Actually, scuttlebutt is that Relic is hot to make a Homeworld 3, and have been dropping hints that they have actually started development...

Relic still makes awesome games, but they have pretty much said they will never revisit HW unless they find a way to make it more "accessible".

Homeworld is meant to be hardcore, thats why we all love it! Stupid economics!

>> ^budzos:
In my movie-watching experience, 1993 has got to be the worst year next to 1992.
For some reason I got a nostalgia impulse a few months ago and decided to watch this entire film in "high quality" on YT. I had to skip a lot of it, so much that it took me less than 45 minutes to watch the whole thing. God what a piece of shit of a film, but as a cultural relic this is absolutely fascinating. Such a classic example of Hollywood not getting it, taking a property and sucking all the life out of it to the point it might as well be called something else. Back when game-to-movie was quite novel.. in fact I'm thinking this is pretty much the first game to movie translation?
Think about the job they could do with this in 2009. I for one would like to see a new live-action Mario Bros. movie.


Yes, it's an awful AWFUL movie. And it really seem to be the second game to movie adaptation if you trust this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games . Funny thing is that it was another Super Mario movie that came before this one, a japanese one.

In my movie-watching experience, 1993 has got to be the worst year next to 1992.

For some reason I got a nostalgia impulse a few months ago and decided to watch this entire film in "high quality" on YT. I had to skip a lot of it, so much that it took me less than 45 minutes to watch the whole thing. God what a piece of shit of a film, but as a cultural relic this is absolutely fascinating. Such a classic example of Hollywood not getting it, taking a property and sucking all the life out of it to the point it might as well be called something else. Back when game-to-movie was quite novel.. in fact I'm thinking this is pretty much the first game to movie translation?

Think about the job they could do with this in 2009. I for one would like to see a new live-action Mario Bros. movie.

at the request of MarineGunrock:

I mean every time you take a dump are you disappointed with what came out? Of course not! Are you disgusted or appalled to some degree? Probaby. Why you might ask? It's human waste! It wasnt meant to be a glorious, shining, relic that you want to hang on the mantle. It's meant to flush down the damn toilet. But you wouldnt want Americans (or humans to be more vague) to stop shitting would you?

So please, please stop trying to make war out to be synonymous with the Smurfs.

It's war. It's disgusting, it's violent, it's detestable, it's unfriendly, and it's not fair. It's not designed or intended to be anything but. If you dont like it, eat a dick. It's not changing

Congrats you Greek relic!

Well, my grief with religions only cover religions with a supernatural element to them. Or in other words, if a belief system does not contain a super natural element, I don't really consider it a religion.

The super natural element demands your faith (unquestioning belief) or the religion makes no sense. You can worship the sun all you want, but that won't make it shine or not. This is the path to ignorance. I would argue that all the "world religions" has these elements, some more pronounced than others.

Surrendering to divine will (submission) is mostly a monotheistic thing, I'll grant you that. My wording of what I wanted to say was probably not right - my point was that God makes the law, judges you, tells you what to do, think eat and so on. This means you give up your own free will and submits to your religions creeds (I would say god's will, but as there is no such thing, I would just be speaking nonsense if I did).

I was trying to find examples of direct malice in religions and the first that popped into my head when I wrote the above comment was conversion. I agree that some religions are quite more peaceful than others and that some don't convert people actively. Religion to me, seems to be a system of control over individuals way of life, their income and their thoughts. It was most likely useful to human kind when we were younger, to evolve our culture and to control the masses such that we could develop our thinking. I mean, the dark ages was basically just a huge Christian mass murder. You can look at countless* evil acts that have been done in the name of different religions, but very few, if any, have been done in spite of religion - always religions fighting each other.

(*this is my cop-out way of saying, I don't want to do the research right now..

I think the whole religion concept should just be thrown out of the window and looked on as the relic of the past that it ought to be.

Coming soon: MS Ping Pong.

Either that, or MS Stiff the Delivery Boy with relics.

Interesting.

Hee hee, "grotesque". I agree with MG's call, it's good for *shortfilms

Gravity... gravity...
gravity...

you never see gravity...

