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3,700 | Isn't ESB widely considered the best Star Wars movie? It's the least standalone of them all, as well. | Which is exactly why it's not the best one for me. Very unsatisfying ending. I think I actually like RotJ best. Luke basically surrenders for somewhat of a long shot of turning Vader back. That gives it more emotion in the ending than everything that came before. New Hope was a much more vanilla story ending in a nice explosion and victory. Empire didn't really have an ending at all. So RotJ is it for me. A billion conveniences to drive the story along in RotJ too, of course, but it's only Star Wars, not historical drama. |
3,701 | How buff does she need to be to convincingly lift a car? She isn't doing CROSSFIT here guys, she doesn't need an appropriate weight-to-muscle ratio to fly an invisible jet. I feel like we're in the matrix. You think her muscles' size is why she can go toe-to-toe with superman? | No, but I think her being muscular makes sense with her being an Amazonian warrior. Superman doesn't have super strength cuz of his muscles, but would they ever make him skinny? No way. |
3,702 | "My mom who was murdered so I devoted my entire life to justice and recently I've become lenient on my morals because Robin died and I've lost faith in my mission but hearing my mother's name reminded me of why I fight for justice and shouldn't be murdering people" might be more accurate. I know most superhero movies are shallow but I'm shocked so many people couldn't handle a deeper story | It's not that people don't get it or that it's "too deep," it's just that it doesn't work. It's completely unearned - it uses a complete coincidence to resolve the movie's central conflict and make all the character change happen in a single instant, which is lazy as hell. |
3,703 | What made you like it better after the second viewing? | I guess just knowing where it was going made it more interesting; same with the first Matrix. |
3,704 | I was reading the script recently and realized something: Opening shot: a pile of hats and two black cats chasing each other. Jackman clones. The Bale brothers. The symbolism for the secret is in the first 5 seconds. | Nolan does that. He also relies on a lot of visual cues throughout his films. Physical mannerisms, clothes that don't fit quite right, resemblances you can't quite put your finger on...it's why he's an absolute genius as a director. He's perfect at showing rather than telling. |
3,705 | I have heard that the Wizard of Oz is a metaphor for the Cold War. EDIT: I fucked up, it has nothing to do with the cold war. Here's what I remembered incorrectly: | how ? it was written way before the cold war. the book was published in 1899 and the movie was in 1939. |
3,706 | You think the King family wouldn't demand serious money for a public display of the I Have A Dream speech? | Yeah, to think no one would make money off of that is just stupid. |
3,707 | > Fantastic Four (maybe it won't be like the other version) June 19th. I don't think this will be in anybody's hype list unless the first trailer is really awesome | I'm probably way too overly optimistic. I just liked the book as a kid |
3,708 | The Beatles, Queen, and Nirvana. People are so shocked when I say I can't stand them | "A Night at the Opera" - Queen. Give it a listen. It's really a gorgeous album. |
3,709 | One of my "cousins" is part of those assholes. The mother fucker had one of these and on his birthday he thought it be a good idea to point it at a police helicopter! He was in jail for about a year and a half and was deported back to his home country, it seemed like if I was the only person on his Facebook that understood how stupid it was for him to do this. So thanks Luis for ruining this for everyone. | >it seemed like if I was the only person on his Facebook that understood how stupid it was for him to do this. Man I hate people like this "He was just having fun man chill not even dangerous" |
3,710 | Several of the things he says are just plain wrong. As in, a normal person with half a brain who didn't actively *want* to hate the movie would have understood them. | Good thing you didn't point out what those things were. That could have lead to a discussion. |
3,711 | I feel like that's something only the young would worry about. As an adult, I never look at a book and think "oh that looks intelligent!" --because in general, we could all read the book if we wanted to, it's just about interest level. As a teenager, any time you carry around a classic or a book over 500 pages someone is bound to be impressed, lol. | You really don't? You probably do the oposite. You do look at books and say "I wouldn't read that for the life of me". There are "stupid" books. If I see someone reading Paulo Cohelo's books I will assume they are uneducated. If you see someone reading a good book, you immediately feel some respect for the other, subjective as that judgement may be. Of course I don't read books to look intelligent, but people still think that books look smart, even when there are definitely stupid books. |
