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4,700 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I make it a point to read it or listen to the audiobook once a year, there's something so comforting about the slightly askew world they inhabit that I get lost in it no matter what is going on in my life. | Me too, love the audiobook. There's something about settling into such a rich, long book that I find comforting. |
4,701 | Please come to Toronto more! I was hoping to see you guys with Circa Survive and didn't realize you weren't coming until I was already there :( As an actual question, though: how do you guys write your songs? I know that's kind of general, but I've learned a couple of yours now (which I didn't think I was going to be capable of), and then I try to think of writing them and it's just insane to me. Bonus: will you tour with Coheed and Cambria? that'd be sweet | Damn, that was such a bummer. Really sorry about that. We just try and make things that we would like to hear and have fun with it. Making things that make us laugh is one of the main ways we do it. Yes |
4,702 | I was really disappointed in the lack of award nominations of any kind for Seven Psychopaths. That was truly one of my most favorite performances in film ever! Being surrounded by such an amazing cast it is tough to stand out from the rest but Rockwell totally nailed it! | Absolutely agree. When you've got Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken in most of the scenes and Sam Rockwell *still* ends up stealing the show, you know he's put in a hell of a performance. |
4,703 | Epic rap battles of history. A brilliant YouTube channel. | You’re going to gobble up this person’s whole day without a warning? |
4,704 | Well, sticking your dick into another man's ass is the ultimate non-gay act. It's like you're saying "Hey, look at me. I'm so straight that even with my penis stuffed into this dude's rectum, I'm still as manly as the Hoff on steroids. In fact, I've got such a high manliness factor that I could probably treat this guy's trouser snake like a delicious corn dog and munch on it for all I'm worth, and I'd still have enough manliness left over to come first in a Bee Gees lookalike contest." | There's nothing as manly as fucking another guy in the ass. |
4,705 | Butts in chairs is an old way of thinking. If you hire good people, remote working is just fine. If you cheap out, you're going to have a bad time. | I agree. Butts in over-STUFFFED chairs, now that's the future. Now where's my sweet-cheeks secretary? I need a foot rub.. |
4,706 | I'll fukken stop using the internet. Paying twice for the internet already isn't enough? Monthly phone bill, monthly internet bill, not good enough? Fuck that, I dropped cable I even stopped using my phone for a long time, not a cent from me. | Lol okay, good luck with that. Cable is easy to drop because the internet supplements 99% of what you used to get via cable. I hate this as much as you do but making false ultimatums like that don't help anyone. Everyone knows you won't actually do it. In the off chance you're serious though, I'd love to hear your plan on how you plan to function as a productive member of society without internet because I'd love to get on it if it's viable. |
4,707 | The biggest problem with it was the not nearly enough Rick Moranis. It's actually a huge problem in Hollywood. | Him getting on the bus and Slimer is driving is fucking gold! Doesn't he say something to the effect of "I hope your license is current?" |
4,708 | Maybe everyone should follow the speed limit? Like the originally and always should? Don't drive like everyone else, drive following the rules. If everyone drove off a bridge would it be safer too? Lawbreaking speeding dick. | Newer 2016 vehicles are likely to be safer at 80mph than your 1990 pickup is at 50. Speed limits were set before most of today's technology was even a dream. |
4,709 | > Just what we need. Even more nand shortages. you really think that its not planned market constriction at this point? Samsung could open more plants, get more lines rolling really fast, but they and others choose not to. There are 3 companies who make NAND flash chips, and they probably all agreed in a backroom to not open more production lines. FFS, at this point, its obvious they are simply riding the money train. | I mean, they're companies. "Riding the money train" is their whole raison d'être. |
4,710 | It's nice to see someone finally put the pieces together because when I first saw it I just thought it was entertaining on it's own. I never really bothered to put the pieces together about the cut from the theater to the "film" because the movie works so well as just being entertaining and lively. | Not all the pieces, I'm not sure that the ending in the garage can be interpreted.. |
4,711 | See it just depends...personally I loved ASM2. I am a hardcore spiderman fan though. There was a few things I wish it had done better, like add Mary Jane, but over-all I enjoyed the hell out of it. | I am not a spiderman fan, but I felt the movie was good, and people are just exaggerating about it. |
