Maedhros

Duncan Jones is a very talented director, so that's good news for the Warcraft movie.

So you do think it could've been better?

I thought the Hobbit movie was very fun to watch, but I still had a lot of beefs with it. The Fellowship of the Ring, which it kinda parallels in structure, was a much better movie. I know I'm sounding negative now, but I'm just a bit frustrated since it could've been so much better.

The Hobbit. Barely noticed it was running in 48 fps, so don't really see what all the negative fuzz is about. There were some dissapointments, but overall I enjoyed the movie, and looking forward to the next one. Liked the inclusion of other stuff Tolkien has written about, one flashback in particular was amazing.

I've only tried a couple of the games released this year, and found them all to be underwhelming: Mass Effect 3, Mists of Pandaria, Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3 and Dishonored. Gonna buy Football Manager 2013 soon, guessing that will be my GotY, they're always good.

Dota 2 is pretty much the only game I play nowadays. Such a fantastic remake of Warcraft 3's best custom game. Feels just the same, only with a better matchmaking system, prettier graphics and a much better interface. (PM me if you want the game for free btw. Got 2 invites to give out).

What are you talking about? I simply replied to a post where someone was wondering why Palestine didn't try to "give peace a chance", and gave one reason (of many) why it's not so simple. I completely detest both Hamas and its supporters, so stop putting words in my mouth you silly goose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY&feature

AGX-17 answered this some posts above. The Israeli have proven time and time again that diplomacy with them is useless. In "peace time" the Isreali simply spend their time systematically stealing Palestinian homes and land.

Did you watch the trimmed down western release? Because there are two movies really, they mashed them together and left out a lot of stuff for the western audience. It's based on my favorite period in history, so I quite enjoyed it. But the 2010 miniseries Three Kingdoms was better (of which the Red Cliff part is 10-12 episodes or so). Cao Cao (the "villain") is a much more nuanced and interesting character in that.

Wow, banana on pizza? Never heard of that before. I'm pretty bad at making the "perfect combinations", but I love garlic- or chili marinated shrimps on pizza. A simple pizza with only some mozarella and green pesto can be nice, too. Us Norwegians often use something called "rømme" as well. It's kinda like sour cream, except not as sour I guess. A more milky taste, kinda hard to explain. It makes for a really good contrast when you add it to spicy pizzas.

Pretty much anything David Simon touches turns to gold. The Wire, Homicide (based on his book), Generation Kill, Treme, The Corner...all very good.

1. The Wire - Utterly superior to everything else. Authentic like no other show, with both incredible entertainment value and interesting social commentary going on. Probably the best casting in a tv-show ever - The guys that play Omar, Stringer-Bell, Rawls, Lt. Daniels etc, and of course The Bunk comes to mind. 2. Twin Peaks - This is one of those unique tv-shows you really have to watch to understand what it's about. Charming, mysterious, hilariously scary at random times, while having a sort of soap-opera feel to it. 3. The Sopranos - The second best HBO-show. Fantastic accomplishment in tv. 4. Deadwood - Unfairly overlooked tv-show. Al Swearengen is possibly the best character ever on television. 5. Band of Brothers 6. Oz 7. Breaking Bad

Been playing a lot of Dota 2 lately. Very fun competetive game to play with friends, and it feels pretty much just like the first one. Tried Dishonored for 20 minutes or so, and I'll probably never play it again - as with most games I buy these days, sadly.

In terms of music for games I don't think there are many better composers than Paul Anthony Romero (Heroes of Might & Magic series). Apparently he also made the theme song for Storm of Zehir. :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAfIpAzaPE&

As a Norwegian, I find this thread a bit sad. Most people over here don't mind this appointment at all (except random village idiots and Breivik). She's a born-and-raised Norwegian. She'll be judged on her actions as Minister of Culture, not on her ethnicity or religious beliefs. Also, all the right-wing opponents of the Social Democrats have applauded this move. There really is no controversy here. From what I've heard, she's a very talented hard-working politician, liked by all.

I loved the scenery and the sense of mystery in the prologue. It all went downhill from there. Could've been so much better, and frankly it's astounding that Ridley Scott didn't at least see at least some of the flaws with the movie. Also, Michael Fassbender is a great actor. Him and Tom Hardy are truly two to look out for.

Watched Warrior. Was nice to watch a movie about a fighting sport that isn't boxing for once. Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte were brilliant, as were the fighting scenes. 8/10

I just dropped by to say I know nothing about icehockey, but that Mads Zuccarello Aasen should be promoted to New York Rangers from their farmerteam. Clearly his Norwegian talents are needed! (Seriously though, is he good enough to play for them? Heard he's done really well in the AHL league.)

Anyone know how to add subtitles to the PC-version? Edit: Nevermind, silly me, figured how to do it 1 minute after asking. : ] Game seems promising so far! Skyrim is a lot more interesting than Cyrodiil for sure!

On a side note, SCII is absolutely amazing to follow as an esports-game. I find watching the big tournaments on quality streams to be more fun than playing the game itself.

Yeah good point. We'll just have to wait and see. Latest news is that 9-10 are dead on the island, and that there might have been more than one shooter. Picture of the island where the shooting happened:

It seems very likely that some Islami terrorgroup is behind this. We've gotten threats from "them" before for reasons already mentioned, plus we posted the danish Muhammed-pictures in our newspapers as well. There are no groups of "home grown loonies", as Gorgon put it, capable of something like this in Norway.

Tyrion sees a lot of large-scale combat, as do Jon and Dany. Other individual fights include Jon v. Quorin (as well as his training yard scenes), Bronn v. Lysa's champion, and a couple of instances involving Brienne. oooh that reminds me - Bronn should be turning up soon in the show ^_^ He turned up in the last episode. The guy who offered Tyrion his bed was him.

Slightly related, and kinda funny in a sad way: http://de1.eu.apcdn.com/full/39128.jpg

HoMM 3 - still play it from time to time. Never gets old really.