How did they make a movie of Fantastic Mr Fox? The book's so short!
Did they have to do the thing like with Dr Seuss movies where they just make up a big chunk of the story and it's like halfway through before you get to the actual plot of the book?
"The book itself is pretty slender, and that's going to represent pretty much the second act, a bunch of wily foxes and animals that steal one too many chickens, and these three different farmers are out to eradicate them. It's very clever." -- Henry Selick, original co-director of Fantastic Mr. Fox and director of Coraline
How did they make a movie of Fantastic Mr Fox? The book's so short!
Did they have to do the thing like with Dr Seuss movies where they just make up a big chunk of the story and it's like halfway through before you get to the actual plot of the book?
The plot in the latter half is somewhat extended, if I'm not mistaken. And regardless, a film is more like a short story than a novel to begin with.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's funny, in a dumb sort of way? The TV Tropes page for Fantastic Mr Fox is all like "well, the book wants us to cheer Mr. Fox as a hero, but he is a thief!"
He's a fox, you nitwits. What do you expect him to do, drive up to Winn-Dixie and buy a week's worth of groceries with all those royalties he gets from Rupert Murdoch?
You know what's funny, in a dumb sort of way? The TV Tropes page for Fantastic Mr Fox is all like "well, the book wants us to cheer Mr. Fox as a hero, but he is a thief!"
He's a fox, you nitwits. What do you expect him to do, drive up to Winn-Dixie and buy a week's worth of groceries with all those royalties he gets from Rupert Murdoch?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
every time im reminded of that game i get kinda excited and go "man, why HAVENT i played Neir" and them im like "oh yeah video game consoles are a thing for some reason?"
Back in the day, a game console cost a hundred bucks and was a reasonably cool thing, since computers didn't do as much then (no internet, yadda yadda).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Should I call the temp place tomorrow? I don't know if I'll be ready to just hop back into a daily routine yet...
Well to be fair one reason that we used to prefer buying games on 360 is that my brother and I had our own laptops but we shared the 360. So if there was a game we both wanted to play it was cheaper to get it that way.
In practice it didn't work really well since my brother spent way more time on the 360 than I did and I never really felt like kicking him off, but.
I used to "prefer gaming on console" and then I realized I could just plug an xbox controller into my computer.
is it that straightforward? maybe i should get an Xbox controller
For the wired ones, yeah, it's just a USB thing. Though the point was less specifically the Xbox controller and more my realization that the main reason I preferred to play (certain kinds of) games on console was actually just that I preferred to play them with a controller.
I now also have an adaptor to use Gamecube controllers with my PC which is pretty great too.
The whole city was cut into four sections in relation to the great temple: in the north, Cuepopan ('the place of the blossoming of the flowers'); in the east, Tepoan ('the quarter of the god'[...]); in the south, Moyotlan ('the place of the mosquitoes')[...]; and in the west Aztacalco ('beside the house of the herons').
you know, icnoyotl, i think we may have invested in the wrong real estate
This would be the main reason to own a console at this point I think. I have never quite wanted a Wii U enough to actually buy one but Splatoon almost made me crack. And I'd never give up my 3DS, even though my phone is theoretically just as good of a portable game system at this point, because the new Pokémon isn't coming to that.
I don't know that phones are quite on portable console levels yet.
Otherwise I am kinda over console bullshit myself but it's the kind of thing that would only end if literally everyone stopped buying consoles, and that will not happen all at once if it ever does.
I think that because of the specialized nature of the device, consoles don't have as much compatibility issues as PCs and are as a result probably easier to develop for as opposed to the Wild West of PCs. (Remember Crysis and how it became a meme because nobody had a rig powerful enough to run it?)
The cost of entry for a console has also traditionally been vastly lower than that of a quality PC because of subsidized hardware prices (i.e. The company knows it'll get the lost price back on game sales).
In the age of digital distribution it's also a hell of a lot easier to get used games for a console over that of a PC, and you still typically have the option to purchase a physical good for a game on a console as well. (Boxed computer games are a dying art, which is exactly why I plan to import the boxed copy of T&B at some point-- I would kill to have something to hold to represent my favorite game, but I don't have that ability because it's on Steam.)
Basically consoles, antiquated as they may be, still have a place for those of us who want to keep some of the more mundane traditions of gaming alive.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't know that phones are quite on portable console levels yet.
Otherwise I am kinda over console bullshit myself but it's the kind of thing that would only end if literally everyone stopped buying consoles, and that will not happen all at once if it ever does.
Phones have plenty of processing power--my phone's specs are better than that of the desktop PC I had 10 years ago--but the thing is they're really not optimized for gaming, because touchscreens alone tend to be a shitty interface for most kinds of games.
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"The book itself is pretty slender, and that's going to represent pretty much the second act, a bunch of wily foxes and animals that steal one too many chickens, and these three different farmers are out to eradicate them. It's very clever." -- Henry Selick, original co-director of Fantastic Mr. Fox and director of Coraline
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
THIS POST IS EXCELLENT AND I AM IN TEARS
the joke has (unintended) layers
Now? I just don't get why they must still exist
is it that straightforward? maybe i should get an Xbox controller
as it is i use the keyboard because MotionInJoy is a horrible, horrible program
In practice it didn't work really well since my brother spent way more time on the 360 than I did and I never really felt like kicking him off, but.
I now also have an adaptor to use Gamecube controllers with my PC which is pretty great too.
1. i'm still a Nintendo nerd
2. my laptop is not built for the kind of gaming my brother's PS3 is capable of
then it broke
The cost of entry for a console has also traditionally been vastly lower than that of a quality PC because of subsidized hardware prices (i.e. The company knows it'll get the lost price back on game sales).
In the age of digital distribution it's also a hell of a lot easier to get used games for a console over that of a PC, and you still typically have the option to purchase a physical good for a game on a console as well. (Boxed computer games are a dying art, which is exactly why I plan to import the boxed copy of T&B at some point-- I would kill to have something to hold to represent my favorite game, but I don't have that ability because it's on Steam.)
Basically consoles, antiquated as they may be, still have a place for those of us who want to keep some of the more mundane traditions of gaming alive.
my phone is old and i have no idea how i'd even get games that could run on it at this point
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