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5,900	I think that animatronic looks amazing. I'm willing to bet, though, that it doesn't quite have the range of movement and discrete control that one would want for delivering believable dialogue. It probably takes quite a few people to control that thing. But let's assume it works as desired. Now justify the look in the narrative for an audience that believes itself technilogically inclined and savvy enough to be skeptical of it.	Would be tough for sure. But you could say its a mask for soldiers that protects and cools the skin with nanotech or something. Maybe show a less creepy version on a soldier and say he modified it for intimidation.
5,901	That and [Glass Arm Shattering] which is a low key masterpiece	This. Lazarus is one of the few PT songs I'll probably skip when listening to the album, it just never really clicked with me, but Glass Arm Shattering is just gorgeous. A bit like Like Dust From My Eye from grace for drowning
5,902	Pynchon. He's name-dropped on here all the time for everyone to seem really hip and literary, but it's for a reason. Pynchon is a giant among the rest of the writing elite. Start with "Pynchon-lite", Inherent Vice, which was written in 2009 I believe. It's not his most famous or praised, but I just finished it last week and I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's not dense or confusing like the rest of Pynchon; it honestly can be enjoyed by snobby literary folks and middle-aged wives on the beach alike, it mixes high-brow and low-brow SO goddamn well. Sorry for ranting, I just finished it and recommend it.	I listen to the Gravity's Rainbow audiobook every damn day. I have not truly enjoyed anything since I read it this summer. I've tried to emulate his writing, but there's nothing like it. The word choice, the rhythm, the cleverness: Perfection.
5,903	You haven't listened to much AIC if you think this is one of their heaviest songs	Here comes the Reddit dick comparing....I'm glad this is subjective and not logic. IMO (which means in my opinion) DTR is. What song do you BELIEVE is their heaviest?
5,904	Pretty self-explanatory. I want to hire someone to develop an app to take delivery orders and process credit payments for my restaurant. Possibly PayPal as well. I want to know what's required given the involvement of 3rd party credit processing companies. How much will it cost? I've only seen this with corporate restaurants, but I'm also from a rural area and might be missing out. Also, who should I hire to put this together for me?	Credit Card processing is not something I would just hire somebody to develop an app for. You are probably better off going with some kind of out of the box solution like this. There are also a number of apps targeting food trucks that might work for a restaurant just as well. No need to reinvent the wheel!
5,905	That's like when people play The Police's "Every Breath You Take" at weddings. Because unhealthy obsession and stalking are what lasting relationships are made of. Edit: the song name, because I can't use the Google	They played "before he cheats" at my BFF's wedding. Inopportune music seems to follow me around.
5,906	I suppose they should lead pencils then as they pretty much produce graphene when you use them.	Lead pencils do not produce graphene. Graphite pencils produce graphene. Pencils haven't used lead for a long long time(over thirty years). Even the "lead" in mechanical pencils contains 0% lead.
5,907	He won't do this because he want's to write loads of appendices to ASOIAF like World of Ice and Fire or Fire and Blood. So he'll keep stringing us along so we'll buy his other Westeros based works without him having to finish the story.	I have only bought one thing from GRRM that wasnt the main GoT and that was the World like the huge appendix shit. Im not willing to buy other shit of his unless it's Winter but even then I almost stopped caring about the books.
5,908	What does it being a comic have to do with anything? It has gorgeous sets that the director obviously wanted to pop out of the screen. Just look at the OP's picture. You anti-3D people are ridiculous.	I'm not anti-3D at all. I'm against someone trying to ruin a good piece of literature with over the top 3D effects and CGI. Maybe it could work, but it seems like the story should be told another way.
5,909	> I could see them reinventing the jack to something with a smaller form factor. Or just not having one. With all the Bluetooth speakers and headphones available now it wouldn't be the worst thing ever to just get rid of it all together. People will bitch and moan for a month or 2 then get over it.	No, you're wrong. Yes there are Bluetooth headphones but the choice is limited compared to 3.5mm and frankly if I was forced to update all my headphones to be Bluetooth just because of a phone, I wouldn't buy the phone. On top of that, a simple 3.5mm jack is way way easier to set up than Bluetooth; you just plug it in. Imagine being at a party and wanting to play music from your phone and you go to pair but no one remembers how to pair the speakers because they set it up once and threw away the manual. So no, I don't think people would complain for a month or two and then just move on.
5,910	I hadn't previously heard of the Zones of Thought series. Are the books a highly interconnected series or more of an anthology? I guess asking if I need to read the first book in order to understand the second, ha. Thanks.	They are barely connected and both work as stand alone novels.
5,911	How'd the audience react? Opening night thursday it was dead quiet afterwards (people getting into groups to discuss amongst themselves) But I went to IMAX sunday and people where cheering for wonder woman and got about half the people applauding at the end.	For most of it the audience was pretty quite. Every now and then there would be a little gasp, but that was about it. I've never been to watch a film in cinema and have people cheer in it. Im not sure if thats just us British people being British though.
5,912	The store I work at sells them, all the customers have to sign a paper that says we aren't liable for injury.	If a business is knowingly selling dangerously defective products I don't think having customers sign off on it will protect you
5,913	I saw her on that tour when she was opening for The Black Keys (and she was allowed a much longer set than a normal opener usually gets, so it was almost two shows for the price of one). She was sick.	I saw her with Andrew Bird. So good. When they played together at the end, it was so lovely!
5,914	I think I did Shakespeare in 7th or there abouts...like a teenager is going to be able to properly decipher Modern English and archaic language enough to really get Shakey...	Ohh I'm going into a Shakespeare class starting next semester (my senior year of college) so hopefully I will be able to appreciate it... maybe
5,915	I'd like to open a bookstore purely for the peace and quiet and the fact that no one will bother me while I'm reading.	How much are all the books? Please point at each and every last one of them and tell me how much they cost.
5,916	It's in Australia too. Just assume it'll kill you if you fuck with it. Ha. On a more serious note it looks like it has a lockbox of sorts which probably opens upon some sort of proof of purchase. I mean sure you probably could try and steal the pizza but you'd have to be pretty high for it to be worth it haha	Apperently they send you a code with your order. As an Australian, living in the city they are trialling and as an ex domino's delivery driver, I welcome our new robot overlords.
5,917	Top 10: Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness, Boris - Feedbacker, The Microphones - Mount Eerie, Madvillain - Madvillainy, Death Grips - The Money Store, Danny Brown - XXX, Melt Banana - Fetch, Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation, Milo - Things That Happen at Day/ Things That Happen at Night, Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.a.a.d City. If I had to pick one it would be Deathconsciousness. No other band that I've heard is as good at creating gloomy, soul-crushing music.	Deathconsciousness is beautiful, I can play it every day and it doesn't get old. Nice to see more Boris love on here too
5,918	It was doing fairly well in /r/offbeat the other day, but since the mods officially decided to stop doing anything in that sub, it got buried under a story about Verizon throttling Netflix.	That used to be a great sub :/ Then it turned into a weird combination of news and wtf.
5,919	I absolutely love that they used that as the name.	Yeah, but it seems like it's pandering to the zeitgeist. The whole Mr Spashypants and Boaty Mc Boatface thing was amusing internet rebellion, using the Internet masses to burst the pompous bubble of institutions by hijacking their naming competitions. This just seems like garnering popularity by echoing the names, without the rebellious and amusing aspects. In other words a tired overworked and misplace meme.
5,920	Water Cooler, Water Bubbler, same thing, different names depending on where you live in the USA at least. It's one of the ones has hot and cold taps, which is nice. Used to have only the cold tap. Requested an upgrade last winter, got it this summer. Go figure. Now I can make ramen noodle cups and tea and instant coffee without having to microwave. Such a convenience! :P	Bro, a bubbler is a "drinking fountain". A water cooler is always a water cooler, far as I know. Oh, and nevermind the idiots who call drinking fountains "water fountains". Those are in parks. Birds shit in them.
