DarthTofu

Hey, if Scath's not here to do it, somebody has to! Heck, now that I think of it, I believe I'm the only person who has any (official) affiliation with the BEAK Imperium left on the forums...

I watched that Vid with no sound on the computer and eerie, Twilight-Zone esque music playing on the TV... needless to say, the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up, and I now fear an invasion by an army of elbowed jellyfish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Ca9Jk8GvI on YouTube. It's in segments.

Bulks can be more helpful than you'd think- in attacking Coruscant (when the AI is playing you) Carracks can soak up enemy firepower, leaving your actual potent capital ships free to blast the living daylights out of the Empire's potent capital ships.

NSFW, language ... but also hilarious. Anyone who remembers their elementary school years should get a chuckle.

It isn't an acapella group- it's one guy with four recordings synched up... which is really hard to do. I tried it once with a tape recorder and three clarinet parts for a Christmas gift for my mother when I was in seventh grade... turned out horribly, but part of that might have just been because I'm terrible at keeping time. I gots no beat.

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/indexpage.html#video

A magic unicorn? OPEN SPAM SEASON! I [/i]must[/i] catch up to Mad, now! I must! (I actually think I'm in second place behind him now that Scath, SOCL, and most of the other big posters have stopped showing up)

PC? You don't have an X-Box 360 or a PS3? I mean, neither do I, but fortunately I have friends who own them...

I'll agree with you that Dark Nest was painful, and that Jacen's fall was a little bit hard to follow, but in the end I can see how things go with Jacen falling. Up until Traitor he was totally pacifist, happy-go-lucky Jedi boy. Come Traitor, Vergere messed with his head considerably, and made him a tad too open-minded. He still saw her very much as his mentor, and when Lumiya showed up as another potential Vergere, it was enough to make him want to at least try it as a Sith. He was already open-minded to start with, and for all he knew, the Sith really were just misunderstood individuals. Heck, I thought that they were- a bunch of decent guys given a bad rep by a few psychopaths. Granted, this is after reading Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover just a little while before (love that book) and it gives a very good argument for the Dark Side, one that was good enough to seduce me to it and then some. I just wish that Jacen's sith-ness hadn't been so mismanaged. Up until Inferno I was liking Sith-Jacen. As soon as he became Darth Caedus, it was like somebody pressed the "evil button" and the "psychopath button." His character was drastically altered, and he stopped acting rationally, or with the goals that he became a Sith with accomplishing. I've made no secret my hatred of Troy Denning and his works, but in this case I have to say that everyone showed a drastic drop in quality following Sacrifice. Hell, Sacrifice wasn't too good in my opinion, but it was still decent. Inferno, though.... it was just a steaming pile of crap in my opinion.

I saw a snippet of the episode "Bombad Jedi" and promptly vomited a little bit in my mouth. Granted, I think that had a little bit more to do with my massive coughing fit, but all the same, I like to think Jar Jar caused it.

So... in the event of a zombie war, run to the nearest disco place. Got it. Everyone else has better dreams than me. I dream that I kill people who I know, enjoy it way too much, realize that I was far too lucid in that dream for my own mental health, am convinced that it's real and that I'll probably go to prison for my actions, and then wake up and feel tremendously guilty. I remember literally pinching myself in that dream, feeling the pinch and saying, "Oh, crap- this is real. I am so boned."

... Buy Left 4 Dead. Play it. You can thank me later. Best. Game. Ever. I played for a good solid two hours... it felt like twenty minutes. Time flies when you play that game... I think I'm in love with a bloody video game! I really do! I played as Frank (I think that was his name) the ex-Green-Beret, while my friend was the girl (don't ask me why- he's a dude who likes to claim that he's straight), and we kicked some serious zombie butt! Well, right up until we had to survive, like, a ten minute swarm... then we died the first time due to poor chaingun use. The second time we died due to a Tank beating the crap out of us and using up our ammo. I got pumelled by a Hunter on the way to the chopper, both of the AI players died, and my buddy got covered in tracker vomit (or whatever you want to call it). Totally kicked our butts at the end, there. Still- a ton of fun! Edit: So I just found out that I'm not the only fellow who thinks Tofu is an awesome name. I was reading an interview with one of the leading minds behind the Resident Evil franchise, and when he was asked to mention five of his favorite bits about Resident Evil, number four was the inclusion of an unlockable character, Tofu, in Resident Evil 2. Turns out that the original character was a "test" character that they used while the game was still in development. The staff liked Tofu so much that they kept him around and stuck him in the game; I kinda wish he'd show up in future games, strictly so that I can have some more undeserved zombie-hunting (Or Los Plagas-hunting) fame.

Firs thing's first: If you don't want any LotF spoilers, don't read this thread. That means you, Rob. If you didn't know that Jacen Solo became Darth Caedus... well, you're really out of touch with the Star Wars universe. Anywho- in reading MacBeth recently, I noticed a number of similarities between MacBeth and Jacen/Caedus. Chiefly in the realms of fates and the like; Vergere and Lumiya respectively acted as MacBeth's witches. They told him bits and pieces of what he wanted to hear, and shaped how he would act based upon their own desires (IE "None of woman born shall harm MacBeth" when they knew MacDuff wasn't of woman born (I assume)). The ball of prophesies Lumiya leaves for him is particularly "You shall be Thane of Cawdor"-esque. Next up, Jacen's killing of Mara- rather similar to MacBeth's killing of Lady MacDuff. Granted, Caedus does it personally while MacBeth just orders Lady MacDuff's death, but the result is the same: it sends one of his enemies into a rage, and results in his downfall. While Luke doesn't directly kill Jacen, he gives Jaina the energy and Force points she needs to hack off Jacen's arm and make it easier for her to kill him in the end. So far as Jaina killing Jacen... can't quite fit that one into the whole MacBeth theme. I may well be wrong- I've noticed that whenever I read a "classic" I start thinking that I say allusions to it in whatever I happen to be reading afterward. You all probably remember my list of similarities between Traitor and Dante's Inferno, eh? lol- I remember someone mentioning that they hadn't read Inferno, that being Dante's Inferno, but I thought he was talking about the LotF novel Inferno... rather funny.

