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And the winner is...

Ghormak, for his wonderful Hitman poster which made me forget all about Uwe Boll. Even if just for short while.

Khaveen was a close winner, but I'm afraid the contest rules included the phrase "good movie" .

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that it gets broadcast in most of the world. Unlike, say, the Hong Kong Film Awards, which is a mostly local affair.

I think of it like this: Oscars are for US movies, local film awards are for local movies (plus the obligatory best foreign movie award, which may go to a US movie). Considering the huge amount of US movies versus local productions that get shown in many countries, it seems a much better state of affairs than for both the Oscars and the various local film awards to recognise movies from all over the world in all categories.

Also, saying that you can't accept the sub-titles is a bit narrow-minded. We don't dub movies in sweden, which means 95% of all movies have sub-titles.
I can assure you that my average movie experience is no less than yours. It sure makes me better in English, though.

I didn't say I couldn't accept them, just that I don't enjoy 'reading' a movie (being dyslexic doesn't help much either).  I don't see how that's 'narrow-minded'?

Now you tell us.

I'm not scared, it's more like annoyed.  Call me uncultured if you want, but I don't enjoy 'reading' a movie.  For me personally, I like watching a movie.  If I have to pay attention to the subtitles I miss what's happening on-screen ... movies, to me, are to be watched, not read.  I enjoy reading books.

If you had given it a chance you would have realised that after you get used to it you don't really read the subtitles at all. As an added benefit you get really good at speed reading.

Yes, like the original poster intended. Totally insane.

[What is the Photoshoppin' Contest?]

Sorry about the delay!

What is the Photoshoppin' Contest?

See this link:
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/

And for other examples, see here:
http://www.worth1000.com/

The two above websites should give a fair idea of what is involved. Also you can check out the earlier Photoshop contests in this forum.

Note: Photoshopping isn't drawing a completely new image -- It's editing images to create a new image, such as editing one image or combining several images.

Also, you don't have to specifically use Photoshop -- Paint Shop Pro, Gimp or any other ~equally good programs can be used.

This fortnight's topic!!
Good Game Adaptions

Imagine, for a change, a good movie based on game.

Something very much like this:



(Although hopefully not as horribly rushed a Photoshop as this example.)


NOTE: As you can see in the example, the game doesn't have to be an adventure game, but some would make for great movies.

If threads get locked they just end up on the second page faster than if they weren't, I don't see the problem. I see no reason to relegate them to their own section, especially not to the last page of the sub-forum, if that's what the original poster meant with "end of the thread". They still have some value even if it's no longer possible to add replies.

The last forum system we used used the "pin" metaphor for keeping threads at the top of forums. I'll have none of this "sticky" business enforced on us by the SMF forum system. I'm stuck in my ways and I like it like that.

I know when I'm going to receieve a call/text message on my cell phone because the signal interferes with my speakers and they start making a really funny noise. It's kind of annoying when I'm talking to someone and some apparatus with speakers does the same exact thing and I have to explain to them that my cellphone is cursed with a spell.

You have to explain it to people? Is this phenomenon not known by everyone in the US? Inconceivable.

By "locked" I assume you mean "pinned".

I agree with you and think there's far too many of them. Some of them would be better suited in the popular threads forum or shouldn't be preserved at all, like the "favourite non-adventure" one. In my opinion of course.

Cheers Berserker.

I shall think of a new theme promptly.

The real Doom board game:

Do you have stats, CJ?  Is IE still as inexplicably popular as it was before?

Psst, he uses IE.

Because you're a renfair nerd?

I posted the information on the Archaeoraptor fossil and the way the media hailed it as truth in an attempt to make you take news with a grain of salt from now on. Judging by your first post, now deleted, you had taken a lot of sensational news for the truth, with no other backing than one TV program and rumours from a friend. While they might have turned out to be true, it's not wise to assume everything the news, and friends, say is true.

Regarding Siamese twins, their existence became popularly known at a time when PT Barnum paid thousands of dollars to have a replica of the Cardiff Giant built, when he could not obtain the genuine hoax, so that he could present it to punters as real. Had I lived back then I would have been very skeptical indeed before proper scientific journals reported it as fact, and even then I would wait it out a little and see if any counter-proofs were forthcoming.

What this boils down to is this: Don't automatically believe sensational news written on a deadline by journalists who are reporting on stuff they don't have an expertise in, published or shown in newspapers or TV programs that are known to have printed or broadcast erronous information on numerous previous occasions. (Which is pretty much every newspaper, TV news program ever)

Neither of them denied it was any rounder though.

A few years ago they found the missing link between birds and dinosaurs. Many news programs, newspapers and palaeontologists reported it as true. Turned out a Chinese farmer had glued together various pieces of a skeleton.

Yeah.

Edit: Info here.

I saw a documentary on TV about killer cars when I was 12. Apparently Henry Ford's demonical twin brother invented an engine part that causes cars to go rampant every now and then. Engineers apparenly can't figure out what the part does, but without it the engines won't run.

Yeah.

New developments related to this thread.

And this, on animesuki: http://www.animesuki.com/doc.php/legal/mediafactory.html

Edit: New and new. December it seems.

You can.