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3,500 | > titles that solicit upvotes through sympathy. We're not your personal pity party. The rules are here to keep this place from turning into a shithole. Asshole. | Fuck off dude, I'm not looking for your sympathy. I'm sharing my grandfather's music. I edited in the proper format, now you can go fuck yourself in peace. Have fun being petty, cheers and have a happy new year. |
3,501 | This song is incredible. I thought Plugged In (Bassnectar Remix) was my favorite Bassnectar track, but man this is awesome! | I feel like I've been listening to this on repeat for like a month. I'm glad I was able to help you find this track. It's bloody amazing! |
3,502 | Two Things: ---------------- * **1)** This is the first I have ever heard this song (*Thanks to purposeful avoidance*)... Gotta say, it's not terrible. * **2)** Steve Kardynal has a much nicer ass than Miley Cyrus... *imjustsayin.* | >This is the first I have ever heard this song (Thanks to purposeful avoidance)... Gotta say, it's not terrible. I was going to say the same thing. It's a shame it took a gag parody to get me to listen to it at all, but now that I did, I am really liking it. |
3,503 | I would wager the Philosopher's Stone helped ease people into higher fantasy such as The Fellowship of the Ring. The movies came right after 9/11 too, which could have possibly also contributed. Escapist media is powerful, especially if it's a triumphant good vs. evil trope. Not to forget the Fellowship of the Ring was really the first well made high fantasy movie. | Fellowship of the Ring and Philosopher's Stone were released like a week apart. Neither influenced audiences to see the other - if anything, they were competing for tickets. |
3,504 | I'm in the same situation as you are with work and 'music'. I once forgot my headphones at home, and it made for a very dull day. Under the Dome was the last King book I read before moving on to some Robert Heinlein books (Citizen of The Galaxy, Stranger in a Strange Land). I recommend Duma Key and 11/22/63 to you. The narration is great. | I did both. Duma Key was well done, 11/22/63 was amazing. Have you done The Dead Zone? |
3,505 | Definitely the best muse album, but i wouldn't have it anywhere near my top three | Its pretty hard to piuck my top three. Those were just of today. If you ask me tomorrow itd be three completely different albums |
3,506 | As if this story couldn't get any more disgusting, [this] just pissed me off even more. Delusional bastards. | Right?! Cos anybody with the password "if***kids" is obviously not a pedophile /s. Some people really need to wake up... I really don't know if it's real or a troll page.. And if it is a troll, it's more than offensive.. |
3,507 | Pumped hydro and reserve dams is such a crazy concept, now that I think about it. If I put it in [simple terms] You're just putting the water high up and keeping it there until you need to drop it to make power later? | Yes, and doing so serves two purposes. Most power solutions generate power whether you want them to or not. When demand is lower than supply, that power has to go somewhere. Pumping it to a reservoir is better than dumping it. Additionally, most power solutions can't significantly increase power production in a timely manner. Peak usage often requires more than the plant is producing. That's where the reservoir comes in. It's not just dropping it to make power, but to combine its output with the plant's. It really is an amazing idea. Battery backups are extraordinarily expensive and complicated to implement on the same scale. |
3,508 | I give it two months before management starts jumping ship | They filed that a big chunk of money goes to employee retention. There's a big payout for those that stick around. |
3,509 | that's not what i was getting at, though. i mean, there are lots of books i know i should read, but i really *want* to read 'lady sings the blues'. at some level, though, i also really want to have the atavistic pleasure of anticipating it and "finding" a copy someday, and there are lots of other books to read in the interim. | Ah, I see. Now that I better understand, I'd say Rat Catching by Crispin Glover. If I find a copy, whatever I'm reading at the time will go on pause to make time for it. |
3,510 | Have you even read hellblazer? The only things the movie character and the comic character had in common was their name. | They then proceeded to pronounce that name wrong. Edit: don't how this got downvoted and the comment above up voted but whatevs |
3,511 | Is this true? I feel lile I read somewhere that quantum communication is generally accepted to be impossible. | Yeah, it's true. Quantum communication is fairly straight forward to accomplish over short distances. Gets increasingly difficult the longer the distance. This is an impressive technological feat, but certainly not impossible. |
3,512 | What if it was done in the name of reddit, organised on a subreddit by a group of redditors who many of us implicitly sympathise with? | Most Muslims hate terrorists and the number 1 victim of terrorism are Muslims |
