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  Topic: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!)
Ashura

Replies: 405
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PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:55 pm   Subject: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!)
I took these up at the local post office in the small town I live in. Interestingly enough, the post office a town over has these same style boxes, though they've been converted to key locks, even th ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:06 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I'm guessing even though video tape was really expensive back then, it was still more expensive to shoot on film?

That thing where they filmed next year's first serial at the end of the previous ye ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:42 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I've never read anything about this, but the mention of the post office tower makes me curious:

How fast did classic Doctor Who go from filming -> post production -> tv? I'm imagining they d ...
  Topic: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
Ashura

Replies: 29
Views: 31061

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:54 am   Subject: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
the animation of the bangai-o flying away at the end of a stage was added to the us version, and it annoys me.

I heard they added it, but I thought it was a nod back to the DC version, chunky pixe ...
  Topic: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
Ashura

Replies: 29
Views: 31061

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:15 am   Subject: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
I will say that I feel the DC version is the best (I think the combo system is better), but this is good too, if a different type of game.
  Topic: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
Ashura

Replies: 29
Views: 31061

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:29 am   Subject: Bangai-O Spirits Noise Thread
Man, this game is so fun. Hard, but fun. Well worth the week it took me to find my DS.

I just loaded up your levels, Shaper, and I will try to beat them again later (I got completely decimated, ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:51 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
The original Ben 10 actually gets more clever as time goes on. There's some cool stuff in there.

Alien Force hasn't been that good, though, unfortunately... and it's written by one of the best guy ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:24 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
So, Ben 10 Alien Force has a character that's obviously inspired by the Doctor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3YNK0lohOQ

The actor doesn't sound like David Tennant, but you can tell from the l ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:32 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I think the episode, even with their hour and three minutes, felt like it was missing big chunks of stuff that they probably filmed and couldn't fit. The editing doesn't seem 100% as polished. There ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:28 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
It would be hilarious if they put his name like that in the next episode, Aderack.
  Topic: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
Ashura

Replies: 1215
Views: 879392

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:39 pm   Subject: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
I wrote the Linux on PS3 thing, glad to know someone read it! I know we're still trying to do stuff like that... we did a building your own joystick article a while back, too. I sort of felt the Dru ...
  Topic: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
Ashura

Replies: 1215
Views: 879392

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:57 pm   Subject: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
I've had the issue for about 3 weeks I think? And I get it like everyone else. Just as a note, there are the same amount of editorial pages as before, just less ads.

As for page focus, that's not ...
  Topic: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
Ashura

Replies: 1215
Views: 879392

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:57 am   Subject: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
I swear they did this a month or two back

No, we didn't?

Also, Adilegian (who posts around here, IC, and SB) wrote the cover piece. We actually focused on what most media outlets HADN'T covere ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:38 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Oh dear Bessie, it's like corn on the cob. Where's my butter?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/images/2005/04/18/doctor_who_star_wars_20_440x330.jpg

:O ?

While I disagree with the rest, ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:06 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
42 was the awful episode, in my mind. The only thing worse in that season was the Dalek two parter.

It was like a less interesting version of The Satan Pit two parter from the year before. It did ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:05 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Also, I wanted to say.

The way The Doctor's Daughter is paced seems like what 42 should've been if it was a good episode.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:35 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Moffat as showrunner: I assume he'll at least TRY to get Davies to write a single episode.

Also, I figure Davies will still be the exec producer, even if he's not everything else anymore.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:34 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Like I said, obviously stretching, but it's good to note.

Also, yeah, I read the Mary Poppins one, it made me laugh.

There's also the joke theory about the moon.



I've only started followi ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:16 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
The Doctor also mentions that Donna is from Barcelona when trying to explain her weird actions, which he mentioned at the end of series 1 as the place he wanted to take Rose. It's obviously stretchin ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:56 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
My guess is they want you to assume "Doctor, she is returning." refers to Rose, but it's actually referring to something else.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:00 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I liked her in Partners in Crime. For the most part, she plays it completely differently than she did last year.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:40 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Episode 12:

The Doctor and the Doctor
The 9th Doctor returns to engage in epic combat with Doctor 10 in a match of wits and mindgames and mayhem. Also, some stuff about time travel.

In serious ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:26 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
We sort of moved this thread here to avoid this bullshit, guys. I'd like to ask ya'll to follow this simple rule of thumb when you're writing replies:

If your entire post is one sentence comprise ...
  Topic: Sonic Unleashed
Ashura

Replies: 34
Views: 24945

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:45 am   Subject: Sonic Unleashed
Actually, I believe Ryan Payton said that the folks over at Nintendo wrote the codec conversations and he essentially went over them to make sure they fit, and he was surprised about how big of fans t ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:07 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
There's a certain amount of continuity from the earlier theme. The sixth one is the classiest of the bunch, though...

