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4,400 | First book was great but as it progresses it just becomes propaganda and repetitive. | I agree. However, I've heard Confessor to be pretty good. |
4,401 | Obligatory comment to say that the Focusrite 2i2 is not good for direct guitar recording as the input clips on most pickups other than low-output single-coils. It's fine for anything else, i.e. if you are using microphones, but I feel like I need to warn guitarists about it. It was my first interface and for the longest time I thought that I was doing something wrong, but no, if you look online the clipping is a known issue with the 2i2 that was corrected in the future models (the 2i4 has a -10db pad). | Gotcha. Yeah my friend uses a simple M-audio interface and seems to work really well. Just see the 2i2 recommended a lot. |
4,402 | This is what I thought the first one was going to be. | "A dildo saleswoman goes into an old house, and there amidst much scattered clutter she meets Edward, hiding behind a stack of junk. Edward, with penises for hands, of course has no use for dildos, but the saleswoman finds him to be of much use to her. In fact, she finds him of so much use, that she decides to take him home. There he meets her daughter, and falls in love with her." |
4,403 | I feel like Metropolis pt.2; Scenes From a Memory should be listened to as a single song. For the most part, it shouldn't be taken in in any other way. The Spirit Carries On is pretty fantastic on it's own, but basically all of the tracks lead into each other because it's meant to be a single song. Great job with the rest though. | Yeah, I definately agree with that. Sorry if I didn't emphasize on this enough. |
4,404 | dae = does anyone else. you are implying that you know of other films, and are asking if anyone else also knows. | Or if anyone other than OP knows of other films that have done this. |
4,405 | Citizen Kane. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Blade Runner. Casablanca (an odd inclusion because it doesn't really do anything revolutionary, but its so ingrained in our culture consciousness it likely deserves inclusion) The Maltese Falcon. Seven Samurai. Jaws. Star Wars. Alien | Can you possibly explain citizen kane? Ive seen it... I dont get how afi thinks its the best movie ever i love old movies and i understand what they were trying to do... Just dont understand why everyone thinks its so great... |
4,406 | The NFL (or whoever is in charge of the halftime show) doesn't actually allow any of the instruments to be live. Since they have to set it all up and tear it down so quickly, they claim it just wouldn't be realistic to make sure everything was working properly, so they require that all the instruments be prerecorded and they leave it up to the performer whether to sing live or lipsync. | Maybe they made an exception but I'm pretty sure Prince played live. |
4,407 | It. Is. Hard. To. Get. The. Flow. Of. Long. Sentences. Written. By. Hume. This. Way. | I've stayed way from philosophy and figurative writers when I use this method. |
4,408 | Thats not the point, its a default subreddit, anything ahould be legal and tbeyre the most consistently popular. why should they be removed? Yours is the tyranny of the minority. | Just Post a link to it on the sidebar, everyone will be able to see it. |
4,409 | Hank is an awesome vocalist. It sucks that he left. | Tom and euroboy makes upp for it, still one of my favorite bands! Rock on. |
4,410 | Maybe stop buying tickets from resale sites and supporting their shitty practices. I wouldn't piss on Blink-182 if they were on fire but it sucks you got hosed out if your tickets. Until people stop buying from these places this type of shit will go on and on without ever changing. | Yep, now I know. Hopefully I save at least 1 other person the trouble by posting this. |
4,411 | Your wife and I are on the same page. I have always loved the original S&G are some of my favorites ever but the Disturbed version raises the hair on my arms and makes me almost cry. It is just so much more raw. I guess I like my songs raw. | To be honest, it might just be hard for me to give it fair shake. I really love the original, but I've tried to be fair to the cover. I just don't like it. I feel the same way about the [Darius Rucker version] of ["Wagon Wheel"] I'm glad you enjoy it, though. |
4,412 | I thought Voldemort was the Hitler of the wizarding world... I'll have to read up on this Grindelwald guy. EDIT: Holy shit this guy was literally wizard Hitler. Can we get a movie about him please? EDIT2: So is Dumbledore a bad guy or what? | > EDIT2: So is Dumbledore a bad guy or what? Uhh, it's complicated. Read the books again. (specifically 6 and 7). |
