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3,300 | That has got to be one of the dumbest laws I have ever seen, you can't hire a Canadian cover band and expect it to be the same as the original band! | Agreed, not to mention it hinders up and coming Canadian artists who could have gotten on the same bill as international acts that maybe have a solid following but aren't superstars and can't afford to lose that much money touring Canada. Just a dumb, dumb law, I'm very happy to see it gone. |
3,301 | Ugh, Megan is Missing, talk about worst hour an half of my life. [I wish I would have watched this before people talked me into seeing it...] | However, I'm *very* glad I spent the previous 21 minutes watching your linked video. Very good review of an utterly awful movie! |
3,302 | Der Vater is German for father, but it's pronounced with a short 'a' sound ('ah' as in dark, as opposed to the 'ay' in Vader). I doubt there's any connection, especially since Lucas didn't plan everything in advance, despite what he's claimed in recent years. | > Der Vater is German for father, but it's pronounced with a short 'a' sound ('ah' as in dark, as opposed to the 'ay' in Vader). I doubt there's any connection, especially since Lucas didn't plan everything in advance, despite what he's claimed in recent years. To add to this: in Dutch 'vader' means 'father'. I doubt there's a connection as well. The name Darth Vader was even given to another character at one point in the scripts of the original, IIRC. |
3,303 | HEEMS. I actually emailed Das Racist a couple weeks ago and asked if you would do an AMA. I doubt the results are my doing but I'll still take credit. My question: You and Vic have clearly diverged in stylistic preferences since your first mixtapes -mostly in Vic finding a way to somehow give even fewer fucks than he did previously. What can we expect to hear when Das Racist makes new songs? Will you two return to the old balance? ALSO WHY DOESN'T DAP RAP? Also thanks for the AMA. I love and idolize you. | DONT KNOW. LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I WANT DAP ON THE ALBUM. |
3,304 | The Beatles...I don't know, I just find them extremely overrated | Not sure why you default to calling a band that you don't see the appeal to 'overrated'. That's like me calling the Rolling Stones 'overrated' just because I'm not into them. They pretty much told the industry, "we'll be doing it our way", and Mick Jagger himself's said they opened a lot of doors for everyone else. I think it's not only the music that makes them so popular, but it's what they did. I mean, to be fair, there are bands from the period who made albums every bit as good as Rubber Soul and Revolver.. |
3,305 | [one] [two] [three] [four] That's the first few google returns, since it seems to be extremely hard for you. | You seem a tad confrontational towards a request for links, I don't frequent the likes of 'Salon' for my news maybe that's why I wasn't aware. Thank you though |
3,306 | Definitely funny, especially given how they ended up today, but it is extremely interesting to go back and listen to their version of [Giving Up The Gun] | It sounds like a spoken-word version of the song, with much worse drumming. |
3,307 | Each new OS version came with promises about better battery management. I thought they didn't seem to work just because my battery was getting older and older. Enraged reviews from people who spent money on a replacement battery tell me otherwise. | I bought a new battery too, though I only did it when my phone was turning off at 20% (not a proper shutdown, it just switched off). One problem is that you can't seem to find a confirmed brand new, genuine LG battery anywhere. You have to take the risk with a fake or one that someone has ripped out of an old phone |
3,308 | You wanna know why trolls like to spoil movies? Because of threads like these. | So trolls spoil movies because they wanna see people make reddit threads warning other people of trolls? People troll because they enjoy other people's frustration. |
3,309 | His point is that some communities are extremely underprivileged, and the culture in the communities is a pretty much suited to create crime and death, so you should also keep that in mind when judging peoples actions. Now/what/where is to blame is where is up to debate. | I mean...people should be responsible for their actions no matter what their background. That's pretty cut and dry. |
3,310 | Thanks for sharing this story man! Was a lot of fun to read, reminds me of Roskilde '05 in Denmark (Green Day, Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Eat World, to name a few) | That line up sounds excellent, been listening to Audioslave most of the day, would have loved to see them live! Especially back in 2005! Black Sabbath too for that matter! Do you live in Denmark? They have many good festivals? |
3,311 | (#s "Watanabe has the same name as Serizawa in the original film, the creator of the Oxygen Destroyer. So yeah, Godzilla is probably getting fried") | This has never been described as a remake, but a franchise reboot. Serizawa is most likely a nod to the original, because otherwise they are projecting a certain ending as soon as they first show his character. ...also the original Godzilla movie didn't have other monsters, so this clearly isn't a remake. |
