NinjaPirate
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I personally would like to have seen how it would have gone with their original casting choice for Odin:
BRIAN BLESSED
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Except, y'know, hardly anyone knows about the film Re-cycle.
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Quote:This is deliberate, actually. The intent is to have someone who's seen the Star Wars movies and Clone Wars cartoon but knows nothing else about the setting to instantly be able to recognize stuff.Originally Posted by Calaxprimal
And the REALLY interesting thing is that TOR that is upcoming has the aesthetic of the Clone Wars stupidly enough.
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Quote:They make them in hypoallergenic varieties now.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
I wish I didn't have allergic reactions to cat hair
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Quote:Even the Guy Ritchie movies?Originally Posted by Comeuppance
Yes, but all of Statham's movies are just as bad, if not worse, than Daredevil was.
I really liked those.
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I'm actually curious as to GG's opinion of Force Unleashed, since George had a direct hand in it and he considers it as canon as the movies.
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There are five basic classifications of Canon that Lucasfilm uses. G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon, and N-canon. Each overrides the ones after it.
G-canon is whatever George says, and the latest versions of the movies and their related versions in other media. Interestingly, George considers the lightside ending of the Force Unleashed video game to be the "official" linking story between the prequels and the original trilogy. So that would possibly make it, unlike any previous non-movie media, G-canon.
T-canon is "new", and is basically the Clone Wars TV series/movie and the upcoming live action TV series.
C-canon is mostly the Expanded Universe.
S-canon is mostly the video games - except Force Unleashed, apparently.
N-canon is non-canon. "What-if" stories, game statistics, etc. The Christmas Special. Threepio appearing on a game show. That sort of thing. Also anything that was Canon previously but has since been contradicted by a higher level of Canon goes here.
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used to work on Star Wars products, still has the official Star Wars licensing bible -
You realize this was an article from 2008, yes?
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Quote:Artistic License.Originally Posted by Hemily
yes, i'm quite aware of that.
What i mean... that does not look like a eye patch, looks more like he's installed a harddrive in his eye socket.
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I know a lot of folks don't care for it, but I personally like the fleshing out the EU did of the Mandalorians. Turned them from faceless generic "bad guys in funky armor" into a people with motivations and culture and history.
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Quote:Um. Standard Norse Mythology. Eyepatch. Odin has one eye. He sacrificed the other one at the Well of Mimir for cosmic wisdom and enlightenment.Originally Posted by Hemily
I have to admit, that kinda left a bitter taste for me, whats with the eye thing on Odin?
There was a period in Marvel Comics where they were treating Asgardian "magic" as hyper-advanced technology.Quote:Originally Posted by Hemily
and technology? bwah?
They still touch on it occasionally. Like when Thor gave Tony Stark an Asgardian power generator to experiment with. Presumably so Tony could reverse engineer it and create cheap, widespread power generation for the benefit of humanity.
Tony, of course, used it to make a Super God-Powered Iron Man Suit. Which he eventually battled Thor with, due to some massive plot-induced conflict.
Thor was not amused.
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You know, they should have a scene where he takes off his helmet. But Every time the camera points at him, it either deliberately mis-frames him so you only see him from jaw-downward, or you see the back of his head, or there's a convenient shadow obscuring his face.
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Quote:There's an old acting exercise, where you would perform parts while wearing a nearly featureless face mask. This as to train you to be able to emote with just your body movements.Originally Posted by Arnabas
Hollywood.
Same reason for having Spiderman's mask rip all the time, or having him pull it off for no good reason. They pay for an actor, they want his face up on the scree. They want to show him emote, too.
But I always think back to the first tiem I watched Return of the Jedi. When Darth Vader is watching the Emperor zapping Luke, you can feel his emotions, even though you are staring at a solid mask.
Seems a lot of newer actors don't go through that anymore.
Shatner, of course, forgot how to turn it off.
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Wow, Colin Baker really didn't age well.
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Quote:One of the ironies of Judge Dredd is, of course, that's it's a British take of what is ostensibly an "American" character, as Mega City One is the East Coast of what used to be the United States.Originally Posted by Blood_Wolffe
This statement scared me until I realized it would continue to be a British creation. For some reason my first thought was Eastern European production when you said no Americans writing.
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I'm not seeing a lot of "stacked" items.
Have you experimented with the Floor Safe, the Floor Tile, and the Cubicle?
The Floor Safe stacks on itself, and any other floor item will stack on it.
The Floor Tile also stacks on itself and the Floor Safe.
The Cubicle stacks on the Floor Tile and Floor Safe, and lets you attach Wall Items to it.
Using combos of the above three will let you place almost any object anywhere. Including building walls to cover up most of the open doorways leaving just a "normal" door opening.
See Stacker's Building Lab videos for examples:
http://www.youtube.com/user/knuggit1996
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I shall do my manly duty and see this film.
And then I shall seek out Robert Pattinson and punch him in the face.
For Men!
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Quote:Yeah. His name is Bobby Kotick.Originally Posted by Pouncer
I don't really think Blizzard is an evil company. I think some guy over there made a major boneheaded decision and I serously doubt they'll repeat it.
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I was able to open a Bnet account with just my first initial as my first name and later enter my full name in my address area. The account still just shows the initial as my first name.
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Quote:Here's the thing. Since Activision bought out Blizzard, Kotick has slowly been eliminating or marginalizing much of the 'old guard' at Blizzard. Currently all executive power run through him. It's not the same company anymore - many of the original developers and designers have left or have greatly reduced roles.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
in my experience, this smells of upper level executives, it takes the right level of lack of real world skills,lack of knowledge of technology and lack of responsibility for their actions to exclude it from people who work with or vaguely understand the game, only an executive could be this deluded.
So what we're seeing is the new guys wanting to flex their power, without really knowing what makes things tick.
There's the very real possibility we are seeing the beginning of the end for WoW. And not because of competition or the market, but because of office politics.
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While I can't see getting fired over playing World of Warcraft in your private time, I can see an employer possibly hiring someone else over a Warcraft player with a not-unjustified concern that the Warcraft Raider might have his job performance impacted, having stayed up very late 3-4 nights a week every week. Sleepy at work, coming in late, etc.
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Heh, I was thinking about STO and Champions Online.
Somehow Cryptic over there manages to get full Facebook and Twitter integration into their games, yet don't have to reveal their customer's personal info to do it.
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