Thursday, September 29, 2005

The "Farkers" on the Fark.com boards were arguing about Star Wars since Lucas has seen fit to release another DVD of the original trilogy but without the extra bonus features disc. One Farker made a very interesting point about why so many fans are angry about the whole "Han shot first/Greedo shot first" change:

"And what is wrong with Greedo shooting first?"

This.

When Han shot first, it gave the audience the impression that he was a true scoundrel. He would kill, lie, cheat, or whatnot to save his own skin. He was in it just for the money. That way, during the "trench run" when the Millenium Falcon comes out of nowhere for the save, you get the feeling of Han making a decision to do the right thing, even though its against his prior nature.

Now, it doesn't give nearly that same feeling.


In my opinion in the end, the scene itself isn't the point. The hardcore fans don't even care about the scene itself. What they're pissed about is their perceived notion that George Lucas is messing with "their" classic fairy tale. It's like Spielberg swapping guns for cellphones. I guess it's considered some sort of geek blasphemy. Personally, I just liked the thought of Han being a dangerous guy who could do what had to be done, not a pansy. :P

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

All that waiting for the big "announcement" on http://www.origenxbox360.com/ and it turns out to be a stupid damn contest. Bastards. I was hoping they'd announce something huge like Halo 3 or something "revolutionary," (ha-ha). Guess not. Instead after watching stupid migrating white bunnies and asexually reproducing green apples for months we get silly music box music that sounds like it belongs in a Harry Potter movie. Bahhhhhhhhh!
Britney Spears receives $1.5 million for baby pictures, $3 million for birth video and $1.5 million for baby home movies

Remember, it's not enough to prostitute yourself, you can push your kids into it, too!

/disgrace to the human race
/Start the countdown till this kid is addicted to crack and sniffing blow off a hooker's ass....3...2...
/bets this will net better profits than her last album.

I heard someone say this the other day: "What a whore. Not attention whore, just a whore." Lol it fits.
Today we offer a 30-second "Cone of Silence" for Don Adams, 86'd at 82

Article from: "Don Adams: I Believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life in 1943,"The National Enquirer.

"When you're only 16 and waiting to die --- you're scared," TV star Don Adams told The ENQUIRER.

It was 1943. Adams, who had enlisted in the Marines, had caught blackwater fever on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.

"After being flown to a hospital in Wellington, New Zealand, I was told nothing much could be done for me," he recalled. "I was just left to die.

"That's when I started praying. I prayed night and day that my life might be spared.

"Five days later I woke to find the fever and all its symptoms completely disappeared.

"Before that my body was so badly bloated that it was more than twice its normal size. The doctors had not scientific explanation for what seemed a miraculous recovery. Logic told them I should have died.

"Today there are no physical indications that I ever suffered from such an ordeal.

"It is as though I never had blackwater fever.

"I believe that it was prayer and prayer alone that saved my life.

"At a time like that I knew the only help I could expect would be from God.

"He was my only hope for survival."

"Since that time I've been convinced someone up there is watching over every one of us.

"Miracles have only one origin."