astr0creep
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Why do these things always come out of India?
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Besides, this trailer shows that Indy will apparently attempt to recover the Ark for the nazis. I'm guessing it's the intro sequence...
No, it's been stated the badguys here are Russians, not Nazis. Also Marion is back! Also, Thank-God-For-Beef is not playing Indy's son as it was rumoured, he plays a different character, a greaser by the name of Mutt Williams.
Hmm.
Mutt Williams eh?
Perhaps Indy will inspire Mutt(another word for "dog", just like Indy is named after a dog...) much like the graverobber leader of Last Crusade inspired Indy?
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Best work by Drew Struzani since Attack of Clones - poster
Bloody awesome. Also it is rumored that full trailer will be shown alongside Iron Man 30th April
The pic of the skull seems to confirm the "aliens" rumor...
They spoil their own film!
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Locations
Freeburg * "good" people country
Qhire ("former Durran") * "evil" country
Oron (working title) * old ally of Freedor
Castine (working title) * old ally of Freedor
Stalvert * peaceful island nation
Oblerion (working title) * (medevil story not too important)
Cities/Provinces
Baysteer * capital and seaport of Stalvert
Dorbriar * Freedor province with the bribed guy
Freeburg (working title) * capital freedor province
Freeburg city (working title) * freedor capital city
Freedland * province nearby Dorbriar, represneted by a "good guy" who spies on the "bad guy" in Dorbriar
(several other locations to come)
People final=won't change
Jonns (final)* senator trying to convince senate of Khire's evils, minor province* near capital (*working title)
Tierney (final)* Freentor province, friend of Jonns
2 unimportant senators * friends of Jonns
Douglas * bribed guy from Dorbriar
Valorin * Chancellor of Freedor Senate
Venicent (final)* senior senator ignorant of Khire evils & against action against Khire
Yasin II * king of freedor during Durran Wars* era (*working title)
Captain Bulnir (final) * Khire officer working with Douglas
Arnold * the elite scout/commando guy
Cain * Arnold's son
Other
Arnold & Cains merchant ship is called the Ingold (final)
Freedor is a "Monarchial Republic" king with a senate; senators are genrally the governors of provinces
Dorbriar is no longer above suspision with all the Khire "merchants" & "immigrants" Douglas worried
Anything else need to be known? I could supply a copy of the story so far, PM me. Also: I'll add a rough map that I just took 5 minutes in paint to make...
Not sure what you want but there you go.
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The whole package of FF7 is better than the simple sum of it's parts.
When one puts everything together and looks at the big picture, the achievement of the product, it's an astonishing game.
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I've been working for two hours now.
In two hours...
... I'll still be working.
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Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox Story
The first quarter is hilarious, then, for a spoof of biopics, it becomes one in the way it's done. Still comical though.
7/10
The Orphanage
That was a really good movie. Very creepy and mysterious. The Others + Pan's Labyrinth.
9/10
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Did not expect the second death
Is it really 5 more weeks till a new lost?
5 weeks is better than 5 months...
And BSG is back in 2 weeks so.
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I watched Conan the Barbarian this morning. This film still holds up fairly well after all these years, although some of the special effects seem a little dated now. I'm currently making my way through Conan the Destroyer, but I'm breaking it up into sections on account that it's so damn cheesy and predictable. Although Olivia D'Abo = hawt, Grace Jones = not.
Go for Red Sonja after...
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History of LAPD SWAT. LA SWAT has been all male ever since it's 60-70 yr history. Oh sure women can apply anytime. Just that none ever pass qualification, not because they were women, but because of things they can't do since they were women. Get it?
You mean SWAT doesn't have chest plates in their vests for women? Those kinds of things?
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-Rock Band SE
-Rogue Galaxy
-Fallout 2
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Wow.
Vern Troyer's career has really hit... the bottom.
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A small piece in the case for Science of Gaps instead of God of gaps:
Pretty complex hey? How could science possibly explain that?
Well, while not actually trying to, it accidentally did:
It turns out the pattern on the Conus textiles is just a rule 30 cellular automata; the pigments interact according to rule 30 of cellular automata theory.
Did you know plants open and close their stomata in a way that looks like either a brain or intelligent being is controlling each single pore to fully maximise oxygen intake and minimise water vapour loss? I believe the complexity of such an optimisation problem is beyond the capacity of even the human brain, yet plants manage it somehow. Is it god? No, it's a cellular automata system. The rules are actually fairly complex, unlike for the Conus textiles, but it basically amounts to every single stomata being linked to every other stomata (through neighbouring stomata) in a domino effect fashion. The cellular automaton quickly and easily solves the optimisation problem posed.
Sound like an unlikely explanation? It's not; it's been verified. Not to mention cellular automata have been shown to be very good at solving optimisation problems before; they can be converted to neural networks. Both neural networks and cellular automata are universal Turing machines; any computer created, and algorithm or programming language created, can be replicated by a cellular automaton.
Any universe defined by classical mechanics is a deterministic cellular automaton.
Further, universal Turing machines (classical type) are a subset of quantum universal Turing machines, as classical mechanics is a subset of quantum mechanics (and indeed classical mechanics is equivalent to a classical universal Turing machine, and the same for quantum mechanics).
In fact the simple Game of Life is an example of a universal Turing machine cellular automaton. It's also fun:
http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Set it to fast and tiny, then throw a bunch of dense clusters of dots on the grid and press start.