4,413 | Awsome.! Thank you a million, although, you missed spelled it. A typo perhaps. No biggie, as when I searched for *"Libra Vox"*, the first thing that popped up was "*Libri Vox"*. It even turns out that they have an app. Well, for android at least. Not sure about IOS. Anyways, that's more than I asked for. Within the app itself, it allows playback, bookmarking, fast-forwarding, favoriting, description,s contents, reviews, and even sleep timers. The list goes on. I'm super excited. Thanks again &nd have a swell night. | Audio book Bay is the best I've found to download any audio book same as pirates Bay |
4,414 | >There's no solo come to mind. I think you were expecting the wrong album friend. | I think I am remembering a great band that has become an overproduced boy band |
4,415 | Every. Fucking. Time. I hate these sarcastic comments. They're not pretending that it fixes anything. Of course it doesn't. Of course these things shouldn't have happened in the first place. But now that they have, what exactly do you expect the company to do? Would you rather have them stay silent and pretend nothing happened? What more can they do now than this: > Samsung says it will employ a third party to "make due compensation" to victims and their families. The company also intends to bring in a outside agency to conduct health and safety inspections of its chip plants to stop similar incidents from occurring in the future. | I would be satisfied if Samsung would show its changed its working conditions so they don't kill people. |
4,416 | As someone who works in research, this is hilariously untrue. | as someone who works in European research, your comment is hilarious... |
4,417 | I hated this book so much. I think we were way too young when we read it for 7th grade english class. It took months and my teacher analyzed every other sentence in the whole thing. It completely ruined that book for me, and now I don't think I'll ever enjoy it. | Agreed! It was 8th grade for me, but still... most of the kids in that class were way, way too immature for the subject matter. That's like asking 4th graders to read Chaucer. Good luck, man. |
4,418 | I don't really think suicide due to guilt and a broken mind constitutes "scot-free". | To elaborate,I meant Scot-free I the sense that she never came to justice at the hands of those she wronged. |
4,419 | I found Eating Animals to be both interesting and informative. I'm going to put out there that I am vegan and that is what helped me find the book in the first place but it was unique. I liked how it was told through the eyes of a new father turned vegetarian, through a vegan slaughterhouse designer’s eyes, through factory farm worker’s eyes, through a PETA employee’s eyes, and more. It felt unbiased. | I very much enjoyed Eating Animals. Mostly because I found it less of a plea/rant to live a vegan lifestyle than a long argument about the importance of considering the source of your food, whether it be of animal or plant origin. While it didn't push me into dropping animal products from my diet entirely, it continued my path that had already been going for about a decade of being thoughtful of how I'm feeding myself and how that impacts the world around me. |
4,420 | They should promote it as "GIANT SIZED CAPTAIN AMERICA 2", and make all of the movie posters have holograms. | Only if they follow it up with a Giant Sized Man-Thing. |
4,421 | Yes and scientist William Reich believed in the 19th century that a blue sex energy was the cause of the universe and life. And it manifested itself in things like the blue of the sky and the blue of sexually excited frogs. I present to you a classical orgone accumulator: The catholic church has fully supported scientific progress for most of it's history. They know if they try to stand against scientific proof forever they will lose more and more believers sooner or later. | Christian Science is not Catholicism. It is a completely separate denomination. |
4,422 | Well that's because he's not allowed in the United States anymore... | He actually lives IN vermont, He's not allowed in CANADA. |
4,423 | Don't you get your license at 14 in alberta? I think its mainly so you can help on the farm though, but that's the legislation last time I heard. | I believe you get a learners license at 14 and your drivers at 16. |
4,424 | I agree. History and Literature go hand in hand. History gives you context, and Literature is a window into the past. History and Literature help flesh out the world and give greater meaning to current events. How borders were defined, cultural trends, politics, etc. Literature helps bring figures of the past (fictional or otherwise) to life, and helps us appreciate the struggles of previous centuries and decades. Whether the struggles of women in the early 20th century, slaves in the American South, or soldiers on ancient battlefields, Literature helps us relate to the humanity in history. | I’m a dual English and History major and it’s really enhanced my studying of classics, to the point where my English professor says I write too much like a historian and my History professor says I write too much like an author. |