3,712 | Right off the top we'll go with Freddie Mercury. I'll throw in Jimmie Hendrix and Eric Clapton. How about Elvis? I don't like his music, but he qualifies as a legend. Chuck Berry. Jim Morrison. Robert Plant. I could go on, but I have other things to do. | So because you hadn't heard of him until last week, he's not A legend? Fuck off. Seriously. In the hard rock and heavy metal communities Lemmy is a legend. Plain and simple, right at the top as one of the greatest to ever live. Simply because its something you don't like doesn't make it any less important. Ever heard of a little band called Metallica? Ask them who their biggest influence was. |
3,713 | Yeah, I read them up to the Egyptian one i think, the one before the Poseidon one, when i was 13-14. I really liked them, they seemed way more mature than her animorphs series, which i was already losing interest in at the time. I could see myself finishing them nowadays, and i'm also 22. Hope i find them in a garage sale or something. I could probably go through one of those in like 2 hours. | I got them all of amazon used. It was only like 20 bucks and if you only need a few you can get it way cheaper. |
3,714 | Ralphie from A Christmas Story: Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Iron Man. | Why am I not getting any of these references =( |
3,715 | TIL Bon Iver is neither black nor a rapper. I guess I shouldn't make assumptions so quickly. | I see TIL everywhere and have no clue what it means. Help. |
3,716 | I used to be in that camp, but using compact high ammp battery power banks that I keep with me instead has totally changed my habits. | I'd still rather carry a battery and 'charge' from 0-100 in 30 seconds :\^) |
3,717 | The story also revolves around an unstoppable army of the undead bent on killing all known life. Maybe obliteration isn't totally out of the realm of possibility?^(The 8th kingdom, the Realm of Possibility!) | > The story also revolves around an unstoppable army of the undead bent on killing all known life. Or does it? We know next to nothing about the Others at this point. |
3,718 | Pogo is, without question, nothing less than phenomenal. His music will literally spark nostalgia in you and it brought out a part in me I thought I once forgot. The videos themselves must take so much effort, so I really applaud him for not only his talent, but also his dedication. | Riiiight?! He taps into the same emotive epicenter that nostalgia shares. |
3,719 | Bigger marketshare probably means more money to devote to continued development. Also they get to update the iPod touch with the same crap they use on the iPhones. Also I'm drunk. I'm sure someone can expand on this. Zune was discontinued, there's probably very few dudes still sitting in a cubicle in Redmond still working on software for them. | made me laugh when you said "also im drunk" haha, also im high. i dunno zune runs great for me, a lil bit more customization would be nice, more apps would be great too. |
3,720 | Oldboy and Martyrs. You should watch these movies knowing as little as possible about them. Excellent. | Yes. And for the love of God, see them with subtitles (though Oldboy's not bad dubbed, as far as dubbed movies go ... still better in the original Korean, of course). |
3,721 | The Matrix Trilogy is fine. I was as disappointed as everyone else with the sequels, but now I thoroughly enjoy them. The filmmakers just did something nobody was really expecting with the second and third movies, which was to explore some philosophical questions about choice and free will. Once you calm down and look at them in the context of the trilogy being a philosophical statement, they make a lot more sense and aren't quite as offensive as they were when they first came out. | Agreed, I think it was a case of people seeing an awesome film in the first one, and then they were given 4 years to think on it and make up in their minds where they'd like to see it go. When the movies came out and differed from their expectations and desires, they were immediately labeled as "bad". Taken at face value, I think they're pretty entertaining. Also, it's hard to be as amazing the second time around, when you know what's coming. |
3,722 | It would be tolerable if there were different ads but it's the same three every damn time. | Worst thing in the UK is when I get a Spotify premium ad, immediately followed by *the exact same ad* only with American accents... |
3,723 | No you don't. No one ever needs to watch this more than one time. Hell one time maybe to many to be honest. | Tl;dr for that movie? A cousin of mine direct linked me to a site that was dedicated to streaming it years ago, but I never got around to it. He told me it was hilarious. Hadn't thought about that in years, now I'm wondering if he's been walking around the past couple of years thinking I watched it |
3,724 | To be fair, I think their motivation is based on fear of government regulation. If they have a legitimate fear that there will be outcry among parents when movies with excess language/violence/sexuality are "under-rated", then maybe they're doing the right thing? | Well when the Hunger Games, a movie about children murdering each other gets a PG-13 rating while this Bully film receives an R it would seem violence is "under-rated" already. |
