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Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Let's do this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YISctHpyV8

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Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

https://i.imgur.com/qFsgOZG.gif

This one still gives me a chuckle.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

cryptoclastic posted:

My favorite part of the Michigan/MSU video is how the entire stadium is just standing still, completely shocked.

All the Michigan fans are shocked. All the MSU ones are pretty happy.

And it was a good game. I can't see how anybody really left upset. That's the kind of stuff you pay tickets for. Heck, I can even give the guy who had a heart attack credit because it just came down to the wire.

The hip dislocation, however, is funny. I hope the player is okay but holy poo poo, that's a hell of a way to celebrate a game-winning touchdown. Thanks team.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Choco1980 posted:

Re: Jaywalking, I'm from the Ann Arbor area in Michigan. The city has been NOTORIOUS for people giving zero fucks crossing the road, to the point where around five years ago they passed a law that if you're driving anywhere in the city limits, ALL streets count as crosswalk zones for you to yield in, just because they were fed up with trying to stop the pedestrians. I've heard of people getting tickets for not slowing down when someone was standing on the curb because they might have been crossing. Years ago a coworker of my dad's went to DC on business and started crossing streets the same way Ann Arborites do. Day ONE he gets hit by a car and breaks his leg.

Sup fellow Ann Arbor Goon buddy!

I was going around UM's North Campus for work earlier this week and saw this in action: some guy in a truck is trying to pull out on a boulevard. He's looking to his left and is ready to pull out when this student just walks in front of him. Driver lets his foot off the brake, then jams it back down to avoid splattering this kid all over the place.

The kid? He starts muttering to himself like he was just so wronged. I share a look with the driver and start laughing as I wait for the truck to pull out and go on his way. Ann Arborites don't even look both ways when crossing the street, they just go. A few of the exchange students, however, are smarter than that or at least exercise some common sense.

I think people are still fighting that stupid crosswalk law as it pretty much puts all the onus on the drivers for pedestrians simply not giving a poo poo.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

LawfulWaffle posted:

God drat, I laughed harder at this than anything else today. It's so comical I'm surprised there isn't a laugh-track, since you (or at least I) expect that maybe the driver will hit one kid on his rush to get where ever, but nope. He goes straight for the multikill/ace. Classic British humor.

I'd like to thank the OP for that, because I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The SPLAT makes it all worthwhile. And honestly, that's just lovely luck.

Choco1980 posted:

one last annoying thing about the freeway. Here in Michigan, it's random seemingly how many lanes you'll get. Like near me is a stretch where the normally two lane interstate expands to three for whatever reason (mostly because after the 8 or 10 miles a left-hand exit pops up) Anyways, nearly every friggin time that I drive those stretches do I see semis who seem to think that means that since it's no longer just the slow lane and the passing lane, that they should move over and continue at their pace of 15-20mph slower than the speed limit in the center lane too. This gets hilariously frustrating when they do it to a point where the left lane ends and suddenly they're the rear end in a top hat in the passing lane going super slow and can't get back to the slow lane because they clearly thought any of that through.

It's really weird, but in a lot of cases it's because there hasn't been much thought given to traffic at all. The whole of US-23 could be three lanes due to the congestion all the way through Washtenaw County. For some reason, I-94 shrinks to two lanes going through Ann Arbor and the city won't entertain putting in a third lane because it'll cost a lot of money to deal with the ten or so overpasses that'll need to be upgraded as well. Of course, Ann Arbor attempts to deal with it by blaming it on drivers going too fast, not realizing that the biggest congested area is right near that two-lane bottleneck that happens to cross by the University of Michigan campus.

Oh well, stupid highway derail over. Can we get some more of those insane PSAs? Except the Canadian ones. Those are really freaking scarring.


Turkey can't take out all the humans, but it can start with the young ones.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Rondette posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA


It's a slow burner all right. You'd think after the first death the farmers would tell the kids to GTFO, but no, they just carry on.