3,513 | I've heard he can't really sing live. Not that they don't put on a good show. Just that he can't hit the notes. Confirm or deny? | Deny! I saw them back in 2010 and Nate is pitch perfect (or I just got caught up in the show). They did Dog Problems(the song) from The Format and it sounded just like the album. |
3,514 | I crashed my friend's Samsung smart TV by trying to cast something from my phone to his TV. He told me it was probably because I had a "shitty Android phone." I have a Samsung Galaxy S5. His Samsung TV was crashed by Samsung phone. When I say crashed, I mean he had to unplug the TV from the wall to get it to "reboot." I think avoiding Samsung is probably a reasonable option to consider. I happen to have a Samsung laptop and it is pretty underwhelming even beyond the Windows Update issues. | > He told me it was probably because I had a "shitty Android phone." You might want to update your friend, his processor seems out of date. |
3,515 | Couple years ago we had a really bad power outage that lasted over a week, I was really glad to have books lying around for that. | That's a good point, but we do have a generator as we live in a hurricane prone area. |
3,516 | Where the heck did you get that they don't want him to perform "Because he's gay"? They seem concerned about performing an oversexualized concert... like having strippers dancing during his songs, not only because he kissed a guy from his band. Read through the text and don't stop at the first hint about why they don't want him perform. It's not like they want him banned from the country | "In addition, a simple online search would reveal that he is well-known for his active promotion of a **highly sexualized lifestyle and LGBT rights, both of which are contrary to mainstream Singaporean values**." So while it's not *just* on the basis of homosexuality, that's certainly a factor at work here. |
3,517 | *Contact* by Carl Sagan. I wouldn't be who I am today without that book | Please elaborate. I love Carl Sagan's work, but I could not make it more than half way through the book. It just seemed slow & meandering. I enjoyed the movie though! |
3,518 | agreed! i just finished it this afternoon. i was only really mad about one part, but what can ya do?! | I'd rather have a few parts I'm not in love with instead of going for 15 years and not getting an ending :) I'll give Sanderson some major credit, taking over on the final approach is daunting. If it fails, he will have some major blowback, if he succeeds, the lion's share of credit will probably go to Jordan. I'm happy with his first book and I have no doubts now that Sanderson will bring the story in the way it should finish. |
3,519 | shell shock on android? As I established, I don't have ios. Hey man, I'm just telling you how I avoid the the paced obsolescence. You can do whatever you want. And security updates mean absolutely zero to me, because I don't do things that put the security of my device at risk. I don't dl shady looking apps, and I don't go to clearly shady websites. Pretty simple, actually. Blocked. | Blocked? Really? That's childish, but it's no more childish than your security naivete. As /u/FluentInTypo said, shellshock is on Android. Android devices are vulnerable. |
3,520 | Really? I read him and think "What the fuck is the point of that, Dean?" He had a section in a book where a fat 12 year old fingered herself with a severed hand. | Have to say that I have not read that particular one. |
3,521 | And to really hit home, he made his logo a bull. That will always make me laugh. Because he basically put his dick on the logo. | I get what you mean but.. a horse is still faster than a bull. That's what I would say if I were a Ferrari spokesperson. |
3,522 | How does deleted scenes make up the fact that a biologist tries to pet an alien? | The tiny leech/flatworm he had collected earlier didn't try to attack or eat anyone. |
3,523 | Adam Sandler in ***Punch-Drunk Love*** --when, after his new Love and him are attacked, he suddenly finds he has the focused will of a martial arts' Superman, and kicks ass without breaking a sweat. Also: His "that's that" moment: | Interesting that you mention Superman. I'm not one for shitty internet fan theories but have you heard the one about Punch-Drunk Love being a modern, much more toned down Superman story? Or more appropriately, using Superman parallels to portray a coming of age story later in the life of an ordinary man. There are quite a few connections but my favourites are his obsession with 'flying', **L**ena **L**eonard (Lois Lane) and his new blue and red suit that everyone is always commenting on when they see it for the first time. |
3,524 | English soccer hooligans are still bettered dressed than the average American. No matter how many times I watch this video, it always manages to crack me up. The main bald guy looks like he's going to shank someone. | Not every well built football fan is a hooligan. Yes, there's some terrible behaviour by fans, but they're in the minority. |
