New efforts!

[chuckv3]

That would also follow the traditional maintenance schedule of new patches and releases for CoH arriving on Tuesday.

I don't know if Paragon had different reasons for doing it, but when a live roll out has to happen on a weekday, I tend to do it on Tuesday as well.  You never want to do anything too crazy on Monday if you can help it, because you never know what might sneak up on you on a Monday morning from the weekend.    You don't want to do it on a Friday, because if it messes up you just screwed your weekend.  That leaves Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the earliest of those tends to be the one I use most commonly.  I suspect most MMOs schedule regular patch updates on one of those three days for similar reasons.  I think Cryptic seems to like Thursdays now.

I'm not sure why our change management folks prefer Thursday. Maybe so you can find the bugs on Friday and have the weekend to scramble to fix any -- that's assuming a mostly M-F work schedule, which of course is backward for online games.

[Reaper]

Our production/change managers will only allow Monday through Thursday for implementation. They won't allow any changes over the weekend for obvious reasons. However, it is hard to get them to do anything on Mondays either. Probably for the same reasons Arcana mentioned.  :)

[Goddangit]

I remember reading somewhere once that Steven Wright (my favorite comedian) played CoH.  If that's true I'd like the chance to team with him just once.  Not sure how effective we'd be, but it certainly would be weird.  :o

And that got me wondering who else I might want to team with.  Ghandi would of course sit by the mission door and not engage.  :)

Captain Incompetent's battlecry was "I apologize!" which got a team I was on doing Larry the Cable Guy.  We'd take out a mob and they'd be saying, "Lord, I apologize..."

[Aron]

Dagon, was not made by syfy, due to a few reasons, one it is a good movie. Something syfy cannot do. Reason two, if I remember correctly syfy only makes movies such as magashark vs sharknado. These movies are not to be taken serious whereas Dagon is a serious movie.
Actually, it is a Lovecraft movie (Shadow over Innsmouth) just renamed.

My mistake.  I recall seeing it on the SciFi channel and thinking they produced it.

[Shibboleth]

I thought SyFy bought most of their movies.

SyFy's Dune wasn't bad. A little boring in places and prevented from stealing from the Lynch movie (which did a few things perfectly).

[Sinistar]

I thought SyFy bought most of their movies.

SyFy's Dune wasn't bad. A little boring in places and prevented from stealing from the Lynch movie (which did a few things perfectly).

Sci-Fi's DUNE miniseries got something right, but it was also made back when CGI tech was nowhere near what it is now, and some of the background scenes such as them hiding in the cliffs spying on the palace looked pretty fake. Also I'm sure the budget wasn't as much as they would have liked.

The worm though. looked pretty good.  I still have that mini series in my disc library.  An old freind of mine is a "Duneologist", has read all the Frank Herbert books, refuses to touch the Brian Herbert ones (can't say as I blame him for that) and was not keen on watching the sci-fi Dune miniseries as he has bad memories from the 80's movie.  I showed him the scenes of the navigator and the worm and he gladly watched the mini series.

As I recall from what I read of the 80's movie, the director lost control of the project, especially in post editing and was so disgruntled he almost used the alias Allan Smithee  as some used to do back in the day when a project ended up so bad they wanted to disconnect from it.

The 80's one did get some things right and the FX were about as good as one could get back then, but I'd rather watch the sci-fi miniseries Dune as they had the wisdom to realize the book really can't be condensed into a 2 hour movie but rather 3 parts.

Here's hoping if they ever try a DUNE movie again that they get someone smart enough to make it as a trilogy or at least a duology........hmmmm, is Peter Jackson busy? ;)

Also I remember the game Jedi Academy having a mission where you end up on a planet and have to get parts to fix your ship but you have to walk on the debris and not the sand or a giant worm will arise and eat you....

[JoshexProxy]

Sci-Fi's DUNE miniseries got something right, but it was also made back when CGI tech was nowhere near what it is now, and some of the background scenes such as them hiding in the cliffs spying on the palace looked pretty fake. Also I'm sure the budget wasn't as much as they would have liked.

The worm though. looked pretty good.  I still have that mini series in my disc library.  An old freind of mine is a "Duneologist", has read all the Frank Herbert books, refuses to touch the Brian Herbert ones (can't say as I blame him for that) and was not keen on watching the sci-fi Dune miniseries as he has bad memories from the 80's movie.  I showed him the scenes of the navigator and the worm and he gladly watched the mini series.

As I recall from what I read of the 80's movie, the director lost control of the project, especially in post editing and was so disgruntled he almost used the alias Allan Smithee  as some used to do back in the day when a project ended up so bad they wanted to disconnect from it.

The 80's one did get some things right and the FX were about as good as one could get back then, but I'd rather watch the sci-fi miniseries Dune as they had the wisdom to realize the book really can't be condensed into a 2 hour movie but rather 3 parts.