These are insanely awesome. The stone-faced adults just removing the kid's belongings from school/home/et cetera has to be the best part. Moral: if you gently caress up your farm safety, you never existed. At all.

Do we have any more of these British ones? I've well acquainted with the American ones -- One Got Fat, the train ones on MST3k (why don't they look?) -- but the British ones are done with such a cruelty to them that makes it even more bizarre.

EDIT: the most horrific one has to be the poisoning of the girl. The shrieking and imagined horror of it had to scar some kids. Good child actor, however.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

wayne curr posted:

http://www.teamfortress.com/arkhamknightcontest/


Yay, get paid in games! and 1/4 of whatever money people spend buying the items from TF2's in-game store (in a game already bloated with hundreds of cosmetic items)

"Get paid in games that we didn't halfass!"

Someone is probably getting fired/promoted out of this mess.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Solice Kirsk posted:

Wonder if dude got charged with assault.

Probably not as the preacher could have been inciting or causing a public nuisance. After all, why the hell was he filming this with a go-pro unless to bring action towards someone?

88h88 posted:

GOD FORGIVES!

...but I will get you arrested and sue.

Possibly in lieu of having solid employment.

MisterBibs posted:

So here in Illinois, there was a much-loved cop that went missing and was eventually found dead. Over 300,000 bucks was spent trying to find the guy, his killers, whatever. Of course, lots of conservatives blamed Black Lives Matter for it. Lots of talk about how he was such a nice guy, totally a hero, etc.

Turns out, he killed himself because he and some other cops had been embezzling money for a while now, and he was acutely aware that the higher-ups were going to find out about it.

Maker Of Shoes posted:

The month old Unsolved Mystery thread about it on Reddit is funny.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3ks3v0/what_happened_to_lt_joe_gliniewicz/



"source: my father is a cop and I believe him unconditionally" :effort:

"welp. that didn't work out so well for me."

"Should I reevaluate my thought process for assuming the police are always honest? Nah! Must be a one-off."

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Inco posted:

Or maybe, just maybe, everyone involved in this is a shithead and one should get cited for causing a public nuisance, and the other should be arrested for battery because the proper response to a public nuisance is not to enter "violent rear end in a top hat" mode.

Very true.

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Except this gem. This needs to be framed or put in a hall of fame somewhere.



I kinda want to see the bagpipers play Amazing Grace backwards now.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Attitude Indicator posted:

it must be really stressful being that stupid and corrupt at the same time

This is the strangest thing ever. What else can come out? He was running a child slavery ring? He was a product of incest? Planned on killing people with a pack of specially-trained rabid dogs that shoot bees out of their mouths?

veedubfreak posted:

Yes you can. If you're a multimillionaire in a lovely country.

At this point, a semi might be cheaper and safer.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

bucksmash posted:

Ronda Rousey, undefeated UFC champion, just fought against Holly Holm. Rousey's in black, Holm's in white.

DISRESPECT



Oops.

She just got humbled big time.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Anybody else laugh when halfway through the video, the rear end in a top hat puts on a helmet?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Mizuti posted:

A beaver yelps in horror when he realizes he's uncomfortably close to a skunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBSixNblakE

I like how the skunk seems to go 'yeah, I know, just go away' and doesn't really do much. Must be used to it by now.

Teddybear posted:

A Trump nomination would likely lead to the decimation of the national party and significant-to-heavy rollbacks on state gains, starting a spiral that they may be unable to pull out of.

Not to mention the Republicans have been known for the past few years as the Party that just screams about Obama to the point of not doing anything else. To have Trump leading really shows just how messed up the party is, and this doesn't even go into their sad politics of disenfranchising people.

That said, the real schadenfreude with this will probably come during the primary season, as if Trump wins then everything he has ever done (including his penchant for bankruptcy, conning people out of cash, his hair) will be flushed out big time. There's a lot on Trump that will possibly lead to his downfall in a very big way.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Indolent Bastard posted:

An intoxicated 19-year-old woman stole an Angry Orchard truck in Portland and crashed it into a barn on Rt. 160 in Limerick, according the York County Sheriff's Office.

