The Lego Movie may well be the best kids movie ever made.
It's outrageously funny, deceptively deep, quirkily outrageous and ends of an amazingly positive message for both children and adults.
It manages to perfectly capture the mythos of Lego and what makes it special, whilst simultaneously being an excellent commercial for younger viewers and a wonderful nostalgia trip for older viewers.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:49 pm
by Flagg
I find it hard to believe it tops Iron Giant (my favorite family/ kids movie and probably why I'm really getting into Gundam which has a similar message) but I've not heard a single bad thing about it. I'm definitely gonna see it, but like I said on FB I'm waiting for the bluray. I'm gonna see Robocop tomorrow but I'm not going to sit in a theater by myself with a bunch of annoying children.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:50 pm
by Big Orangutan
OK, I've steamed right through my Breaking Bad boxset, finding most of the show addictive and mesmerising, and one death scene in particular stuck in my mind:
Namely the incredibly sad and morbid death of Jesse's junkie girlfriend, Jane, when she suffocated on her own vomit because of Walter White's initial clumsiness then bone chilling passive-aggressive inaction. While Jane's untimely death making a grief stricken Q (working in air traffic control) misdirect passenger jets into each other was a bit silly, I'm not surprised this is a pivotal death that will have grave repercussions for seasons to come, and when White gives this horrid calculated stare when deciding not to save Jane (an obstacle to his escalating crime career) White is starting to degenerate from sympathetic anti-villain to hateful true villain. The music score for this scene is very eerie and moving as well.
I'm mildly annoyed that the S5 boxset has text on back mentioning Gustavo Fring getting offed, but considering the track-record of White's attempted partnerships with underworld veterans ending in shit very quickly (the first would be partner was an DEA informer, the second partner an unstable nutbag) I should not be too surprised if Fring is a primary antagonist that has to be killed (and in his earlier meetings he already sneeringly mentions getting White's and Jesse's phone numbers without their permission). Fring operates behind a series of smartly run companies and gives Walter White a cutting edge, industrial scale drug lab hidden beneath a laundry business. He only intends to employ White for a few years and already stabbed another drug baron business partner in the back through his machinations, so the stage is set for a massive struggle.
I haven't seen S4 & 5 yet, so don't blow all of it.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:31 pm
by Darksi4190
Is it just me or is SDN down almost as much as SB these days? I wonder if the server's failing again.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:40 pm
by Crazedwraith
its working fine for me. Not had any problems for a while.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:50 pm
by Big Orangutan
I'm slightly puzzled why you still post there, I felt much better when I spent more time in the real world with real people and did things I liked. Every other talk forums and social networks easily feel more easy going than SD.Net; SB has its chronic technical issues with a server bottleneck and a relatively high number of vocal loonies, but has a less closed in and awkward atmosphere.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:34 pm
by adr
so i just got back from another baptism and mingled a wee bit with the folks there
one of the ppl was axing me about work and such and it came out that i'm a homeowner and he found that incredible.... he thought i was 19
how weird, most people think i'm older than i really am and he was way undershooting (i'm 27 right now)
maybe he just figured since i'm unmarried i couldn't possibly be older than 23 lol
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:50 pm
by Darksi4190
Big Orangutan wrote:I'm slightly puzzled why you still post there, I felt much better when I spent more time in the real world with real people and did things I liked. Every other talk forums and social networks easily feel more easy going than SD.Net; SB has its chronic technical issues with a server bottleneck and a relatively high number of vocal loonies, but has a less closed in and awkward atmosphere.
SDN still has the occasional bit of discussion that interests me, but it's mostly for the sake of nostalgia and lamenting the loss of a place where I felt like I fit in.
SDN was a big, if not the biggest aspect of my social life from years 15-21. It's where I went to talk about things that interested me because no one else I knew was into them. My school didn't have a Sci-fi club, or an anime club, or a D&D group. I had some friends who were into games and movies from a pure entertainment standpoint, but there was always the unwritten rule that I shouldn't start talking about the EU in a Star Wars discussion, or bring up The Fall of Reach when we were playing Halo or anything like that, and discussion of anime was limited to "Gundam Wing/DBZ/whatever's on toonami right now is kind of cool."
On SDN it wasn't weird or awkward to read chronologies or cross-sections. It wasn't weird to pour over pages of spoilers for a new movie or television show. Things my classmates and family members had always condemned and ostracized me for were normal and accepted.
