TFF Chat 2022: Hoping 2022 isn't 2020 part 3

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Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

hello friends

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 06:24

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 16:04

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Qwijib0 posted:

This one will be better

Surely

the thread or the year

either way same

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 08:03

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

what kind

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 08:17

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

LeeMajors posted:

Harry Potter superfans and Harry Potter megacritics are equally obnoxious.

It isn�t high art, it isn�t the debbil�they�re perfectly fine and fun stories for kids.

the final sentence in the last book of the series before the epilogue is harry wondering if his slave will bring him a sandwich

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 00:12

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

he loves to go to the hospital

he loves it

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 14:58

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

seiferguy posted:

Everything is just a weird rear end culture war now. I imagine 20 years ago if Kyle Rittenhouse had done the same thing, it probably stays a local case and he either goes to prison, or if he gets the same judge, is let out but it's by no means a national story. Now the murderer is getting invites to every conservative movement for killing people. That's insane to me.

Have you ever heard the name Stan Goetz

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 18:21

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

seiferguy posted:

Only as a musician who did a lot of drugs?

He stabbed those guys on the subway with his saxophone, it was hosed up

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 18:33

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

https://twitter.com/beesmygod_/status/1479160847482109952

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 20:15

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Sidney Poitier is one of those guys who i would always think died in like 1991 before learning he was still alive

anyway RIP

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 20:11

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

it was sad when Kirk Douglas died because it meant you couldn't go "holy poo poo Kirk Douglas is still alive???" anymore

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 21:42

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

you can buy katanas at Disneyworld???????

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 02:21

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Timby posted:

I think the issue is that there just isn't much to Boba Fett as a character. Prior to this show, what did he ever do?

1) Picked up his father's decapitated head.
2) Followed the Millennium Falcon to Cloud City.
3) Got yeeted into a sand pit by a blind man.

That's it. There's nothing else there.

now if the show was about Dengar and Bossk, then there'd be some meat on the bones

# ¿ Jan 14, 2022 01:41

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Kalli posted:

Huh is there much Boba Fett vore?

OH wow, wow there is a lot of Boba Fett vore. Enjoy that NSA guy

i imagine boba fett vore is only second behind oola vore in terms of star wars fetish porn content

hey those were both from the same movie

lucas was up to something in that flick

# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 00:31

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Qwijib0 posted:

https://twitter.com/ZachCoveyTV/status/1482343351248736259

Hoping it's not as bad as it seems it could be

https://twitter.com/ZachCoveyTV/status/1482346597249912833

# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 15:13

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

bobjr posted:

https://twitter.com/LisaMichelleEu1/status/1482659837284544513?s=20

It feels a little weird that things have been going on long enough for this to get made.

lets be real that's a movie that could have been made 5 weeks into the pandemic

# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 03:04

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Kalli posted:

It'd also be hilarious if the band ended up as like him, Sirhan Sirhan, Squeaky Fromme and some random guy who has no idea about the other 3's pasts, just really likes playing the drums

I want to be their Ringo.

John Hinckley, Sirhan Sirhan, Squeaky Fromme and Alex Navarro

# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 19:23

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

a neat cape posted:

Kasumi! I was told Kasumi was fine in the vents!

Kasumi is fine in the vents, but if you make the wrong person lead the fire team she'll still die. it has to be Miranda, Jacob or Garrus.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 19:00

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

the Dungeons and Dragons movie was made by the same production company as Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring a year before that movie came out and from a production standpoint it looks like it was made 20 years before.

the backstory behind it is pretty amazing

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In 1990, Solomon contacted staff from Dungeons & Dragons's publisher, TSR, Inc., under the guise of working on a school economics project; they informed him about studios in the past failing to produce a film based on the game due to having too little of an understanding of the RPG's X-factor.[6] It took him 18 months to convince TSR to set up negotiations,[6] but TSR finally agreed to it because of his upfront royalty being better than other studios the company worked with, according to vice president Ryan Dancey.[7] Solomon obtained an option from TSR after writing a 30-page proposal showing how he would adapt the game and going through three months of "intense" broker dealing with the game publisher.[8]