3,312 | I wonder what people who say this are even listening to. There's more good music being made, and it's more accessible, than ever. It's almost overwhelming. I am constantly astonished by the virtuosity, artistry, and creativity of contemporary musicians. | Oh yes, there is good music out there now, but you have to dig for it. The shit that plays on the radio is awful and makes me want to stab myself in the ears. |
3,313 | I agree 100% but hip hop/Rap/pretty much all music has always been about prior generations thinking current generations suck. We have our music, lets listen to it, live it, and let the kids be kids | That’s not true at all. Who’s hating on the OG rappers from the 80’s and 90’s? Who’s hating and Tupac and Biggie? YouTube gave mumble rappers a platform. Shit hasn’t always been this way. |
3,314 | I really feel like he's forcing it with ID:R. When they released the ID4 review before ID:R came out and Mike said he hated it, I found that hard to buy. He loves schlock. ID4 is some good schlock. I feel like he's kinda playing his audience a bit, almost becoming the heel of RLM. | Mike's turning into the Corey Graves of Red Letter Media? Next he will be drinking craft beer and hating on anybody who stays hyped. |
3,315 | Well Fight Club you almost certainly need to watch it a second time. | The maybe the shining, the big lebowski, or requiem for a dream |
3,316 | Wow, people still fanboy troll, how old-fashioned. Since I haven't seen it in a while I guess that means I'm (or the services I choose to use are) doing a good job of curating out the crap. | So who am I fanboying for? It sounds like the services you choose to use are "curating" out critical opinions. I wouldn't consider that a good thing but people do like echo chambers, reddit is full of them. So you haven't actually provided a counter argument. Your comment addresses me rather than anything I say; "old-fashioned", "fanboy", "troll" are not examples of Microsoft's record of innovation. |
3,317 | This sounds like something I would want to watch out of personal interest, but as a source I'm not sure I could use it in my paper. It's hard to trust documentary format when fact-finding in any medium. | True. Except that it has actual interviews from the times. If nothing else, it could lead you to more sources that you might not have (presumably) been exposed to prior. |
3,318 | It totally was not 80s rock. GnR was out to destroy 80s rock. That was their purpose and what was experienced at the time. Then grunge showed them the door shortly after. | I tought GnR where considered hair metal, so i think of them more as an 80's band then as an 90's band. |
3,319 | Hello, fellow Fante fans! I got Ask the Dust also as a present more than two years ago and it made me cry. If you like Fante and Bukowski, perhaps you'd also like Roberto Bolano. Try *The Insufferable Gaucho* for starter. | I agree with this outside-the-box recommendation. I never would have thought it! The Savage Detectives is my favorite of his |
3,320 | I do occasionally (Sleigh Bells namely) but then after hearing Pitchfork have constant hipster-gasms about them I usually give in and give them a listen. Sleigh Bells is pretty great if you can get into the noise. However, I still can't listen to Avett Brothers (incredibly popular around here, I don't know how popular they are internationally though) for your reason. | So you're one of those people who just listens to whatever Pitchfork says to listen to? |
3,321 | Of course, but after 5 months? is it not a little early to be saying? There are many adopters yet, I imagine some people will be turned off getting the original one for this. I certainly will be waiting, nothing wrong with that, just seems early to announce. | Dude, this phone isn't coming until late September / early October, when everyone else releases theirs for the holiday shopping season |
3,322 | I've never actually gotten around to seeing bottle rocket yet. I'll probably pick it up from the Criterion section at BnN sometime soon. | I highly recommend it! I was extremely impressed when I saw it. And the next Barnes & Noble Criterion sale starts November 1st! :) |
3,323 | I'll try my best. A beat is what you count in a bar. For example if a song is in 4/4, you would count each beat as 1, 2, 3, 4. It's pretty much the metronome in a song. Rhythm is how you would divide those beats, or not at all. Each beat can be subdivided. So the subdivisions can be 1+2+3+4+. The + signs are "and." A simple rhythm could be 1+, +3+, notice how the 2 beat and the 4+ beat are missing. If anybody can explain it better please do. | I'm kind of getting the gist of things -- thanks! Is a bar just a section of a song that usually repeats itself? |
