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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1423611" data-attributes="member: 812">Hurrah! Nfft -- I love those races.I'm on the &quot;play it straight&quot; bandwagon -- which is not incompatible with the &quot;over-the-top goofy&quot; bandwagon, by the way -- it can be uber-goofy AS LONG AS the goofiness is treated with respect. Great comedy has to played straight or else it's not really funny.Toy Story -- the idea is completely ludicrous but it's played totally straight in that the characters are honest and their reactions to the goofiness are completely real -- and THAT'S what makes it so funny.So yeah, we can have giant stone heads that say &quot;ZARDOZ&quot; for no reason -- but the people who live nearby have to deal with it in SOME believable manner.JPL -- thanks. Very generous of you.Nfft -- limited palettes, deep colour. Well said. It's like musicals -- you won't buy people singing and dancing if there isn't some wicked melodrama to support it.I created a yahoo group -- dinopirates-discussion. If we want to move the discussion there, we can. Not sure if we need to do that yet or not.I have a very very very strong urge to manage projects, especially projects that involve smart creative people, which this one so far seems to, so unless people start objecting, I'm going to start fussing about and trying to keep things organized. I promise to stay out of everyone's way as much as possible -- to me, project management is about making it easier for smart creative people to be smart and creative and have fun.Feel free to contact me if I'm stepping on toes or anything. I don't want to tell anyone what to do -- I just want to make it easy for us to work together.Dinopirates of Ninja Island. It's so cool.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1423611, member: 812"] Hurrah! Nfft -- I love those races. I'm on the "play it straight" bandwagon -- which is not incompatible with the "over-the-top goofy" bandwagon, by the way -- it can be uber-goofy AS LONG AS the goofiness is treated with respect. Great comedy has to played straight or else it's not really funny. [i]Toy Story[/i] -- the idea is completely ludicrous but it's played totally straight in that the characters are honest and their reactions to the goofiness are completely real -- and THAT'S what makes it so funny. So yeah, we can have giant stone heads that say "ZARDOZ" for no reason -- but the people who live nearby have to deal with it in SOME believable manner. JPL -- thanks. Very generous of you. Nfft -- limited palettes, deep colour. Well said. It's like musicals -- you won't buy people singing and dancing if there isn't some wicked melodrama to support it. I created a yahoo group -- dinopirates-discussion. If we want to move the discussion there, we can. Not sure if we need to do that yet or not. I have a very very very strong urge to manage projects, especially projects that involve smart creative people, which this one so far seems to, so unless people start objecting, I'm going to start fussing about and trying to keep things organized. I promise to stay out of everyone's way as much as possible -- to me, project management is about making it easier for smart creative people to be smart and creative and have fun. Feel free to contact me if I'm stepping on toes or anything. I don't want to tell anyone what to do -- I just want to make it easy for us to work together. Dinopirates of Ninja Island. It's so cool. [/QUOTE]

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