Everything posted by Amentep
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Arcanum Sequel
I think Activision Blizzard owns the rights to the game (having bought Sierra Entertainment, who AFAIK owned the rights to Arcanum).
- Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
Obi-Wan in STAR WARS - "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." Obi-Wan specifically says all living things are connected to the force, that's mundane - not miraculous.
- Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
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Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
^I wouldn't be surprised if part of the cost was vehicle related since they chose to go with practical effects. That said, adjusting for US Dollars (USD) and then inflation gives a slightly different perspective. Mad Max was filmed in 1977 for about $400,000 USD which would be $1.5 million USD now. Road Warrior was filmed in 1981 for about 7 million USD which would be about $18 million USD now. Fury Road is estimated to have a 150 Million budget which seems a large increase (bigger that Star Wars' 75 budget of 11 million (50 million in today's dollars) comparing to the 4x larger Force Awakens budget), and that makes me wonder if some of the production costs incurred during earlier cycles when they tried to film this was rolled into the final cost (this was the third time the film came up for filming)?
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What you did today
Wow...that seems a bit harsh. What is the definition of a " paupers grave " ? It means different things in different times. What I mean is that the state - as I understand it now - pays for a cremation, a basic urn, and the urn to be interred somewhere in a participating cemetery.
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What you did today
My understanding is most funeral homes will try to work out a payment plan with the bereaved. And the state will pay for minimum cost burials (that's the "paupers grave" that Gfted mentions) albeit I think its actually more often burial after cremation now.
- Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
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Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
Do you mean an unblurry 3d instead of 2d? Because you don't need polarised glasses for 2d. If you meant 3d, then wearing polarized glasses won't do anything to make the 3d unblurry. It will still look blurry with one eye whilst wearing polarized glasses because each lens is different for each eye. http://science.howstuffworks.com/3-d-glasses2.htm In the above link, a person with one eye is only getting half the picture and it's still blurred. Okay so what I am saying is this: If you go see a 3D film without glasses the picture will be blurry, one eye or two eyes. It is blurry because they are projecting two different complete film images frame by frame that overlap. What the glasses do is break the films into a left and right channel. Polarization does this by cutting out specific light wave types. For 3D to work, you need two full images that are slightly shifted through the depth of field the way the binocular vision normally works; the polarized glasses will insure that Left-Image goes into Left Eye and Right-Image goes into Right Eye by cutting out the other image (which is at the wavelength the polarized lens cuts out). If done right your mind will put the two images together and create a depth of field - just as it does in everyday life where the "shift" of the angle of light creates the perception of depth. Therefore you should be able to - with one eye - watch a 3D movie using the glasses. It should look like a normal 2D presentation of a film. You should see the film based on one of the two displayed images, therefore the picture would be 2D to you but the key is that it shouldn't be blurry unless there is some other eye or perception issue at work as long as you are wearing the 3D glasses (and thus eliminating the second image from your eye's perception). Mind you if I had one eye, I wouldn't want to pay the extra $$$ to see a 3D screening, but that's a different issue entirely.
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Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
No, not only do you need both eyes to see 3D but also both eyes need to be the same. The 3D effect doesn't work for me because my left eye isn't as good as my right eye. And one eye definitely doesn't work. I didn't say (or mean to imply) you could see 3d with one eye. What I meant was that a person with one eye, wearing polarized glasses should be able to watch an unblurry 2d version of the film. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
- Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
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Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
^weird, I would have thought wearing the glasses would have removed entirely the other image even with polarized lenses. In fact, looking it up online, that is supposed to be what happens. It'll look like a fuzzy mess to anyone watching it without glasses (same was true with red-green 3d) because there's nothing to cancel the double image.
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The Funny Things thread
You're right, that called for a square response... No need for reflex responses...
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The Funny Things thread
Technically, being a 90 degree angle, its neither acute nor obtuse but I guess "That's a right joke" didn't play in Peoria...
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
My guess is all that stuff is from the pilot.
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Movies you've seen recently
Interesting, I'll see if I can get a chance to see either.
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
I wasn't crazy about arrow, and flash has yet to completely hook me, But I liked the legends of tomorrow promo
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
It reminds me of a somewhat better take on some of the ideas that were present in that wonder woman pilot a few years back.
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New Real Time With Pause Dungeons & Dragons RPG - SWORD COAST LEGENDS
Not really seeing a familial resemblance (if that's intended by common last name).
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Arachnophobia
^Where's William Shatner when you need him?
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La neuvième art (comics you've been reading)
Marvel is - more or less - ending their multiverse (as it is now). For about 6 months almost every title will be tied - in some way - to the new Battleworld that was created by Dr. Doom manipulating the end of the universe. Its my understanding that the Ultimates line will end and be incorperated into the new Marvel U. It is heavily rumored that the X-Titles will end up with their own universe to play with (whether it be a literal universe, their own planet, whatever) and FF is being split up for an unknown amount of time.
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Movies you've seen recently
Do you have any recomendations?
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WTF is wrong with Obsidian?
I heard they made that bug a feature called peasant or ampersand or something*. See, because calling bugs with French terms kind of gives them this neat aura of legitimacy and us common people don't even know what it is about. Bloody France. * Disclaimer: I know it's called en passant. They wouldn't needed this rule if pawns had engagement and became sticky.
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
The Inhumans were scared of it, thinking that it was an object that had been designed to kill Inhumans left by the Kree. SHEILD had it since the 50s and they generally seemed to be okay leaving it alone in its plastic box in the ship.