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1988 Theatrical Release / If The Land Before Time came out in 3D
« on: July 23, 2010, 03:47:04 PM »
Quote from: Animeboye,Jul 23 2010 on  04:58 PM
Well guess what? I saw Avatar in 3D and Dark Knight in 2D. Guess which one I had better time at? That's right: Dark Knight.
Well, that's one thing we can agree on. Dark Knight was a much better film. I'll be the first to freely agree that good plot is far, far more important than good looks (although Dark Knight wasn't exactly shabby!), but that doesn't mean visuals don't have their place. All I'm saying is that if we could combine the two then we'd be rocking.
If you don't like the way 3D looks right now then....well, okay. It's nowhere perfected yet, but I have hopes that one day they will bring it up on par with regular vision; at which point I'd assume you'd be happy with it?

Back on topic: I'd see LBT in 3D, but I highly doubt it would work. The animation style....you know. I wince at just the current CGI-ish scenes. Doesn't really work for me.

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It's Party Time! / Guess the next poster
« on: July 23, 2010, 11:31:35 AM »
Nay.
brekclub85?

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1988 Theatrical Release / If The Land Before Time came out in 3D
« on: July 23, 2010, 11:20:15 AM »
Quote from: WeirdRaptor,Jul 23 2010 on  05:40 AM
No, he said that films about the visual experience and can just be eye candy. He also said if he was worried about story, he'd a read a book.
I said if I was solely concerned with plot and characters I'd read a book rather than go see a film, and often that is indeed the case; I actually read a lot more than I watch. But there are times when I want a visual aspect as well, and that's when I hit the cinema (or more usually our rental outlet in reality).

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Also, 3D is not a big leap in the visual experience. They're moving cardboard cut-outs in front of a background. Nothing more.
I think it's a little more sophisticated than that; even you're a big hater of 3D, I can't quite understand how you can claim it doesn't look amazing. I mean, I only very vaguely enjoyed Avatar because of the terribly-written characters (and it dragged...on...and on...), but I still have to admit that it is one of the most gorgeous-looking films I've ever seen.

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And if any of you would bother to read my post, 3D GRAPHICS F*****G MY F*****G EYES!
I understand skim-reading other people's posts, I really do; when one has other things to do and there are a few topics one wants to get a reply in, but when you're complaining this badly about other people doing it, I'd think it would be best to check you're not doing it first:

Quote from: Clawandfang,Jul 22 2010 on  09:35 PM
New improvements to 3D are being made all the time, which one day should alleviate the pain it causes your eyes.

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1988 Theatrical Release / If The Land Before Time came out in 3D
« on: July 22, 2010, 04:35:17 PM »
Quote from: WeirdRaptor,Jul 22 2010 on  08:35 PM
Ugh. Why is everyone so willing to defend 3D? Its a gimmick. Nothing more.
I wonder the opposite; why everyone feels the need to knock 3D. 3D hasn't had all the kinks worked out yet, some directors are still too pleased with it to stop just playing with it and integrate it properly and it just generally hasn't had much chance yet. New improvements to 3D are being made all the time, which one day should alleviate the pain it causes your eyes.
Realistically, 3D as an advance in technology for media is no different to any other; it's a huge increase in the visual experience (which is part of what films are about; if I solely cared about plot and characters I'd be reading a book rather than watching a film, or listening to the radio).

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1988 Theatrical Release / If The Land Before Time came out in 3D
« on: July 21, 2010, 02:39:41 PM »
Sure I would. People today see 3D in films the way I guess people once saw colour in films (And maybe even sound, or indeed just moving images?). You don't need 3D, colour, sound, or even images to tell a story, it's perfectly true, but that doesn't mean they don't have their place. 3D isn't any different from those other examples in my opinion. It's not a "gimmick", it's just bringing the picture quality closer to reality (the problem, I suspect, is the unfortunately well-founded belief that sometimes 3D causes focus to shift from plot to eye-candy, which isn't good, but isn't the fault of 3D technology itself).
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Quote from: Sky,Jul 21 2010 on  05:51 PM
Wait, are we speaking of 3D with these glasses or a completely 3D animated movie?
Does the technology for 3D without special eyewear even commercially exist for film?

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The Fridge / Giving advice/support?
« on: July 20, 2010, 11:12:28 AM »
In a word: depends.
EDIT TO SOUND A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY: But most of the time being helpful works best, yes.

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Silver Screen / The Pebble and the Penguin
« on: July 18, 2010, 10:58:48 AM »
Quote from: ScratteLover3,Jul 18 2010 on  12:32 PM
Okay, but if it had a higher budget than the first land before time, why didn't anyone even consider a sequel.
Well, if I was a film producer, I would prefer films that are cheap to make yet still sell well. That way you make more money.

