I guess delaying it and converting it to 3D worked.

Yeah, that doesn't work as a joke.

[Spoiler]

and plot:

    As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.

Spoiler for Hiden:

Unicron!

Spoiler for Hiden:

That would be AWESOME.

We cut the cable a couple years ago and do netflix, hulu + and NHL Gamecenter Live.  There are some annoyances - I can't watch any Colorado Avalanche games, and and any nationally televised game is blacked out.  The major annoyance is that the playoffs are not available through GCL.  However, we've saved an absolutely *insane* amount of money by not paying the ridiculous cable fees every month.  Overall, it's a plus.  I might try adding an HDTV antennae, which would get me some playoff hockey, I guess, and we would have the option of watching some stuff when it aired.  Dunno though, might keep things as is... we certainly have enough going on that we don't spend much time watching anyway.

Wait, what? The playoffs aren't available through GCL? They were when I had the service a couple of years ago! So does that mean that I've paid $50 for this year's GCL but I can't watch any playoff games with it? That's the whole reason I got it-I don't give a damn about the regular season.

It might be different overseas, but certainly in the US any game that is 'nationally televised' (whether through a major network or any of the NHL's cable options: NHL Network or NBCSN) is blacked out nationally on GCL.  Sometimes the first round of the playoffs are local broadcasts (can't remember what the situation was last year), but anything after that is absolutely, positively not on GCL.

All NHL playoff games are on a "national" channel now (and were last year, I believe), so no playoff games on GCL anymore.  This could just be a US/Canada thing, though.

Gears of War

I ripped countless farts this morning.  It was glorious.

Special edition of God of War.

Will pick up Heart of the Swarm whenever I get around to finishing the SP of Wings of Liberty.

I played for over 2.5 hours this evening (man, what a time sink) after trying for about 5 minutes to access my starter city.  Damn, what a time sink this game has the potential to be.

And yes, I've said time sink 3 times.  Third time's the charm!

My office's budget just got cut 8.5%. Probably won't have to lay anyone off (which would be bad for the economy, of course), but it will impact constituent services. There's just no way around that.

The PTO's budget was cut 8.2%, or $242 million.  There's been no change to our day to day operation, no furloughs, and overtime hasn't been slashed yet, so I have no idea what's going on to cut costs in such a seamless way.

Saw on Facebook that TimeGate's going through massive layoffs.

And the hammer starts to fall....

Yawn.

Got a cite for all your "established knowledge"?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=did+john+williams+steal+music

Nearly 3.5 million hits

I haven't seen him admit to it, but I can't imagine he denies it.  Doesn't make him any less impressive, though.  Knowing what bits to borrow is still impressive as hell.

That also doesn't provide "Williams's own words".

That's not also not what Tilt is arguing.

John Williams can borrow from Holst, Mahler, Dvorak, Delerue, etc. and it will STILL sound like Williams.

James Horner can borrow from Copland and Rota and Prokofiev, etc. and it will STILL sound like Horner.

Hans Zimmer can borrow from Holst, Morricone, etc. and it will STILL sound like Zimmer.

I know all movie score composers borrow.  They borrow from other composers, and they borrow from themselves.  I know this more than most, as my several hundred CD soundtrack collection attests.  Yet, their music has an identity, a voice, that is THEIR OWN.  

Star Wars may owe something to Holst.  But it sounds like Williams, not Holst.

Got a cite for all your "established knowledge"?

There's a lot more to the hours and hours of Star Wars than just the Mars piece.  The 48 Academy Award nominations, 59 Grammy nominations, and 22 Golden Globe nominations would suggest that you're not seeing the whole picture. 

No, it's simpler than that: You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. You could listen to Venus too, or any of the other pieces. Gustav Holst introduced a certain way of using orchestral instruments in unison, a new way of layering them to create new sounds, and a new way of building mood with each individual one. Brass in particular got a much bigger role in the orchestra, a role it has kept to this day, after having served as background instruments up until then. John Williams replicates this style completely, to the point where his style and Gustav Holst's style are impossible to separate from each other without being aware of the individual pieces. Here's an interesting tidbit: Fantasy Flight Games, which has the Star Wars miniature license, produced a video tutorial for their X-Wing Miniatures game. That video tutorial has a soundtrack. FFG does not have the license to use John Williams' score. Instead they used Gustav Holst's music (Venus, I think. Not quite sure right now). Nobody noticed the difference, except for a few people who went "I don't remember which part of the movies this music is from".

I'm not trying to belittle Williams' music, which I've always admired. Just pointing out that it's not quite so unique and original as many people assume it is.

That's because most people don't pay attention to that sort of thing enough to know there's a difference.

The music played in that video did NOT sound like Williams.

Who cares about lovelorn Andrea, the Governor's schlong and moats? What we really want to know is what you thought about the singing at the end of Sunday's episode?

Yep...I thought that Kumbaya moment was pretty fucked up and completely out of place.  I actually FF'd through a large portion of the scene and when I resumed play, the bitch was still singing.

This isn't the first time she's sung in the series, so why it's fucked up and out of place now is beyond me.

Season 3 trailer is UP!