3,725 | "just fuck my wife in mumbai with all thirty elephants but dont forget to drink brawndo its what plants crave thank god for jewish kippas". | Throw in a couple of dance numbers and you've got a Bollywood hit! |
3,726 | I wish more people focused on Venus. Floating cities would be wild. From what I've read the upper atmosphere could be fairly calm and people wouldn't need to overly worry so much about a hole in a habitat causing rapid decompression. Minerals below may have similar compositions as Earth and could be mined by robots or people in deep scuba gear. Just overall appears cheaper and safer in my limited understanding | you won't have "rapid decompression" in a floating city, true, instead you'd get rapid compression and suddenly the metal sphere or whatever you're living in drops in altitude like stone, and you'll be tugged down into literal hell. |
3,727 | Free college courses seem like such a fuck you. Without the accreditation and degree they won’t help you get a better job. | But you can still learn something new. And learning new stuff can and will get you a better job if you apply knowledge and go for it. |
3,728 | I came here to see if anybody else is REALLY fond of Here There Be Tygers. | I always liked that one a lot. It's weird, and kinda silly. But there's definitely something about it I love |
3,729 | To someone who is trying to find some more great electronic (big genre I know) artists who would you recommend? | You could head over to /r/electronicmusic and see if you like anything there. You'd be best finding something you like then asking for similar sounding artists. [There's also this list of subs] you could go through. Trance is my favourite genre of EDM so shout out to /r/trance (it's not to everyone's tastes but I love it). |
3,730 | Shit happened at that one show, as described by other commenters. But I've got nothing but respect for those guys. I grew up in Oakland, CA across the road from one of their bars. They were the nicest collest guys I had ever met. Might have helped I was a white girl though. (*was). | Most Hells Angels are incredibly nice. Give respect, get respect. You have your crazies of course, but you find crazy people everywhere. |
3,731 | I'm not very critical of the show even when there's room to be. I steer clear of that subreddit and also don't want the s6 cliffhanger spoiled whenever that happens | It's already been revealed by sleuths on the internet, who stalk the set looking for cast members, who it is. Steer clear, if you still really care. |
3,732 | I've always loved Elliott since the first time I ever heard him, but the use of Needle In the Hay in this scene always made that song so much sadder. When I was suicidal I always watched this movie because I felt this scene "got" me. Yet, years later and feeling much healthier mentally and it still makes me sad. | Exactly the same for me. It gave me a whole different perspective to that song |
3,733 | I'll defend the decision to make her pretty from the get go. Basically, Harry is an idiot, since we're in the literary limited 3rd person, we only have his perception to go on. We can infer from Krum's interest, pre-yule ball, that she actually is attractive and seen as such. Harry is just too dumb to notice. The narrative structure of the film isn't limited to Harry's perception, so it makes sense to present her as the world sees her. | True he could've hit that from the get go, I think he just lacked game haha |
3,734 | Well the covers look like cheap, fantasy-themed erotica so it's not entirely surprising that they didn't catch your eye. | This! The UK version looks so much more appealing. I just picked up the American print of Assassins Apprentice and that is the perfect description. I know I shouldn't judge a book by its erotic themed cover but... |
3,735 | You know that's a load of horse shit, right? A movie with a $5 million budget would never shell out the money for a Super Bowl ad. This movie has a lot more behind it than you seem to think. I'm willing to bet they've been working on it a lot more than most seem to think. The new trailer already confirms that there's much more to this movie than was planned for Valencia. | Yeah, they would. It's probably an ok movie albeit very similar in content to a number of recent low budget flicks with same theme. What better way to understand how this sort of viral marketing works and can be used than to take a film that wasn't "born" with that approach (e.g., Abrams fanboys didn't track it from day one) in its genes and graft the "viral" branding on wholesale? They probably have a good ballpark for what the film would've made without this effort; but what value does cloverfielding it add, especially to digital release? |
3,736 | Sorry. The Alamo Drafthouse in Houston (and other locations) is a theater in which you can get wasted and eat awesome munchies while you watch your movie. They also hold old-school screenings there, and even host a podcast or two from time to time. Anyway, some disgruntled drunk cunt was thrown out for using her cell phone during a show. She called them later and left a slightly incoherent and totally drunk rant of a voicemail on their machine, bitching how it wasn't her fault and I believe even mentioned suing. They play this voicemail for just about everyone when warning them of the dangers of using their phones during a feature. You can also hear it on their website. It's hilarious. | Oh okay. They were talking about Alamo Drafthouse in general, they usually kick people out for talking. |