Well duh.
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I don't want to be a party pooper but unless I'm mistaken, the birth of the Americas was 400 years ago... where Quebec city now lies.
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I still love FF7. I've had a game going on now for years. I continue it once in a while.
The first time I played it I was completely obsessed with it and logged in well over 100 hours.
My second playthrough I went all out on it. I used the game guide to find EVERYTHING, beat EVERYTHING and I reached lvl 99 for ALL the characters, yes, even Cait Sith and logged in 212 hours.
NO game since has motivated me to finish it so completely. None whatsoever, on any platform.
And I can't even tell you why.
And the ending, as far as I know, is still at the top.
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Jin better damn well be alive on the island! He's my second favorite character next to Desmond!
It's interesting how his tombstone said 22/4/2004, which is the date of the crash.
Anyway, didn't see that twist coming. Nice.
Well since one of the crashes was a hoax it's possible his
grave was already there when he actually died.
That, or
Sun is talking to him for herself but he's still on the island.
We have a young baby girl and this episode was very touching.
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Red Sonja.
EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW.
3/10
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Still on Fallout 2.
I restarted my game because for some reason, when I needed to give Vic his radio, the frakkin' thing had dissapeared from my inventory!
Anyway it's all good. I remade a character with 10 Int + 10 Agi using the gifted trait and went to Navarro to find that Power Armor... along with a bunch of really sweet weapons from the military base.
I think it's really awesome that a game allows a level 1 character to access end game locations and equipment.
Klamath was a bit easy to clear though but thankfully the game is good enough that combat is not the only fun thing to do.
I give 11/10. Would be 12/10 but the graphics are bleh.
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Kendra? No way... she had a mother who was well known (not just in her head) and when the hybrid is talking to her, he alludes to the fifth Cylon, and it doesn't seem to be her. Plus she's currently working on other projects like Life on Mars.
Is it possible that the final five are all human/Cylon hybrids like Hera & Nick? It'd explain why they are immune to that earth rat virus for example, as well as the issue of having history and parents.
I reckon the centurions will turn on the humanoid Cylons for the very same reason the Cylons turned on the humans.
There's a lot against Starbuck as a Cylon, I agree. But there's also a lot against any of the other 4 as Cylons, too. I mean Tigh? C'mon! Still, how did she come back? According to the shows' creator, she did die.
Heck, really, Tigh was a soldier in the first Cylon War when the basic work model was all that existed and rebelled. How exactly is he a Cylon?
Hmm, it's all getting too mystical and religious for me.
Interesting link...
What I deduce from it is that there is a strong possibility that in the show, both "species", Humans and Cylons, can resurect somehow. With Cylons the means by which the resurection occurs is scientific, can be explained with science and reproduced with technology. But with Humans, the method is more in the divine, perhaps because they are not "artificial" like the Cylons and the reason why Humans do not resurect as easily as Cylons is that, in their heart, they lack faith?
Also, the article in the link reminded me of one of Captain Picard's many great quotes: "After all, humans are organic machines(...)" This got me thinking about DNA, which is basically a program...
Good stuff.
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A meh episode imho.
I like Juliette but this was a bit boring compared to the juggernauts of the last few weeks.
It's nice to see another facet of Ben's personality. Truly still a child...
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And Razor didn't help although this 2 hours stand alone may have introduced our final Cylon.
Who? The early hybrid version?
No. The "Razor" in question.
Dude, it's been ages since I saw season 3 or Razor. Do you really need to be cryptic?
And if you mean Starbuck, I think you're wrong (from clues and hints in the series and by the writers).
I meant the new girl from Razor. The cute asian looking lady that's cold as ice and dies at the end.
Also, Starbuck is NOT a cylon, she's really been to Earth and she rejoins the fleet in season four.
My wife guessed that Humans and Cylons will need to join forces in order to survive this "new" threat that is that Hybrid and his army of old Cylon models discovered in Razor.
It's probably a pretty good guess.
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And Razor didn't help although this 2 hours stand alone may have introduced our final Cylon.
Who? The early hybrid version?
No. The "Razor" in question.
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the lord of the rings - all exteneded version
extended version?
so another 2 hours of walking then?
don't get me wrong, i liked the movies (the first time i watched them)
trying to sit through them again was a bit of a yawn-fest though
last movie i watched was Bubba Ho Tep (on the advice of my brother)
Bruce Campbell as Elvis...
I absolutely loathed Bubba Ho Tep.
I love Bruce Campbell like any other geek but this was just total crap, even for a B-movie type thing.
On the other hand, I went to see LotR:FotR 15 times in theaters...
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Sicko.
No one should confuse Michael Moore with being a serious documentary filmmaker, but I do find his movies entertaining opinion-propaganda. This one falls apart towards the end (becomes boring & overly conceited even for Moore) but up to that point it's watchable, gave me some laughs, and occasionally made me nod in agreement with the basic point that "health care system in America is bogus."
I found Sicko to be more about Health Insurance than Healthcare. He bashes on insurance companies a lot more than the governement. Until the last "chapter" where he mixes up his causes with the war in Irak. He lost the focus of his film at that point and my interest as well.
Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
in Way Off-Topic
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I found a working link but somehow it can't be posted here so here's a preview:
''SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Horror writer Stephen King has criticized plans by a U.S. state to ban violent video games, saying such a move would be undemocratic and it was up to parents to monitor their children's entertainment.''