A balloon Cthulu... nice. So long as we're doing religious-based costumes, I tend to not go to parties and then tell people that I went as the IPU.

Psst- TMNT is the newer, digital film. The other three are from the nineties, Rob. I watched the digital version when I got really bored, and I must say, it disappointed me. I suppose they got the characters down pretty well, but they had a whole new villain thing going and... well, it didn't work at all. Too campy, in my opinion, and they expected you to know a bunch of stuff in advance- such as that Shredder had apparently been killed. Sort of a "WTF?" moment. Shredder is always needed in a TMNT movie!

lol- "Mad from hell." Hehe- I remember posting that... yeah, you have to have Facebook to see the picture. Might be more prudent to upload it to Photobucket and then link that. You know, I remember The Escalade based solely upon that image of a chocolate defensive structure. You told me about the holiday, like, two years ago, and that's stuck ever since. Useless trivia points for the future, I suppose.

Kor, that movie was awful. I got some "Director's Cut" version, that apparently eliminated the "distracting" narration... I had no clue what the hell was going on throughout the movie. "Kill some evil robots... but Rachel isn't evil. But this one is." So confused throughout the whole movie...

My- Ode to Joy gets around! We watched that video so many times at Boy's State in Tallahassee... oddly enough, the American Legion put on the program, and the American Legion personnel were the ones playing it.

Some spoilers follow. There was the sense of "oh, snap- Mitchell was in MI6 for twelve years and was really a sleeper agent" that made you wonder if any characters who appeared to be good guys might really be bad guys. And when Felix was acting, you wondered a bit about his loyalties- I did, at least. And then there was the question of what Greene Planet wanted with the Bolivian land- that was a tricky one to figure out until it was given to you. But overall, it wasn't about the "whodunnit" so much as it was about the characters- M's conflict over how to deal with Bond, Bond's conflict with his wife's (they got married, right?) demise and how to deal with it.

I beg to differ, Big E. The movie certainly has massive amounts of action, but I didn't think it sacrificed plot too much for it. There was still plenty of intrigue throughout, and they left themselves wide open for a sequel to Quantum of Solace. I personally rank it on par with Casino Royale, though I must complain a little bit about the rising "Invincible factor" to Bond. Casino Royale had him taking on two guys and getting a beating for it... Quantum of Solace has him taking out four guys in an elevator with his bare hands, no problem. I suppose if you're angry enough you can, and if they aren't expecting it, but still... Fortunately it again steered clear of the gadget tomfoolery, and kept things (relatively) believable when it came to tech.

*Jumps up and down* Ooo! Ooo! Mememememememe! I've played it! I've played it! lol- Oblivion and its predecessor, Morrowind, both ate up tremendous amounts of my free time in their respective heydays. I tend to go for Redguard, heavy armor, skilled in blade (or, if it's Morrowind, shortsword.) I like to have a "bruiser" character who can just wade in and start taking damage and dealing it back very quickly- I've never seen the appeal of creating a specialty thief character... I want an item, I generally just kill whoever has it.

She didn't like Casino Royale? Rob... I think it's time to move on, find another woman. You cannot be with a woman who does not like that movie. It's perfect- really, it has everything you could possibly want in a movie! The thing I love about these new Bond flicks is that he isn't the ridiculous, over-the-top, invincible Bond of the Pierce Brosnan (sp?)movies. His "high tech car" was a regular (though rather nice-looking) car with a defibrillator and a body condition-transmitter doohicky. Bond can only take on one or two guys at once; he gets cut and he bleeds. He sweats. He gets hurt. In short, he's finally human. But yeah, see Casino Royale before you see Quantum of Solace- Quantum of Solace is the first true Bond sequel, taking place about a half an hour after Casino Royale ends. And might I add- in my opinion it ends with the single best delivery of the "The name's Bond. James Bond." line.

I for one am excited about Quantum of Solace. It comes out in the US tomorrow, and I'm going to see it with some of my friends. On Saturday, I'll probably see Sweenie Todd (sp?). A local theater troupe is putting it on, so I might as well take a looksie. I heard the movie was good, at any rate.

I was actually referring to the style of combat when I said Iraq was like Vietnam. That is to say, we don't know who our enemies are until they start shooting at us, and new enemies are being created all the time. The difference between the V.C. and the "good guys" was indistinguishable in most cases. Geography didn't always determine who wanted to fight for which side- same goes for this Iraq war. Disgruntled folk are changing sides all over the place. Maybe the media is liberal, as you say, Tex, but they tend to report the facts. The nerve gas, mustard gas, etc. have been around since the Cold War. They've been stockpiled, and nothing I've seen suggests production. I'm not trying to say that Sadam is a great man, but hey- neither was Stalin. Neither is Castro. Neither is Hugo Chavez, who staged a military coup to seize power. We can't play world police, here. Unless and until those nations start playing the aggressor/committing genocide like that which called for Operation Desert Storm, it isn't our place to invade.