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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 2:21 am
Nawwwww. Tanner's no snitch!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 2:31 am
If he could talk....
But you're lucky he can't lol
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 7:05 am
Converting the original Star Wars, the despecialized edition, from an 18GB behemoth to a more wieldy size of under 2GB, with a single audio track...
Then, I have to tweak the provided Brazilian Portuguese subtitle track to proper Portuguese-Portuguese, so the kids can watch it.
And then, we get a Christmas eve late night movie: the original 1977 Star Wars - no bloody I, II, III, VI, V, VI, nor VII - in glorious 720p HD (you can't get Star Wars any better than 720p - something to do with the film they used back then).
No rocks in front of R2-D2, no beasts running wild in front of the camera, no tall mud brick buildings, Han shot [period], no red tint all over... just the movie as it was originally shown on cinema. The movie that started it all.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 7:09 am
The added CGI has aged so badly in the special edition films. Max Rebo's band is particularly egregious. I am shocked how all that somehow looked ok to me when I saw it in theaters in the 90s when it came out. I guess we grew more sensitive to bad CGI in the meantime.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 11:20 am
I still don't understand the angst over the special editions of these movies. It's not like they changed the storyline. Besides, they are (or were) Lucas' property. He can do with them as he will and no amount of copyright violation by disseminating "fan edits" will change that.
Is he an asshole for not listening to his fans? Probably. Is it his right to be? Certainly!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 11:46 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 12:13 pm
You know, I don't think I've seen all three originals. I know I only saw Episode I before never seeing any more prequels. Meh.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 12:19 pm
I need to have a packing party. Most of the room is done. All I have to do is wash up the dishes and put them in the bin and get clothes in suitcases and I'm pretty much done. School tonight. I have a test I should be studying for. I just have so much that needs to be done right now that I can't focus on studying.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 12:53 pm
Finally!!! Firefox, 64bit version!!  
meh, it looks just like the other and seems to behave just like the other... why do fanboys bother?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 17, 2015 at 12:56 pm
(December 17, 2015 at 11:20 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: I still don't understand the angst over the special editions of these movies. It's not like they changed the storyline. Besides, they are (or were) Lucas' property. He can do with them as he will and no amount of copyright violation by disseminating "fan edits" will change that.
Is he an asshole for not listening to his fans? Probably. Is it his right to be? Certainly!
Of course they changed the plotline. Whether Han shot first completely changes the interpretation of the entire remaining story ;P
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