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4,900 | Hello Mr Shan. Desmond Tiny was a brilliant character by the way. My question for you, do you regret ending your series with the main character basically becoming you (the writer), and him (the character) writing the books about what happened? I loved the series, and even though that made sense as to why you and he shared the same name... I felt like it was a cop out | Well... that WAS what happened... because it WAS true!!!! :-) |
4,901 | To be fair, the first Twilight film had a production budget of less than 40 mil. This is considered to be quite small and even more so considering the box office take. As for the sequels, I haven't seen them but if they sucked ass, that's on them. | The point is, anything negative said about Twilight gets cheap upvotes. |
4,902 | That sounds an awful lot like what someone playing Young Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens *would* say. | Just like J.J. and Benedict told us he *wouldn't* be Khan |
4,903 | It depends? I have no problem with it following after Linux Architecture as long as it doesn't become a scrambled egg. We rely on shit people wrote in the 80s to be the groundwork for computing. Sure some of it is great, and a large part of code is the scatterwork of patches earned through the millions of bug reports, but there's something great about starting anew too. | >millions of bug reports. Something that tried, true, and tested is going to be hard to replicate. That's a classic NPM argument I hear - sure, having a dependency on a library that literally does nothing but left-pad strings seems silly, but then again, when everybody is using it and issuing pull requests, you can eventually be guaranteed there ain't no more stable way to left pad a string than that little NPM package. |
4,904 | They are perfectly useful in a nas full of blurays | No they're not. If it were to fail, you'd lose an incredibly large amount of data. So you think, "well then RAID it!" Nope. It takes over a month to fill a 500TB hard drive given how slow they are, and that's a pretty huge chunk of time to risk another failure. And would you really need 500TB of space for H264 video? Nope. That'd be like buying a 1TB hard drive to store text documents on. You'd never need that much space. You're not giving me a realistic application in which a 500TB hard drive makes sense. |
4,905 | It could probably confuse people with win 95\98. Some people are really really stupid and have access to a computer and make financial decisions | The most likely reason is that there are a lot of third party software considering any windows version starting by "9" to be 95 or 98. Releasing a windows 9 version will cause them to go in 95/98 mode and break. |
4,906 | The Japanese version is called Passion. Give that one a listen to if you've never heard it. Edit: yeah, I've realized now I've made a mistake | The original Japanese version is called Hikari. Passion is a different song use in KH2, the english version of it is called Sanctuary. |
4,907 | The books I dog ear, yes, even the nice hard cover copies, are just that, copies. There are literally hundreds of thousands to millions of them in print. They can also be had in digital and audio formats, for a price, or for free from bittorrent sites. A lack of materials is not what's wrong with education today. | I'm not commenting on education today, and I acknowledge there are a lot of copies of most books out there. But *if* a book is going to be lost by some arbitrary point in the future, its loss will begin with the destruction of a single copy. Also, digital books and audiobooks only exist for relatively popular and/or recent titles. You're not going to find scholarly monographs or semi-obscure 18th century novels among them, so those sorts of things are at a higher risk of being lost. Dog-ear your books all you like. I'm just asking people to think carefully before they destroy them. |
4,908 | Both of them have good movies, and bad movies, the problem is Sandler's recent movies have lacked effort (and humor). They probably have an equal "hit" rate, but Sandler's hits are mostly his first films. | The cobbler was much better than anything else he's put out in awhile. And I actually didn't mind the do-over |
4,909 | Have you read Margaret Atwood's *The Blind Assassin*? It's gripping, has a bit of mystery, and is very well written. The title comes from a fictional book inside the book that is more genre-fic, but it's a tiny portion of the book overall and acts more as a kind of metaphor to the main story than a plot within itself. Edit: If TBA doesn't grab you, have a look at some other Booker Prize winners and maybe the Costa Book Award, which aims to recognise books that have literary merit but are also enjoyable to the widest possible audience. | No, not heard of the *The Blind Assassin*, it does look intriguing so I'll probably add that to my list, many thanks. I hadn't thought to look at the Booker winners. To be honest I'd never really given any awards much thought as I tend to be quite cynical towards such things, so thanks for the lead. Edit: managed to pick up The Blind Assassin used for £2.11, so I look forward to reading it! |
