So very tired…the last two days we've had "Doors Open," which is a big event in my city where heritage buildings (many of which are usually closed to the public) open their doors for free. Very heavily advertised. So our little museum's usual pace of somewhere between 2-5 tours a day suddenly shoots up to about 300 people over two days. I had to eat my lunch in installments both days between tours. Glad it's over! It was fun to get to show the house to so many people, but my tours were definitely getting less enthusiastic by the end.
I also managed to really piss off one older lady. It got really busy so we started doing stationing, where each of us just stayed in one area of the house. So I was responsible for a bunch of people upstairs. I went up to this woman a few times to tell her about various artifacts, but she just answered in monosyllables and kept her back to me as she took photographs of everything. I assumed she just wanted to be left alone, so I moved on to other people. And then when she got downstairs, she apparently complained that I was very rude, didn't have time for her and only cared about the bigger groups. O.o Some people just like to be indignant, I think.
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Well, I come home from work, get on my PC… and find a free upgrade to Windows 10 staring me in the face. Granted it's a free update and not really a free OS. Anyone using unlicensed pirated versions of Windows 7 and 8 will still be unlicensed. Not sure what sort of things could happen with those.
Luckily my OS is licensed and stuff. Hopefully when the upgrade comes it will do so without much trouble…
HippieVan wrote:Oh!… I gathered you met my aunt… say hi, for me…
I also managed to really piss off one older lady. It got really busy so we started doing stationing, where each of us just stayed in one area of the house. So I was responsible for a bunch of people upstairs. I went up to this woman a few times to tell her about various artifacts, but she just answered in monosyllables and kept her back to me as she took photographs of everything. I assumed she just wanted to be left alone, so I moved on to other people. And then when she got downstairs, she apparently complained that I was very rude, didn't have time for her and only cared about the bigger groups. O.o Some people just like to be indignant, I think.
So I just paid $200 on our primary hosting bill…
Those crappy project wonderful adds won't touch the sides of that. we need to handle them better now that I'm back. AND we need to set up that patreon thing and the kickstarter to get things changing.
My brain is still on holiday though :(
Can't help on patreon (the whole process confuses me) but ks should be simple enough. Best actually find a programer and know their rates first, though. I can help you budget if you like because real talk i am not getting anywhere near 22k -___- The ugly side of ks no one wants to acknowledge.
Also for the forums can he install the one choiceofgames uses? It's so sexy… the best forum format ive ever seen.
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I had a musician in mind before the KS. She was actually the reason I did the KS, but when i contacted after it she had upped her rates by 3x. Now, shes free to charge what shes wants but there's a public thread with her prices posted from four months ago and my friend asked her dev friend who was in the middle of comissioning her and the price was the one from the thread.
The funniest part? It ended up working out. That dev actually has a freaky musical memory and the musician plagerized a tune from an anime soundtrack.
I found a really good composer shortly after.
Very good advice Skull, especially on the budget.
I don't know about that forum style, it could work well, it's just the thing of jumping from what you know to something new… As long as we still ad the same access to our site functionality around it it'd be good. I thnk that's one issue they have with the way they've implemented it- the naviagtion and options change a bit too much page to page.
You're lucky with that music!
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I'm going to try and post uo some pics of my fellow DDers on the Pic thread…
bravo1102 wrote:I watched a number of those thanks to a terrible 50 SCFi and Fantasy movie box set I got for $25. At 50c a movie i knew what I was getting, but there were some gems in there. There's always the great Aussie movie, Hercules Returns, for those wanting to wet their feet in back sword and sandal movies without having to actually watch one … in which three luckless Australian B-movie fans are forced to live dub an Italian Hercules movie without a script.
Wade through the 1950-60's Italian "Sword and Sandal" movies and they're all more Robert E Howard than Homer.
The ultimate B-movie fantasy remains The Magic Sword.(1962)Oooh, I haven't seen that. I look forward to viewing it.
A modern film in the B-movie tradition, but with great production values, is The 13th Warrior. Antonio Banderas stars. The movie bombed. It gets low scores in reviews. Yet it's one of our fave films. What's not to love? Norse warriors. Cannibals. 'Dragons'. And Banderas as an Arab diplomat out of his depth in a fight against impossible odds.
Gunwallace wrote:Love that film. It's based on a great book too, Eaters of the Dead by Michael Critchton. It is partially a true story in that there was an Arab who traveled with Norsemen and wrote about it.
A modern film in the B-movie tradition, but with great production values, is The 13th Warrior. Antonio Banderas stars. The movie bombed. It gets low scores in reviews. Yet it's one of our fave films. What's not to love? Norse warriors. Cannibals. 'Dragons'. And Banderas as an Arab diplomat out of his depth in a fight against impossible odds.
It is far superior to the opposite story which is Richard Widmark and Sidney Portier in The Long Ships (1964) about a bunch of Norse who go visit the Moors.
bravo1102 wrote:In my historical readings I'd come accross an account where an observer saw a group of Norsemen 'cleaning' themselves… They used a single bowl of water, and each would wash his face, suck water into his nose and mouth, snort it back out, and then pass it along to the next Norseman, who'd do the same thing… with the same water!!!
Love that film. It's based on a great book too, Eaters of the Dead by Michael Critchton. It is partially a true story in that there was an Arab who traveled with Norsemen and wrote about it.
