality of the prequels to the OT. Oh, there's shit dialogue in the PT? Look at the interactions between Han and Leia. They have chemistry, but the dialogue is atrocious. It's not as bad as some of the shit in AotC and RotS (LOL IT'S BECAUSE I'M SO IN LOVE WITH YOU!) but it's still cringeworthy.

I think this is where superior acting/direction can lift a performance beyond what the script says it should be. Terrible lines can be redeemed when you have a guy like Harrison Ford deliver them.

I'm not sure I agree that the ESB love dialogues had a cringeworthy aspect to them, but one thing I would agree on is how the original script's lines for Han just before he gets put on ice sucked. The best thing Harrison Ford ever did was adlib in 'I know' as his final lines.

I think the most ridiculous defense of the PT's terrible dialogue comes from Wong, where he asks readers if they have heard young people try to swoon someone. Yeah, it's bad, but guess what? I'm not watching a movie to get realistic dialogue. That shit doesn't work on film. I'm not supposed to laugh and roll my eyes when two lovers talk to one another unless the purpose is to be comedic. It obviously isn't.

That whole 'lol just look at young people trying to swoon someone' doesn't even make sense. It's basically a tacit admission that the lines suck, but like we shouldn't care because young love often sucks?

ps also who are you on sdn

Zod wrote:

Stofsk wrote:wait who are you over on sdn anyway

i thought that was gands?

i don't know who anyone is, everyone's usernames are different grumble grumble

wait i think bakkers is bakky, aka bakkgammon aka bakustra

Zod wrote:

Stofsk wrote:wait who are you over on sdn anyway

i thought that was gands?

The original B.A. Kustra, at your service. I decided to play on the original username. Once we get the ability to freely change it I guess I'll change it back, with special usernames for holidays and shit.

FbMinusFa wrote:

Stofsk wrote:or hearing the smug rebuttal of 'yeah but the ot was crap too' :V with the subtle implication that prequel haters are somehow hypocrites or something

I only use that if someone compares the quality of the prequels to the OT. Oh, there's shit dialogue in the PT? Look at the interactions between Han and Leia. They have chemistry, but the dialogue is atrocious. It's not as bad as some of the shit in AotC and RotS (LOL IT'S BECAUSE I'M SO IN LOVE WITH YOU!) but it's still cringeworthy.

I think the most ridiculous defense of the PT's terrible dialogue comes from Wong, where he asks readers if they have heard young people try to swoon someone. Yeah, it's bad, but guess what? I'm not watching a movie to get realistic dialogue. That shit doesn't work on film. I'm not supposed to laugh and roll my eyes when two lovers talk to one another unless the purpose is to be comedic. It obviously isn't.

Well, it doesn't really work even in comedy. You've still got to edit the natural dialogue so that you don't end up with something like Family Guy where they'll stutter for >10 seconds the whole thing is terrible.

Rev. Jim Bakkers wrote:

Zod wrote:

Stofsk wrote:wait who are you over on sdn anyway

i thought that was gands?

The original B.A. Kustra, at your service. I decided to play on the original username. Once we get the ability to freely change it I guess I'll change it back, with special usernames for holidays and shit.

i knew it was you !

i figured it out right before you posted 8-)

Stofsk wrote: ps also who are you on sdn

This is Tucker, so I'm no longer on there.

ahh cool

Stofsk wrote: i don't know who anyone is, everyone's usernames are different grumble grumble

i'm too lazy to change it every time, so meh. granted it's not like i'm terribly worried about any kind of retaliation either

Rev. Jim Bakkers wrote:

Dooey Jo wrote:I think Stas may be a bit more left.

Well, that's why I said "most of". Even Stas's not the most left-wing, but the neo-Stalinist and left-communist/anarchist homeschooled teenager don't post much, and rarely post about politics.

I think there's actually quite a few who claim to hold socialist sympathies, though they probably don't post in N&P much, seeing as it's a shithole full of Hairy People Called Asparagus (the hair is in their neck beards), then a few neoliberals like Starglider.

But yeah, I sure am sad Turkey is making a new constitution that makes it less of military state so they eventually can enter the EU - who are known for hating human rights and loving religions oppression, unlike the USA who reserve the right to fuck anyone up anytime they please and install religious dictators in place of democracies.

Dooey Jo wrote:

Rev. Jim Bakkers wrote:

Dooey Jo wrote:I think Stas may be a bit more left.

Well, that's why I said "most of". Even Stas's not the most left-wing, but the neo-Stalinist and left-communist/anarchist homeschooled teenager don't post much, and rarely post about politics.