4,910 | I did the same thing and got a long paragraph about how I should respect others music tastes and blah blah. Of course all I did was facepalm and laugh. | Some people just need to visit Rancho Relaxo and chill out |
4,911 | I've always said this was the sexiest song ever written. | "I want to hold the hand inside you. I want to take a breath that's true. I look to you and I see nothing. I look to you to see the truth" Without a doubt. |
4,912 | Well as far as David is concerned, you're not supposed to be taking any pictures there, which is funny because they've got tons of security people who spend all day telling people not to take pictures *after* they've already taken them. I took his backside: I also took the backside of the Easter Island statue in London: And of the crowd looking at the Mona Lisa: I swear, those paintings in the Mona Lisa room could be the most outrageous pr0n ever, and nobody would ever notice. | why no pictures? I've heard camera flashes can do damage, but can't they just say "no flashes"? Or does it cause insane crowd congestion? People hanging out trying to get every angle of David's scrotum and whatnot. |
4,913 | Ok but what if I bought the ticket from a ticket reseller for 3 times the price and my name doesn't match, then what? Do they black list the original ticket purchasers name? His social security number or what? Do they even let the person who just spent 3 times the ticket price in? | They basically said that if you did this you'd be screwed. You had to go in with the person who's name is on the ticket. There was no consequence on the reseller, but anyone that looked in to going to DLD knew not to buy them from a random person on StugHub or Craigslist, or wherever. It pretty much defeated the purpose of trying to resell them because there was no demand |
4,914 | It matters for both male and female actors. Can you name any ugly A list actor of either gender? That's younger than, say, 50. | Toby Jones is one of the rare exceptions, an actor that gets roles based on talent and not good looks. Perhaps not A list but most people will recognise him and he's in a lot of big films. Although I do agree with your statement in general. |
4,915 | Periphery are freaking awesome. as are meshuggah. fun fact: Using 'screamo' to describe metal; is like using 'electro' to describe every kind of electronic music. | periphery are amazing indeed. and thanks for the fun fact lol, i just figured putting 'screamo' was a much easier generalization to describe a genre, i didnt want to start a genre debate. ie. thats metal, no its mathcore, no its screamo, no its techcore, no its hardcore, no its grindcore etc lol. |
4,916 | **The Romanovs, by Simon Sebag Montefiore** It's an impressive work of history and dazzlingly written but so dense in detail at times it can be hard to take in. Plus everyone has the same name. So that doesn't help. | Listening to the audiobook at the moment - it's fabulous and Russian history is just hilarious to me all the times ('he tousled his hair, so he stabbed him to death with a fork'), but it is virtually impossible to figure out where I was each time I fall asleep listening. It really *is* dense. |
4,917 | I found a PDF of it, and by the time I reached the second page I realized that I understood nearly none of the actual words. | Oh I understood some of the words, just not how any of them are related to each other. |
4,918 | Here is a citation, and probably the reason of the problem: neither peter jackson knew about the "mature" hobbit. I have no problem with a childish hobbit movie, the problem is that he used the same actors, stages, and assets to portrait a different movie. | Ha, unavailable from my location, screwed again. TLDW? I can see why he did that tho.. |
4,919 | How delightful, I am currently on my first watch of The Office and on Season 9! | Aww wow, I'd love that experience all over again. I definitely hope you enjoy it! |
4,920 | I would be way more enthusiastic about it if the KU selection included more -or at least better - books. | I agree, i sat down expecting many books on my list to be there, and found that it's a bit more like netflix -- mostly popular/cheap stuff. I was hoping to catch up on pulitzer/nobel/classic books, and found many of them not available. |
