SFLIS Minutes - October 8, 2003

- We have a discussion on how to do roleplaying with dumb characters.
  And what if you know the solution to a problem but you can't say
  anything because your character is too stupid to know something
  like that?  Or what about a stupid player playing a character with
  high intelligence?
- We were about to start the meeting but then realized that it's not
  5:30 yet.
- ICON is this weekend.  It's at a place where there are hotel rooms.
  Who's the guest of honor?
  There will be art there.
  Eat cheeseballs.  There may be some other unedible food too.
  Leftovers may be available at the next Mindbridge meeting.
  The con's anime schedule is passed around.
  "People with taste like Crayon Shinchan."
- Soul Calibur tournament.  Doesn't have a room yet.  Hoping for
  November 1.
- Quentin Tarantino says he'll never do a movie based on a comic
  because the fans are impossible to please, way too picky.
- Rampant genetic change.  Which would be more likely to turn you into
  Spiderman:  a radioactive spider or a genetically engineered spider?
  Does every lab have a radioactive laser?
  Mitochondria, psytoplasmic reticulum, DNA, RNA, and mitochondria
  with a collective consciousness that evolves people (and is very
  hard to spell).
  Quentin Tarantino's mitochondria level is low, which caused a
  segmentation fault with an invalid null pointer because there was no
  provision for garbage collection in the genetic source code.
- Popping the stack to get to the previous topic:  Fans have taken
  Tenchi Muyo, which is a comedy, and constructed an entire universe
  around it.  Then, when the original author wants to change something,
  the fans say..... no way in hell.
  Star Wars is another example of this.
- The Star Wars comment led to a discussion of the three original
  Star Wars movies vs. episodes 1-3.  Were the originals really better
  or were they all equally crappy?  Anikin shouldn't have had so many
  random incidences.  Instants?  Incidents?
  When Star Wars was first in theaters, Harrison Ford calls Princess
  Leia "Carrie."  That was corrected in later releases.
  Star Wars is eye candy.  It doesn't have to be 100% consistent.
  In episode 1, the scene with monsters being eaten by bigger monsters
  which were then eaten by bigger monsters is not supposed to be an
  important plot point.  It's eye candy.  There are lots of
  inconsistencies that are in there because they're cool to look at.
  Or listen to. (Like the whoosh of air rushing past you as you're
  flying through outer space.)  Is the monster scene homage to Warner
  Brothers?  Or Disney?  Or Dr. Seuss?  "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish,
  Blue Fish?"
  Episode 2 had a plot that required good acting, but they had bad
  actors playing the parts.
  "Howard the Duck was the best movie ever!"
- Should we do anything for the Matrix movie coming out in November?
  Firebomb the theater?  Or go see it?
- Is "fan" an abbreviation for "fanatic" or "fantastic?"
  Is Quentin Tarantino "warped" or "special?"
- Let's pick some English words at random to make up some names for
  anime series.  "....Strawberry Marshmallow?"
- Ok, that's enough.