3,324 | I feel like you'd get the same effect by using higher walled tyres. Mechanical suspension is great at absorbing the big bumps. Soft tyres are good for the small ones. And I dare say, unless you routinely go down stairs on a wheel chair, you won't encounter many bumps. | This is kind of the obvious simple solution. Many vehicles get more suspension simply by going to bigger tires. If nothing else it's the best way to lower the unsprung weight. In bicycles there has been a recent trend to fat bikes with oversize tires. Aerodynamics, rolling resistance, and inertia do come into play, but are also factors in other suspension approaches. For wheelchairs, speeds make aerodynamics not important, and many wheelchairs use high rolling resistance solid tires for flat resistance. Here's a link to using fat tires on a wheelchair: |
3,325 | Yes.. only dozens will love that super niche and underground movie interstellar | Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and gem "Moon" |
3,326 | You do realise that is why 50 shades of Gray is called that, right? The story started out as twilight fanfiction, and when the writer wanted to make it into its own thing, she had to rename Edward Cullen. She looked no further than the first movie she saw featuring BDSM, and just directly lifted the name of the main character. Hence Christian Gray, hence 50 shades of gray. | Nope, had absolutely no idea. I knew it was Twilight fanfiction but I didn't know the name came from Secretary. |
3,327 | > artists financial hardship. If that's really the narrative he wanted to promote, he wouldn't have paraded Madonna ($800m), Beyonce ($450m), Usher ($180m), and Rihanna ($140m), among the rest of them for the launch. | that's why, along with the business model, that's it's bullshit. It's disingenuous but I think Jayzs rich spokes-artists are trying to push the idea that this is a company is revolution in the interests of struggling artists. |
3,328 | Space Force is not a new idea, it has been thrown around in Pentagon for years. | I'd consider Star Wars a predecessor for it. But it takes a certain amount of stupid to say you want to actually do it. |
3,329 | Read the book, it spends more time building up some character development so that her reasons for not doing so are clearer. [Horns Spoilers](#s "It's because her sister died of a similar hereditary cancer, and pushed everyone she loved away from her by saying really, really uncalled for things. She didn't wanna do that to him, so she broke his heart in a breakup to avoid breaking it on her deathbed.") Also the ending is so much better and makes so much more sense. | I believe the reason in the movie was [Horns Spoilers](#s "that she didn't want to break his heart by dying to cancer same way her mother did because it wrecked her dad, but to be honest she was going to hurt him anyways, he at least deserves the peace of mind knowing her reasoning wasn't his fault, and letting him move on in a much more stable and slow fashion.") |
3,330 | I love this movie so much that I named my son Lane. | Redditor for *three years* and I just had to name a son so I know important it is. I regret that I have but one upvote to give. |
3,331 | I have the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie, but I've never watched it. I've watched it on TV though. My Netflix and Amazon Prime que are graveyards. | Oh man, yeah my Netflix and Amazon queue are just the same. |
3,332 | WTF CYNIC HAS A NEW ALBUM? Holy shit, it's like a surprise birthday. How the fuck have I never heard about it? I've been seriously out of the loop. Thank you! Traced In Air is a top 5 all-time favorite for me, how does this compare? | It's decent. Following the progression out of metal that Carbon-Based and Traced In Air started. |
3,333 | The ending of Looper followed all of the same rules of time travel that were laid down previously. Time travel is not possible, so any sort of scrutiny will break down a movie which has time travel as a plot device. That isn't the point, though; the point is to be consistent is the rules that were established in the rest of the film. Looper was internally consistent throughout. | you should watch Primer. it handles the tricky concept of causation very well i think |
3,334 | It will make credit card skimming much more difficult initially. The tech and techniques needed to skim a chip card is more complicated and expensive, from my understanding. But no, it certainly won't stop fraud. A number of old techniques will still work, and scammers will quickly adapt to the new systems. The biggest change for the credit card companies is the liability shift. That's the only real reason they're pushing this forward. It will really screw over a lot of small businesses that can't afford to upgrade to a chip system. | Chip readers can't be that expensive, literally everywhere has them in my country and probably most others in Europe. Hell you can get a chip reader for an iPhone for a couple hundred euro so you can take payments on it. |
3,335 | I am aware of both facts but the streets and buildings were built significantly after they were part of Mexico. | Many cities. Specially their downtown areas try to preserve that feeling with their buildings. |