5,921	The Powerwall is as easy to steal as anything that weighs 264 lbs and is hardwired to high-voltage electricity.	So a car and a few tools? It's not easy, but for it's value it could be worth it.
5,922	I like her sound and think she is a phenomenal performer. I just can't understand her lyrics.	I bet you can understand her lyrics & hear them every day. She writes for Rihanna, Beyonce (I think) & pretty much 90% of the pop female artists around for the last 12 years.
5,923	She isn't down with it though. She thought it was very sweet and charming, but she's happy with her husband.	Thinking it's sweet and charming certainly puts it into the 'I'm ok with this' category (sorry, didn't mean to imply that she was going to leave her husband, just that she approved of the behaviour).
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5,925	Awesome song, sweet flow! Trying to download the album, or track, from your bandcamp and I keep getting an error... You might want to check it out...!	oh no! I will now! All of it is on soundcloud too if you want to try that? Thank you so much!
5,926	I've read Wildthorn and liked it. Is it a good story?	Yeah its amazing just didnt end the way I expected
5,927	Woah what? I think I might to check that out now	Be warned its tricky to figure out where to start. Your best bet is probably to read everything in the order that it was published. Also, because Brooks been writing it on and off for nearly 40 years, the series is really long.
5,928	Daredevil is all guilty pleasure. I kind-of like it for what it is, but I would never go so far as to say most of it is any good.	Nah, probably not most of it. Mostly the villains and the look of the city at night are what really tickle me.
5,929	The production on this album is what happens when someone knows exactly what the fuck they're doing, amazing.	I'm not a vinyl snob at all, but I cracked and have "In the Aeroplane" on vinyl. The production on the CD mix is incredible but it flatlined a lot of things; the vinyl production is different and somehow even more incredible.
5,930	Of course I've never read any of Sanderson's own books, so this could just be my bitterness about the series.	I own all of Sanderson's stuff aside from his Alcatraz young adult's series, and have read them all. The guy's good. Elantris is his first published novel, and when compared to his most recent work, The Way of Kings, it does show. However, the Mistborn trilogy stands very well on its own. If you're looking to read some Sanderson without Jordan's influence, I'd say that either Elantris or Mistborn: The Final Empire would be the place to start, since you can work your way through his books chronologically. Or, if you want a massive tome, The Way of Kings is pretty awesome.
5,931	The sensor is made by Sony who make some of the best camera sensors and is used by HTC apple and dozens of other manufacturers.	Sony also make much bigger sensors that have smaller megapixel counts. I'm questioning if the 13 megapixel sensor that phone uses is the best that's available in terms of the pictures you'll get, or the biggest megapixel count for a spec sheet.
5,932	Have you ever worked a job? Bosses shit on you constantly. I'm sorry you're such a massive pussy.	Most of my jobs have been a professional environment where the boss knows not to act like an entitled prat.
5,933	The problem with railguns are that they're direct line of fire which limits their usefulness. Their good as coastal batteries or on ships as anti-ship, anti-coastal battery weapon, but are severely limited if a target is further inland. Railguns won't phase out conventional shells until they can get the form factor small enough to mount on a helicopter.	They can fire in an arc. Their 130 nautical mile maximum range involves shooting the projectile in a ballistic arc that spends most of it's time outside the atmosphere.
5,934	probably because the current world isn't a meritocracy anyway. unless you're arguing that white men are inherently better than all other people and that's why they dominate society. which, yeah, is pretty racist	is this the right time for a GOT'IM! or no?
5,935	This is actually an infograph on all the injuries Sean Bean has lived through in real life.	Impaled by an anchor and blown up? ... yeah, no, he actually probably did.
5,936	It's more so existential horror but House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.	the navidson record was definitely interesting, but truant's mindless rambling kinda ruined it for me. :/
5,937	This was the first book I read in 2016 and I loved it. Hope you enjoy!	Almost done and I am enjoying it! The second half has been especially full of surprises, and this is a pretty darn dark book.
5,938	I'm guessing he's from the UK or Ireland. I'm Irish and it is ubiquitous here come December, and from what I hear it's the same in Britain.	I'm a new yorker and my old man who is Irish showed me this song a long time ago
5,939	Except Google's method let's the people who run these websites actually keep the lights on.	There is already a way for websites to keep the lights on: Computer-illiterates who don't know what a "web browser" is and who call the blue 'E' on the desktop "The Internet." I've been outsourcing my costs to them for years, and I plan to continue.
5,940	You're entitled to your opinion, but i'm curious as to which albums you are basing that off of?	I don't trust anyone's opinion on music when they are subbed to r/farts.
5,941	Then why aren't you doing it now? There's plenty of other options out there. What exactly are you afraid of in W10 that makes you so vehemently oppose upgrading to it? Privacy concerns? Those exist in W7 and 8 as well. The interface? That's something you'll have to tackle with in a new OS environment as well. I can't think of anything else that could be a reason. Everyone's welcome to switch to a different platform, and with more users those would get more attention. However that's not happening. Instead, what people do is complain on and on about this stuff only to eventually give in because of complacency and laziness.	Retarded updates, privacy, retarded and shameful behaviour on the hard disk and boot options, it acts as if it were the only solution for everything. Nukes partitions that it doesn't recognise. All proven facts btw.
5,942	I have no deep insight or technical knowledge regarding the physics involved, but let's say instead of visible light, you perform facial recognition on another form of light; infrared. It is unlikely facial paint will effect a noticeably different/distorting pattern in IR-light. In which case, facial recognition relying on that would be unaffected. In that case however, other measures might be effective. But if you do not know what kind of surveillance is active, it's a hit and miss unless you combine all sorts of techniques.	Well I do have deep technical knowledge so I do know you are full of shit.
5,943	Wait didn't Jonah hill lose weight? Or is this before he lost the weight for that 21 jump street?	This movie was probably mostly filmed early last year some time.
5,944	watching True Detective right now and it makes me NOT want to do them	He's using them to fall asleep. Which they were originally meant for. Mix it with uppers and you're in for a ride.
5,945	The liability hurdles will also be an issue. Get insurance companies involved, and it'll just drag out longer.	The insurance companies will punish "manual" drivers. Take your car off automatic? Premiums go up.
5,946	I absolutely love books, and I'm moving in a week. I'm going through my bookshelves to see if I can part with some books, and it didn't even cross my mind to donate them to the corrections facilities but I absolutely will. I have a lot of sci-fi and young adult fiction which was why I asked. Maybe I can get in touch with our jail and ask them if they need anything specific.	You might see if there's a juvenile correctional facility in your area. They might enjoy that a bit more based on your taste
5,947	> whereas 80s games had no choice but to make creative games with the little blobs they had to work with visually. [nod] Look at ET...	Good point. Rephrase: "80s game designers had no choice but to make creative games with the little blobs they had to work with visually... if they wanted to make games people would enjoy and buy, and not ridicule.
5,948	People on Reddit (hashtag not all redditors, Reddit is not a monolith), but people on Reddit complain all day about the state of political discourse in america and they turn around and say fuck liberal arts, fuck writing and English classes, who needs that, STEM is all that matters and STEM is all tax dollars should pay for. Well stem doesn’t create well rounded, thoughtful writers who are capable of empathizing and seeing the world from different perspective. Liberal arts do.	That is true, but to be fair liberal arts also create a bunch of fast food workers. I believe both the liberal arts programs and society at large would profit from treating the programs more like music conservatiories, significantly reducing class sizes resulting in only the clearly talented getting admitted.
5,949	No, but I like that Batman is kinda GrimDark, and Superman is The BoyScout. I love that he is best best of us, and he ISN'T Human. that's GREAT story telling potential.	Superman is still a boy scout, he's just not living in a boy scout's world. This ain't Mr. Cleaver's world, it's Mr. Bateman's.
