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Hmm, yeah, parody of a typical demographic that you find tiresome, written in capital letters so we can tell you're being sarcastic. Boring. I like Tool's music, and I don't particularly care if some of their fans can be annoying. That says nothing about the quality of their material.
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Face it, bro, you have an obvious hard-on for Tool. I like Aenima a lot, but Tool fans really take themselves seriously.
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How do you feel about this being pirated already? Happy for the exposure or miffed at the loss of income? Also, I think including versions with more dynamic range is the best thing since sliced bread. I hope it catches on.
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I don't view it as a loss of income. It seems like today artists either have to advocate or condemn the pirating of their music, but I'm going to vote "present" on that one.
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6,202 |
Bought “We Can’t Dance” when I was 15. Love that record. Driving the Last Spike still gives me chills.
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Sorry to say, but you are thinking of the wrong genesis. OP was referring to the Peter Gabriel days.
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6,203 |
My friend at Berklee told me she sucks as teaching. I wouldn't be surprised.
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I would imagine it's hard to teach when you have raw talent like her.
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I moved from a Galaxy S6 to an iPhone SE primarily because it was so easy to drop. The S6 was just way too big to hold comfortably. The SE may be a little small, but I would love to see more phones fall in the 4"-4.5" range. I think most people see a larger screen as better, but once I got used to a smaller screen again myself, the 4" iPhone is easier to use with one hand, fits in my pocket better, uses less battery, and is all around a better experience.
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Those dimensions matter, but distance from screen to back really doesn't until they make a phone that can fit in a credit card slot.
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I got my MLIS degree, and re-imagining libraries in this way was very much a part of the thinking that was happening. This was in 2013, and the conversation was spurred by digitization. I think it can be a good thing, because libraries can be such valuable resources beyond a place to get books. Equipping them to better serve the public while remaining free is great. Still, a lot of those books you listed actually sound pretty great as relics, and it's a shame that they would lost. Not the Cosby one, but most of the others. Although I guess a library isn't a place to keep outdated but historically valuable books like that, come to think of it.
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Do you know who the juice is? Lol. Im just being sarcastic, but, its OJ simpson...people that grew up in the 2000s prob had no idea.
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6,206 |
What OS do you use? Ubuntu / Linux: Other OSes (top bar):
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Windows 8.1, I have no idea why it's not working. ON that website most of the emojis don't show up either.
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Apple has great hardware, it's also more expensive. Running Windows you can go with many different manufacturers and get what's best in the whole market. You also have more competition in the Windows segment which allows for price reductions. Apple has created their own market and can price according to their liking. That's why they are such an awesome fucking company.
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> it's also more expensive. It's also well supported. For a lot of people, having a store that they can take their machine into for help is a huge benefit. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad and it's a great machine, but if anybody asks me what I recommend for general use, I tell them to buy a Macbook Air.
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> It's exactly the same with solar. It is quite different from solar. * With solar, people are producing their own electricity, which threatens both the utilities' existing investments in generation capacity and distribution network. * With batteries, people are buying electricity from the utility, using the utility's distribution network, and reducing their quality-of-service requirements. What pricing structure could the utility use to make onsite storage unattractive, that would pass muster with the regulators and would not harm the utility?
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> What pricing structure could the utility use to make onsite storage unattractive. Reducing the kWh cost and increasing the supply cost, as is already happening. Most people don't see a change in their bills, except those who try to reduce costs by using batteries, or solar.
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6,209 |
I was expecting Ebert to be glib with this post, but it's actually a sincere and thorough (and very accurate) list. The man won my heart fifteen years ago when he was among the first to put all of his reviews online. He still has it, as far as I'm concerned.
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He's amazingly in tune with the public consensus for a disabled, older man. More in tune than the young up and coming critics who pride themselves on their Internet presence.
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It saddens me that people are downvoting you for even implying a criticism. As far as I can tell you're not even criticising, just stating the fact that for many scenes nothing happens in terms of plot but tone and atmosphere are established. It doesn't mean he thinks it's a bad film guys!
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It was by no means a bad movie. It's just hard to appreciate the first time you watch it.