3,336 | >>Fentanyl is like 50 times stronger than morphine. >Actually closer to 100x stronger, 200ug vs like 50mg. Your numbers are also wrong. Its 100micrograms fentanyl to 10mg morphine. It is indeed 100 times more potent. I would just add that being 100x potent doesnt necessarily mean what people think it means | Ah yes you are right thanks for the correction. I am also wondering if you brought up the very good point that potency doesnt mean much at all really. No one is getting the same amount of fent as they are morphine so in like actual dose vs amount you have fent is not that different than any other opioid. |
3,337 | Its not hard to write music when all your songs sound more or less the same. | It's not hard to write music period. Writing something that more than you and your mother want to listen to? That is a horse of a different color. |
3,338 | Is Emma Watson wearing pants? A dress? Both? I couldn't tell. | Yeah it's like a completely backless dress with pants/leggings on. |
3,339 | Going off of you saying you like fleet foxes, I'd recommend beach house and first aid kit. Start with the Beach House album Teenage Dream and the First Aid Kit album The Lion's Roar | Thanks! I'm checking Beach House out right now and seems pretty good |
3,340 | That is actually what the Joker is supposed to be. In the 60's series the Joker is a crime boss and it is the Riddler that is the truly psychotic one. Notice that even in Noland's Batman the Joker seems to have infinite resources and is able to get his henchmen in everywhere. He is still a crime boss, but the movie focus is such that you don't get to see the workings of his gang nearly as much as you normally do. | >That is actually what the Joker is supposed to be. Supposed to be? Who's supposing? There are a multitude of variations of the Joker and the 60's boner joker is not the definitive Joker for everyone. There is no general definitive Joker. All matters of opinion and how you created the characters in your head. I, For example, have versions of Batman or the Hulk in my head that are definitive for me, but which have never been shown in comics or any other media. |
3,341 | Can we start voting these posts down instead of up? I know it might be the first line that anyone thinks of when they think of the movie, but these posts add nothing to the conversation and are repeated ad nauseam. (I am fully prepared for the ensuing downvotes that I am bringing upon my own post. My Reddit karma doesn't define me. My Reddit karma doesn't define me. My Reddit karma doesn't define me...) | I agree. I absolutely love Airplane, it's one of my favourite movies of all time as well as almost all the other ZAZ parodies, but this quote starts to get really annoying. I always liked that line a lot, but I'm now sort of fed up with it. And before anyone who replies asks: Yes, I am serious. And don't call me ... I guess I'm going down with you. Anyone who enjoys Airplane should check out A Touch of Cloth and Sledgehammer! /r/ATouchofCloth. /r/PoliceSquad |
3,342 | I was convinced you were talking about D. B. Weiss and David Benioff for like 73% of your post. | I keep forgetting that people refer to those two as "D & D". I *really* should remember than when referring to Martin. |
3,343 | Admittedly I don't know much about tenets of Mormonism so I best not prejudge. Can you point to one or two fundamental beliefs within Mormonism that you struggle with or simply dismiss? | Mormonism is like fan fiction of the new testament |
3,344 | Speaking of plasma TVs, the quality of the one I got in 2006 was amazing. It’s still kicking even today despite constant use. | I still have a 42" Panasonic plasma monitor in my bedroom, from 2005. Doesn't support HDCP, has a fan , has burn in but if it doesn't give a fantastic picture I don't know what does . I could see it going another ten years without issue |
3,345 | Would replacing a battery be more or less expensive than replacing the phone? | $79 for a new battery vs $500+ for a new/refurbished device. The arguments some people here are making are completely insane. If this is affecting you, go get your battery replaced and you wont have the problem anymore. Its not a giant conspiracy like everyone wants to think. |
3,346 | I use that Tennant / Patrick Stewart production of Hamlet in my HS English class to teach Hamlet. It's quite good, though no Ethan Hawke. Nothing is quite as good as Ethan Hawke. | Yes. Agreed entirely. Bill Murray will always be my favorite Polonius. |
3,347 | As much as I want to believe this... that's terrible publicity... SHIA LABEEF SUCKS. Yeah... great publicity. Also I saw the film before it was password protected. It barely got popular on reddit. The link in /r/videos had like 10 comments. | I just watched it because of this whole incident. It was okay. I don't think I'd have watched it without the controversy though. |
3,348 | Sounds like you have really thought this through. Those sound like some good ideas. The only issue I have is taking the median base income for the state. Even within a single, say California, that median income can change a lot from region to region. Also, I think industry should be taken into account, as wages change dramatically from one industry to another. | That would let outsourcing firms setup in Mississippi, import workers for cheap, then fly them around to clients. |