Now a lot of my RL friends are into stuff like role-playing, and Spacebattles has some pretty good discussions going, but I just miss the old days of SDN.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:17 am
by Flagg
I just have some friends there and I like to have friendly debates. I try to be better than I was and shit you know?
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:03 am
by Bounty
I spent way, waaay too much time on SDN during my awkward 18-25yr old days. I think it speaks volumes that as soon as I got an actual real-world life my time on SDN basically dropped to zero.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:56 am
by Gands
For me it was age 17-23 or so. I'm still there, but I've had about a hundred posts in the last five years.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:00 am
by Flagg
I started posting there because I was bored as hell at work and was allowed to surf the internet unless I had more work to do than just sit there in uniform.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:07 am
by Darksi4190
I lurked around the "vs." community for years because crossover-type stuff always seemed really cool. I naturally took to ASVS more than SB because I was primarily a Star Wars fan and in those days SB leaned heavily towards trek and B5, with wars being seen as "technologically inferior science fantasy." I think I might've posted on ASVS all of four times, but I visited the Fan Fic archive frequently.
I signed up on SDN my first year of high school, but didn't start posting heavily until the first STGODs were up and running.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:28 pm
by evilsoup
so the robocop remake
in many ways it's like the conan remake, in that it's actually pretty good, but takes itself a little too seriously
also the beginning of the film had a section from a much better film (I would watch the shit out of
Iranian freedom fighters vs. an occupying faceless American robot horde
). I thought they could have done more with the 'war on terror' junk
also also, it was weird seeing Sarah Lund as an evil corporate exec talking about money MONEY moo hoo ha ha rather than EU fisheries subsidies or whatever
it wasn't great, but it approached the subject matter from a fresh angle (it was mostly about transhumanism and body horror -- there was still some satire, but...), so I think it's a rare worthwhile remake.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:52 pm
by Dude
This is a small thing but his robot parts, are they black or the classic bare metal?
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:57 pm
by evilsoup
bare metal at first, but the corporate types decide that making it look all black and tacticool would play well with the public
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:26 am
by Big Orangutan
Judging from the reviews and spoilers, I get the impression that the Robocop remake is like the fairly recent Total Recall remake; solidly made and watchable on its own, but kinda bland and unnecessary. Robocop 3 also suffered greatly from being a bit too bland and commercialised, even if its satirical script was not far off from what's happening in the past decade (with PMC mercenaries, Detroit becoming a bombed out wasteland, OCP's implosion mirroring corporate collapses of the 2000s, and poor urbanites being downtrodden by corporate/banking interests, etc).
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:36 pm
by evilsoup
that's a pretty fair summary, yeah
like, it's not bad, and it has a few really good bits, but overall it's just there
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:25 am
by Manus Dei
I really enjoyed it, although for very different reasons than the original.
Some of the body horror is just deliciously uncomfortable to watch.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:54 am
by adr
"this isn't the way to honor his/her memory... think about it, what would he want?"
"REVENGE!" *fires*
seriously heroes really shouldn't say that without actually knowing the person
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:21 pm
by Big Orangutan
Gands wrote:For me it was age 17-23 or so. I'm still there, but I've had about a hundred posts in the last five years.
I was posting mainly from the age of 21 to 25, then slowly decline in my posting, and stopped indefinitely the past couple of years (when I found the arrogant stupidity a bit too much).
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:27 pm
by evilsoup
The Last of Us is fucking great
the DLC is on exactly the same level, it's just awesome (this is the first time I've brought something on the playstation store, that's how damn good the original game is)
this is the only game I'd put on the same level as spec ops: the line, for reference (I don't think it's quite as 'god-damn', but it's still amazing)
you should all go and get PS3s just to play this game
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:23 am
by xon
God damn backup script wasn't pruning old backups like it should have been.
:edit: Backups only keeping so many on-box is working now
Also played around where the website's temp files where kept. Next step is to ensure the backups are stored on a separate file system but don't have the time yet.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:42 pm
by Big Orangutan
I highly recommend Wolf Children - think 80s/90s Studio Ghibli, a bit more bite than today's Ghibli.
Re: Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:44 am
by adr
with everyone talking about the new movie, i decided to watch the original robocop again just now
it is a fine feature film.. something i noticed this time that i never saw before: the guy at the beginning taking a piss who is all like "mind if i zip up"