4,712 | Suburban Gothic is as much a comedy as Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and by that I mean it wasn't a horror movie at all. I'm surprised to say that I haven't seen any of those movies except for Suburban Gothic and The Babadook. I have some new horror to watch! Thanks. | Horror comedy is still horror. Most of my favorite horror movies of all time are comedic horror. |
4,713 | Wait did the later Terminator movies show there alternate timelines and multiple versions of characters? I thought there was only one timeline, but it could be altered (although seemingly only to a point.) | Idk for sure. If you create a better future for yourself literally then it's even a better idea though. |
4,714 | There's metal bands ranging from Iron Maiden with clean high pitched vocals, to bands such as Type O Negative with clean deep vocals, to bands such as DRI with shouts, to bands such as Darkthrone with shreaks. | Ya I am thinking more along the lines of the basics... As screamish as I can go Is pantera or slayer. |
4,715 | her grandson, or some sort of descendant, published a graphic novel version of The Lottery. (Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman, Shirley Jackson) Very short and I thought well executed | Ooh i'll have to check it out thank you :) |
4,716 | Well, there's around seven, if you include the voice-only characters. | Given the number of lines they have, I doubt they were paid much |
4,717 | I know people usually find it difficult to choose between them, but I just don't see why. Godfather Part II is so much greater than the first one, I would say it's not even close. Both are 10/10 films though. | Sorry, can't agree. Marlon Brando can't be replaced without losing something, even with the addition of De Niro. |
4,718 | It's been a stickied option for me for at least a month or two now. It didn't used to be, but I noticed recently that I no longer need to set it every time. | Please share any knowledge you may have on how you managed this. |
4,719 | It's funny how The Amazing Spider-Man films are 'loosely' based on the Ultimate Spider man, but man I actually do not like where this is heading. The Ultimate Spider-Man comics are are awesome. Why can't they just follow an arc there? No really, I know little about the industry so I'm curious at why they can't do just that. | Well, it's been said of Sony and Fox that they're afraid to stay loyal to the comics. Marvel's okay with it because they gave it a try with Iron Man, and people loved it, and then they just got gutsier and gutsier, until finally we're getting Guardians of the Galaxy. However, Sony and Fox typically stray from the source material, which isn't necessarily bad, but the way they do it, it is. |
4,720 | Do you remember the "meow" next to black panther on the civil war cover? I don't look at magazines much at unless they show up here, but they almost all seem terrible. And people get paid for this shit. EDIT: Went and found the [cover] It's funny how it seems like black panther is the main story yet he's behind cap and iron man | As a dude who would go homo for some black panther. I can tell you all the ladies i know who've seen the movie splooshed more over him than the other guys |
4,721 | It'll take a lot of compression to fit an album onto 1.44 megs. Would be cool though. | There is a floppy drive mod to read sd cards embedded in floppy disks |
4,722 | Is that why he dumbed down his usual lyrical style to a few sentences? So people would get the message? What does that say about people? What does that say that Vice found it more important than any other song he’s released? | I think that was the point. To make it very simple and catchy like say, a pop song that's a hit that distracts people from the exact shit he was pointing out. VICE never said it was more important than his other songs. They just raised a good point about how making memes of it kind of betrays the whole point of the song and video. |
4,723 | Everest is a strong one, I'm looking for someone to prove it wrong :D | Well there were a few instances of someone disobeying the instructions of their guide, which I'm almost certain violates some contract they signed. ~~Also, in Jon Krakauer's memoir *Into Thin Air*, which was used as one of the source materials for the movie, after the whole ordeal he smokes an unnamed illicit substance to try to forget the horrors he witnessed, though this wasn't shown in the film, so it doesn't really count.~~ EDIT: Okay, the smoking thing really doesn't count, cause apparently [the director denies that Krakauer's book was used as source material.] |
4,724 | You found IT to be predictable? I mean in a general sense I think you knew what the characters are moving towards and you knew the goal. I, however, don’t feel like I knew how things were going to play out. Also, it has some of the best character building I’ve ever read, with the interludes as well as the main story. Maybe I just don’t have good intuition, but really? | To be honest that one was spoiled by seeing the movie first. So perhaps that's the odd one out. |