3,737 | That's really cool do you know where this is from? | Yes, /mu/ 4chan's image board makes a lot of flowcharts for different artists/genres. Most are available on the /mu/ wiki [here] You can [search the /mu/ archive] to find old flowchart threads, just click view to see the rest of the thread. |
3,738 | The technology is almost functionally identical to the Paveway laser-guided bomb... which debuted back in the 1960's. The delivery method is the only different part about it. I fail to see how it's "almost impossible". | > The delivery method is the only different part about it. The tiny size of the sensor, guidance system and powerplant. The ability to withstand massive g-load at firing. |
3,739 | I want that bookshelf! I'm probably gonna have to settle with a cheapo one from IKEA unless CraigsList comes through for me! | I've been wanting to find a Craiglist throwaway & refinish & restore it to its amazing bookshelf potential (like all those crafty folks on pinterest seem able to do). Haven't found the perfect piece yet. Good luck with your search! |
3,740 | Blinkende Lygter is great, but I heard the humor doesn't translate well in the subtitles. | Nor the Danish way of portraying the humor, but it's still great regarding the story. |
3,741 | Not putting Black Sabbath down, mind you, but just goes to show what a shit state rock and roll is in. | I think Lemmy of Motorhead put it best. You know rock and roll is in a sad state when people have to turn to heavy metal just to hear some angry guitar music. |
3,742 | r/books -> top -> links from this week -> #1 = | oops...i only sorted by "new" and for some reason thought that was enough! :( |
3,743 | Is it normal to like most of the Smiths stuff, but hate Morissey? | I hate anything that comes out of his mouth unless its accompanied by Marr's guitar |
3,744 | I hope you know about Ultimae Records and all of the other amazing psybient artists out there! | Yes, I am a big fan of Ultimae records and the goa ambient genre that includes artists like Kuba, Cell, Entheogenic, Shpongle, OTT, etc. |
3,745 | The point is that the Music journos be they RS or Pitchfork seem to ignore entire genres of music. Yeah Boston sold an insane number of albums. Indeed they are still on the radio all the time today. But they made the mistake of being popular with the "wrong" type of listener. | They made some good music but to me (and many people I believe) it has always had an undeniable cheese factor. Like the 70s arena rock version of Herman's Hermits. |
3,746 | I assure you, 13 months of hell sucked, and MN state police force told me MS decrypted it for them. Waiting to know if you are going to be charged with something you didnt do, and there is nothing you can do about it, yea, that was not fun. | Sounds like quite a story to be told there. If you do not mind sharing, I would love to hear it. |
3,747 | Do they even have dailies now. Didn't they end after we switched to digital. | Eh honestly I've never heard that. In my experience the switch to digital made the dailies come in faster and with more takes. I've never heard anybody question the name, we all knew what it meant. Regardless of the process, everywhere I've ever been still calls them dailies. In Los Angeles if that helps. Just curious, if for you it's not dailies, what do you call that footage that steadily flows in as a shoot progresses? |
3,748 | She was also a major factor in the spread of the anti-vaxxers. | Jenny McCarthy was also on Ellen and she spoke about vaccines. I would say the media as a whole gave her a voice. |
3,749 | I love finding things in books, I always keep it. Although once I found money in a book i bought from a charity shop and felt obliged to donate it back. | you are a better person that I am. I would have just used that money to buy lunch or something. |
3,750 | Kubrick was a sadistic bastard. He wanted a psychological thriller, not a ghost story. The hedge maze, for one, definitely contributed to that effect. | >Kubrick was a sadistic bastard. Yes, yes he was. >Kubrick originally wanted approximately 70 takes of the scene where Halloran (Scatman Crothers) gets killed by Jack Torrance, but Jack Nicholson talked Kubrick into going easy on the 69-year-old Crothers and stopping after 40. At one point during the filming, Crothers became so exasperated with Kubrick's notorious, compulsive style of excessive retakes that he broke down and cried, asking "What do you want, Mr. Kubrick?" |
3,751 | If you don't consider DFW's work "good prose," then don't read it. That's your judgment as an individual reader in an endless universe of literature. | I don't. Thanks for letting me know I can not read stuff. I had no idea before this. I was reading all these shitty books and crying out for help and there you were! Thanks ODBC. |
3,752 | I think it's quite important to know which character was saying the words. Polonius comes to mind... | Exactly, I think both are important. To me it's *more* important to give the author credit for his/her work, but knowing the character/work is great for context. |
