"you can never go home again Oatman…but I guess you can shop there"
Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/31/2005 1:24 AM
I’ve been into playing the cheapassgamer.com arcades section. Nothing real spectacular, but playing some of the classic games such as Astroids and Arkanoid have been fun.
Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 07/31/2005 1:37 AM
Guys, if I ever seen any of you go into a Hardee’s, I will do bad things to your body/pet. Uh oh, Patriot Act.
You know those little cards that fall out of magazines that advertise things? Well, I just got my Wizard and there was a card for Universal Studios Monster Villages and train. Also got one about New Line’s slasher figures (Freddy, Jason, Leatherface). Cool but expensive.
Chestnuts roasted by Another Matt @ 07/31/2005 1:59 AM
Matt, another Saved By The Bell episode review would be great!
Chestnuts roasted by SBTB Fan @ 07/31/2005 2:08 AM
Just caught the most recent ep of Cathouse, and I’m shocked. Also a little sad that there’s only one episode left. Did anyone else watch Late Nights at the DL on Comedy Central last night and see the silliness with the Delta tickets?
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/31/2005 3:00 AM
I took the afternoon and evening off of packing to watch LOTR. Now my head hurts very badly and I’m jittery from sitting still for so long, but it was still great fun.
Chestnuts roasted by Kieran ALexis @ 07/31/2005 3:11 AM
For those of you from Detroit..here is some nostalgia from 1983 on WDIV…a tv schedule of shows on then
Channel 4 Schedule: 1983-84 Season
Weekdays:
6:00 a.m. – Sonya
7:00 a.m. – Today (hosted by Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)
9:00 a.m. – Family
10:00 a.m. – Facts of Life
10:30 a.m. – Sale of the Century
11:00 a.m. – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 a.m. – Tic Tac Dough
12:00 p.m. News 4 Detroit (with Bob Pisor, Nerissa Williams, Doug Hill and El Zaret)
1:00 p.m. – Days of Our Lives
2:00 p.m. – Another World
3:00 p.m. – More Real People
3:30 p.m. – Good Times
4:00 p.m. – Jeffersons
4:30 p.m. – All in the Family
5:00 p.m. – Barney Miller
5:30 p.m. – News 4 (with Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Mal Sillars and Eli Zaret)
6:00 p.m. – News 4 (with Mort Crim, Jennifer Moore, Mal Sillars and Al Ackerman)
6:30 p.m. – NBC News
7:00 p.m. – Jokers Wild
7:30 p.m. – Wheel of Fortune
8:00 p.m. – NBC programming
11:00 p.m. – News 4 (with Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Mal Sillars and Al Ackerman)
11:30 p.m. – Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 a.m. Entertainment Tonight
1:00 a.m. – Thicke of the Night (with Alan Thicke)
2:30 a.m. – Movie
4:30 a.m. – Lone Ranger
5:00 a.m. – News 4 (repeat)
5:30 a.m. – Morning Stretch
Chestnuts roasted by Detroit Kid @ 07/31/2005 3:31 AM
Here is one from 1988
Weekdays:
6:00 a.m. – NBC News
6:30 a.m. – News 4 Today (with Roger Weber)
7:00 a.m. – Today (hosted by Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)
9:00 a.m. – Geraldo
10:00 a.m. – Sale of the Century
10:30 a.m. – Concentration
11:00 a.m. – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 a.m. – Win, Lose or Draw
12:00 p.m. – News 4 at Noon (with Rich Mayk and Katherine Adams)
12:30 p.m. – Scrabble
1:00 p.m. – Days of Our Lives
2:00 p.m. – Another World
3:00 p.m. – Santa Barbara
4:00 p.m. – Cosby Show
4:30 p.m. – A Current Affair
5:00 p.m. – News 4 at 5 (with Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Chuck Gaidica and Bernie Smilovitz)
5:30 p.m. – News 4 at 5:30 (with Rich Mayk, Margie Reedy, Mal Sillars and Bernie Smilovitz)
6:00 p.m. – News 4 at 6 (with Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Chuck Gaidica and Al Ackerman)
6:30 p.m. – NBC News
7:00 p.m. – Jeopardy!
7:30 p.m. – Wheel of Fortune
8:00 p.m. – NBC programming
11:00 p.m. – News 4 NightBeat (with Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Chuck Gaidica and Bernie Smilovitz)
11:30 p.m. – Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 a.m. – Barney Miller
1:05 a.m. – Late Night with David Letterman
2:05 a.m. – Later with Bob Costas
2:35 a.m. – On Trial
3:05 a.m. – Improv Tonite
3:35 a.m. – Guns of Will Sonnett
4:00 a.m. – Branded
4:30 a.m. – NightBeat (repeat)
5:00 a.m. – Cisco Kid
5:30 a.m. – Group One Medical
NBC shows on 4 included:
Amen (Sat. 8:30 p.m.), Golden Girls (Sat. 9 p.m.), Saturday Night Live (Sat. 11:30 p.m.), Family Ties (Sun. 8 p.m.), ALF (Mon. 8 p.m.), Matlock (Tues. 8 p.m.), Unsolved Mysteries (Wed. 8 p.m.), Night Court (Wed. 9 p.m.), Cosby Show (Thurs. 8 p.m.), Cheers (Thurs. 9 p.m.), L.A. Law (Thurs. 10 p.m.), Miami Vice (Fri. 10 p.m.)
Other shows on 4:
Smurfs (Sat. 9 a.m.), Saturday Night’s Main Event (Sat. 11:30 p.m.), Meet the Press (Sun. 12 p.m.), Friday Night Videos (Fri. 2:35 a.m.), Tigers ’88/Tigers ’89
Chestnuts roasted by Detroit Kid @ 07/31/2005 3:32 AM
I guess this is obvious Kieran, but I’ve done that with The Matrix Trilogy, exactly once. I mean it was made tolerable by the fact that Revolutions is my fav (of the trilogy and movie period). And ending on a high point never hurts. But I agree, my head hurt and less enjoyment was garnered than you would think given philosophies like ‘things are greater than the sum of their parts’.
Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/31/2005 3:56 AM
Gosh Bob Pisor? What a terrible name!
As for "Joker’s Wild", I remember many mornings waking up with a hangover in some cheap seedy motel watching that crap on the TV. Ahh.. good memories
Interesting, Detroit Kid. I’m surprised to see that so many news anchors are still going strong. Thanks.
Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 07/31/2005 4:20 AM
"I mean it was made tolerable by the fact that Revolutions is my fav (of the trilogy and movie period). And ending on a high point never hurts."
Dear. Gord.
Chestnuts roasted by DarkPrimus @ 07/31/2005 4:57 AM
My friend came over yesterday and spent the night. We played Star Wars: Battlefront far longer than I would care to admit (that is one helluva fun game, can’t wait for the sequel).
Went and bought some old-as-hell used games that are new to me today: Fable (fucking excellent), Wild ARMs 3 (really nice old school RPG action) and The Thing (has not aged well, but I’m a huge survival/horror fan and I love the movie so I think I’ll get into it as I play… and anyway I got it free).
So no, I’m not out there getting smashed and fucking women I don’t know, but life is pretty good.
Kieran: Wow… were those the extended versions (still haven’t seen any of those) or the theatrical releases? That’s quite a while to sit in front of your television, regardless… and you have very good taste.
FYI: as a fan of the LotR movies, you should probably stay away from the IMDb forums.
Actually, everybody should stay away from the IMDb forums. I don’t know why I keep going there.
Knegative: haven’t watched the Matrix Trilogy all the way through, but about a month ago I decided I needed to see several movies I had for whatever reason never seen…beginning early in the moring (I’m talking 2:00 AM) after a night of no sleep. I watched Collateral once, then again with commentary, then I watched Mystic River (which had no commentary so I couldn’t watch that), THEN watched Way of the Samurai (yes, a double dose of Cruise), watched it again with commentary and played around with the special features. I passed out after that.
The moral of the story? Twofold:
1) Don’t do what I did
2) I have too much free time on my hands
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 07/31/2005 5:12 AM
Alright, we need a topic. Uh…
Who’s been to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? I’ve heard some good things…
Yeah, I got nothing.
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 07/31/2005 5:20 AM
way late. . . . CATCF was awesome. I am not a huge fan of johnny depps, but he was SO good. I really thought at first that redoing such a classic was a pointless waste of a movie, but I think it was better than the original. I took my nearly 4-year old and he loved it too. Although we laughed at completely different jokes. The kids were all amazing too, Mike Teevee was my favorite. His and johnny depps interactions were hilarious.
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/31/2005 9:29 AM
wooo WA 3 and The Thing are high on my list of favorite PS2 titles I’ve had the former for a couple years and still haven’t actually finished the damn game tho. Mostly due to the fact that when your character croak their max HP is shaved and capped till you sleep at an Inn and I’m currently right before a major boss fight that no matter how hard I try I can’t survive >_< . I did beat The Thing but I haven't played it at all since because by the time I did finish it I realized several of the game play mechanics were far more shallow than they want you to believe I won't get too detailed but I'm sure you'll notice sooner or later.
Oh yea since you’re survival horror fan have you played either of the Fatal Frame games? If not I HIGHLY reccomend them especially the second one as its one of the few games that startled me bad enough to cause me to fling the controller across the room but then again playing on a 61 inch TV with a dolby 5.1 surround sound set up probably helped make it happen
Chestnuts roasted by The Krypt Angel @ 07/31/2005 9:46 AM
I ended up going out last night to see my friend’s band. They opened up for a band called Metallagher. You are probably correct in your thinking, a Metallica cover band (earlier years, most recent song covered was One), with a Gallagher look-alike as lead singer. It was pretty amazing, with the other band members dressing up like Cliff, Dave, Lars, etc. It was full of fruit smashing, water gun shooting, crowd participating madness.
I enjoyed it thoroughly, and I was designated driver (i.e. sober). Click my name to find the band’s My Space page and you’ll get a good idea. Just had to share the weirdness, and if you are ever in the Mpls area, you need to check this out, you won’t regret it.
Chestnuts roasted by guttercar @ 07/31/2005 9:48 AM
Speaking of movies, I watched the Director’s Cut of Donnie Darko (my current favorite movie) last night with commentary. It was pretty good commentary, especially since Kevin Smith was the other commentator (other than the writer/director) even though he had nothing to do with the movie. I thought that was pretty funny.
Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 10:14 AM
Sky High was awesome! It’d ROCK to have superpowers. Maybe for your next poll, Matt: "What would your superpower be? "
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/31/2005 10:32 AM
Even on Sunday morning, I love the Saturday Night Thread.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/31/2005 11:42 AM
Has anyone ever tried the quizzes at http://liquidgeneration.com ?
I did The movie monster one and it said I was most like Freddy Krueger. Pretty good.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2005 1:34 PM
I need to start remembering to visit this on Saturday nights. All I usually do is sit home and watch anime and talk to a friend online, anyhow.
Mike the Great – I will always hold the Spiderman Crayon Review close to my heart, too. It’s the first article I read here on X-E. I can’t say how happy I was that there were 3 parts.
When I think of that, the Worst Gameroom of All Time article comes to mind, too. I laughed FOREVER over the one line – "Feeling Winded? Have an imaginary seat!" or something like that. I get slap happy and certain things will make me laugh for hours. That was definitely one of ‘em.
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