4,425 | Have you listened to The Flaming Lips cover album of Sgt Pepper? I wasn't on anything and I started listening to it while driving and had to turn it off after a few songs because I felt like it was literally starting to make me trip. | Yeah man! That is a trippy record from start to finish. I get the impression that Coyne spends a a bit of time on it |
4,426 | LOL ~ It is his son. EDIT: That is if you didn't know lol. | I did not, actually. I'm kinda glad it wasn't Alan Thicke's wife, tbh. |
4,427 | Welcome to the longest running episodic shit storm in cinema history! | Check out the Citizen Cane shit storm some time. THAT was some shit. |
4,428 | Loved GOLDENHAND! Your writing has helped relive many a boring days, commuting on trains. It was Sabriel that awakened my love for the fantasy genre. Any advise to an aspiring writer? How do you dream up all your worlds. Do you start writing with a moral/ message in mind or maybe a plot sequence to direct you? | Thanks! I tend to start with an image in my head of a character in a situation. I would recommend probably always thinking of story ahead of any message, but every author writes in a different way, and there is no one right way to write a book. |
4,429 | What makes it so bad? It doesn't fit in the sub? | Because it's all over the place and doesn't have a clear argument. The article says we need to increase education and training to prepare citizens for some "new economy," then goes on to say that automation will kill jobs anyway so why bring back old jobs. It's a terrible article. It assumes that old jobs and automation are mutually exclusive which is not the case. You can have both. The article implies that bringing back "old jobs" will somehow put a country at a disadvantage because reasons. |
4,430 | It's fine as a standalone. Some people (myself, for example) would in fact suggest that it's the only one really worth bothering with. You can try the rest, and just stop when you get tired - the stuff by his son in particular is not worth the effort. | Yeah, I got to the fourth or fifth one I think? The events were taking place 3000 years after the first book. A little too disconnected for me. |
4,431 | That is a good possibility. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've just been driving myself a little nuts with these books. Most books I read once for enjoyment, and then I am done with it. These books I've read 3 and 2 times and can't stop thinking about them. I don't know what it is about them, but their story really struck a chord with me and has been in my brain for the last three years. | In a world where names are so important, I doubt that it is a mere coincidence. But also, you should come discuss this over in [/r/KingkillerChronicle]! |
4,432 | * Njal's Saga. * Laxdæla Saga. * Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories. * Gergory of Tours's A History of the Franks. * Aristotle's Poetics. * A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. * The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm. * Modern Baptists by James Wilcox. * The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson. * Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley. * Bloodtaking and Peacemaking by William Ian Miller. * The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. * Moliere's Tartuffe. * We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson | How was We Have Always Lived in the Castle? I haven't read it, but I've been told it's good. |
4,433 | Don't mean to offend or troll or anything, but I'm pretty sure you mean cognitive *dissonance, my friend. Dissidence is the word for protesting, usually against an official body or policy. Sorry if it was just autocorrect. But aside from that, you're right, the bias should not go unnoticed. | Huh. Either I mistyped and autocorrect fixed it for me wrong or I didn't know the difference, I'll leave that up for the reader to decide. |
4,434 | I found the opposite to be true, actually. Went from 4.5"/10.5mm to 6"/7.9mm and the new phone actually feels much more comfortable in my pocket. Those 2.6mm really do make a huge difference to me. | Have you thought about not wearing pants that must be peeled off at the end of the day? |
4,435 | Awesome job, I love that r/science does this, please tell me this is a regular thing I can look forward to here every week also! | /r/science. ***** [^report ^a ^**problem**] ^| [^delete ^comment] ^| [^source ^code] ^| [^contact ^developer] |
4,436 | They don't like that anymore, which is why they changed their website from primussucks.com to primusville.com. | Les used to say he didn't like it anymore and wanted it to stop but it was too late, so now they just accept it |
4,437 | For a movie that was made for 200 bucks it's pretty astonishing over a million people have watched it! - AD | I appreciate this answer. You didn't get pretentious in response to dismissal of your film. That puts you above most indie filmmakers in my opinion. I love Troma and will be checking your films out. |
