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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 06, 2005, 06:53:06 AM »

Hmm, looks like our world will go to **** in 45+ years according to that first link.

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I think right now world leaders are hoping aliens will either kill a few billion of us, or give us a ton of food. Or both, like that episode of the Twilight Zone I saw on July 4th, with the Kanamits. I think we should invest more money in space programs to speed up the time until that meeting occurs. Then again, they do just seem to waste it by doing things like smashing into comets. :p Maybe next we can fly some monkeys into the sun.

As for the goofs in the movie, people with a lot of time on their hands have been discussing it endlessly on the IMDB.com forums. Here's an explanation I read:

A) EMP affects devices that are working.
B) A change of battery would enable the video camera (and, yes there was a 35 mm camera AND a video camera)
C) The EMP (or whatever!) fried the starter and the solenoid. Ray tells the mechanic to change the solenoid before replacing the starter before he knows there has been an invasion...when he comes back, he, therefore realizes that that van is the only one in the area that will work.

Yeah, I'm working right now, thus all the posting. :p

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General / New server mods! yay!

« on: July 05, 2005, 08:27:06 AM »

Guspaz have you had some sort of traumatic experience involving a comm punishing you for trying to vote him out? I've never seen a decent to good comm do that. If they did, then they deserved the eject vote.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 04, 2005, 10:19:41 AM »

Not only did they look like stryders, but that building at the end looked like it was from City 17. And then they shot rockets at the tripod.. It was uncanny how much that part felt like HL2.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 03, 2005, 11:38:16 AM »

They don't need a reason for causing havoc! As for how deep they were buried.. it was misleading because the cops said that compared to other parts of town "there's nothing down there." As if the only reason it hadn't been discovered was because there were no sewers/pipes/power lines/etc in that area.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 02, 2005, 10:28:02 PM »

The freeway being demolished, sending houses and cars towards the fleeing family, was incredible. That whole portion of the movie was mind-numbing.

The biggest problem though is the giant plot hole. How could those ships never be discovered underground? It's impossible. I guess it did make for a nice change from the book.. and of course it allowed for that awesome scene where the first ship came up from the ground... drool...

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General / New server mods! yay!

« on: July 02, 2005, 04:45:47 PM »

I see people voting anonymously for no reason at all as a bigger problem. Now there is a deterrent for that kind of thing. If as you say a comm gets hostile just because of a failed eject.. more people might vote to kick him out, which he'll have earned.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 01, 2005, 10:44:46 AM »

lol, yeah. Maybe if they didn't greedily eat and drink everything, like the narrator said they did. I mean they show up on a new planet, the first thing they do is pig out on everything? They don't run any tests first? I think in the book it was just being in the environment that killed them, not specifically the eating and the drinking of things. :p

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: June 30, 2005, 09:24:00 PM »

The way the aliens died was great because it made perfect sense - as in the book. The cheesiness, however, was not good.

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Off Topic / Getting to know the community

« on: June 30, 2005, 09:21:39 PM »

I dunno, if I were a lemon tester, my face would get pretty scrunched after about three years on the job.

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I could tell you such stories, you would not believe... but no. Just know that many a lemon tester has been destroyed by the lemon testing industry and it is not something to joke about.

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Off Topic / Getting to know the community

« on: June 30, 2005, 03:12:56 PM »

I work as lemon tester in a lemon factory. Lemons are not manufactured, you say? Why, I beg to differ.

When I'm not doing that, I go to Northeastern University in Boston.  

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: June 30, 2005, 03:06:27 PM »

I don't understand why the movie begins with an incredible action sequence, then everything is slowed down to snail's pace in comparison. True, it was based on the book, but I hardly doubt anyone would have minded if it was just nonstop mind-blowing action. It was already hugely different from the book. Short of that, at LEAST save the coolest stuff for the end. The pacing was all wrong! I think The Matrix is a perfect example of how to pace a movie.

Anyway, it was still cool as hell. :p

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: June 30, 2005, 07:30:38 AM »

So anyone else seen this yet? I have to say, the whole portion starting from when the storm began to when they were fleeing down the freeway in the car was the most awesome action sequence ever (at least visually). It all slowed down too much after that. There was plenty of cool action, but nothing could even come close to matching that opening. And there was not much of a story to fill that gap.. add to that already knowing how it would end, from the book.. meh. As with the more recent Spielberg movies, it COULD have been way better.

BTW, the tripod scene at the end felt and looked a lot like HL2. Oh, and it's too bad one of those cool aliens wasn't used in Signs. :p

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Off Topic / Book++?

« on: June 30, 2005, 07:09:19 AM »

I gave up on the Dark Tower partway into Wizard and Glass. Stephen King has been pretty bad since he got run over, it seems. That's probably just a coincidence. Wasn't he going to quit writing?

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Off Topic / The tv show Lost

« on: June 27, 2005, 09:44:00 PM »

I felt Kim's crap really took away from the overall experience. And I'm not sure they added her just to appeal to that audience.. really there was nothing for her to do, yet she was a main character of the show. So they just put her in the same situation as in season one even though it no longer made any sense to do that.

There was very little unnecessary stuff in the first season, while pretty much every other season has some dull/useless characters. Plus, Jack's anger and purpose was extremely personal, on top of the fact that he was protecting the country as he usually does.

Every time Jack goes rambo, it's great. I hope season 5 is going to be nonstop rambo!!

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General / You thought it was gone

« on: June 27, 2005, 03:20:25 PM »

1) Compared to your phase gate thing?! The second version anyway
2) Have marines there to shoot him. edit: Oh, you meant it only works once. Blah. Well I'm only contradicting you because I'm upset about the 24 comment! :p
3) True. Although if the gorge steps on it instead of spitting or biling, it'll be pretty damn funny

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Off Topic / Circuit City Summer Sale

« on: June 27, 2005, 02:59:56 PM »

When does this start? July?

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Off Topic / The tv show Lost

« on: June 27, 2005, 02:55:39 PM »

Season 1 of 24 was the best thing to ever be on TV, period!  Season 2 had Kim involved with a murdering husband, a convenience store robbery, an escape from a sheriff's escort, a psycho in a fallout shelter, and a tiger... yes, a tiger. I really hope you're talking about a different show, or you have the seasons mixed up. :p

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Off Topic / im scared.

« on: June 25, 2005, 08:47:38 AM »

Bryan, I woulda picked up on it but I stopped reading some of these threads. Anyway I think we have to wait at least a year to get our birthdays recognized. :p

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Off Topic / OLL for you hardware geeks

« on: June 25, 2005, 08:44:39 AM »

Ulatoh, you have just crossed the line from disgruntled IT person to international terrorist.  XD

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Off Topic / Book++?

« on: June 24, 2005, 03:32:28 PM »

Sigh, apparently the narrator for the Amber series a few people have mentioned changes after the first 5 books (not really a spoiler). So I highly recommend it - it's the best fantasy series I have ever read - but prepare yourself for the narration switch. It was hugely disappointing for me, I thought I had 600 more pages of the guy. Now I have to force myself the accept the new narrator...