3,753 | I read a young adult level book once that seems similar, but its a girl and she has to keep restarting the game and figuring out who to trust and which actions to take before she runs out of time. There's 3 prince's that all lie differently, and a guy that demands an original poem every time she crosses a bridge. Do you know what that book is? | Heir Apparent!! I haven't read that in ages, honestly surprised to see it mentioned on Reddit! |
3,754 | If we lived in a society with less greed, advancements like this would be exciting instead of worrysome | Basic income is the answer. It may come to pass that it's critical as we become more and more automated |
3,755 | is that a good thing? I mean, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are making a new album. It's going to suck, but whatever. | Regardless of whether or not its a good thing, its interesting. Radiohead is a critical darling and their sphere of influence is only growing larger. Red Hot Chili Peppers, however, have ceased to be a critical fave and grow increasingly irrelevant with each album. Few, if any, 'hip' or relevant bands today have really been influenced by RHCP. |
3,756 | It's not at all an alternative. It's literally just un-upvoted stories scraped from either the Verge and some "Gizmag" site. | Right , unbiased articles , is there something stopping you from up voting them ? People are dicks , hence the two fanboy articles appearing the front page of tech , if you've got a solution of stopping fanboys posting I'd like to hear it. |
3,757 | Because I like pointing out a silly little fun fact? I'll take that over the same Reddit jokes repeated ad nauseum. I just think it's silly and fun that these renowned artists are technically one-hit wonders, and backed it up because people downvoted it, and I can only assume that came from a place of ignorance. | if silly little fun facts aren't fun, then I don't want to be right |
3,758 | I can't listen to that song anymore. It's depressing as shit. | Don't go read about what Alive by Pearl Jam is about then... |
3,759 | You, bitch, are just upset that Love got to suck his cock and you didn't. | Oh sorry I should have thrown in a sports analogy so you didn't stupidly mistake me for a chick like you just did. |
3,760 | On the right to read (in general), for you, [Harry Potter] > The series garnered more controversy in 2005 with the release of the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when a Real Canadian Superstore grocery store accidentally sold several copies before the authorised release date. The Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books, obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court of British Columbia prohibiting the purchasers from reading the books in their possession. A comment by a media lawyer that "there is no human right to read" led to a debate in the public sphere about whether free access to information was a human right. | It's more of a "do you have the right to use the thing you legitimately purchased?" - a physical book doesn't come with a usage license, but courts can and do prevent people from using their own items, so... |
3,761 | Do people not like Songs for the Deaf? Probably my favorite rock album in the last 20 years. If not just for the way Homme awesomely recorded Grohl's drumming with the cymbals and drums separate, to sound so tight and claustrophobic, I've never heard anything like it. Really fits that album and contributes to the creepy on--edge vibe of it all. | I love all their albums - wasn't putting down any of their past work with what I said earlier. SFTD is in my top 3 of their albums for sure. It's just that their past two albums have really resonated with me, and I think they're especially strong and innovative |
3,762 | I used this example earlier. mens dress shoes have been pretty much the same since the 1700's yet they are still reveared. Classical music and the works of the likes of Beethoven and Brahmns still considered some of the greatest pieces of art. sometimes humans find their sweet spot, and stick with it. no you're nike's will never feel as good as a pair of Johnson & Murphys, and Kid Cudi will never be played inside of million dollar buildings designed to make your audible experience otherworldly. I think we hit our sweet spot with the current format. | Actually shoe technology is constantly improving, and while the design may pay homage to classic shoes, the material and construction is constantly changing to provide an ever more comfortable and long-lasting shoe. Classical Music is considered good by us, but remember that part of the reason for that is that there were so few classical composers of any renown. And today we have many composers in the classical style, many of whom might be arguably better than their inspirations. To say that the old is better than the new is merely your opinion, in other words, and while that's respectable it doesn't mean it's empirically true, just remember that. Cheers though! |
3,763 | you're half right. it's a reference to your answer. the simpsons :) | Oh. Didn't know the Simpsons was based on a book. I'll have to check it out. |