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I think we have that now, but it's reflecting the times more. With Pink Panther, Clue, and similar movies they were during an era when movies were more wholesome. The style today is more gritty/darker. Violence has been pumped up, nudity brought down, and a lot more attention to affects and post production work to guide the movies, whereas the bulk of the burden had to be on story & dialogue because they were the most powerful tools to work with at the time.
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True, but I think it's also that Hollywood which is obsessed with guaranteed hit blockbusters loves to use old franchises or remakes, which hurts mysteries because there's less interest in a direct remake of a mystery you already know the answer to. That's why all the mysteries you see today are pretty wild adaptations like Robert Downey's Sherlock Holmes that was just as much an action movie as it was a mystery. Even the Old boy remake kept the same plot but redid and changed a lot of the action scenes (I think for the worst).
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But it adds A LOT of functionality to some subs. Like /r/asoiaf. You can filter the kind of spoilers you want to read. You can block set leaks, or stuff from the books.
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Part of the reason for the redesign is to allow features like filtering to become easier to implement. That's what the article means by widgets.
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My school that I teach at doesn't have a library :( We just don't have the funds or resources. There are a lot of public libraries but kids whose parents work struggle to get to them before closing.
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Yep my public library closes at 430 3 days a week and 800 3 days a week closed sunday. Closed saturday during the summer. Wtf, open every night!
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If a personal question is true for you yet unacceptable to others...? (I suppose the answer to that question, for you, is also in Dune.)
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Well, you could probably pull a few different answers from the book. But I don't pull my answers straight from a book, so...I would pick Dune and God Emperor of Dune.
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There is also the added benefit of not tripping over wires or having connectors 'wear out' over time. With laptops in my experience i've had my last two die on me simply because the connector on the motherboard would get broken somehow. It makes a much more 'durable' design I feel.
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Been using computers with wires for over 20 years now, never tripped over a wire once. It's really more of a perceived issue than an actual one. Besides, Intel's table will need to have a wire running to it, you are simply moving the connector and the cable from your computer to your table.
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What kind of guitar is that? Looks and sounds pretty badass.
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Its a JB Hutto Montgomery Airline. Vintage ones are hard to find/expensive because of Jack's popularity. Eastwood guitars now owns the Airline brand and they make [reissues]
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[There is a movie.] I agree, though, it would make a cool video game. I think the problem is that in order for it to work as a video game it would need a really good story separate from the book itself.
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I know about the movie, it's just so bad I refuse to acknowledge it lol
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Well if your target audience is basement dwelling friendless virgins then box office sales are going to take a hit.
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You're posting hateful comments on Reddit, your username is a video-game company, and you're engaging in what the industry calls "trolling" (you may have heard of it). So, you win at life, is what I'm saying
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They only gave it 78% No way Batman Returns is better than RFAD.
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I bet there were a lot of people that couldn't and didn't make it to the end.
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the basic story, sloppy writing, dialogue, and fight scenes. -batman disappearing for 8 years because his ugly girlfriend got killed, completely out of character. -billionaire bruce wayne going broke, to where the lights in wayne manor get turned off. -every cop in the city going to the sewers at once. -giant crowd of cops and bad guys advancing towards each other slowly, holding guns over their head, but no one actually shoots a gun. -the lazy fight choreography between bane and batman. -batman healing from a broken back by doing pushups. -bruce wayne somehow quickly travelling across the world with no money to his name(according to the movie) -the bomb ending. the entire thing was a lazy effort
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He didn't disappear because she died, she died like halfway through the movie. He went into hiding because he was wanted for killing like 5 guys
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6,221 |
You can start here with this guy: It is a 100 episode masters degree in music trivia with a Nobel Prize winning professor. Ax not included.
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That's pretty cool! This should get me through the slow days at work just nicely.
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PJ Harvey. Her songs are amazing and her lyrics are often dark and twisted. :)
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I've been listening to her since way back. Big fish, little fish swimming in the sea... EDIT- I remember hearing a rumor she was hooking up with Sting. It seems like an unlikely couple.
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Im gonna have to respectfully disagree. The way bilbo finds the ring in the hobbit still shows that the ring has a mind of its own and left gollum because it knew with bilbo it could get out of the caves and possibly get back to sauron.