4,438 | I worked the night shift in an auto parts factory during university. This was my "walking to the bus stop as the sun came over the horizon" song. | It really is those little moments that you will remember for the rest of your life |
4,439 | I thought everyone only got the new yorker for the cartoons. | The one about snow falling on accountants was good. |
4,440 | I just read this book last year and loved it for the most part, but the descriptions of the dog fighting turned my stomach. From memory, they mention it in passing several times but there is one explicit scene of several pages length that focuses entirely on a brutal dog fight. | Well I guess I won't read it until my mind heals up a bit more. Thanks!! |
4,441 | I found articles from 2014 claiming the 15 foot range too. but understandably those would have been prototype days. [This new article] says the 15-foot Far Field Transmitted hasn't met FCC approval yet. It DOES say that a 3-foot Mid Field transmitter has been approved. Actually, this article is a lot better in general. | Hey copperlight, unfortunately your submission has been removed because we consider this potentially political. We will manually approve/remove this post. Thanks! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/tech) if you have any questions or concerns.* |
4,442 | indeed, surferrosa was my first love my the pixies, then come on pilgrim, and now dolittle | Have you listened to Trompe La Monde? Motorway to Roswell is spectacular! |
4,443 | I've never heard of Horse the Band and only marginally heard of Le Tigre, but either way that sucks for them. Im sure their documentary would have been a lot better just from the description of it. | HORSE the band is amazing. A great bunch of hilarious guys. The film package was entirely handmade, by the band members, all of them they distributed, including binding the book it comes with. Its a cloth backed hardback book. It's an amazing presentation. It cost 75 bucks and was a one time offer. I love my copy. |
4,444 | It's not for everyone, but this story is honestly not hard to get through. It's one of the most reader friendly of all his shorts- being that it's relatively jargon-free. | I think it's become a cult now. When in fact a lot of it is meaningless. The cult of the so called genius so people read 25,000 words of meandering and often very dull prose which in the end shows you so little of the world. The guy was a middle class pot 'addict' who from the biographies seemed like a complete whiner. |
4,445 | Evil Dead 2 is basically a reboot of ED1, going from a generic and boring horror movie to a humorous and over-the-top cinema classic. Just pretend ED1 doesn't exist | All three of them are grade-A movies, whatchu talking about? |
4,446 | Well, this won't be popular with ISPs. If data only takes one strand how would Comcast unplug network cables to slow down Netflix? | Did you know that /r/tech was created to get away from the incessant "ISPs suck", "NSA sucks", "RIAA sucks" bitchfests of a certain former default subreddit? The idea was to have a place to actually discuss technology instead of reading the same tired political circlejerkery over and over again. |
4,447 | awful idea. try putting short tracks on your banned scrobble list | What's so awful about it? I think it's better than removing short tracks altogether. They should count, just not as much as a full 10-minute song does. |
4,448 | eh. whatever. they're not even really has-beens. they were nobodies in their 'heyday'. I don't understand the hype. Because no-one gave a shit about these hacks back in the day. Guns N Roses were a far far better band and hopefully they'll have their own new album out this year. | I dunno, they had some pretty cool tunes... Fools Gold and I wanna be adored! |
4,449 | Your word is "phylactery" Can I have a definition? A small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer as a reminder to keep the law. Can you use it in a sentence? Jimmy, put down that phylactery, we're episcopalian. | Via wikipedia: in Fantasy, "An object used by a lich to contain its soul and protect it from death, common in fantasy games" |
4,450 | Is that true? Phased arrays for Geo, I can see, but there are a couple companies working on establishing LEO constellations for this. The Iridium network showed that handsets without fixed or large antennas could connect with low-orbit satellites and there would be the added benefit of not picking up the latency that HughesNet and other Geo network sats bring. | The phased array would allow beam steering and higher bandwidth even on LEO satellites. Would allow the receiver to pick up multiple satelites at the same time, so you could always guarantee a strong connection. The latency issue is the major reason for LEO. Also, only recently has space launch gotten cheap and sophisticated enough to do do this. A LEO comsat with Hall effect ion thrusters for a 30 year aloft time and Orbital Lasercom like they are talking about would remove the big stopping points with Iridium style networks. Small omniantennas would be good for mobile terminals, but the phased array is still necessary if you want broadband. |