3,764 | I was with ya until the 80s. The 80s was about New Wave more than any other sound, although the groundwork for modern R&B and HipHop were being laid down. New Wave influenced everyone - rock added keyboards because of it, the New Wave-inspired clothing jump started Glam (what people now call Hair Metal - for those of us who were there, its called Glam). Personally, I was into NWoBHM at the time but I have to acknowledge New Wave as the driving force of the decade. I would suggest that Missing Persons "Words" is the epitome of the 80s - big hair, synth-heavy, electronic drums and the classic 80s look. | Upvote for Missing Persons - Dale Bozzio in her stiletto boots and skimpy vinyl clothes. |
3,765 | I once -- no joke -- saw a request in /r/booksuggestions for something to help the OP deal with the grief arising from the death of a parent . . . and they were recommended *American Gods* and *Dresden Files*. | Dear Lord... That is to many kinds of sad to list! |
3,766 | It will induce traffic simply by having more cars on the road. One of the best reasons for collective transportation is that it is a lot better for traffic. | But why would there be more cars on the road? Everything I have read indicates that AI driving will reduce the amount of cars, since more people will simply use Uber like services, or share a car between multiple households. |
3,767 | Jesus christ what fucking moron thought anyone would believe that | Uh, "believe" might be too strong a word, I mean how do you think "pro" wrestling makes hundreds of millions of dollars? |
3,768 | I wouldn't mind if the film was even longer just to show more of Robert Ford after the assassination, otherwise it's perfect. | Apparently there is a 4-hour version that gets shown every now and then at special film events. I would love to own that. |
3,769 | But does it to the same thing as the google translator app where I can turn it onto camera mode and hold it at a sign and it translate the sign right then and there? That was a huge thing for me when traveling. | When I saw the video on it and then tried it out, I WA blown away. Imagine this with something like Google Glass. Freaking amazing is what it is. Instant translation of text. |
3,770 | Wait shit, Win8 supports Miracast? Need to upgrade my machine then. BTW it's been 3 days since you posted, have you tried it out? Any luck? I'd suspect that it worked because most companies do their due diligence and test with popular devices. | I don't know where to begin as far as all the miracast stuff goes. I would want my PC to receive from my android so I imagine there's either a setting in there somewhere or I need an app from the store. Then I would need to pair the two I guess. i haven't spent any time on it really. It's 8.1 that supports it btw, not 8. |
3,771 | Boo-yah, was thinking the same thing. Also Black Keys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mastodon, Interpol, Wolf Parade, Kings of Leon, The Bravery, blah blah blah. Rock hasn't exactly died IMO. It's the commercial display that has become outright boring. But c'mon this is the decade where kids sat at home watching the likes of American Idol, basically the last decade in pop culture wasn't particularly exciting. Now this next one... it's going to be a wild ride methinks. | I'm sorry but the Bravery is just not rock. That is *very* poppy. A few others you mentioned are treading the line as well. |
3,772 | Ghost =/= Heavy Metal. They don't have any current heavy metal quality to them. They don't play fast, the vocals are always 5 steps under aggressive, the guitars are barely distorted to the point of crunchy, and they aren't particularly complex with their song compositions. Maybe back before Black Sabbath was a thing Ghost could of passed as heavy but definitely not now. That said still pretty cool band. Love their album covers and while horror shtick in general. | I'm always amazed at how snooty metal heads are. Metal is so wide and diverse, and at its core is about heavy music for people who didn't feel like they fit in the mainstream. And now people run around shitting on different bands who "aren't heavy enough" "don't have a angry enough vocalist" etc etc . the whole fucking point of metal is that it doesn't have to be constrained by labels! Fucks sake. Just enjoy the music. |
3,773 | I don't give a shit that you're Catholic, but you clearly were not that influenced by Minor Threat. Straight edge is a rejection of societal influences, and this very much includes religion. "Filler" What happened to you? You're not the same. Something in your head. Made a violent change. It's in your head. FILLER. You call it religion. You're full of shit. Was she really worth it? She cost you your life. You'll never leave her side. She's gonna be your wife. You call it romance. You're full of shit. Your brain is clay. What's going on? You picked up a bible. And now you're gone. You call it religion. You're full of shit. FILLER | I may still be a Catholic but I actually respect this song. I can point out the flaws that religion has e.g. hating on gays or killing people for religion. |