4,725 | [Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah] Originally written of course by the legendary Leonard Cohen. I feel that Jeff has done the (near) impossible task of fully capturing the essence of a song and pouring his soul into it. He is missed. | I don't know if this is Sacrilege or not, but this is one cover where I think the original pales in comparison, to me at least. Edit: Just wanted to mention, not to take away from the genius that is Leonard Cohen in most respects, it's just this particular song. |
4,726 | Thank God. It is, out of the 3 map apps on my phone, the least reliable. Google maps, Waze & then Apple maps... it’s a shame that GM & Waze don’t offer Apple Watch configurations. | Waze could use pedestrian and bicycle navigation. Not to look at traffic for this forms of transportation, but so I don’t have to have multiple nav apps |
4,727 | So do we still like them? Or does Reddit now have a thing against The Black Keys? | Silly question, Reddit disliked The Black Keys before it was cool. |
4,728 | What is this?! Banning books? That shouldn't be a thing. | So tell us, where should the line be drawn?Never read anything that just should not exist? |
4,729 | > How about actual voltage requirements? What does voltage have to do with power in this context? It doesn't matter what the voltage requirements are. | Exactly; your batteries don't care about voltage requirements; they care about power. But I'd guess that the voltage requirements are 3.3V, based on how they're using the ICs. Those don't look like 5V circuits. |
4,730 | The only time my phone screen has smashed is when it falls perfectly flat on its face. I assume it’s something to do with perfect distribution of force across the device or something. | I thought it cracked more easily on the corners, as the force of impact centers in a single area. |
4,731 | I don't think built in iso mounting is that great. It's just like the built-in .zip opening. You still need a program that can handle those things anyway, since you need a program that can handle, cue, bin, img, etc. and rar, 7zip, ace, etc. respectively. Now if windows were to support all those things natively, we might be onto something. | Much like the built-in zip opening, it covers probably 90% of use cases outside of piracy. I can't think of the last time that I got anything in a cue, bin, img, or rar file that wasn't pirated software of some sort. |
4,732 | Your basis for comparison is that there are 2 million apps in the Google Play store. I'm saying that's an asinine comparison. But, hey, you do you. You want a $1200 Android tablet, have at it! | It is software that does stuff and can run on this laptop. There is a lot of it and easy to find things and comes from a site that does some screening and runs in a secure container and much not available for either of the other two laptop OSs. Plus you can run Linux. Plus runs ChromeOS. You can run all three using the same running kernel using continers and all three running native. |
4,733 | in all fairness, I had no idea who they were. | Even if you did, you wouldn't understand their music. * adjusts lens-less plastic glasses * |
4,734 | This thread captured my every decision while redditing | It was an amazing mind fucking journey through those comments. |
4,735 | Everybody, before you make a final verdict on this album. Think about how many listens it took before you realized how great GKMC was. I know I didn't love it at first. It probably wasn't until about two years later when I was still listening to it at the gym when I realized it was one of the greats. | FUCK THAT ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN, POWERED ONLY BY FIRE EMOJIS /s. Edit: clearly you people downvoting me are unfamiliar with the situation over in /r/hiphopheads |
4,736 | Player of games is especially great because it's so different to the rest of his novels. | Just read The Player of Games as my first Culture novel. Really enjoyed it, but you say it's different from the others? How so? |
4,737 | Probably happened because Kiss was gimmicky as fuck and their members were douche bags. Musically there was nothing of value either. | Yes. Kiss is horrible music, and Gene Simmons is a horrible person. I fully support Rolling Stone in this one. |
4,738 | I wouldn't say it was the *most* complete, but Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings universe is pretty well fleshed out. Throughout the course of the 13 books we certainly see a lot of the world with basically each series taking place in a different part of the world. The only thing I think that'd be good to flesh out is a prequel set in the Elderlings time, but with Rainwild Chronicles we did learn a lot more about them at least. | I've also enjoyed my time in the Elderling world and can warmly recommend the books (The Farseer trilogy, The Liveship Traders trilogy, The Tawny Man trilogy and the Rain Wild Chronicles series) to just about anybody. Still, I can't quite agree with the need for a sort of prequel set. It adds a bit of wonder and mystery that you get so rarely these days. |