5,950	Tool was up there for me, too. Saw them in '06 in Hartford. One of the best light shows I've seen, too	I saw them at the Orpheum in Minneapolis in 2006. The loudest first note ever. And the place was a small venue for TooL.
5,951	2 up isn’t even enough bandwidth to ACK 100 down; you shouldn’t be paying for that.	I'm on 100/2 and get the full 100, so clearly something is up!
5,952	This feels like they used a lot of buzzwords to create a little press appeal. There would have been easier ways to explain the concept, IMO.	really? are you telling me that calling a 2D chips on top of each other to form 3D (3 dimensions) piles, and that cooling and power delivery is a fourth and fifth dimension is not accurately depicting this system?
5,953	Exactly. She's a Mary Sue or whatever. Works for fan fiction but is super boring on screen.	If Max Landis didn't spew that out of his mouth and the internet didn't gobble it up, no one would be using that term or applying it as a criticism to Rey in TFA.
5,954	some of these words made sense to me, most did not.	He said his name is Jack and sold a whole cow for some beans.
5,955	I've only used WD and never had an issue. I have one from 2008 that still works fine (but it's backed up nonetheless).	I would say that the average life span of my HDD's seem to be about 3 years, with the longest lived being a WD - I have one I purchased in 2006 that is still operational. My shortest lived Hard Drive was a laptop Hitachi drive--it lasted 3 months and was replaced with WD, that has been running strong for about 6 months now - and hopefully survives until the laptop needs replacing. Of the three listed, I have personally had better luck with WD, followed by Seagate, and then Hitachi.
5,956	I remember that documentary. I fucking idolized Brandon when I was a kid	Yeah I wanted to fuck him, still do! As does every straight woman incubus fan lol.
5,957	"Then tripped over an extension cord and hit the floor like a board"	Slipped over a hover board, and when he still got ignored, grabbed his four-four, shot into a crowd and just yelled "fore!" Edit: corrected spelling.
5,958	Just sort of figured any marginal amount of creativity would be implemented into the title of a estimated $30,000,000 movie?	Samuel L. fought pretty hard for the "Snakes on a Plane" title.
5,959	Basically, The Ramones started in America, as most people know. Their music was considered "too rebellious" and didn't get much radio airplay, thus making their record sales in America low. Meanwhile, in the UK, they were pretty darned big.	Wait? The Ramones aren't huge in the states? I honestly didn't know that. So they're the seventy's Anastacia?
5,960	There is a huge assumption being made here, in the quote "The ideal world for a player is one that faithfully recreates our world but lets you do things you cannot do in reality" Because, really, no. I would not want to play Mario if he was jumping over hobos in New York City. I would not play in World of Warcraft if instead of exploring wonderful and magical realms, I was walking to the grocery store down the street. I can name endless games that were amazing because their art style and feel and world. It's neat what they're trying to do, but they seem to be claiming that realistic graphics are the only option. And that's a little sad.	But what about all the people that want to shoot hobos in NYC?
5,961	If I want to make them laugh - "Blazing Saddles". For the more serious side - "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".	Blazing saddles is only funny if you understand how downright inappropriate most of it is. You need an understanding of racism in America and the Civil Rights Movement to really appreciate a lot of its humour. That and fart jokes.
5,962	How Do You Know, a romantic comedy which cost $120 Million, of which $50 million alone was spent on salaries for the director and the actors.	I came here to say the same. I found it mind blowing when it was called a "Flop" just because i assumed rom coms had a low budget, but 120. thats just outrageous, correct me if im wrong but did reese witherspoon and nickleson not take over 15 mil a piece?
5,963	Soooooo they copied what apple did with iWork's 8 months ago?	apple has had keynote and pages for years on ios. And no, office is much better
5,964	The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Great chemistry between Peter and Gwen, loved the swinging, and the last part where you-know-what happens and the very end were done great. But the movie still sucks.	I loved the portrayal of Spider-man's character too. I also loved the part where he saves the kid from the bullies too.
5,965	I thought its portrayal of bipolar disorder and its effects on the family were remarkably accurate. More than any movie I have ever seen.	You would have a hard time diagnosing Cooper's character with bipolar disorder if they didn't tell you that's what he had. [Intermitent Explosive Disorder] seemed more like it. Someone who spends 8 months committed to a state hospital is severely ill. He's not a quirkball.
5,966	I guess I don't really care about physical books as much because I know I very rarely reread books, and if I do, it's usually so long after I initially read it that I wouldn't mind buying it again. For me physical books are a fucking pain in the ass because of limited space, and it means I always have to get rid of them anyway.	This is why I got an ebook reader. I do reread books, and I don't mind paying up to paperback price for new releases. But they were starting to crowd me out, and I couldn't bear to get rid of them.
5,967	I've seen Joe perform solo 3-4 times over the past few years, and he's still kicking ass. Such a cool dude too.	Yea he's really great to his fans too. Sign up for his newsletter and he will send you cool stuff like his used guitar picks or homemade x mas cards. What a guy!
5,968	such a babe. i was going to mention her but didn't know her name. just looked it up, its Beau Garrett.	Me too, she was the hot gym girl from entourage who brought them to val kilmer as the sherpa with all the weed.
5,969	Obviously you'll need something else for recent developments, but you could do a lot worse than reading Bertrand Russell's 1945 book A History of Western Philosophy.	It's a decent book, but it does have to be taken with a bit of a grain of salt, Russell wasn't as objective as the layman might assume him to be. His explanation of Kant for instance is pretty widely criticized.
5,970	At what age should I start reading fanfic for my 6 year old daughter?	She's six!? You've missed out on years of fanfiction! Get to it!
5,971	>I think he meant the author names are written in a way that they are gender-ambiguous. Ahhh, my mistake. Although I'm still not quite sure what his point is. Suzanne Collins and Stephanie Meyer used their full names and it didn't seem to hold them back. Besides, Rowling quickly became one of the most famous people on the planet and her sex didn't seem to stop boys from being interested in her books.	Stephanie Meyer and (to a lesser extent) Suzanne Collins both wrote books with the kind of romantic themes that OP is complaining about. Rowling didn't. Also, boys were certainly interested in Harry Potter, but we can't ascertain anything from that. The books weren't published with "Joanne" on the cover.
5,972	I have yet to read "The Catcher in the Rye" but if the bookstore has a copy I'm certainly going to.	I don't think there is a single bookstore out there that doesn't stock Catcher in the Rye. It's easily one of the 5 most popular classics out there today.
5,973	What are "these lawsuits"? Copyright lawsuits? Artists are more than welcome to "borrow from each other." They have three options in doing so. The first is to not infringe the work by making sure it is not substantially similar (note this is a legal term of art and not what the lay listener thinks sounds similar). The second option is to use the influence liberally, but get a license for it (as is necessary when sampling). The other option is to employ fair use by making the work sufficiently transformative.	In saner times, works would also fall into public domain after some reasonable amount of years, allowing you to do with it what you please. Lobbying and campaign donation bribery changed the time frame before that happens to somewhere between umpteen years and Forever Cause Fuck It We're Disney.
5,974	There's surprisingly little Scott-Ramona [alone time] in the movie. It's what makes his struggle to reconcile the relationship so hard for some people to comprehend - Scott/Ramona is like the fourth most important relationship in the movie behind Scott/Knives, Scott/His Band, and Scott/Envy.	My favorite part in the Scott/Ramona story has to be when they are like 4 months in and she asks him why he likes her and his answer is that she is "mysterious" and she blew up on him. Also, the part about Ramona being literally controlled by the 7th evil ex (completely blanking on his name right now) makes way more sense in the books.
5,975	I like it purely as a stupid popcorn flick with decent direction and cinematography (not unlike The Matrix), but I almost can't allow myself to like it thanks to the ridiculously stupid pseudo-anarchy philosophers it spawned among the "/b/ army wuz here rah rah fight the powah" crowd.	Not to mention it completely butchered, and twisted the original point of the comic.
5,976	Agree completely. The books just weren't written that well, and the movie did a much better job conveying the story.	What I want to know is...why did these books even get published with how they're written? I feel like the author needs to do a lot more editing..
