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    So what you're saying here is, Fight Club needs to be required viewing.
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    The Babadook. A lovely bit of psychological horror. Oculus was my favourite horror movie of 2014, but since this originally came out in 2014 too I guess this supplants it. The director was a genius at making me feel unsettled simply by the way his shots were framed, how long they were, how the sound was mixed. The ending was... weird but an odd final 5 minutes doesn't take away that I was freaked out enough to be violently shivering at some points.
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    News of this somehow hadn't reached me despite the fact I read a newspaper today. It really just makes me very sad that something like this can happen. I don't even want to take this oppertunity to criticize the American left vs right response or gun laws or whatever. Instead all my 'murica rage is just kinda replaced with this.
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    http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/swiss-reddit-clone-voat-has-its-servers-closed-by-hosting-provider-due-to-politically-incorrect-content/ Voat got shut down by the hosting providers that Atko was hosting the platform on for, I kid you not, having politically incorrect content as the reason given.
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    Thanks for the link, Barothmuk. That was an interesting read, if very disturbing. There's a lot of solid points to be made against the idea that the world is worse off than it was. Most of the arguments for it seem to boil down to That's not saying we don't have unique problems such as mass shootings and the growing detachment from society, but overall I think we're in a pretty good place and I'd rather not go back in time. Although sometimes I read something disturbing and then I briefly go "human beings must all be destroyed" like the alien roach infiltrator that I am, but that's just a scutellum-jerk reaction.
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    Was sent an article earlier this year where a bunch of "sex-positive" liberals were fighting to "reduce the stigma around underage sex-work" because it denies their "agency". Good god, I thought my example was the worst it had gotten for now. Source?
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    And I never said it was. Consider what this was in response to: These are the types of arguments said party made back in 2006, and they identified as being "left wing" as well as having other generally regarded as left wing platforms such as animal rights. (Also, the wiki article states there were 3 public members, which is a fairly important dinstinction.) The point wasn't that this is some larger trend, but it was an early attempt to legitimize such arguments in the form of a political party that started in 2006. Obviously it was unsuccesful and rightly so, but it demonstrates isolated pockets of this type of thinking already exists despite Meshugger clearly having made it up as a hypothetical example of future lunacy.
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    Not really. This literally has already happened in my country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Neighbourly_Love,_Freedom,_and_Diversity
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    What, Persona is now not good enough? They sure know how to pick their targets.
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    My memory is really fuzzy. I remember the Carnotosaurus and its camouflage, but I keep thinking that's the Spinosaurus from the third movie. Carnotaurus, yeah. If I recall, even the raptors and rexes avoid their living area. Spinosaurus isn't in the books at all. I remember them in there and in fact I liked when they took inspiration from them for a certain bit of Jurassic World.
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    I'm re-reading The Lost World right now because I don't remember much about it. It has very few things in common with the movie. But in Jurassic Park (the novel) Wu has a conversation with Hammond about making the animals "better" - more docile while more scary looking, more in tune with how people would expect dinosaurs to be. It's why I was never upset with the hybrid idea - it was literally where it seemed the story would go from the first book (The Lost World ignores this, however).
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    Most of what Wu said about it was paraphrased from Wu in the first book, so it wasn't that much of an issue anyway. And Dilophosaurus kinda came back - a brief shot of it in holographic form.
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    Dromaeosaurus and Deinonychus are both still far too small to be the raptors depicted in the film and Utahraptor is far too big. Austroraptor, a relatively new species (2008) comes closest but like Utahraptor, is still too big but that's the closest a known species comes. Fandom usually resolves it by saying this is a different species, either one of which fossils haven't been found or affected by the gene-splicing. But raptors are hardly the only dinosaur they get wrong. That tiny venom-spitting one with the frill? Yeah. And don't even get the dino nerds (like me) started on the Pteranodons (name meaning: winged and toothless) in Jurassic Park 3 having teeth. These movies run on rule of cool.
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    An example I know about it that modders and other non-professionals often refer to creating textures as "skinning" (this was more prevalent before, when 3D modeling was more difficult and most mods were "skin pakcs") whereas in CG art skinning generally refers to the process of binding a 3D model to a rig/bone system.
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    I totally missed that mistake. Haha, fail.
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    I quickly looked it up earlier and Grant actually comes up with it back in the original novel. Malcolm confirms it doesn't work in The Lost World, citing that the theoretical reason was nonsense in the first place. The idea was that the T-Rex brain is similar in shape to certain amphibians that can only see movement. To be fair, it is a ridiculous thought. As for them keeping it in the movie, well, it simply allows for more fun storytelling. Those scenes in the first film where they have to stop moving and be completely still while it looks at them are tense. Lord knows it's not the only scientific inaccuracy. Raptors were slightly bigger than chickens!
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    Grant's not in The Lost World novel?
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    Haha, a lot of those questions plague the fan community. Interestingly, the first one is somewhat answered by the second film - the T-Rex can smell from miles away and it must have noticed something it didn't like about Grant and the kids. Possibly it ate the lawyer and decided kids were tasty. And some theatrical cuts had the animal actually bursting through the wall of the visitors center, you can see the hole behind him, don't know why this got cut out of true film. About the boats, in the second film the going fan theory is that there must have been a raptor on board, but really it's all because that entire sequence was added on when filming was almost done. The third film is easier to explain - we see the Spinosaurus swimming later on in the film, and since that's the designated antagonist...
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    People who have never experienced real hate just haven't met the wrong people.
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    We discontinued the official romance thread shortly after release. The major problem they solved were the constant, forum-filling flamewars of people angrily demanding Obsidian put romance in before released followed by other people angrily demanding those people admit they had mental disabilities. Since the game is out, that's no longer a real issue. So carry on. These threads are totally okay as long as they stay civil. Thought your post was interesting. About modding - I was led to believe it was totally possible to create your own NPCs? It's just that they're a lot of work and nobody has done it so far.
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    Really? Because it literally did not affect me. When the Red Wedding happened, I was open-mouthed, making involuntary noises of consternation. Here, I said "huh".
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    Avengers doesn't hold up on repeat viewings, Guardians does. Avengers climax was way cooler, but if you watch it again you kinda just get annoyed with the movie wanting it to get to the good part. Guardians' climax was less spectacular, but on a whole it was a much better movie with funny or spectacular stuff happening from beginning to end.
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    Scared? It was hilarious!
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    The books sure like their undeath, what with two undead characters even missing from the show.
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    Eh, there's so many games starring just men that I don't mind games starring just women. Beyond Good & Evil is still better than most games they put out these days.
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