If you need more proof that Tom Chick sucks as a game review, he gave A:CM the same score he gave Halo 4. 

 

I'm having a blast with this game.  I think I'm on mission 17 now and loving every second.

That said, this game is a big reason why the user scores on Metacritic are a disaster.  This game rates a 4.4 on Metracritic for user score.  Aliens: Colonial Marines is a 4.1.  Seriously?  So annoying.

Metal Gear Rising is this week?  Crap.  Shame my backlog is so big...and need to make sure the reviews are good.

Yeah, Skyfall is good despite Bardem, not because of him.

 

Yeah, like when Warcraft Adventures got canned, someone a Blizzard said "it sucks that we sank so much time and money into this failed project, but we just can't hurt our reputation by releasing it."  With this game, someone said "it sucks that we sank so much time and money into this failed project, but if we release it anyhow at full price we'll recoup a lot of our losses on those foolish trusting fans."

With DNF, I get Gearbox releasing that.  If they didn't, they'd lose the IP.

With this, though, it has to be purely money, like you said.  One has to wonder the amount of money that would have been involved in Sega's breach of contract suit.

Might want to edit your thread title.  That was ONE meteorite, not a meteorite shower.

You're saying... a meteor shower isn't on any of the charts?  Is our position correct?  Is Alderaan ok?

 

Might want to edit your thread title.  That was ONE meteorite, not a meteorite shower.

Impressive video nonetheless.  Glad no one was killed.

Can I completely mess with the poll and say, "I bought a Wii U, so I already have"?

You're probably joking, but for the record: The Wii U is current gen, not next gen. Nintendo just took their sweet time getting there.

Wii was current gen.  Wii U is next gen.  It's just not as next gen as the other next gens.

This.

Nice find.  Thanks!

Wow, that's an impressive bit of gender sterotyping there, guys! Take it from someone who's actually served with female soldiers: They're every bit as capable as male soldiers, if not more due to the ingrained attitudes from males they have to fight against. The average woman might not have the same muscle capacity as their male counterparts, but they wouldn't get through basic training if they weren't able to do their jobs properly.

There's a hint of "women shouldn't be allowed to vote, for they are too busy in the kitchen to understand the world of politics" in this debate, and it's a good idea to make sure we don't stumble into that little trap.

So the fact that Kato is retired military with recent combat experience means he's stereotyping?

 

I'd be shocked if this isn't confirmed very soon

Shouldn't this be in the trading forum?  People already give away stuff in there.

Whatever ic.iqugroup.com is is making the site extremely slow today.

That is our ad network. I've given them a head's up

They seem to have fixed it quickly, because the slowness has vanished (it was taking pages close to 10 seconds to load before).

Well done, sir!

Whatever ic.iqugroup.com is is making the site extremely slow today.

I've only played the demo so far, and I have no idea how anyone could rate this game a 0.

Definitely some fanboyism gone awry.

Appallingly backwards.  Keep it classy, TiLT.

I'm not a Caps fan, but I'm going to their home opener next Tuesday anyway.

$50?  That's awesome.  Now I'm just waiting for my email to show up.

The funny thing I wasn't even going to bother with Game Center this year since my travel is down and I have Center Ice at home... but at $50 whatever, I'll keep it.

I switched to GameCenter over Center Ice because of the lack of HD options on cable.  HD hockey wins for me.

Heh - I moved to DirecTV years ago because when Comcast started carrying HD Center Ice feeds, they went full retard and still only offered 10 channels.  The first ten channels.  One of which was HD, one was SD... so five games.  So any of the PST start games were... actually not at all available on Comcast.  AT ALL.  Idiots.

DirecTV gives me every Center Ice channel, home/away feeds, all in HD if available (so for some reason, not one of the Canadian broadcasters).  I wish I could consolidate on just GameCenter (mobile/traveling is great, as is the condensed games), but I found their video feed less optimal versus Center Ice when I was watching on my TV, which I guess is to be expected.  Also I found Game Center had weird outages last year, whereas Center Ice was rock solid.

Anyway I'm glad they discounted things as heavily as they did.

Unfortunately, where I live, my only TV option is Cox Cable, so it's GameCenter or nothing if I want out of market games in HD.  Unless they've added HD capability in the last few months and I've missed out on it.

$50?  That's awesome.  Now I'm just waiting for my email to show up.

The funny thing I wasn't even going to bother with Game Center this year since my travel is down and I have Center Ice at home... but at $50 whatever, I'll keep it.

I switched to GameCenter over Center Ice because of the lack of HD options on cable.  HD hockey wins for me.

$50?  That's awesome.  Now I'm just waiting for my email to show up.

Guys. GUYS. Why are you even arguing? Your teams are minor league compared to what Jeremy Jacobs is doing. He's giving THREE FREE (non-alcoholic) CONCESSIONS to each fan for every game in January. I'm buying a ticket to every game because there's no way I will ever get three free $10 hot dogs again.

Jeremy Jacobs, he's our man, if he can't do it...

Oh, fuck it.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyntHjL6T9Y

interesting info

That explains a lot, actually.  Very interesting.

A little surprised he didn't test that out with dexterity as a perk, though.