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That's fine, but it was staged in an *entirely* different way. I would have loved a bit of the same kind of continuity for that scene in The Hobbit, even just having Bilbo find the ring on the ground before encountering Gollum for riddles in the dark.
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Well it's not like we had equality when you needed lots of manpower. Think about the equality gap between royalty and peasants in ancient times.
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True, but society looked different back then. Then the peasants became the working class and then they got rights to be treated as important. Now only people working have rights beyond the basic human rights, so without jobs we'll have an increasing amount of people with no safety net against poverty.
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[Here's a graph] showing who is extorting money via throttled bandwidth. Google Fiber looks stable thus far.
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I'd love to see Bell Canada on that graph. I remember Netflix used to be usable. But then, they'd probably have to switch to a log scale for these pithy Canadian speeds to even show up on that graph.
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Rome lasted for a millennia and some change and pretty much perfected most of the societal framework laid down by the Greeks. We’ve got Trump. I don’t think I need to explain that any more.
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Meh, they had plenty of stupid and/or insane leaders. To be fair, Trump makes perfect sense if you live for today and don't care if you die tomorrow, and you don't give a flying fuck about anyone else. He'd make a textbook emperor lol
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That's not unpopular. Post 72 is freaking shitty and pre 68 is hit or miss
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Fair enough, I meant Pet Sounds also though which seems to be regarded as one of if not the best albums ever, especially on reddit so maybe I'm just picking the wrong audience. I've given it a few chances but haven't listened to it in a while and from memory I genuinely only enjoyed Wouldn't it be Nice, God Only Knows, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, to an extent You Still Believe in Me and maybe a couple others I'm forgetting, the rest I think are extremely forgettable or just flat out boring. I don't know maybe it's because I'm just not big on a lot of the harmonies which people point towards as the thing that makes the album so great.
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Yeah, no mention of power consumption. With everything going mobile I'd think that's a fairly important attribute to consider, especially since Intel's mobile CPUs currently have a huge lead in this area.
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Well, it doesn't sound like this is meant to compete in the mobile market. Additionally, the increase in instructions per clock will likely make it more efficient than AMD's previous products.
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Yeah I kinda wish they had stayed with Evil Jigsaw in the sequels.
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Agreed, but they were quickly nearing a real event that would have been "insensitive".
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I was going for more like an analysis of the similarities between the book and show, not just a recommendation. Sorry for the misunderstanding
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As is your question is basically "should I read x" given that you've seen a film adaptation. That question is more appropriate for our weekly recommendation thread or /r/suggestmeabook. If you are looking for analysis of the similarities between the book in the show, you are welcome to repost and make that more clear in your title and description, or you could do a search of this sub, /r/asoiaf, /r/gameofthrones, or one of the other subs where this is likely to have been a popular topic in the past.
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Scott's Tots. It's about a man who pledges to send a class of poor underprivileged students to college, and the outcome is absolutely heart wrenching
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I've watched the series over 30 times and I skip this episode 4/5 times. Still that's 5 times too many...
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I can only speak for myself, but my bias is based on those movies' respective trailers. The Last Witchhunter looked like a fun b-movie, like Underworld etc. Gods of Egypt looked totally unappealing. I haven't seen either, fwiw.
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Gods of Egypt looked like one of those early 2000 video game movie cash ins. It just looks off, does nothing in the trailers that haven't been done in similar movies. One of the things that makes it worse is the two actors in it, Butler and Waldu are better than what youre shown. They are semi accomplished actors / loved actors. They are not just starting out, or former WWF wrestlers or Rappers or someone trying to break into movies. It just makes it seem that much worse to me.
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I'd argue security over convenience. I used to have all my passwords auto-filled, but since I often loan my computers/phone to others (albeit for short periods of time), I decided it was worthwhile to completely disable auto-login. Doesn't dramatically affect my day-to-day life but can greatly increase security.
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I suppose now that I think about it, it wouldn't really take much more time
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If they have to make it (and given the complete lack of new IP being made these days they *will*) I'd prefer them to make a long-form series out of it. Three 12 hour seasons would give it some room to breathe.
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It would *have* to be done as an HBO/Netflix series for it to be any good. If it's done as a major Hollywood movie there's no way they would be able to include everything that made the story great.