3,525 | > "purist anime lovers" will tell you subbed all the time. This isn't really an anime thing. Anyone who enjoys watching foreign films or TV will almost always recommend subs over dubs. Dubs are usually completely outside the control of the director, so you'll get a better sense of how the film was meant to be viewed with subtitles. With that said, Ghibli films are so heavily reliant on visuals that the dubs are probably worth it for some people. Personally, I'll watch the subs but I also know a decent amount of Japanese. To each their own. | Yes of course, the enjoyment of subtitles extends beyond just anime for sure. Anime just seems to have attracted such an elitist type of fanbase that the dub hatred seems more prevalent than those who simply enjoy foreign films and TV shows (the whole Weabo and Otaku culture is crazy to me and many others). Again, people can have, and are allowed to have, different preferences just as people can have different favorite colors. |
3,526 | Holy crap what a shitty phone. 3MP camera, crappy resolution, only one button, no Google Play store. Complete and utter piece of crap if you ask me. Sure I might be spoiled as I used to have the M7, and now the M8 from HTC, but my God, this phone is from like the early 2000's, and I think even $140 is too high for it. I think it should be given out free with signups, because you really have to be forced to get it, because I can't think of anyone that would actually choose to get this phone if given the choice. | I'm not saying that this phone is good (it's not, and they should try making their WP handsets cheaper because Android is performance crap on low-end) but you definitely are spoiled. |
3,527 | No, the government said"we interpret laws however we want" and found a low level judge to agree with them | Saying the citizen interpreting the law how they see fit... |
3,528 | You jest, but I actually did order a copy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from Amazon once, and it arrived printed on full-sized 8x11 copy paper, the text all in Comic Sans. | In all honestly Comic Sans on paper might actually be more readable than on a screen. I wonder if a Comic Serif would look good... |
3,529 | No. But snobs of both kinds are annoying. There is a small subset of people who don't like "high-brow" books who seem to insist that everyone who does is vain and pretending to like them for appearances. There are also people who like high brow books and are dismissive/snooty about low brow. Both of those types of people are bad. Some people like high brow, some people like low brow, some people like both. It doesn't matter. | Completely agree. My biggest gripe with exclusive readers of either category is their inability to acknowledge the shortcomings of their own favorite and the benefits of the other. I bounce around in my reading habits. Sometimes I'll read a YA novel or two, then some adult genre fiction, maybe some literary fiction, throw in some classics for good measure, and then there's the whole world of nonfiction. It completely depends on what I'm in the mindset to read. |
3,530 | Oh really, thanks for correcting me. I'm a fan of both as well | They have toured together as solo acts as well. Considering how short several bands lasted back then it's an easy mistake. |
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3,532 | Theres no way to verify your vote is counted on paper either? Unless you trust the integrity of each individual person counting paper ballots. I'm not saying electronic voting is any better, but paper is still blind. | You can watch them count paper. That's what election observers are for. |
3,533 | I love the first 6-9. They really lost steam towards the end though. I think that the Chaoswar was just terrible :/ | Too true. And I'd definitely add that they do read like young adult fiction. However, if you read the Empire Trilogy as well, you see a little world crossover, and it reads more adult, politics and caste system figures heavily. Very interesting. |
3,534 | You're forgetting the part where this is all a ploy by Betty Crocker herself (A.K.A. the Batterwitch, Sea Hitler), who eventually floods the planet by melting the ice caps. | That's because it's a spoiler, even though it's a couple of years old. |
3,535 | If you seriously think there are two categories of life, animals and mammals, you are beyond help. If the trained professionals of the public school system have failed you, what hope do I have? And for the record, I called you a troll, not dumb. I refuse to believe that someone can be *this* thick, but you apparently insist... | I didn't say *all* life. I just meant species, like birds, fish and primates. |
3,536 | I'm 43 and I watch *Adventure Time* with my much younger 6 and 9 year old daughters, and they love it. I've turned a few 20- and 30-something co-workers on to it too. | That's great! A lot of people bitch about so-called millennials, and while everybody inevitably has their heads up their ass as teenagers, I get the feeling that with influences like that they're gonna end up a decent, genuine, uncynical adults. I'm a big David Foster Wallace fan, and he constantly hammered on how poisonous irony and cynicism were in his and my generation, and I'm really hoping the next generation is a retraction from that attitude. |