4,451 | Not sure if it's really a free upgrade, but for the last 6 years I've been on 2 year contracts, and the phone always comes free. They've been getting cheaper and cheaper too; down from £20 -> £15 -> £11, and that's all with the same (small, compared to most) amount of minutes and data. So at least for me, "free" upgrades are still valid. | Yea it used to be the same in the states but just about everywhere now they roll the price of the phone into your monthly bill over 2 years. |
4,452 | It's actually the opposite, I think :( If you watch the video it seems to be portraying the concept of one person in the relationship giving up while the other tries to fight for it | That video honestly confused the shit out of me. I lack the artistic intelligence to understand a damn thing I saw. Just a bunch of dudes running, a train, and about two seconds of some chick. I'm so confused. |
4,453 | Good lord they make all electric cars look like vibrators. | Cue Clarkson referring to the Rimac as "the lady shaver." |
4,454 | Not counting bonus tracks? Screw HAM, what about Illest Motherfucker Alive? I don't know why it was a bonus track, it deserved to be in the album. | Well I was basically just saying I don't really like HAM. I like Illest Motherfucker Alive and The Joy, but they're both just ok for me. Primetime is actually one of my favorites on the album, the beat is great, but most people didn't seem to care for it. |
4,455 | It'd be better to use a different network than Tor to stream Netflix. | Ah didn't realise it used TOR, thought it was just a VPN. Oh well, time to crack out the Pi and make my own. |
4,456 | Glad to see Portland is making some effort to get Fiber over here. I'm just wondering something: It says Fiber is coming to Portland, but what about those of us living in the suburbs like Troutdale and Gresham? Will we be able to give Comcast the finger and switch to Fiber speeds? Or are we stuck with Comcast and Verizon until Fiber "expands" into those areas too? | Gresham is already on Google's list, as I wrote above. Those are the suburbs that will be allowed to try to make a deal first. Troutdale is not on that list yet. As you see in KC, when Google runs fiber through town they also run trunks to the edge. After they fill out the densest areas I expect them to keep going until they come to an area so rural it is unprofitable. For all I know that could be from Seaside to Cottage Grove and everywhere in between. But I have no inside info. I don't work there. I am just going on how it is working in KC so far, and what Google has publicly said. |
4,457 | > I'm also more inclined to deal with the one that was built in conjunction with a gaming company, even if said company has an issue with "3's". I'll concede that the PlayStation 3 started off pretty weak, but by the end of the generation, it was a paragon of diverse gaming experiences. In short: PlayStation VR has huge potential, and I'm looking forward to October with keen anticipation. | I'm assuming this was an attempt at a joke? |
4,458 | Lol you think once people are stars they can only be good guys? | no i don't. But i can understand the context of Arnold's celebrity status at that stage in his career. He wasn't solidified as a "Good Guy" when T2 came out. he had done both roles and you did not automatically assume he was "good" in T2. |
4,459 | > I'd lean to one of these over the macbook any day. So USB ports are important, but a full OS isn't? Nutty. | To me chrome os and osx are on equal playing grounds as I dislike the osx environment as much as I dislike the chrome environment. That's a personal thing though, and both systems can and will run various linux builds so the software is moot. |
4,460 | Get a chromebook, its the price-point you're looking for, plus you can throw on another distro if you don't like googles | I already have an Asus transformer with windows 8 because my school uses silver light and I haven't been able to get that to play nice on Ubuntu. An old Sony laptop with Ubuntu, but I broke the screen on that. My desktop I have is running 7 on it but it is huge. Just want something smaller that boots quick that I can use for quick stuff and writing papers. |
4,461 | Actually, they didn't just want to buy a book. Like I have said, if you haven't done the job you'll never understand or relate. | I might not be able to relate, but at that doesn't mean you can treat customers like their some scum class that can't read. |
4,462 | Yeah harry potter time turner is the prime example. 12 monkeys / terminator movies do it too . I dislike it. | I thought the way the time turner worked in the prisoner of azkaban was great, since everything that happened after they traveled back in time already happened *before* they knew they would use the time turner later. Like when Harry and Sirius were getting attacked by dementors, Harry from the future saved them. I don't know how to explain it better, but maybe The Self Consistency Theory on Wikipedia will do the job. Edit: The way time turnes worked *in the cursed child*, especially the fact that they changed the rules just for this ~~fanfic~~ drama grinds my gears. |