4,921 | Book is terrible. Don't see how anyone besides high schoolers can see it as fantastic. | And that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. |
4,922 | Wow, they make a Cars 3, but not A Bug's Life 2? | Seriously. It's unfortunate Pixar makes such shitty compromises instead of releasing good films consistently. |
4,923 | My three favourite sci-fi books right now are Red Rising, Wool, and Old Man's War. 1. All three are unique stories, and page turners. Among a plethora of sci-fi books, they manage to stand out. RR is full of action, and a wild ride from the start. Wool is suspenseful and mysterious, and the concept is excellent. Old Man's War is a great adventure, and also an intriguing concept. 2. I think they're high quality books. All three authors have a solid voice, and utilize effective writing tools to keep the story going at a great pace. 3. Again, the writing and plot of all three of these books is the reason I like them so much. | Took the words right outta my ...keyboard. Red Rising is amazing (action, betrayal, revenge, friendship, love) and about the most brutal SF I've read. Wool is a great drama of the struggles of a repressed society and the will to overthrow it. Old Man's War is just a great read. It made me really enjoy Scalzi's snarky wit which makes for great characters. |
4,924 | But it is indeed, inconceivable, that a man that is thought dead is now walking toward you. | Right? That always bothered me. I was pretty sure he was using that word correctly. |
4,925 | As an interpreter by profession I feel for all the interpreters whose jobs are at risk over this. As a sign language interpret though I think this is super cool and am not worried about the future of my job. | If you interpret from spoken language to sign language, your job is already superseded by live transcription software. If you interpret from sign language to spoken language, it is mostly a matter of time before clients start typing into TTS software. For both directions the tech is there, and it is slowly settling in day-to-day life. |
4,926 | No, he's not. He probably was attached at some point. | I didn't think he was but I was willing to be pleasantly surprised. |
4,927 | Yeah I mean it's a caricature of what we currently are experiencing. I think neoliberalism really does represent the ideology in BNW however, the idea that a managerial class should control the ignorant masses with consumerism and propaganda is both the theme in BNW and the ideology of our current western societies. | I don't know if that's really our ideaology and more or less the bullshit we have to deal with. |
4,928 | Love the "OMG US MEDICINE SO BAD posts" but the fact that this guy with end stage renal disease and rectal cancer diagnosed 20 years ago is still alive (and functional! still playing concerts) is if anything an endorsement of US medical care. | Cancer treatment in America is great, if you can afford it. I think that's the angle they're coming from. |
4,929 | So what I'm hearing is you have nothing constructive to say? | I'm calling bullshit and pointing out when a report had conflicting interest. you go ahead keep lapping from that trough tho. |
4,930 | From the top of my head: Wolf of Wall Street. Her. Whiplash. | I think the Whiplash trailer is really well made. Even after seeing the movie, I was showing a friend the trailer and it still made my heart race... |
4,931 | Aren’t the Sheetrock guys some of the lowest paid on the job crew? So let’s automate the lowest paid persons job. Oh shit, when will they automate all the jobs? | That’ll just incentivize guys from wasting their lives doing low paid jobs because that’s all they know into a high pressure situation to find a well paying job. Cheaper installation = more installations = more robots = more men that can take care of the robots. A lot less dangerous to their health short term and long term than they originally were. Plumbers themselves are actually happy a lot of their job got automated because now they can do more and charge more, while spending less and wasting less time on job and in the classroom. |
4,932 | Some people don't even know what Snowden did, much less how what he did is relevant or pertains to them. It shouldn't baffle you that people don't know this basic shit. Our education system has been rigged to keep people in the dark when it comes to this crap. You are in the minority when it comes to tech education. Most people, in particular the older folk, barely know how to use a web browser. | Actually, being knowledgeable about all this is most likely due to exceptional education/upbringing/intellectual curiosity. Most people are sadly ignorant about a lot of things they interact with on a daily basis. |
4,933 | I think the assumption was that these Arab people were strictly practicing Muslim. | such assumptions are unfortunate. many arabs are christians, and most are nothing like the caricatures usually presented |