From a friends facebook:

A lady did want her some cider
But the store just would not supply her
So she took the whole truck
And got herself stuck
When she drove through a barn's broadsider.

Bravo!!

chitoryu12 posted:

To add onto this, Republicans have been struggling recently with their poor image to anyone who's not a hate-filled white racist and desperately trying to court minorities and women (which is hard to do while openly campaigning to restrict their rights). If Trump wins the nomination, all the people who might vote for the Republican party but aren't a bizarre caricature of a crazed bigot will go away or even vote for a Democrat just to keep the nutter out.

Not to mention there's been some speculation that Trump is trying to get out of the running by becoming more and more offensive, which has only served to make him more favorable with Republican voters. 2016 will be very interesting, to say the very least.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Saints row 2 graphics mod looking good!

Oh hell now I want to play that again.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

After watching the new Batman Vs Superman trailer, the schadenfreude is me, because apparently Doomsday looks like a retarded ninja turtle.

I was kinda hopeful about this movie again after the teaser came out. Now I'm back to wondering how this clusterfuck even got green lit.

DC is going through what Marvel did in the '90s, which is funny since the same editors are messing it up in the same way they did Marvel at the time. I'm still wondering why Lex Luthor is a gawky nerd with lovely hair.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

You can see it in his eyes, the moment he realizes he's hosed but he's still holding on.

Pride fucks you up, I guess. And we know he's too full of himself that he can't step down. And his attempts to get thrown out are only going to poison his image once this whole election is over.

It's like the perfect storm of schaden: he can't leave because his ego's too fragile, and his attempts to poison his run are only going to endear him more to the psycho base.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Indolent Bastard posted:

IT-freude

Interesting story from a very well known company supplying fantasy wargaming products in Nottingham (Games Workshop).

This week, reader "James" has shared a story “from my days as a Sysadmin, at the dawn of the broadband area, when I worked for a very well known company supplying fantasy wargaming products.”

Said company decided it needed an office in Europe, supplied by a warehouse in Nottingham.

“To connect the sites, the ERP system needed a link between the sites,” James recalls. But the company's preferred telco was a few weeks away from launching its broadband product. The European office couldn't wait, however, so James “used an aggregated on-demand international ISDN connection so the databases could sync as required.”

“This was massively expensive, but was only needed for two weeks before we could place the order for broadband. The system worked fine unattended, and everyone was happy as the ERP system worked flawlessly.”

Despite the outbreak of happiness, “a week later the IT Manager called me into a meeting with HR to inform me I had been made redundant, effectively immediately.”

James was escorted from the premises by security and prevented from speaking to his colleagues.

Before he placed an order for broadband.

“Two months later,” James wrote, “I received a call from the horrified IT Director (the IT Manager himself had been made redundant straight after me), to ask if I knew why they faced an ISDN bill for over £100,000.”

Remember that bit at the start of the story about this happening at the “dawn of the broadband age”? Back then, data connections weren't cheap. So by marching James without a handover, his former employer had missed the chance to learn about the expensive ISDN connection.

“I had great delight in telling them I knew exactly why the bill was so large and had they not made me redundant they would have not blown the whole year's IT investment budget in a single month,” James recalls. “Even better, they had gone over the cancellation period, locking them into a year's contract.”

Oh that is awesome. Never gently caress with the IT guy unless you know how everything absolutely works. And you never, ever will.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Anora posted:

Not really seeing the part that we should be getting enjoyment out of.

An old lady slipped in the bloody remains.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


Ha! Turns out he's just a pathetic scam artist who never even stepped a foot in college. From the article (bolding is mine):

quote:

Shkreli’s extraordinary history—and current hold on the public imagination—makes the case more noteworthy than most involving securities fraud. The son of immigrants from Albania and Croatia who worked as janitors and raised him deep in working-class Brooklyn, Shkreli both epitomizes the American dream and sullies it. As a youth, he showed exceptional promise and independence and, after dropping out of an elite Manhattan high school, began his conquest of Wall Street before he was 20.


