Mordecai Walfish wrote on Apr 15, 2017, 11:52:
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Wouldn't mind getting a key.

Cheers

I'd be interested in a key!

My sentiments exactly. Then when I explained my objections to TFA, I was told "Maybe Star Wars just isn't for you any longer. Maybe you've outgrown it."

Did you notice how manic both the leads are throughout the movie? Their faces, their movement, their overall behavior? I'm tellin' ya, they're both supposed to be several beers shy of a six pack, it's the obvious subtext to the film. Either that, or the director is nuts, and the movie shows what he thinks normal is like.

As for outgrowing Star Wars, that seems to be a fair question. I've been asking myself the same question about every film since "Return".

I dunno, the device produces 1000 liters of water per year. $150 might be a worthwhile investment, even in poorer countries.

I've had my eye on real-life moisture vaporators for years. Or I did, anyway. The general trend is that they fall apart under scrutiny (or only make sense as money pits for the military). I've got a folder on a hard drive somewhere with news articles about a series of busts over many years.

i recall thinking the criticisms you trotted out of it could easily be applied to the original 1977 film as well. but that's different.

The second trilogy doubled-down on the cheesiest elements (and the blatant ripoff Awakens wasn't exactly redemptive, with its manic ten-year-old-on-a-massive-sugar-rush style). Take lightsabers, for example. It was cool when Obi-Wan busted his out for the first time for Luke. It was cool when he fought the first lightsaber duel, and it was still cool when Luke fought his duels with Vader. But next thing you know, bam, they're everywhere, and they're almost the only weapon Jedis use (WTF?), and everyone's swinging them around way more than they need to, and posing with them more than they need to, and trying to stand out from the pack with dual sabers, double-ended saber staffs, curvy dildo-handled sabers, Skittles rainbow sabers, etc.

Who does a lot of fancy risky show-off spin techniques with a sword that cuts through steel like it cuts through air? Great way to cut your johnson off. Do they teach that show-offy crap in traditional kenjutsu or iaido or whatever? I doubt it. Just once, I want to see some guy in a kimono decapitate himself while showing off with a pink lightsaber.

So I don't think Star Wars just seemed to get more and more juvenile as time went on. I think Star Wars really did get more and more juvenile as time went on. The Ewoks were the turning point.

The best family films keep a balance to the Force, give enough juvenile stuff to keep the kids interested, but they also give the adults something to watch. Merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made...

I'd like to get a quake key.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 15, 2017, 00:04:
My sentiments exactly. Then when I explained my objections to TFA, I was told "Maybe Star Wars just isn't for you any longer. Maybe you've outgrown it."

you probably have. i recall the criticisms you trotted out of TFA could just as easily be applied to the original 1977 film as well. but that's different, right? you've got a blind spot for the originals just like a lot of other people and, rather than accepting it, try to steep it all in objective "reasons the movie is bad" (that literally apply directly to a new hope also).

edit: man, lot of names i've never seen before coming out of the woodwork for this. some guy registered in 2000 and only posted 2 times before today.

This comment was edited on Apr 15, 2017, 21:13.

I need more quake in my life!

(yes I'd like a key)

Have some oldschool quake buddies who haven't gotten keys yet, and also a friend who somehow never signed up.

But thanks regardless of whoever gets the keys, this is nice.

Haha does it involve a visit to the Space Marine ranch too?

Dunno if the giveaway is still open but if so I'd like that quake champions key!

This new solar-powered device can pull water straight from the desert air.

The setup works so well that it pulls 2.8 liters of water out of the air per day for every kilogram of MOF it contained, the Berkeley and MIT team reports today in Science...

For starters, zirconium costs $150 a kilogram, making water-harvesting devices too expensive to be broadly useful.

I dunno, the device produces 1000 liters of water per year. $150 might be a worthwhile investment, even in poorer countries.

As for the Quake beta key, ima pass.

I've played a lot of Quake in my day, but not for a while now. Watching the vid of gameplay the other day, it looked cool, and I'd probably tool around with it, but I think that a lot of other people would get more value from it than I would.

* JDreyer goes off to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure *

JohnQP wrote on Apr 14, 2017, 22:13:
Zoopster, good memory (if you'd copy-pasted it would have a "really" in there).

The Force Awakens might've been entertaining; I couldn't tell over all my groaning "OMG, another Empire. Oh no, another Death Star. FFS, another Vader. Han and Chewie just show up? You're kidding me, right? Oh look, now they're sending a desperate fighter wave against the Death Star..."

In the movie's defense, it makes a lot more sense if you regard the two main characters as escaped mental patients. Then it makes almost perfect sense, explains why a cute young girl would need to eke out a subsistence-level existence collecting scrap, the stormtrooper acts like he's shocked to be a stormtrooper, etc.

Rogue One was much better, if a bit joyless.

My sentiments exactly. Then when I explained my objections to TFA, I was told "Maybe Star Wars just isn't for you any longer. Maybe you've outgrown it."

Add me.

/edit. Sry for short note. Hellabusy holiday night.

This comment was edited on Apr 15, 2017, 01:24.

Would love a key to Quake Champions! I remember doing quake polls and you reporting on them!

Love to try the beta. Lets all feel old, its been 20 years since I got sucked in to quake world ctf.

Tossing my name in the hat for this one. Thanks Blue.

I'd love a quake champions key!!!

Bluesnews forever man.

Blues News is very much a part of Quake to me, so it is a fitting place to hand out a beta key or two for the newest entry in the series to a couple of you loons.

Good luck & happy fragging!