4,934 | You're right, /r/music is about circlejerking bands it is actually difficult to have not heard yet. | If you don't like the jerk, no one's stopping you from unsubscribing the circle. |
4,935 | Love em. Bought a collection of 50 martial arts flicks for 10 bucks years ago, it's consistently entertaining. | I love it when they discuss techniques, tactics, and skills. It's like the most unenthusiastic bragging ever. "Heh, your open palm technique is no match for my Iron Foot!" |
4,936 | The last minute of that song is just astoundingly beautiful to me. The build-up, the chaotic instrumental and the wind down. So good. When I'm running to The Doppleganger album (highly recommend) this song juices me up like no other. | Haha wow, I feel like I wrote that comment myself. |
4,937 | There's actually four times as much sexual assault in the books than in the show. | Referenced or made into primary and explicit scenes? What percentage of the time do you think you spend reading about it in the books compared to the percentage of screen time it gets in the show? I don't think it's comparable. Does this comment not contribute to discussion in some way? I thought this was a better subreddit than this. |
4,938 | Greg Graffin of Bad Religion has smarts as well. | Have you heard about the book he cowrote with a professor from John Brown University (Christian college in Arkansas)? It's basically just an assembly of back and forth emails discussing at length the merits of religion and belief in god. I've only read parts of it, but it's pretty cool. |
4,939 | No, the real question is: how fast can it cut James Bond in half? | It won't matter as any villain would obviously slow the movement down just enough so that he can get out of it before he loses his penis. |
4,940 | Hey, when you say "surface pro" do you actually mean the surface pro, or are you looking at surface books or the surface laptop? because the surface pro, while it is running full on windows 10 is not a laptop form factor, and as such doesn't come with a keyboard. Don't get me wrong, I'd take a surface product over a mac any day, but I don't want to recommend you get a surface pro if you're expecting it to function as a laptop out of the box. the type cover could add an additional $100 to the cost. Now, the Surface book & Surface Laptop are both proper laptops, and IMO are higher quality products than anything Apple sells. | I was talking about surface pro with the connecting keyboard and pen because they have a deal sf Costco for all of it at like $700 of $800 I believe! |
4,941 | Especially Thank You Scientist. There are seven musicians in the band, and all of them are pretty masterful at what they do. My only problem is that the vocals sounds slightly Michael Jackson-ish, which takes a while to get used to. The instruments are amazing, though. [Another song to listen to.] **EDIT**: Also, I just noticed your username and I'm wondering if it's a reference to [another amazing band.] | I found Thank you Scientist a few weeks ago and instantly fell in love. They're so great. |
4,942 | In the next version of Android, you will be able to have granular control of each app's permissions. | Can't wait until I get that in 4 years. :/ |
4,943 | It will stop reputable people from being careless and uninvested though. | I think you should reword that to something like: "It will mean we can fine reputable people when they are being careless and uninvested though." :p. Yes I'm cynical. |
4,944 | I really hope they explain in the Batfleck solo movie why he kills now. I'm sure it will have something to do with him losing his shit a little bit after Robin (better be Jason) died I will be very disappointed if this Batman has always been ok with killing | I remember Alfred talking about new rules. I do think he broke when Jason was killed, but Superman brought him back. |
4,945 | ITT people basing life long brand loyalty due to personal circumstantial factors. I've had both AMD and Nvidia and never had a significant issue with either. I get the one that has the best benchmarks and reviews when I'm looking to buy. | I had an Nvidia card bricked by minecraft (off all things). It was under OEM warrenty and they replaced... Then it was bricked again by minecraft. Turns out they didn't like 1k tnt blocks going off all at once back then. Went with a radeon after that until I got a new computer, which had a 660GTX I think. Thankfully wasn't bricked by TnT explosions anymore. New computer time this year and I waited for the new r9's to come out before purchasing parts. So as you can tell I flipflop on card manufacturers. |