Here's hoping if they ever try a DUNE movie again that they get someone smart enough to make it as a trilogy or at least a duology........hmmmm, is Peter Jackson busy? ;)

Also I remember the game Jedi Academy having a mission where you end up on a planet and have to get parts to fix your ship but you have to walk on the debris and not the sand or a giant worm will arise and eat you....

Dune + Peter Jackson = please God no.

what you want = Dune split into fragments with enough time to tell the story without it feeling rushed or skipping bits.

what you will get = the basic story in a lackluster distribution with OVER DRAMATIC ACTION PACKED FILLER CONTENT MADE UP PULLED DIRECTLY FROM A LOWER PUCKERED OPENING. INTRODUCING NEW MAIN CHARACTERS THAT WERE NOT IN THE BOOK, AND HAPPENINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

commentary- well there were a lot of things in the book that when writing the script we were like "well why did that happen?" because it wasn't blatantly obvious to us because we were stoned and then fred had a bright idea he said "well lets explain all the mystery of everything unexplained in the books dudes" and we were like  "yeah! OMG we'll like totally take the mystery and fun out of it by deciding what people said and did in secret ahead of time so the viewer knows but the characters don't." then ally was like "can I haz a charactur name-ed afta me?" and we was like "of course ya can! heck it'll be a main character cause you're our favorite secretary"

[Arcana]

I remember reading somewhere once that Steven Wright (my favorite comedian) played CoH.

The most Steven Wright thing I ever did in the game was make an alt called OFFLINE so that in the days before global hide I could log on with OFFLINE and I would appear at a glance to be offline in everyone's global friends lists.

[Angel Phoenix77]

My mistake.  I recall seeing it on the SciFi channel and thinking they produced it.

It is all good :)

[Arcana]

Dune + Peter Jackson = please God no.

what you want = Dune split into fragments with enough time to tell the story without it feeling rushed or skipping bits.

what you will get = the basic story in a lackluster distribution with OVER DRAMATIC ACTION PACKED FILLER CONTENT MADE UP PULLED DIRECTLY FROM A LOWER PUCKERED OPENING. INTRODUCING NEW MAIN CHARACTERS THAT WERE NOT IN THE BOOK, AND HAPPENINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

The first Dune gave us Sting in a diaper trying to shank Agent Cooper and we all went "okay, sure."

[Stitchified]

Also I remember the game Jedi Academy having a mission where you end up on a planet and have to get parts to fix your ship but you have to walk on the debris and not the sand or a giant worm will arise and eat you....

The mission you are referencing is one of the first five missions you can choose to do (and one of the easiest for me) where you end up on the planet because the crew of a Merchant Ship sent a distress signel but was eaten by the giant worm before Jaden Korr (aka your character) showed up... Now I wanna go play my Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on my Xbox...

[JoshexProxy]

The first Dune gave us Sting in a diaper trying to shank Agent Cooper and we all went "okay, sure."

You make a valid point, it would have to be better than that. but we may never see the definitive DUNE as a movie.

[Kassandros]

My 'not good scifi' guilty pleasure is probably Season 1 of Andromeda, when it was 'Hercules in Space... but with some interesting ideas, a lot of potential, and Ronald D. Moore setting up some epic arcs for later'. Then they fired the one good thing they had going for them and turned it into just plain Hercules and Space. Only made it halfway through Season 2 before I gave up.

Those are exactly my thoughts on the show and that's when I stopped watching it too. Nice to know someone else had the same experience. Sorta like how Crusade got ruined.

[Ironwolf]

Let's not speak of the Harry Dresden attempt.

They intentionally showed the episodes out of order and according to Jim Butcher some wanted it to fail out of the gate.

[Sinistar]

Let's not speak of the Harry Dresden attempt.

They intentionally showed the episodes out of order and according to Jim Butcher some wanted it to fail out of the gate.

Sounds like what Fox did to Firefly

[Biz]

And that got me wondering who else I might want to team with. 

Have we done this game yet? Pick any 7 people to run a TF with, either living or dead or fictional.

Bonus: what kind of toon do each of them run?

[Arcana]

Have we done this game yet? Pick any 7 people to run a TF with, either living or dead or fictional.

Bonus: what kind of toon do each of them run?

I call dibs on Albert Einsten and his Gravity/Energy Dominator

[MM3squints]

Have we done this game yet? Pick any 7 people to run a TF with, either living or dead or fictional.

Bonus: what kind of toon do each of them run?

Richard Pryor -
Louis CK -
Greg Geraldo -
Jeff Ross -
Chris Rock -
Chris Titus -
Dave Chapelle -

Toon type don't matter, I just want to hear them crack jokes for an hour or two

[chuckv3]

Have we done this game yet? Pick any 7 people to run a TF with, either living or dead or fictional.

Bonus: what kind of toon do each of them run?

Why not post this in the FORUM GAMES area?

[Taceus Jiwede]

Richard Pryor -
Louis CK -
Greg Geraldo -
Jeff Ross -
Chris Rock -
Chris Titus -
Dave Chapelle -

Toon type don't matter, I just want to hear them crack jokes for an hour or two

There is a good chance you may literally die of laughter.