3,537 | **Ride and Prejudice**: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of great horsepower, must be in want of more horsepower." | **Mansfield Ark**: Fanny Price is instructed by God to build a large, wooden boat, into which she must load pairs of impoverished young women and eligible bachelors on no less than seven thousand pounds a year |
3,538 | The problem is when the AI gets in the wrong hands such as a terrorist. | I mean, in this case, I wouldn’t necessarily be worried about terrorists diagnosing cancers. |
3,539 | Her numbers are not average at this moment. But she sold less than 20 million in the US during her entire solo career. This is very average for a big artist. Britney sold 40 million, Eminem sold 50 million, Taylor sold 30 million. | >Destiny's Child has sold more than 60 million records worldwide to date. feels disingenuous to leave out Destiny's Child when she carried that group. So somewhere around 80 million is much more than average. I don't see how 18 million is average either. |
3,540 | Above 10 years old, your age doesn't really matter when choosing a book to read. Pick a book you think *you* would like, not your age. | It actually really does, that's an awfully optimistic viewpoint but the brain changes *drastically* from ages 10-20ish and at this age he will like books he will hate in 5 years and hate books he will like in 5 years. |
3,541 | MF DOOM, the king of different styles. If I didn't know when all his discography of the 2000's was released, I would have the hardest time trying to piece all that together chronologically. | You ain't lyin'. All that material in such a short time span, post-KMD. Some hit, some miss. But when it hit, it hit. |
3,542 | I didn't think it was possible to even make a 7nm format let alone smaller. | I know there are plans to go to 5, 3, 2, and 1 nm. 3 nm is being actively developed today. Eventually the material system will change, but no one is sure when that will happen it's likely to happen at the 2nm or 1nm node. |
3,543 | Oh I don't have a fancy solution for that I'm afraid. I just block it through Chromes Site settings. | Well, rats. I use NoScript, too, and he's right about it being a bit of a pain to get the settings right for your purposes. Ghostery is a really good add-on, though, I'm seeing a lot less tracking since I started using it and can't sense that it slows down performance. |
3,544 | I like Babymetal, but you can thank a ton of metal pioneers for their sound. | Their sound is about as artificial as it comes. Reminds me more of pop production, and metalcore/melodeath production, instead of metal production. So ehh, if you mean literally with pioneers the people who make and record the music for Babymetal, then sure. |
3,545 | That seems like *a lot* of money. Can someone ELI5 what they get for $7.5billion? | They got a nice wrench to throw into a very popular open source fan... |
3,546 | okay fair enough, useless may be an over exaggeration. I trialled Apple Music when it came out, and went back to Spotify. Personally, I find that Spotify is much better at finding the tracks I want to listen to and recommending radio stations to me that are relevant. Plus Spotify works on every single device I've wanted to play it on, I'm not sure if Apple Music is like that. Chromecast, MacOS, Windows, iOS all just... work. Also the family plan is *probably* cheaper (again, I haven't looked into the competition for pricing) I think i pay $14/mo for 5 people. Oh and I like the social integration with Spotify, I like being able to see what my Twitter or Fb friends are listening to. | > Plus Spotify works on every single device I've wanted to play it on, I'm not sure if Apple Music is like that. Chromecast, MacOS, Windows, iOS all just... work. Apple Music will work on most things. There's an Android app (don't know if they have Chromecast support on there, I haven't used it personally) and it works on any computer you can install iTunes on. > Also the family plan is probably cheaper (again, I haven't looked into the competition for pricing) I think i pay $14/mo for 5 people. Apple Music Family plan is $14.99/mo for up to 6 people, same as Spotify. |
3,547 | Last I heard he was supposed to be finishing the last Mistborn Industrial Era book this year. Watch him go and drop another 2 massive books this year along with it. | He actually wrote *Bands of Mourning* (third Wax book) before finishing *Shadows of Self* (second). That's why BoM is coming out so soon. |
