BooDidley7
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Got my $100 in. Still looks like 14 left of the $100.
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And the $100 tier is gone.
You people are awesome.
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So, 7 days to go and counting. Predictions?
If the remaining 59 slots at $250.00 sell out alone, it would put the current tally over $130,000.
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One thing I'm surprised we haven't seen more of is people trying to coordinate & splitting the $250 level (or $500).
That's actually a really good idea. Two physicals, extras, and you can request a remix too.
Wish I had the cash...
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1 $100 slot left! So who will the lucky backer be?
Wow, it's gone.
I'd be even more impressed if the $250-$500 ones go before the KS is over. I'm thinking $250 has a fair shot as it's the cheapest option for physicals now.
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Jax you make good threads.
Super Mario Sunshine is awful
Quoted for truth! This was such a baffling step backwards after Mario 64. It's like they sat around and said, "How can we Mario 64, but totally not fun?"
RE: SMB 2, I've always been kind of disappointed most of the enemies never returned in future Mario games.
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I dunno who's doing it, but he must be a cool dude.
Haha, I guess we know who's doing it now...
Anyway, Congrats to you and everyone else on 100K!
Also, the 18th anniversary of the U.S. FF3/6 release (10/11/94) is almost upon us. I feel old.
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Alright glad to see this is back! Donated again!
Just a question or two, I recall something about Jake Kaufmann doing the Opera Suite in the style of Queen in first Kickstarter. Is that still going to happen? Or did I just imagine that?
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Well the good news is that after litigation, Anamanaguchi will own the Avengers!
(on DVD)
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Wasn't Motorstorm done by Evolution Studios on PS3?
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Seems pretty lazy to throw a bunch of PS1, PS2, PS3 disks and a UMD in a box and sell it for $450.
At the very least, they could've put them on all PS3 disks so you can play them all in one place. Hell, you could probably stuff FF 1-12 on a single 50GB blu-ray, which would be pretty awesome. No more swapping out disks for FF 7-9.
Can't get enthused about the PS1 versions of 4,5,6, with slow loading either. They should've re-ported optimized SNES versions.
I mean, it's $450, and the vast majority of the games are over a decade old to boot.
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However, it would be nice to send out a mass mailing or such to all previous donors to let them know that we're back in business. Kickstarter may not have this facility.
At the very least, they should've sent a message to every donor that there was an issue with the campaign, and that it was on indefinite hold pending resolution, OR that the campaign would be cancelled, and no charges would be incurred, etc, etc.
Instead, nothing. It's really pathetic, especially considering Kickstarter is taking 5% of the fees of every project.
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creators#WhatFeesDoesKickChar
I'd almost like to see OCRemix use someone else, just so Kickstarter doesn't get 5% of what's raised, after all this.
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Who remember getting super hyped when they got that 15 minute, DKC preview VHS tape in the mail from Nintendo Power?
I STILL GOT THAT TAPE!!!!
Don't forget the KI tease at the end.
That reminds me, I gotta see if I can find that Sega Saturn Promo Tape with all the theater of the mind commercials, somewhere.
Videogame promotions, like videogame commercials, used to be so much more awesome.
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Man, I can't believe they're still in print (or were).
While I have some fond memories of the magazine, it's quickly overcome by the rage that was most blantantly biased reviews, pre-Game Informer.
It wasn't so bad that Nintendo titles were getting sky-high scores, it was more like other titles from non-Nintendo companies never scored nearly as high.
I stopped reading it way before the 16-bit gen was over, so maybe things changed a little, but anyone who gives Zelda II for NES higher marks than Mega Man 3 is smoking crack (or just printing lies).
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Cheers to OCRemix and Square Enix!
Jeers to Kickstarter.
It's Kickstarter's site, and they don't have a contingency for situations like this?! And they kept you guys in the dark for weeks about not being able to restore it?!
Anyway, you'll have my pledge again when it's back!
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Dead Leaves is good for WTF am i watch but cant stop style of anime
I'll see your Dead Leaves, and raise you this:
NSFW or for the prude!
