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But my OCD tells me otherwise!

Not to be a jerk, but I hope they don't make a total of six games. Three is fine.

You know what?

Maybe the MPAA should just buy the whole country of Sweden and get it over with. My guess is that probably barely covers their need for high bandwidth keeping the site running. Maybe profits on the top, but I doubt it reaches any minor percentile of the amount they are being sued for.

I've seen all these Disney shortcuts before, but this youtube video puts them all together pretty effectively. If you are talking about 10 drawings for a run cycle that is pretty efficient, so I don't see the problem there. However, I think in many crappy animes you'll find like 4 drawing run cycles. It's not necessarily an animation technique to reuse stuff. It's just reusing stuff. I'm confused. Bluth did work at Disney before starting his own studio with other disgruntled Disney workers. He is well known for using tons of Disney company animation techniques and theories, to the point of a lawsuit, or at least the threat of one. I thought there were only two Fievel movies, but anyways only the first one was produced by Don Bluth's studios, much like The Land Before Time, so the offending studio is not the original studio. I don't really like Don Bluth's work though, so I don't enjoy talking about him. Here's some of my other older favorite Disney failures: http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/atlantis.html Oops! But then again, what Japanese animation studio is going to take on the largest media company in the world? Also to note on Atlantis, I get the idea they ripped off Mike Mignola before realizing they ought to hire him to prevent any lawsuits from him or Dark Horse. This may not be true, but here is an interesting older interview: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=37&page=article

Mine wuz chickens.

Huh?

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That's tempting, but I don't know French. Lately I've been messing around with Rosetta Stone, so maybe I'll be slightly competent next year.

Amazing! Now do it without the Stephen Fry link.

Seriously, what are you going to spoil with those?

Why the hell is the same video posted 3 times?!

El Muerte, now that you have said that, you must link Kevin Bacon in six degrees or less to one of the Pirate Bay guys.

Dan, just think of it as an old Sierra hint book where once you used the magic marker to reveal the solution, it was revealed forever. It's all in the spirit of video games.

:tup:I liked that, it was very clean.

Yeah I think Romanek and Glazer are well known to a lot of people, but not as much as Cunningham and Spike Jonze. I wasn't personally interested in the last four, but I was hoping they'd get to the Hammer and Tongs DVD set, which I heard rumors they had started work on. But I think if Version B of Science of Sleep gets released with English subs, it'll show that Gondry is pretty serious about getting his work out and pleasing the fans. I respect that.

This is an article I think written sometime after the 2006 raid: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/03/70358 This article explicity states the law was changed April 1st this year, before the verdict: http://torrentfreak.com/major-opposition-to-new-swedish-copyright-law-090317/ I'm sure there's so much more on this as I've read a few more things over the past month or two, such as who in Sweden ended up being hired to the MPAA or the questionably funded MediaDefender attacks on the Pirate Bay site. It's really only being covered extensively on sites like Torrent Freak, which I don't like showing up on my history at work. Many of the taunts within the legal page on TPB website argue they don't even house the files on their servers so they are immune either way. It's really obvious they are skirting the issue, but they do somewhat have a point. To me, it's scary you can convict someone for "assisting" in violating in copyright law. Seems like something that could be abused later in court in upcoming trials. Sort of off topic, but here's some more great news: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/att-joins-riaa-program-but-refuses-to-sanction-users.ars What sucks is I use AT&T as it is only one of two choices for hi-speed internet, the other being Comcast, who has made a practice of violating the Internet Neutrality Act.

Er... one thing, you should put the name of who you are quoting. Some of my quotes are mixed among other people within your message. I don't think the average citizen works for the 6 (or 7) major movie studios that the MPAA protects, nor do they work for the 4 (or 5) major record labels (and their sublabels) that the RIAA protects. I'd say the economy hurts from companies this large that wield so much power, even on a clear cut case of copyright violation such as this. The MPAA only represents major studios, not independent film or anything similarSure people work hard within the studio system as well, but their hard work seems to have more of a "piss up a rope" effect than "trickle down" economics. The big Writer Guild strike last year for sort of showed that. Well I did say it's just my belief, and I do understand it's a generalization.

Haha, great. Now it's immortalised in picture form.

I see a ghost orb.

"John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy." Dad said 'No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS' There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons. 'This is Joson' the radio crackered. 'You must fight the demons!' So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall. 'HE GOING TO KILL US' said the demons 'I will shoot at him' said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill. 'No! I must kill the demons' he shouted The radio said 'No, John. You are the demons' And then John was a zombie." - IGN.com

I have heard rumors that the release of his second "Director's Label" DVD was supposed to be officially released through Palm pictures in their next batch of DVD sets, along with Hammer and Tongs and Shinola. Apparently the last three (or four?) Director's Label DVDs didn't sell as well as the original three so the DVD series was completely canceled. I guess it's just as much my fault, since I was only interested in the original three as well. But thankfully he was nice enough to put it on his website as a direct buy sort of deal. I also see a placeholder for directly buying Version B of Science of Sleep on DVD, which is currently only available on DVD and Blu-ray France in French only. Here's hoping this means I will have soon have access to a release with English subs.

I somehow keep hearing about this guy, especially on Soulseek, which is kind of funny because I should be predisposed to dislike him since he got in a some silly rap battle ages ago on the internet with Cex. His rapping skills were atrocious, but I've never heard what his actual songs sound like.

As sidenote 3, I'm confused. To pay my dues: "This game will burst the capillaries on your dick!" -IGN.com

And green cellophane grass! I think this may be the most interesting Rock Band thread on the internet.