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Of the ones I know, it seems very bluesy. Currently, Elvis - Burning Love.

I really enjoyed The Prestige, but I did feel that the science fiction elements came uncomfortably close to breaking through my suspension of disbelief wall. I watched Definately, Maybe with my girlfriend. This is a very good romantic comedy, which surprised me.

I guess it might become something interesting after all, then.

Hey, listen to what you like. What other people say doesn't matter. You don't have to share popular or critical opinion. I always just focus on what I get enjoyment out of rather than how 'good' an artist is. And while I know that, for example, Metallica's early stuff is technically just better, I have more fun listening to their grunge period (Black Album, the Loads, S&M) and that's why I am going to listen to those instead of Master of Puppets. Currently, The Arcade Fire - Wake Up.

Cool. Although Dungeon Keeper was never very fun to multiplayer unless there was a gentlemen's agreement that there would be no Scavenger Room. Otherwise it was basically just a race to get that room first, and the person who did usually won.

I don't mean the smaller things with friends, I mean the big event type ones. Ever since WoW came out they've turned into suck. I haven't gone in a while.

Really? Because I don't know anyone who really likes Aerosmith, and nobody ever admits to liking post-'...And Justice For All' Metallica. I gotta go for the Rolling Stones. But then again I ain't got no taste. I'm listening to Disturbed's cover of "Midlife Crisis" by Faith No More. Haha!

Are they still connectionless? It's part of my memories too, but that was 10 years ago. Broadband penetration is a bit better now, even in the U.S. EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that South Korea has incredible broadband penetration. The basement still is, yes. I have bad experiences with LAN parties with internet anyway. At some point everyone just starts playing some stupid MMO. Kind of defeats the point.

They may or may not be rubbish. I don't know, I didn't read them. I was just referring to the hate online. Everybody thought Anne Rice' stuff was a bunch of effeminate whiny pansies, but now everybody loves them and hates Twilight instead. It bothers me how the internet haters just seem to be following some sort of fashion. It's like the Jurassic Park movies, everybody hated the second one until the third one came out. Then it was a Steven Spielberg masterpiece and the third movie was the one that ruined the series.

Yeah I was just about to come on here and post this thing. LAN is important to me. Ad hoc LAN parties in my friends connectionless basement make up a significant portion of my gamer memories.

Yeah but nobody liked those until Twilight came and outsucked them. Not literally.

I suspect that book-readers perspective is pretty important in this case, because I have not read the book and I felt that this movie was, sadly, really disappointing. Nothing much happens during the first half and the scenes from the second half weren't really interesting enough to make up for that. Simply put, I was bored. Which made me sad because I really enjoyed the last few. Although I did like some of the more horror-esque touches. That scene where that and that scene with the , the whole theater jumped at that scene. I don't remember the last time I saw a 'made you jump out of your seat' scene as effective as that. Maybe that scene in The Dark Crystal where the doglike thing shoots out of the hole.

Now, I don't like football (soccer) at all. I don't understand why my entire country, and a whole bunch of other countries, are so obsessed with it. It's boring and ridiculous, running after a ball only to kick it away again. But I have to disagree with you, Volourn, because as boring as soccer is to watch, Baseball is worse. Not only is Baseball boring to watch, it's boring to play and consists mostly of standing still waiting until it's your turn to do a tiny sprint. I don't know about American Football though, I never watch it (I don't care much for a bunch of pansies pretending to be invincible just 'cause they have a few pads and a helmet) but I played it once, and broke someone's arm in the process, so I guess it was kind of interesting to play in a morbid way?

I'd say something about how gay marriage is legal in my country, but it'd only cause LoF to make some random jab about the East India Company or somesuch anyway.

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here Zooey Deschanel

I don't mean to be rude, but I'd like to give attention to the part where you guys have started getting entirely into specifics while completely forgetting about tying it into the point you were trying to make in the first place.

Remove party member limit?

... that's a jerky thing to say. EDIT: What he said, I mean.

Faith No More? Oh sweet Hallelujah! (ALSO PRAGUE YES. Berlin not so much, it bored the hell out of me twice anyway.)