You never see anything....



We are slowly becoming idiots due to these sort of scientific simplifications. There is an ever growing gap between human experience and the theories we use to control nature, to predict.

Scratch Dawkins and you'll find a man searching for the key to the riddle of existence... and the answer is sadly lacking (even purely theoretical knowledge is power - it too corrupts)


On Exactitude in Science

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.


Jorge Luis Borges

I'm gonna promote this very soon.. it's awesome!
From the youtube desciption:
FILMS:

00:00 Little shop of horrors
00:14 The Thing
00:16 Jurassic Park/ Poltergeist/ King Kong (1933)/ The return of the Jedi/ Aliens (Cameron)
00:17 Alien (Scott)
00:19 Jaws
00:20 King Kong (1933)
00:22 Ghostbusters
00:24 Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
00:26 The Fellowship of the Ring
00:27 Anaconda
00:28 An American werewolf in London
00:29 Clash of the Titans
00:31 Beowulf
00:32 Ghostbusters
00:34 Dragonslayer
00:36 Predator
00:38 Alien (Scott)
00:40 Dune
00:42 Gremlins
00:44 The Fellowship of the Ring
00:46 Pan's Labyrinth
00:47 Clash of the Titans
00:49 Aliens (Cameron)
00:51 Beetlejuice
00:53 King Kong (1933)
00:55 Jurassic Park
00:56 Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
00:59 Jurassic Park
00:59-01:00 Critters
01:01 Dragonslayer
01:03 Willow
01:05 Them!
01:07 Starship Troopers
01:08 Men in Black
01:09 Arachnophobia
01:10 Jaws
01:11 Tremors
01:12 The Empire strikes back
01:13 Beowulf
01:14 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
01:15 The Return of the Jedi
01:16 Dragonslayer
01:18 Gremlins
01:20 The Host
01:21 Ghostbusters
01:22 Bram Stoker's Dracula
01:23 Gremlins 2
01:24 King Kong (2005)
01:25 Tremors
01:26 Aliens (Cameron)
01:27 The Empire strikes back
01:27 Clash of the Titans
01:28 Hellboy
01:29 Lake Placid
01:30 The Fellowship of the Ring
01:31 An American werewolf in London
01:32 Alien (Scott)
01:33 From Dusk till Dawn
01:34 Krull
01:35 Jason and the Argonauts
01:36 Little Shop of Horrors
01:37 The Army of Darkness
01:38 The Fellowship of the Ring
01:39 Time Machine
01:40 The Attack of the Clones
01:41 Howard the Duck
01:43 End of days
01:44 Aliens (Cameron)
01:45 The Attack of the Clones
01:46 Jurassic Park
01:47 Clash of the Titans
01:48 The Relic
01:49 Pitch Black
01:49 Resident Evil
01:50 The Princess Bride
01:51 Beetlejuice
01:52 Jurassic Park
01:52 Ghostbusters
01:53 Evolution
01:54 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
01:55 Gremlins 2
01:55 Ewok adventure
01:56 Ghostbusters
01:57 Anaconda
01:58 Creature from the Black Lagoon
01:58 Starship Troopers
01:59 The Return of the King
02:00 The Fellowship of the Ring
02:01 The Blob (1988)
02:02 King Kong (2005)
02:03 Deep rising
02:04 Mimic
02:05 Little Shop of Horrors
02:06 Mars Attacks!
02:07 King Kong (2005)
02:08 Cloverfield
02:09 20000 leagues under the sea (1954)
02:10 Aliens (Cameron)
02:11 Beetlejuice
02:11 Anaconda
02:12 Bram Stoker's Dracula
02:12 Doom
02:13 Independence Day
02:14 Jeepers Creepers 2
02:14 Lake Placid
02:15 Clash of the Titans
02:15 An American werewolf in London
02:16 Cat people
02:17 Evil Dead 2
02:17 The Thing
02:18 The Fly (1986)
02:19 The Blob (1988)
02:20 The Thing
02:21 Legend
02:22 The Twilight Zone
02:23 Aliens (Cameron)
02:24 The Twilight Zone
02:24 Evil Dead II
02:25 The Descent
02:26 Poltergeist
02:27 Aliens (Cameron)
02:28 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
02:29 Beowulf
02:29 Jaws
02:30 The Return of the King
02:30 Deep Rising
02:31 The Faculty
02:32 The Host
02:33 Anaconda
02:36 Evolution
02:38 Cloverfield
02:40 Godzilla
02:41 The Two Towers
02:42 Cloverfield
02:43 Beowulf
02:45 King Kong (1933)
02:46 Howard the Duck
02:48 The Host
02:49 Jaws
02:51 The Return of the Jedi
02:53 Jurassic Park
02:55 Men in Black
02:56 Willow
02:58 King Kong (2005)
02:59 Deep Rising
03:01 Anaconda
03:02 Little Shop of Horros
03:05 Cloverfield