4,946 | Ah. That explains it. I have never seen any of the FF movies (lack of interest mostly) but if there's an actor that died prior to release it would have definitely given an insane amount of publicity. | A'la Heath Ledger. EDIT: ffs, y'all are assuming Dark Knight, when I was thinking Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Y'know, the film he was working on when he died. Which got way more attention than it would have had he not. |
4,947 | I downloaded the Fleet Foxes album not long ago, but never had a chance to listen to it all the way through. I probably should... | You certainly should. It's magical music, and I say that only because that's the best word to describe it. All of their releases so far have been phenomenal |
4,948 | I enjoyed Nixonland too, and it was super-thick. One I liked a lot was Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. It weaves a real-life murder with the history of the Mormon church. Fascinating. Also, +1 Devil in the White City. I was surprised to find my neighborhood (I'm not in Chicago) featured at the end. | I thought *Under the Banner of Heaven* was good, but the Mormon history parts started dragging for me around the middle of the book and I became more interested in the present day stuff. |
4,949 | THe album is called Bon Iver, I think thats what he was reffering to in the tittle, as in Holy shit, he [justin vernon] did it, Bon Iver[new album] lived up to blah blah forever ago [old album] | "I can think of few other artists with whom I would rather spend 40 minutes with than Bon Iver. Can't wait for the vinyl and can't wait to see him in Chicago. I hope everyone else enjoys it." |
4,950 | Unless you count the Hobbit though, the target market for the Hobbit and the early Harry Potter books are similar. Hell people talk about how Harry Potter functioned as the gateway to get people into reading, the Hobbit still functioned as that for me in the 1990's. LotR is the best answer for this reason, if you read the Hobbit when it came out and are the target age for it, LotR came out when you were the target age for it. It matured with the fans like Harry Potter. | Exactly. You can't compare Return of the King to Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone. |
4,951 | It was a beetle, but your point still stands. | Ungeheures Ungeziefer just means gigantic insect. No definition of the type of creature. I got cockroach feelings. Interesting that you got beetle. Maybe it was your translation? |
4,952 | Maybe he will stop them from making that fucking stupid mouse that you need to flip over to charge. | Or end the 6 year long obsession with miniaturisation. Who are these people calling for a wafer thin phone with 6 hours battery life? |
4,953 | Dear god I can not agree more. If they were on MTV, probally not punk. It's like the idiots who think No Doubt is punk, and not juts anothe pop band. Are you people blind AND deaf? | Are you? No Doubt started out as a ska band. If you go actually listen to early no doubt you'd hear that. Same can be said of the Offspring. This was their first mainstream success if you go back and listen to Ignition and First you can hear their punk rock roots. |
4,954 | This made me think, I propably haven't read a book in the last decade other than the first Witcher novel collection. I just get home from work, do daily routine, spend the 3 hours I have with news / youtube / a game or two, poof, day gone, repeat. | I’m the same, but I recently sold my laptop so I wouldn’t watch any more YouTube. I used to play games but that stopped keeping my interest so I’d have 3-4 hours at home bored shitless |
4,955 | Will Frazzle ever see the light of day or is it lost forever? | one day sorry I'm slow but ill remake it oneday |
4,956 | Her running does look very awkward exactly in that hall, that's what I thought at first too. | To be fair she was like a 12 year old in a coat. That's just an awkward time to do anything. |
4,957 | I always enjoy [Murmur] or [The Smiths] **EDIT:** I'm also like a hundred years old. | Upvote for Murmur. Also Reckoning and Fables can complete that. |
4,958 | It's the monthly Mr Blue Sky specifically. Good song, hugely overplayed and nowhere near ELO's best. | Everybody knows that Telephone line is their best by far. |
4,959 | [Google's animation celebrating Freddie Mercury's birthday last year was awesome] | Came in to post this. Was pleasantly disappointed it was already posted. |
4,960 | Doesnt that take the year? There's like 20 of em. | There are 15 (not counting short stories and various comics). Takes two-three months. Though a friend of mine once did all the audio books in less than 3 weeks. |
4,961 | So what, they were released in that order? Hm, guess you find something new every day. Thanks mate. | Yep. 4 was the first one made and I'm pretty sure was originally going to be a standalone film but they decided to continue for two more movies, and then make a trilogy of prequels. |