Me too, but I still like Depp a lot. I think it's just overexposure. Right after the two Pirates sequels Depp had a kind of backlash too. Bale just has the added effect of some of his prima donna behaviour coming out so people dislike him a bit more as a person too, even subconsciously. Even if that was blown way out of proportion. I've worked on sets once or twice if anyone walks into the shot that isn't supposed to be there they deserve a good yelling at, and this was a freaking director of photography who did it repeatedly. He should have known better. i just finished the comic for the first time yesterday kinda interesting to see little bits and pieces that you don't see in the movie - like excerpts from the old Nite Owl's book also i'm kinda glad they did change the ending a bit for the movie - because in the comic, it's a bit.... well... silly You mean the ? I watched The Dark Crystal. It seems to get slower as the years go by, but still a good movie.

It's true, there are a lot of bigoted christians. People who missed the point of their own religion - I'm pretty sure "God" gave people choice so they could choose for him, not to have him forced on them as a law.

Haha. Being an agnostic is fine. If you're comfortable with not knowing, then power to you. I'm only comfortable with not knowing to a certain extent. I think the people here just like heated debate. I know I've been guilty of getting far too carried away with debating on this board, occasionally to the point that I'm rather bothered with myself afterwards. Not this time though, I just wanted to present my view as clearly as possible. I meant no ire. I also didn't mean to imply that I have problems with people being religious. Someone I consider one of my best friends is a very devout christian. Disclaimer done.

So did anyone complain about how Soccer is the real Football yet?

I think you should look up the definition of atheist because these are not traits that define or are even required in an atheist. What you're talking about sounds more like combined evolutionist and transhumanist. But since you're angling, I'll bite. On arrogance: Obviously, you have never heard a proper scientific theory because all science is disprovable theory. It's one of the cornerstones of the scientific world; every theory can be disproven and is therefore never to be taken as some sort of "absolute truth". I fail to see how this is any more arrogant than "that omnipotent, all-powerful guy up there made us in his image, and this entire world is for US". Also, somehow you seem to be of the opinion that science and religion cannot coexist. That's just stubborness, and I feel it's mostly on the part of the religious people. Especially Christians. I've never understood why Christianity as a whole has stubbornly denied all about evolution, for example. I can understand why they would object to the theory of evolution, or other theories around it. But the theory of evolution is just why evolution happens. Because this is what science does: it comes up with theories to explain certain facts. And you only have to take apart a population of mice, put them in different environments and wait a couple of years to see that they have adapted. That's what evolution is, and it's a fact. I understand the whole theory of natural selection, and especially the bit about coming from monkeys, might rub someone the wrong way. But that's just disprovable theory. Denying facts you can clearly show as fact just makes you seem like a stubborn fool. As for myself, I am an atheist but I do not take all science at face value as you seem to think atheists do. Science has been wrong far too many times to just blindly trust. The difference being that science, when proven wrong, just takes it like a man and doesn't stubbornly hold on to it's old ways. And as for major truths like "where we came from" or "how the universe started", I don't even think human beings have the mental capacity or imagination to even know these things. As far as I'm concerned, if a human being came up with it, it's probably wrong. On depressing: If there is any, the purpose of atheism is to be confident in the fact that your life and choices are your own and not guided by some form of predestination that renders the entirety of your actions on this world pretty much moot because there was no real other way it could have happened. I expect that's what's going to comfort me on my deathbed. Let me make one thing perfectly clear, though. I don't find it very depressing that there is nothing after life. I'm 21 years old, and I've already lived a happy enough life that I am thankful that I was even allowed it, because it was against such astronimically long odds rather than "an inevitability because that guy up there said so". I find everything MORE beautiful because it's such an amazing coincidence it happened to become this way. What makes a tree more impressive, beautiful and amazing? That it was put here for us to enjoy? Or that it managed, through millions of tiny coincidences that could have happened any other way, to even BE there for us to enjoy? As an atheist I feel so incredibly lucky to have this life to live, because if one sperm had beaten me to it I wouldn't be here. And every day I think of how lucky I really am. I am happy that I am allowed to experience this growth, knowledge and uniqueness. And you know what? I don't need to have a reward at the end of the road. The road IS my reward. I'm not bothered that at some point the road is going to end. Because this ridiculous notion of an afterlife is what is causing the whole goddamned world to take life itself for granted. And that's why finiteness is not depressing. All this need for purpose, 'spirituality' and especially the - and I really mean this - SELFISH need for a reward at the end that takes these poor people's attention away from living their freaking life, that's what is really depressing. EDIT: For clarity. As much as I can make it. Excuse my occasional ramblings.

Alright. I'm enjoying it nonetheless, so I'll just work my way through them. I'm not a very fast reader.