3,548 | I had thought about going to T-Mobile to get my own plan, etc (I'm currently on a family share plan with Verizon). TM wanted me to pay something like $200 up-front + retail cost of the phone I wanted to switch. As a college student / part-time worker who makes barely above minimum wage, that's a lot of money. Whereas I could just stick with the family share plan I'm already on with my mom/grandparents and upgrade to the phone I wanted for $1 (promo) + $70-80/mo, albeit with a 2-year contract guarantee. | you can finance the phone on tmobile however, so it would just be part of your bill. After the financing is paid off, your bill would go down. With Verizon, you get the "free" phone, but that's just part of the monthly fee. After you've paid enough fees to have paid for the phone, your bill will not go down. It's just another way for Verizon to pretend they're looking out for you, but really giving you the shaft. |
3,549 | All the songs were written or co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Wow, I didn't know that. I might have to check this movie out |
3,550 | Grohl even imitates Jon Bonham's drumming style throughout the album | Even better. I know Grohl is a huge Bonham fan so I'm sure he does the style justice. |
3,551 | He put out probably 2 of the best rap albums of the decade, doubt he'll be forgotten for a while | Seriously, he’s the biggest rapper of the decade so he’ll be remembered being the face of this era of rap at least. |
3,552 | SPOILERS BELOW. It's not even what people think it is. If you look closely, the beam isn't even hitting the planet at all, it's hitting the fleet in front of it spreading out wards to the sides as it touches the fleet. In the book, the whole point of that last battle is that they have to get close to the planet and through the fleet guarding it. Not only close, but the ships are basically burning up in the atmosphere of the planet before they can even reach it with the beam. In that context, it makes no sense if that's actually the final shot, and every sense that it's somewhere during the battle to get close enough to the planet. | SPOILER RESPONSE TO SPOILER BELOW. But in Ender's Shadow, Bean tells the ships under his control to set it off in their own ship, since its effects ripple outwards and he knew they were close enough to the planet to set off a chain reaction as long as they were willing to start with that sacrifice |
3,553 | If the cloud databases can move data faster, it means serving consumer-facing products that rely on the cloud (see: everything) faster. Silicon photonics are the holy grail in the big data space since it eliminates a lot of overhead traditionally associated optical communication. | Great. But why do I want optical communication inside of my PC? Copper works great for high bandwidths over those short distances. |
3,554 | I know you'll still be saying that while you're unemployed, which is sad. Hey everyone, lets all be equal and fucked, rather than get our group in a better position. Groups of people do better than single people. | Groups can do better. Sometimes a group can bring down people who would have otherwise chosen differently. Look at the unions of the U.S. automobile industry. They kept pushing until they were finally replaced by machines and foreigners. Unemployment happens. We each must adapt to the changing market. We don't see haberdashers, cobblers, or ice delivery trucks anymore for a reason. There are better alternatives. If we shut out a billion eligible programmers then we'll be the ones unemployed. It actually works the opposite way from what you said. You don't shop around to pay the highest price so neither should an employer. |
3,555 | My suggestion to you based on The Village and Elder Scrolls is *The Name of the Wind* by Patrick Rothfuss. The writing style is easy and fluid and the story is incredibly engaging from page 1. [Here's] a description of the book. | This does seem interesting so far. I'll admit I didn't care for oblivions main "story" however the overall world and atmosphere more than made up for it and I want something to put me back in that kind of setting in a book form. |
3,556 | I have always avoided DB between 1985-2001, but I will give it a listen | It's a phenomenal album, one of my favorites, especially if you like industrial music, I sell it to people by saying it's basically Bowie doing NIN |
3,557 | See I actually thought the amount of scenery shots was too much. haha. As if it was The Hobbit: The New Zealand Chronicles, or something. | This. Every time they had those fly over sequences of the landscape I felt like there should have been a caption saying "This film was sponsored by New Zealand, [insert witty slogan here]" |
3,558 | They should make it so that you are charged based upon how much data and speed you are *actually* using. If I'm paying for 100mb/s broadband but I only get 10mb/s then I should only be charged a 10th of the original pirce... | I can agree to that. Maybe a flat rate to pay for the last mile. Wholesale here per megabit is quite high though (Canada around $5/megabit wholesale), but it is only 50¢/megabit in the US (in bulk, see HE rates). |
3,559 | When I was a boy my dad took me to Stowe Vermont and we stayed at her hotel (I think it was hers anyway it was the early 80's). Some how (dad was a charmer) I ended up with Maria watching me for a couple hours. She took me up on the cable car to the top of the mountain and back down. I remember her being very kind and she just love me running around. As an adult I realized later what an honor that was to be able to spend time with her. Little sad now... have to call dad. | My mother and father took my siblings and I there as well!! She gave me a cookie:) |