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Silver Screen / The Pebble and the Penguin
« on: July 18, 2010, 03:12:50 AM »
The chances of a sequel being made when you made that much of a loss on the first film are rather low.

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The Welcome Center / After a LONG Absence
« on: July 16, 2010, 10:32:06 AM »
Quote from: pteranofan,Jul 16 2010 on  04:40 AM
....and the antiderivative of 4x will always be 2x^2 + C.
Is "antiderivative" a regular term, or would I be the odd one out to call that the "indefinite integral"? (Although, admittedly, "antiderivative" is a little more intuitive...).

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1988 Theatrical Release / Animation Cel of the Original Movie
« on: July 09, 2010, 06:28:00 PM »
It always amazes me how many otherwise perfectly sensible people automatically assume something is wrong on eBay rather than take a two-minute glance at the help section.

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1988 Theatrical Release / Animation Cel of the Original Movie
« on: July 09, 2010, 03:12:59 PM »
Quote from: pokeplayer984,Jul 9 2010 on  08:03 PM
As for the cheating thing, basically, on a number of them, every time I bid, it indicated that someone had bid higher than me.  I actually tried to get the lead by putting in one that was at $52 and giving a $60 bid, but the same thing happened.
You know, I'm pretty sure that that's the way eBay is meant to work...

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Gamers Zone / Whatcha playin'?
« on: July 09, 2010, 02:39:16 PM »
Final Fantasy VIII - going to see if it's possible to complete the game without gaining a single level (apparently it very much can be done, but whether or not I'm capable of it may be another matter entirely).

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1988 Theatrical Release / Animation Cel of the Original Movie
« on: July 09, 2010, 02:35:42 PM »
That is really cool; who was selling them?
And what do mean by "cheating" on eBay? The size they are, I would've thought they'd have measures against that kind of thing.

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General Land Before Time / Regarding ANY LBT 14 Topics
« on: July 09, 2010, 02:22:05 PM »
Because the blog was entitled "The Land Before Time XIV: The Growing Sky Stone" and gave the impression that it was a film definitely going to be made at some point.

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LBT Fanfiction / The Land Before Time XV
« on: July 09, 2010, 02:18:05 PM »
Where'd you get the idea for the title? It's a little...unusual.

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LBT Fanfiction / The Land Before Time XV
« on: July 09, 2010, 02:09:08 PM »
Is this a fanfiction you've had in your head for a while, or are you just going with the flow?

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General Land Before Time / Regarding ANY LBT 14 Topics
« on: July 09, 2010, 01:52:39 PM »
Quote from: LBTFan13,Jul 9 2010 on  03:20 AM
The Glowing Sky Stone is a hoak title fot the 14th movie. It's already been proven false, so I wouldn't waste your time looking for anything about it.
By "hunt" I don't mean "look". I mean coming at it out of the sun with my trigger-finger itching on the delete button.

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General Land Before Time / Regarding ANY LBT 14 Topics
« on: July 08, 2010, 05:15:25 PM »
Quote from: ScratteLover3,Jul 7 2010 on  01:41 AM
Quote from: MuchAdoAboutNonny,Sep 29 2009 on  09:53 PM
"Quest of the Longneck Princess" on the LBT Wiki sounded interesting to me.
I'm the one that put that on there, but I wasn't the one that came up with that rumor. Who came up with it I have no idea, but I only put it there, but of course, WilhelminaWill blocked me, and that was my FIRST edit there!
You have no idea how many idiots like to post up random crap; I'm afraid to say its got to the point where an instant ban is the only thing we can be bothered to do; trying to find out if it was a genuine mistake or not is in 999 cases out of 1000 completely pointless. The Land Before Time XV: The Quest of Mystery page definitely needs to be incinerated though...*delete*.

EDIT: Why is there all this "Growing Sky Stone" nonsense all over the Internet? I'm going to go hunting for it on the wiki...

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Sports / Wimbledon
« on: June 23, 2010, 02:39:09 PM »
As I write these two are playing their 95th game of the fifth set. Incredible stuff; anyone else watching them?
EDIT: 100th...
EDIT2: 59 - 59 games in the final set, and the match has just been suspended due to bad light. Going into a third day tomorrow.

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Gamers Zone / Banjo Kazooie
« on: April 14, 2010, 05:13:19 PM »
I watched an entire Let's Play for this once; simply because the guy doing it had such a pleasing voice. Looked like a fun game though (if frustrating at times).

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