4,739 | I think my way was a bit more thorough. | your data is still on the platters, you just need some hardware to read it in. edit: your way probable gives better closure tho. |
4,740 | Meanwhile, 1920x1080 is still the standard for PCs, and 1366x768 for laptops... | It's 1366x768 for laptops because if you're selling laptops, you know you have to hit the 400-600 price range because anything more expensive than that will be passed over for a macbook. That's just how the market is right now. |
4,741 | I've gotten stuck in the Microsoft music and movie stores, it took me a while to realize the Windows button was the only way out of the store (that I could find). | Ctrl + shift + escape, Brings up the task manager. Another windows 8 tip is that hovering your mouse over the top left corner will Bring up a list of previously used apps/programs that are still open. Also, from the Start metro menu, you can right click an app, find file location, and drag that fucker to your desk top, this will prevent it opening in fullscreen metro mode and instead will open in desktop mode with the familiar x to close interface. |
4,742 | I opened up chrome to do a little browsing this evening, and I got a pop-up in the corner. Chrome took it upon itself to block all my Kaspersky extensions rendering me and my computer at greater risk while online. Well done. So PSA check your extensions if you are using Chrome you may not be as protected as you think. | why would you be at risk without the extension? |
4,743 | Yea Flav didn’t contribute a lot, but what he gave those records was a sense of fun. The first three or four PE albums feel like a house party with a message. They had this mix of silly fun with pointed societal commentary. The newer stuff just plays like middle aged grumpy dudes with nothing to say. I will check out Dalek. Always looking for some fun new stuff, I just miss that old school NWA/PE group hip hop sound | Flavor Flav, the original hype man. What I realize about Flav now, if he wasn't there I would be scared of Public Enemy. Flav made the group more likeable despite how silly he looked and acted. |
4,744 | That was more of a divine love than an erotic love. | I don't know. I bet he was thinking pretty dirty, dwarfy things about her. |
4,745 | The Fountain is his greatest achievment, visually, story, acting, music, messege. Watch it again, you missed alot. Everyone does. | Requiem is really powerful too. But god, in Fountain, when [spoilers] (#s "they find the cure right after she dies and Hugh Jackman goes beserk") that just freaking killed me |
4,746 | So ping is funneling all the rock and roll and dirty stuff into rainbows and lollipops? I don't follow. | Yeah. I'm not at all sure how notifying my friends that I just bought Godsmack turns their music into rainbows and unicorns. |
4,747 | >And don't give up if one doctor can't seem to get it right. I had to go through a number of providers before someone finally figured out a successful combination. Hang in there. I went through 4 doctors and numerous trials before I finally got on the right track. It was a roller coaster. It sucked. | As far as I can tell that is the one and only benefit to privatized healthcare. If you don't like your doctor you just go elsewhere. In Canada that's not really an option, at least not in NS where I live. There are literally NO family doctors taking new patients. NONE. If I left my doctor I would be forced to rely on walk in clinics and the ER. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful as heck to have socialized healthcare but whenever I see someone say "just get a new doctor" it boils my blood because they don't seem to realize that's only an option if you're American and have money. |
4,748 | Bad Acting: Watch The Last Airbender. It sounds like the whole movie is an audition for a middle school play. Good Acting: Heath Ledger's Joker. You're looking at this character the whole time and you believe that he is real, his emotions and motives. Also look at Robert Downey Jr's black guy character in Tropic Thunder. | > Good Acting: Heath Ledger's Joker. You're looking at this character the whole time and you believe that he is real, his emotions and motives. See, I completely disagree with this(though am well aware I'm in the minority). While it's a very *entertaining* performance, it's also *filled* with deliberate affectations and blunt gimmicks like the lip-licking, and his laugh sounds extremely forced, from the throat rather than deep in the chest like a real laugh. You could argue these are deliberate meta-choices the character himself is affecting, but still, I'm extremely aware I'm watching an actor do a really high-concept, obsessed-over performance when I watch Ledger as the Joker, compared to the acting in various other films where I just forget they're affecting anything at all. |
