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Jun 28th 2009 12:41PM "Look, I can transform, too! Super Hot Megan Fox Level 5!"
Is there hope for a new Star Trek TV show? {TV Squad}
Jun 15th 2009 11:37PM it's a little too late for starfleet academy. For one thing, the first movie's over and done. And ppl are barely interested in school much less a fictional school. Ooh, warp calculus.
ppl want blood, battle, and heroics. You need drama and character buildup too but that's just part of the mix and not the central hook. Star Trek the movie worked not on character buildup or drama but the fact that you have HEROES running thru guantlets against a VILLAIN.
let's center on that. The audience has to be hooked into the story before you can make them love the characters.
Is there hope for a new Star Trek TV show? {TV Squad}
Jun 15th 2009 11:26PM well, first and foremost, a tv show has to meet requirements. It can't squander all the new faces the movie will bring to the tv show.
1. No technogeekery made up nonsense. warp factor fine. use engine, not warp core. use fuel, not dilithium crystals.
2. No more holodeck. no more replicators. have real food. no more alien cosmetics.
3. cut costs so that it doesnt have such a high standard to hit and it can actually last longer.
You have to do Enterprise because that's what ppl know. But you need freedom to do your own stories, but contradicting abrams' movie will be a Big No.
So here's what you do:
1. Lots of dirt and blood.
2. Recast everyone on it. From Jim Kirk to Sulu, no need for Chekov. Add in an extra girl so that Kirk can sexually tense something. Shade their faces.
3. Now make everyone an Admiral. And age them 60 years. They all have their ships. The first episode is Twilight of the Federation.
Spend money here cuz everyone is gonna die.
Spock is the only one that survives because he's the only one at starfleet academy. He takes the grandkids of kirk, his own daughter, etc and escapes into an alternative timeline.
They come back with a really powerful spaceship and lots of training. They stole it from Spock who forbade them from coming back.
They launch a rebellion. Overarching goal is to rescue their parents. some wnat to stay and fight the bad guys, others want to rescue their dads/moms and go back to their alternate home. And story goes from there.
Star Trek: Federation's End. tada.
you get linkage to the movie, without contradicting it. make your own universe. have less pricy space battles because it's a timeship, not a warship, it can only cloak. Away missions aren't to explore new expensive cultures but to go to earth and find out what prison their parents are in and break them out.
cheap, dramatic, effective, ratings.
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Mar 24th 2009 12:28PM Love is like a butterfly. No. A mongoose. No. A elephant.
Yes a elephant. it is big. It loves peanuts. And is fat but if you call it fat, it will not have sex with you. And the morning after, you will be met with a steely gaze even though she calls you fat all the time and it's not like we're both young anymore, and you have dreams of her dying accidentally, you collecting her insurance and eloping with the hot young intern from Nebraska.
Hypothetically speaking.
Barack Obama's Presidential addresses ... who loves ya, baby? {TV Squad}
Mar 24th 2009 12:20PM Okay, fellow Republicans, we haven't done anything wrong this decade. Look at the polls. McCain lost cuz he wasn't conservative enough! Okay, so here's what we do. We repeat these 3 things so that Obama can still heal the economy and look like he's doing a bad job.
First, instead of calling him a socialist, we call him "not centrist' enough. That way, he'll be pressured to do republican things, you know, the right way.
Second, we remind the public that they can't love the president forever. There's no way the public can't find it in their hearts to hate Barack. I do! Find all the dirt you can on him, once he heals the economy, we mess him up with whatever we can. That Special Olympics jab should be saved up for that moment.
Third, we take away every power he has so he can't do anything to win popularity. A president has only one power. He hires people. We attack every hire that doesn't have to do with the economy. If he can't reward the people that helps him. No one will help him. If his experts will be attacked no one will advise him.
"But sir, if Obama is such a bad president, why do we need to do all this?Won't he just mess up by himself?"
Four, kill the man that just spoke to me.
Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass {Engadget}
Feb 4th 2009 10:38AM What is the value proposition? Let's ignore the other market segments. Normal countries get Home Pre and Prof. I get that. But then you have Business and then Enterprise. And then Ultimate. You say their are multiple requirements for different market segments---But aren't you a platform? If businesses need strict user access rights shouldn't homes need it too?
You know for kids that play WoW too much.
What Microsoft is doing is separating Big Business and small business, mom and dad home users, and college kid users.
That's what their doing. There's no serving multiple requirements. it's just trying to eke out an extra 40 dollars off licenses.
and Ultimate seems like a good value since it combines everything and is no-hassle. Wow 4 licenses in one. But let's just say Ultimate is XP Pro. 300+ bucks! Someone in microsoft has been reading Irrational Rationality too much.
Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass {Engadget}
Feb 4th 2009 12:02AM Starter: okay i give you that it's not available.
Home Basic vs. Home premium? Which one should i get sir? Blah blah blah blah blah blah...my dad's head explodes.
The thing is, NORMAL ppl need to know distinctions so that they can buy stuff. You might want to segment your marget to maximize your profitability but how bout ppl that need to remote desktop into their dad's office and fix their porn?
And what's the difference between Enterprise and Professional? Offline Folders? Wha?
Come on.
The value here is productivity. People have to buy computers. They need to be able to compare features. Your giving them Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, each one with a little upsell to them.
Whatevers, it's such money whore grubbery. You are fucking lucky i need a Tablet PC with N-trig touch features. But once apple makes a tablet, i am so out of here.
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Jan 26th 2009 8:21PM We do it because we're better at it. Why stay in a job if other ppl already do a better one than you can?
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Dec 19th 2008 1:39AM come on i'm just a little late