4,463 | The worst part is that after that ridiculous speech and theatrics, the two kids just jump off the train and go about their business with literally no resistance. | I was never a fanatic, but I always like the series. My mother and I read it together when I was a kid. But I'm actually a bit mad about what's happened to the series after book seven. This all sounds so terrible. |
4,464 | No it's not a joke actually! I'm Black and I do not refer to other Black people as "blacks" and I've never been around any other Black people that refer to other Black people as "blacks". I've seen and heard mostly White people refer to Black people as "blacks" and it makes me extremely uncomfortable. For me the way it rolls off a persons tongue doesn't feel or sound right to me. I've heard many racist White people refer to Black people as "blacks". | It reminds me of my racist aunt. "You hear what the blacks are doing now?" |
4,465 | The turtle parts bothered me, too. I felt “what are we reading? Is he serious?” My junior year English lit teacher was so into it (or acted to be) that it was hard not to enjoy it with her. And yes, the plot amped up later. I actually cared for what happened to the Joad’s. That ending, though… unforgettable, and not in the best way. | Yeah it was like “Holy shit this book is almost over!” “Wait wtf?” Fin |
4,466 | [Gutenberg didn't invent the printing press] As to the rest of your post...lol... | The rest of my post was intended to challenge assumptions. Since all you can respond with is a technicality and a fake laugh, it seems I succeeded in my intention. |
4,467 | 'Do I have data to support' that 28 cores can do more work than 18 cores? What the fuck is happening in this thread? | that's not even close to the point. |
4,468 | > all her own efforts have been box office poison. | > box office poison. Definitely thought your link would be [this one] |
4,469 | Is this comment a non-vague implication that the application of law and statements law enforcement make are more about politics than justice? | Political submissions are not allowed in /r/tech. I don't know or really care if this qualifies as politics, but that's the reason it's brought up. |
4,470 | Wasn't there some counter point about how people who can't afford more expensive weddings can't afford divorce? | if it's mutual it's not that expensive. I'm sure it's different per state, but a friend got a "i'm going to the military lets get married" weddings, and it cost like $1k. I know that's a lot, but it's way better than it could be. |
4,471 | It was a bullshit rationale, but the idea that it had authenticating power isn't bullshit. It could be used to establish chain of custody in the "evidence" of the pre-crime. The idea being to increase conviction rates, not to verify authenticity ahead of time. | right i always assumed that moving the data from point to another was sort of a security measure. in any case, i thought the Minority Report UI was pretty cool |
4,472 | It's about time to change? Because change? If it works and people like it, then it's NOT time for a change. | There have been loads of technologies that worked and that were well liked, and still were changed. That argument doesn't really apply well here. The fact of the matter remains is the 3.5mm jack has data limitations, pretty much the only thing restrictive about it aside from the size. |
4,473 | Agreed on your last point. Apple is rough and doesn't like to give anything below 30%. You have to have a major app or be a major company to be able to negotiate with them at all. | And have leverage. If your company needs apple, they know you’ll pay it. Why reduce it? |
4,474 | So we still get very little with prime membership. I wish their video selection was better. | I get prime for 2 day free delivery. Video, music and anything else are a bonus. |
4,475 | Damn man. That really made me think about my daddy and I really started crying here at my desk and had to shut my office door. He turns 63 this year. I am going to be 34 next week. I can't imagine life without him and reading this made me really think about how hard it's going to be when he does go. I just hope I can be half of the man that he is and that one day my daughter can think of me this way. | I realized only recently that WE, as fathers, largely define what a "man" is, to our children - and yet, we're not our own father. So obviously, we get the feeling that we're not half the man we think he is, because we're not him and will never be. So in your case, you'll define what a man is to her so be what you want her to believe is a man - not your father. ... shit, I hope that made sense. |