3,349 | I'm not saying that he means it necessarily as feminist, I am saying it is feminist. The women are the strong and sensible characters, the men are silly and stupid. I can give you a dozen examples of each. | I see it now. You're absolutely correct. My political history teacher taught another lie and the story is pretty feminine. I can't believe I didn't catch it. I'm not arguing, you're correct. For some reason I believe that I'm sounding sarcastic, but I'm not. The gay following also makes a lot of sense with the feminist message in mind. |
3,350 | Every time Paul Walker did something dangerous in that trailer I was afraid for him. | like when his car got sprayed by the guns |
3,351 | Now what would be *really fucking cool* (and also extremely invasive) is if you could map every single video of the game together into a 360° view of the whole game, being able to rotate around the whole thing. | They already sort of do that. On replays they will commonly show one part of the play at one angle, then as the play progresses switch to another angle by interpolating between the cameras. This gives a 3D look at the field without any cuts during the replay. |
3,352 | Primus sucks. No, but really, Leftover Crack is hands down the worst band I've ever seen live. Stza was up on stage chugging a bottle of Listerine, while he could obviously afford booze, and literally bawling tears of nostalgia. "I always wanted to play at the Gilmore, now look! wwwaaaaa." Shut the hell up and play another song, asswipe. | holy shit.chugging Listerine? did it seem like it was real or maybe just a prop? one time i downed two $1 bottles of 40 proof mouthwash and threw up small black bits of blood. not good. but from what i gather that Stza guy is a fucking mess. |
3,353 | The scene in the book where he uses a hungry hamster/gerbil on one of his victims is such a pleasant mental image | That scene where he rips a girls throat out and fucked he mouth kind of surprised me. Then of course the hamster murder. And the one where he bite off a woman's vagina. Ok it was all pretty bad. |
3,354 | Vocals- Maynard Keenan. Guitar- Robert Fripp. Keys- Keith Emerson. Bass-Geddy Lee. Drums-Bill Bruford | this has the potential to be the best king crimson line up ever. |
3,355 | > I would disagree based on the fact that the woodcutters story was added by kurosawa. The adding of this to the collection changes it from "any person could have done it." I don't see why your conclusion follows. > my point is the facts kurosawa added rise above an ambiguous story. it is *the* ambiguous story. That's what it's famous for. You must make assumptions and divine truth from lie in order to create a plausible timeline, and someone else can do the same but come out with a different conclusion. | The idea is that before this was added to the story (orginal short story) it was undistinguishably ambigious. Adding a part which matches the woodcutters intent to the mediums story without any possible reason for knowing that beforehand gives an idea of whose stories are more believable and what probably actually happened. |
3,356 | Those aren't even the worst two, the opening CIA/Bane sequence had a half dozen silly holes on it's own. | It's been a while but I don't remember any there. What were they? |
3,357 | Agree, each branch of my library system has at least 1 3d printer on site. Checkout movies/audiobooks/music for free via their portal to Amazon. | I hope this doesn't get too many potential Seattle Public Library patrons too excited. I mean, each branch had a color printer.... The social programs are pretty great though. |
3,358 | I got to see this and Radiodread preformed live awhile back. It was great show, and I'd recommend any of their music or live shows. It wasn't anything mind-blowing (I did turn down some free X though, if it matters), but it was just great set. I believe I lost, but later found, my keys. | Someone offered me free X at Bonnaroo one year. I couldn't imagine someone saying yes to that. "Hell yeah I'd love to take this pill of indeterminate substance handed to me by a complete stranger who hasn't showered in days. What could go wrong?" |
3,359 | I can't wait for hangout next year for the first time! It seems like such an incredible festival | I've been 3 years in a row. VIP for the last 2 years. Feel free to PM me any questions. |
3,360 | Randy Thom's stuff is great, as are the classic Burtt stuff. Just saw Gravity yesterday. It needs to be nominated for Sound AND Score. The sound design going on in the score is amazing, and the sound FX were beautifully muted and anechoic. | I definitely agree on sound design, but I'd have to disagree with the score being amazing. It's bombastic and downright schmaltzy at times. I wish it would have been more subtle and refined. |
3,361 | Highs of BvS: -Wonder Woman's theme song. -the promise of a Ben Affleck Batman movie that's actually good. -??? | The fight between batman and superman was ok I guess. I'm reaching here! |