If true, he's been an rear end in a top hat his entire life. His parents spend a lot for him to go to an 'elite Manhattan high school' only for him to drop out, intern for the Mad Money guy, and then start scamming people for the next twelve years. Oh, and he just managed to scam people like his parents by jacking up the price of drugs. Just wow.

This guy is just aching for a beatdown.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

nexus6 posted:

It's comical how much of a douchebag this guy is. He can't actually be real, right?

Never underestimate the power of greed.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Mizuti posted:

What was this guy thinking? Did he want the extra scrutiny?

That was secondary to the amount of attention he was getting. Not to mention he's delusional and pretty much an idiot. I can hardly wait to hear just how much money he blew through to pay off his own debts. poo poo like buying that Wu-Tang album for a few million will not help him at all.

He's going to end up in jail because his hedge fund probably ripped off a lot of rich people.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

This was the card that Steve was given. Seems pretty clear it was his fuckup. I doubt the others knew who the winner was so they just ran with what he announced.



Well, there is it...Steve Harvey can't read. Or spell 'Philippines.'

That man's brain must be scrambled to hell and back.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Wanamingo posted:

They're just whining over nothing again. A few people are steamed that it's going to be the same deals throughout with no flash sales or anything, but this is the second time in a row that steam has done that.

Keep in mind that the sale went live today at 1pm EST, so we're listening to people bitch and whine that nothing they want is discounted right now.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Lurking Haro posted:

Prices stay the same through the whole sale now.

Oh, I thought only the flash sales were gone. That said, it's good that I don't have to rush and buy a game at the moment then. I can sit around until payday. I don't see how this is a big deal at all.

Essentially, it's the last day of the sale for as long as the sale is going on. Thank goodness.

buttcoinbrony posted:

The schadenfreude is on Steam then, the flash sales were a great way to get nerds to keep checking the store every 6 hours and eventually impulse buying something.

Could be a New Coke sort of deal where this sale doesn't work out, then suddenly the Summer Sale is back to normal and everybody is flipping out and buying more? Eh, either way I guess I'm just going to buy Fallout 4 either way.

Random Stranger posted:

And though saying this is going to make me sound like a horrible nerd, the relatively small discounts and lack of pressure selling means that things on the edges of what people may try won't get purchased.

But then my reaction is to go, "Oh well," buy the things I'm interesting in that are priced down to a reasonable level, and then move on with my life.

Pretty much. It's a lot more calmer, actually.


To be fair, I wouldn't be spending that much on the sale this year anyway due to how things worked out. So not having to bust my rear end to get stuff bought before 1pm is a godsend. It is funny to see people freaking out, however.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


The real schadenfreude is that new games like this NEVER are affected by the Winter sale. Might take a price cut in January/February but not this freaking early.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Boywhiz88 posted:

I'm reading in GBS that he may have been tracked down due to still using his own cellphone.

Who the gently caress hasn't seen a show or movie where they ditch phones right away?! They even do that poo poo in Pineapple Express!

Must be all that Miller Lite. Seriously, what the gently caress counts as 'affluent' in Texas? If there is true justice, the entire family should be sent up the river. The whole family sounds like pieces of poo poo that have bribed countless members of the community. Added bonus is if an investigation was opened up on that judge that suddenly retired after Miller Lite Boy got a smack on the wrist.

I want to think that the cell phones were kept because this loser and his lovely family really thought they were above the law. That's not just stupidity, that's arrogance mixed with stupidity.

Rough Lobster posted:

Well I'm glad we got the little psychopath early before his true reign of terror could begin. I mean I know he's responsible for multiple deaths already but imagine if he'd wised up and manage to fly under the radar for a while.

Bright side? No matter how this turns out from a justice standpoint (he'll get jail time, and so will mom), we're going to get all of the dirt on this lovely family as a nice Karma bonus.

