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Here is the first (technically second) RON Movie file ever released:

The Very Hot Day

WARNING: If you are not a fan of "slow-burn" humor, STEP AWAY FROM THE LINK AND NOBODY GETS HURT. Extreme heat + Melt and Drake as the main characters = pretty slooooooowwwwww.

Try again now, it ought to be fixed.

It worked!

Oh thank you thank you thank you!

*kisses AGA's feet*

Ugh. Consider washing those shoes once in a while?

In the future don't start a new thread like this ... you should have PMed me to unlock the old one.

Secondly ... I should lock this one as well.Ã,  How long did you work on that second screenshot?Ã,  Must have taken you hours!

You should have waited.Ã,  But I suppose it does meet the requirements ... if just barely.

Um... yay?

No, seriously, thank you. And if you want, I CAN work on that second screenshot. I'll try to remember all of that next time.

As it is, upload your files, here.

And how are we supposed to upload? All I get is something that shows a "Parent directory" and a folder marked "Files". I can't do anything to them.

As you can see, I tried this before, but I didn't have screenshots, so it got thrown out the window. And, of course, for good reason.

The idea of this game is that a hole is opened up in space-time that threatens to destroy the universe as we know it â€" I know, it's cliché, but this gives me an opportunity to be my four favorite things: random, surreal, funny, and lazy. Featuring a lot of usage of the feature that enables you to sync happenstances onscreen to MIDI and a "Treehouse of Horror"-style disclaimer introduction by Davy Jones. Heavily influenced by Al-Quest, most obviously from its usage of Roger as the main character and Sierra-style talking animations.

Screenshots:




NOTE: The colors are not quite correct. I use paint, and so when I saved, I had two usable options. It was either losing some color information or making it look like total crap. I think I picked the right one.

Progress: Probably about 40-60% â€" this is not going to be a very ambitious game.

*Bond. James Bond.
*Stephen Hawking
*A tall midget
*A short giant
*the Internet

Starship Caramba runs as slow as @$&$*!@ on my compy. What can I do? [Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. I had to unlock the file. I can only run the Internet on a Mac and then copy the files on a CD to put on Windows. This, of course, locks all the game files and prevents me from making changes. This as happened to me before and I fixed it this way! Boy, I'm dumber than a load of bricks.]

Is it possible to obtain some of the programs you've made with Basic? They sound pretty cool. Of course, it's your decision as to whether anyone else can have them or not, but they sound SO COOL! [/offtopic]

Right, post links to some stuff here, or to one of the other 461 threads for this sort of stuff.

Trying to Enter Crazy Sean's House
Windows RG - Really Good Edition
Ducks Live on the Moon!
Invention Pioneers of Note
How to Create an Internet Cartoon
5 Things That Make Counter-Strike Look Stupid

[ANAKIN/VADER:]

Well, I think it was a bit better than mediocre. I don't know about episodes I-II, since I was too young to know the difference between a good film and a lousy one, but III still feels like the best out of the new three.

PLOT/STORY

It has a great tragic story about a boy who is tempted by the Dark Side through his naivety and greed, and even though some of the plot points were stupid (A ROBOT general? Puh-leeze! And what the hell does Count Dooku have anything to do with the story anyway? He's a completely unneccesary character!) but overall the story is pretty deep and made you think a bit about how we live life.

They even gave people a good reason to choose dark over light: Yoda says that death is part of life and that a jedi has to let go of attachments to loved ones and not be sad if/when they pass away. Grief leads to the dark side.Ã,  Sounded like a crap philosophy to me.

"Crap philosophy," eh? Although I admit that "grief leads to the dark side" is a BIT too much, who are we really crying for when someone dies, the person who died or yourself? It's kind of selfish, really. I also liked some of the quotes: "So this is how democracy ends... to tumultous applause." ANAKIN/VADER: If you are not with me, you are my enemy! OBI-WAN: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Those are by far the best quotes in Star Wars history. And about the dialogue: I can't detect cheesy dialogue very well, so I won't talk about that. But at least Jar Jar is almost completely absent from the film! And the end... that was nice. The end was actually a very iconic moment for me. I can't think of a better way out than Uncle and Aunt staring off into the sunset like Luke does in V. It's like there's still a very small glimmer of hope just over the horizon, that maybe it WILL all turn out OK in the end. Plus, all the plot holes are covered perfectly. The plot has no holes whatsoever. Really.

ACTING

I'm not sure why everyone thought the acting sucked. I admit, the Anakin/Padme moments were a bit cheesy, and when Emperor Palpatine was dying, the evil was a bit over-the-top, but all in all, it didn't suck as bad as the acting in Manos: Hands of Fate (the worst movie in history according to IMDB, check it out as long as it's the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version as the untouched version may be too painful to watch).

MUSIC

Great as ever. No question. The reprise of the fight chant thing from Episode I was awesome.

SFX

Awesome. But it's true that the fight scenes don't make you feel anything, they're a little "plastic".

I still maintain that the third one will tie everything together and that the series, as a whole, will be a great, FULL, story!

You were right, DM. The series as a whole would have been so-so, but the third almost redeems the other two and makes for a really great story. But there's still one burning question that bugs me.

WHY THE HELL DOES MACE WINDU HAVE A PURPLE LIGHTSABER???!!

I think you're forgetting the absolute number one thing to do when the power goes out: switch over to laptop.

Yeah, but is that funny? Well? Is it? I didn't think so. 

I don't know how to respond to that.

You had better be joking, or else: REVENGE!!!! MUA-HA-HAAAA! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!!!!

EDIT: Oh. Yeah... I thought so. Also, I'd like to know some of your favorite things on the list. Don't be shy. Don't be a jerk. Don't do drugs. Don't step on the grass.

No, I want you to tell me nothing so I can make the same mistakes over and over and over again- of COURSE I want you to critique it! This is the CRITICS' LOUNGE, for Smurfs' sake! Jeez! Some people...

A "humorous" "list" of my own invention of 50 things to do while the power is out can be found here:

http://anothergenericblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/50-things-to-do-while-power-is-out.html

1976? Pah! Almost everything I remember in the 70s happened in 77.

Like Star Wars! That's one of the greatest solutions of all time.

'Fabreeze' is really only the solution to not smelling of Fabreeze.

Actually, it was a reference to 8-Bit Theater, a great webcomic that's been around for a virtual eternity*.



*A virtual eternity is actually a very short amount of time compared to an actual eternity. It is only about three years.

I only really use windows for AGS. All my other stuff is 100% Macintosh. I'm proud of it.

I wasn't around during the era of these computers and video game systems, but my dad has an old Macintosh SE around that I use. It's pretty awesome; it has Crystal Quest, Dark Castle, Sim City and even Zork on it. When I was about 6, I also managed to buy an SNES right before they stopped making games for it.

My solution is 42. If that doesn't work I use Febreze. It solves everything! And if that doesn't work for some reason, I put it off until tommorrow. What about you?

I came across this a while ago and it's pretty good...

Melonpool- http://www.melonpool.com