Perhaps, not true Japanese anime, but in the spirit. You'll be saying WTF, I promise. Apologies if it's old, but I only discovered it last week.
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If you at all paid attention to the movie, Bruce Wayne's return had nothing to do with "Batman saving Gotham". He went back to give everyone that shining hope in the sky that they needed to save their city.
Think of the scene where he showed up in The Bat and just threw a couple bullets at the tanks. He wasn't intending to destroy them or Bane's followers. He showed up merely to give the police morale. They were walking to their death hesitantly; shortly after, they ran in guns blazing.
You're forgetting the fact that Bane could've detonated the device at any time. It wasn't until Batman returned and had Gordon plant the signal jammer, was anyone able to make a move without risking the bomb going off.
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Yes. They are impossible, with current technology and obeying the laws of physics of the real world. Which is why Nolan's trilogy has taken place in a world that is different from ours. Not the real world. Nolan himself described it as a "heightened" version of our reality.
Fair enough, although, I bet someone could do the cape thing, and a few others.
The cops and the army/National Guard are sweeping the bridges and tunnels as well as orchestrating a mass evacuation of the city, and no one notices a mountain of explosives on the only two ferries carrying people across? I buy the premise, in Gotham City, a Bastion of Corruption and Incompetence. In reality? Simply couldn't happen.
I think it's unfair to say it couldn't happen in reality, but let's agree to disagree. Although a more clever way of hiding the explosives in the ships would probably be necessary.
At the end of the day, he lost the fight with Bane. He lost the fist-fight. But he wasn't the endgame. He was just the symbol, just the distraction. Blake and Selina getting everyone off the island, Lucius, Miranda and Gordon disarming the nuke, the police and people of Gotham overthrowing the mercenaries, that was the plan. That was a big picture strategy, not a fist fight, and that was a worthy plan for Batman. And save for Talia's betrayal, it might have succeeded. Then we had our gushy heroic self-sacrifice moment.
Would it have made more sense for Batman to just use some device to incapacitate Bane (since he doesn't kill, and he needed info out of Bane), to save time, instead of brawling with him? It's a movie I get it, it wouldn't have felt as rewarding to see Batman shoot him. But again, Joker's words...
Also, Batman thought he could get Bane to reveal who had the detonator by just yelling at him after beating him up. Kind of like his failed interrogation scene with the Joker in TDK... Torture doesn't always work.
Now that you mention it, I couldn't buy into the whole getting people off the island ploy. There simply wasn't enough time to get clear of something that had an estimated 5-6 mile blast radius, and then there's subsequent fallout. Getting across the bridge or few thousand people into tunnels in time is a pittance compared to the millions who would die. Better than nothing yes, but not exactly worthy of Batman, IMHO.
If he died from being pushed off a ledge, then the guy who did the pushing killed him. I think that's pretty straightforward. Batman even says it himself, "The Joker won." Because he realized that the Joker had gotten him to break his one rule and kill a man, exactly as he said he would.
Yeah, this was semi-ambiguous at the end of TDK. Even with Dent's funeral, it wasn't 100% clear if in the next Batman we'd see Dent wake up in Arkham or something. But the start of TDKR affirmed it.
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A cape that let's you paraglide, an aerosolized fear toxin that has to be inhaled, a giant microwave emitter to vaporize water from a distance, a man who can fall from any height, take any number of blows, be shot at, stabbed, yet only twice be seriously injured... And there was that time a psychopath enacted a logistically impossible attack on a city. And then in the next movie, when that happened again. A mini-tank like vehicle that can jump across a river and drive across rooftops. The technically infeasible motorcycle that jettisons from said vehicle's remains.
I would argue, are all these things, really impossible? Yes, for the average person, this tech is not doable, for now, but neither was flying until the Wright Bros did it.
Ok, the resistance to injury is a bit of a stretch, but he did have some protective gear on. Although, I still think as I previously mentioned, the Rachel drop rescue didn't actually work well.