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The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. No other horror novel I've read has had such grotesque and macabre characters.
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You should read Atlas Shrugged, it was a nightmare.
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I found that saying I wanted to read a book put it in my "I own this book" group. Is that specific to this situation, or have you seen that?
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Is this for Litsy? I'm not sure, but from what I can remember, there's no clear distinction for books that I own and books that I want to read. In Goodreads, books you want to read is separate from books owned. You can check your owned books by going to My Books > Owned Books. Then you can add anything from your shelves as an owned book.
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Good choices! Murakami fan here. If you enjoy his approach to non-fiction then I recommend *Underground*.
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I've never heard of that one before - I'll keep my eyes open for it. Thanks for the recommendation.
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He wasn't Jewish AFAIK. His father was, but converted to Protestantism, and his mother was a Protestant as well. (Judaism is matrilineal.) The above assumes you are referring to Leopold Bloom of James Joyce's Ulysses.
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yes, but he was considered Jewish by the community, even if technically he wasn't.
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I just got back into it haha. I don't know if you remember this but there is a disc titled "Stal" that is so good to me it blows my mind its from a game like Minecraft
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I used to have that one and then a creeper blew up my disc farm and I lost everything
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I don't think I ever understood the six by nine reference. Is the whole point that it isn't 42? I feel really stupid articulating a question I've had for years
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It is in base 13, although Adams said even HE isnt nerdy enough to write a joke in base 13
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I'm inclined to think this way, but it was some iteration or other of YA Twitter that caught out that fake NYT bestseller recently.
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Broken clocks and all. The harm they're doing is much more significant than the good.
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I really enjoyed Jane Eyre. After reading Jane Eyre, I picked up Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys . It offers a completely different perspective on Bertha and mental illness. Really interesting comparison.
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That book has been on my list since I was 12 but I still haven't gotten around to it! I'll give it a go soon... I'm curious about this alternate perspective
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He needs a job, hes probably gonna make a few million, why not
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Does this not hurt the Kevin Spacey brand though? Or is his reputation untouchable at this point?
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Only on a few "hobbyist" models (e.g. WRT line from Linksys.) This is still an incredibly stupid move by the FCC. Is there any evidence anywhere of people operating their wifi routers outside the band restrictions? How often does this really happen? Seems like a non-issue. On the other hand the world is full of shitty old wifi routers full of security flaws that are no longer receiving firmware updates. Changing to an open firmware is pretty much the only alternative to replacing the router for all those people. This is a real issue affecting real people. And the FCC is blocking solutions to that problem while addressing a non-issue.
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> Is there any evidence anywhere of people operating their wifi routers outside the band restrictions? Considering that the decision was a result of the FAA complaining about how so many people were doing that and fucking up air radar...
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Gibson, Neuromancer
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The saddest thing is that people born today will no longer understand this line--no more grey static on television.
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If these artists put out quality, their fans would support them. Velvet revolver is a pile of dog shit, and I wouldn't buy their music to confirm my theories. Same reason I don't buy Britney spears, Paris Hilton, maroon 5, or lil Jon. I fully support artists that I enjoy listening to, and I usually do it at concerts by buying tickets & t-shirts.
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Ever consider one of the reasons quality music is no longer made is due to theft? Why take a chance on what could be when you as a label more than likely won't break even. Therefore you release the same thing over and over because there's no risk in financial loss.
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I am not sure why you spend all the time and effort when you could have said from the beginning; you don't give a fuck about writers or book culture. Typical consumer.
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>you don't give a fuck about writers or book culture. Typical consumer. Yeah, except for all the books and authors I love.
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Oh, you're that guy!? Oh. You're that guy. I guess I should use more punctuation.
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May I intrest you in an interrobang‽ (It's exactly what it looks like, combined exclamaiton point and question mark.. probably would be a good name for a band too.)
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6,249 |
Well Nirvana wasn't really doing it first they just went national first.
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True. Soundgarden were the first Seattle band to get signed they just didn't get the popularity until after Nirvana made it big
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This won't change users habits. Maybe some loud upset people on social media, but uber has put cabs virtually out of business in my town. Outside of Lyft there's no going back at this point for the convenience and the preference of consumers to use an app rather than call a cab company and speak to a person.