3,560 | You are making a false assumption about how Tarantino presents the timeline. The Vivica A. Fox scene occurs prior to the bride going to Japan. | I haven't watched it in a little while, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that. It is *shown* first, but chronologically, she goes to Japan before going after Vernita. EDIT: I guess I am wrong after all. Still searching. EDIT: [This] claims she goes after O-Ren first. |
3,561 | Now if we can just get them and AMD to merge it would be great. | Why would they do that? If anything it would be Samsung completely and utterly absorbing AMD for little to no benefit to themselves. |
3,562 | 1. Go to 1channel.ch/tv. 2. Search a show(have Adblock on) 3. Click the show. 4. Click the episode. 5. Pick a link (preferably put locker or sock share) | 1. Buy raspberry pi. 2. install XBMC image (Xbian is good) 3. install 1channel addon. 4. tape to back of TV in living room. 5. browse everything on 1channel with a remote, no ads and no waiting. 6. cancel netflix |
3,563 | The thing about Joyce Carol Oates is that she's super famous, but none of her books are. What are like the 3 Oates books that might survive? When authors are super prolific, they still tend to survive on the strenght of 1-3 big books. Example: Nabokov with Lolita and Pale Fire. If King survives, it will be thanks to The Stand, The Shining, and IT. Maybe I'm wrong, but there seems to be no consensus about what JCO books are actually good. She's just been around a long time. | She does have "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" but I'm not sure one short story is enough. |
3,564 | I have a black Kindle (not the touch, the second generation one) and I absolutely love it. I personally think the Kindle Touch looks better. You're the one who is going to be spending hours with your e-reader, so you shouldn't pay too close attention to what you read online. Check them out in person at a store to really get a feel for the two e-readers. | Alright thanks. I read a few comparative articles and they all seem to boil down to the proclamation that it's all preference. |
3,565 | Yea, they all looked like they had plastic casings made to suit. They were lucky they brought the 3d Printer really. | the main character is also some kind of science wizard that can do mechanical and electrical engineering, condensed matter and optical physics ontop of computer engineering and computer science (embedded systems) |
3,566 | Excuse me, but that is *not a fucking pizza!* The dough isn't wheat, it's made with Masa Harina, a.k.a. corn flour. The cheese is cream cheese, not mozzarella. Wake me up when they can make a real pizza, not that piece of crap. | Woah look at mister fancy pants over here! Too good for corn flour and cream cheese pizza! I bet this guy only accepts beef on his hamburgers too! |
3,567 | It didn't. Oceans only receded. There is still water, this circlejerk comes up every time resident evil is mentioned on this website | Oh please with the "circlejerk," it's not like that's the sole solitary reason these movies are considered trash. |
3,568 | I always thought rap was awful until I actually listened to it. The first rap song I ever listened to was "Not Afraid" by Eminem and now rap is the only genre I enjoy. So I'd say that song. | To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the new Eminem. He had a lot more fire and passion when he was still Slim Shady |
3,569 | The Song not so much, The [Cretinous Behavior that has accompanied the success of the song]!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/thicke31f-3-web.jpg) very much yes. EDIT: look at the reflection in the mirror | I guess every person in every night club ever should kill themselves. |
3,570 | > novelists who write several books a year and specialize in this sort of thing. This is a polite way of saying that Michael Jan Friedman, Mel Odom, and Kevin J. Anderson are WHOOOORES. | I don't think it's fair to call any of those guys whores. Mel Odom is actually a super awesome guy. I've known him for about four or five years. He's taught me a lot about writing. He is unashamed about writing for money, though. It puts food on the table and he gets to do what he wants - tell stories. He does write and publish original stories (some under psuedonyms), but he finds licensed fiction fun because he gets to play around in universes that he enjoys. We should all be so lucky to be happy with our jobs. |
3,571 | Great site for ratings is [Kids in mind] since it tells you how much from 1-10 there is nudity, violence and profanity and also describes mostly spoiler free what happens with each of this topics and it is much easier to decide if movie is suitable for your kids or not. | Great site recommendation. I've been using the parents guides on IMDB. This will really help supplement. Thanks. |
