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It is 7pm.  I had started the last, longest stage of the recompile at 12 midnight.

I had mounted most of the RAM on the system as a RAM disk to speed recompiling.  Used a custom script for recompiling each component that wasn't already recompiled from yesterday.

At 11am it was half way done. 

19 hours after I had started it, it had 20 packages to go.

19 hours.

Betcha it'll all fall down on wine 0.9.20.

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9pm.  21 hours of hard compiling, and my system's 99%, enough to have it back and recompile the rest nicely.

Back to Second Life!

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A recent post by glitchphil apparently triggered a comparision of porting animated TV to live action (any medium, TV or big screen movie).  As you know, some movies just don't make the jump very well.  If you've of long memories, well before the FCC had to make Saturday morning cartoons educational...

Here's the list of failed port jobs I know of:

• Scooby Doo.  The origional mysteries worked very well, and Cartoon Network's animated movies also work to this end.  But live action?  It turns into a watered-down B-Movie that doesn't deserve to be a B-Movie, maybe a C or D, and obviously shows that they spent 90% of it's movie budget on animating Scooby.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Animation was great.  Special appearance in Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo. But pull it into live action, and it bombs badly. (Tal, however, tells me that there's a 100% rendered TMNT movie comming out soon.)
• Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.  Actually, to my knowledge, there hasn't been an animated MMPR and spinoffs.  However, someone mixed the MMPR theme with an unrelated but strangely enough look-alike anime and it looked damn good!  I think it was inside AMV Hell, the Movie 3 (check Google Video).  I'm also finding alot of MMPR/spinoff fan artwork, including that of "Doggie Kruger," and "it just looks brilliant" (quote stolen from Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear). It just reinforces my belief that MMPR should of been animated first -- the amount of cheese put in those shows makes kids who watch it lactose intolerant.
  

Okay, TMNT teaser trailer....

Okay, I found it online, and watched it a bit.  My thoughts are:

• This is obviously not live action.  That means the port is decent.  However, it's not even Final Flight of the Osirus or Final Fantasy: Advent Children.  You don't loose yourself in it.  It's a cartoon, and I think it's aimed at teens.
  
• The rendering style reminds you of the Geico gekko commercials.
• The TMNTs themselves... are THIN!  They look like they've been slacking off and been put on Atkins.  Or maybe South Beach.  Ether way, they're missing alot of muscle from their days as a Saturday morning cartoon.
• Did I say the rendering style reminds you of the Geico gekko commercials?  How about the character motion?  Shrek had better movement!

It's going to be a good B Movie.  It'll have a devout following loving it, and then the 12-year-olds will probably get into it.  It's already much better than the live-action movies, I'll tell you that.

I probably won't be seeing it unless I'm bored or drunk.