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Discuss Anything / Re: "Karate Rap"
« on: December 11, 2014, 03:41:20 AM »Is that really from her? I mean, you don't need a black belt to set up a gmail account like that. And then there's the "iDojo"..
It's the same contact information they have on their website, so I'd be it was actually her. Besides, who else would go around on their behalf trying to promote their stuff?
Heheh. I overlooked the iDojo. It just shows how dedicated they are to the gimmick. I applaud them.
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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 24 - Eddie at the Party
« on: December 09, 2014, 05:56:36 AM »This guy was the first that came to my mind, but that can't be it because it's the wrong colour and also the wrong decade..
Shit, that's what we should've done. Eddie could have realized that the only thing that still properly fit him was his Hitler costume from his high school production of Bionic Commando, the Musical.
But no, I think our retro-'80s throwback sibling, Kung Fury, has cornered the market on Hitler usage in this sort of thing.
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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Music Video: "Samurai" by Michael Cretu [1985]
« on: December 09, 2014, 05:15:10 AM »Adam since you have been culturally unaware for near 2 decades I present you this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8.
I made it about 12-seconds, but then I have to close out of it. Sorry, but I'm trying to get over this flu, and that just wasn't helping. I'm just going to assume she's crying because she's about to get hit by a wrecking ball, and leave it at that.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Airheads & Demons
« on: December 09, 2014, 05:10:51 AM »When I read Rae's initial post, I read the exchange as though it were between two bro-dudes. Then when Adam referred to them as girls, I wondered how he knew, forgetting that the title was "Airheads & Demons." I guess bro-dudes could be called airheads too though, right? Sometimes I'm an airhead.
That conversation drips with estrogen. It couldn't have been more girly unless they had been discussing menstrual cramps.
And now Rae is going to reveal that it actually was a couple of dudes, and I'm going to feel like the airhead.
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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 24 - Eddie at the Party
« on: December 08, 2014, 05:57:59 AM »Babe Alert: as always with this pool party, the babes are in full force. Tina may not have Veronica and Heather's assets, but the previous page shows us she definitely has her own amazing ass...et.
I was wondering when someone was gonna comment on Tina's ass. That's why you're needed around here, aett.
Dean's dialogue... is great.
Thanks, that was actually one of the last-second alterations. We weren't quite satisfied with what he said before, but when we saw we had room to make his dialogue balloon bigger, that freed us up to come up with something better.
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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Music Video: "Samurai" by Michael Cretu [1985]
« on: December 08, 2014, 05:53:25 AM »I dont know the wrecking ball has some mainstay to it. Actually one of my favorite up and coming blues stars has a song also titled Wrecking Ball, and it has nothing to do with Miley.
And here I thought Rijst was totally making a nonsense comment with the wrecking ball thing, but I infer from your comment that it's something real. I haven't listened to pop music since the mid-'90s, so I'm pretty out of touch.
However, I do got the touch. In fact, you could even say I've got the power.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Airheads & Demons
« on: December 08, 2014, 05:48:21 AM »Or get holy water splattered all over your new shirt..
Haha, I really hope these girls walk around packing holy water in case of surprise demon attacks. Oh man, and whips! They should totally go all Simon Belmont. These girls are hot, right? This only works me for me if they're hot.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews
« on: December 08, 2014, 05:46:15 AM »Today there are movies where genetic engineering leads to all sorts of freakys outcomes. In 30 years' time everyone will (hopefully) look back on that in the same way they look at Weird Science and remakes won't work anymore because the premises lost credibility..
I wouldn't get my hoped up, Science Dude. After all, criminal investigation shows still use the whole "enhance the image by zooming in which somehow magically increases the resolution" thing, despite it being a huge joke to a large number of viewers in today's Photoshop-savvy world.
Hollywood doesn't like to let things go. Like action movies and their love of unnecessary cocking of guns for dramatic effect.
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 24 - Eddie at the Party
« on: December 06, 2014, 09:22:14 PM »
Okay, we we had some technical difficulties when we added the new page to the site, but Ghoul was on the ball and got it all figured out. Then there were a few last minute changes we decided to make to the page.
The plotline of Joe being invited to the popular kid party, and then Eddie deciding to get dressed up and crash it, is one of the few elements of the story that remains mostly in tact from my old Dark Relic movie script (which served as the inspiration for the basic plot of Satan Ninja 198X).
Had I actually gotten the chance to make Dark Relic, this scene would've been filmed at my grandpa's house, where I used to frequently host pool parties in the summer. He had a cool house and I'm kind of bummed I only utilized it for two of my no-budget camcorder short movies, Bad Deal and TasteTations.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Airheads & Demons
« on: December 06, 2014, 08:15:50 PM »
And then you introduced them to Satan Ninja 198X, right? I mean, that's what their Bible group should really be focused on.
I love how sincere she seems about needing to know about demons.
I love how sincere she seems about needing to know about demons.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews
« on: December 06, 2014, 08:12:59 PM »Right, I still need to see it then. I haven't read the books, mainly because I didn't know they were there, but I might pick them up at some point too. Sounds like a good read for the daily train journey. I usually don't trust promises of staying true to a book. Film is such a different medium that it simply screams for changes to be made although they usually go further than that.
