Blarghagh

And you don't even get the added benefit of being able to put your fingers into your clients' mouths all day.

Haha, see, that's what I mean by tone. Because the actual comparison never happened.

I was shooting for more ancedotal. Today i'm doing a little bit of work, then going to go jogging. Haha, fair enough. No accounting for tone on the internet. That's why I said vaguely, but for some reason my mind immediately picked it up as "She reminds of this skank I knew who got knocked up". My brain is weird.

How did you know what I said? Are you a hypnotist?

This sounds vaguely passive aggressive to me. Anyway, happy new year people.

Well, I've thought about it and my resolutions are: - To start excercising on a more regular basis, specifically do more cardio on my hometrainer. I've been so sedentary recently that I need to keep my body in shape. - Work more on personal projects for my portfolio, specifically a set of long-neglected projects that have been taking far too long. I'm not going to set dates or anything because my mind is a bastard and if I miss one date it takes over and goes "psh, why even bother, you're already a failure, why not just curl up into the fetal position and never do anything ever again, ever?"

You made meat pampushkii? I had to look up what that is*, but yes, essentially. It was surprisingly good too, it was just a moment of "hrm, I have a bunch of leftover cheddar and nothing to do with it..." Gonna try the potato variant sometime. Thanks. *To be fair, I have to look up what most things in this thread are because one thing that still has a language barrier for me is the names of foods and ways to cook them. I had to look up what a freaking bell pepper was because we just call them the same as the spice you make out of them - "I've got a bunch of paprikas!"

Made some meatballs filled with cheddar. Boiled some potatoes and put the gravy from the meatballs on it. Also some peas and carrots with a sprinkling of parsley on it.

They could start actually utilizing the other twelve completely interchangeable and unneccesary characters already present in said bed-time story.

Schumacher going down in a skiing accident makes as much sense to me as Steve Irwin laid low by a harmless flat cartilagenous fish. This world is weird.

I think more of these posts should include names. For, uh, research purposes.

I didn't really have time to think about it. : / I guess I gotta figure it out.

To be fair, its existence as an option is hilarious. That's the joke. The act of voting for it isn't really a joke at all. Where's the joke? "Lolz, they put Call of Duty on this poll, which was really funny. But now, I'm gonna vote for that instead of what I really want PoE to be like, so as to give the poll absolutely no useful function. LOLZ!" The fact that Call of Duty was even included in the poll kindof undermines your premise of the poll being for serious information gathering in the first place.

Debating on what to play when I get home. It's going to be either Pokémon Y, or Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

No, that's a party where you drink tea.

Did anyone mention "Tea Party" yet?

This has been my day so far as well.

I doubt the movie studios had that much to do with it. This is Peter Jackson's doing. For example, Tauriel is exactly what Arwen was going to be before the internet blew up at Xenarwen (she was going to be fighting at Helm's Deep, among other things). For me personally, the draw of these films and even these books has always been the world rather than the story so I'm more than happy to stay for more films. I also highly disagree with the notion that movies need to have a certain length - why can people binge watch a TV show on Netflix but if a movie is more than two hours we'll never hear the end of it. That doesn't mean I agree with all changes - but they don't ruin the movie for me thus far. I'd have liked more Beorn and more Thranduil, and while I don't hate the idea of this particular love triangle, the execution was completely bungled. On the other hand, Smaug was everything I wanted him to be and more, I love how much stuff this world has, and I have no problem with the addition of more action because I'll never get tired of seeing orcs getting murdered. I think what really clinches it for me, though, is that even Tolkien thought the Hobbit, as is, no longer fit in with his universe. He set out to rewrite the book to be more in step with Lord of the Rings. Not saying this is what he would have had in mind, but I'm just saying that Tolkien was open to changing this story. I find most of the smaller changes to The Lord of the Rings more grating than the major changes to The Hobbit. EDIT: I sound a little bit like trying to stir up debate, so I'd like to clarify that I'm not trying to change your mind and I understand your view. I just happen to enjoy this take very much. Having read The Hobbit far after I read The Lord of the Rings, I always felt it was out of place and I didn't like it that much.

Just a regular human fighter who is good, but very, very angry.

While that is true, the orc army isn't quite in that ballpark.

Saw the Hobbit again. For all it's faults, this movie entertains the hell out of me. Now working again!

Haha, is that what you think the orc army sideplot is leading towards? Reminds me of a conversation I had with someone this week who explained that some plot-important characters were too important to die while others were surely goners. Unless Peter Jackson completely changes everything, he has never been so wrong. (See what I did there?)

It's much more action oriented than the previous film and doesn't have the long hour of exposition, but a lot of it seems to serve no purpose. Otherwise it's mostly more of the same.

Congratulations on the new job Wals. Got the first batch of intern evaluations back and they were overwhelmingly positive. Also beginning pre-production on my next project and getting really excited about it - almost all of the next half year will be developing and setting up a good production pipeline for a CG cartoon. Yay, I get to post something positive in this topic!