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Cant call a cab when outside a loud ass nightclub. So win win! :)
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No probably about it.. He definitely shagged zatanna. Love the hellblazer series and was bummed the Constantine TV was cancelled after only one season... Missed opportunity if you ask me.
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The problem for me is that they didn't commit. They did an okay job at casting but went halfway with the character and they went too episodic monster-of-the-week with the show. Really I think it had similar problems as the first season of *Supernatural* but because it's NBC, they don't bother to invest and develop something, they'd rather just toss it into the can and hop the next thing is an instant hit.
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>A very interesting story told from the perspective of a sentient shopping cart trying to climb mount everest. ...Wait, WHAT?!
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Right? Sounds like one wild ride from start to finish.
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[Man, this is question/topic is posted nearly everyday on reddit.]
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I just saw it yesterday so I'm kind of thankful for that. I still had to go search for it but after a month or so, crap gets archived (reddit ftw). Why did I only see it yesterday you ask? Check the release dates around the globe: August here in Brazil. Most times reposts are BS, other times another set of redditors can take advantage of a recent 'repost'.
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> you get that Reddit is a site where people share what's new, unheard and undiscovered on the internet right? Reddit is a site where people post whatever they want, and everyone else can vote it up or down, or just ignore it. If people want to upvote Toto, that's their prerogative.
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And of course people will upvote Toto. Because it's freaking Toto.
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I thought this was great. I loved the acting, the slow descent of emotion played out really well. I got a little angry when I saw the guy filming the Thunder Road performance when it was clearly a personal moment, but it's a nice touch because it probably would happen if something like that took place. I also love that bit from 7:40 to 7:56 where the camera first pans to his wife (or GF) who doesn't seem impressed by what's happening and then pans back to Arnaud who gives her a look as he sings "I just can't face myself alone again" - just a small moment, but it provides a significant insight into their relationship, suggesting she hasn't been overly supportive.
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I think it's implied that they are no longer together. He was sitting with his co-workers at the beginning and not his family, there would have to be a reason for that. Her look was almost apathetic rather than embarrassed. Like she can't even be bothered by his eccentricities anymore, almost as if he is no longer her problem.
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Aww bummer, next time stick around if you can! We just hung out by his bus until he came walking out. He thanked us for waiting...too nice!
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He has a bus? Other people were saying that he didn't and that he drove a tour van.
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In this case the virtual machine is fundamentally much less powerful than the real OS: in some cases solving a problem of size N will require 2^N more time in the simulation. So it's not too far from the analogy of running a computer in clockwork (actually a well designed clockwork has a lower discrepancy to a computer than a computer to a quantum computer -- solving for size N will require at most N^k more time, for some constant k).
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So wait, by VMing this OS, they made it more powerful than the actual computer ought to be basically? That is really really awesome. Edit: I'm a liar who misreads what people write, sorry guys.
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stop masturbating yourself to an arbitrary number and read for enjoyment
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IKR?! It shouldn't be a chore or a bother unless you're doing it for school or work. If it's leisure reading, then such tasks suck the life out of it
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You are so wrong. *Walking. Gay ass shit like elves and dwarves. Hung up on special effects. So British is shits the Queen. More walking. Trees talk. Even more walking. Homosexual subtext everywhere. Walk even further. Drop a bauble in a volcano. The end.* Yeah, nah.
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Well that's one of the most shallow things I've ever read on this site.
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Yeah, something they said must’ve triggered Alexa to send a message...and idk, maybe something else confirmed it? I’m really not sure. Like I know the physical capabilities of the hardware, it shouldn’t be possible so they must just said a very odd string of phrases to lead Alexa to wake up, record a message, and send it. I don’t think it was an intentional hacking or invasion of privacy.
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This article is literally nothing but a clickbait report about a buttdial. It's really not unlikely that out of the hundred thousands of Alexa's sold some family accidently send a voice memo. It's actually completely expected.
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What kind of douche goes around in public in his own band's t-shirt?
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I have to agree. I defiantly wouldn't do that if I were famous.