Well everyone, it's been a slice.

kronosposeidon - Consider my wares pimped.

Don_Juan - It sounds like you are speaking from experience.

Laura - Pigeon's are like bugs on a windshield.

Bleedingsnowman - Remember the lesson of every cheesy B-Grade fantasy movie that you hold so dear, powerful relics from the past will always come back to power.

schmawy - Smart answer

choggie - I expected more, a queue down-voting spree before the roast started was all you could muster 'eh? I know you secretly tried to immigrate to Canada and you were denied entrance, better luck next time.

Kuga - I don't want to think of the google queries you were using to find that tattoo...

Obsidianfire - A doodie head? Are you 12?

firefly - You and Kuga share the same google-fu 'eh?

dotdude - You did just DRAG ON

thinker247 - What were you on when you were at a restaurant seeing dragons with old acresses?

MrFisk - You could do better than that...

MycroftHomlz - I'm pretty sure you are a stalker, seek help.

shanedawg2k7 - Care for a wager on a game of badminton?

MINK - Jealousy...

blankfist - You wish you were my sockpuppet, I turned you down enough times already.

jonny - Banned, Redacted

mas8705 - Thanks for agreeing to be the MC, next time read the rules first

Thanks for coming out everyone!

*unsticky

I didn't even bother reading the interview because life's to short to waste on hearing anything Zifnab has to say.

Zifnab: does anyone even believe in him anymore. He's like a amusing relic from a more superstitious time, forgotten by time, just like the mythical dragons he holds so dear in his heart.

Dark Lord, Dork Lord, Lord of Lard, whatever. Maybe you should hang out with these guys. They'll accept you for who you are.

Games referenced

Final Liberation PC.........................Developer Holistic Design 1997
WH40K Squad Command PSP.........Developer Red Lynx 2007
Dawn of War (Plus Expansions) PC..Developer Relic Entertainment 2004
Dawn of War : Soulstorm PC..........Developer Iron Lore 2008
Dawn of War : Cinematics..............Blur Studios 2004
WH40K : Firewarrior : PS2..............Kuju Entertainment 2003 (I did map texture art for this )

Did I miss any? (there are a few I don't recognise)

*dead by the hand of Joe Walsh himself. What a relic of the 19th century.

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Joe Walsh "

After the disastrous, failed Presidency of liberal Jimmeh Carter, no one could do worse.

Reagan inherited Carter's mess and restored the economy simply by letting more Americans keep what they earn, a lesson still lost on liberals over 20 years later. Every income bracket from highest to lowest saw an increase in wealth during the 80s. Yes, there was a lot of 'borrowing from the future' going on, mostly because a newly Democrat-controlled Congress was spending $2 for every $1 dollar in tax revenue.

Reagan returned pride to the American people. Carter's weakness was the Soviet's delight as they invaded country after country during the 1970s. Reagan knew how to beat savages who respect only strength: by being stronger. By doing so he sent a murderous, evil empire to the much-vaunted ash heap of history.

Upvote! Let as many sifters as possible watch this relic of the liberal-in-denial media's old school "reporting" (replete with sad keyboard music) back when libs had almost all the media power and therefore no interest in anything "fair and balanced", the very charge they level at FOX today. This sift also conveniently ends just before Reagan proved all doubters and critics wrong.