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hello ice zik

dont get me wrong, i larf at paycheck, but i adore I, Robot. me, will smith can never match his role in that film (except if he too went the way of sequels. though to be honest i dont too much mind a second installment).

@spikyn

hey up, wats up, spike. long time no saw.

im glad we are in sync on the eventful dud Nolan is bound to shoot, but perhaps we hastily reckoned without taking into account the director's ace: the very success of TDK which paradoxically is also his guillotine. look at it this way: batman has always had a cult following but that fanbase was disillutioned by the dire efforts of Val Kilmer and George Clooney who nearly killed the dark knight and all he stood for, especially after the work of tim burton and michael keaton.( we all know burton is one crafty dude when it comes to making moody atmosphere).

the revival of batman by nolan reawakened that slumbering fanbase even though Nolan's vision took too many risks. now the success of Batman Begins and TDK have only incited a fervent hunger for an encore. remember batman has a sizable villain pool from which to draw endless sequels, and it stands to reason the studios will attempt to milk the batman cashcow dry. think of sequels, trequels (coined by me), pre-prequels, spinoffs etc. do you think we wouldnt have seen a DareDevil 2 if the first one wasnt so horrible? its spiderman all over again.

in order words, we havent seen the last of nolan/bale and the caped crusader. prepare to have your sanity assaulted by the barrage of sequels. yup, they're going to bank on the success of TDK and hope to sell tickets to TDK2 and 3 or whatever. whether they can surmount their earlier feat is debatable.

i just hope in their frenzy to pick our wallets the whole batman phenomenon wouldnt slide into the murky pit of ho-hum brainless action (as spiderman 3 did). perhaps The Dark Knight Returns, if and when its filmed, will be the dud.

only self respecting directors with clout and reputations to defend (cameron, spielberg) have the willpower to shy away from franchising. sequels are potentially ruinous (thats why pete jackson and the wachowskis shot their masterpieces back-to-back. )

on to QT. i don't frankly see him as something greater than what he is; an indie icon. at least he has filmed his duds: from dusk till dawn, four rooms, grindhouse. at least he's doing a world better than rob zombie and rodriguez.

watched Paycheck and I,Robot again last night.

to the first: My god. what was Ben Afflect thinking? what was john woo smoking?

@miders

download winpwn (if on windoze), use it to pwn your phone (use the ipwner button) most likely your phone will enter recovery mode after pwning especially if you unlocked 1.1.4 with ziphone. if that happens use ziphone to boot into normal mode.

install bootneuter from installer. use the following settings : 4.6BL, Neuter on, Fakeblank off, Unlock on. now tap on FLASH to flash both the bootloader and baseband.

once done download 2.0.1 custom image from http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4335079/iPhone1_1_2.0.1_5B108_201_Restore.ipsw

this firmware is pwned already and contains SSH, Installer 4 beta and Cydia.

you may have to downgrade to Itunes 7.5 in order to upgrade (if and only if 7.7 does not work. 7.7 will ask to be connected to the update server to identify your phone once it goes into recovery if you are offline. either go online or downgrade. do not use itunes 7.7.1 !). if you get Error 1604 try uninstalling and reinstalling itunes, or use a separate account or even a different computer.

to upgrade, use ziphone and go into recover mode, hold SHIFT and click RESTORE, look for the downloaded firmware and go on from there.

if windoze tells you to locate and install Apple Device Driver (Recovery) then reflash bootneuter with BL 3.9.

the other method is to download a virgin firmware and go htrough the hassle of pwning, neutering and making your own custom firmware.

if theres anything you do not understand please post it here.

just type your router's IP address in a browser, go to LAN settings and disable NB. works for Linksys and Dlink routers.

KarmaMod:
City Of God.

I'm waiting.

transformers plot is shallow, that wasnt an asnwer, that was a throaway concession, except if the concept eludes you.

anyway city of god, the tale of rocket, abi? well it sucks primarily because it digresses a lot (the Tender Trio intro for example) and mostly because it feels like a-

okay you got me there!! but really its too violent, grim, unaffecting.

@vesc

my parole office would like to have a word with you.

<maniacally typing on a CrackBerry while the PO is taking a leak> who said anything about painkillers? i dont do over-the-counter (im no heath ledger, bless his pathetic soul) my gear comes fresh from colombia.

im going offline for a while, my parole officer is here, time to review how well i fit into society.

laters.