4,749 | The need for a keyboard does not equals the need of a desktop. Just look at Microsoft's vision: The upcoming Windows 9 will merge all they 3 operating systems. In the future you will use a phone with the Metro UI, and when you plug it into a monitor it will display the classic Windows desktop UI. This setup works perfect for everything except if you need lots of computing power - but you can offlod the number crunching to the cloud for those tasks. E.g. 3D rendering programs already work this way. On the desktop you work with a low res sketch, and when you press render it sends the task to your 50 CPU render farm. (that runs usually Lunix btw) | What is Microsoft doing to increase bandwidth so we can 'send the task to our 50 CPU render farm'. You can't take that as a given. |
4,750 | Good writing doesn't sell comics. Sales numbers are mostly driven by pre-orders, and pre-orders are driven by character recognition, not good writing. That's why Animal Man, Swamp Thing and Prez don't sell as much as they deserve. | Apparently not; if character recognition were what it took, the sales would be better during New 52. |
4,751 | > The average American reads 200–400 words per minute (Since you’re on Medium, I’m going to assume you read 400 wpm like me) Typical non-fiction books have ~50,000 words. That would mean you read an average book in about 2 hours. I stopped reading that bullshit article from here on. | Then you didn't make it to the part where he suggests you get a habit coach. |
4,752 | Middle earth is all about the environment. The vast and beautiful landscapes of New Zealand, so yes having those look as realistic as possible is exactly the kind of film you want to shoot in 48fps. | Fair enough, but it's not a nature documentary. If the story doesn't come off because it seems fake, having the landscapes look beautiful isn't going to help much. |
4,753 | I never got that part. He's got super cool gloves or something to swish things around, and he takes a picture from one screen, moves it to a little glass thing, takes it to the other side of the room and moves the picture to the other big screen. Why does he do that? Don't they have any wireless connections between two screens across a room? Why are they not even all interfaces for the same main computer? | its always a good idea to keeps systems that dont need to be on the network to be outside the network. Chances are that the first computer wasn't on the network because its a critical system that needs protection from the outside world. same reason why armed forces still use windows xp and they are off the network/grid. |
4,754 | Angels and Demons is like 75% simple sentences. Like those Spot children's books or the hungry caterpillar. | I found that the Da Vinci code was more or less the same template as Angels and Demons, only that he changed some names nouns(mostly names). |
4,755 | Cashless doesn't necessarily mean "government-run", does it? Isn't that like the whole point of Bitcoin (digital, encrypted, untraceable)? | > untraceable. Uhh, you do know how the blockchain works, don't you? A public history of *every transaction ever made* isn't what I would call "untraceable". |
4,756 | Dunno why everyone says T-Mobile has a bad network. Never had issues. Maybe California has a better T-Mobile network than other states or something. | If you live on a highway, they have great signal. |
4,757 | /r/ifyoulikeblank/ is a good place to start, too. Off! are a fairly recent (hardcore) punk band. I'm getting into Kendrick Lamar, too. (Edit: He's a hip hop artist.) Tame Impala is a newish psych rock band that are pretty summerish. Japandroids are an indie band with punk influences. I second the Modest Mouse recommendation. If you like bluesy rock, the White Stripes and the Black Keys are also good choices. | Thanks man! I heard the Japandroids and they are really good shit. |
4,758 | i read an article about this. he wants to become the online big box store and charge $49 / year | yeah they are planning on making shipping more efficient (bundling and more local sellers) and then passing those savings onto the customers. we will see if the subscription model works out for them |
4,759 | Probably no internal storage access, no battery access, negligible performance enhancement bogged down by Touchwiz... May as well get an iPhone. And they used to bash iPhone for lack of user access to batteries and memory. | Sounds like almost any new android phone including any nexus devices for the last 4 years. Apart from touchwiz |
4,760 | I know I'm no fun, but he was horrendously sexist hosting the oscars. And not in a cheekily outrageous self-aware way. | The thing he's always been known for is nobody is off limits, kinda a standard rule for comedy (South Park ect with the exception of the Muhammad thing, though they still show him in every episode in the opening because they didn't want to give in) . If you want to judge a comedian based off of one JOKE, which you clearly knew was a joke to begin with, that's fine, but don't question everyone else who enjoys his work. |
