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Rogue One (Page 2)
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I hadn't thought of that to be honest, sometimes fact is stranger than fiction ...
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I giggled uncontrollably when Donny Yen showed up. It struck me about halfway through that
Oh wait this leads into Episode IV and none of these characters are in Episode IV. Uh oh.
CGI characters were terrible and totally took me out of it.
The robot was fun but is the Asperger-y character that doesn't quite get it but always speaks his mind kind of a trope now? Abed in Community, Drax the Destroyer, Sheldon Cooper, even C-3PO, and more?
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I thought the characters fate was a given even before the trailers. Though I was surprised there wasn't at least one exception.
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I blacked out any previews or discussion as much as possible, so I didn't even know where this fit in with the other movies. I did hear that Vader showed back up so that wasn't a surprise, but everything else was fresh.
I watched TFA once and was fine with it, but I need to see this one again, there was a lot to take in.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
If you don't my curiosity: where have you first heard it? In some kind of special forum (e. g. manga or anime forums)?
Probably online comics. I'm not huge into manga or anime, but I used to read MegaTokyo - relax, we understand j00 a bit.
Laminar, I had the same realization halfway though.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Close enough...
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Originally Posted by Laminar
The robot was fun but is the Asperger-y character that doesn't quite get it but always speaks his mind kind of a trope now? Abed in Community, Drax the Destroyer, Sheldon Cooper, even C-3PO, and more?
I think it has been a staple in comedy for some time - Kramer is that guy, for instance - but this isn't really a comedy. I guess it is easy to write someone like that as the comic relief, and for a robot as the joker, it almost has to be that way, as it is so hard to convey subtle emotions on a metal face.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Having had some time to think about it, I think that the reason I didn't like it is that the screenplay Does Not Make Sense, and I'm a bit sensitive to that. I thought the latest Mad Max was stupid, for instance (more because the story was essentially non-existent than because it didn't make sense) and that thing received glowing reviews and multiple awards. I like my movies to have a decent story first, before I can focus on the setting or individual acting performances. If I try to ignore the flaws in the story, I can appreciate that they did a lot of things right, and the lesser-known cast was great (ironically, Mads Mikkelsen and Forest Whitaker, the two actors (in major roles) that I knew going in to the movie, both felt miscast).
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Originally Posted by osiris
Originally Posted by ghporter
I'm just going to have to drop this here:
I have seen - and even interacted with once - a real "data tape" storage system that worked JUST LIKE the system in the movie. Robot arm that circles a cylindrical tower full of actual data tapes.
Keep in mind these things: it was OFFLINE storage, it was supposed to be secure, and K-2SO had smashed the control systems for both the access doors and the storage tower. So Jyn climbing the tower was not JUST "gee whiz," it was actually the only way to get at the tape. And the iris door cycling open/closed was understandable in the context of "K-2SO borked all the control systems for the whole thing."
IIRC It's a
StorageTek system or something close to that - back in the day this replaced many data op people who had the glorious job of manually loading tapes and later disks for large mainframes when needed. The one in the movie is hysterically large, the ones I remember were about 15 feet or so across and featured a central robot arm to load and remove media.
That sounds right...
but if we're positing a project as big as building "a small moon," there would be need for HUMONGOUS amounts of data, and thus hysterically large offline storage.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
That sounds right...
but if we're positing a project as big as building "a small moon," there would be need for HUMONGOUS amounts of data, and thus hysterically large offline storage.
The Empire
should have used Stuff-It Expander Deluxe.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Syquest drives
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Originally Posted by starman
Syquest drives
ah the fabulous days of handing several Syquest 44 or 88mb drives to a motorbike courier to bike over to the printer only to get a phone call 2 hours later complaining that two of the disks wouldn't mount or read properly.
Nostalgia.
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Originally Posted by starman
Syquest drives
perhaps the most unreliable media eva.
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Originally Posted by osiris
perhaps the most unreliable media eva.
Thank*click*fully repla*click*ced by Zip Dr*click*ives
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Originally Posted by starman
Thank*click*fully repla*click*ced by Zip Dr*click*ives
Which probably were more reliable, and CERTAINLY more reliable than floppies, it is just that Iomega used a stupid marketing campaign that implied them to be perfectly reliable.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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I finally read up on what caused it. It's one of those things I always checked on in the early days and then never followed up. Essentially, two reasons: 1) Cost cutting, and 2) Bad design.
It's a damn shame because Zip disks were amazing for their time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
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