Mr_Putter

Lol, you know what's wierd? Some people get them now, even if they have the option, they choose to get them for aesthetic reasons. Don't ask me why, I'm just the messenger. Sounds like a huge pain to me; no starburst. [-X

Lol, that first sentence cracks me up 8-) .

Same join date for me, an less than a quarter the posts. But atleast when Bubsa spams (and that's a lot :P ) it's better than this sorry excuse for a topic. Oh yeah, and \

Photoshop is out of your range, but MS Office isn't!? :? MS Office isnt that much. Some recommendations: CPU - AMD Athlon. 3400+ should be enough for your needs, but if you wish you could go to 4000+ Graphics card - 256MB 128Bit should be sufficient. Get an ATi, not an nVidia. ATi is better. Speakers - Dolby 2.1 might be good for you. Internet - You'll need a ADSL router. 2mbps is a good speed. RAM - 1GB, maybe 1.5GB. Hard drive - 120GB, maybe 160GB. Hope this helps. If you can find a computer that good for 3-4 hundred, you have to be super human or something. But yea, the Dell B110 looks pretty good for you range. Integrated graphics and sound, but based on your bugdet there's no way you'll be playing any games anyway. Unless you find another dell with similar specs and you can include a ATI x300. If you somehow managed that (it would probably be a little more than youre price range) then you might actually be able to play some modern games. Just don't bet on it running Oblivion or something.

Just for reference, what are the best DVD's of Floyd to buy. I got a job finally, so I'll have some extra money: what are the best movies of Floyd for live performances? (I'm already going to get The Wall, and Live in Pompeii: I donno what's the best one for The Wall, DSOTM performaces, and does one exist that has a live performance of Atom Heart Mother? I think that would be incredible.

I read it over the course of 3 days, but I'm just now getting around to writing a proper statement. It was really entertaining, extremely well written and a very good read. The length didn't bother me, in fact it added to the overall feel, but it did repeat itself on many occassions. It was fun to follow the plot; it somewhat reminded me of Fight Club to an extent. Very good story, I'd definately recommomend it, even though it is long. The ending is good, but not great. But good. SPOILER: Actually, no one wins. Sure, the principle seems to have come out ahead, but as he says in the story, he knows the principle won't find every picture, and eventually he'll get whats coming to him.

I watched A Streetcar Named Desire. It was OK. I understood the main plot and characters, but a lot of the underlying symbolism was unclear to me. This detracted from the movie considerably, though I was still able to make sence of the movie. It just wasn't as good, it was pretty subtle, and there were a few things I missed both visually and audioly (my couch is way to far from my TV, and there's something terrible wrong with out sound system where it doesn't play any sound from the TV speakers (which are much better for spoken dialogue)). I clearly missed a lot, but I wasn't paying as deep attention as I maybe should have (there was so much dialogue to concentrate on, I didn't have much time to reflect on what I was hearing). It looked fine, good acting, and while I picked up some of the symbolism, it's a shame I wasn't able to pick up more. +1 movies on IMDB 250. Also, +1 good movies seen from the 50's. Up to 9.

you have got to be joking me!!! in my whole halo playing life on xbl i have met 1 person who sounded like an adult. i would say it was teenagers That's because Halo isn't aimed at adults. It's aimed at teenagers and to a lesser extent people ranging from 18-24. That's also why it's so popular. PC gaming has a lot more older people playing, since alot of the games take more strategy/patience. PS2 also has a lot of older people, just because it has a lot of people playing in general.

The average age of gamers now is like, 30. So sure, it's socially acceptable to play into adulthood.

There's no point in going to the moon. Maybe mars, not the moon. If this so called increasing risk (where the hell did this come from? how can it be increasing? does he have knowledge of a world-ending astroid headed at us and he isn't telling?) it would destroy the moon too, or cut off supplies. To make a permanent base on mars, you need to make like life there. This isn't Spore. You can't just get life where you want it. And you need to think about how to get a massive colony there. When we've never actually been there. I'm thinking +100 years to have a place that isn't limited to astronauts.