Senior Woodchuck posted:

It's Stone Mountain, too, so some of those fat, clumsy people will also be white supremacists. Let's all hope it's a small crash pad.

I'm hoping someone wears a confederate flag as a cape right before they really gently caress themselves up.

SpacePig posted:

That dog grabbing the skateboard from behind the fence is probably my favorite gif of all time. I still crack up every time I see it.


It's also safe to assume that the popcorn that the popcorn tub had been purchased before throwing it everywhere, unlike the milk.


Who wouldn't gladly pay for that milk and the time it took to clean it up to see that rear end in a top hat break his jaw?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


That's the first time I've seen someone spike themselves like a football after doing something neat.

Dienes posted:

Good lord, that haircut is the real scadenfreude

That and the helmet had ears.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

mind the walrus posted:

Yeah I know that turbo nerds are just itching to get to the Tron/Holodeck/Ender's Game fantasy but hard truth time it's just not going to happen in our lifetimes no matter how much money they throw at people.

I think the Rift looks like a great tool for things like porn, immersive learning, porn, fake vacations, porn, ultra-relaxed exploration games like Gone Home, porn, porn, racing games, porn, porn, and porn, but this weird marketing dream that it'll change the gaming industry is rather delicious freude. At best they were looking at becoming the Wii of the 2010s--popular as gently caress but filled with gimmick software that ultimately flared out--but with this price point they're not even going to get that far. It's still going to be a great for the premium porn market though.

It's just like 3D: comes up every twenty years, is a wonder for a while, and then vanishes because it's always the same loving thing.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Jesus the sound of that punch

That, my friend, is the sound karmic satisfaction. And the punching guy isn't even angry, he's just downright disgusted. It's perfect on so many levels. "Dude, why are you getting near him?" "HE loving PUNCHED A BLIND KID!"

Glorious.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

titties posted:

I don't get where he was going with this. In the video he makes sure to thank his fans and explains that he's burned out on making the challenge videos, making them is a chore and he doesn't have any enthusiasm for it. He says he needs a break from what the eating and challenge videos were doing to his body.

All of that is fine and understandable.

He then goes on to say that instead of making the videos he is going to start touring and entering various eating competitions. His first live show is going to feature him attempting all of his past gauntlet challenges live, and then he's off to a huge national chicken wing eating competition. How is going on the road and doing all the same poo poo he was doing for Youtube going to be any better than just staying home and doing it for Youtube? It seems like the way to let your body recover from what you've been doing is to not do it, not to do it in different places instead.

E: the schadenfreude is that I just typed that many words about L.A. Beast, a guy who up until a couple of weeks ago ate stuff on camera for a living.

Sounds like he's becoming aware of what an rear end in a top hat he's looking like, so instead of doing it on YouTube he's doing to do it at some fairs that are hopefully less populated so he can regain some of his self-respect.

Which makes no sense at all, but then again we are talking about L.A. Beast.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Lemon posted:

How can you not be confident in your abilities when driving a commercial vehicle? Are the requirements to get a license not a lot more rigorous than normal?

There's nothing here that isn't funny: ex-Amish woman that can't do math destroys a historical bridge and notes her stupidity to the local news and identifies that her truck is okay just in case people were wondering if they can get anything from a lawsuit. Her license is gone, she's gonna be fired, and her place of business is probably going to get some backlash as well. This has to be the ultimate in schadenfreude, especially if the city sues to rebuild the bridge. Which they probably will. What would be more expensive: saving the old bridge or building a new one?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

EduardoEspecial posted:

A guy filmed his neighbours for 3 years and documents the crazy going on. The video starts off slow, but picks up speed into an amazing train wreck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmUm4Y8slW8

This is AMAZING. Especially the epic of Junior. Also the evergrowing pile of old dogshit all over the place.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I recall being told that somewhere, Lucas said he was annoyed that the new film did so well. Can anyone confirm/deny? Because if he really was mad that the movie did so great without his interference... :allears:

Olewithmilk posted:

In the Red Letter Media reviews they convincingly show how annoyed he was at how well Titanic was doing, so for his own franchise doing record breaking numbers without him must rile him.