3,774 | Rocky 1 > Rocky 2> Rocky 4 > Rocky balboa > Rocky 5 > Rocky 3 | Rocky III worst that Rocky V and Rocky B? Oh no you didn't! EDIT: and aren't we supposed to be talking about Rambo here. |
3,775 | Bob Casey replied to me, starting off by explaing a lot about net neutrality, but also said. "On December 12, I joined thirty-eight of my colleagues in signing a letter urging the FCC to abandon its plan to roll back net neutrality rules. That letter can be found here: " Edit: looks like it was a prewritten auto-reply, but he seems adamant about NN, so not sure if you got the same e-mail from him. | Because he's not getting paid by internet providers. Literally not that hard to see D=NN R=Screw yourself |
3,776 | It's bro humor. We know how Reddit feels about bros. | It’s really not though. That’s what people who don’t watch family guy think family guy is. Some of it can be but that’s really not a good judgement of the show. |
3,777 | I never really watched Pee Wee Herman, but ever since I learned what his actual offense was (masturbating in an adult movie theatre) I get really annoyed when people call him a pedophile as well. | That just proves how ignorant and misinformed a lot of people are. Pee Wee doesn't even do kiddie stuff anymore, his stage show is for adults that grew up with the show. |
3,778 | I don't know Patreon's problems but it can sometimes be difficult to find payment processors that will process payments for merchants that they believe distribute pornography. | Pretty sure VISA and MC have been used to buy porn online. |
3,779 | I might be in the minority here, but I'm personally very happy with all the changes they made in First Class. It's a reboot of sorts, so the changes are justified, and they really make for a much better dynamic among characters (mostly between Charles and Eric, but not exclusively). | I don't think the problem people have is with First Class. If anything FC was one of the best in the series. The point is FC seemed like it was going to be a reboot and that clean slate really could of helped the series move forward. Now they are trying to connect all of the movies together and it is one big clusterfuck. |
3,780 | It's amazing. The first time I watched Make Happy I was just blown away... I would go from laughing about the hardest I have from stand up comedy to sobbing like a 3 year old. I still consider it one of the greatest comedic performances this decade. "They don't even know the half of it".... :( | > to sobbing like a 3 year old. No you didn't. |
3,781 | I use FF for the sheer plethora of plugs and extensions available. Very useful. | I use FF because I could literally squish every icon into the title bar. Tabs, bar, bookmarks, misc buttons, all in few vertical pixels of space. Sadly, with the new update I have to put tabs in their own row. |
3,782 | Don Quixote was one of the worst books I've ever tried to read. I can understand that, for its time, it was an important work, but it is truly awful to attempt to read. | I had to read this book for a second rate Spanish I class I took in community college, then was kicked out of because of something else. The whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth, and feeling about the book. Edit: I sounded like I was whining, it's not the books fault my professor was questionable. |
3,783 | "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals." -Matt Stone | Huh. Losing respect for these guys by the second. Edit: wtf? Did I just trigger a whole bunch of conservatives? I just expressed an opinion. |
3,784 | They also tend to have people lip sync if they think there is a chance that they will curse during the live performance. I forget which artist cursed during their performance but it caused quite an uproar. If I remember correctly the song being sung had a person bleeping the swearing at the correct parts but they cursed at the end of the song and it managed to slip through as it wasn't a normal part of the song. | And let's not forget the infamous Elvis Costello incident where he defied Lorne Michaels and played the controversial song Radio Radio instead of what he was told to play. EDIT: This is also a good example of a well miced/mixed SNL recording. |
3,785 | Marketing firms that wanted to sell 45s to white teenagers in the 1950s. | Rock n Roll was all black music in the 50s. James Brown was Rock n Roll along with ppl like Little Richard. Elvis was so influenced by James Brown, he decided to make that kind of music. All of his moves were poor attempts to dance like James Brown. And when the executives noticed how popular Elvis made Rock N Roll music to white people. They built him up to be the greatest of all time. Due to the power structure and how Elvis could be marketed more than James Brown. So despite both artist having the same music. Elvis became the king of Rock n Roll. And all of a sudden, James Brown was given a made up title. King of Soul. |
3,786 | * uses shitty microphone while talking about sound quality. * thinks mp3 is automatically bad, no matter the bit rate. * "cheap sound cards" automatically bad. * bla bla bla, kids these days etc. Very little content, lots of complaining... meh. | Yes, it may seem a bit snobby at times, but the actual points he raises about the topic are very valid and to try and undermine his entire argument in 4 bullet points seems a bit narrow-minded. If you think that using 320kbps mp3's and bad A-D/D-A converters is satisfying, then fine. But I for one think this really needs to be adressed head on. |