A lot of people seem to have the impression that Conan started out as a comic character, because Marvel's Conan comics in the '70s were pretty popular. Anyway, if you're interested in the original stories, I highly recommend the three-book collection released by Del Rey in the early 2000s. Those three books collect every Conan story Robert E. Howard wrote (one novella and a bunch of short stories), and presents them in the order they were originally published. A lot of other Conan anthologies have edited versions of the stories and often use guesswork to try and put them into a chronological order. As they were originally written, the stories jump around Conan's life. Hell, the very first Conan story ever written takes place when he's already a king.
I don't expect any movie to be a straight adaptation of any particular Conan story (although a direct adaptation of the Conan novella would be awesome), but I was hopeful that the 2011 movie would both get the Conan character right, and be good. It kind of got the character right, but it fell short of being good.
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Surprisingly, I think the War of the Worlds film with Tom Cruise stays surprisingly close to the book. Apart from the fact that it's set in modern day USA (instead of Victorian England), necessitating force fields to counter modern weapons, much of what happens in the film happens in the book as well and from the same point of view (a guy that's on the run for the aliens basically). I can really recommend the original story but I think the film was pretty good as well.
I enjoyed that War of the Worlds remake, but in general it bothers me how adaptations seem to always feel the need to update the story to have it take place during whatever the current year is. That often robs it of a lot of its charm and character. And some kinds of stories simply work better in certain time periods. For example, Weird Science works in part because computers were a very new and mysterious thing to most people in the '80s. The idea that a couple of nerds could somehow use a high-end computer to magically create a perfect woman was easier to swallow. I know they're planning on remaking it, but I don't know if it'll be set in modern times or not. Anyway, I don't buy into the excuse of, "but the audience won't be able to relate if it's not set in modern times." Every successful period piece begs to differ.
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Discuss Blog Entries / Music Video: "Samurai" by Michael Cretu [1985]
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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews
« on: December 04, 2014, 04:21:32 AM »Science Dude, you're talking to Captain Emulation over here. I've been a huge fan of emulators since I first discovered NESticle in the '90s. MAME is probably my favorite emulator, as it's the only way to play most old arcade games.
But yeah, Golden Axe rules. I'm a mega-fan of the '80s barbarian trend of movies and video games. Some other rad '80s barbarian arcade games were Rastan and The Astyanax. The Astyanax was originaly released as Lord of Kings in Japan, and the flyer for it is pretty fucking amazing: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/legendaryaxe/lordofkingflyer.jpg
And by amazing, I mean absolutely retarded. They should have called the game "Lord of Arms." Jessica actually had that flyer as her desktop for the better part of the past year.
Haha was she just taking the piss I hopehen? Those arms are ridiculous indeed and his face makes me think of Modern Talking.
It made her laugh, so she made it her desktop. That video you linked to can't be viewed from the US, but we found another version of it. Good stuff. I love the "meowing" guitar. I think I'll have to add it to my massive "ultimate '80s playlist."
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Is the game itself any good?
Hmm. Jessica and I played through it a long time ago, so I don't remember it all that well. But I'd say it's pretty comparable to Golden Axe.
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Seems to me this barbarian image was copied straight from Conan the Barbarian. Speaking of which, has anyone seen the 2011 version?
Oh, boy. You've just struck on a sore spot. You see, I'm a huge fan of the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories that were written in the nineteen-thirties. The Arnold Conan films strayed pretty far from the source material (although I love the first movie in spite of the that, and Conan the Destroyer is entertainingly stupid--but fuck that thief character). When the 2011 Conan movie was first announced, it was heralded as a Conan movie that would stay true to the original stories. That got me super pumped and I followed its production really closely for years.
But things really went downhill during the production. For some reason they chose a director known for semi-descent horror movie remakes, and they hired a writing duo that produced a shitty script that wasn't at all true to the original Conan stories. At the last second, they brought in a more hardcore Conan fan to re-write the script. But by that point they'd already been building the sets and had the locations all scouted and the costumes made and such so there wasn't much that the new writer was allowed to change as far as the general plot was concerned.
I actually really liked Jason Momoa as Conan. It's just too bad he wasn't presented with a very good movie to act in.
When I finally saw it in the theater, I'd been so pumped about it for years, and I really wanted it to be rad as hell in spite of all the red flags during the production, but it was ultimately disappointing. It makes me pissed off when I think about what that movie could have been.
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Discuss Anything / Re: Dude Shinobi Homebrews
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:17:05 AM »You can find it here: http://progameroms.com/segagenesis/SegaGenesis.html
You need to install the emulator first, but then it's pretty good fun. I love the soundtrack so much that I used the mp3 files as a ringtone on my phone..
Science Dude, you're talking to Captain Emulation over here. I've been a huge fan of emulators since I first discovered NESticle in the '90s. MAME is probably my favorite emulator, as it's the only way to play most old arcade games.
But yeah, Golden Axe rules. I'm a mega-fan of the '80s barbarian trend of movies and video games. Some other rad '80s barbarian arcade games were Rastan and The Astyanax. The Astyanax was originaly released as Lord of Kings in Japan, and the flyer for it is pretty fucking amazing: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/legendaryaxe/lordofkingflyer.jpg
And by amazing, I mean absolutely retarded. They should have called the game "Lord of Arms." Jessica actually had that flyer as her desktop for the better part of the past year.