5,977	Tom cruise as Jack Reacher. He's supposed to be 6' 4" and 250 lbs.	I guess you think Hugh Jackman was a bad Wolverine because he's tall instead of short, right?
5,978	I know a lot of people don't care for Kermode, but the guy really knows his stuff. I don't agree with a lot of his recommendations, but since I now know his tastes pretty well, I can judge which movies I should watch and which are not worth it.	Exactly. He might not always be your cup of tea, but he will give you his honest opinion and highlight those projects that for some reason or another should recieve your attention.
5,979	Also more poisonous since it doesn't go through your liver. Don't forget that alcohol is actually a poison, kids!	just like oxygen. so try not to breathe too much
5,980	i hate the use of endnote citations over footnote citations, dont make me flip to the back every time i wanna see a reference	Fucking Infinite Jest. edit: I did love that book, it was just hard to read.
5,981	Do you accept steam gift cards? I can't donate you money but I can give you Skyrim and 1 dlc.	Thanks for the offer, I run a review site so my back log of games is staggering at the moment. Pass that key on to someone who has yet to dive into Skyrim.
5,982	Really? seems like a movie where not a lot of stuff happens and you actually need to pay attention (never watched it so i could be horrendously mistaken)	Watch it sober once then, but yes, a great movie... "Ive got a beverage here"
5,983	I think they find it more interesting now vfx have come so far. I mean it was good back in the day to do a few romantic maybe action films, but when you get the oportunity to play a man who can move metal with his mind, who would turn down that opportunity. It's a lot of kids ideal job.	Yeah its just that I so often picture these guys as the classiest thespians around, the kind of guys who would laugh off a role in a superhero movie. But nope, there is a surprising amount of interest from elderly, experienced actors in the genre. I guess Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen helped start that trend.
5,984	Surprised I had to scroll this far down for this. This trailer just made the movie look downright bad. It's a lot of flash and disjointed sequences just like Man of Steel it seems, but just because Batman is in it now, it'll have tons of praise. I was really looking forward to this movie, but now, and after leaks, I'm really not anywhere near as much.	Sadly this isn't the place to discuss anything but praise for the movie. Everyone is just ecstatic because it's their favorite heroes together on screen and it looks pretty. I see bad casting (Lex and WW in particular) and an extremely convoluted plot that likely won't touch on any one thing long enough for the audience to care about it. Kind of feels like Batman V Superman: Abridged.
5,985	I have no idea if I'd like that or not. Maybe everyone would become superficial.	I was thinking more /r/iamverysmart type of superiority over others sfter a period told time but who knows?
5,986	King for a Day is an OK FNM album, but a phenomenal Patton album.	You know what, that's a really great way of putting it. Some of the songs don't feel particularly unique or interesting, but Patton's vocal performance/diversity is at its peak (at least for FNM) on that album.
5,987	You also can never be sure who actually wrote the movie you're watching. Scripts get rewritten on the fly all the time with script doctors or the director reworking something on set. The Writer's Guild has very specific criteria for someone getting writing credit in the film which errs on the side of the original screenplay writer, so it's hard to actually know what came from the original screenplay and what what changed after it was sold.	>Any writer whose work represents a contribution of more than 33% of a screenplay shall be entitled to screenplay credit, except where the screenplay is an original screenplay. In the case of an original screenplay, any subsequent writer or writing team must contribute 50% to the final screenplay. Sure, there are limits on how many people can be credited, but this ensures that both the original writer and the people who wrote what actually made it to the screen are credited. Everyone else doesn't matter. Sure, Joss Whedon added a couple of uncredited jokes to X-Men, but they don't meaningfully change David Hayter's screenplay. So, it's mostly untrue that you never know who wrote a movie.
5,988	also the video mentions that it reacts with oxygen from the air, so this would have to be an inner wall of anything in space not the outer wall, sort of a last resort type of layer. Im also going to assume that would mean that its a one time use for that exact spot so a second hit dead on could now go through the first hole that's now hardened and stay open as the liquid wouldn't be able to flow near the new hole due to previous hole solidifying the liquid already. a second hit 5 cm over tho would probably reseal its self at least that's the impression i get from the video and the narration on it.	Study up some fluid dynamics and you'll see this would work even on the outermost layer as long as there is a hull breach that is leaking oxygen.
5,989	Definitely not overrated, but played out AF. I think every song has been placed in film/TV, several tracks ad naseum.	I have never heard My Wife in anything ever outside the album.
5,990	Who the fuck can and would pay that much just to see some dudes on a stage. I understand scalping, but who the hell is their market if they're raising the price this high?	This isn't a normal show, Kraftwerk are playing for 8 consecutive days, performing all 8 of their albums in their entirity, and the show is in the Museum of Modern Art not at like a normal rock music venue. Given the nature of the show and how massively influential Kraftwek are, I can understand the hype, though it really sucks that the system is set up this way that scalpers can take advantage.
5,991	50 First Dates? Spanglish? Punch Drunk Love is amazing, but, you know, not for everyone.	Definitely don't overlook "Reign on Me". That was a really powerful drama with a great performance by sandler. He portrayed a lonely man with ptsd so incredibly well.
5,992	Well, he didn't know the waitress was with the Russians (too) while he was dealing is arms sales in Hondorus, so...	This song came out in 1978. Why are you trying to inject current day politics into it exactly? Right wing propaganda? Still doesn’t make any sense.
5,993	You think Ireland doesn't have censorship laws? Let's you and I discuss child porn with visual examples, and see how long before Irish law enforcement comes to censor you away. - there should be free speech on the internet. - free from any government interference. - very few people hold that unpopular opinion. - most people what government censorship. - including Ireland. - and I'm willing to bet: including you	>You think Ireland doesn't have censorship laws? Not at all (that's not what I said?), sure we still have Blasphemy laws here haha. Government censorship, which I am against child porn or not, is not the same as a government systemically influencing discussion online.
5,994	I had a chance to see Nirvana and didn't go, still bums me out. Go see the Deftones any chance you get.	I second this. Deftones remains to be one of the best concerts I've ever been to, and I've seen NIN and Rammstein.
5,995	And tobacco, though that one was not really a positive influence on his longevity.	Yeah, I should have put tobacco. But there's a chance my kids could read this someday and I don't want to be a bad influence.
5,996	I've been a Godzilla fan my entire life and I have to say, I was extremely impressed by this movie. It was everything I wanted the 1998 movie to be and then some. Would have liked to see Godzilla in the movie a bit more, but what we got was incredible. The second that I was his tail light up, my inner child freaked the fuck out.	Yeah. I have found that people who were disappointed in this film, by and large, have roughly zero familiarity with the property. They thought it was going to be Pacific Rim minus the robots.
5,997	Cool I guess, but when's the last time a bomb exploded in the hold of a passenger aircraft? Wikipedia suggests the 1980s. This seem like devoting a lot of money and weight to a problem which doesn't exist.	The article also states that there are plans for a small bag version for in cabin use. That way, if you manage to get a bomb off a passenger/discover one stowed away in the cabin, you can zip it away and probably survive. The Christmas 2009 attempted attack shows that such a situation is certainly a possibility. In addition, simply adding this as a lining to existing luggage containers, which there is interest in, would add a huge amount of security with very few downsides.
5,998	"Reddit is going to fucking kill me. It is as just as addicting as the hardest drug out there. Just click it one more time. It's only one more time. Then it's 4:45 in the morning and you're so exhausted but all you want is more. It affects your sleep patterns, depletes your money and turns you into an anti-social scumbag. I love reddit." Man, if only girls were impressed by karma.	Only 2.2k of karma? Man, you've got to try harder if you want to impress the ladies.
5,999	Cartoons aren't just for kids anymore dude. There's a ton of animated stuff for adults, and, more importantly, a ton of animated stuff that's just straight up good no matter if you're watching it as a kid or an adult.	Never occurred to me to watch it.. Guess I'll see if my daughter wants to go see it.