I think there's actually quite a few who claim to hold socialist sympathies, though they probably don't post in N&P much, seeing as it's a shithole full of Hairy People Called Asparagus (the hair is in their neck beards), then a few neoliberals like Starglider.

But yeah, I sure am sad Turkey is making a new constitution that makes it less of military state so they eventually can enter the EU - who are known for hating human rights and loving religions oppression, unlike the USA who reserve the right to fuck anyone up anytime they please and install religious dictators in place of democracies.

who wants to post in N&P when you could probably write a script for 95% of the posters?

A lot of them are Amerisocialists, who are more like social democrats in practical terms. I bet not a one of them is opposed to profit :hmmph:.

The sheer hard-on people in the HPCA crowd have for military coups overthrowing elected governments is downright hilarious when you compare their fears of government control over anything.

lol

Stuart Slade wrote:Secularism in Turkey is dying fast; this is only the last stage of it doing so. When four out of five of the Turkish chiefs of staff abruptly resigned on July 29, 2011, they signaled the effective end of the republic founded in 1923 by Kemal Atatürk. A second republic headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Islamist colleagues of the AK Party began that day. The military safely under their control, AKP ideologues can now pursue their ambitions to create an Islamic order.

what an astute analysis

You guys ought to be able to change usernames at will in user control panel -> account settings.

sour grapes on the internet? impossibles!

adr wrote:You guys ought to be able to change usernames at will in user control panel -> account settings.

There's no option to do so- the username appears as solid text that can't be edited, as far as I can tell.

So on Star Wars... TPM gets a +1 bonus for not having the asshole Anakin. I don't hate it... it's just boring and stupid.

try it now, I guess I had to change the permission as well as the box that says "allow username changes"

phpbb3 is just confusing

yeah, it's good

and to celebrate, my new name is in honor of greastet jrpg of the playsatation fianl fantsay ViI

ff7 was pretty boss

god i wish i could post vg music

de do do do do do do do
de do do do do do do do

doesn't quite come out right


maybe i should hack in embedding of midis to this forum




so yeah the first time i saw ff7, i loaded up someone else's save and it was in the sunken gelinka thingy. i left it and it was underwater

but i didn't realize that and thought the world of ff7 was actually so dark and lame


i didn't go back to that game for a long time. i wanted ff8 for christmas one year though and my dad was like "fuck no that's expensive ass shit" and got me ff7 instead.

(reminds me of one time i wanted phantasy star 4 adn he got me phantasy star 3 since they didn't have it. but ps3 is underrated if you ask me. it's not as great as ps4, i mean like what is, but it's pretty good anyway. my biggest beef with it is the characters walk too slowly)


anyway i put in ff7 and found the world was kinda dark but it was pretty good anyway and uematsu is a god.

after a few hours i finally left midgar and was expecting that terrible dark world i saw before


and to my surprise.... bright green! i love bright greens. they make me happy. and then the overworld theme was pretty brilliantly done and you could wander and stuff.

good game. not the greatest game ever mind you, but a good one nonetheless



btw why teh fuck am i posting here? big work project is launching like right now and it still needs a lil work.

PRIORITIES

if only squenix would stop making terrible rpgs

i keep expecting them to finally release versus 13 and what do we get? 13-2, a sequel to the worst FF game to date

oh another thing

so in the mako reactor the first time, it plays the BOMBING MISSION song for a while unchanging

but then you get more inside and it switches to the track MAKO REACTOR and fights let us listen to FIGHTING

(and yes i have the full soundtracks to these games. i love that stuff)


well anyway i win my first battle of ff7 and it goes do do do do do do do do dooooo.... and then some weird ass shit as the experience points happen

coming from ff1, i was expecting Do do do do do do do do do, do do do do do doooo so i was kinda surprised by this


i actually remember wondering if the victory music there was just some special case like BOMBING MISSION was a few minutes before

alas no :-(


oh well at least the screens loaded fast enough where it wasn't playing for like ever before it gives control back

final fantasy 9 on the other hand... ugh

my only regret there is the old man actually bought me 9 for a christmas one year and paid full price for it and i bitched him out for it. i was like 'this shitty game aint worth $40 take it back' and left it under the tree for a week

i eventually did play it but i was still a total asshole about that. the geezer was just trying to be nice :-(

ff7 is a pretty good game

i think the only outright bad ffs are 2j and 14

13 is well-designed but just uses those ends for stupid purposes

honestly 8 is probably the least-appreciated of the ffs which is too bad considering all the stuff they put in there