Sandro

A beta for 16 would be interesting indeed. I liked what I played, it seemed like a major upgrade from 15. Not really a difficult task, but it's still much more interesting to me than 15 is/was.

Are they going to add in the EASHL 11 months too late? I know nothing about this.

Second-pair-only-master-race.

Apparently part of the original plot for ROTJ (back when it was Revenge of the Jedi) was that Luke would kill Vader in the first half of the movie and fall to the dark side, but he would come back by the end of the movie. Of course there's the reported 12 episode arc that was apparently originally planned as well, though I don't know how much of that existed beyond really rough outlines.

It's not about realism, it's that a lot of the fights in the prequels just seem like "whatever". There's no weight to them. Darth Maul was cool but he's got like, 10 minutes of screen time in the movie. Everything about Episode II was god awful. Episode III did finally have some of that missing element that made the originals better. For all the crazy special effects the original trilogy had, the heart of those movies was the characters. That's the biggest area that the prequels failed. They were so damn focused on pioneering this new digital technology that they forgot about everything else. In the original trilogy, there are four duels. In A New Hope, it's the first time Obi-Wan and Vader have faced each other in 20 years. The first time since Mustafar. While at the time no one had actually seen it, we knew there was a lot of history between these two characters. Hell, Vader outright thought Kenobi was dead before this. In Empire there's the vision in the cave on Dagobah that warns Luke of what he might become, because of Luke's struggles to follow Yoda's teachings. This is nothing special in terms of choreography, but the way it is shot and the score creates this really uneasy feeling that ends with "Vader" being decapitated, the mask exploding, and Luke seeing his own face behind the mask. It was a warning for what he may become. After that we have the proper duel after Luke has abandoned his training and run off to Bespin. If I remember correctly, this is the first time Luke and Vader have come face-to-face. Vader has set the whole thing up as a trap because he wants to capture Luke that badly, and thanks to Luke's lack of training Vader is allowed to effectively toy with him the entire time. Of course, this all leads to the revelation of, "I am your father." Finally, in Return of the Jedi, Luke has nearly completed his training as a Jedi but we still see him slipping closer to the dark side. He wears dark robes just like Anakin Skywalker did. He's using the force to choke creatures at Jabba's Palace, which is something we had only seen Vader do. As we get to this final duel with Vader, Luke is constantly being taunted and drawn to the dark side by the Emperor. He tries to keep his composure but once Vader realizes that Leia is his sister, he goes beserk. He's fighting with pure rage at this point, and may have momentarily fallen to the dark side. There's a lot more to those sequences than just flashy choreography and nice special effects.

Ehhh... Not really. While the choreography was flashier and at times worked really well, for the most part I don't think it's as good as the original trilogy because 1) you can really tell it's choreography and they're not trying to hit each other and 2) most of the duels lacked the emotion of the duels in the original trilogy. The only one that had any real weight to it was Anakin vs. Obi-Wan at the end of Ep III, but that's because it was what we had all been waiting three movies for! We need a mix of the faster choreography, as well as the emotional weight behind the battles as well.

Jesus Christ, this place is 8 years old now? I've been hanging around this place that long? Wow. O_O How many of us are left from the first couple of seasons?

I'm aware... but I got it for free so meh.

I know, it just threw me for a loop. Because I play for the same team in NHL 15 that I chose for 16, I was really confused when I returned to it and found a lot of stuff "missing". Basically, I had forgotten that I had played 16.

So I tried to get back into my NHL 15 Be-A-Pro earlier today, I'm in my second season and just joined Tampa Bay. I was really confused because it all felt really off. My stamina was recharging too quickly, I was getting way too much ice time, the coach feedback seemed really lackluster, and I couldn't really figure out why this all felt so wrong. It took about ten minutes, but then I realized. The last time I played Be-A-Pro, it was on NHL 16.

Huh. Neat.

Who's cutting onions? And why am I six years old again?

Honestly, don't know my booze too well. Don't go out to bars too often, and one of my best friends is a bartender so he usually just makes something with whatever is in the cabinet. I used to really like almost anything with Jagermeister, but I had one bad night and I can't even sniff the stuff anymore. For beer, I usually go with Carlsberg as well. I've had a few IPAs at this craft beer bar I went to once, but one of my friends (who is quite the beer aficionado) was just telling me what to try. They were pretty good.

I like how the replay skips most of the part where you can explicitly see Weise was talking to McQuaid, and then only turns to Thornton at the last second.

What's even more shocking is Linden took two of the people from the Q&A aside and spoke them to afterwards. This is what has been shared so far, apparently more is coming:

He said it at the Summer Summit tonight. I believe the whole thing was/is being uploaded to the Canucks YouTube channel. Yeah, fuck me for wanting the Canucks to keep the younger, better, cheaper goalie. I'm so panicky.

Benning admitting there was interest on Miller, but he still kept him because MUH OLDAR GOWLEE. This is fun.

Because you just get a Spiderman thread.

The guy from Die Antwoord killed the movie for me. There were a lot of cools ideas in there though, and the CGI on Chappie was incredible.

530am tomorrow? Uhhh probably not, no haha

I liked the second thread title better

I haven't made sigs in a long ass time. Can someone point me in the direction of some new stock images and more recent renders because all my stuff is from like... four years ago.

On second thought I want to change that thread title but I can't. :/