5,900

I think that animatronic looks amazing. I'm willing to bet, though, that it doesn't quite have the range of movement and discrete control that one would want for delivering believable dialogue. It probably takes quite a few people to control that thing. But let's assume it works as desired. Now justify the look in the narrative for an audience that believes itself technilogically inclined and savvy enough to be skeptical of it.

Would be tough for sure. But you could say its a mask for soldiers that protects and cools the skin with nanotech or something. Maybe show a less creepy version on a soldier and say he modified it for intimidation.

5,901

That and [Glass Arm Shattering] which is a low key masterpiece

This. Lazarus is one of the few PT songs I'll probably skip when listening to the album, it just never really clicked with me, but Glass Arm Shattering is just gorgeous. A bit like Like Dust From My Eye from grace for drowning

5,902

Pynchon. He's name-dropped on here all the time for everyone to seem really hip and literary, but it's for a reason. Pynchon is a giant among the rest of the writing elite. Start with "Pynchon-lite", Inherent Vice, which was written in 2009 I believe. It's not his most famous or praised, but I just finished it last week and I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's not dense or confusing like the rest of Pynchon; it honestly can be enjoyed by snobby literary folks and middle-aged wives on the beach alike, it mixes high-brow and low-brow SO goddamn well. Sorry for ranting, I just finished it and recommend it.

I listen to the Gravity's Rainbow audiobook every damn day. I have not truly enjoyed anything since I read it this summer. I've tried to emulate his writing, but there's nothing like it. The word choice, the rhythm, the cleverness: Perfection.

5,903

You haven't listened to much AIC if you think this is one of their heaviest songs

Here comes the Reddit dick comparing....I'm glad this is subjective and not logic. IMO (which means in my opinion) DTR is. What song do you BELIEVE is their heaviest?

5,904

Pretty self-explanatory. I want to hire someone to develop an app to take delivery orders and process credit payments for my restaurant. Possibly PayPal as well. I want to know what's required given the involvement of 3rd party credit processing companies. How much will it cost? I've only seen this with corporate restaurants, but I'm also from a rural area and might be missing out. Also, who should I hire to put this together for me?

Credit Card processing is not something I would just hire somebody to develop an app for. You are probably better off going with some kind of out of the box solution like this. There are also a number of apps targeting food trucks that might work for a restaurant just as well. No need to reinvent the wheel!

5,905

That's like when people play The Police's "Every Breath You Take" at weddings. Because unhealthy obsession and stalking are what lasting relationships are made of. Edit: the song name, because I can't use the Google

They played "before he cheats" at my BFF's wedding. Inopportune music seems to follow me around.

5,906

I suppose they should lead pencils then as they pretty much produce graphene when you use them.

Lead pencils do not produce graphene. Graphite pencils produce graphene. Pencils haven't used lead for a long long time(over thirty years). Even the "lead" in mechanical pencils contains 0% lead.

5,907

He won't do this because he want's to write loads of appendices to ASOIAF like World of Ice and Fire or Fire and Blood. So he'll keep stringing us along so we'll buy his other Westeros based works without him having to finish the story.

I have only bought one thing from GRRM that wasnt the main GoT and that was the World like the huge appendix shit. Im not willing to buy other shit of his unless it's Winter but even then I almost stopped caring about the books.

5,908

What does it being a comic have to do with anything? It has gorgeous sets that the director obviously wanted to pop out of the screen. Just look at the OP's picture. You anti-3D people are ridiculous.

I'm not anti-3D at all. I'm against someone trying to ruin a good piece of literature with over the top 3D effects and CGI. Maybe it could work, but it seems like the story should be told another way.

5,909

> I could see them reinventing the jack to something with a smaller form factor. Or just not having one. With all the Bluetooth speakers and headphones available now it wouldn't be the worst thing ever to just get rid of it all together. People will bitch and moan for a month or 2 then get over it.

No, you're wrong. Yes there are Bluetooth headphones but the choice is limited compared to 3.5mm and frankly if I was forced to update all my headphones to be Bluetooth just because of a phone, I wouldn't buy the phone. On top of that, a simple 3.5mm jack is way way easier to set up than Bluetooth; you just plug it in. Imagine being at a party and wanting to play music from your phone and you go to pair but no one remembers how to pair the speakers because they set it up once and threw away the manual. So no, I don't think people would complain for a month or two and then just move on.

5,910

I hadn't previously heard of the Zones of Thought series. Are the books a highly interconnected series or more of an anthology? I guess asking if I need to read the first book in order to understand the second, ha. Thanks.

They are barely connected and both work as stand alone novels.

5,911

How'd the audience react? Opening night thursday it was dead quiet afterwards (people getting into groups to discuss amongst themselves) But I went to IMAX sunday and people where cheering for wonder woman and got about half the people applauding at the end.

For most of it the audience was pretty quite. Every now and then there would be a little gasp, but that was about it. I've never been to watch a film in cinema and have people cheer in it. Im not sure if thats just us British people being British though.

5,912

The store I work at sells them, all the customers have to sign a paper that says we aren't liable for injury.

If a business is knowingly selling dangerously defective products I don't think having customers sign off on it will protect you

5,913

I saw her on that tour when she was opening for The Black Keys (and she was allowed a much longer set than a normal opener usually gets, so it was almost two shows for the price of one). She was sick.

I saw her with Andrew Bird. So good. When they played together at the end, it was so lovely!

5,914

I think I did Shakespeare in 7th or there abouts...like a teenager is going to be able to properly decipher Modern English and archaic language enough to really get Shakey...

Ohh I'm going into a Shakespeare class starting next semester (my senior year of college) so hopefully I will be able to appreciate it... maybe

5,915

I'd like to open a bookstore purely for the peace and quiet and the fact that no one will bother me while I'm reading.

How much are all the books? Please point at each and every last one of them and tell me how much they cost.

5,916

It's in Australia too. Just assume it'll kill you if you fuck with it. Ha. On a more serious note it looks like it has a lockbox of sorts which probably opens upon some sort of proof of purchase. I mean sure you probably could try and steal the pizza but you'd have to be pretty high for it to be worth it haha

Apperently they send you a code with your order. As an Australian, living in the city they are trialling and as an ex domino's delivery driver, I welcome our new robot overlords.

5,917

Top 10: Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness, Boris - Feedbacker, The Microphones - Mount Eerie, Madvillain - Madvillainy, Death Grips - The Money Store, Danny Brown - XXX, Melt Banana - Fetch, Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation, Milo - Things That Happen at Day/ Things That Happen at Night, Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.a.a.d City. If I had to pick one it would be Deathconsciousness. No other band that I've heard is as good at creating gloomy, soul-crushing music.

Deathconsciousness is beautiful, I can play it every day and it doesn't get old. Nice to see more Boris love on here too

5,918

It was doing fairly well in /r/offbeat the other day, but since the mods officially decided to stop doing anything in that sub, it got buried under a story about Verizon throttling Netflix.

That used to be a great sub :/ Then it turned into a weird combination of news and wtf.

5,919

I absolutely love that they used that as the name.

Yeah, but it seems like it's pandering to the zeitgeist. The whole Mr Spashypants and Boaty Mc Boatface thing was amusing internet rebellion, using the Internet masses to burst the pompous bubble of institutions by hijacking their naming competitions. This just seems like garnering popularity by echoing the names, without the rebellious and amusing aspects. In other words a tired overworked and misplace meme.

5,920

Water Cooler, Water Bubbler, same thing, different names depending on where you live in the USA at least. It's one of the ones has hot and cold taps, which is nice. Used to have only the cold tap. Requested an upgrade last winter, got it this summer. Go figure. Now I can make ramen noodle cups and tea and instant coffee without having to microwave. Such a convenience! :P

Bro, a bubbler is a "drinking fountain". A water cooler is always a water cooler, far as I know. Oh, and nevermind the idiots who call drinking fountains "water fountains". Those are in parks. Birds shit in them.