4,476 | The guy's delivery is forceful and unnatural. But maybe it'll be fixed ADR or maybe it actually works when you see it in the film. IDK | Sounds exactly like a reporter asking a bad, leading question to me. |
4,477 | Thanks for the harsh condescension and leaving me to google [PRO's] by myself, bud. Also, I feel like the sentiment I was conveying about the perceived decline in the value of listening to a song in the modern world still holds, in spite of the valid point you bring up about my inaccurate wording. | What kind of sissy are you? You don't find the wu tangs lesson on entitlement condiscending towards their fans. But you are hurt if somebody calles you out with the "harsh condescension" of "fundamental misunderstanding" and "really shouldn't be acting like you know what you're talking about". Don't be so sensitive. |
4,478 | They're not going to tell you. It's going to be inception all over again, and people will argue to the death their theories, when in reality they keep it ambiguous. | lol, I can actually see that happening - damn you Nolan! |
4,479 | I think they had a general idea of what was going on. I like to imagine that Will was told he'd be on stage with Kristen. He went to her with some idea and it ended with him just saying "you know what, just follow my lead" | I'm pretty sure this was a Kristen Wiig idea. |
4,480 | It doesn't sound like the reason this city is dying is because it was trying to "go green". I don't think this experiment really proves anything at this point. | My thoughts exactly. It failed because it ran into the GFC and investment dried up. This is a stupid title... |
4,481 | With people asking you the exact same questions every single time. It would get dull very quickly. | oh no! dull work?! Man, these are the *real* heroes. |
4,482 | Indeed, it's like a corporate executive that has overstayed his welcome at a blue collar gathering in the hopes of ingratiating himself with the very people he would be slave driving for the rest of the week. | Nice :) I just finished a book that had no less than 3 analogies for the same situation. In one friggin sentence! Why didn't the publisher go "This is good stuff, but maybe tone it down a little huh?" |
4,483 | Odeon in the U.K. Does this. It's bullshit an extra 2.50 to see Star Wars just because you know it's going to be popular sucks. | Odeon is ridiculous. Went to see A streetcat named Bob with a friend last week, £15 for the both of us! For a small movie. I'm dreading how much they'll charge me for Fantastic beasts when I go see it next week. |
4,484 | It's not a tired line. I worked in a video store and a theater. I wouldnt be saying it if I didn't have at least one person a day telling me they don't like reading subtitles. I had people demanding refunds for Inglourious Basterds because they didn't know they would have to read subtitles. | I don't like reading subtitles. Because it means I'm not watching the movie. I'm actively staring at the bottom 10% of the screen awaiting the next line. I either have to watch the movie and make up what they are saying or reading and trying to picture the scene. It's fucking lame. |
4,485 | Her adult fiction has been pretty well-received, but obviously nothing else she writes will be able to top one of the best selling book series mankind literally has ever seen. I don't think it's a question of relevance as much it is of attachment. She spent 15 years developing these characters and the world they live in and that involvement doesn't go away overnight. She seems to have a lot of ideas and stories for Harry Potter she didn't get to explore in the original seven books and is doing so now. | Plus the best part about HP is the universe. There is so much more there that she could write about. If you don't like it you don't *have* to read it. You can stick with the original series and be content. I would *love* to read more about the HP universe. |
4,486 | It wouldn't necessarily change the story to a degree considering the theory that the prophesy might not have been about Harry in the first place but Neville longbottom too. Both were born around the same time, both parents were in the order of the phoenix and had tragic backstories. Neville did kill the last horcrux, the story could have been about him if Harry wasn't alive | But isn't the key part of the prophecy the fact that Voldemort will "mark him as his equal"? Dumbledore says there's no doubt that the prophecy refers to Harry simply because Voldemort chose him, so whether Harry dies or not I think the person Voldemort goes after is the one the prophecy refers to. |
4,487 | Never understood why Rutger Hauer didn't get bigger than he did. Really solid actor with a great look. | Yeah, the guy delivered one of the greatest monologues of all time in Blade Runner. Would have liked to see him have a more successful career |
