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Ahhh, I see, I misunderstood you. Well, people's attitudes vary, obv, but I was quite happy watching season three and thinking "hmm, the monster seems to be judging people and killing them accordingly, but I'll wait and see what other evidence comes to light" and not getting annoyed because that's what it currently was. I totally respect your opinion if you didn't like their storytelling, but personally I thought there was plenty of magic stuff for there to be room for science as well, and the way the two jostled up against each other gave the show its own flavour, otherwise it would have been Supernatural On An Island.

They started seeing the monster at the end of season 1. And your explanation of it is totally not what it was revealed to be. Did you watch the final season? I know what you mean about it changing tack completely, but I think that was necessary to keep it fresh. If they'd just stayed in the same mode, adding more and more mysteries for this one group of people on an island to react to, it would have got stale very quickly. It can't be to everyone's tastes, though, and I do think of the first two seasons as "classic Lost" myself. I do love watching them back now with knowledge of all six seasons-worth of mythology. I'm half with you on the polar bears, but if they didn't make sharp left-turns from fantasy to science or vice versa like that, the audience would get bored or see all the twists coming. In fact, the term "polar bear" was used to refer to anything in Lost that seemed magical but was given a (relatively) rational explanation.

Orvidos: that's a ridiculous thing to say. It was a unique, thoroughly entertaining, smart, exciting show with great acting, writing, score, direction, production design, cinematography. brkl: which elements? What was wrong with the final season arc?

You watched up to season 5 and got so sick of it by that point you didn't want to watch one more season to see how it wrapped up? Don't you at least want to find out all the answers? Sort of on-topic: I love how every time I click 'next' onto this thread the first thing I see is Toblix's passive-aggressive complaint OP.

Yes, but then the joke doesn't work.

I pledged $5 and accidentally didn't click on the Uber-Buddy package. Can you fix that for me, please, Jake?

Is it a Schrodinger?

That's the problem with Britain today. Wouldn't catch them listening to that shit in the forties.

I think he's asking if this is just restricted to Manny's model or if you're doing a complete overhaul of the game's models, or perhaps if this will be playable in the full game..?

I like stuff jumping out at me from time to time, and attention-grabbing depth, though. Hugo had its fair share of justifiable in-your-face moments, iirc. It's always disappointing when you go see a film like Toy Story 3 and they're being so subtle and "don't worry, we won't throw things at you, we're artists" about it that you can't actually tell it's in 3D. Which reminds me, Harold & Kumar 3D makes excellent use of the format and is a very enjoyable film to boot.

Sounds like we need a Beyond Good And Evil Deluxe fan project!

As well as Avatar, the 3D Resident Evil movie, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and, to a lesser extent, Coraline all did 3D well. Most other 3D films I've seen don't. I find this site helpful too: realorfake3d.com This seems like the kind of thing that Thunder ranted about - it sounds like you now don't like a film which is heavily colour-corrected and graded etc throughout to give it a painterly and otherworldly feel, just because one scene set in a dingy firelit pub has an orange tint!

Hmmph, those links aren't working. Can anyone recommend a good stream downloader plugin for Chrome? EDIT: this seems to have worked for me.

I'll be interested to see how the chips fall between this and Project Zomboid.

Maybe they're too polite not to.

I'll have Rodi's back on this one. Re. O&T, maybe I just can't see it unless it's a movie poster, but I don't remember Hugo being like that at all. It was sepia tones, if anything, with Melies-inspired splashes of different bright colours.

Awesome, thanks all. I will consider these Idle Thumb Videocasts.

Don't suppose there'll be an easy way to download these at any point?

Maybe if you put in 1st January it should say "riiigggghht, surrrrre, January the first." but still let you in.

Will there be any Double Fine-esque live shenanigans for the countdown in a few hours (not that I'll be awake)?

So there you go.

And what about the bit where he said that William H. Macy as a deadbeat drunk dad and a very good Joan Cusack as an agoraphobic neighbor are one character?

This is what I think every time I go to watch a trailer!

I always imagined that game jams involved a load of small teams (1-3 people, I guess) working on their own games, but the blurb on that main site made it sound a bit more like everyone at one location would work together. How's it likely to work for WWMD?

One? I don't remember any gestalt entities in the UK version...