What is so logistically impossible about the Joker's attack? All throughout the movie, we see he's able to manipulate and employ various people and methods to get what he wants. And he's got tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars that he stole from the mob to buy practically anything or anyone (as we saw in the opening heist). Can any one do it? No. He's pretty much an evil genius and I think we buy that.
There's the psychotic billionaire who decided to become a vigilante in the first place, and the even more deranged old man who thought, "This could work," and proceeded to support and enable him.People who did impossible things in real life often are crazy enough to think, "This could work."
The problem with Rises is that TDK made people think the world of the story was so very realistic, and then Rises didn't deliver on a realistic world that the series had never actually promised us. I can accept that TDKR was hard to embrace in that way, but let's not pretend that it is somehow the sole and egregious trespasser.
I never said Batman Begins or TDK were perfect, but TDKR does it much more frequently and flagrantly. Why go even go to the bother of showing us how badly Wayne was debilitated, if you're going to give the illusion of a believable remedy?
The storytelling in the series was, actually, very consistent. But your expectations were not. That's not unreasonable, but it's important to identify.
What more can I say, other than to point out another half-dozen things which just felt sloppy? For starters, why didn't the villains just shoot the truck with the nuclear device on it, with the tumblers? Afraid the nuke might go off?
One of the great moments of TDK was when the Joker laughed at Batman about leaving the fate of Gotham up the outcome of a "fist fight with you." That really drove home the fact that you can't stop crime by just beating the shit out of criminals. It's much more complicated, and Batman never saw the turn coming. But the fact that Batman has to beat the shit out of Bane to get redeemed really made it feel like we're going backwards.
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You're complaining about bends in reality and logic in a movie series about a broke cripple who has access to futuristic weapons, inertia ignoring motorcycles and a super computer in his basement?
You say "yet with a fancy knee brace, Batman hasn't lost a step except when it comes to fighting Bane for the first time." I don't think it's at all unrealistic to suggest someone who has access to a flying bat ship also has access to some really nice body equipment.
This is all good and fine within the context of the film, as these things are somewhat feasible, especially if you're a billionaire with his own private weapons R&D Dept. But one knee brace doesn't fix everything. If they showed like an exosuit or something, well that kind of makes sense. A knee brace doesn't fix your elbows.
The reason he was able to recover in The Pit was because the physician punched his spine back into order.
This doesn't put cartilage back on the rest of your destroyed joints!
Are you at all suggesting the Joker never had a chance to do something that would have screwed everything? You're talking as if Dark Knight Rises is a sole offender in this category. You should try playing some of the thousands of video games, movies, comic books, books, etc. that also have this kind of problem.
I'm not sure what you mean by the Joker screwing everything.
I agree, there are a bazillion other offenders who fail with similar problems. Their failure do not make it acceptable for everyone else to fail, does it? It's not rocket science, it's consistent storytelling.
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I think you're trying too hard to equate "morph it to the Hollywood big screen" to "ground it in reality".
There's something about the TDKR that just feels out of step with the previous two.
And I know there's moments that aren't exactly realistic in TDK, like when Batman saves Rachael after the Joker pushes her out the window, by just cradling her as they drop 20 stories, and land on a cab and walk away. Which is maybe possible, but not a risk one would want to take. But those moments are fewer and far between.
On the other hand, TDKR feels like it has 10x more of those bends in reality and logic, and that just became highly dissatisfying.
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They, as in the filmmakers, or he, as in Bane? Are you really mad at the bad guy for lying to you? He's the bad guy. Of course he lied about him being born in the Lazarus Pit. Everyone thought he was the child from the Lazarus Pit because that's the myth he himself perpetuated.
Are you angry that he, the villain of the story, wasn't honest with you, the audience? That he didn't spoil the misdirection at the very start? Don't be ridiculous.
"They" as in the Filmmaker.
What can I say, other than it felt like a cheap trick.
In contrast, take Nolan's The Prestige, *SPOILERS* which told us the answer to the film's biggest mystery early on, yet we never believe it until we see it. That was awesome, that was clever, that was a genuine surprise.