4,962 | There is nothing stealthy or ninja like about this marketing campaign. They've decided to take the saturation approach. | Yeah. Have you seen the size of turtles? They're basically mini-hulks. Can't wait to see them silently hoping from roof to roof without falling through. |
4,963 | This is the technology I'm referring to. Be interested in anyone else was aware of it? Edit. Well this certainly blew up. I'm happy to know I'm not the only one blown away by it. Edit 2. And now the creator of the comic is here. Fuck the internet is cool sometimes. | nintendo 3ds came with a set of playing cards, each one made a game on whatever surface it was laying on, pretty cool really. AR has been around for a while, not sure why it isn't more popular, it's easy enough and pretty neat |
4,964 | how many colors are in the ACES color space? its believed 50% of women are tetrachromats meaning they can perceive upwards of 100 million different colors. ive tried looking up how many unique colors ACES can produce and there is zero information other than the claim 'more colors than humans can see' it sounds like bullshit | the point of ACES is in the breadth of spectrum perceptible, not the resolution inside that spectrum. |
4,965 | Frankie Boyle is the guy who makes fun of the disabled/disfigured people, right? Yeah... enormous prick | He's a comedian. People go to his shows for his own brand of offensive comedy. They. Are. Jokes. |
4,966 | People *are* writing it off as just another shitty reboot. | People are divided on it. A lot of people *are* writing it off for what it is, but just take a look at some of the top comments here, some people are *specifically* trying to make it an issue of misogyny if you don't think this is going to be a great movie. Which is exactly what the people who made this movie want. |
4,967 | I've read an absurd amount this year. Probably 6 in just the last 30 days. | Had there not been so many good video games, and had my schedule not been so busy otherwise, I probably would have read that many as well. Trying to power through the Dresden files presently. What are you on? |
4,968 | All that load on one tooth vs a traditional drivetrain where the load is spread between 6 - 30 teeth? How heavy will it have to be to be rigid enough to not slip? Operating in the largest cog, the cog will have to be real beefy, and so will the driveshaft. Doesn't seem like it will ever be able to be as light and as durable as current designs. | I don't see why it wouldn't be able to do the job. It'd have to be good quality materials, the right hardness alloy, etc. |
4,969 | After seeing tough guy Michael Beck in The Warriors, I couldn't believe how girly he was in Xanadu. | True luckilly for me I saw Xanadu first. The Warriors also one of my favourites :) |
4,970 | I find that I’m drawn to different genres based on season. Though not exclusively. Big ambitious novels and westerns in summer, crime, historical fiction, and fantasy in fall, autobiographies and nonfiction in winter (something contemplative), and whimsy in the spring. Is whimsy a genre? | That's interesting. I think if I didn't have to read for the classes I teach, I'd read as though it were October year round. Or rather, the feeling I'm mostly looking for when I read is a feeling I associate with fall. |
4,971 | Interesting how complicated the recharging arm is because if strategically placed at bus stops it could just charge for 5 minutes while people unload and load. A setup like that kinda makes the idea of recharging go away completely since the bus's route and energy consumption can be quite well known so it can be topped constantly. | If your bus is taking 5 minutes for people to unload and load then something's gone wrong. |
4,972 | From what I've read Windows wasn't particularly good either, and nor did it have the most potential. But his marketing was spot on. I'd also disagree. There is plenty wrong with capitalism, it's just that it's been the most successful model so far. | > I'd also disagree. There is plenty wrong with capitalism, it's just that it's been the most successful model so far. I was just trying to dodge the mouth-frothers who always descend upon any comment with an opinion. |
4,973 | But card manufacturers were never the issue, it's the retailers who jacked up the prices. | You think card manufacturers weren't following the supply and demand curve too and raising prices? They would be sued by their shareholders for gross negligence. |
