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Even for the day, the graphics were a little muddy, but all of the little tidbits and doodads blizzard adds are beautiful.

I recently did a LAN party with War3, we played DOTA all night.

Got a couple guys really pissed off at me and my good friend when we got two sheep sticks (polymorph staffs) and never let them do anything.

Fun game for LAN's

As science fiction, "Signs" is idiotic. From a pure science standpoint the idea of aliens who are destroyed by water is a blatant violation of the immutable laws of physics, which are the same on every planet. Any astrophycist who past 5th grade will tell there are two thing necessary to support life: Water, and energy.

Hehe, then you take collgiate astrophysics and learn that the reason physiscists argue all of the time is because they disagree on these immutable laws.

Quantum tunneling came from the discovery that the sun is temperature is off for how fast the atoms are moving inside. Therefore they must just be jumping around without actually moving.

The scientists at ground zero for the first nuclear warhead were taking bets for whether or not they would start a fuse that would actually ignite the entire world. They decided it wouldn't. But if cold fusion were possible, it would have fused, and ignited the next atom, which would ignite the next would would etc......

Hehehe. when you get down to it, we really know nothing of physics. Ask a scientist or a professor.

This is a good one:

So, an object will do exactly what it did 5 seconds ago unless something acted on it. Everything was together (even time and space) before the big bang. What acted on the infinite mass to make it blow up?

"We don't know"

some physics we have not discovered?

Who knows.

or perhaps you're just a colossal dork.

At least he is in the right forum. What's your excuse?

 

I'll believe Hollywood is sincere in caring about artistic integrity, and that the original work of art should not be altered to conform to the purchaser's taste, just as soon as directors start refusing to alter scripts, in order to protect the artistic vision of the screenwriter.

hahaha, best argument made thus far.


Anyway, the easier it becomes to access violence, porn, language, etc... the more those things prevail in society. Yes, society has always done, and always will push the envelopes of it's own verboten.

One example, or one leader can entirely change how an entire people feels about some subject.

I agree with E on the "facts of life" part. There is a difference between historical value and entertainment. The concentration camps made lampshades out of the skin of those they gased. I hope no one would feel this would be the best part of some movie they watched.



I think some of you are thinking I am for legislation that requires Hollywood to prevent making these movies, or that They cannot stop people from censoring them.

My only point, I said earlier, I don't care, they can make what they want; I am ranting on the fact that Hollywood does it, because I feel that it does have an effect on society.

I don't think that is an arguable point, that's all.  

I did some quick searches, they said it is going to be live action.

Hmm.. I wish they would have showed one of the robots during the trailer at the beginning of Pirates 2.

Anyone have links to such?

Strictly speaking, there is no forced market for movies.  No one has to go to these movies at gunpoint.  If no one went to see R rated movies, Hollywood wouldn't be able to afford to make them.  Fact is, people go see these movies of their own free will.  They vote with their dollars, so to speak.  R-rated movies may not do as well as PG-13, but they do well enough for the studios to stay in business.  It bothers me when people suggest that the American public is being victimized by Hollywood.  If you don't like the content of movies, don't go see them.  If you don't go see them, they can't possibly do you any harm.

I stand by what I say when I say that Hollywood creates a market. The things that would have shocked society 50 years ago on the silver screen are now a part of t.v.'s nature; In fact the things that would have shocked us 10 years ago are a part of the nature of t.v.

This isn't because society as a whole suddenly changed and decided it was time to accept more violence, swearing and nudity in our media, it's because the media will start trying something, and in the middle of the outrage will do it to the point that it deadens society to it. And that is where the harm comes in, even if you don't go to see it. I can't agree that every man is a rock or an island in society that remains unaffected by their environment.

If it really was all about the dollar then when R's didn't do as well, they would not make them, since it is better financially to get $14 million than $13 million, any corporation would agree, no matter how you look at it. Unless you were more interested in things that are not financial.

Even George said about Episode I, II and III. He made the movies he wanted to make and told the stories as he wanted them told, what the public wanted didn't matter.

I would feel the same way if I was making a movie or a game or writing a book and I don't think many of us here would disagree. It is my story, I will tell it how I want to tell it and if I make a lot of money in the process, great.

I just wish that Hollywood would stop pumping out the crap, and society didn't get addicted as soon as it saw it.

I still think the movie studios are missing a golden opportunity by not partnering with one of these groups to actually release "edited" versions.  There's a definite market for it.

Tsk tsk tsk, Spriggan.. Hollywood isn't all about money. It's also about creating a forced market that doesn't normaly exist and exposing people to the artistic tastes of the directors and writers. Hollywood doesn't listen to the mainstream public. As a general rule, R rated movies never do as well as pg-13, but Hollywood pumps them out like they are the only thing keeping them in business.