Gamine:
Kissing so??

eew, its like seeing Bigbird kissing

or a couple of salamander smooching.

harry potty will always be a tweeny movie

i have always hated the harry potter universe and as long as i draw breathe i shall continue hating the bleeding harry potter universe.

flipendo my arse.

transformers may be shallow plotwise, but it doesnt lack for thrills. if someone insists its crap, can that someone please enlighten us whats crap about it? in return i promise to prove whatever movie you loved is crap.

vescucci:
Haba mallam! Quiet ke? Dude some of us have to do the typing. Who knows what contrapment you've got there. Speechtotext.exe . I don't think it's beyond you.

hahahaha! na isa? i dont speak that fast (a slow, flow thats remarkable-sorry Biggie Smalls).

my game IS a no-plot first person shooter very much like Quake. i dont have the skills to code the engine so i just use prefabricated stuff and make a few custom actors in Milkshape3D. i tried doing a backstory but working on 3D requires too much time and effort and im not that inclined to go through the steep learning curve. i dont do flash games.

if you think about it, demons in max payne kind of add up; else it will regress into your standard actioner.

as for your friend, he DOES have a book; it doesnt have to sell anything to be a book nonetheless.

whether e has an original book is the question.

is it just me or does it suddenly go quiet whenever me, gamine, iice, ice_zik and vesc start posting? where is everybody?

[quote author=ice_zik link=topic=69799.msg2644558#msg2644558 date=1218533224]Did all y'all know that The Dark Knight is currently the 3rd best selling movie of all time, and in just 4 weeks! This means, that over the next decade every single blockbuster movie is going to be based on a comic. There are some super hero comics that should never make it to the light of day. Hellboy was an example, Booster Gold and Cloak and Dagger are other examples. The Question might work out quite well so might Mighty Mouse  . But seriously, it's starting to get ridiculous. Is everyone completly out of ideas and must go to the nearest drugstore and pick up a comic and say "Hey, I can make lots of money from this!". It's just a matter of time before they make a movie about that banana super hero from the Archie comics (or was it the Dennis the Menace comics?) ![/quote]dude, its show BUSINESS, you think they care about all we whine about-plot, morality, theme, reality-its the money, so sure they will go to your hypothetical drugstore and wipe the comic racks clean for whatever will turn up a buck or two. belive me even soppy cartoons wont be left out-expect The Jetsons or Topcat soon.

greed killed the art in tinseltown.

thats why those inclined towards he good old days let nostalgia drift them to the nearest classics counter to wallow in the intimacy of the masterpieces of days of yore.

Mark wahlberg as max payne? mixed blessings. i mean, you HAVE seen The Happening, havent you?



thanks for the comments on my post. you can call me ex, neoteny, or whatever scratches your balls.

go here, its for your model

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D610&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

ok, turns out 2.0 is buggy, crashes and resets the fone for almost no reason (usually after pecking at a few aps), takes forever to reboot.

im moving up to 2.0.1

Gamine:
LOL.

i have no time to see anything these days

So y'all are writing books eh, my book will be along time coming

because its fantasy based, and i don't want it to be an Eragon, i want it Nigerian too

well, thats that sha

me too, too little time, too much to do.

nigerian fantasy eh? probably awash with juju, inexplicably hysterical women and tons of gnashing, painted, barechested ogres in some remote southeast bush, abi?

@vesc

i suffer the curse of shyamalan: all my books must have a twist, and i always get stuck at the cliffhanger. i lean towards paranormal and sci-fi, wrote only once on the genuine realworld human condition-BORING! a real drag. i edit on the fly, just a polish here or two as needs be.

i no longer tinker with C/C++, primarily Delphi cos of GUI. for the game im making im using a ridiculously simple IDE thats basically point and shoot with little coding. most of the action is determined by scripts: heres a sample:

desc = Dumb Zombie

;Triggers

:state=0,plrdistwithin=300:state=1
:state=1,plrdistfurther=40:rotatetoplr,movefore=2,animate=2
:state=1,plrdistfurther=300:animate=1,state=0
:state=1,plrdistwithin=40,rateoffire:rotateplr,plraddhealth=-20,animate=6


see how darn easy it is? much of the leg work has already been hardcoded into the engine, i just do the scripts.

heres the algorithm

describe object

<parameter> (triggers in this case)

state=x, triggerevet=y:event=z

see? that way i can change one line and make my zombie more agressive, armed, aware, dumber, etc. you will find screenshots in the games thread.

anyway, on to the real topic.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]@Ex,
Why is punisher being rebooted or relaunched or whatever?
Ok i know it didn't make much money, but fans were pretty much satisfied with it [/color]

for precisely the same reason they brought back batman and hulk: to redeem the hero aftyer the damage inflicted by amateur directors (and of course make a pretty penny on the wayside too)

@vesc

im writing a book where light is your enemy and darkness your friend. will explain later. the idea came from a video game im creating.

Neoteny. its biological psychobabble. means the retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult of a species, goes back to college and my frivolous ways and jokes.

seun banned me for calling him a tyrant.

along the lines of all you said, Cypher made the wisest decision in the matrxi world: ignorance is bliss, why oh why didnt i take the BLUE pill.

good riddance to bad rubbish. we no longer have to be subjected to endless lewd and crude jokes.