4,974 | He is my favourite author and I've only read about half of his books. This is quite deliberate. I can't stand the idea of having no more Vonnegut to read. So I read them rarely, only when I most need them. I hope they last a lifetime. I think now is a time when the world needs desperately to hear the voice of Vonnegut, begging us to be kinder than we often are. And we need to listen. | thanks homie you just gave me a bit more faith in humanity. |
4,975 | Not if you don't walk in with high hopes. Its an average movie with a couple of good shooting scenes. They replaced the movie massacre scene with a chinatown sequence with a decent build-up. The whole payoff of the movie wasn't as big as I hoped. One good thing about it is Sean Penn brings his A-game acting wise, its just not enough to hold the whole thing together. | Sigh. On well. I was so excited for it too. |
4,976 | I do like trilogies, but I would like to see more two or four book series, just because they don't seem to happen a lot (series that were always intended to be that long, not it was going to be a trilogy, but too much stuff needed to happen after book two, so I added an extra book, or it was going to be a trilogy but Doors of Stone will never come out). | I'm a bigger fan of duologies, because the second of three books seems to lack substance sometimes. |
4,977 | You buy it for the long battery life, lightweight OS and solid construction. It's not the best performer per $ and it's not trying to be. | Other Ultrabooks, including the ones I named, boast similar battery life. Yes, it's a beautiful design; if you adore ChomeOS, and buy into living on the cloud with such fervor that you really don't need much of any hard drive space, I could see the appeal. I suspect the number of people in that category is limited, but time and sales numbers will tell. |
4,978 | Also just re-watched and totally agree! they still feel as good as the first time, I rate them up there with Chan films personally. I love how they both further the story and showcase the skill of the actors (and show off the at the time new technology) They really nail what fights in films should be imo. | I'm kind of a kung fu fanatic. Probably my favorite genre of movie. And while I love Jackie chan films, the kung fu leaves alot to be desired. The stunts are cool. But the fighting doesn't even compare to IP man, the raid or even Marco Polo on Netflix. Anything Donnie yen is gonna have better fu than Jackie chan movies. And the matrix isn't even in the same world as any of those. |
4,979 | Is this place below sea level? If so, I'd rather donate to relocate the damn school. | No Baton Rouge is above sea level and this was a 500 year flood event that affected places that have never seen any kind of high water. This wasn't a levee breach it was four feet of rain water in four days. |
4,980 | I have no idea what "god" making man in his own image has to do with drag queens reading stories to kids or suing evangelicals for defaming the rest of the faith but i get the feeling you are on the side of the Evangelicals. In which case, given that you couldn't even interpret "The knights who say Nie!" Correctly, Could you kindly change username. Monty python has never supported bigotry. | God created people male and female to bear his glorious image in the earth. Our gender fluid society is rebelling against him in its prideful celebration of a twisted perversion |
4,981 | im sorry for disrupting your reddit experience. Ill delete the suggestion. | I thought they were great headphones. I can understand the fascination. |
4,982 | New? To you? Or new in general? Clutch has been around since the 90s | New to me. Been on kind of a bluesy kick lately and these guys came up on my Mastodon station! |
4,983 | I think cream on chrome showed that ratatat could still do what they used to, but I was really hoping to see some development from them. It's been years since their last album and I want to know how they've grown as artists since then, not just see another album of the exact same instrumentation and song structures. | I hear plenty of growth in Cream on Chrome. Maybe it's just me but It feels a good bit more complex than their previous stuff (which I also love). But it still has that old Ratatat vibe. I am super excited to hear the rest of the new stuff. |
4,984 | I'm a big Georgette Heyer fan. Sure, formulaic, but some of the characters are pretty interesting! | I used to work in a bookshop and a lot of people loved these. I think OP should give Georgette a go. |
4,985 | Movie was hot garbage with one good falcon scene. | It wasn't garbage, but do you mean the scene where they arrive at Maz's planet? It looks like it's from the original trilogy. |