4,761 | - you've got a right to fix it. - but you haven't got a right to force the company to help you | they are legally required to provide a warranty, and they cannot legally void that warranty if you repair parts of it yourself. |
4,762 | It seems interesting to see what comes of it. Stereotyping can be fun! | I think some people are easier to read than others though. Some people define their visible style by their tastes in music while others hide it or have more prevailing influences. Definitely part experiment. |
4,763 | Reddit today: "OMG YES!!!" Reddit in 6-8 months: "Holy shit that trailer looks awesome!" Reddit on release weekend: "It wasn't very good." | Ya. Best way to avoid disappointment is not to partake in the circlejerk that leads up to any release date. Something about a circlejerk that really ups your expectations to a level of unreachability. |
4,764 | In my experience, few (if any) are professional recordings, and the quality varies greatly from work to work. It's a valuable resource, worth checking out IMO, just bear in mind a lot of these recordings are from volunteers who have little or no experience in voice acting or sound editing. | I love audiobooks and thought I'd hit a goldmine with librivox...until I tried listening to a book read by a guy with (I kid you not) a stutter and a lisp! |
4,765 | The virus only controls his chair (and subsequently his speech program). Hawking's mind still works, he just can't speak or move. According to /u/FreeGiraffeRides' comment at least. | But how does he then communicate what is in his mind? |
4,766 | How the hell does LCD Soundsystem keep headlining festivals? Are they actually popular? I don't know any fans. Everyone kind of knows Dance Yourself Clean but has no idea who the artist is. | I'm a big fan. They have a pretty large fanbase, and I don't think Dance Yrself Clean is even their most popular song. |
4,767 | So do you run an Ethernet cable between your Chromecast and your HTPC or NAS? | So you need 100 Gbps between your Chromecast and your NAS? |
4,768 | They also want to make sure their jokes are obvious and that everybody will get it. After watching Wayne's World 2 recently, I noticed that they make a lot of jokes and just keep moving without making each joke a crude or visual gag. I found the movie to be very watchable in 2016 because there are very many non-obvious jokes. | The Naked Gun movies were really good for things like this. Every time I'd rewatch it I'd notice a new background gag. |
4,769 | Opening the image in a new tab shows the full image. | No, it does not. Just tried, it's only a thumbnail. Source: Windows desktop machine, chrome browser. Edit: The results vary from image to image. Given time for google to load the image after clicking it, some images will load in full size and others not. |
4,770 | Peter Jackson's Braindead seems like it could fit the request. | And if you're in the US, the title is Dead Alive. |
4,771 | He didn't look hipster to me? Maybe my hip-dar is out of whack | Ironic mustache, fixie (IIRC)? What do you think the hipster stereotype is? |
4,772 | They purposely made it extreme and included shitting and pissing so that when it went for a rating and was given an nc-17 they could cut the extreme bits they didn't even intend to keep in the first place so the raters felt like they had gotten their way. | If I remember right the Cleveland steamer did make it back in on the "unrated" cut on the DVD |
4,773 | I live in rural Texas, and I guarantee we have better schools than San Francisco. Houston is 45 minutes away and I have memberships at the museum and the symphony. What I don't have is the chance of getting mugged when I wank out the door, a thronging crowd of questionable humanity around me every second of the day, or a rent that costs 2/3 of my income for a one bedroom apartment. Oh, and I work remotely as well. | > getting mugged when I wank out the door. Phrasing... |
4,774 | [Check this site out, it takes a screen shot basically every 30 secs and combines them into a barcode so you can see the color palette through out the movie.] | DUDE, I've been looking for this for months. I couldn't even find it through google, poor google-fu. Thanks! |
4,775 | It's not a real canonical implication, necessarily. A farmboy named Al'Thor becomes a king after pulling a legendary sword from a Stone, guided by an old man named Merrilin? Sounds familiar.... Just something Thom says at some point, to the effect of "Who's to know how your story will be told? Maybe generations from now *I'll* be the hero?" Merlin was the hero of a number of stories of his own... | I think Artur Hawkwing was supposed to be a kind of dark King Arthur. |