Ah, yes, the 'like I sold my film to white slavers' or such line that he took back a day or so later after the film's first success weekend. Sour grapes are best when taken from the tree ala lightsaber.

But it does show that the main problem with the franchise was him. It's hard to watch The Force Awakens and notice that the frame isn't jampacked with CGI characters like the world's weirdest Mad Magazine fold-in. There's a lot going on, but there's a sense of style in the mise-en-scene that Lucas just did not understand. Not to mention that the pacing was miles above anything in the first six films, the dialogue was decent, and the movie had a nice flow to it. It's like everybody watched the Red Letter Media critiques of the second trilogy and learned from them. Then again, they weren't trying to claim sole credit for a movie franchise that they sank, either.

ultrabindu posted:

Is Lucas not a Disney stock holder now? I thought that some of the $4billion was stocks/shares and the rest was cash when he sold LucasFilm.

The way Lucas flipped out and then retracted that statement doesn't really sound like an employee being reined in as much as someone's handlers saying 'cut it out, we don't want to piss off Disney.' That said, the best schadenfreude for this whole thing is Disney tossing out Lucas' ideas for Episode 7 because they seemed too much like Episodes 1-3.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

WoodrowSkillson posted:

Most of this I agree with but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater in claiming the new movie is better then the original trilogy. Marcia Lucas did an unbelievable job editing those movies, and if anything, one of the few legit criticisms of the new movies is it moves extremely fast to a slight detriment to the plot a couple times.

This might also be my memory cheating as I haven't seen the theatrical cuts in a while. I think the only time I've seen the original trilogy as of late is those abominable Special Editions that Lucas put out before Phantom Menace came out. I'll have to see about hunting the originals down.

WhatEvil posted:

I recently watched Episodes 4, 5, 2, 3, 6 in that order (the "Machete order") like I assume an awful lot of people did. This was the first time I'd watched them in this order or that close in time (did it over about a week) and a few things stood out:

- The story of 2 & 3 isn't *that* awful, but the dialogue and pacing is.

- Return of the Jedi is a fantastic movie.

- All of the "Special Edition" bits were loving terrible, stuck out like a sore thumb and made the original movies worse. This is an important one because almost the whole of the 3 prequels were seemingly made with the same philosophy as the Special Edition add-ins for Eps 4-6, which ties in with what Mad Doctor Cthulu said:


Totally agree with this. They got the balance way better in TFA.

I like how the Machete order ignores Episode 1. I'm still baffled why Anakin had to be a prepubescent since Amidala was at least in her teens. Then again, that's more Lucas meddling to make children the main focus in the movies even though this makes very little (and very weird) narrative sense.

But yeah, Episode 7 had a lot more space so you could take in everything. Lucas' second trilogy is essentially the cinematic version of those webpages back in the '90s that had nothing but gifs and sensory overload in place of....well, anything.

HaB posted:

I was recently pointed to the Anti-Cheese Edits of 1,2 & 3, of which I have watched 1 & 2 so far. They are on Youtube in HD.
Here's the first. Find the rest from there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQBdRcgizc

The edits include stuff like:

- no mention of midichlorians anywhere
- horribly racist alien voices overdubbed with "alien speech" and subtitled
- Jar-Jar is never comic relief. No stepping in poop or other "hilarious" Jar-Jar moments
- romance scenes between Anakin & Padme are toned WAY down on cheesiness. (Still pretty awful, but WAY better)

They are still bad movies, but at least now they are WATCHABLE bad movies.

Thanks, I'll have to watch these as well.

To get back on topic, have some fail that isn't related to a bearded director who pissed away his talent and now is bitchy about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evj6y2xZCnM

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Yvonmukluk posted:

I think the most significant development of TFA is that it had more believable romantic chemistry between Finn & Rey than between Padme & Anakin over the entire prequel trilogy.

