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Bonkers intro
03/21/12, 02:45
You could have made a drinking game out of "spot the Star Trek voice actor" for the show. They even had Kate Mulgrew's nicotine-stained mutterings for some character or other.
And yeah, Frakes' character was cool. It even has a TV Trope called "The Xanatos Gambit" named after him. |
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The Dog Police pilot
03/20/12, 22:50
If you can form an unstoppable robot with a science-sword that can chop through anything, why do you bother with the lions? |
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Bonkers intro
03/20/12, 22:49
Gargoyles was frickin' amazing. When the first episode has a big-ass demonic creature catch a sword in its hand and it draws BLOOD on an after-school cartoon, I knew it was going to be great.
But eventually, they let the head writer who had created this whole mythology go, moved the show to Saturday morning on ABC, and tried to turn the Gargoyles into superheroes or something, menaced by a version of the Foot Clan called the Quarrymen. They looked like the Foot but they wore different colored outfits and had electro-sledgehammers. |
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The Dog Police pilot
03/20/12, 20:19
I don't understand. This concept worked so well when they tried it with the old "Superman" TV show. |
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The (Totally) Phantom Menace
03/20/12, 12:27
It's still awesome compared to the rest of the Phantom Menace. By that I mean this duel doesn't involve any dialog, attempts at romance or humor, Jar-Jar, Jake Lloyd, or direction by George Lucas (I'm assuming he's not the fight choreographer). |
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The (Totally) Phantom Menace
03/20/12, 12:25
@Robin: It's entertaining, fast-paced, etc., but it's the same thing as the video above. All "attacks" are aimed at the opponent's sword, not the opponent. If you took away the "block," the blades wouldn't even come close to striking their supposed target. It's pretty much a dance with some contact juggling involved. |
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The (Totally) Phantom Menace
03/20/12, 03:32
It's a good clip, but you could do this for almost any sword-fighting movie or TV show. I don't know if they're still out and about, but a team that went to a lot of comicons and did work for film & TV went by the name "Crossed Swords" and they had a whole reel of stuff like this.
The sad fact is that unless you get some people trained in swordfighting that have worked with each other for a lot longer than most films will allow, your fights aren't going to look authentic at all. A lot of what goes on is for dramatic purposes as well, like a hero cocking their fist way back before hitting someone, which never happens in real life (unless the punch-thrower is a moron).
They did a lot of weapon-related stuff for the more recent Star Trek shows, including the bat'leth fights, and they did some demos where they wound up with one bat'leth vertical, the other horizontal, clashed against each other so they could growl about honor in the middle of their fight. It's here they pointed out that no Klingon ever seems to think about just pivoting their blade so one of the pointy ends mortally wounds their opponent, because of Drama Armor or something. |
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Targeted individual gangstalked by nano fibre
03/19/12, 23:10
I'm almost wondering what the result would be if someone with a camera started accosting one of these "victims" with accusations that they, themselves are gangstalkers, presenting them with a list of behaviors (i.e. playing with hairs in your car vent with a camera) that makes it OBVIOUS they work for "them."
Would the delusional victim claim this was a double-bluff on behalf of the gangstalkers, start to wonder if they'd been brainwashed into working for the gangstalkers, or perhaps start to realize that people just doing stuff is only meaningful if you're nuts? |
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Targeted individual gangstalked by nano fibre
03/19/12, 23:06
So it's like being religious, then. |
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The Biskitts
03/19/12, 23:05
There were also a great many budding medievalists (read: D&D players) who would watch nearly anything with castles in it.
Even so, the Dragon's Lair cartoon somehow managed to only last 13 or so episodes, I think. |
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For the Record : 99 percent
03/18/12, 21:37
It's hard to tell who's more delusional or hateful. The filmmaker or the YouTube comment brigade. |
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Join The One Percent
03/18/12, 20:59
Further, the "join the 1%" is the same BS the Libertopians keep peddling. "Oh, pity the wealthy businessman whose success is being punished! Lower his taxes, for lo, his wealth will someday be as likened unto yours, even though thou workest at Wal-Mart and will be lucky if you can afford a cardboard box when you retire, unless thou needest a hospital visit first."
Making the lower classes believe that they'll one day be rich or that the wealthy's money will someday trickle down to them is one of the biggest lies ever perpetuated in political circles. If hard work meant long-term wealth, miners would live in mansions. |
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Join The One Percent
03/18/12, 20:57
I never said they were punishable acts. They're reasons why people are dicked over by people, in essence, playing with the market in a way that's similar to video poker. Naked short selling (also not punishable, just in case you don't switch tracks well) is something else that really ought to be outlawed, since it's based on a set of circumstances that modern trading practices use like a giant loophole.
And it would be nice if these bets were treated like actual bets. In case you haven't noticed, at least five big banks (whose traders and board members are part of that pesky 1% that don't have their income taxed as actual income; sorry, sunshine, but captial gains is bullshit) bet HUGE, sometimes against themselves, and they lost... until they got the taxpayers (whose home values they screwed) to pay for their losses. If only Vegas worked that way, it'd be even more popular.
Again, any honest look at how the 1% have fared since Nixon vs. the middle classes shows they've helped themselves to a large drum of anal lube with the rest of the country taking it up the ass. Again, "job creators" is a bullshit title, since as their fortunes increased, we should be up to our armpits in plentiful high-paying jobs. I think I'm not the one here who needs a reality check. But I guess the taste of corporate dick is hard to wash out of your mouth. |
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Da Boom Crew opening theme
03/18/12, 17:44
It's like nearly every Penny-Arcade clone ever made, minus the swearing and with 1/4 the white characters (assuming the fat kid is Hispanic). |
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Join The One Percent
03/18/12, 10:22
Simple: The means by which a great many investors in the 1% have become wealthy looks to be at the expense of everyone else. The investment classes were bailed out, declared too big to fail, and went largely unpunished for their wild bets involving unregulated derivatives, repackaging of mortgage debt, insurance policies (bets) against mortgage loans failing, speculation and short-selling, etc. This is coupled with them claiming to be "job creators" while the trend has been for the 1%'s wealth increasing while real wages and jobs have been decreasing over several decades.
So "join the 1%" is kind of clueless, if not insulting. |
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Join The One Percent
03/18/12, 03:40
Wow. I'm still not sure how they thought this might be a good idea. Did they edit out the parts that touted "have your 'income' taxed at a lower rate" and "don't miss the next bailout"? |
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Prometheus - New Trailer
03/18/12, 03:37
You mean the "BUHWAAAAAMP" from the V'Ger alien in Star Trek: The Motion Picture? |
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Hot Dog- opening credits
03/17/12, 22:05
Opening credits. Jump cuts. Closing credits.
Meh. A lot duller than the names involved would lead one to expect. |
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thereplygirl is a bit dispondent about not having a future on as a YouTube spammer
03/17/12, 14:30
If you'll pardon the expression, length doesn't enter into it. It's mostly if you own everything in the video and/or if YouTube's gatekeepers think your vid deserves revenue sharing. |
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Nick Danger Part 1
03/17/12, 14:29
Useless Firesign theater trivia:
1. Their name comes from (I think) Peter Bergman, himself, as he was into astrology when they got together to record some of their first comedy bits. He said that all present had astrological fire signs.
2. Rush Limbaugh actually praised the work of the Firesign theater on his show back in the Clinton era and went on to use their sketch of "Beat the Reaper" as a metaphor for "Hillarycare."
Just throwing that out there. Carry on. |
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