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10 minutes ago, Bada Bing Nuggets said:
IT'S SO LIT YOU CAN'T EVEN PUT THE FIRE OUT
Whoa, that looks amazing. I'd have a hell of a time just exploring the game. This also looks like it may be open world.
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Where do you think the site will be in the next several years? Let's just estimate where we will be in 5 years to be conservative. I think without a doubt SpongeBob will still be on, unless Dauman gets fired and they sell off Nick or something. Even if the show ends, I feel like most of the people come here for the community (hence the name) rather than it being a SpongeBob forum. It's still a good chunk of our identity, but a majority of us don't even keep up with the show anymore. This is even more apparent because the site was founded by disgruntled Tv.com users. I think the site has a a 50/50 chance of surviving. And I'm only saying this because either we'll get hacked or there will be a security incident or maybe we'll migrate to SBM or some shit.
I'm more curious to see how SBM will fare if the show ever ends. That site seems to be a lot more strictly SB-focused.
Let's report back on this thread in 2021.
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19 minutes ago, terminoob said:
If only that costume wasn't hideous.
Eh, it looks okay.
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Announced like an hour or two ago at Sony's E3.
Termi and I are very excited.
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4 minutes ago, terminoob said:
HOLY SHIT
Man, I never knew how badass an Insomniac developed Spider Man game would be. Bring it to me now.
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HOLY SHIT.
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I think this thread has gotten a little heated and it may come off to other people like everyone is jumping down each other's throats.
It's sad that this will only worsen bigotry against muslims, when the majority of them are peaceful. Remember that only the minority are the extremists who seem loud due to the attention given by the media.
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Sea of Thieves looks cool, and if I had an Xbox One I'd get it.
I don't like how the Xbox One slim is already obsolete due to Scorpio though. I guess if I get an Xbox it will be next year.
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18 minutes ago, Bada Bing Nuggets said:
Haven't finished this one yet, but I just want to say how glad I am that this episode makes use of the word "flaccid"
Fun fact: My twitter username is flaccid spelled backwards.
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Microsoft's E3 was predictably boring. They basically just announced Project Scorpio and a slim Xbox One (all leaked) and then release dates for games.
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7 hours ago, tvguy said:
We were being anything but calm? This is a forum, for discussing things. Unless Halibut or I posted anything offensive, neither of us broke any SBC Rules bud.
I don't think you came off as angry, but to other people you may have came off as scathing or a little heated.
12 hours ago, Halibut said:Well that phrase might be a bit wrong, so if I can make it statistically right, we can do "There's obviously more Islamist extremists who commit attacks and kill a ton of people than Christian extremists who do it."
There are Christian nutjobs out there for sure, but statistically speaking, the amount of times they commit heinous acts in the name of their religion doesn't even come close to what the Islamic extremists do. The day we go out fighting Christian extremists is the day they're willing to bomb a bunch of crap all over Europe and the Middle East.
I concur with this. I come from a mostly religious family myself.
8 hours ago, tvguy said:Can you consider these people true Muslims? Slaveholders in the US justified their system of bondage with their faith. I think in the post 9/11 decade, there have been Islamist extremism than that of Christianity, but as a whole, Christians (as far as I can tell) have been just as bad as Muslims. Historically, in Europe, Christians of different sects have killed other Christians at a huge rate. St. Bart's Massacre, anyone? Being that Islam and Christianity share the Old Testament and are essentially brother religions, I'd venture to say they're both responsible for a majority of the world's anguish – not one disproportionately more than the other.
That being said, the sensationalist media definitely plays up Islam as an evil religion more than it does Christianity, and I think that's because the western world is largely Christian. There is an East v. West mentality that they seem to like, an "us" v. "them" that is required to exist for whatever reason. I think that this has also inspired a lot of people to take up arms and commit acts of terror and put it arbitrarily under the banner of Islam.
I wonder if this attack had been carried out by a Christian – and it's very plausible it could have been – if the Republicans crying "radical Islam" would have similarly labeled it "radical Christianity."
Additionally, Islamic terrorists are in the minority. The overwhelming majority of terrorist attacks in the world are carried out by non-Muslims, which is not the message you'd be conveyed if you turned on the TV.
You could say people who don't follow a religious book 100% literally, or people who don't, true followers of any said religion. That's a bit disingenuous and is ignoring the issue at fault here that Islam as a religion is incredibly toxic.
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3 minutes ago, tvguy said:
Virtually every religion in some way or another is bad.
Yeah, if you look at history every religion has done heinous things, but it's just puzzling how radical muslims are doing these awful things. We don't hear about radical christians shooting up a nightclub, do we?
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3 hours ago, Halibut said:
ISIS officially managed to get to the US and cause major trouble here. We were all pointing fingers at each other over Islam and gun control, and right under our noses, they manage to come through. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. Screw you all and screw me too for being stupid enough to let this happen. We couldn't work on the solution together, and now we're paying for it. Just watch, people will still be defending Islam despite its growing over-fundamentalism, and then other people will have a field day talking about how all Muslims are bad and that they shouldn't be in the country.
ALL of you, including me, helped cause this, and we're all going to take part in making it worse instead of coming up with a solution.