Is it possible to have Shrodinger's schadenfreude over the possibility of them making the relationship official in the subsequent films? Beause god drat, the MRA/dark Enlightenment/Racist Fuckwad tears would/will be so delicious.

Star Wars is full of schadenfreude. I have never seen a film series whose creator selling the property to a third-party outright has led to a significant increase in quality across the board. And you are absolutely right: there's more believable romance in Episode 7 than there is in Episodes 1-3. It's astounding.

chitoryu12 posted:

I still think the dialogue was one of the best improvements over the originals. Everyone in TFA generally speaks like actual people and the jokes are jokes, not slapstick comedy thrown into the middle of drama or a battle scene.

The whole tone makes sense as opposed to the Marketing Mad Libsity of the prequel trilogy.


The beauty is that the two in the foreground are related. The background kid just happens to fall at the same time. Poetry in motion.

Samfucius posted:

Hmm. Never considered this but it makes a bit of sense.

I thought it would be really cool if he became a non-jedi (or force-using in general) lightsaber expert. We saw Grievious do it (kinda), so it's possible, and I would love to see someone just be a pure sword fighter: no magic and a minimum of guns. And Finn wasn't terrible with the saber despite a complete lack of training.

I liked that as well: the lightsaber suddenly isn't only for Jedi/Sith, but it's their preferred weapon. That doesn't mean you can't get really good with it, however, but having the Force isn't a prereq.

Kay Kessler posted:

"The field test is over. Cut power to the android children."

This is awesome. Continue being awesome.

Roro posted:

"When I said to sweep them off their feet with your ice-skating, I didn't mean like this!"

We need another edition of Blanka is a Jerk for this. Or a Ryu Hurricane Kick.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

chitoryu12 posted:

I legitimately would not be surprised if Finn/Poe is canon. Look at the way they look at each other and interact. If they were a man and a woman, everyone would be tripping over themselves to describe why the two of them have romantic chemistry.

I really hope they go full on gay with Star Wars. After making a movie with a black guy, Hispanic guy, and a woman as the protagonists, making the black and Hispanic guys gay lovers would actually kill someone on Return of Kings.

Imagine all the beet red faces screaming in rage 'BUT MY CHILDHOOD' as they keel over and die, their hand reaching for the Fiery Cheetos like it's a loving snowglobe.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


She took that remarkably well. Kudos to her.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I was pretty impressed with how she managed to not snap her neck, but then I saw she kicked herself in the face and that's just god damned amazing.

I'm amazed she didn't mess up her left ankle. That could have gone very wrong very quickly. Of course, that's the bad thing about being that flexible.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


The part that gets me is that he almost falls on his rear end, but lands on his hip and then breaks the momentum with his forehead. I wouldn't have thought that was possible without meaning to do it. $5 says he poo poo his pants when he hit, however, and that it wasn't the first time that year that he did it.


The Day Chunk From the Goonies Died. The Last Truffle Shuffle.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008


The best part: everybody is dealing with it well except the two women (fourth and third from the right) who immediately buckle and flop like they didn't expect gravity. The rest of the people handle it well, but those two women just ruin it for everybody. Seriously, the fourth from the right didn't even try to adjust before she did a header into the ground.

The part that kills me is the end where the last three on the right end just hit the ground like potatoes.

Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Depressio111117 posted:

Pretty sure those are all men unless there's something wrong with my computer screen.

Wow, I really need to adjust my monitor at work. Or actually work at work. My bad!

buttcoinbrony posted:

God dammit grandma, you know I love you but you're off the competitive seesaw team. Get your head in the game and try out next season.

Because when you're faced with a sudden change in balance, it's always good to lead with skull.


"NO, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, YOU DON'T DESERVE IT."

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Mad Doctor Cthulhu
Mar 3, 2008

Ragequit posted:



This is the book.

I know the twitter account is a fake, but the book is real, and I can't imagine the real guy would be happy about it.

I need that laugh today, thank you so much. I never knew Amazon posted ten page porn fragments.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6yvrfOfLc

Has to be done.

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