Happy New Years - What did you do?

[Dridmar]

Happy New Years everyone. I'll just be sitting around at home with Valve Hammer Editor open just making random stuff. There will be some form of interaction with the family but not that much. Another boring New Years. :roll:

 

[Gorynych]

Happy New Year! Hope 2010 is good for all of you.

Just sitting here, playing some MS:C...AGAIN
Hope you guys have a good time!

 

[PBarnum]

Got wasted.

 

[FER]

Mine was crap, plus my dogdied in 2009

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

Got wasted.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Drank way too much, woke up at approx. 14:30...
So yeah it was mad fun XD

 

[Thothie]

Spent the night getting hit on by drunk underaged chicks, then yelled at by my semi-resident, not so underaged chick, for unrelated offenses. All in me buddies gothic clothing store - cuz we werz too tired to drive to eternalz and back, thus partied in OC. Also, escorted/drove half-dozen drunk children home. Also, Disneyland fireworks disappointing this year.

...and I'm gonna do it again tonight! ><

 

[PBarnum]

Damn it Thothie, you call me when you are in the OC next time!

 

[Sabre]

I mixed a party for an hour, that was fun.

 

[PBarnum]

Oh yeah and Sabre I was right by lake elsinore new years.

 

[Sabre]

Lol, why? That place is kinda scuzzy.

 

[Thothie]

I've not been to Lake Elsinore in nearly a decade, but last I saw it, there was like, nothing there. Kinda pretty though, for a backwater.

Then again, I went to Lake Havasu, AZ for the first time in two decades fairly recently, to find that, what used to be a hovel of huts around the ported London Bridge, had turned into a huge sprawl of a city that now has bits that look like downtown LA.

...and I'm always shocked that the barren wastelands of Jashua Tree national preserve, where there was nothing but burning rocks, scorpions and rattlers, when I camped there as a child, has bloody fields of grass growing in it now. This, apparently, the result of climate change caused by all the residence living around the park, each with an olympic sized swimming pool.

Civilization is weird. Sid Meyer's settler units seem to take longer to convert land than this.

 

[Tentadrilus]

I went to a party after having seen Avatar. I consumed about 5 litres of coke that day.

 

[Thothie]

It was a good flick, even if it offered nothing we didn't see in Dances with Wolves, aside from, obviously, the effects. I find it ironic, however, that the most expensive movie of all time (James Cameron breaking his own record, previously set by "Titanic"), should be about the evils of exploiting people and nature for their resources. (Even using phrases like, "Shock and Awe" and "Daisy Cutters"). I wonder where James thinks the money for his project came from, and if he understands how much blood five-hundred million dollars really represents. ^_^ Hell, this entertainment technology wouldn't even exist, if we weren't bleeding three quarters of the world's people dry. ><

Also, is it a sign that I've gotten way too old that I find Sigourney Weaver more attractive half-naked now than I did when she was in Aliens?

 

[Tentadrilus]

Yeah, it follows a very obvious plot template. It was incredibly pretty though, we saw it in D3D... gosh. I'm not really one for critiquing films, though, as I payed for it so I may as well enjoy it. After all, they're only made to pass the time.

 

[FER]

Terminator had nothing we didnt already read in the sci-fi novel "second variety", yet I give a crap about that book.

 

[Thothie]

After all, they're only made to pass the time.

If someone spends $500 million on something, and I have to spend $20 just to see it, I'd like it to do something more than "pass the time."

However, it at least provides a message, even if it's one that's been beaten into the ground about a million times in the past hundred years and still gets perpetually ignored. It also does so with more spectacle than any previous flick. This, I suppose, gives the flick more value than most of the $100 million flicks in its class, which rarely even qualify for "passing the time". Still, the irony remains that the movie would not have even been possible without the evil it rails against.

 

[FER]

200 million, and somehow has grossed 1 billion worldwide.

Right now I have other movies who are first on my priority list like Darkstar and Prince of Darkness, maybe Phantasm too.

 

[Thothie]

$500 million, if ye include marketing. (Which apparently worked very well, as there were people in bloody tents and sleeping bags waiting to see it when we hit the local IMax on opening day.) ...and we won't go into how much blood a billion dollars represents.

Right now I have other movies who are first on my priority list like Darkstar and Prince of Darkness, maybe Phantasm too.

Ye are in for a world of pain... And Space Herpes.

edit: Wait... wait... Space Herpes is Ice Pirates... Darkstar is killer Space Beach Balls.

 

[Tentadrilus]

I refuse to be critical of films, because then I spend my time watching and enjoying. I don't want to pay £12 to sit in a chair and go "This is shit," because that's what folk festivals were invented for. I don't really want to go any further as my reasoning runs into a deep, depressing vein of philosophy which nobody would agree with.

 

[Borya]

All I remember was that it involved whiskey and that I tried to light a cigarette backwards (which failed). Oh, and I woke up still shit-faced ;D

 

[Thothie]

I don't really want to go any further as my reasoning runs into a deep, depressing vein of philosophy which nobody would agree with.

Awww... But I like deep, depressing veins of philosophy... Hell, I'm dating one!

 

[Sabre]

I don't really want to go any further as my reasoning runs into a deep, depressing vein of philosophy which nobody would agree with.

Awww... But I like deep, depressing veins of philosophy... Hell, I'm dating one!