genghisdani

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I saw the email on this today and I knew I had to do something. Finals are kicking my ass right now, but I'm back! I'm a huge fan of Uematsu-san and I would love to meet him in person! His music has changed my life and helped me show others how videogame music is just as good as or better than "normal" music.

I can't believe no-one's mentioned this, but it's been bugging me ever since I heard Friday the first time: why on Earth are they kicking in the front seat? I mean, wouldn't that severely lessen the driveability of the car (never mind that they're 13 and probably don't know what they're doing...)? Thanks, Malaki-LEGEND.sys, I was gonna post Brock's dub but I was beaten. Also, I'm back! College is a bitch and so I have almost no time anymore, but I have spring break for the time being. Additionally, I am now married! I hope to get back involved in the OCR forums; I miss you guys!

I feel that it is oddly appropriate that my return to OCR be marked with a post about Star Wars (my next biggest geek-ism after videogames.) I have seen this movie and as a huge SW fan, I was severely disappointed. I was still willing to watch it even when everyone else told me not to, but I see now why they told me that. I realize that it was aimed more at kids than the teen/young adult demographic that the other movies (and certainly the EU) appear to have been aimed at. That having been said: If I never hear Ahsoka again, it will be too soon. Anakin seemed to be markedly less mature than he ought to have been for the time frame of the movie. The plot was thin, but I could deal with it. The whole referring to the Hutt "clan" struck a nerve with me; doesn't everyone who knows SW know that the entirety of the Hutt race is split up by clans called kajidics? The music didn't feel right; I can't place my finger on it, but it felt like there was too much of it. The style was not that big an issue for me, I read the books and play the videogames, so the live-action movies aren't my only source of Star Wars. Besides the oddness of Anakin getting a padawan so quickly, it causes problems with continuity and canon; why was there such an issue of him being made a master if he already WAS? And what's with the dialogue? That's all I can come up with off the top of my head. While I don't feel like SW has jumped the shark, this was so sub-par as far as quality, somebody ought to be sacked for this movie. I like to quote Film.com writer Eric D. Snider when I talk about this movie: "Remember how people talked about the Star Wars prequels like they were the worst movies ever made, when really, come on, they weren't THAT bad? The Clone Wars actually IS that bad."

I don't recall, but I think it may have been djp.

Thanks, it's good to be back here!

I don't particularly care for that application anyway, but I keep it for the lulz.

This happened to me today on the Compare People application on Facebook: Also: HEY GUYS! I'M BACK!

Wow... now I absolutely have to get this game with my Wii when I come in the summer.

As some of the OCR community know, I'm in the army here in Israel; so I'm not particularly available for this sort of thing, but I come home about every Thursday afternoon and return to base 0dark:30 on Sunday morning, which gives me a little time to put towards this. Please keep me informed if anything comes of this; I missed out on the first round, and I'd still like to take a stab at this (I'm the one that suggested the idea in the first place, after all.)

I'm not submitting anything this round, nor probably any round until the beginning of May 2008. This army stuff is tougher than it sounds, and I while I do have weekends off, that's not enough time to do anything, because in Israel, weekends are only Saturday. I'm glad that this has taken off well, and people are having fun. Once I'm out of the army, expect an entry from me.

I may or may not be able to do this. As of right now, I don't really have anything completed; on top of that, I am going in the army on Sunday, so I may or may not have time to do anything on this. I am not withdrawing, per se... I'm just letting you know that I might not actually submit anything (this round).

I believe you have to look at all the pages in the topic which contain unread posts in order to mark it as a "read" topic.