Blarghagh

Potter. Pretty much par for the course. Entertaining, felt a bit truncated, and Voldemort is still completely unthreatening.

Okay, so all I know about the Codex is a horrible first impression (the first thing I saw when I looked over there was some abhorrent post advocating mandatory euthanasia for handicapped people) and the things I hear here (and this place is not unbiased), so I recognize that I may have jumped the gun. However, and I mean no offense with this, but this post strikes me as horrendously apologetic. The amount of arguments that essentially boil down to "sure, it's kind of true, BUT there are good things too!" is strikingly painful. Despite trying to convince that the Codex isn't as bad as people here say it is, most of this post actually just confirms it instead but just adds "well, it gets better if you get through the outer layer of crap and know the tricks." Again, I mean no offense, but you're not really accomplishing what you say you want to. It's not very inspiring to give the Codex as a second chance at all, quite the opposite really.

Are we in Soviet Russia?

I need to start getting up earlier. Whenever I sleep in, I can't bring myself to do anything. Stupid night jobs.

Roses are red. Other flowers have colors too. Yadda yadda yadda. I want to bone you.

I haven't finished it yet, and I can't say I effectively hate it, but I'm struggling with getting through the first book of His Dark Materials. Lyra is just such a self-absorbed brat and I really don't care much what happens to her.

Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw. Much better than I thought it would be. I expected it to be full of jokes, but I'm really enjoying the story.

X-Men First Class. Extremely disappointing considering everyone pretty much hounded me to go see it because they said it was awesome. Honestly, the story was great, I loved the characters, just the action sequences and the look of the thing just alternated between dull and stupid. Serious action sequences felt like campy comedy bits. I was in stitches when Magneto did his barbwire thing, and when Azazel ripped off Bartelby from Dogma. They felt like the kind of jokes that would have fit in Kickass more than a serious film. And the CG was the worst I've seen in quite a while, but along with that the pracitcal effects also looked lame. The prosthetics on Beast and Mystique and especially Azazel looked like they were wearing five dollar halloween masks. And that bit with Angel attacking on the boat, what was that about? Nobody has made a sequence look that dumb since low budget movies stopped using Stop Motion. It's great that movies are paying more attention to story and characters, but they shouldn't forget the other side of coin. Suspension of disbelief only holds up so long when things are just looking very stupid. Still, Magneto was great. Too bad his big confrontation with Sebastian Shaw was such a boring dud.

And by not going away soon, do you mean we will rely on it for a long time, or we have plenty left?

I checked out the Codex due to this thread and it once again confirmed my belief that any message board so often referred to on another message board can never be good, it's always extremely far past its sell by date. It's completely ingrained in itself and hostile towards anything that even comes close to the possibility of being able to break the status quo as far as there is one*, making it the online equivalant of a redneck genepool. Although as stated, its LPs are really good. *Lately this board has been starting to go there as well. The amount of "this place used to be so much better" posts and the many veteran in jokes probably make it pretty hard for new members to enjoy it.

Messed around with some textures and hair settings in 3D Max, remade my avatar as practice.

When I swear I don't really think of what I'm saying, it just comes out. Recently I threw out "holy pus explosion", though.

Can't afford to buy books right now and all the local libraries only have the barest english language sections (I refuse to read in Dutch because the language is sterile as hospital) so in desperation I decided to reread some of my old books. Currently on Mark Olivier Everett, a.k.a. E from the Eels' autobiography "Things the Grandchildren Should Know". Surprisingly candid on a lot of subjects such as the deaths of his entire family and pre-teen drug use, yet the musical missteps he's made (like a solo album from the 80's that he keeps off eBay by buying it for ridiculous amounts every time it pops up) are completely absent. An odd thing to be ashamed of, I think.

What kind of work do you do that requires you to do research on these kinds of subjects?

Did a two hour commute, only to be told "come back monday" and having to do the commute back, not looking forward to doing that AGAIN on monday.

Ain't that the truth. Saw Rio, which mostly impressed me with it's animation of birds. Otherwise, good for what it does, but what it does is what a billion animated movies have done before.

Actually, while I agree some look odd, I had the same problem with Kotor 1. Some look good, some look dorky. I also think the same applies to some of the female portraits, but less. I usually go with the white bearded guy or the middle-eastern looking longhair.

Basically, a bride that is sold through the mail to a man. Often from less economically successful countries. For some, the end result is the 21st century equivalent of slavery and for others the end result is the express queue to visa/citizenship in more affluent countries (where they dump their "spouses" right after the mandatory duration of the partnership to acquire such papers). you know, I that's what I assumed but I didn't think they were...........real. Yeah, sadly all the things we laugh at the past for still happen today.

Was it as amusing as his voice cameo in the cartoon Clone High? Character: "I gave you one of my kidneys." *ZOOM INTO HIS BODY* Leftover Kidney (voice of Micheal J. Fox): "I miss him."

Huh, Box Office Mojo says 200 million. And yeah, you'd think it's hard to break even, because with advertising, distribution, theater costs etc. pretty much means that breaking even for a film means double the budget. But with the price of tickets as said before as well as DVD sales, etc., most movies actually make it quite easily. It's already made, like, 80 million since it came out, what, four days ago? And some movies have legs like you would't believe. Critics said the latest Pirates movie was a flop because it had a pretty poor opening compared to the others and just this week it broke into the top ten most grossing movies worldwide.

I'm conflicted. I hate getting lost, but I also enjoy exploring. I hate cutscenes, but I also hate resources being spread on things nobody will ever see. And you felt the need to derail said thread into off-topic on the first reply because of your steadfast dedication to community building, I'm sure. "Neener neener, I saw it first." Grow up. I am so tired of these internet cliches like "old", "first" or "tl;dr" that message board hipsters (an oxymoron if there ever was one) love to throw around.

Think you added an extra one hundred million there.

It has begun. At some point, every message board on the internet becomes a stew of nostalgic veterans complaining about how it used to be better and being nasty to newbies. It always starts with posts like this. Anyway, I'm fine with this theme. It's nice.

Watching Priest. Ridiculous so far.

Hold the phone, marketed at women?