4,986 | Respect. Can't really argue with your personal preference; I can see why you'd choose the order the way you did. HotH is fucking amazing as well. The Rain Song is goosebumps every time, Over The Hills and Far Away is phenomenal, and The Crunge is maybe their least mentioned track, even though it rocks hard. Don't even get me started on side two; every single one of those songs is badass. We'll agree to disagree, dude, you clearly know your shit and make very compelling arguments, there are no wrong answers here. | Oh man oh man oh man. After reading all this I think you're my doppleganger as a Led Zeppelin fan. |
4,987 | Its because you sound like the guy with his horse and cart complaining that all these new fangled cars aren't more efficient | Ok then try it and get back to me. I feel more like a guy who got suckered into doing the job of the cashier and bagger with no benefit to myself. This technology was around at least as early as I was in college, nearly a decade ago, and it has yet to revolutionize the world. |
4,988 | Did he? Maybe. That's the point. Iron Man was not in most people's brains until RDJ. | RDJ is the iconic Iron Man. Even a successful actor is being hated on before a movie is being created in the case of Batman vs. Superman, and the Batman series has always been open to different interpretations of stories and styles. |
4,989 | I'm mean if there's no advertising, no commercials...there's no revenue. | ... other than donations and grants. But I agree, it should be Federally funded. If you look at any of the commercially funded education shows ... and they've all become crap (e.g. Discovery Channel, History Channel, ... etc.). |
4,990 | Sounds like a perfect thing to put in my empty garage after I switch to rental transport in the next decade or so. | It's not. Vanadium flow batteries are not cost-effective at scales under 100kW really. |
4,991 | Good for you. Seriously. I've tried several times. I appreciate what they are doing on a technical level, but grindcore just isn't my cup of tea. Although I'll admit they are probably the best of that genre I've heard. | grind is a pretty diverse genre, actually. Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Extreme Noise Terror, Cattle Decapitation, Insect Warfare... lot of different shit |
4,992 | Violator is one of the two or three greatest albums to be released in the last 30 years. | What else would be there with it in your opinion? |
4,993 | It took me awhile to warm up to HDTA but I do like them now. I like to think of them as a tone downed version of NIN. I like seeing Reznor do something else thats not NIN. The guy is a great musician, seeing him go out and do something else is always nice. | His movie scores are simply amazing. Listening to Pieces Form the Whole from the Social Network or the Reznor/Karen O cover of Immigrant Song from GWaDT while doing my CS homework makes me feel like the bad ass hacker that I'll never be. |
4,994 | don't worry guys, you can trust the nytimes to be fair and objective when reporting on competing companies that are putting them out of business! edit: reddit, le army of pawns | So what I'm hearing is you have nothing constructive to say? |
4,995 | What a great foreign film. If you like Amores Perros then watch Y Tu Mama Tambien. | Haven't seen that movie since I was a kid. Didn't understand it at all back then |
4,996 | I thought the quote speaks for itself, but yeah, this is exactly what I'm saying. | I had no idea what you were saying when I saw your first comment, but I agree with you. |
4,997 | This article made me happy until I got to his part: "Some experts question whether companies should share GPS-based information about routes, even if it helps cities make infrastructure decisions." Those insane SJW are everywhere these days... "Experts". | Dude I can’t stand SJWs but wtf do SJWs have to do with anything here? |
4,998 | Yeah, he will (hopefully) always be the worst example of music biz depravity. Absolute psychopath, no remorse. Like, I've stopped listening to Brand New's stuff too due to Jesse's actions at the time of recording, which hurt as I had a genuine emotional connection with their music...but Watkins is a fucking monster. Different beast, different order of magnitude. I never want to hear his voice or lyrics again and am so glad that I'd stopped listening to Lostprophets a few years back anyway. | Man...Brand New were my favourite band, night still be, but I’ve just not been able to listen since it all came out. Maybe someday I’ll be able to separate the feelings and listen to them again, appreciating the music as something distinct from the artist. |
4,999 | To be fair, I think you were doing the right thing. The beach boys are known for being awful musicians. You could pick a random person off the streets of New York and they say they would do better than the Beach Boy's drummer. | Never in my life have i heard someone say the beach boys are terrible. Seriously dont know anyone who thinks theyre bad. |
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