It's true he did... although I seem to get no credit here for my coining of 'Generation Nu', to describe all you punk kids and your britney spears and your sunnyD and your bike helmets and your complete lack of respect for the TRS-80.
<!--QuoteBegin--MonsieurEvil+Aug 21 2003, 12:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Aug 21 2003, 12:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's true he did... although I seem to get no credit here for my coining of 'Generation Nu', to describe all you punk kids and your britney spears and your sunnyD and your bike helmets and your complete lack of respect for the TRS-80.
raawr! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> /me wipes off the foam around MonsE's mouth.
To demand respect of the TRS-80? You're such a relic <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Zerogreat+Aug 21 2003, 12:19 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zerogreat @ Aug 21 2003, 12:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What is difference between TRS-80 and T-80? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Never heard of the T-80. Isnt it just the same Radioshack sold computer-kit with a shorter name?
<!--QuoteBegin--Wheeee+Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wheeee @ Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Donnie Darko was crap. No movie should ever require you to visit a website for an explanation of WTH WAS GOING ON IN THAT MOVIE?!! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Fam+Aug 20 2003, 04:34 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fam @ Aug 20 2003, 04:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Woo, another new word thanks to the "Monsictionary: The source of many entertaining nonwords". Also the source of such words as "Muh", "Assgasm" and "Linuxmonster". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Personally I thought my mate Neil came up with "muh" 3 years ago. Unless you have proof that your first usage of "muh" predates Neils, I will have to sue you and your precious Monsictionary and spend the proceeds on SunnyD. And a cycle helmet.
This was just a little off topic wasn't it? [/off topicness]
<!--QuoteBegin--[p4]Samwise+Aug 20 2003, 06:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([p4]Samwise @ Aug 20 2003, 06:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Wheeee+Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wheeee @ Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Donnie Darko was crap. No movie should ever require you to visit a website for an explanation of WTH WAS GOING ON IN THAT MOVIE?!! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> It wasn't so much the brainwork that was involved, it was the sheer lack of explanation about anything in the movie. I'm tired of people who make up random stuff and expect to be praised because it's "artistic". There was no continuity, and things that are open to this kind of broad interpretation have no point, because it's meaningless. Yes, I saw it with a bunch of my friends, and we came up with some of what the website said; however some of it was just plain...well...bull.
<!--QuoteBegin--Scythe+Aug 20 2003, 06:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scythe @ Aug 20 2003, 06:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--MonsieurEvil+Aug 20 2003, 12:07 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Aug 20 2003, 12:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> SUCKITUDE. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Woo, another new word thanks to the "Monsictionary: The source of many entertaining nonwords". Also the source of such words as "Muh", "Assgasm" and "Linuxmonster".
To recap that article: "Big companies are dumb, very dumb.".
--Scythe-- <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Not all big companies are dumb. Big buisness is NOT the evil that everyone makes it out to be.
Big companies that employ many stupidly politically active fools who can't keep their mouth shut off the screen are bad.
<!--QuoteBegin--Wheeee+Aug 20 2003, 07:27 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wheeee @ Aug 20 2003, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--[p4]Samwise+Aug 20 2003, 06:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([p4]Samwise @ Aug 20 2003, 06:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Wheeee+Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wheeee @ Aug 20 2003, 01:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Donnie Darko was crap. No movie should ever require you to visit a website for an explanation of WTH WAS GOING ON IN THAT MOVIE?!! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> It wasn't so much the brainwork that was involved, it was the sheer lack of explanation about anything in the movie. I'm tired of people who make up random stuff and expect to be praised because it's "artistic". There was no continuity, and things that are open to this kind of broad interpretation have no point, because it's meaningless. Yes, I saw it with a bunch of my friends, and we came up with some of what the website said; however some of it was just plain...well...bull. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, like abstract art made by a baby who shoves their foot in paint and the mother sells the painting for 202020988392348948348934093484 dollars.
Its the people that call it artistic that make these companies pump out such crap-o-ramas.
<!--QuoteBegin--Xzilen+Aug 20 2003, 07:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xzilen @ Aug 20 2003, 07:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Yes, like abstract art made by a baby who shoves their foot in paint and the mother sells the painting for 202020988392348948348934093484 dollars.
Its the people that call it artistic that make these companies pump out such crap-o-ramas. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't go that far, but I felt personally that Donnie Darko was poorly executed and scripted. Now, a movie like Brazil, on the other hand... *shakes head in disgust*
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raawr!
raawr! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
/me wipes off the foam around MonsE's mouth.
To demand respect of the TRS-80? You're such a relic <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
TRS-80 dunno what it is.
Never heard of the T-80. Isnt it just the same Radioshack sold computer-kit with a shorter name?
<a href='http://www.arrowweb.com/mkr/trs_links.html' target='_blank'>Oldskool!</a>
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I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Personally I thought my mate Neil came up with "muh" 3 years ago. Unless you have proof that your first usage of "muh" predates Neils, I will have to sue you and your precious Monsictionary and spend the proceeds on SunnyD. And a cycle helmet.
This was just a little off topic wasn't it? [/off topicness]
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I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It wasn't so much the brainwork that was involved, it was the sheer lack of explanation about anything in the movie. I'm tired of people who make up random stuff and expect to be praised because it's "artistic". There was no continuity, and things that are open to this kind of broad interpretation have no point, because it's meaningless.
Yes, I saw it with a bunch of my friends, and we came up with some of what the website said; however some of it was just plain...well...bull.
Woo, another new word thanks to the "Monsictionary: The source of many entertaining nonwords". Also the source of such words as "Muh", "Assgasm" and "Linuxmonster".
To recap that article: "Big companies are dumb, very dumb.".
--Scythe-- <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not all big companies are dumb. Big buisness is NOT the evil that everyone makes it out to be.
Big companies that employ many stupidly politically active fools who can't keep their mouth shut off the screen are bad.
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I dunno, I saw it with a bunch of friends from Berkeley and we talked about it over dinner for about an hour. The stuff we came up with more or less lined up with what I ended up finding later on the Web. Then again, the director said it's supposed to be open to interpretation (which is why some of the scenes got cut - to avoid bludgeoning the audience), so it doesn't really matter if what you come up with lines up with what he intended.
Bah. As far as I can tell, a large portion of American audiences just reject anything that might require the brain to engage. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It wasn't so much the brainwork that was involved, it was the sheer lack of explanation about anything in the movie. I'm tired of people who make up random stuff and expect to be praised because it's "artistic". There was no continuity, and things that are open to this kind of broad interpretation have no point, because it's meaningless.
Yes, I saw it with a bunch of my friends, and we came up with some of what the website said; however some of it was just plain...well...bull. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, like abstract art made by a baby who shoves their foot in paint and the mother sells the painting for 202020988392348948348934093484 dollars.
Its the people that call it artistic that make these companies pump out such crap-o-ramas.
Its the people that call it artistic that make these companies pump out such crap-o-ramas. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't go that far, but I felt personally that Donnie Darko was poorly executed and scripted. Now, a movie like Brazil, on the other hand... *shakes head in disgust*