3,787 | I use Reason. Guess I should give this Abelton thing a try. | Ableton is more for live sets than for producing and mastering in studio. If you don't do live performances, it's not really worth buying. |
3,788 | There is a demon sex scene in The Stand as well, assuming Flagg is meant to be a demon of some sort. | Flagg is a sort of weird meta Satan. He's in The Stand, Needful Things, The Talisman and his "origin" is The Dragon's Eyes. I've read all those but only the first Dark Tower so maybe those talk more about him: I assume he's the Man In Black. |
3,789 | >There's nothing cool about that. It's just fucking retarded. Gangsta rap is played out. Southern rap is crap (because it's all gangsta rap), and I'm from here. Make way folks, close-minded, old white guy coming thru... | The term is "close**d**-minded". ('Close' is a verb.) And it's *intelligence* which keeps me from not liking people glorifying being career criminals. |
3,790 | * automagical [playlist for videos in this post] I'll be posting a link to this in /r/MusicGuides! | Thanks! I'll put future guides there, I have a couple more I still wanna do. |
3,791 | "I'm not living... I'm just killing time" - True Love Waits. God I love radiohead. | One of their best songs, and it will never make it onto an LP. |
3,792 | >What are you talking about man. This thread. Are you stupid? Do you often jump into a conversation halfway through, completely ignorant of the context and argue that you are right? Wow, what a douche. | Dude. I wasn't arguing the point of the thread. I was simply correcting you on a mistake. That isn't bad. You were wrong about something that you were using to support your argument. I wasn't being ignorant of context. I responded directly to what you said, with the intention of correcting you. Just accept you are wrong. You really are pathetic. Anyone else would just admit they were wrong. Now you are trying to make me into a bad guy. Stop trying to bait me into a childish argument. Man up and admit you were wrong or just stop wasting time. |
3,793 | SPOILERS: You were taking it far too literally. It was very clearly not a possession. It was about grief and resentment that ate both her and her son up. Not going to get into it, watch it again and open your mind a little more. This movie is anything but a typical possession flick. Watch it again. | Why would grief eat her son up? The son never knew the father, it had been a decade since she died. I actually just watched it again since I posted my first comment. I see nothing at all that even hints that it might not be a possession except the hole in the wall. I would suspect the reason you don't want to get into it is possibly because your theory doesn't hold up to scrutiny? |
3,794 | What do you mean? Microsoft is primarily a software company, and have excellent software literally almost every household uses | Windows 8 and 8.1 were almost universally reviled (although I love it), and the detractors keep on harping on W8 and Vista when making a point about MS fucking up their software. |
3,795 | Am I an idiot or is there no way to search just all movies on Netflix? Not thrillers/drama/International movies | I don't think you can on Netflix. I found [this] website. 5,465 titles according to this. |
3,796 | Better learning it the safe "innocent" way then getting all your experience from sick bondage videos (torture porn) or the contracted exploitative rape shit in 50 shades of Gray that passes for the common mans picture of S&M. It is about fulfilling fantasies in a safe environment with someone you can trust 100% to respect your boundaries, pick up on your discomfort, alleviate it if possible or abort the fantasy if not. The way you present your argument just shows your ignorance about it. Go back to your impossibly square conception of normality and morality and rant to your imaginary "Friend" | Believe it or not, the average 9th grader, let alone 9th grade girl, does not watch BDSM porn, infact most people don't even watch it. You're acting like kids getting hurt/killed doing sexual acts is some sort of epidemic, and the solution is to teach them all how to be sexual deviants at the age of 13-14. |
3,797 | > 2 professional musicians. > 1 that makes money. Seems like you know 1 professional musician. | If they're just breaking even, living gig to gig, they're not "making money" but are professionals. All it takes is a single payout to make you a professional in something. |
3,798 | Upvote for a Denton redditor!! Or at least somewhere in that area.....but I love Denton!!! | Fuck yeah Texas? Caught their show in Austin a couple years back. Nice to see some actually underrepresented music on the front page! |
3,799 | This is my fave song from JCS "I Don't Know How to Love Him" Yvonne Elliman has an amazing voice. | Yea it's a good one, I was just trying to have some variety for the op. I think "Every Things Alright" is my favorite. |
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