Maedhros
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I think my favorite gaming moment is probably playing Morrowind for the first time. Just wandering around in the world and discovering stuff - artifacts, books, cool ruins with insanely dangerous creatures. Hadn't played anything like it at the time. More recently, there have been tons of great moments when playing Crusader Kings 2. Starting as a count in France, marrying into a dukedom in Italy, becoming King of Italy, later breeding a line of Genius Emperors through carefully electing the best possible candidates among my sons. Man I love that game.
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Yeah, other countries have a lot to learn from Finland and their trust-based approach. Teachers are trusted to be innovative, and there is little to no standardized testing. You learn to learn, not to score well on tests. From what I've read, educators are running the school system - not politicians or buisness people who sadly think competition is the best way of getting better schools. You forgot one thing. Every time teachers from other countries visit finnish classrooms they are surprised by one thing in peculiar: The students are silent, obedient and follow the instructions of the teacher. Such manners do not come from the blue, but rather from home. It takes a village to raise a child properly and all that. That's a fair point, but maybe students in other countries would tend to be more silent and obedient (or even better, participating) if their teacher had more autonomy and creative freedom like they do in Finland? Haven't watched it in ages, but I think S4 of the Wire illustrates this in a good way. Teachers usually know best what their students need.
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Yeah, other countries have a lot to learn from Finland and their trust-based approach. Teachers are trusted to be innovative, and there is little to no standardized testing. You learn to learn, not to score well on tests. From what I've read, educators are running the school system - not politicians or buisness people who sadly think competition is the best way of getting better schools.
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Did you see their email exchange? Chomsky definitely "won" that exchange, even though they were pretty much just talking past each other. https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse
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Liking what I'm hearing about Tulsi Gabbard. Would send a pretty strong message of co-operation if Trump was to find a place for her in his administration.
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I think you nailed how I feel about 'Stardust', the first film I saw by Matthew Vaughn. I think it's the best "adventure fantasy" film since Princess Bride. You can tell the actors are really enjoying themselves.
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Would've been really interesting to see what would've happened if Sanders had joined Stein as their candidate, as she wanted. Do we know approximately how many of Sanders-supporters voted for Hillary/Trump? It's a trend in the world that young people flock to "enviromental friendly parties" so to speak. You can credit Stein with a decent performance, but I think they would've done even better with a more serious candidate, like someone who doesn't think wi-fi signals are dangerous to children. I can see them taking way more votes from the Democrats in the next election (unless the democrats elect a relatively progressive candidate).
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"They truly believe that it is feminists, globalists, anti-racism activists, liberals who are the "true fascists" in the world." Sums up Breitbart's comments section pretty nicely.
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Apparently there are things that Russians can do well
Maedhros replied to Darkpriest's topic in Way Off-Topic
Comic-Con Russia 2016 Impressive! -
Calling Sweden the rape capitol of Europe isn't a very nuanced way of looking at it. They have a much wider definition of rape than pretty much anywhere, and it's a very gender equal society, meaning girls are far more likely to report rapes than in most other countries. I believe the police in Sweden has a rather unique way of registering rapes also. If a girl says she has been raped by her husband each day in a year, that's regarded as 365 rape cases, whereas in other countries it would be regarded as one rape case (or in some not at all "husbands can't rape wives", etc). It's true that the amount of rapes have increased along with the mass influx of refugees, but comparing rape statistics between countries is a very difficult to do because of the aforementioned reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
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Captain Fantastic. It's kind of a mix between Little Miss Sunshine and Into the Wild, and I thouroughly enjoyed it. My favorite film so far this year.
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Funny how people suddenly started hating Jared Leto after Suicide Squad. He's a great actor, as shown in Requiem for a Dream, Mr. Nobody and Dallas Buyers Club.
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Stranger Things was fantastic, but the beginning was better than the end (which is always the case with the "mystery" genre, Twin Peaks being the best example). I hope they start with a completely new story in season 2, with different characters. Another great new series is 'The Night Of' - HBO at its best.
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I kept thinking how good Guardians of the Galaxy was while watching Suicide Squad.
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Check out Wolf Hall if you haven't, a fantastic BBC miniseries typically liked by Game of Thrones fans. Another great BBC mini-series is Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel, a fantasy series set in England during the Napoleonic Wars.
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If you try to think as Cersei does (messed up, I know), it seems pretty obvious that Gregor was gonna rape the septa. Cersei saying "shame, shame, shame" says it all really. She wants the septa to suffer in the most humiliating way possible - as was done to Cersei herself. Apparently Lena Headey (actor who portrays Cersei) said in an interview that this was the tamer version of the scene, because they filmed another as well. My guess is that they actually filmed some of the rape, but decided not to show it because of the backlash from the rape scene last season.
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Egg and Dunk would make for a great HBO miniseries after Game of Thrones is over.
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I agree. The whole high speed transit between Westeros & Essos is a bit much for me to swallow. Although oddly dragons are not, go figure. This is supposed to be a "medieval fantasy". It takes time to move around by foot or horseback. Unless of course a lot of time is passing between scenes. But that is not the impression. There were Martell and Tyrell ships in Dany's navy in that last scene, so lot of time has to have passed with alliances sealed and invasion plans laid out apparently. Also, that Citadel receptionist has to be the most unexpected cameo ever. For helvede Frank!
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In addition, it would be incredibly risky to let the eagles carry Frodo. I doubt they are immune to the temptation of the ring.
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WarCraft movie is getting slaughtered by critics
Maedhros replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Saw the film today. It was pretty decent, but nothing spectacular. I hope (and think) there will be more films, because there's potential here. I really liked the orcs, but the human characters were all pretty lackluster. -
WarCraft movie is getting slaughtered by critics
Maedhros replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Most reviews I've seen have been positive, with the consensus being that it's a fun adventure with extremely good CGi, but lacking in depth (no surprise there). -
Crusader Kings 2 is easily my favorite "chill after work" game, these last couple of years. It takes some time getting into, but once you get to a certain point it's a rewarding experience. The thing with CK is that each game is so different. I've had 10 boring saves in a row at times that I've ended quickly, and then the next time you can be lucky and get a really interesting one. I had a save where I started as a measly count of west-Francia, and somehow ended up as the Emperor of Italia, with Africa, Jerusalem, and most of the mediterranean under my command. The less successful ones can be fun as well, like the time I started up as a count of Sicily, was stripped of all titles by the Byzantine Emperor, and somehow ended up in Caucasus fighting the various riffraff there for control over parts of the Silk Road. Anyways, selling Dota 2 items as we speak to buy Stellaris.
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I love Steam. From being absolute crap and full of bugs back when it was released, it's now the best thing that ever happened to PC gaming in modern times. It's what revitalized PC gaming for me, in a similar way that Spotify has done with music, and Netflix+Hbo-nordic with tv-series (convenience being the key word here). They have fair prices, a huge catalogue of games, lots and lots of sales, easy to use interface, and the best multiplayer online game there is, Dota 2, is there for free. It's actually given me around 50-60 dollars for free on item drops, that I've spent on other games. Probably wouldn't be playing on PC if not for Steam.
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Got 94% agreement with Sanders. Guess I'm a pretty stereotypical Scandinavian alright.
