Topic: PET PEEVES FUCK (Read 182526 times)

Thad · « **Reply #1020 on:** May 31, 2009, 01:46:44 PM »

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: the DVD release of Thundercats is pretty much a big "fuck you" to the fans. The quality is about VHS-level, the sound is mono, the episodes are in fucking production order so that Lion-O's Anointment is all split up, Exodus is the cut-down TV version instead of the extended version that was released on VHS, and the second episode was originally released with no fucking background music. It's a quick, cynical cash-in, and I hope that it gets the Transformers treatment and rereleased by somebody who actually gives a fuck (sup Shout Factory).

Also, I don't understand the reckoning where the show's only listed as having two seasons. I mean, okay, it had 130 episodes, and 65 of those were in a single season, but...the last 60 were spread out across 3 years and clearly bookended with 5-part story arcs.

tv.com corroborates that order, and claims the show ran its complete course by 1986, but Wikipedia claims (and my memory absolutely 100% supports this) that the last season ran in '89 -- though it mysteriously loses original airdate information after '85.

Thad · « **Reply #1021 on:** June 02, 2009, 06:00:13 PM »

...incidentally, Rapidshare links to VHS version of Exodus:

1 2 3 4 5, password "warez-bb.org".

Quality's about what you'd expect.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1022 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:22:56 AM »

we don't use smoke detectors here
this is because we make houses out of materials that do not burn

Brentai · « **Reply #1023 on:** June 03, 2009, 09:09:33 AM »

And for some stupid reason, we do.

Romosome · « **Reply #1024 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:43:16 PM »

I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.

Like hobbit homes or something.

I'd do it.

King Klown · « **Reply #1025 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:45:17 PM »

I would think those homes would be royally fucked by earth quakes. Course I'm no architect, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Guild · « **Reply #1026 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:52:19 PM »

Why use things that don't burn when there's insurance premiums to collect and so many trees around to cut down?

TA · « **Reply #1027 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:46:26 PM »

Quote from: Zaratustra on June 03, 2009, 08:22:56 AM

we don't use smoke detectors here
this is because we make houses out of materials that do not burn

Meanwhile, we in the first world have invented insulation.

Fortinbras · « **Reply #1028 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:56:24 PM »

Quote from: Romosome on June 03, 2009, 12:43:16 PM

I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.

Like hobbit homes or something.

I'd do it.

The principles at work with this idea might be different but every time I've lived in a basement apartment it was cold as shit.

Then again that was as compared to insulated houses.

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Detonator · « **Reply #1029 on:** June 03, 2009, 05:14:23 PM »

When people use the word "prequel" when they mean "predecessor". Prequel means "a work whose story precedes that of an earlier work", meaning it was created after the other work. When people use prequel to describe earlier titles in a series, that is wrong.

Dooly · « **Reply #1030 on:** June 06, 2009, 10:37:56 PM »

Quote from: Romosome on June 03, 2009, 12:43:16 PM

I read somewhere that really, it makes more sense to build houses in the ground like animal burrows, where they are naturally insulated.

Like hobbit homes or something.

I'd do it.

I guess people decided that being able to let in sunlight was worth the chance of having the house burn down.

Thad · « **Reply #1031 on:** June 07, 2009, 10:35:21 AM »

I've always kinda wondered why this idea doesn't have more traction here in Phoenix Metro.

There IS a mostly-underground house down the road from my grandparents' a pace.

Misha · « **Reply #1032 on:** June 07, 2009, 11:05:11 AM »

There is totally a hobbit house around here. it's kinda circular and there is a layer of soil and grass going over the top of it.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1033 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:04:32 PM »

Is building underground more expensive, maybe?

Misha · « **Reply #1034 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:21:31 PM »

http://tinyurl.com/ncqq9s HOBBIT HOUSE

Thad · « **Reply #1035 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:29:10 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on June 07, 2009, 12:04:32 PM

Is building underground more expensive, maybe?

I'm sure it is. But around here, I think it would pay for itself in savings on the electric bill.

OTOH, I'm sure it'd make plumbing, wiring, and ventilation a lot trickier, too.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1036 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:31:21 PM »

But on the other hand, housing developers don't have to pay the electric bill and probably find that above-ground houses are easier to sell for reasons other than the price.

But on the mutant third hand, that just means it's an untapped market. Go get 'em, tiger!

Thad · « **Reply #1037 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:43:02 PM »

Don't look at me. I'm still trying to work out why the hell anyone here works daylight hours on jobs that don't actually require sunlight.

Büge · « **Reply #1038 on:** June 07, 2009, 05:45:50 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on June 07, 2009, 12:31:21 PM

But on the gripping hand,

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Zaratustra · « **Reply #1039 on:** June 07, 2009, 11:12:42 PM »

Quote from: Thad on June 07, 2009, 12:43:02 PM

Don't look at me. I'm still trying to work out why the hell anyone here works daylight hours on jobs that don't actually require sunlight.

Because the human biological cycle is attuned to sunlight?

Also, 1) underground buildings are prone to humidity and water infiltration, 2) a room with no windows is depressing.

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