4,488 | Semester just ended and want to get back reading. Not looking for any specific genre, but something similar to my favorite books: The Book Thief, His Dark Materials, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Pelican Brief, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Game of Thrones, Gone Girl, And Then There Were None, and The Road. | Check out the King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. I just finished reading the latest book in the series and absolutely loved it. One of my favourite fantasy series I have ever read. |
4,489 | Exactly! Eh is basically the same thing as saying "don't you agree?" or turning a statement into a question. For example, a lot of people are confused about the use of eh, eh? edit: Love the sentence too, lmao. Read it in a Letterkenny accent. | It even *sounds* like a questioning type of noise with the accent! |
4,490 | No it's someone who's abusive toward women. Wait, actually it might be. | This is where nuance is important, because yes, Harmon was abusive towards a woman. He had a 1 sided emotional affair with a staff writer which created a shitty work environment. It was an abuse of power by a "nice guy" and it was unacceptable behavior. He was fired for it, and sincerely apologized. At no point did he physically hurt anyone, let alone put a woman in the hospital. |
4,491 | Ok, now you're so clearly full of shit it's actually funny. What are you going to tell them, that somebody is responding to your posts? Should I call them and tell them about how you're responding to my posts? I mean you did respond first. But ok, call the cyberpolice and have them backtrace my comments. EDIT: Just a reminder that the guy who called me an idiot for not knowing how to use the internet is now calling the police because of my comments. The irony is egregious. | I gave them your IP address. They said they will investigate. |
4,492 | I'm curious why you'd assume it's easy to steal a car. Breaking into a car is easy for most cheaper cars (I've locked in enough keys to find this out the hard way) but car theft without a key is actually pretty difficult stuff. | Not easy to break into, but not impossible for *someone* to break into. It seemed like there was a lot of time spent on trying to figure out the key thing, as if it were central to solving the case. It ends up that it was pretty important, but I'm not sure that was a necessary connection because the car was broken into in the first place. |
4,493 | If they couldn't fit the lore of Warcraft into one movie, I highly doubt they can fit motherfuckin WARHAMMER 40k. | Don't need to. Space marines land in drop pods, fuck shit up. Nobody needs to know the depths of wh40k lore understand that. Easy to make a decent action flick on a planetary scale to slowly introduce people to the universe. |
4,494 | Clearly the logical response would be to replace Team America with Red Dawn (2012). | I'd honestly rather be invaded by North Korea than watch the 2012 version again. /Obligatory Thanks for the Gold edit! |
4,495 | Sounds to me like you went into the movie determined to hate it because you hated the song. No one in my life at the time had heard it, nor heard of the movie, so my experience was completely unassuming when I watched it. I typically hate romantic movies, too. | Assuming makes an ass out of you and me. I watched the movie at a friend's place before anyone began to spam the song. I never said I hated the song, either. Just that everyone in my high school played it to annoying levels, much like "Let It Go" from Frozen on the radio. I'm getting downvoted for having a bad experience with something that people defend to death. If someone had a bad time with Fallout, I wouldn't crucify them. It's just how shit goes. Not like karma-whoring ever did anything for anyone, anyway. I say bring on the luxurious blue arrows of serendipity. |
4,496 | I love Talking Heads, but they were going south when they broke up and the subsequent projects are nowhere near as good as the whole band in its prime. | David Byrne I think has been pretty good as a solo act. I saw him with St Vincent last year at Bonnaroo and they tore down the house. They played some St Vincent/David Byrne solo songs, some songs from *Love This Giant*, and of course some TH songs. They ended their set with "Road to Nowhere" in the encore and it was all history. But that's just me. I definitely see where you're coming from though and can agree to some extent. |
4,497 | It was really good. I agree. The Mel hate is tiresome at this point. | Yeah. And can u believe people still vilify Hitler? I mean come. On. It's 2015 for gosh sakes! |
4,498 | Haven't seen the new Poltergeist, but it can't be worse than Gus Van Sant's horrific attempt at re-shooting *Psycho*. | At least Van Sant reshot the movie the way it was. Poltergeist strips the film of everything that made the original unique and interesting. |
4,499 | That Blind Melon song sounded 20 years old when it came out. | And yet it did so well then, so that gives it more credibility that it might do well today too. |
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