Solomon went on an 18-month-long trip across the world funding the film once a draft of the screenplay was completed,[9] and most of the financing depended on foreign distribution rights.[10] During the trip, he met a leading businessman in Asia named Allan Zeman, who viewed the 24-year-old as a "young, ambitious, artistic person" as well as a "convincing salesman" of a project based on an enterprise with a huge fanbase.[11] In early 1992,[12] Zeman and Solomon formed Sweetpea Entertainment to fund Dungeons & Dragons and sell it to other investors.[11]

Originally, Solomon planned to have Dungeons & Dragons be a $100 million studio project with a big name in the director's chair; during development, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Renny Harlin, and Stan Winston were attached for directing the film at one point but dropped out.[11] In addition to the script receiving positive coverage from the magazine Movieline,[12] Premiere also announced the project in a 1995 issue when Winston was still signed on, revealing plot details such as a rogue lead, a magical dragon-controlling device, 14 creatures from the original game, and an effects-heavy final battle.[5]

A majority of studios and directors loved the screenplay, but turned away due to a recent history of big-budget box office failures in the fantasy genre, such as Willow (1988), Krull (1983), and Dragonheart (1996),[13] and Justin Whalin's lack of star power.[14] Solomon and the studios he encountered constantly conflicted with TSR, which wanted a direct-to-video release instead of the big-budget theatrical film the Canadian dreamed of.[13] Cameron considered the project just before he did Titanic (1997), but the deal did not suffice due to TSR's failure to come up with a merchandising deal that appealed to 20th Century Fox, where Cameron worked.[13] Potential deals with Paramount Pictures and Lightstorm Entertainment were also destroyed due to strong disagreements on how to finance the film.[5] Solomon's amount of focus on getting the film green-lit caused the relationship with his girlfriend to break apart.[13]

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Joel Silver, an executive producer most notable for action films such as the Die Hard movies, joined the Dungeon & Dragons project in April 1997, and the screenplay was finalized in June 1997.[5] Silver came in with the vision to make it a television series instead of a film.[13] Solomon thus tried to incorporate that plan in his project; however, TSR sold the rights of the original game property to Wizards of the Coast, and despite TSR leader Lorraine Williams telling Solomon Wizards would allow a TV series, that ultimately was not the case.[13]

The plan changed to a $3.5 million direct-to-video film, as the $100 million budget appeared too risky and TSR's set filming deadline was nearing; what allowed for the change was technological advancements decreasing required effects money, and the availability of Prague as a shooting location, which had several medieval-era-looking places and thus lessened the need of costly studio sets.[13] Solomon became director and started test shooting a three-minute scene battle in Los Angeles in August 1997.[11][5][15] Silver was so roused by it that he stayed on the project as executive producer and thus increased the project's credibility to the point where investors raised up to $30 million.[11][13] This now made the production a theatrical one and also saved the producers from legal action by Wizards of the Coast, who argued it was not a "real" film.[13] Zeman put the money up for the project,[11] in addition to Solomon and his grandfather Joe Smuckler co-signing a $25,000 bank loan,[16][17] to begin pre-production on February 9, 1998.[5]

Due to filming in a Czech Republic location, Dungeons & Dragons' props and sets cost five times less than if shot in the United States.[18] Although the final budget totaled to $35 million, the film was made with $21 million in cash during production, as there were several deferments in effects crew and actors' pay to meet its intended large scale.[16][19] To maximize the quality of the film's effects with a limited budget, Solomon made equity deals between the effects houses involved so that less money was paid.[18] At the time of its release, Dungeons & Dragons was the biggest-budget independent film ever produced.[11]

Courtney Solomon was 19 when he bought the rights.

Alaois fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jan 19, 2022

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 23:42

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

a neat cape posted:

God damnit.

its really funny because in the cutscene immediately before making the choice, Jack tells Miranda nobody wants to follow her orders

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 01:37

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Five of them!

# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 20:05

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLa5qOVsQg

everything about this game is a shitpost

# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 02:31

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

i like Paul Is Dead not because of the theory itself but because of the issue of the Batman comic that came out in the early 70s based on the conspiracy theory where the twist ending was that Paul was the only original member of the band who was still alive and everyone else had died and was replaced by imposters by Paul so he could continue to have a career

# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 03:30

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

the way you breed pokemon in the games is you put two of opposite gender in the same egg group in daycare together and then a few in game days later the daycare couple find an egg that seemed to magically have appeared and give it to you.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 23:52

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

T-Square posted:

Lol r/antiwork is burning down because some dork rear end schlubby mod went on Fox and embarrassed himself and the whole sub and now he�s banning everyone left and right for being pissed about it

who could possibly have seen this coming

# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 21:36

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

imagining flavius aetass on fox news and lmaoing

# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 21:57

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

i want one of those nordictrack ski machines from the early 90s

# ¿ Jan 27, 2022 19:52

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

3 DONG HORSE posted:

Gordon Ramsey is actually a nice guy, who eats animals his children consider to be pets. But that's okay, he raises them for food (the animals, not the children. presumably. but it's also not right to make assumptions...)

sounds like his kids are dumb as hell for considering livestock pets

# ¿ Jan 29, 2022 21:54

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Vertical Lime posted:

i only was interested in how they had to fill spots for the women

otherwise they have a serious problem once certain people retire for good

They've had that problem, ongoing, for years now.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 16:00

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Ornery and Hornery posted:

What

saudi arabia is paying* the wwe hundreds of millions of dollars to put on special propaganda shows in the country to show the world that they're a progressive nation of the future

*payment may or may not be withheld depending on MbS' mood

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 21:56

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

CannonFodder posted:

Both companies have the talent, I guess AEW has better writers and maybe the company culture lets the AEW performers have more input into their performance.

the difference is that aew doesn't have writers lol

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 22:42

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Ornery and Hornery posted:

okay so what are the explanations?

cult

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 22:04

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

e: damnit he deleted the tweet

# ¿ Feb 3, 2022 23:52

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

FizFashizzle posted:

Holy poo poo

https://twitter.com/candidethovex/status/1489289440468078592?s=21

steep 2 looks great

# ¿ Feb 5, 2022 00:24

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

mission hill was nothing but bangers

# ¿ Feb 5, 2022 08:01

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

and its all the guy from HIM's fault

# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 11:18

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Android Apocalypse posted:

Care to elaborate? I'm genuinely curious how this is and I love any instance to continue to hate HIM (mainly because I think their music sucks).

according to everyone else in and involved with CKY, the dude from HIM is the guy who got Bam into really deep binge drinking

# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 20:10

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Alaois posted:

mission hill was nothing but bangers

# ¿ Feb 9, 2022 23:00

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Kalli posted:

Also: Earthbound motherfuckers

https://hard-drive.net/huge-earthbound-fan-excited-play-first-time/

# ¿ Feb 9, 2022 23:41

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL

# ¿ Feb 10, 2022 20:20

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 16:04

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

fartknocker posted:

FWIW, I enjoyed it when it came out. The main problem was the story couldn�t figure out whether they wanted you to be exploring new, unoccupied worlds or places that already had wars and poo poo going on, so it�s kinda mixed message and awkward delivery sorta thing, but it�s not nearly as bad as people tried to say it was IMO. The bigger problem is there�s obviously set ups at various points for DLC that never happened.

my biggest problem with the game is how it feels like they were desperately stretching for playtime. between the unskippable Tempest takeoff and landing cutscenes that feel 2x as long as they should be to the doors on that one planet where the door opening interaction was made artificially longer because you can mod them to be shorter with zero effect on load times, the mineral gathering and crafting system in general, the way they make you leave and come back to planets later so you don't just clear all of its content on the first pass though

its padded to gently caress.

also the last time i genuinely tried to give it a go it kept breaking during an open world quest and i just gave up

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 02:26

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