3,362 | If anything stems from "Frankenstein" and involves monster-like beings, then it's an adaptation of Mary Shelley's story (which, I hasten to add, was the original story written in the 1800s). | Here's the thing about characters from the 1800s: they're public domain, and you can make whatever stories with them you like. There's no reason to think it has anything to do with the original story other than borrowing the character. |
3,363 | I couldn't finish even this one. I found his writing to be ponderous. As a fantasy live, I find it hard to catch myself unable to finish a book. I had jumped the gun and bought the first seven thinking I could do it. Maybe I'll try again. | Don't. Your instincts were right. These books are trash. Teenage fiction. Your time is better spent on books that take be reader seriously. If you like books whose characters don't have he personality of an informercial star, give these a try. *The Acts of Caine* books by Matthew Woodring Stover are the best in the genre insofar as I know. Close seconds are Scott Lynch's *Gentleman Bastards Sequence* and Gene Wolf's *Book of the New Sun* novels. All excellent reads. |
3,364 | not realy. Even the dark theme on office 2013 sucks so bad. Its practically all white. and with no way to change it. | If it feels too bright with a white image on the screen then your brightness is too high and the room is too dark |
3,365 | technically buying a ticket is agreement to a contract, according to most ticketing companies. a headliners name will appear on a ticket. if that band appears for even a song, you saw the headliner and may not get a refund. if the band walks off after ten minutes, you still saw them. But if the band breaks up before they go on or someone gets sick or too drunk before their set and the headliner can't play, then you can get a refund. | Exactly, people who complain should just never buy a ticket again. But clearly the act is doing *something* right. Not a huge cake fan or anything, just a box office worker. |
3,366 | My bet is that it's a lot harder because of accents. For example, if you say "wat" instead of "what", well that's pretty obvious. But if you say "papa" and you haven't used any other accents you could mean three different things: potato, father, or Pope. Same for "si", yes or if. I'm sure it does for some mispelled Spanish, at least the obvious stuff, "quin" instead of "quien" or whatever, but some of it might be too difficult. | No, it's mostly because the examples given are the equivalent of l33tspeak, yet it's common for people in Spanish to talk like that on the net. |
3,367 | Yay technofiefdoms! Amazon's apartments with free prime sounds boring? Why not try the Microsoft desert compound? | maybe this is how the top .01% end up with high-tech energy-neutral cities that run themselves. Except for the people that have to work at a starbucks and a supermarket and a drugstore and a doc's office and the plumbers and electricians and mechanics and electrical engineers and so on. Think Elysium but on Earth |
3,368 | Actually, it would be 90 mins of Alex Murphy bonding with his kid and wife, while some other unfortunate shmuck get killed, reanimated into a robot cop and his life torn apart by a soulless corporation. Also, his partner and him commenting on who or what that Robocop guy really is, while they do patrols, ala *End of Watch*, (making sure to avoid the abandoned mills). And whether they should participate in the police strike. | At a family barbecue telling his wife "that could've been me... Poor guy" and then he just gets drunk and eats lots of pork. |
3,369 | Wow thank you for this! That gives me a lot to think over and chew on. I didn't even realize those epigraphs were supposed to be read, I thought it was some junk in my edition. I'm gonna go back and read those now | Definitely read them - they're part and parcel of this whole 'what is knowledge?' theme. Plus they set the tone for the novel's use of parody and metafictional elements - just look at the ridiculously named sub sub sub librarian (or however many 'subs' it is). |
3,370 | Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis. Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney. Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll. All great on their own but, taken together they make a lasting impression on you about the emptiness of modern culture and what people do to survive in it. | That's not bad. I've always paired Less Than Zero with the Catcher in the Rye. |
3,371 | A 60 TB SSD is not necessary for consumers. It would only be a novelty... | Ah. No one will ever need more than a few gigabytes, what could you even put on that? |
3,372 | Oh, I completely comprehended the plot. The writing style was tedious and pissed me off. You also failed at not being condescending. | > The writing style was tedious and pissed me off. Kinda like the comments whining about it. |
3,373 | There'll be a set of numbers which shows what printing it is. So 1st edition but not necessarily a first print. This site should help | Tried going through the site, need to take the time and really read in depth. |