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The entire [music video of that song] is an homage to Michael Jackson, incorporating scenes from a bunch Michael Jackson videos: the patented lean at the beginning is from the original Smooth Criminal; the lighted sidewalk is from the Billy Jean video, numerous references to the Thriller video including the monster dance and the evil eye freeze frame at the end; standing on a car is from Scream; the numerous crotch grabs while pointing; standing over a jet of steam; even the drummer was wearing a white sequin glove on one hand for a while.
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Yeah I never saw any Michael Jackson music videos prior to this song being released (except maybe "Black or White"). So I didn't recognize the lean, car, etc. I figured the dancing like Mike (crotch grabs, kicks, etc) were just thrown in there as dance moves.
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Yeah, I was going to suggest [Earth 2] or something from Sunn 0))). Not many people seem to like that stuff very much.
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But it would be easy to lull to. You need something disharmonic perhaps, like some raw-ish black metal. [Countess - Kneel Before the Master's Throne] [Hellhammer - Triumph of Death]
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"You haven't really been anywhere until you've been back home. I think that's what I mean." The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
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I have been going back and forth on if I should start the Discworld Series or not. I take this quote as a sign, and plan to start this weekend!
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Can someone tell me how to upgrade a 2007 MacBook? My friend wants to play bioshock on one and asked me if I could help switch out the gpu
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You can't switch out the GPU, I can only think of a handful of laptops which you can do that on and they're all large gaming machines. You could upgrade the RAM or replace the hard drive with a SSD, but the GPU will still be a sticking point (older integrated graphics are pretty awful).
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Noteworthy Composer. I tried getting it to run in wine, but was able to find MuseScore. Much more amazing.
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I used Noteworthy all through undergrad. Basic as hell but by the end I was able to knock out an arrangement in a few hours.
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Will Patton reads the books by James Lee Burke as the Louisiana Detective in the Dave Robicheaux series. The books just come to life.
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YES. I scrolled to see if someone would mention him before I did. I grew up listening to the Robicheaux novels on road trips and Patton is fucking fantastic. His transitions are seamless. Even the female characters- all he really does is soften his voice a little and it's perfect. I've listened to plenty of books on tape where otherwise great voice actors couldn't pull off a female voice and it can be pretty jarring.
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I think the darkest song is 'New dawn fades' and also my favourite, what an incredible band.
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Truth to be told, I don't know much Joy Division songs, but *New Dawn Fades* is my favourite, especially the build-up at the end starting with "We share a drink and step outside..." It isn't particularly good singing, but I guess the message comes across.
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Only if you're an asshole. Which is the point of this thread. If you mentally connect waiter or janitor with bum, then you are probably an asshole.
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I am the Op, and I apologize for having grouped the words together in a manner that caused offense. I do not personally disregard the types of people I have named, but it cannot be disputed that they get it rougher that most. I did not mean to degrade bums and drunks and waiter and janitors.
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["Sugar Blues" by William Dufty.] I've had a 20+ year problem with refined sugar, and I've quit eating it for 2014...hopefully for life. It's only been a month, and I've lost 8 pounds, my skin has cleared, my clothes are fitting better, and my mind is MUCH better. I knew sugar was bad news, but I had no idea how bad. Can't recommend this book enough.
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Interesting thanks. I've been trying to lose weight for a long ass time now. After a horrible 2013 my weight is now worse than ever, 280lbs. I'm determined to lose it and be healthy. Difficult nut to crack.
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Is this based on popularity of the state or just the most famous book that takes place in the state.
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> We rounded up the most famous book set in every state in America. I doubt many Ohioans have read Broom of the System.
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When did an increase in market share competition equate to a bad thing for the consumer?
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Competition isn't a natural state for businesses. Customers benefit from the fallout of divide & conquer, but no company can sustain total competition. In the example I gave, a business may decide the competition is too expensive to maintain operations and duck out. The stronger business survives, hooray Darwinism. Only now they reap the rewards of beating the rivals out of the game. It also assumes that competition is honest. There's two sides to any game: offense and defense. Defense isn't the kindly passive aggressive style its name implies; sabotage and undercutting are part of it as well. Consumers don't benefit from the end-state of market competition, is my point. They only benefit during the war.