SeanT21:
No ofense taken. I Try so hard to like the Lord Of The Ring series but I just can not get myself to like it. The Plot is confusing and The Movie is too damn long. I am not just into it.

plot's darn simple: the evil sauron returns wanting the One ring badly to rule the world, with the remnant of his powers he brainwashed the Orcs, trolls, Uruk-Hais, Cosairs etc to destroy any who stood in his way. hobbits, elves, dwarves and men formed an alliance to thwart his efforts and cast the ring into the bowels of Mount doom, the only place it can be destroyed.

@gamine

you summed it up nicely.

@vesc

i am Neoteny, have always been. i took this ridiculous "Ex Inferis" handle in tribute to Event Horizon and because seun banned my Neoteny persona as non grata.

i'd wanted to go "Deus ex Machina" (god from the machine) but i find "Deus ex Inferis" (god from hell) more catchy. i lean towards the dark side already. maybe i'll change to Nosferatu.

onto the matrix: the incongruities do not end with Neo; they only began with him. the prophecies of the oracle probably find their basis in the stated fact by the architect that Neo was the sixth reincarnation of the One, which would make the oracle's supposed prophecy as nothing but foregone history. this directly leads to the question why would the architect allow the oracle to possess that deep knowledge of events with the power to infleunce Neo and certainly alter the course of events to continue existing. and then the riddle of Smith who consumed the oracle but failed to see his own demise in the knowledge he acquired.

this brings us full circle to the tenacious belief of morpheus who clung to his preconceived notions that Neo was the one (how he came about that conclusion is never known seeing as thomas anderson/neo never performed any superhuman feat in his very mundane life prior to Trinity barging into his life). morpheus explains to Neo that Neo knew the world was not right, that something was very wrong with neo's perception of reality. since life in the dream world of the matrix neo considered reality ambled along pretty well normal, we can then assume that the "splinter" in Neo's mind must be some sort imperfection in the matrix. if lack of perfection is the first pointer towards the unreal nature of the matrix, then why did agent smith and the architect posit that the first constructed matrix was a spectacular failure precisely because of its perfection where everyone was happy? accroding to the architect humans were prepared to accept the matrix only if it presents an imperfect world full of misery and decay.

since the war had been raging for a hundred years, clearly the latest crop of slaves would never have experienced Life as the matrix portrayed and thus their minds would accept almost any reality since they had never known life before the war. i mean these are peole who do not know the real taste of chicken (as Mouse told them at mealtime) or steak as Cypher mentioned, only what the matrix told their minds.


i could go on, but lets save it for another day. this debate is pretty academic and like the Chicken-and-egg puzzle, we may never know the final answer. (mind you ive seen all three matrix movies, have played enter the matrix,  the path of neo, watched animatrix, checked out matrix online etc. ).

SeanT21:
I left The movie Crossover while it was in the middle. That movie was pure Garbage. It look like someone filmed it with their damn camera. The plot made no sense and the whole time I was Like WTF!!!

Me and My friends walked out of " The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King". That movie was so damn long. We lost interest in it before it end.

Me and My Man went to see the movie Atonement. We fell asleep in the theater. That was the last British film I will ever see in My Life.

return of the king is the best of the trilogy (if one can call LoTR a trilogy) while two towers was the least exciting and longer. if you walked out only on RoTK then you walked out on the best one. in any case, no offense but you and your friends need a whole new set of friends.

you are right, should have used the time to do something else meaningful-like watching toenails grow. dune TV? the only Dune i know is the pretentious video game. is it any good?

wat do you think of tomb of the dragon emperor? i still prefer egypt but the action isnt too bad. shame about the humor and that stupid dragon.

hallo, iice.

last night i sat down to Mutant Chronicles and frankly on hindsight i'd rather sit in the dentist's chair without painkillers. thats not to say the movie isnt entirely enjoyable but its not multi-layered; the characters and the plot shambled along on a single flat surface.

it reminds me a lot of Gears of War on xbox360 (ruined landscape, aliens, menaces from underground like the Locust Horde etc) and when i saw your beloved thomas jane i went "aha! lame movie". then i saw john malkovich and that made me pause. ron perlman, sure, but malkovich in a B-movie?

the end was unsatisfactory, but on the whole it was a bit fun. they really tried hard with the fog and ruinscape. which made me wonder why in heck in the opening scene were the germans and brits fighting in trenches wearing the same uniforms and and carrying the same gear as in world war 1-in the year 2707! and their machines are steam-powered too.

i wouldnt want to live 700 years from now if that future doenst have anti gravity, laser guns, holograms, deathray, and tons of sci-fi doomsday weaponry.