If this was the only thing in the film that felt cheap, or lazy, or just an abandonment of the commitment to reality (mostly) that the first two films set up, I really wouldn't be complaining.
For example, the film goes to great length to show us Bruce Wayne's debilitating injuries, yet with a fancy knee brace, Batman hasn't lost a step except when it comes to fighting Bane for the first time.
Or, later, after he's imprisoned with a broken back, it just takes a little medieval PT, and a few months of pullups and situps, to bring him back better than ever. And I get it, he had to embrace fear, but fear doesn't put cartilage back between your bones.
And how do 3,000 cops survive underground for months, and then emerge healthy, and ready to fight in clean uniforms? The logistics of feeding 3,000 people for months with a limited food supply in Gotham is exhausting. And Bane's army didn't seem sympathetic to anyone who aided them.
Also, if anything, the first thing an evil mastermind with half a brain would do, would be to exterminate the captive cops, so there'd be no chance of revolt. Just spray some Scarecrow gas down there and be done with it.
I know this is a comic book movie, but the commitment prior was to ground it in reality (again, mostly), and I found it ultimately diminishing to just throw it all away for cheap thrills.
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no, because the idea was for you to think he WAS born in the pit
But Bain said he was "bornn en Darknes!"
I know this can mean a lot of things, but c'mon! I'm sure if I see it again, I could point to other moments where they pretty much lie to us, instead just ambiguously mislead us. At least that's the impression I'm coming away with right now.
Ugh. A lot of mixed feelings about this one. Can't tell if I'll accept it and like it, or just end up despising it.
A friend also pointed out how strange it was when they fled the stock market, it was still day, but literally like 5-10 minutes later, it was pitch black night when Batman showed up. We had the timer on the computer to prove it wasn't the world's longest police chase too.
It's things like this that just made it feel more sloppy and comic book-y than the other films. Which is fine, for a comic book film, except this film goes the extra mile to stay grounded in some sort of plausible realism, until it decides it flippantly doesn't, which the first two films rarely did (for the most part).
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Top 10 Suggestions For What To Do With Excess Funding:
10) Buy foreign sports cars for OC Remix Staff.
9) Purchase Broadcast Radio Station to create world's first all Broadcast VGM Remix Radio.
8 ) Hire Nobuo Uematsu to do a FF6 Remix for the album.
7) The first of every month will be treated like April 1st at OCRemix.org.
6) Purchase minor league baseball team, rename the team "The DJ Pretzels". Every player's entrance song will be an OC Remix. Classic baseball tunes will be remixed as chiptunes. If there's enough money left over, pay Charlie Sheen to pitch team into the playoffs!
5) Create new gameshow, "Name that VGM". Potential spinoff show, "Sing that VGM".
4) Buy the rights to Chrono Trigger! Create new kickstarter to fund a sequel millions have been pining for!
3) Assemble the ultimate OC Remix ghetto blaster.
2) Every one who donated $50 or more will get a vial containing a drop of blood from every one who worked on the FF6 Remix album. That way, once cloning technology is up to snuff, we will be able to remix the remixes at the level of DNA!
1) Send prostitutes with hidden cameras to Square-Enix corporate board. Record compromising video. Blackmail board into dissolving Square-Enix into two separate companies, and make games that are actually about story and character and less about appealing to the fashion sensibilities of Japanese "tweens".
What the hell happened to music!?
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Just curious, doesn't it bother anyone here, that while you can still find good music on the internet, it's no longer anywhere near mainstream. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, although it sucks for the musicians, who deserve better.
But, perhaps even moreso, from a cultural point of view, what passes for "popular music" today will now be echoed in the future at parties, weddings, social gatherings, etc., as it becomes a defacto touchstone of a generation, because it was there, rather than it was any good.
Elevator music in stores across the country will be recycling this shit, for decades to come.
It feels a bit quaint to just discount the continuous degradation of "popular music" as something we can just ignore.
I have no solutions, or expectations, but I wish there was something that could be done.