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On mobile so can't do proper spoilers: SPOILER WARNING. The film did such a good job of giving characters things to do in te "background", so to speak, that when the wife who tried to defect had her moment of redemption near the end of the film by helping either Furiosa or Max onto the monster truck (I forget who it was) but then stood in the background doing nothing once the fight in the truck's bed broke out it was totakly jarring and pulled me out of the movie for a moment.
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I just assumed she was afraid of getting punched, which fit her character. She knew her way around a gun, but she had still been skittish of contact like the rest of the wives. When Immorten slaps her a couple minutes later, it nearly sends her flying.
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Woah! Cool coincidence that the number of cards in a deck is equal to the number of weeks in a year. Neat!
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...and a suit for each season, two colors - night and day, thirteen values - one for each lunar phase in a year, twelve royal cards - one for each month, and a value total of adding up each card is 364, with the joker 365, and the second joker 366 - for leap years.
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That feeling you get, "Maybe kiddo shouldn't be watching this." it creeps up on you when you know what you are subjecting your child to is inappropriate and is providing zero positive input. That feeling makes it less accessible.
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They showed a Dodge Challenger getting murdered in cold blood, for Christ's sake.
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> I got a robot with daddy issues. That's Ultron though. The problem wasn't daddy issues, IMO, the problem was that he was a wisecracking smartass.
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Yeah, Joss Whedon faggotry all over the place in the movie.
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When would fox's deal on this one die? Couldn't marvel get this one back like they just got spiderman back from Sony?
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IIRC, they didn't get the rights for Spiderman back, they are splitting profits and sharing the rights. Or something like that.
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I haven't read the manga - may be it's time to get my paws on it. The movie, as with most movies from Studio Ghibli, is outstanding. Studio Ghibli is now practically a family tradition - we have to watch one of their productions together every once in a while. Good times.
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The manga is better than the movie so if you like the movie I would highly recommend it. If Hayo Miyazaki is remembered for one piece of art it will be this one. I would highly recommend you check it out as mostly everything plot-wise and characterization-wise is different. I would highly recommend the hardback box set if you think you will like the series and have the funds for it.
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Yeah I agree with all this. The same thing happened to me, I went with my family and got the exact same comments. I think unless you understand what the movie is trying to say and the way it's trying to do it, it can be quite hard to watch. Awesome movie though.
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Definitely! The film was left so open ended as well so you could just let your imagination or interpretation take over.
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Honestly, They Live is pretty awful most of the way through, but it has one iconic line (about bubblegum), one iconic fight scene (you know the fucking one) and a memorable visual (the b/w signs with mind-control slogans). It's a movie firmly embedded in our consciousness that's actually a really dull, silly watch.
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Great choice, exactly the type of imagery I'm thinking of. Good point about the slogans too.
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How exactly will it be "a flop of a launch?" Every year you Apple haters say the same thing, never fails.
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Just mark that comment to come back and laugh at. It's not long to go.
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The Big Sleep or The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
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I've read The Big Sleep - that was really good. For some reason, I didn't even think of picking up Chandler's other stuff. This a great reminder, thanks!
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[spoilers](#s "i think it was pretty clear (IMO) that Ava was weaker than Nathan, considering how they wrestled and he managed to get on top of her from his initially weak position (and break her arm). The only reason Nathan died was because Kyoko back-stabbed him first. I actually didn't quite understand why Nathan programmed Kyoko to be able to harm him. I feel like it doesn't really make sense that she would hurt him, especially considering all the opportunities she would have had to kill him previously, as well as her motive of not wanting to be a sex slave. ")
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[Possible spoiler](#s "She didn't stab Nathan; He walked into her blade. There is a difference.")
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I'm not on the "make Rogue One completely different, i want something new" band wagon. At the end of the day i want a STARWARS movie. That means, opening crawl, fanfare, light tone, the force, blasters, lightsabers, spunky droids. It seems like the director wants to make his own movie which just happens to be in the SW universe. I think that would hurt the brand. There needs to be some consistency so consumers trust the brand and know they'll get what they want.
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"There needs to be some consistency so consumers trust the brand" now that makes everything you say invalid.
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of course, for any book lover it is definitely sad, but my actual first thought was that I'd like to dive in and literally swim in those books. Like [Duck Tales] but with books....
