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Harry Potter Theme Park
Jakub Wasilewski
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June 2003
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Are you kidding!? I didn't even watch a movie! :o Previews were enough.

When I read this, it really looked as if you have had finally developed the ability to use and understand sarcasm.

Sadly, this wasn't the case.

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CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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You don't seem to understand, X-G, he has seen the previews.

My mom is the same way, except she actually forgets that she has only seen the previews...

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Hard Rock
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September 2001
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By movie previews, technically. ;D I did watch about half an hour of one of the Lord of the Rings movies and I hated it..

I may be biased but I prefer reading books over watching movies. I read the Lord of the Rings which I liked, but I couldn't stand the movie. I didn't mind reading the Harry Potter books but once again I couldn't stand the movie. Ditto for Chronicles of Narnia.

I'm worried about the Golden Compass film coming out in Dec. It's an awesome book so I'll go see the movie, but I don't think I'm going to like it. I guess because when you read you can sort of create your own interpretation but when you have to watch someone else's it's just not as good.

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Archon
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January 2004
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I strongly dislike Harry Potter and The Lord Of The Rings, which I consider of the same nature. Personally, I wouldn't go if offered a free trip.

Coming from someone who puts 4 movie quotes from the same movie in his signature. Your opinion about movie genres would be ... skewed.

bamccaig
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July 2006
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Jakub Wasilewski said:

When I read this, it really looked as if you have had finally developed the ability to use and understand sarcasm.

Sadly, this wasn't the case.

::)

Hard Rock said:

I may be biased but I prefer reading books over watching movies...

...I guess because when you read you can sort of create your own interpretation but when you have to watch someone else's it's just not as good.

I think I enjoy reading, but I don't [have|make] time for it... :-/

Archon said:

Coming from someone who puts 4 movie quotes from the same movie in his signature. Your opinion about movie genres would be ... skewed.

My sig has little to do with my overall opinion about movie genres.

FMC
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March 2004
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bamccaig, just for curiosity, did you ever read a book?

Eluding my question? ::)

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GullRaDriel
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September 2003
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Shit !! I am too late, and it was a bamccaig party :-(

Anyway, shame on you bamccaig ! I will not let you go without peeing at you ;-)

bammcaig said:

My sig has little to do with my overall opinion about movie genres.

Yeah there is nothing magic in FF... :-X

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Johan Halmén
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September 2001

Reader's Digest should publish an info card set about movies for people who don't bother to see the movie trailers/previews.

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Archon
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January 2004
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My sig has little to do with my overall opinion about movie genres.

Why would you put up four sets of quotes from a particular movie anyway?

miran
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June 2002

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This is the stupidest argument I have ever heard. You haven't even seen the movies, yet you complain about them not explaining enough? Talk about retarded...

Yeah, it's even worse than saying the GIMP and Blender are crap after trying to figure their UI out for 30 minutes. No, wait, it's not worse. It's the same... :-X

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X-G
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December 2000
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Absolutely! This is why I always make sure to try out the software I talk about before making poignant statements about them.

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Rampage
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December 2002
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I used to come to these forums to find intelligent discussions, after suffering a lot in others. Where shall I go now?

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CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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Did you win the case? Doesn't seem like it.

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nonnus29
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August 2002
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Where shall I go now?

Sad isn't it? PM me if you find something..... :(

bamccaig
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July 2006
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FMC said:

Eluding my question? ::)

I just didn't think it required an answer. :-/ Of course I've read novels in the past. If I found time I might read them now as well, but I'm already too busy.

GullRaDriel said:

Yeah there is nothing magic in FF... :-X

And what does magic have to do with my overall opinion of movie genres? :-/

Archon said:

Why would you put up four sets of quotes from a particular movie anyway?

::) Perhaps because I really like the movie?

Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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Sad isn't it? PM me if you find something..... :(

I noticed two turning points, a few of the normally semi negative peeps went full on negative, and then we got our very own troll.

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FuriousOrange
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June 2006
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As we're on the topic of reading, the first Godfather book is brilliant. I just read it after buying it in a charity shop for 20p. A bargain even though the pages started to fall out half way through.
It has great characters and excellent prose. In short it's just extremely well written in my opinion. Also it doesn't out stay its welcome length wise. Bloody brilliant!

Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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I wouldn't pay to go to a Harry Potter theme park either. If I received them with an all expenses paid trip to Florida I would probably wind up scalping the tickets in the HP Land parking lot and spending the rest of the time lounging about in the hotel.

As for LoTR and HP discussion.

I thought the LoTR was a good series which definitely kept me entertained for a while. I read the first few books HP and saw the first couple of movies and lost interest. I suppose it's possible I lost interest in the fantasy genre...

Oh wait, I still love playing Dungeons and Dragons, guess I do still like fantasy.

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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001

An Allegro Theme Park would be fun. Lots of slot machines with the best, no, ALL of the games on the depot. And some real world implementations of the games. And every Monday there would be a team that would make a game of your wildest ideas.

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Years of thorough research have revealed that the red "x" that closes a window, really isn't red, but white on red background.

Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest.

Jakub Wasilewski
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June 2003
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And every Monday there would be a team that would make a game of your wildest ideas.

Or at least a team that would discuss the topic fiercely, deride your game idea in several ingenious ways, shred your dreams to pieces and proceed to a discussion about relative merits of C and C++.

Or, we can have free beer.

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Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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Or at least a team that would discuss the topic fiercely, deride your game idea in several ingenious ways, shred your dreams to pieces and proceed to a discussion about relative merits of C and C++.

Or, we can have free beer.

After I make billions I will open such a park in my back yard. It will be marvelous I tell you MARVELOUS!

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Jakub Wasilewski
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After I make billions I will open such a park in my back yard. It will be marvelous I tell you MARVELOUS!

The one with the beer? I'm in :)

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Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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All a.cc members would get free unrestricted access to any grounds of the Allegro Amusement Park (AAP) as well as accomodations in the 5 star hotel I would presumably build immediately outside the park. Perhaps there would be some kind of monorail teleportation system from the hotel to the park. We'll see.

The beer would of course be open source, unless it gets fouled by a bad licensing scheme, in which we would have to hold a debate (probably on a.cc) as to what brand the new beer should be.

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CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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monorail teleportation

Why do you need the monorail? :P

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Years of thorough research have revealed that the red "x" that closes a window, really isn't red, but white on red background.

Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest.

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