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[tinag222]

And on a totally unrelated but funny note....as I was reading the above, I was distracted by elvis' av...right at the same time on tv the song Funky Cold Medina started playing (movie track) and they synched up all of a sudden. Since this is the thread to nowhere, I figure I can slide in something totally irrelevant too

It was still funny though.

[tygr20]

Re: Nike Zoom

[Kayberry]

[ScottBrosius]

It's probably important to note that Nike has had zoom footwear in it's lineup since at laest 1995 (see link below). The "Zoom" name has been associated with lots of footwear, as it makes sense from a marketing standpoint. "They shoes will make you fast, ZOOM!" The name has been attached to basketball shoes, running cleats and others, and I believe is most recently tied to leBron James' footwear line. I highly doubt that Nike has anything to do with Slusho.

http://www.sneakerfiles.com/nike-basketball-history-and-timeline/

[IronJ146]

[crow]

sorry if this has already been noted, but im new here, and didnt feel like reading 340 some odd posts...
but if you go to the apple trailer web page.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
you can find out several things about the "monster"
1.it's definitely large, and strong enough to rip steel
2.it has claws od some sort
3. It's more than likely derived from the water, notice the wake from the statue of liberty to the city, the size of the wake and the destruction to the two buildings once again give us an idea to the size of the creature.

im sure slusho.jp has been discussed inside and out.
but one thing that is kind of unsettling is the talk of being whales...
and well "slusho is people"?
ya sorry for being so late on things

[Kayberry]

Okay, I'm going to post this once more, since people still are insisting that "Slusho is people?" means that slusho = people. I sure hope that the guy from 1-18-08news.com reads this.

The quotes made on the Happy Talk page of the Slusho website come directly from emails that had been sent to the satoshiSPLATslusho.jp mail address. It's acknowledged by people who have sent in emails on this very thread who have had theirs listed on that page.

The line "Slusho is people?" is direct play on the infamous and revealing quote from Soylent Green, a movie where the product is literally made from dead people. Some inquisitive fan of the movie simply sent in an email with the quote, intending to provoke a response - during the early days when all we received was an autoresponse and not knowing that these emails were going to be hand-selected and used in the Happy Talk page. The people who manage the Slusho website probably got a laugh out of it and added it to the list of phrases on the Happy Talk page to let everyone get a laugh from it. They figured we'd all be familiar with the phrase, since it's often parodied in pop culture. Unfortunately a bunch of people, desperate for any clue to a game and unfamiliar with science fiction predating Star Wars, convinced the more gullible people following 1-18-08 that Slusho was made from people.

What have we learned here?
- Slusho is NOT people. A question does not signify a statement of fact, especially when that question is coming from an animated whale.
- You should watch Soylent Green. You won't find any awesome special effects, but the whole second half of the movie kicks so much ass, it will be worth your while.
- Don't trust what people tell you in emails, especially if they claim to be working on a movie set and have insider information. Harry Knowles is a real hollywood insider, and even he was misled by a movie set "spy" regarding those 1-18-08 posters.
- Please stop looking for faces in clouds, smoke, fog, fire, or explosions. It's completely subjective, as Rorschach tests will tell you. Look hard enough at any indiscernible shape and your mind will force you to see something in it. Besides, it's clear we were not supposed to see a monster in the teaser trailer, otherwise it would have been clear as day.
- and lastly: Speculation does not signify facts nor findings. It's purely your interpretation of what's been discovered.

Those last two were mostly directed at a specific individual, but we've already long determined those happy talk quotes came from emails sent to them.

[AlexGrave]

Crow I was just getting ready to make some points about that XD. Anyways hold up lemme pull the pic I took up.....

Okay so oddity about the creature is for how large it is....the claws don't seem far spaced off. look at the SoL....it has three claw marks where the head is ripped off, and then a fourth one near the statues waist.

Also I'm having a tough time trying to figure out a basic fram for this thing, since it seems to have girth in both its legs and shoulders but not in between. Notice how the rest of the buildings that the creature walked through are damaged only at the tops and bottoms. with the one exception of (again) the three claw marks on the building on the left hand side.

[Melampus]

[Kayberry]

OOG

[deletia]

[quote=gramma]
INFOCOM

does anyone (over age of 25) remembers that company [/quote]

Man, I totally remember INFOCOM. They were the absolute best. Zork, Sorcerer, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Lurking Horror. Sigh. In fact, I was a beta-tester for Steve Meretzky at his post-Infocom gig with Legend Entertainment. Neither here nor there, though.

Anyhow, the only thing I can add from my knowledge of INFOCOM games is that when you'd get stuck, you'd often have to search out certain characters in the game to ask them questions. The questions would sometimes seem random until your necessary path of action became clear.

For instance, let's say you're at work and you want to go to the bathroom, but there's no toilet paper. You see a janitor standing idly nearby. So, you: ">Ask janitor for toilet paper." You get a stock response like, "The janitor shakes his head and shrugs," indicating that you're barking up the wrong tree. Eventually, though, after hitting, kicking, and jumping on the janitor to test for clever responses, you get lucky and hit on a useful question: ">Ask janitor about bathroom." You get an unexpected response that urges you in a new, possibly useful direction: "The janitor throws down his broom and tells you that if you want to clean the bathroom, you'll have to do it yourself. You see an abandoned broom lying on the floor." So you take the broom. You still have to use the toilet, but now you have a broom. Perhaps it could be useful.

I'm sure you get the idea by now...

[cgsheldon]

Take it with a lot of salt, I'm just the messenger - J.J. Abrams's 'Cloverfield' Wraps — and We've Got the Call Sheet That Might Spoil the Ending[/url]

[Guest]

[ScottBrosius]

Re: OOG

[deletia]

Two comments on that....

1) "NO REAL THAN YOU ARE" is both weird and intriguing.

2) Only the Dutch would put a four-year-old in a Speedo.