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This was my first thought as well. But the papercuts...oh the *papercuts*...
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you should cut them some slack for Something Just Like This, it's not their song. it's by The Chainsmokers featuring Chris Martin (i think that's Coldplay's singer's name)
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Yeah, but the fact that they even agreed shows where they have come.
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Billions of what? People? Congrats you realized that as the populations goes up, so do the amount of deaths. What is near future? 10 years 50 years? The natural world could be doing better but people as a whole are doing the best they've been. It's unfortunate that it's at the expense of nature but it's being rectified (albeit almost too slowly).
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How blind do you have to be to not see that having 7b+ humans is a bad thing?
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The Chinese autonomy code makes sure that if it hits a pedestrian, it runs them over again and makes sure they're dead.
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That sounds about right, and to make sure there are no witnesses, the car will crash itself so it kills the passenger as well.
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I don't buy CDs anymore but I do buy a lot of vinyl now to get better artwork and go to more concerts. Overall though I know I spend less than I used to but I think its pretty fair now.
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You are not alone. I just received 6 foo fighter albums on vinyl today. I loves me some vinyl.
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Actually Batman has killed people but this was in the early years and is usually ignored.
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It's a trope called [Early Installment Weirdness] and it happens when the creators haven't settled on the details yet. Often this is ignored because everyone understands that the creators didn't quite know everything yet.
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I enjoyed this movie, but if I had to pick the best thing from it, I thought the actual samurai business and plot was very well done. If it had removed any supernatural elements it would have been great. But the swordplay and revenge plot was fantastic.
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I had a good time at this movie too. The only supernatural part I really didn't like was the random beast at the start.
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That's pretty disingenuous because most artists make their money from touring and not their albums.
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Nowadays yeah, but back in the day they toured to their sell albums, now they put out albums to tour. They made way more money on records.
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You have no chance. Every acolyte from now till the dark ages has been on the waiting list. Plus Harry Dresden probably stole it already
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Dresden? This is Blighty, it probably fell into the hands of John Constantine years back
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Holy shit. I never actually finished Los Serrano, and now I'm glad I didn't.
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Lucky you, look it up on youtube, its cringy af
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6,295 |
I really enjoy them, pretty catchy. Although, I find "One (Blake's Got a New Face)" to be quite annoying.
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That song is one of the few exceptions to my "complete all albums no matter what" rule.
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East of Eden was beautiful, my favorite book of all time. Isn't it great to be able to come to this sub and talk about things that your real-life friends don't understand ?
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Hard to explain to your coworkers how you were nearly moved to tears reading a story published over sixty years ago the night before.
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Well it has been reported that the ones pushing for the pricetag are the OEM partners, not Microsoft. This is about the likes of Dell, Acer, etc. not making enough money from people buying new devices because they can get the new OS for free rather than an arbitrary deadline set by MS.
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Maybe, but what would they be able to do about it? Switch to Linux?
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I love the costume but it really bugs me how chubby he looks in just about every single shot or clip we've seen of him. [The concept art of it looks fucking wonderful] pretty much like the Jim Lee Batman come to life. Whenever we see it in action though his neck looks puffy and it just doesn't look right. Which is strange because Affleck outside the suit has the right build in both muscle and height, so I don't get why it looks like this in costume. The neck seems like a huge issue, because looking at the image I posted, it fits him much better than here where it looks like it's overwhelming him.
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I think they are going for the [Dark Knight Returns look] So far, from what has been revealed, a lot of things match up with the graphic novel: older Bruce Wayne, special armor Batman suit, and of course, the whole Batman vs Superman thing (though in the graphic novel it wasn't the main focus).
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Tell me about it, I'm from Romania. Buying from Amazon takes weeks, the shipping is expensive and you have to go to a special post office to pick up the books. With The Book Depository shipping is free, it takes about a week for the books to arrive, and I pick them up at the post office right next to where I live.
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When I lived in a metro city it took a week to get there and was sent to my door, now i'm in a regional down it takes about 2 weeks maximum but honestly sending mail from one regional centre to another takes a week anyhow. With amazon I forget I even have bought the damned book by the time it gets here.
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