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I was elated and bemused when they reproduced that scene in the 13th Warrior… !!
They don't really… In Japan they were first sting movies I think.
The 13th Warrior definitely doesn't count as a B movie either. It's weird that people would think of it as one…
B movies I think are stuff that's never intended for wide release AND cheaply made… while not being an art film - as a really hugely broad defintion,
-Not flops, or stuff that goes to DVD because the distrubutors decide they can't market it.
Many studios specialised in B-movies, so much so that they made a real thing out of it, like Troma.
I met and talked to Lloyd Kaufman once, and Toxi (like a dumb goggle eyed fan). Kaufman looks and talks so much like a slightly thinner Mel Brooks it's eerie. They're spiritually related in their art too.
I think the original Mad Max was a B-movie. The follow-ups had a lot more investment, but the also spawned many, many copycats. There have always been films about post apocalyptic wastelands and such but Mad Max set a new style for it, the same way Star Wars set a new trend in SciFi B-movies.
As some of you know I've been considering resurrecting Lite Bites, but having had a bit of discussions with a few duckers have decided to launch a new comic in the same vein. It won't be ready to launch for a little while, hence no proper announcement as yet. But we need to settle on a name. I'm aiming for a full on community effort so something more inclusive will help. Thanks to Skreem, Gunwallace and Bravo we have some suggestions.
The Duck Comic
Duck Presents…
The Drunk Duck Magazine/compendium/anthology/news/ … (delete as appropriate).
The League of Extraordinary Ducks
Drunk Duck Assemble :p
We are the Duck
I,Duck
The Lite Duck bites.
The Duck Bites Back
Duck Bites
Duck Nibbles
The Duck Flies Backwards over Moscow at Dawn
Personally, I'm a fan of “We Are The Duck” but in true community fashion I want to get some feedback on that.
B-movies were originally made for independently owned theaters who couldn't afford the fees for first run A-films. They were made for double feature weekend matinees hense the original short length (little over an hour) Later they got longer when the double feature became a nighttime affair especially at Drive-ins. Hense one alternate name for B-movies; Drive-in movies.
The First Mad Max was indeed a small B-movie that became an A-movie franchise. In fact it was re-dubbed for American drive-in release because the B-movie distributer didn't think Americans would understand the accents. (It's all in the DVD release special features which finally includes the alternate Aussie soundtrack)
Terminator was the same. Alien was orignally envisioned as a B-movie but got additional funding (thanks mostly to Ridley Scott getting interested) Star Wars was supposed to be a modestly budgeted movie that 20th Century Fox decided was a blockbuster. The original edition of the novelization only had tiny print on the back cover to indicate it was forthcoming "blockbuster" movie. The first of those summer blockbusters was of course "Jaws" another modestly budgeted feature that went huge.
The B-movies made with the freedom from expectations and the finacial restrctions that the ststus entailed are the classics of the genre though.
Kung Fury taps into that.
So is this half hour version the full thing then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
It's pretty good.
Genejoke wrote:
Personally, I'm a fan of “We Are The Duck” but in true community fashion I want to get some feedback on that.
We are the Duck, we are the mallards
We are the fowl who make a bigger splash so let's start quacking
That's the noise we're making, we're feathering our own nests
It's true we'll make a better pond, just you and me
(quite like I, Duck.
Duck Back In Anger?)
It's very Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, Fighting Fury sort of stuff. They did a pretty good job.
My only critisisms are that it's a teensy little bit TOO tongue in cheek… Just a teensy bit… and they went askew from the '80s feel in using too many hipster actors: '80s people didn't have lots of tattoos and few people had beards.
BUT, it's not really trying to be a period piece, it's obviously just super silly and it stays true to that so those critisism don't really matter.
I love how the lead actor is so much like Johnny Dep from the Jump Street days. The actors all speak English rather well and do a good job of hiding their accents.- or at least the voice oer people do… Not sure how much they overdub. Probably all of it?
Oh, and Mad Max Fury Road was just as good as people say it is.
I paid to see it in an actual cinema (!), with Ptface and Tantz and we all lurved it.
So good.
My only critisism there was the cars… too much of a bias to those rounded styles of the 1960s, '50s, and earlier, when Max has been about 1970s cars and beyond.
That's purely an aesthetic, personal thing though.
…I mean, maybe the War Boys had a real thing for car bodies of that era and went scouring old junkyards for them? It's their personal style maybe?
I'm yet to see mad max fury road. I want to though.
SO I settled on We are the duck and created the page.
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/WE_ARE_THE_DUCK/
Anyone up for doing a comic version of the game consequenes? I've sent out a first page by email to a few drunk duckers. Anyone else willing?
It seems that The Simpsons will be jumping the shark quite a bit next season.
First, the voice actor for Mr. Burns/Ned Flanders quits. Then there is a report that Sideshow Bob will finally kill Bart Simpson (during a Halloween special). Now there is news that Homer and Marge are getting divorced and he is leaving her for Lena Dunham.
Why?
It's mind boggling thinking of the Simpsons writers trying to figure out new ideas at this point. And that got a bit ugly, that Harry Shearer departure did!
I mean, the guy can do what he wants of course…but that's a huge blow to the show that gave him everything. I saw the tweets; sounded like they'd have worked with him, on whatever issues there were…
Apparently he hasnt liked the show for years now, though…
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