My personal opinion is that Islam as a religion is bad, but most of the people who follow it aren't bad. I also notice in other religions most people don't follow it 100% seriously, this is especially true of Christianity in my experience and I recall you posted somewhere on SBM that if your parents did they'd lynch people after you for not being muslim. It's very obviously a toxic religion, that's why the extremists who follow it 100% literally (of course the extremists are just plain bad people at the end of the day, regardless of what they believe in) do such heinous things. I'm not saying this isn't true of other religions but you don't see extremist Christians going around slaughtering people.
Disclaimer: Not saying all, or even most muslims are bad, just saying the religion itself seems to be toxic. There's a difference between the religion and it's followers.
Now my actual thoughts on this shooting is that it's awful and tragic.
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51 minutes ago, JCM said:
I wouldn't really say Pixar has a formula. The last new Pixar film I've watched is Monster's University, and I skipped Brave and Cars 2, but every other movie felt noticeably distinct, including the Toy Story sequels. I also don't remember seeing that "tear-jerker at the end of the second act" you talk about outside of Toy Story 3. The idea of a formula seems really new and seems to exist to undermine Pixar's stellar track record over the last 20 years, which is something be impressed by regardless of whether or not there's actually a formula.
I haven't seen Monster's University in years, but if I remember it was more of a comedy than most Pixar films.
Brave was like the neutered Pixar formula. I remember Merida being really annoying.
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59 minutes ago, terminoob said:
I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but I really didn't like Inside Out. It seemed like it was trying to be a character-driven piece but they also wanted to tick a bunch of boxes and the end result came off incredibly forced and almost like it was written by a computer program trying to emulate other Pixar movies. It proved more than anything - to me - that they've just perfected a formula that they know will manipulate the audience's emotions in the exact way they want instead of being able to do anything new or interesting.
I'm sure this movie is going to follow the exact same formula and I'm sure everyone's going to be "surprised" at how much they actually love it and how that one tear-jerker scene at the end of the second act is just "so" sad.
I do agree with you that they use the same basic plot structure and archetypes in their movies. A character is in a predicament and has a sort of rivarly-turned friendship, they go on a life-changing journey that changes them as a person and there's usually an emotional moment near the climax (in Inside Out's case it was Bing Bong's death)
I think they executed it well though in IO, but I would like them to make a film that follows a different structure. My assumption would be Disney is imposing that on them though. The same thing happened with Ant Man where they fired the original director because it wasn't like other Marvel films.
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I've heard her songs before and she had a beautiful voice. RIP and it's especially sad she died at such a young age.
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19 hours ago, Hayden said:
Or we can wait until the real consensus starts after June 17th.
I'm not saying it looks bad, it looks enjoyable even, but from the few reviews I've read it seems like it won't be as good as the original. Considering I only see around 5 movies a year I need to be selective with what I watch. Of course, maybe I will be proven wrong and word of mouth will spread.
Also I'm not saying I'm entirely blind and don't use my own instinct to decide if I will enjoy entertainment or not. I will still watch it on streaming/Blu ray if I don't see it in theaters, and I saw the Ratchet movie which a lot of people didn't like.
On 7/18/2012 at 1:57 PM, terminoob said:Pixar needs to stop with sequels and prequels and get back to original movies.
Unfortunately I would have to blame this on the Disney buyout. The films they started work on post-2006 really reek of Disney's influence. Toy Story 3 (albeit good), Cars 2, Monsters University, etc. I know Iger's prerogative is to franchise everything and capitalize on success.
Source: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/secret-to-disneys-record-profits-franchises-113996.html
It makes sense business wise since Disney and Pixar movies make a killing with merchandising sales and DVD/blu-rays, but it's really had an affect on them story-telling wise. They don't take risks in their sequels (aside from the Toy Story sequels) and you can tell there isn't a sense of passion that their original films have.
They proved with Inside Out they're still capable of making great films. Unfortunately I guess the head honchos are pushing for more and more sequels. Brave was the only less than stellar original movie in my opinion, but that had a lot of production issues.
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/finding_dory/
Peging it's final score in the 70s. Consensus sems to be it's good, but not great.
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Animated: Wall.E, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Toy Story trilogy, Up, Inside Out, Ratatouille, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pinocchio, Zootopia, Wreck It Ralph, How to Train Your Dragon films, Peanuts, Aardman's output save for Flushed Away, most of Laika's films, The Lego Movie.
Live Action: Ghostbusters, Star Wars OT, Metropolis, Alien/Aliens, The Martian, a few Marvel films.
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2 hours ago, Steel Sponge said:
When the movie was originally going for that style, the process of finishing the movie would be long enough to put it for release in 2018. The process of making a CGI movie is a little less time consuming, so it was moved to 2016. From what I know, John Musker decided to make Moana a full fledged CGI movie because it was too early to consider using Paperman's animation style for a cinematic feature film.
Nah, I think the only reason CG is less time consuming is because it's easier to rework the story. You already have the models so you basically just have to redo the script, board and then voice act. In 2D you don't have that advantage.
2D movies take around a year for animation vs. 8 months (not including modeling/rigging) for CG.
Future of SBC?
in Robot-Pirate Island
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I saw you mentioned the SBM thread on your anniversary topic so I decided to make a thread like this here.
And then, I'll create The Community Community Community.