That’s SMeyer? Didn’t notice. Must have been fun to do, and all kinds of exciting.

All the cool people have macs, don’t you know?

:P

That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Twilight would have benefited from more aliens. Radioactive aliens. And sonic hounds, the little buggers.

I didn’t realize lobotomies were considered cool.

Edit: Apparently, I also didn’t know how long it had been since I opened this tab.

I think it’s silly how long they clung to single button mice. I mean, come on guys. My problem with Apple is that it is closed hardware.

I hate macs. Seriously.

Lol check this link out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM&feature=channel_page

My (Arch Linux) baby starts in less than 7 seconds. I’m so proud. I will admit, it took about three weeks of custom kernel compilation and daemon configuration to get that, but whatever.

Samsung, I remember that…. do you happen to use reddit? Or perhaps Digg? Although if it’s Digg, just don’t tell me and I won’t act elitist.

I love my Mac. It’s a Max OS X, Version 10.5.6….or an iMac, to be more simple. I got it for Christmas and I love it to pieces.

Or, you know, she could actually believe that it’s wrong to eat meat. Perhaps she even prefers veggie food, I do sometimes.

And we’re all sitting around gossiping about SMeyer’s weight because?

Here’s a sample Steph.

If you want a copy, ask me in private.

shrug Like we care. :)

No, that would be too far too exciting and comedic for this movie.

I’m probably stating the obvious, but now I understand why Cracked.com was making fat girl jokes.

Show of hands: who thinks her author pic was airbrushed? raises hand

It’s very unfair, Steph. No more jokes about SMeyer’s appearance, please. We critique her works, not her.

I would jump at the chance— wouldn’t you? Just so I can point at the screen “Look! That’s ME!”

I don’t think I would. I certainly wouldn’t want to if it happened tomorrow. But, maybe being famous changes certain types of people. And authors, who are traditionally hidden behind their works… It’s like a compulsion.
I would love to be inside of my character’s worlds though, without a doubt.

@Steph. Lol; every single scene, behind a window, up a tree, in a passing car…

Heh, well, I like the way they did it in the film, made it very much an in-joke for fans who knew what SMeyer looked like.

I certainly didn’t. ;)

Edit: And I doubt the average cinema-goer did, either.

I didn’t know it was her until someone pointed it out to me after I saw the movie.

Okay, okay. Stop shoving it in my face, GAWSH!

I caught both Meyer and the apple thing.

And yes, we should lay off Meyer’s appearance. She’s not even that unattractive. But yes, keep personal appearance and families out of it. (except for CP’s family, they’ve put themselves into it)

I would jump at the chance— wouldn’t you? Just so I can point at the screen “Look! That’s ME!”

I’ve thought often about my cameo. I think I’d want to be either a mook in the big bad’s army or an innocent civilian that’s killed in the crossfire.

That way, even those that hate me can enjoy the movie.

I still haven’t seen the movie, so it was this thread that revealed it for me.

Rand: There are authors that would request not to be airbrushed, aren’t there? Just like some actors ask not to be.

I know! Hanging upside down in a tree in a park, selling tshirts on the footpath, busking, busking upside dwon in a tree whilst selling tshirts…

I agree with Nate. I don’t even think SMeyer’s that ugly, either. I think she’s quite pretty.

Why is the cameo such a big deal?

Why is the cameo such a big deal?

Because it’s YOUR world. And for a moment you’re not the creator-god of it, but just another citizen.

I don’t get why people would want to be in their own worlds, though. (Then again, i don’t write fantasy.)

Exactly. I think the more work a person puts into a world, the more thrilled they are with seeing it transformed from their mind’s eye to “reality”.

I’d love to be in the film of a book I wrote! I probably wouldn’t get a chance to write the screenplay, so I’d jump at any chance I got to affect it somehow.

Besides, that way you can be in a movie! ;)

Peter Jackson was in all of the LotR movies… I noticed all his cameos the first time through, too! (well, not the very first time. Back when I watched them for the first time, I had no clue who he was. But the time after I knew who he was I saw them.)

In Fellowship of the Ring, he eats a carrot in Bree. In Two Towers, he threw a spear off the wall of Helm’s Deep. In Return of the King, he was the corsair that got shot by Legolas.

He also was a Rohan fighter on the wall of Helm’s Deep.

NO KIDDING!

I’ve watched the movie at least four or five times and I never noticed!

I always knew about his appearance in RotK, but never in FotR and TTT. Cool, thanks for the info! =D

I don’t think he was in Daredevil was he? Or the blade movies. Just the ones he created/helped create.

Where’s Waldo.

No you backwards uncultured American.

It. Is. WALLY.

Where’s Wally is the original name. The British name. Named by the British illustrator. Who named his creation Wally. Not this fucking ‘Waldo’ bullshit.

WALLY

Goddamn.

That’s passable because, for America, it was the third Final Fantasy.

Waldo is such a horrendously ugly name. And unneccessary. I hate it. I loathe it. It disgusts me.

Wally, on the other hand, is fucking amazing.

Really? His real name is Wally?

I wonder if I would have liked looking for a “Wally” more than I liked looking for a “Waldo”. Because I seriously did not like them. They were SO boring.

Simmonish?

Ah. I never watched that machinima.

I’m not angry. I’m perfectly calm. Fuck Waldo. That man is polluting Wally’s popularity. I hate him.

Angryface.

Think so.

No. There is nothing redeaming about Waldo.

Wally>Waldo in every way.

Are any of the other characters’ names changed? Wanda, Odlaw, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard?

That’s a mercy at least.

It means Waldo was there before Wally.

I probably wouldn’t want my book to be made into a movie. :P

Uh, I wouldn’t suggest that unless you know how to write a screenplay, how to direct and the movie-making process. Just because you can write novels and you enjoy movies doesn’t mean you know to make one yourself – look no further than Fitzgerald.

Personally, I’d allow them to take some artistic license, so long as the soul of the story remains true. Otherwise, I’d sit back in an advisory role, and if I wanted a cameo I’d only go for a small one. Too many/too obtuse cameos just screams ‘head-up-arse’ to me.

btw Wally makes me think of a flaccid penis