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Mechwarrior

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  1. Well, crap!

    Go back a couple pages in this thread, and you will see i was in support of this game. I loved the game, I was obsessed! But damn, since the last NGE Patch in November, I became horrified, depressed and pissed. The game was totally dumbed down into a third person shooter, with crappy interface and horrible gameplay. But thats just me bithcing I guess, I worked hard for what I had, time invested and in one patch, all thrown out the window, and i was Noobified. Both my characters (Jedi and Bounty Hunter) were instantly neutered.

    Ok, 'nuff of that.

    Honestly the game is simplified so bad now, that it holds no interest for a player like me. I used to enjoy the how complicated it was before. I enjoyed the complexity of it, played for 19 months and still never knew half the gameplay of other professions. Now, I know this sort of game scared people away, not everyone understood it, which was fine by me, the interaction i had with other players was a mature enviroment. I hardly recall ever meeting players younger then 18. Most were adults, some not even Star Wars fans, and the gameplay simply was awesome. However, Sony had a bright idea to change the game by making it simple. It's new target audience is now specifically children now. To bad for us adults who enjoyed it, most of us quit. My server died in the process, most everyone i knew left. I gave up on a rollback and quit last month myself.

    The good news now? I have lots of time on my hands now, time to finish some of those models I guess!

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  2. Not sure if anyone tried colorizing Old Black and White photo's before, but the I know when ever I did, it was a very time consuming process with photoshop. The good ole boys over at Diggnation came across an awesome (and FREE!) program that does it in a matter of minutes, I have played around with it and it is fricken awesome, easy to use too. I am gonna recolor some old photos for my Grandmother for Christmas, this guy should get major props for making it so easy.

    Colorize thos Black and Whites before they start charging for the program.

  3. Uh, yah downloading it would seem inappropiate, but as i read up in the Browncoat forums, which is where i got the link, they want poeple to download it and share the movies with others, their words, not mine, so i agree taht downloading episodes would be wrong, but i still bought the dvd's in anycase. I for one support file sharing on many levels, but lets not get into that.

  4. UH, hey guys, its just a movie, no sense in over analyzing it, lol. I finally got to watch all the episodes finally, the series was well written, i liked it alot, no wonder there is such a fan base. Also, if anyone wants to download all the episodes, the quality is nice, also the original pilot and outakes, most in real media player format, and the rest in quicktime. If you do like real media , like me, i perosnally hate it, use real alternitive, no crazy system take overs or codec problems.

    Firefly episodes

    Real Player Alternative

  5. I just got back from seeing serenity and I absolutely loved it.  Great mix of action, comedy, and drama.  This was the anti Star Wars.  Great way to wrap up the series.  I think there is still alot of material left on the board if he wanted to return to it.  But who knows, I think his slate is pretty busy between a Wonder woman movie and writing a second run on Astonishing X-men.  I'm going to finish watching the last two dvds this weekend and probably buy my own.  No one does dramatic/sudden deaths better than Whedon  (Buffy's Mom, Doyle).  I was really saddened by Book's death.  I wanted to learn more about his connections to the alliance.  I think it's somewhat obvious that the character probably became a sheperd in the first place to possibly make amends for sins/atorcities in a past life.  Joss seems intrigued with reformed/ redeemed characters.

    In regards to Mr. Universe being Jewish, so what if he is.  I didn't see any negative stereotypes with the character(except those aimed at excessive fanboy i.e. comicbook guy types).  I applaude Whedon's use of ethnicity throughout the series and the movie.  It shows so insight esp. considering our ever changing demographics.  Hollywood often forgets this fact when making films about the future.

    Does anyone else think that the actress that plays Inara resembles the actress from Smallville?  I think they could almost pass as sisters.

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    Hmm, i dont know about Smallville, but if u r talking about the Kristin girl from that show, well, she is way too hot to compare to the chic from Serenity. But i guess someone may see how they can be sisters.

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  6. I have to agree that that was cool KingNor, but IIRC from the FIrefly DVDs they say that there were basically two sets for the ship setting side by side, the upper deck, and the lower cargo hold, so unless they stacked the two up they had to have made some subtle cut in there.  Oh and yes the living quarters were sperate sets as well.

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    In interviews Joss said they did have to have cut to make the 2 sets appear one, my guess is when the camera shifts from Mal to Simon in the hallway as they walk downstairs...seamlessly done if so

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    This one shot scene was talked about in an interview. Joss explained that he liked how QT did it in KIll Bill Vol I, he said he would never do it again since it takes so long to setup the camera rail and set. I can only imagine how one would go about doing a one take shot on second level sets with dialogue!

  7. I just wish there was a better explaination for why they wanted her. Seemed kinda dumb to me.

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    I dunno, I mean it seemed like a nice vacant beurocratic reason to me, She might be psychic or able to read minds, high level government officials thought that perhaps she might have read their minds when they were thinking about whatever vile things they have done, jeez we better tie up that loose end, go capture or kill it!

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    That was the reason exactly. If you put all the top level officials in the room with someone who is a ble to read minds, then there is indeed a reason to worry about security issues, that is the main issue with River's recovery. i kinda understood it in the series, but the movie cleared it up rather quickly and explained it well.

  8. Dont know if it is the lack of Sci-Fi out their or what, but I cant get enough of Serenity, even though im just a couple months into it. I ordered the dvd's and saw the movie the second time , this time by myself. My favorite part would have to be when River jumps through the blast doors and starts a Melee execution of all the cannibals. Right now I would rather have teh DVD of the movie, then Star Wars episode III. Yah, Book when out like a champ, but damn i really liked Wash, one of my favorites, but part of making a good movie i guess is draining on peoples emotions and making sacrafices, and yes, i know this is one hell of a run on sentence ( Definition Of a Run On sentence ) , then again, im a low life Destroid Armour Waxer B))

  9. Ahh crap, you did say spoilers though, lol.

    Yah, it was said in a few interviews that noone knows if this is the end, so when he wrote the movie, he did mention that some type of closure is necessary if nothing comes of the movie. Wash dead? Damn, guess ill have to take care of his widowed wife now! Actually, he was one of my favorite characters, too bad. Book gobe too? Liked him too, never figured out what his past was from the series, or maybe i never caught the episodes, im a newbie to Firefly actually, but if u know if there was any past to mention, plz, let me know. Ill check it out tonight for sure, and if anyone has more spoilers, share em. Wont make watching the movie any less eventful anyhow, thanx for the write up EXO.

  10. "007 the detail on that cockpit is awesome, how'd you do it?"

    Since he didnt reply yet, ill take s hot as to what he did. Looks like the ole toothepick dot method, and the decal for the rear cockpit screen, looks good.

    Ill be starting my Cat's Eye here in a week or soo, ill post a simple build up to get this thread started. I see someone already sold theirs on ebay for a nice profit too, just a matter of time i guess. The kit looks great for a recast, just not looking forward to the sanding, lol.

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