the breasts are more rounded, less pointy, gives them an impression of "flatness" when compared side-by-side
ironic, given the stereotype
I thought it was british for make out. huh.
Today I Learned =)
thank you, lol
pfft good luck with that. any shareholders who aren't already convinced it was just misogynistic trolls on the internet who killed the film aren't gonna fall for this angle...
Kinda makes you wonder who they're trying to convince; themselves, or the general populace.
...you're shitting me...🤣
okay, full disclosure; the failbusters was for me what gamergate was for most of you; a massive redpill moment that sort of avalanched over the next six months to a year.
Lemme try to summarize the timeline (i'll try to put the month/year when I remember it):
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2009 the ghostbuster's video game comes out. it's basically the script for ghostbusters 3, and it has most of the original cast involved. it has a plot that's a bit sequelly, but it feels like a ghostbusters story (basically, it's a third person shooter with some ghostbusters gimmicks and the hud built into the back of the proton pack, actually a really clever concept the more I think about it). Dan Akroyd/Harold Ramis talks about how they wanted to make a new movie, but this was basically the third film, so they're happy. on a personal note, this makes me excited for the possibility of a third film, but things die down, and we don't hear anything for almost a decade.
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the Exec in charge of Sony at the time, I forget her name, but she goes to feig to make an all female remake.
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Paul turns her down twice, but she persists, and basically he says he'll only do it if he has complete control of the project, which ivan reitman basically has full veto power over. She gets reitman to give up control, and feig makes his version of the film.
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a couple of teaser pics come out in Nov/Dec. of 2015, and there's some hints of what's to come, but it goes over the heads of me and (I assume) a lot of other people who were hoping for an actual ghostbusters 3.
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the first trailer hits in Jan/Feb of 2016, and it's utterly raped online, going on to be one of the most downvoted videos on youtube of all time. (I personally was livid). There's no real clarity over whether it's a remake or a reboot, they (indirectly) call winson zeddemore a scientist, even though he's the everyman, and there's a cover of the original theme by a group that hasn't been popular since the late nineties (I think they were a bit niche even then, but this is more or less off the top of my head, so yeah).
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spculatively related, but Deadpool drops in Feb 2016 and absolutely crushes it at the box office, in spite of no faith in the project at Fox.
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I'm sure gamergate veterans can guess the next part; the new 'ghostbusters' actors and the director basically blame it all on the usual suspects; misogyny, losers in their moma's basement, you know the song and dance, and sony starts deleting any comments on the trailer that don't fit that narrative, these then make it into the trailer of the movie, with the actors playing the "ghostbusters" live reacting in character. The gaslight is on meanwhile, they scramble to get as many actors as they can from the original movie to recut some scenes for cameos as damage control.
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the second trailer drops, and sony sprinkles it across multiple youtube channels that they own to try to dilute the downvoting and make it look like the film isn't as hated as it actually is, "correcting" the "four scientists" to "four friends," still implying winston was a member of the original crew, but not that he was a scientist. Again, no clarity over whether this is a reboot or a remake. (by this time, I'm praying for the film to bomb). Sony is using every trick they can to get people to go watch this trainwreck, free tickets, ecto cooler, whatever gets butts in seats.
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James Rolfe, aka the Angry Video Game Nerd, puts out a video explaining why he wont be going to see or reviewing the film, titled "no review, I refuse." He's honestly a hell of a lot more fair about it than I would have been, but he catches the damage control hate maelstrom all the same. He ignores it and continues to make his own projects, gaining at least one more fan in the process (me).
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The film drops in june/july 2016 and barely makes its money back domestically. I don't remember what the overseas returns were, but apparently they weren't the fantastic numbers they were hoping for, because it basically kills any hope of reviving the franchise for a few years.
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Somewhere in the middle of all this, Sony has a huge cybersecurity breach, taken credit for by people claming to be N Koreans, angry over the portrayal of Kim Jung Un in The interview, and a lot of the backstory comes to light.
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Apparently Trump called out the film at some point. I honestly don't remember as I was barely paying attention to politics at the time (bernie bro back then, let the hate fly, lol), but that's what Feig's trying to blame it on.
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some of that might have been out of order, but yeah.
Feig didn't even want to make the damn film, now he's trying to blame it on trump. No Paul, you ate a bran muffin, washed it down with a prune smoothie, then you dropped your drawers and took a massive diarhea cascade on top of a beloved franchise. That backfired, and now you're trying to revive your career by jumping on the trump hate bandwagon. Sit your ass down.
...plus or minus a century...
"hello, fellow youths" is a meme for a reason...
that's what I thought, thank you =)
I think 1080i basically cheated using the Interlace method that CRTs used for years, doing half the screen at once.
If you don't like them, I understand, but I do. =)
=P you could just keep an eye out for an old dresser or a bookshelf at thrift stores/antique shops.
Heck, keep an eye out for a rear projection or an old console tv that quit and gut the console, lol. Heck, a while back, somebody down the street had a rear projection out on the curb for free, but I didn't have a way to get it home safely, lol (I didn't have my truck, and I live on a hill)
huh.
shame none of my ntsc content would look right on a PAL tv, but oh well.
yeah, but the problem is for the weight of the one CRT, you could probably ship a half dozen LCDs.
Half a plasma tv, though, lmfao.
kek, Don't know the middle aged man term, but i'll take your word for it.
no I know what you're talking about, though it never bothered me.
You could always tell when one was turned on, even when it was muted.
I'm sorry they gave you problems, though.
You could get 16:9 HDTVs near the end, they just werent as common, and they cost an arm and a leg...
depends on the tv. I've mentioned it once or twice, but my fiance's mother had a CRT that was 1080i/1080p (can't remember). weighed a ton, but it looked nice, and the tube meant it actually had room for halfway decent speakers in the case, lol
lol, fiance's mother had a 1080i(1080p? Can't remember) CRT in the mid-two thousands...had a nice picture, admittedly weighed a ton like you pointed out. Even cheap sets were reliable, though. LCD/LED are fine, I just liked the CRTs a little better. I wont deny some of that is nostalgia-goggles, but If I could find a hi-def CRT anymore, I'd buy it in a minute.
don't feel bad, My fiance's mother had an actual HD CRT and she had to put it in hock, then never got it out. Pissed me off so bad...If I'da known she didn't have the money, I would have gone and got it out myself...
...Pretty sure criticizing someone for hiking prices after a disaster and suggesting a better way for stations to ration fuel is a free market concept as well, so long as the government doesn't get involved, but hey, whatever...