3,572 | They only make things cheaper as long as they have to compete. As soon as no one else can afford to compete, the prices can be whatever they want | But the price would be the same as the store at least. If they charge more I'll go to the store. I rarely see Amazon more expensive on items. Walmart still eats them on many items so I go to Walmart for those items. |
3,573 | I have 160GB, but if they don't lower they're prices by Jan. when my renewal kicks in, I'll be leaving for another service. | Box for business has just removed data caps apparently. I'm looking into it. |
3,574 | You forgot the Rock flexing out of his arm cast. | That was the shot that 5,6, and 7 had all been building toward. |
3,575 | I'm going to try my luck with Crashplan, which supposedly does unlimited backups. My ISP is probably going to bitch about the 20TB upload though :D | Contemplating the same thing with Carbonite. My upload speed is 1.5Mb/s... This could take some years. I add and remove hunhred-GB files multiple times a week, so this isn't a great solution, but at least all the most important stuff will be safe. |
3,576 | Spoiler alert! Don't tell me it's mind-blowing! Now I'm going to go into it with my mind pre-blown! *Edited for accuracy* | Good? *GOOD*? Why would you tell me that!? It's not even worth watching now |
3,577 | I'm not. I wish I were, but I'm not : ( I'm too immature, still enjoy games way too much, and have too much fun hanging out with my online bros to care about dating just yet. You forgive me though, right? | Hater. You need to be sent to Jelly School. I'll get em on the phone right now! |
3,578 | Like others have said, 4k is all about screen size. If you can't afford a large screen, like 60" and above, the extra resolution will be harder to physically discern. As in, your eyes literally cannot see the difference between 1080p and 4k content if the screen is too small. | Yeah space I'm putting it in would do well with a screen somewhere in the 40"-50" range. Just doesn't seem worth it to prioritize 4k. |
3,579 | His imagery is amazing, one of my favourites from every breath is a bomb: "This room is a fluorescent tomb: it's brazen bulbs mimic death's hyena croon. He pulls on her wires, she jerks to attention, she's animated again, she's talking to a hypodermic reflection." | I always liked the part, "can you put love's gentle touch back, into the gang bang." interesting side note, he says in that song, " If we make it to the final scene, show me the sapphire pit." He later made a song on his solo acoustic album called, ['At the End of the Road there's a Sapphire Pit.'] |
3,580 | Barely related, but look up the Grohl Sessions (with Zac Brown Band) and give it a listen even if you “don’t like country.” | That was quite interesting, thanks and sorry about the downvotes :-( |
3,581 | I thought it was an entertaining read, but one thing that I never liked is that I always interpreted Frank Herbert's statement that "mankind was enslaved by machines" to mean a degenerate reliance on them. Mankind had lost their humanity in their embracing of all encompassing technology. That's the kind of thing a jihad would address. I never imagined a Matrix/Terminator style battle. That just seems so cartoonish for F. Herbert. | yeah, entertaining! Definitely not as complicatedly interesting from a literary standpoint and yes a little cartoonish, but taken on it's own, a solid piece of sci-fi I thought. |
3,582 | The fact that you suck at trolling has nothing to do with responses and karma... Sounds like you're all of the above, a shitty troll *and* legitimately that stupid. | Have you ever been trolled so hard you responded to the same troll twice? |
3,583 | I didn't make an argument because there is no need to. If this is a world in which you now have to argue how Blink 182 sucks, then it is a world I no longer want to live in. But we do agree on one thing, that you can in no way compare Blink 182 to the White Stripes. | why is blink no good? its catchy, poppy, fun stuff. Its not mind blowing, but its nice to listen to. |
3,584 | I'll take "boring" over "stabs me in the chest with a fork" or "shoots up heroin with her three year old in the next room." | "I don't know how to control my woman" They just don't respect you. Have fun with your generic girl that looks like any other girl on the street. I can't even tell the difference between Scarlet Jo and Jenifer Lawrence. |
3,585 | So r2d2 wants to make quick cash with some stupid cyborg dlist celebrity tour, c3po tells him to fuck off, and c3po is the asshole? | I'm literally shaking my head trying to understand why people want to hate this dude so much for so little. Like they fucking know the guy. |
3,586 | > without a single way to bring in revenue. Sell robots maybe? Do they not want to sell the robots they are making? | I'm sure they'd love to! The issue being nobody would buy them at a price where the company could make money off them. The robots are highly prototypical and one-of-a-kind. They don't have a process in place to mass produce any of them, and none of the robots appear to have an actual use yet. |