4,776 | I'm *assuming* that we can expect the consumer-grade business to be bought up by someone...Dell? Lenovo? The consumer market is such a cutthroat race to the bottom these days, and people at home just aren't upgrading their PCs much any more. A PC you bought 5 years ago is still fully capable of pretty much everything the average person wants to do with it today, not including gaming because the average person isn't investing in maxing out graphic settings in AAA titles on their PC. | Yup, the "computer" makers are just sitting around waiting for someone else to innovate. New display technology is on the horizon (head mounted displays etc). A semi good augmented reality display will be a big change to the way people use their computers. |
4,777 | Guitar players of reddit: can anyone explain the guitar strumming technique in this video? I've been playing guitar (shittily) for a year and I would love to be able to have a more interesting sound than the normal up and down strums! | try mixing in some palm mutes with your up and down strumming along with just hitting single strings of chords in between. If that makes any sense. |
4,778 | I keep trying to read this one. Every so often ill read the first chapter about melquiades and then put it down. I can't figure out what it is about this book, but i am determined to finish it. | I was a complete emotional wreck at the end. I was feeling disjointed for a few days afterward as well. |
4,779 | Not a question just wanted to say I am really excited for both you guys to come to Edmonton! Coone you were my first hard-style I've seen and it made me fall in love! Bass modulators, I am a huge fan and can't wait to see you guys for the first time. Hope to get a picture with you guys! | BM: Thanks man! we will do that picture for sure! :) |
4,780 | If you think iTunes is bad for phones, then some of the software for Android phones is shit. My dad has a Sony phone, and getting photos off it requires some BS "bridge" software that is beyond terrible. I thought Androids were meant to just show up like a USB stick, but apparently not. | They should. I don't know why yours doesn't. Macs don't recognize them if that's relevant to you |
4,781 | I'm sorry but James Franco and Mila Kunis are not very good actors. | I have to disagree about Franco. Kunis isn't great but she's not horrible. |
4,782 | A wise man's fear, second installment of the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Beautiful book. Loved it. | Awesome, thanks a ton! I don't mind a good series |
4,783 | Why are you so aggressive about it? Everything Taylor Swift does makes it seem like she's a decent person. So you don't like her move with Spotify, that's fine, but I really don't understand why you have to unnecessarily be a cunt about it. | Because ignorance is bliss. You all think she's this saving grace for the music industry and the fact is all she cares about is her money. How people are so naive baffles me |
4,784 | Hate her in everything she does. I also don't understand why people think she's attractive. Even 'young' julia roberts I don't particularly care for. I'm not saying she's ugly. I'm just confused as why she's regarded as an attractive Hollywood starlet. | I haven't been able to stand her ever since she played herself in Ocean's Twelve. Ever since then, I pretty much imagine she's playing herself in every role. |
4,785 | I think it shows how much influence Frusciante had in the band. I think there's a reason why the albums he wasn't featured on are arguable their two worst. | But RHCP has released 5 albums without Frusciante. The first 3 and 1995 One Hot Minute and Im With You. |
4,786 | He gives other directors shit for not having a heavily featured black cast, but when people ask him why he doesn't feature more other ethnicities in his movies, he tells everyone to fuck off. | Why would anyone be surprised that black people would like to see more black people represented in movies? There's nothing wrong with that. Obviously someone who wants to see more black people on screen would be doing what they can to put more black people on screen. Why does Spike Lee need to put white people in his movies when the vast majority of movies already feature a majority white cast? He's not doing things to *exclude* white people he does things **to include** black people. |
4,787 | I have always wondered if it is possible to simulate a universe and take futuristic ideas from virtual civilizations | With some of the research into quantum mechanics going on, it makes me think we are living in a simulation ourselves. |
4,788 | It's one of the books that turn kids off reading.... so, perhaps a good thing? What kind of person would I have turned into if I had not had such a text shoved down my throat during my younger years? The same probably... _X_X | Just being assigned books turned me off from reading for so many years. Even free time reading books I wanted to I couldn't do without associating it with grades and dullness. Once I graduated college though I was finally free and now I consume several books a week. I know we need assigned readings, but maybe a greater selection would be nice. |
4,789 | Holy shit, those comments. It is like shills fighting shills. | I'm not even entirely sure that all of them are real. They seem so robotic. |