The only way I could go is if it were in Toronto or Buffalo. New York is out of range. But even though this is still just a rumor, and perhaps even unlikely, its nice to hope. And now that I have a job, I would make it my business to get a ticket, however many hundreds of dollars it would cost.

My automobile gets [bleep]ity furlongs to the hogshead of kerosine and that's the way I likes it!

I just got a job yesterday...At McDonalds...I know, make fun of me, I don't care. It will help pay for university, a new computer, and about 15 PC games I want.

I watched Underworld: Evolution. I saw Underworld like 3 years ago, so I pretty much completely forgot the story. I was pretty confused by the story for the first half because of this. This movie pretty much played out like this: Action sequence-explosion-speech-repeat. There's pretty much not a piece of creativity in sight. The action is fair enough that it keeps this movie from being utter trash, but it still isn't very good. And half the time it's too dark to see anything.

Firewall: Perhaps the most generic movie I've seen this year. And unintentionally funny a lot of the time. This movie was just laughably bad in every way. I think Harrison Ford wasn't sure what to do with the script that has him as a 50 something banker and he kills several men in their 20's/30's in hand to hand combat. It's just a whole load of balogne, and doesn't deserve to be watched, really.

I just saw it too. At least she's playing it safe, and not trying to hit high notes etc.

i thought it was really scary the first time i watched it when i was 7 or 8 :lol: . it brings back so many childhood memories. scarying my sister by doing the high pitched sound that is played during the shower scene 8-) . Lawrence of Arabia - this movie is pretty long. it started off kind of slow, i wasnt really into it. i actually was kind of dissapointed that the #28 movie wasnt turning out to be all that great. it picked up though, and it picked up good. still was a little bit longer than it need have been, but it was worth it. i even went back and watched the first ten minutes (i really couldnt keep my attention on it) once again. decent performances by all, considering i dont think they used many arabic actors in it. obi wan kenobi (aka alec guinness) played the arabic prince. all the major arabic people in it were played by non arabs. thats the only part that really detracted from the movie, and it really didnt detract all that much. david lean was the director, and he also did doctor zhivago, which was pretty good. a few other movies he did ive heard of before but havent seen yet. off topic: the local library has helped out tremendously with the top 250 list, they have a ton of the older movies there. if you are trying to find movies from the list (as i know at least Putter is), maybe try it out. /off topic. My library got esploded. Well, actually, they tore it down on purpose and are building a newer, better libary. But I don't think it will be done for a while now.

This weeks midweek movie was Psycho. It was pretty good, not my favorite Hitchcock, but pretty good. It was intense and creepy in atmosphere, but didn't really invoke as much tension as other Hitchcock movies. The famous shower scene was quite disappointing, partly because I saw it coming from the beginning, and partly because it was almost unintentionally funny. The scarier part was when *spoiler* the PI comes into the house to investigate and the 'old lady' comes and stabs him.*spoiler ends* It was pretty well done, and the ending evil smile was gold, but overall I didn't think as highly of it as some of the other Hitchcock films I've seen (which themselves are good, but not amazing really).

Sure blame everything on Bush. You act likes he's your dictator.

Multiplatform FTW. Other than RE4, but that's not a GC exclusive anymore either (PS2 and soon to be PC).

Why did Sony lose credibility? I was kind of not keeping up with E3 so, well you know. I followed E3 very, very closely, I spent several hours a day pouring over the info. I don't think Sony lost any credibility. The gained some amazing exclusives like Heavenly Sword, Resistance: Fall of Man, Assassin's Creed especially (though this is not confirmed exclusive, it's currently only officially in production for PS3). They also have shown off some of their amazing other games like MGS4 and Warhawk. Saying Sony failed is simply wishful thinking by people who don't like Sony. Sure, Wii owned E3 this year, but they aren't even aiming at the same people really.