3,587 | "Hipster is a term popularly used to denote an international subculture primarily consisting of white millennials broadly associated with indie and alternative music" You couldn't have proven my point for me any harder. And yeah, this popularity proves expressed interest by new fans. /r/music logic is truly something special | you can keep your Justin Beiber and One Direction and Nicki Minaj and U2 and whatnot. Enjoy your top-40. |
3,588 | Are there any Sin's videos that you've made, decided that they sucked, and scrapped? Likewise what are some sins that you've never made but hope to do in the future? Also, DARN YOU for stealing the book idea I've had since 6th grade!! Haha. Thanks for all the great videos you've made, they provide me with a lot of entertainment. | No. But we've scrapped a couple during the script stage because they weren't funny. |
3,589 | I think the hate for Dan Brown is the book world's equivalent of hating Nickleback. Are either one creative geniuses? Nope. Are they decent artists in their own respect? Agree or not the amount of money they make is fact that they are. And everyone hates them cuz it's cool to hate them. I mean I don't know Dan Brown personally so I never asked him do you really care what critics say but my gut tells me that if they point out the same flaws across four books and he still hasn't changed them (not to mention the infuriatingly short chapters that are really nothing more than scenes) then he probably doesn't really care. Hate the guy or not, he's successful. | I dont think its he doesnt care, I think he just cant write any better. |
3,590 | The service interdependence is the main reason why Google should be broken up. As a consumer, there's no reason to have Gmail related to YouTube or Google Search. It's only advantageous for Google, not the rest of us. | Gmail is only free because of the data mining used for their other services. It wouldn't exist separately. Back when it was invite only this was something most people knew about it and people have just forgotten as it got larger. |
3,591 | I keep clicking the upvote button but it doesn't give you more up votes! | I'm not even a big Colin ferrel fan but god dammit did he own this movie. |
3,592 | Higher frequencies are exactly what I can hear very well. See [my other comment] many people in the linked thread have the same problem: Over average high frequency hearing, problems understanding people in noisy environments. | That URL doesn't work. Do you mean that you have been measured as having better hearing at high frequencies, or that you find high frequency noise too loud for comfort? |
3,593 | The crazy thing is Jodorowsky admits he had never read the book when he tendered the film; he just had a friend who had read it and said it was good. "I can say Don Quixote, I can say Hamlet ... I say Dune." But somehow it doesn't matter. I'd rather a nutcase film genius make it than a purist who labors over recreating every detail of the book. | Yeah but isn't he just a nutcase, without the genius bit. |
3,594 | WHY IS THERE SO MUCH WEABOO SHIT ON THIS SUBREDDIT RN. | If you're asking un ironically. a mod was hacked, leading to this post: And the people have been gloriously shitposting since then. |
3,595 | Painkiller was the first Priest album i listened to, and the rest of their material was ruined because Painkiller set the bar so high, even amazing albums such as Sad Wings Of Destiny couldn't live up | See, I love Painkiller, but there's something so special about British Steel that I can't quite put my finger on. British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance are two albums that I can listen to in their entirety at any time, whereas I find myself skipping through Painkiller fairly regularly (minus the title track; it's a sin to skip Painkiller, itself). Maybe it's just a comfort-in-familiarity thing, though. Painkiller is a fantastic album from top to bottom, and it coincides stylistically with some of my other favorite musical albums, like Rust in Peace or Master of Puppets. |
3,596 | Not really. Both have main male characters who practice magic and much of the plot takes place at a school where magic is taught, but those are about all the similarities you'll find. | Yup. "The Name of the Wind" is much more similar to a book like "The Magicians" as opposed to "Harry Potter." |
3,597 | Well, came in knowing some spoilers, except that one. Fuck... | It was literally less then a second just a couple frames of his grave it was awesome. It was also after he burned all his stuff and looked as if he was going to "Walk the Earth". |
3,598 | I love London and Rome. I love any city where you can walk rather than take a car. Also, both of those cities, even more than NYC, have layers of history all jumbled together, like a 15th century palazzo where the first floor is the Roman equivalent of a Duane Reade. | I love both of those cities too! Any chance we'll get a Roz guide to Rome someday? |
3,599 | Welp, thanks to your comment, I'm joining in on /r/52book since I never knew that was a thing | It's a great community; I hope you enjoy it. Your goal doesn't have to be 52. |
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