3,374 | I love you guys I have seen u in NY state Toronto and Quebec (i live in Toronto) so when are u coming back to toronto? | hoping for a full Canadian run sometime in 2018. keep your ear to the ground and eyes open! -2 |
3,375 | I'm pretty certain I'm the only one here who likes OUAT. | I did like it for a while. seasons 1 and 2 were pretty good. 3 was getting not so good and the whole frozen thing.. well i stopped watching before that cuz just taking disney movie characters and dropping them into the middle of that world was not what I signed up for. all the other characters before were fairly creative re imagined versions of original folk lore characters.. but the frozen characters they little just dragged and dropped those right into their story line. |
3,376 | I used to do an annual Dune re\-read, but got sidetracked. I want to be able to do that again, but also with Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Patrick Rothfuss' The Kingkiller Chronicles, and Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. | I'm reading The Name of the Wind right now and it is so good, I can see why you'd want to reread it. And I would also like to go back to the Stormlight Archive one of these years, maybe even Mistborn too. |
3,377 | No way! There it goes on my list straight away. | I want to second "Twenty Years After". The writing is amazing, and (how can this be possible?) the book gets funnier and more witty and clever. You know how rare goog movie sequels are? This is the perfect sequel. Please read it and tell us what you think! Source: The Three Musketeers + Twenty Years Later is my favorite book. |
3,378 | Same sort of problem for me with Opeth and Meshuggah. I love odd time signatures and fluid rhythm sections, but as soon as the singer starts doing his thing, it loses all appeal. | Try Damnation by Opeth. No harsh vocals, just some great, yet incredibly depressing progressive rock. |
3,379 | This fight serves as the best contrast between literature and the silver screen. I don't think it mattered what the SFX team cast on that screen; it was never going to rival the images in my head. | While that is definitely true, I think what they did with this part (from what I remember) was as though they didn't try and even show it. Someone commented to me that the scene from the book was chaotic (as I remember it) and the movie had the death eaters just walking out the castle. |
3,380 | I think Infinite Jest could work really well as a multi-season TV show (preferably something like a Netflix series) | I'm trying to imagine people who haven't read IJ trying to get at it through a faithful TV series adaptation. I can see truckloads of ways it would frustrate, anger, and disappoint them. |
3,381 | And any time you cater to extremism by bowing down to their requests to ban certain ideas, you legitimize their tactics and behavior. If Iran can't handle disagreement like grown ups, maybe it IS better if they stay home. | Thanks for the advice m'goodsir! All hail Christopher Hitchens. *tips fedora* |
3,382 | Welp, Curved and 3D TVs were gimmicks from the start and appear to have finally died. How big of a TV are you looking for? There aren't many $3k TVs because there hasn't really been any major innovation lately. You can get a 4K TV for $1.5k and be set. | 60-65in this is the one I'm leaning towards. I'll be buying in about 3 months so I think it'll be $2k by then. Since CES just happened and the modules are about to drop I think this is the one! I definitely don't want curved they won't steal my money with that garbage! |
3,383 | Wow, really? Why? The challenge of putting a camera in such a confined environment and delivering striking compositions for two hours is a huge merit in itself... | People have been putting cameras in confined environments for more than 60 years. The movie isn't nothing special, in fact, probably one of the worst movies of Joon-ho Bong. Everything is too obvious, too blatant and a lot of things were quite stupid too. |
3,384 | > extremely uncomfortable. that's a little much. I own these things and I forget when I have them on sometimes. | I'm sure it's different from person to person, but I've heard a lot of others complain about their comfort as well. The main issue was that they only covered about 95% of my ears, so a small part of my ear was getting pinched. With the slightly bigger pads that's not an issue. |
3,385 | why would you ever want them in the visible? | Because they're visible in every Sci fi movie ever and that's what people would expect. |