5,921

The Powerwall is as easy to steal as anything that weighs 264 lbs and is hardwired to high-voltage electricity.

So a car and a few tools? It's not easy, but for it's value it could be worth it.

5,922

I like her sound and think she is a phenomenal performer. I just can't understand her lyrics.

I bet you can understand her lyrics & hear them every day. She writes for Rihanna, Beyonce (I think) & pretty much 90% of the pop female artists around for the last 12 years.

5,923

She isn't down with it though. She thought it was very sweet and charming, but she's happy with her husband.

Thinking it's sweet and charming certainly puts it into the 'I'm ok with this' category (sorry, didn't mean to imply that she was going to leave her husband, just that she approved of the behaviour).

5,924

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5,925

Awesome song, sweet flow! Trying to download the album, or track, from your bandcamp and I keep getting an error... You might want to check it out...!

oh no! I will now! All of it is on soundcloud too if you want to try that? Thank you so much!

5,926

I've read Wildthorn and liked it. Is it a good story?

Yeah its amazing just didnt end the way I expected

5,927

Woah what? I think I might to check that out now

Be warned its tricky to figure out where to start. Your best bet is probably to read everything in the order that it was published. Also, because Brooks been writing it on and off for nearly 40 years, the series is *really* long.

5,928

Daredevil is all guilty pleasure. I kind-of like it for what it is, but I would never go so far as to say most of it is any good.

Nah, probably not most of it. Mostly the villains and the look of the city at night are what really tickle me.

5,929

The production on this album is what happens when someone knows exactly what the fuck they're doing, amazing.

I'm not a vinyl snob at all, but I cracked and have "In the Aeroplane" on vinyl. The production on the CD mix is incredible but it flatlined a lot of things; the vinyl production is different and somehow even more incredible.

5,930

Of course I've never read any of Sanderson's own books, so this could just be my bitterness about the series.

I own all of Sanderson's stuff aside from his *Alcatraz* young adult's series, and have read them all. The guy's good. *Elantris* is his first published novel, and when compared to his most recent work, *The Way of Kings*, it does show. However, the *Mistborn* trilogy stands very well on its own. If you're looking to read some Sanderson without Jordan's influence, I'd say that either *Elantris* or *Mistborn: The Final Empire* would be the place to start, since you can work your way through his books chronologically. Or, if you want a massive tome, *The Way of Kings* is pretty awesome.

5,931

The sensor is made by Sony who make some of the best camera sensors and is used by HTC apple and dozens of other manufacturers.

Sony also make much bigger sensors that have smaller megapixel counts. I'm questioning if the 13 megapixel sensor that phone uses is the best that's available in terms of the pictures you'll get, or the biggest megapixel count for a spec sheet.

5,932

Have you ever worked a job? Bosses shit on you constantly. I'm sorry you're such a massive pussy.

Most of my jobs have been a professional environment where the boss knows not to act like an entitled prat.

5,933

The problem with railguns are that they're direct line of fire which limits their usefulness. Their good as coastal batteries or on ships as anti-ship, anti-coastal battery weapon, but are severely limited if a target is further inland. Railguns won't phase out conventional shells until they can get the form factor small enough to mount on a helicopter.

They can fire in an arc. Their 130 nautical mile maximum range involves shooting the projectile in a ballistic arc that spends most of it's time outside the atmosphere.

5,934

probably because the current world isn't a meritocracy anyway. unless you're arguing that white men are inherently better than all other people and that's why they dominate society. which, yeah, is pretty racist

is this the right time for a GOT'IM! or no?

5,935

This is actually an infograph on all the injuries Sean Bean has lived through in real life.

Impaled by an anchor and blown up? ... yeah, no, he actually probably did.

5,936

It's more so existential horror but House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

the navidson record was definitely interesting, but truant's mindless rambling kinda ruined it for me. :/

5,937

This was the first book I read in 2016 and I *loved* it. Hope you enjoy!

Almost done and I am enjoying it! The second half has been especially full of surprises, and this is a pretty darn dark book.

5,938

I'm guessing he's from the UK or Ireland. I'm Irish and it is ubiquitous here come December, and from what I hear it's the same in Britain.

I'm a new yorker and my old man who is Irish showed me this song a long time ago

5,939

Except Google's method let's the people who run these websites actually keep the lights on.

There is already a way for websites to keep the lights on: Computer-illiterates who don't know what a "web browser" is and who call the blue 'E' on the desktop "The Internet." I've been outsourcing my costs to them for years, and I plan to continue.

5,940

You're entitled to your opinion, but i'm curious as to which albums you are basing that off of?

I don't trust anyone's opinion on music when they are subbed to r/farts.

5,941

Then why aren't you doing it now? There's plenty of other options out there. What exactly are you afraid of in W10 that makes you so vehemently oppose upgrading to it? Privacy concerns? Those exist in W7 and 8 as well. The interface? That's something you'll have to tackle with in a new OS environment as well. I can't think of anything else that could be a reason. Everyone's welcome to switch to a different platform, and with more users those would get more attention. However that's not happening. Instead, what people do is complain on and on about this stuff only to eventually give in because of complacency and laziness.

Retarded updates, privacy, retarded and shameful behaviour on the hard disk and boot options, it acts as if it were the only solution for everything. Nukes partitions that it doesn't recognise. All proven facts btw.

5,942

I have no deep insight or technical knowledge regarding the physics involved, but let's say instead of visible light, you perform facial recognition on another form of light; infrared. It is unlikely facial paint will effect a noticeably different/distorting pattern in IR-light. In which case, facial recognition relying on that would be unaffected. In that case however, other measures might be effective. But if you do not know what kind of surveillance is active, it's a hit and miss unless you combine all sorts of techniques.

Well I do have deep technical knowledge so I do know you are full of shit.

5,943

Wait didn't Jonah hill lose weight? Or is this before he lost the weight for that 21 jump street?

This movie was probably mostly filmed early last year some time.

5,944

watching True Detective right now and it makes me NOT want to do them

He's using them to fall asleep. Which they were originally meant for. Mix it with uppers and you're in for a ride.

5,945

The liability hurdles will also be an issue. Get insurance companies involved, and it'll just drag out longer.

The insurance companies will punish "manual" drivers. Take your car off automatic? Premiums go up.

5,946

I absolutely love books, and I'm moving in a week. I'm going through my bookshelves to see if I can part with some books, and it didn't even cross my mind to donate them to the corrections facilities but I absolutely will. I have a lot of sci-fi and young adult fiction which was why I asked. Maybe I can get in touch with our jail and ask them if they need anything specific.

You might see if there's a juvenile correctional facility in your area. They might enjoy that a bit more based on your taste

5,947

> whereas 80s games had no choice but to make creative games with the little blobs they had to work with visually. [nod] Look at ET...

Good point. Rephrase: "80s game designers had no choice but to make creative games with the little blobs they had to work with visually... *if they wanted to make games people would enjoy and buy, and not ridicule.*

5,948

People on Reddit (hashtag not all redditors, Reddit is not a monolith), but people on Reddit complain all day about the state of political discourse in america and they turn around and say fuck liberal arts, fuck writing and English classes, who needs that, STEM is all that matters and STEM is all tax dollars should pay for. Well stem doesn’t create well rounded, thoughtful writers who are capable of empathizing and seeing the world from different perspective. Liberal arts do.

That is true, but to be fair liberal arts also create a bunch of fast food workers. I believe both the liberal arts programs and society at large would profit from treating the programs more like music conservatiories, significantly reducing class sizes resulting in only the clearly talented getting admitted.

5,949

No, but I like that Batman is kinda GrimDark, and Superman is The BoyScout. *I* love that he is best best of us, *and he ISN'T Human*. that's GREAT story telling potential.

Superman is *still* a boy scout, he's just not living in a boy scout's world. This ain't Mr. Cleaver's world, it's Mr. Bateman's.