So what's going on here? Are they finally broadcasting season five, or is this ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:47 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
How Dracko, how're you doing? As pleasant as always I see.

4Kids is running a contest where you get to vote for the new TMNT theme.

http://www.4kids.tv/pickatheme

Please pick something that's ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:37 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
They also think that the Doctor x Tardis is the OTP!
  Topic: Final Fantasy VII's translation is humorous (image thread)
Ashura

Replies: 34
Views: 26435

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:17 pm   Subject: Final Fantasy VII's translation is humorous (image thread)
I thought Aerith was supposed to be a pun off of Earth or something like that? I don't know about Cloud, but I remember talk that Barret was supposed to be Bullet and all sorts of other fanwankery? ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:37 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Shit, Tennant has done more than enough to prove he's a fan of the show. Shit, I know a metric fuckton about Power Rangers but telling the monsters apart and knowing which monster is recycled where i ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:07 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Didn't he say this year is supposed to be more light hearted or something instead? Since the third series was 'so dark'?

Still, the descriptions...

I watched two L&O's last night. One with ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:22 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Felt, I think!

Edit:

Thsi is apparently the source: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5465314&section_id=5245968
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:57 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Friend showed me this, it's awesome:



And yeah, that seems to be shaking out just about right.

I'm curious, what is that MICKEY thing above from?
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:28 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I suppose 88 was close enough. It would be such a great show to reinvent, I still say.

Just watched the most recent episode of Torchwood. Really good. They've totally turned around the Owen chara ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:13 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I just watched the Weevil King episode, and I really liked it. The preview for the next episode looked... really good, honestly. So I'm guessing it is.

I think Barrowman is a great actor when the ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:47 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Hell, you didn't have the original actors after a couple of seasons. It all went downhill after John Rhys-Davies left. Then it got a little better when Lieutenant Bimbo was replaced with Jerry O'Conne ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:26 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
McCoy isn't even in a lot of scenes now, so it must be pretty easy to keep him on.

Anthony Anderson is primarily in comedies, actually. Some good, a lot bad. I haven't seen any of the serious s ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:57 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I just read Angel: After the Fall recently and it's really well done. The only character who read oddly to me was Connor and really, how much did you know about new-Connor from the two episodes that ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:11 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ha ha.

As an aside, I noticed they had a big SciFi ORIGINALS trailer, and Doctor Who was featured prominantly in it along with Stargate, BSG, etc. I was surprised, since they don't produce the sho ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:41 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Wow, that's a really good photoshop. I can usually spot them a mile away, too.

On Evil Dean: I really liked the shot of him snapping at the end.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:15 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
The Trickster episode of last year was my favorite episode, so it was good to see him back again. I think it was a little too much to show him in the opening recap, though. But I guess that's how the ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:23 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Yeah, it's my favorite ep of SG-1.

Though the Supernatural one was actually really well done, too, with lots of nods. Also, a lot of hilarity, which the show needs right now.
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:19 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I think the best Groundhog Day episode of any show was the Stargate SG-1 episode. If only for golf through the gate. That, and putting the two least brainy characters in the situation.

Meanwhile, ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:59 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Torchwood Jr. = Pre-Watershed Torchwood, yeah?
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:39 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I liked both of these episodes. The Martha one more, but Adam was actually better than a lot of other Torchwood eps. Owen was priceless in Adam. I am not a fan of that snap-zoom thing they keep doi ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:40 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Aderack told me they're filming it with series 4 at the end, as in, right now, or close to now.

I watched Torchwood, finally. It wasn't too bad, but the whole psychic blood thing seemed to come ou ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:54 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I don't know about the Daleks being unknown in the US. My mom watched the classic series as it aired here, and the first villain she identifies with the Doctor is The Daleks. In fact, when we watche ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:55 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Hmmmm.

Also, I concur completely about what you said re: Law & Order feeling completely new. I like the new cop, and I like the interplay between McCoy and Cutter. There also seems to be some ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:26 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Interesting.

Yeah, Davies mentioned episode 11 is essentially Gwen investigating disappearances/murders of children? One of the darkest episodes ever?

Also, again, looks like John Hart comes bac ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:58 pm   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
I liked it a lot. It was just... so much more upbeat than the rest of Torchwood has been. I would actually watch it again.

The trailer at the end was good as well, and it looks like we'll see Joh ...
  Topic: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Ashura

Replies: 943
Views: 667956

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:48 am   Subject: What's this? A Doctor Who thread?
Oh, I love Wikipedia. It's a great starting point for research.

I think some of the politics are crazy though.
 
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