a short rant to get a thorn off my flesh. this is just me rambling so forgive me if its bereft of coherence.

lately i reflected on my proclivity for trawling the web reading up previews of upcoming films as well as reviews of the ones in the cinema, and my approach was to read the the professional critics review first before user reviews and try to find a balance between the two. sort of an average of the sum of the two parties' views.

however i discovered that such habit predisposes me to sitting down to a movie with my predujices already skewed by the opinion of others who perhaps are less informed than i am to objectively write up a credible review. of course, this approach can numb the mind from truly assimilating and enjoying the experience since the mind is wrapped in bias.

there are two types of critics: the professional who gets paid to dissect movies, and the average shmuck from the teeming ranks of the mediocre who just buys a ticket and either gush or rant depending on his perception of the movie's import.

now my problem with both kinds are legion, but let me begin with the professional.

anyone who has seen pixar's ratatouille will no doubt have made the acquaintance of one of the characters who happened to be a renowned food critic (i forgot his name) and whose aprroach to his craft was a propensity for expecting only the worst, a fact that further compounded the shattering of his expectations when a mere rat surprised him, though he was grudgingly honest enough to admit being astounded by said rodent's feat. now this character is a good stereotype of the professional critic who has an almost clinical approach to movies, walking into the theater expecting to see the worst. the truth is, if you expect crap when you walk though the door your boxed mind will no doubt observe spectacles of crap real or imagined.it will take an act of momentous effort to cleanse the seeded predujice.

that has always been my problem with one of the most vitriolic and renowned professional critics: roger ebert to whose followers his words are gospel.i have always considered him a media LovePeddler who disses for the spotlight in his relentless ego crusade even though chances are he can never write, act, produce or direct any of the movies he so frenzily tears to shreds (even though the great samuel johnson once said that it is perfectly right for you to criticize a professonal carpenter for making BAD chairs since it is the carpenter's duty to make GOOD chairs and not yours)

critics are in the theater to nitpick, to tear apart, look for creaky seams, dissect and cynically analyze, and thus often they experience a disconnect from the better essences of the very material they are so engrossed in ripping to pieces.this sometimes makes nonsense of objectivity and often predisposes your own mind to abandoning openness and instead walk into the theater or siiting on the couch expecting to see tons of crap thrown at you.

because your choice was made for you by a paid cynic.

now we come to user reviews, especially of the sort one encounters in sites notorious for flaming movies such as www.rottentomatoes.com and metacritic. although seemingly organized, the denizens of these websites assault their patrons with completely personal and sometimes totally warped opinions. the truth is, we all have fairly unique peceptions and expectations and thus we sit to a movie with different definitions of "entertainment", "good stuff/bad stuff" etc which is precisely why my rants about the matrix ignited a few short fuses in nairaland. now not to digress but in my defense ive always maintained that the matrix, like 300, is simply a visual experince hardly pecking at some deeper roots of connection even though the subject matter has enough gravity to call for subconcious pondering. its symbolisms and motifs do not connect well with anything recognizable in society (mine at least)and i have long since abandoned all hope of unravelling any semblance of meaning.at least 300, as iice said, has the dubious honor of expounding on coarse chivalry, gallantry and self sacrifice (thanks to leonidas' ego).

to move on: user reviews sometimes give a real world heads up of what the film is like, but that information and the rating that follows are subject to personal taste and should be taken merely as a pointer rather than a fullblown guide.

so who should form the basis of deciding what is good for you? the paid minion or the actual user like you and me who suffers the curse of his own point of view?

what necessitates the question is simply my observation from everything ive seen in nairaland in threads like this. movies i thought worthy of the garbage bin are genuinely enjoyed by some, while others i consider masterpieces failed to connect with other people. at least there is some comfort in knowing that in some cases there is universal consensus among user and professional reviwers that some flicks are just pure dog turd (cough*Uwe boll*cough).you dont need a nose to know shite definitely stinks.

my advise: forget critics of whatever kind, forget what iice, gamine, vesc, ice_zik, myself et al say. you paid for that movie and you have the right to decide for yourself if its worth your hard earned cash (soft-earned, if your dad works for the government)

ok, thats it, im off, theres a rerun of uwe boll's House of the Dead, dont want to miss it.

@chikeze

Project's homepage is
http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/

Torrent
http://www.macplanet.sk
http://hl2run..com



Latest client application for your iPhone:
http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-iphone/downloads/list



Just put \"wp\" folder with wiki dump in /var/root/ folder and launch reader from springboard as i mentioned earlier.

now if you whine one more time about wikipedia im personally going kung fu on your pale blue butt.

as for any of the apps above you need to be on 2.0, which you'd have known were u following this thread.

d'uh.

library

more

what we mentioned earlier

a cool way to set up a wish list using a cool app on my iphone.