I watched Hostel. Note that this post is extremely heavy on spoilers. If you don't want to spoil the movie, just skip this post entirely, as I'm not sizing it down. [crazy-type]I thought this was a pretty dang entertaining film. This movie was by far the worst movie by content I've ever seen (by this I mean, how this was Rated R, and a massive investigation to make San Andreas Adult Only took place...I don't think I'll ever figure out America). The first half-hour pretty much plays out like a softcore Adult film, easily more nudity than any other R rated movie I've seen. Then from about 30-40 minutes it starts to completely 180, and a sence of dread comes down (the guys lose their Iceland friend), and you know what you're in for. Then, it flips to perhaps the only truly cringe-worthy part of the film, where the only responsible character is getting tortured by that creepy guy. I seriously started shaking when the guy tried to escape and he had no ankles and then he fell down. It went on kinda like this for a bit...I wasn't really bothered by any of the hanging corpses and all the body parts everywhere. Then, from the second that crazy guy slipped on the one guys severed fingers, this movie turned gold. First he got cut up (awesome), then the big guy got capped in the head (awesome), then he made his escape on a corpse cart (morbidly hilarious), his whole escape was amazing, then he went back and saved the girl, and when he cut the eyeball, that was a little bit funny too! It was really, really exciting watching him escape, then running all his enemies down, then the kids crushed the skulls of the other guys cuz he gave them candy, and then when he cut the fingers off the other guy and slit his throat (most people found this to be gory and disgusting, but in that context it was needed and I found it quite entertaining, and then the chick jumped in front of the train and that was again mordbidly funny. It was basically 3 movies in one (one part Americans adventure in Europe, one part torture fest, one part payback)[/crazy-type] Spoilers End Here As far as the movie goes, I enjoyed how the movie played out. The story was intriguing and well told. I liked how there was no character that outright said what was going on (as is the case with most poorly written movies, whether horror or not). It was well told also in that if you weren't paying attention you wouldn't really understand the motives of the characters. It was well shot, gory when it needed to be, but not overly gory throughout (I was under the impression that this was just one big gore fest, when actually >10 minutes of it is actually gory). Personally I think this movie could also be called a jet-black comedy (not the actual torture parts, those are a bit disturbing). It has a pretty dread-filled atmosphere, a pretty interesting and twisty story. It wasn't an amazing film, and definately not as disturbing as people would have you believe, but it was definately a pretty well put together film. As you may have noticed, I normally watch 1-2 new DVD releases per week on Friday/Saturday night, plus 1 from my too-see list mid-week(I've given up on going to the theatre). My midweek movie this week is Psycho :).

Are you kidding me? http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=405533 Front page.

That and the fact that it's become trendy to hate/make fun of EMO's and their music.

FINALLY I watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. And let me just say, it was well worth the wait. This movie was INCREDIBLE. SO MUCH STYLE, I'm sounding like a raving loon, but there was so much vision put into this film, the shots are extraordinary. Clint Eastwood does a really good job, as do the other actors. The story far surpasses not only every Western I've seen (though that's a very small number), but it surpases almost many other pre-70 movies I've seen aswell. It just flows so well, and pieces together exceptionally. It just felt right, and it was a three hour movie with almost no filler (I watched the extended addition, I couldn't imagine the movie not having this all in. With Apoc Now, I was easily able to pick out what shouldn't have been in the movie, and it turns out it was all added in the redux :\). This movie felt so right, looked so right, and got me really excited about watching more westerns. Gun tricks FTW. NOTE: Mods, don't ever lock this topic. I just went back and looked and I could see like all the movies I've seen this year, and I only got half-way through (was working backwards). I was able to work my way back so I now have 29 movies (about 10 of which I forgot about) that need to be added to my top 100. About 5 more, and I'll have a top 100 list that I'm really proud of (finally! the last few times How2 ran that topic I ended up getting to about 70-80 and then getting bored and added gross amounts of filler. I also noted that: This topic is basically How2PK, Indy500fan and I posting back and forth. The 3 of us have minimum one post per page, but most often 2-3 each (some pages I looked at have like 6 posts by How2Pk)