4,790 | I really enjoyed the lightsaber fight. It definitely wasn't as flashy or showy, but then, you're reminded that these people aren't highly skilled Jedi or Jedi in training; Rey and Finn had some fighting experience, but not the kind that would have really taken advantage of the lightsaber. Even Kylo Ren's style really didn't fit him, he was trying too hard to fight like Vader. While he certainly has some of the height, he's not an indestructible cyborg. | I liked the lightsaber fight. I think its cool how they made it seem more real. The lightsabers werent like get touched by it and you automatically die or loose a part of you. Also it was cool that there was steam when the saber touched the snow. That was a nice touch. |
4,791 | I recommend checking out NF. Similar sound to Post and Drake, same genre of music, more Christian oriented without being overbearing Christian, and dude goes pretty hard in some songs. I recommend checking out Intro, and/or Intro II, Wake Up, and Motivated. | I like him! He almost has that Eminem sound to, but regardless I can get pumped up to that! Awesome thank you! |
4,792 | they actually transitioned from this song into war pigs at one of their live shows. it was awesome. | I can imagine it was, I had a blast when I saw them on their last tour. But still, there's a fine line between paying tribute and ripping someone off. Their Master Of Reality style logo was bad enough, they could be a bit more subtle. |
4,793 | That's fine, I actually love Chance's flow on this and think his verse his killer but whatever. | Yeah, it's my favorite part of the track. His voice sounds so... tender. |
4,794 | They're all in their late 30s or early 40s. It might safe to say they won't be making a new Jackass movie. One can only hope... | I don't think Knoxville is allowed anymore. Like he's 45 and still the dude same as ever mentally, but he's sooo busted up physically. All the hits to the nuts and dome really added up. |
4,795 | I will throw a nationalist/xenophobic comment in though (whichever term is popular these days)... One the the things a lot of H1Bs do it send a substantial portion of their pay home...in my experience anywhere from 20%-50%. That's a massive hit on the local economy and directly is in control of the worker. It's not just businesses gaming the system, it's the workers as well. | > That's a massive hit on the local economy and directly is in control of the worker. It's easy to say it is, but is it really? Obviously we can't have _everyone_ sending all their pay overseas. But is it _actually_ a problem? If it is actually a problem I would agree that we should fix it, but we need to make sure it is a problem first. Not just go on that it feels like it is a problem. > It's not just businesses gaming the system, it's the workers as well. I honestly do not think these visa holders are doing anything to game anyone or that they're trying to hurt the local economies. |
4,796 | If they do, then they shouldn't be able to call Android "open." I have a bunch of crapware from Google that I'm unable to install. It takes up space, spies on me and was pushed on me and countless others. How is that right when Microsoft was held to the fire for much less? | They will continue to give away source code so still open. |
4,797 | I dunno, but if someone responded "Tupac" to the question "What is your favourite Rock and roll artist?" , I'd laugh in their face. no idea how his music counts as rock and roll :| | I remember the outrage in the late 80's when Jethro Tull won best Heavy Metal artist at the Grammys on year. Total head scratching WTF moment. |
4,798 | I agree about missing the point; it appears that what they've done is made the armor lighter and thinner by reducing the inner composite to a 1/2" thick CMF. What I really wanted to know was how durable pre-impacted surfaces were to a hit -- the CMF and kevlar sounds like it should still be in almost perfect condition, but what about the ceramic? In real life, high-speed projectiles rarely come in singles. | I'm still pretty skeptical, unless it's extremely light, the total thickness is still 1''. [AR500 Level IV] is 0.75'' thick and significantly lighter than steel. Unless of course the CMF absorbs more energy and doesn't injure the wearer as badly, which I'm thinking it does assuming the foam disperses that area. There are some pretty good points about use for vehicles if they do block out radiation. |
4,799 | I agree, except for the Talisman and Black House. Peter Straub helped make those have good endings. | The Talisman and subsequently Black House will always hold a dear place in my heart. I all but owned the school library copy of Talisman which as a young teen reading about the harrowing coming-of-age tale of another teen, with all the loss Jack was carrying was impactful. Then, I stumbled across Black House as an adult and there was struggling with so many of the same feelings and failings of adulthood and felt like I rediscovered my childhood when Jack also did. Dark places explored, but empowering emotions capstone that "duology" and are special to me. |
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