5,950

Tool was up there for me, too. Saw them in '06 in Hartford. One of the best light shows I've seen, too

I saw them at the Orpheum in Minneapolis in 2006. The loudest first note ever. And the place was a small venue for TooL.

5,951

2 up isn’t even enough bandwidth to ACK 100 down; you shouldn’t be paying for that.

I'm on 100/2 and get the full 100, so clearly something is up!

5,952

This feels like they used a lot of buzzwords to create a little press appeal. There would have been easier ways to explain the concept, IMO.

really? are you telling me that calling a 2D chips on top of each other to form 3D (3 dimensions) piles, and that cooling and power delivery is a fourth and fifth dimension is not accurately depicting this system?

5,953

Exactly. She's a Mary Sue or whatever. Works for fan fiction but is super boring on screen.

If Max Landis didn't spew that out of his mouth and the internet didn't gobble it up, no one would be using that term or applying it as a criticism to Rey in TFA.

5,954

some of these words made sense to me, most did not.

He said his name is Jack and sold a whole cow for some beans.

5,955

I've only used WD and never had an issue. I have one from 2008 that still works fine (but it's backed up nonetheless).

I would say that the average life span of my HDD's seem to be about 3 years, with the longest lived being a WD - I have one I purchased in 2006 that is still operational. My shortest lived Hard Drive was a laptop Hitachi drive--it lasted 3 months and was replaced with WD, that has been running strong for about 6 months now - and hopefully survives until the laptop needs replacing. Of the three listed, I have personally had better luck with WD, followed by Seagate, and then Hitachi.

5,956

I remember that documentary. I fucking idolized Brandon when I was a kid

Yeah I wanted to fuck him, still do! As does every straight woman incubus fan lol.

5,957

"Then tripped over an extension cord and hit the floor like a board"

Slipped over a hover board, and when he still got ignored, grabbed his four-four, shot into a crowd and just yelled "fore!" Edit: corrected spelling.

5,958

Just sort of figured any marginal amount of creativity would be implemented into the title of a estimated $30,000,000 movie?

Samuel L. fought pretty hard for the "Snakes on a Plane" title.

5,959

Basically, The Ramones started in America, as most people know. Their music was considered "too rebellious" and didn't get much radio airplay, thus making their record sales in America low. Meanwhile, in the UK, they were pretty darned big.

Wait? The Ramones aren't huge in the states? I honestly didn't know that. So they're the seventy's Anastacia?

5,960

There is a huge assumption being made here, in the quote "The ideal world for a player is one that faithfully recreates our world but lets you do things you cannot do in reality" Because, really, no. I would not want to play Mario if he was jumping over hobos in New York City. I would not play in World of Warcraft if instead of exploring wonderful and magical realms, I was walking to the grocery store down the street. I can name endless games that were amazing because their art style and feel and world. It's neat what they're trying to do, but they seem to be claiming that realistic graphics are the only option. And that's a little sad.

But what about all the people that want to shoot hobos in NYC?

5,961

If I want to make them laugh - "Blazing Saddles". For the more serious side - "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".

Blazing saddles is only funny if you understand how downright inappropriate most of it is. You need an understanding of racism in America and the Civil Rights Movement to really appreciate a lot of its humour. That and fart jokes.

5,962

How Do You Know, a romantic comedy which cost $120 Million, of which $50 million alone was spent on salaries for the director and the actors.

I came here to say the same. I found it mind blowing when it was called a "Flop" just because i assumed rom coms had a low budget, but 120. thats just outrageous, correct me if im wrong but did reese witherspoon and nickleson not take over 15 mil a piece?

5,963

Soooooo they copied what apple did with iWork's 8 months ago?

apple has had keynote and pages for years on ios. And no, office is much better

5,964

The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Great chemistry between Peter and Gwen, loved the swinging, and the last part where you-know-what happens and the very end were done great. But the movie still sucks.

I loved the portrayal of Spider-man's character too. I also loved the part where he saves the kid from the bullies too.

5,965

I thought its portrayal of bipolar disorder and its effects on the family were remarkably accurate. More than any movie I have ever seen.

You would have a hard time diagnosing Cooper's character with bipolar disorder if they didn't tell you that's what he had. [Intermitent Explosive Disorder] seemed more like it. Someone who spends 8 months committed to a state hospital is severely ill. He's not a quirkball.

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I guess I don't really care about physical books as much because I know I very rarely reread books, and if I do, it's usually so long after I initially read it that I wouldn't mind buying it again. For me physical books are a fucking pain in the ass because of limited space, and it means I always have to get rid of them anyway.

This is why I got an ebook reader. I do reread books, and I don't mind paying up to paperback price for new releases. But they were starting to crowd me out, and I couldn't bear to get rid of them.

5,967

I've seen Joe perform solo 3-4 times over the past few years, and he's still kicking ass. Such a cool dude too.

Yea he's really great to his fans too. Sign up for his newsletter and he will send you cool stuff like his used guitar picks or homemade x mas cards. What a guy!

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such a babe. i was going to mention her but didn't know her name. just looked it up, its Beau Garrett.

Me too, she was the hot gym girl from entourage who brought them to val kilmer as the sherpa with all the weed.

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Obviously you'll need something else for recent developments, but you could do a lot worse than reading Bertrand Russell's 1945 book *A History of Western Philosophy*.

It's a decent book, but it does have to be taken with a bit of a grain of salt, Russell wasn't as objective as the layman might assume him to be. His explanation of Kant for instance is pretty widely criticized.

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At what age should I start reading fanfic for my 6 year old daughter?

She's six!? You've missed out on years of fanfiction! Get to it!

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>I think he meant the author names are written in a way that they are gender-ambiguous. Ahhh, my mistake. Although I'm still not quite sure what his point is. Suzanne Collins and Stephanie Meyer used their full names and it didn't seem to hold them back. Besides, Rowling quickly became one of the most famous people on the planet and her sex didn't seem to stop boys from being interested in her books.

Stephanie Meyer and (to a lesser extent) Suzanne Collins both wrote books with the kind of romantic themes that OP is complaining about. Rowling didn't. Also, boys were certainly interested in Harry Potter, but we can't ascertain anything from that. The books weren't published with "Joanne" on the cover.

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I have yet to read "The Catcher in the Rye" but if the bookstore has a copy I'm certainly going to.

I don't think there is a single bookstore out there that doesn't stock Catcher in the Rye. It's easily one of the 5 most popular classics out there today.

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What are "these lawsuits"? Copyright lawsuits? Artists are more than welcome to "borrow from each other." They have three options in doing so. The first is to not infringe the work by making sure it is not substantially similar (note this is a legal term of art and not what the lay listener thinks sounds similar). The second option is to use the influence liberally, but get a license for it (as is necessary when sampling). The other option is to employ fair use by making the work sufficiently transformative.

In saner times, works would also fall into public domain after some reasonable amount of years, allowing you to do with it what you please. Lobbying and campaign donation bribery changed the time frame before that happens to somewhere between umpteen years and Forever Cause Fuck It We're Disney.

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There's surprisingly little Scott-Ramona [alone time] in the movie. It's what makes his struggle to reconcile the relationship so hard for some people to comprehend - Scott/Ramona is like the fourth most important relationship in the movie behind Scott/Knives, Scott/His Band, and Scott/Envy.

My favorite part in the Scott/Ramona story has to be when they are like 4 months in and she asks him why he likes her and his answer is that she is "mysterious" and she blew up on him. Also, the part about Ramona being literally controlled by the 7th evil ex (completely blanking on his name right now) makes way more sense in the books.

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I like it purely as a stupid popcorn flick with decent direction and cinematography (not unlike The Matrix), but I almost can't allow myself to like it thanks to the ridiculously stupid pseudo-anarchy philosophers it spawned among the "/b/ army wuz here rah rah fight the powah" crowd.

Not to mention it completely butchered, and twisted the original point of the comic.