3,386 | Yes. It's common to lose the obsession in teenage years, for obvious reasons, and then regain it when life becomes intelligible again. Kind of hard to read in the middle of a wildfire. Of course, there are times later on when you can lose the desire again for the opposite reason - life becomes *too* bland, and your imagination withers. That's when you need to re-read old favorites to rekindle the spark. | I was thinking about this the not too long ago. I read so much up until my last years of middle school or early high school. My life was hectic in the sense that I was unhappy with a lot of things in my life. I just stopped doing the things I loved. I’m 23 now, and I have been reading more and more. Books, graphic novels. I have been coloring, occasionally drawing. Other things I loved doing are slowly making their way back into my life. I realized this is because I have finally reached a point in my life where my life is finally starting to become mine. |
3,387 | People were really hyping Kanye's new album for a while, but come on... I listened to the single "Black Skinhead" and it was really cool, up until: "We do it 300... like the romans." Really Kanye? Really? NOBODY can make that mistake. It's just stupid. | Somebody on /r/HHH said that the romans had 300=CCC CCC= Cool, Calm, Collected |
3,388 | nah just start sharpening it. I'm sure there will be something else to lynch mob at in the next few hours. | As if I wouldn't keep my pitchforks sharp all the time |
3,389 | More like 4:21 but yeah good catch. That only leaves me more confused. He pats him on the back for a while like "there there buddy...." then he heels him in the nuts. | To me it seemed more like a "who's your daddy now" pat. |
3,390 | Most browsers hide them in the help section to keep ignorant people from clicking them. | I'm not sure you know what an invalid certificate warning looks like. It's a full page that demands attention before you can continue. |
3,391 | I thought Winter Soldier was the one with the darkest them. | That's like saying "the darkest snowflake". There isn't a single Marvel movie or comic that has anything of substance in it; they are just kind of fun, and that's perfectly OK. |
3,392 | But once the results are out it's pointless. Fun watching it live | Personally I'm DVRing it because I'm busy while they're on, and I'll just avoid Reddit/Twitter until then. |
3,393 | Don't stop there. To hell with those kids. Fucking shove the Iliad at them in ancient Greek. Start hurling different alphabets at them. Mandarin. Cyrillic. Never stop upping the ante. | Then finish them off with a novel about the Spanish Inquisition, they'll never see it coming. |
3,394 | > Copyright in America exists to promote creation, not to stifle it. Explain to me how copying or cribbing over-heavily from someone else's work is somehow more creative than coming up with your own? | You're equivocating. *Creation* mean new works. How *creative* those works are is not the issue. Even you're not really talking about it; you want Eskov to have changed just enough to be legal, like D&D's "halflings." The Last Ringbearer would still be a derivative work from LOTR if it was about the land of Nordor in Halfway World. Again: what is the benefit of stopping anyone else from building on Tolkien, if Tolkein's done all the creation he'll ever do and earned oodles of money for it? |
3,395 | Funny how you say The Revenant was pretty but superficial even though thats pretty much Mad Max in a nutshell. It was a great action movie for sure but lacked depth in every way. I'm sensing some bias here | You... Couldn't identify with the struggle to escape or survive? On a deeper/emotional level? |
3,396 | I had the same feelings but picked it up again recently and finished. I disliked the main character most of all. For a NASA scientist he writes his diary like a 16 year old. The author needs to tone it down a bit in his next book. Drop all the "Yay!"'s. I couldn't tell if the author was not funny, or he was trying to make the character a bit of a dork. | That's why I'm actually really excited for the movie. If they keep all the science and engineering parts as intact as they can for a movie (think Apollo 13), and supplement it with a much more interesting main character (I can't imagine they got Matt Damon for the part if they wanted him to be exactly like the character in the novel), it could be pretty great. |
3,397 | So if I wanted to check if my webcam is vulnerable to this type of attack, can I simply try to open a telnet or ssh connection to that IP address on my home network? I haven't used either of those protocols enough to know what to expect. For example, can I go from a command line: telnet. op. 192.168.1.X (where x is the specific device I'm interested in on my home network) and if the device has telnet capability I should be prompted for credentials yes? Same kind of story for ssh then right? | I don't know, maybe someone with more savvy will chime in. |
3,398 | Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman's best novel IMHO. He's a gifted storyteller but as he has often said himself, he's really better off doing the whole oral storytelling. His later books are better read outloud. | it narrowly loses out to 'stardust', imo, but those two are definitely a cut above all the others |
3,399 | Pretty meh. A lot of the songs sound the same, disappointed. | I know this has been said before, but while this is excellent music, It's not really the music i love Daft Punk for. Contact was good though. |
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