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Why? You seem very sure? A religious system where everyone gets what's coming to them but through reincarnation will always have the oppertunity to better themselves? That seems like a religion founded on forgiveness. Moreso than the one where you burn in hell for all eternity if you don't love a guy who has been dead for two centuries. Re: Christianity. I'm always intrigued by the story of the Eskimo who asked if he would have gone to hell if he didn't know about God and Jesus and is told that no, if he didn't know about it, he wouldn't go to hell. So he asks the missionary: "Then why did you tell me?". If you could tell someone the truth, but it's an outlandish truth that they might not believe, yet if they don't believe you they would be condemned to hell for all eternity, are you doing a good thing by telling them the truth? Is the very spread of christianity, even discounting the terrible bloody history of the religion, an evil at its core? You go out of your way to lower the chances of people to get into the kingdom of Heaven. As for what the truth really is... who knows? Certainly not any human alive. The universe is so infinitely large that the odds that a single human, including atheists, has ever known an absolute truth about the universe are so small that it's essentially zero. I take comfort in that - there are probably glorious things, but none of the idiots on this planet will ever be right about it and that's for the best since human answers are "hell" or "the heat death of the universe".

Buddhism.

The think piece was written a week after the show was released. The ****posting was in response to that. I was there man. Well, then the ****posting lives alongside actual love for the source material. Either way, the majority of bronies are not "ironic".

No, I'm pretty sure the brony phenomenon came about due to the quality and positive energy of the show. I'm not a brony (I've watched a handful of episodes to try it out at the annoying insistence of a colleague, but I wasn't a fan), but it's my understanding from my animating colleagues that pretty much all regard it as the best children's show currently airing (although Adventure Time gives it a run for its money among those who are often stoned). Some of them have converted to bronies, others say "it's not for me, but it's very well-made". The ironic ****posters didn't show up until after genuine love for the show starting getting ridiculed. In any case, while children's television is generally absolute **** (trust me, I've made some of that ****), this show is very rarely counted as anything other than a rare exception except by adults who think it's weird for other adults to like childish things.

Other than that final jumpscare, Sinister also had that surreal and slightly laughable tracking shot where all the little ghost children kinda just run by one by one. Otherwise, fantastic horror film though. I'll definitely take a look at Pandorum, since I was lacking a horror movie to watch this weekend. Oh, I totally forgot to mention, this weekend I watched Inside Out and I wish someone had warned me because that movie relentlessly and shamelessly manipulates your heart strings. Nooo, Bing Bong! I assume not a single child had any idea what was going on in this movie, though.

Someone made a recut of all three movies into one four hour story that was pretty good. It had a few disjointed moments though.

I'm lucky in that my parents are massive fans of the franchise so they got it and I just borrowed it from them the next day. I liked the Hobbit movies more than most people and I still don't think they're worth owning.

I watched the Extended version of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. I didn't really want to, but I needed to know one thing. If this ****er finally died: SPOILERS To save everyone the trouble of having to watch even more pointless battle scenes, yes he does indeed die and it is the only satisfying moment that was added.

He's called the joker because the ho's he pimps are funny looking.

Clone Wars had a terrible first season and then became really good. Rebels so far has had a mediocre first season punctuated by some cool moments. My favourite episode of Rebels so far was the first episode of season 2, where Vader kicked the Rebels butts without even trying.

It was confirmed.

Eurogamer held back a review of the Rising Tide expansion for Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth because the game had a gamebreaker bug in it and they claim to have felt "it was unfair to have reviews reflect a temporary bug" as if the game not working as intended at launch wasn't something the consumer should know. It wasn't fixed until several days after launch and only then did they publish the review. TB had a video about it, but it contained some misinformation so he (rightfully) took it down. Either way, it's still a pretty weird thing to do. And to be honest, I see a lot of the same thing happening all over the industry right now with Vermintide. Jesus christ the reviews are positive for a game that runs worse than Assassin's Creed Unity.

So guys, let's stop talking about each other and talk instead about that games journalist that held back his review until after the game launched because he encountered a game breaking bug, in a wonderful feat of protecting the publisher from losing sales and ****ing the consumer right up the natural waste disposal system.