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Agree completely. The books just weren't written that well, and the movie did a much better job conveying the story.

What I want to know is...why did these books even get published with how they're written? I feel like the author needs to do a lot more editing..

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Tom cruise as Jack Reacher. He's supposed to be 6' 4" and 250 lbs.

I guess you think Hugh Jackman was a bad Wolverine because he's tall instead of short, right?

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I know a lot of people don't care for Kermode, but the guy really knows his stuff. I don't agree with a lot of his recommendations, but since I now know his tastes pretty well, I can judge which movies I should watch and which are not worth it.

Exactly. He might not always be your cup of tea, but he will give you his honest opinion and highlight those projects that for some reason or another should recieve your attention.

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Also more poisonous since it doesn't go through your liver. Don't forget that alcohol is actually a poison, kids!

just like oxygen. so try not to breathe too much

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i hate the use of endnote citations over footnote citations, dont make me flip to the back every time i wanna see a reference

Fucking Infinite Jest. edit: I did love that book, it was just hard to read.

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Do you accept steam gift cards? I can't donate you money but I can give you Skyrim and 1 dlc.

Thanks for the offer, I run a review site so my back log of games is staggering at the moment. Pass that key on to someone who has yet to dive into Skyrim.

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Really? seems like a movie where not a lot of stuff happens and you actually need to pay attention (never watched it so i could be horrendously mistaken)

Watch it sober once then, but yes, a great movie... "Ive got a beverage here"

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I think they find it more interesting now vfx have come so far. I mean it was good back in the day to do a few romantic maybe action films, but when you get the oportunity to play a man who can move metal with his mind, who would turn down that opportunity. It's a lot of kids ideal job.

Yeah its just that I so often picture these guys as the classiest thespians around, the kind of guys who would laugh off a role in a superhero movie. But nope, there is a surprising amount of interest from elderly, experienced actors in the genre. I guess Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen helped start that trend.

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Surprised I had to scroll this far down for this. This trailer just made the movie look downright *bad*. It's a lot of flash and disjointed sequences just like Man of Steel it seems, but just because Batman is in it now, it'll have tons of praise. I was really looking forward to this movie, but now, and after leaks, I'm really not anywhere near as much.

Sadly this isn't the place to discuss anything but praise for the movie. Everyone is just ecstatic because it's their favorite heroes together on screen and it looks pretty. I see bad casting (Lex and WW in particular) and an extremely convoluted plot that likely won't touch on any one thing long enough for the audience to care about it. Kind of feels like Batman V Superman: Abridged.

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I have no idea if I'd like that or not. Maybe everyone would become superficial.

I was thinking more /r/iamverysmart type of superiority over others sfter a period told time but who knows?

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King for a Day is an OK FNM album, but a phenomenal Patton album.

You know what, that's a really great way of putting it. Some of the songs don't feel particularly unique or interesting, but Patton's vocal performance/diversity is at its peak (at least for FNM) on that album.

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You also can never be sure who actually wrote the movie you're watching. Scripts get rewritten on the fly all the time with script doctors or the director reworking something on set. The Writer's Guild has very specific criteria for someone getting writing credit in the film which errs on the side of the original screenplay writer, so it's hard to actually know what came from the original screenplay and what what changed after it was sold.

>Any writer whose work represents a contribution of more than 33% of a screenplay shall be entitled to screenplay credit, except where the screenplay is an original screenplay. In the case of an original screenplay, any subsequent writer or writing team must contribute 50% to the final screenplay. Sure, there are limits on how many people can be credited, but this ensures that both the original writer and the people who wrote what actually made it to the screen are credited. Everyone else doesn't matter. Sure, Joss Whedon added a couple of uncredited jokes to X-Men, but they don't meaningfully change David Hayter's screenplay. So, it's mostly untrue that you never know who wrote a movie.

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also the video mentions that it reacts with oxygen from the air, so this would have to be an inner wall of anything in space not the outer wall, sort of a last resort type of layer. Im also going to assume that would mean that its a one time use for that exact spot so a second hit dead on could now go through the first hole that's now hardened and stay open as the liquid wouldn't be able to flow near the new hole due to previous hole solidifying the liquid already. a second hit 5 cm over tho would probably reseal its self at least that's the impression i get from the video and the narration on it.

Study up some fluid dynamics and you'll see this would work even on the outermost layer as long as there is a hull breach that is leaking oxygen.

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Definitely not overrated, but played out AF. I think every song has been placed in film/TV, several tracks ad naseum.

I have never heard My Wife in anything ever outside the album.

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Who the fuck can and would pay that much just to see some dudes on a stage. I understand scalping, but who the hell is their market if they're raising the price this high?

This isn't a normal show, Kraftwerk are playing for 8 consecutive days, performing all 8 of their albums in their entirity, and the show is in the Museum of Modern Art not at like a normal rock music venue. Given the nature of the show and how massively influential Kraftwek are, I can understand the hype, though it really sucks that the system is set up this way that scalpers can take advantage.

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50 First Dates? Spanglish? Punch Drunk Love is amazing, but, you know, not for everyone.

Definitely don't overlook "Reign on Me". That was a really powerful drama with a great performance by sandler. He portrayed a lonely man with ptsd so incredibly well.

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Well, he didn't know the waitress was with the Russians (too) while he was dealing is arms sales in Hondorus, so...

This song came out in 1978. Why are you trying to inject current day politics into it exactly? Right wing propaganda? Still doesn’t make any sense.

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You think Ireland doesn't have censorship laws? Let's you and I discuss child porn with visual examples, and see how long before Irish law enforcement comes to censor you away. - there should be free speech on the internet. - free from any government interference. - very few people hold that unpopular opinion. - most people what government censorship. - including Ireland. - and I'm willing to bet: including you

>You think Ireland doesn't have censorship laws? Not at all (that's not what I said?), sure we still have Blasphemy laws here haha. Government censorship, which I am against child porn or not, is not the same as a government systemically influencing discussion online.

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I had a chance to see Nirvana and didn't go, still bums me out. Go see the Deftones any chance you get.

I second this. Deftones remains to be one of the best concerts I've ever been to, and I've seen NIN and Rammstein.

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And tobacco, though that one was not really a positive influence on his longevity.

Yeah, I should have put tobacco. But there's a chance my kids could read this someday and I don't want to be a bad influence.

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I've been a Godzilla fan my entire life and I have to say, I was extremely impressed by this movie. It was everything I wanted the 1998 movie to be and then some. Would have liked to see Godzilla in the movie a bit more, but what we got was incredible. The second that I was his tail light up, my inner child freaked the fuck out.

Yeah. I have found that people who were disappointed in this film, by and large, have roughly zero familiarity with the property. They thought it was going to be Pacific Rim minus the robots.

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Cool I guess, but when's the last time a bomb exploded in the hold of a passenger aircraft? Wikipedia suggests the 1980s. This seem like devoting a lot of money and weight to a problem which doesn't exist.

The article also states that there are plans for a small bag version for in cabin use. That way, if you manage to get a bomb off a passenger/discover one stowed away in the cabin, you can zip it away and probably survive. The Christmas 2009 attempted attack shows that such a situation is certainly a possibility. In addition, simply adding this as a lining to existing luggage containers, which there is interest in, would add a huge amount of security with very few downsides.

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"Reddit is going to fucking kill me. It is as just as addicting as the hardest drug out there. Just click it one more time. It's only one more time. Then it's 4:45 in the morning and you're so exhausted but all you want is more. It affects your sleep patterns, depletes your money and turns you into an anti-social scumbag. I love reddit." Man, if only girls were impressed by karma.

Only 2.2k of karma? Man, you've got to try harder if you want to impress the ladies.

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Cartoons aren't just for kids anymore dude. There's a ton of animated stuff for adults, and, more importantly, a ton of animated stuff that's just straight up good no matter if you're watching it as a kid or an adult.

Never occurred to me to watch it.. Guess I'll see if my daughter wants to go see it.