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I don't believe I wrote about this last time... but when Elzie was here we went to see a special one night only showing of the Death Note movie at my local theater. Neither of us had seen the anime or read the manga before, but it was a one time chance to get to see a live action Japanese movie in a theater, so we decided to give it a shot. Boy were we surprised.

The "Flim" ended up being a DVD (or what we thought was a DVD, more on that later). Not only that, but the first 10 minutes of the film DVD had terrible elevator music playing over the top of it. This completely ruined the entire prologue to the movie and made it impossible to tell what was going on, seeing as how we didn't know the story to begin with. The theater fixed the audio, but didn't rewind the DVD so we could find out what we missed. Then, once the actual speaking started we found out it was actually a DUB of a fucking JAPENESE FILM. Terribly dubbed I might add. Elzie and I lasted MAYBE 10 minutes before we finally got fed up and just walked the fuck out. Apparently we accidently left the back door right by the theater screen opened too. lol :')

Anyways... tonight Mdar and I decide to see the 25th Anniversary of Wargames. They were doing a one night showing of one of my favorite childhood movies. At the time I didn't know it was the same company that put on the abortion that was Death Note. The theater once again charged us $10 ($2 more than the normal cover price for a movie) and they don't give student discounts like they NORMALLY do either. The movie was once again a simple DVD. The very same DVD I could have bought at Best Buy or Walmart for $10. The very same DVD I have right next to me right now. The movie was prefaced with a terrible interview about the 25th anniversary that, as Mdar put it best, "poorly done interviews with the cheesy text that directly quotes what's happening on the screen. It's like a bad demotivational poster that only states what the image states." This was followed by an "exclusive preview" of the direct-to-DVD sequal that is coming out next week. This "exclusive preview" was just the fucking trailer for the movie. Also it was bad. Very bad.

Finally the movie started, and at this point I'm already swearing off Fathom Events because if I wanted to watch a fucking DVD I could have done it at home. Honestly, it didn't even look DVD quality... it was more like a VHS rip to DVD. However we sit through the movie because it IS a classic and honestly does live up to the nostalgia. Half way through, the screen goes black. Right before the climax of the movie is starting. Black. No sound, no picture, nothing. Then... what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a windows 98 taskbar, and an nvidia logo in the tray. That's right... Windows. Fucking. 98. Not XP. Not 2000. You can tell because XP and 2000 have 32bit windows logos in the start button. 98 still had a 16 bit pixelated hilarity.

This was this way for 10 minutes, at LEAST, before suddenly the movie reset to the power point slideshow style previews. Finally, a few minutes after that when Mdar and I finally decide to stand up and leave, and it starts back up where it left off. We sit down and finish the abortion of a film showing.

After the movie we find a manager, and explain what happened, and also explain that similar problems happened during Death Note and how we were very dissatisfied with the $10 ticket price for such a poor showing. He informed us that the movie is actually streamed live from Fathom's computer servers somewhere in bumfuck usa to every theater that hosts the film, and that they have no control over how the presentation happens. It's all 100% at the mercy of the Fathom Event systems. He is, however, kind enough to give us each a free pass to see another movie at Kerasotes theaters, granted not a Fathom Event... not that I would want to see another one of their abortions anyways.

So, if Fathom Events happens to do a google search and reads this? Fuck you. Fuck you in your pathetic, terribly run asses.

Current Mood: annoyed

For those of you who don't know, sci-fi/fantasy book publisher Tor has finally launched Tor.com their "web 2.0" collection of blogs by famous sci-fi/fantasy writers and artists, including free short stories by several writers and even a huge collection of FREE legal e-books that will be available until July 27th.

Considering the number of writers and graphic designers on my LJ friends list I thought I'd spread the link around a bit.

In other news I have been given an offer as a PHP Web Programmer for Bound to Stay Bound Books. A company that rebinds books for libraries, especially elementry school libraries. It's p. cool. I am going to accept the offer as soon as I'm done writing this... but damn I feel nervous doing it. I'm not sure why. This job will require me to eventually (probably within a month or so) move to Jacksonville, which is about 30-45 minute drive west of Springfield, but the pay and benefits are more than enough to make up for it. Woop. Of course this is a semi-opened invitation to anyone who might want to share an apartment. I'm pretty sure I can afford a good apartment on the salary I'll be making, but splitting the cost with someone else and making the place not so quiet might be an added bonus. I don't know. Blah blah blah. I should call up BTSB and stop fretting about it.

Current Mood: nervous

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“Yeah Laden it's is 11:00 or something and we're still roofing the time. I'm kinda sitting around underneath the floor watching in the night cos it's raining now, which is you know great. You were suppose to see us today. So it's on the micro oven back of the D and D game this afternoon. So it's for a crew. Hit me back here. So I will hopefully be back sometime probably late afternoon or early evening. I don't know. Whatever, if we can get it finish cause here it's kinda starting to get kinda bad out here. Thunder and good time. That's al.” Auto-Transcribed Voice Post

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“Hey Vernin(?) it's, I am up in Pontiac Illinois. We're putting a new roof on my grandma's house and I'm fuckin exhausted cos I've been hauling timbers from around the house into a big dumpster and this sucks. Yes and I can't ___ reach internets(?) from so I can't get online. Which also sucks but I been doing a lot I currently done on my new character heat program for a fourth edition and it's about ___ now I think and maybe a little more. It's hard to tell but it's coming a little bit quicker now. So that's cool. Yeah I phoned that guy. Didn't come over. I'm gonna be back sometime tomorrow or I don't know when depends on when they decide to leave but I don't we're doing as much of the house tonight as we can. You know I think we're gonna stop around dinner time and we're doing more tomorrow and I don't know how much my parents are gonna stay tomorrow but I want to die. I am sick of all this sisable(?) labor from last week to man power and yeah and I've got an interview on Monday. So that's good times I getting tired now it looks like it's gonna rain soon. It's just really bad to get half the roof's torn off and all the woods exposed. So I don't think that's a good thing but they're trying to get as much covered up as they can before the rain hits us. We anyway that's it for now. I'll probably check in see if anythings going on I don't know probably calling again later tonight before I pass out or maybe tomorrow I don't know whatever. And that's it for now.” Auto-Transcribed Voice Post

http://hackmii.com/2008/07/dear-nintendo/

This makes me a wii bit sick to my stomach. Everyone knew it would happen eventually, and I'm glad Bushing found the isssue first and is doing the responsible thing... but if he really is following the RFP Policy at Wiretrip.net that means he will publically disclose the issue in 5 days. I don't expect Bushing himself to exploit the code and write a proof of concept, releasing THAT, but once the exploit is written up it won't take long for one of the douchebags like Wanninkoko who allowed virtual console piracy on the wii to write a functional exploit.

I really hope Nintendo deals with this and takes Bushing seriously, but I'm not expecting much. This is Nintendo afterall. I also hope that if Nintendo DOES respond, Bushing keeps the community informed about what's going on and how Nintendo is dealing with everything. I'm not expecting much from that either though. Bleh.

What a terrible thing to wake up to :[

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