Well, to be fair, the original trilogy explicitly stated that he hunted and exterminated all the Jedi. Revenge only implied that he just killed Jedi babies. I'd say there's a difference between trained soldiers who can put up a fight and itty widdle kiddies who can barely hold a lightsaber.

And there's the problem that Episode 3's version of his fall to the dark side makes it impossible to redeem him. Killing the emperor does not erase killing every single kid in the Jedi temple one by one. What the ****, the Force accepts him and shows him as a Force ghost at the end of the series after THAT? He needs to go to Darkside Hell or something!

I literally know nothing about her other than she won woman of the year and is trans. I'm not sure why she was famous in the first place.

Imagine how other transgender women feel, who don't have money or a massive support network and whose transformations often take gruelling years. But no, the easy-mode transgender gets woman of the year because... well, famous and it sells and people will talk about it for free publicity.

I'm thinking he just had another tax bill incoming and likes Lovecraft stories. His other Lovecraftian series, Neonomicon, wasn't all that great either. Pretty much just fish porn. But Providence so far is a little disjointed, its plot is practically "writer researching book roadtrips several Lovecraft stories". It's fun to spot some of the references. Our lead character is currently staying with a certain Dr. North who alludes to working with corpses and studied a book about bringing the dead back to life. I always thought the Re-Animator was Dr. West, but I guess my internal compass messed up.

I don't know, I'd say there is a difference. There's a very fine line for kids movies. I'll use some kids' cartoons as an example: Despicable Me was a movie obviously made for kids, but it had character and a well-crafted story that made it enjoyable for adults as well. It's spinoff, Minions, was made entirely for children and there was no appeal for adults in that slapschticky mess. Yet in many ways, they're the same movies. I think it's a question of storytelling quality. Star Wars was a simple story, but it was told well. The prequels, not so much. I still couldn't tell you who the lead character of The Phantom Menace was. What was the plot of that movie? Something about trade blockades and elections?

You don't understand, Volo posts are like an aphrodisiac. The amount of times I've gotten my lady in the mood by showing her a random uttering of "EVIL NAZI"... Bruce definitely closed the deal with all those ladies. It's definitely not sad to spend an after party showing girls forum posts. Not sad at all.

Oh yeah he was Khan and he wanted to protect his other superman people from Robocop!

I would give an assessment of Into Darkness if I remembered even a little bit of it. I know I've seen it, but all I remember is that Cumberbatch was in it as some kind of superman terrorist?

I don't know if it's grimdark. The Age of Ultron and Jurassic World trailers were similarily humorless. Either way, I'm not sure I agree - one of the reasons The Phantom Menace is almost universally reviled is that it failed to understand that its audience grew up. Making it too kiddy with baby Anakin and Jar Jar Binks? (I don't agree with that assessment, by the way.) And then Transformers proves you can have angry explodey action and still sell toys, so I'm really not sure what kids want these days. Twitter kerfuffle. Three dedicated ****posters got about a dozen journos to write stories about a supposedly huge backlash against the Star Wars films for having a black lead. I don't know, I assume we'll get something at least a little better than the Star Trek movies since J.J. is on record that he loves Star Wars, never liked Star Trek and tried to turn Star Trek into Star Wars (to the point that the Honest Trailer for Star Wars points out that his first Star Trek movie was essentially a Star Wars remake so he could use it as a demo reel to audition for this). Oh and wow, I'm glad I gave up on blogger-journos and taking anything on twitter seriously.

There was drama? I thought it was just Boo and his fitted tinfoil hat?

Didn't I already address that? It's STAR WARS. The white male butt was already in the seat the moment it was announced. That's why everyone else is huge on the poster, and white nerds only get Han Solo reassuring them (alternate but more accurate phrasing: bludgeoning them with the feeling) that, yes, this is your home. Anyway, I wouldn't say character beings black or female for boring reasons or them just being boring old white dudes matters all that much. Do you? A character has never popped due to skin color or gender.