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Okay, for the geek crossover..

The Razzie's full list of nominations: Worst Picture Fantastic Four Fifty Shades of Grey Jupiter Ascending Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Pixels Worst Actor Johnny Depp, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler, The Cobbler and Pixels Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Actress Katherine Heigl, Home Sweet Hell Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door Gwyneth Paltrow, Mortdecai Worst Supporting Actor Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation Josh Gad, Pixels and The Wedding Ringer Kevin James, Pixels Jason Lee, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending Worst Supporting Actress Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip and The Wedding Ringer Rooney Mara, Pan Michelle Monaghan, Pixels Julianne Moore, Seventh Son Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers and Pan Worst Remake Or Sequel Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fantastic Four Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Human Centipede 3 Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Worst Screen Combo Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, Fantastic Four Johnny Depp and his glued-on mustache, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James and either his Segway or glued-on mustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler and any pair of shoes, The Cobbler Worst Director Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Tom Six, Human Centipede 3 Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending Worst Screenplay Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Kelly Marcel, Fifty Shades of Grey Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending Kevin James and Nick Bakay, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Pixels Razzie Redeemer Award Elizabeth Banks M. Night Shyamalan Will Smith Sylvester Stallone

Heh. The random things you recognise from Iaido kata... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cGxipO_IA

Heh. After sending in a bug report a week or so before Christmas about issues I'm having... Notably that I have to use the Account Recovery to reset my password every single time I want to log in, even if I've reset it 5 minutes before hand and logged out in that time I finally got a response from the Help team. They tell me to use Account Recovery to reset my password.

For the general engineering... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwZnNe2HnM

While we don't have a Star Wars thread active at the moment, I'll just throw this here rather than start a new one.. io9 - The Interview with the Guy Who Played Jar-Jar Binks

There's a really bittersweet street party in Brixton. Fans gathering, singing the songs in unison.. That odd mix of celebrating his life and music while still remembering its happening because he's gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLG4mj6Wj5E

Elves were seperate and apart all the time weren't they, hiding in the manner of the King of the Silver River, and chose to emerge when the new world came to be? Which makes me wonder if the Magic Kingdom For Sale world is a part of the same continuum? Possibly. As I said, it has been about 10 or 20 years since I sat down and read through the series. I think I got through the first 9 or so of the Shannara series and related books.

Well, maybe this falls into snark and politics rather than funny..

That's exactly how I would describe it too, except I just could'nt stand the All American High cast. Too 'plastic' for my taste and the show was a little too saturated with tired fantasy tropes. It's very Divergence, Maze Runner, Hunger Games teenage-drama/angst. It's interesting how you can look back at it really. When the first Shannara book came out it was the early 70's and you had that big resurgence of new fantasy authors coming out with their variants of Lord of the Rings. Brooks was rough around the edges with the first few, but he did have that slight twist that what appeared to be your standard fantasy world developed over time and turned out to be a post-apocalyptic far future Earth. Humanity having evolved into the different species (elf, dwarf, troll, etc) but still all having that background connection. It's been a decade or so since I actually read them, but the magic system itself was that touch skewed from the normal as well. The first trilogy as such was more wrapped around your standard fantasy style but at heart was a lot of coming of age adventures for teenagers. So it makes sense that a lot of the cast in the show fit into that kind of casting group. Plus, the heavy focus of elves in the 2nd book (which they're using as the basis for the series) tends to go with the "lots of pretty people" to play them. It's rare for any version of elves not to be considered more attractive than human norm. Heh, if you look back at it, Brooks wrote a lot of those standard YA dystopian future tropes before they became a thing and got hammered into us with the recent book-to-film adaptions. So while you can look at it and see all those "tired tropes", he was actually sort of there first (if you don't get bogged in the LoTR inspirations).

Well the level of smug snark on that did get a bit too much. Which is why I only shared the first 11 translations of the lot. However, while I will say that its bit extreme in the views of Sjw translations in general, I also have to say I have encountered some people who did epitomise that slightly wacky level of meaning when they use those terms.

theAtlantic - Why the British tell better children's stories

I think the description I heard was "It's like someone shot Lord of the Rings with the cast from one of the CW's high school dramas.. and it somehow works regardless."

Is it me or is it partly a case of, they've made FO4 so open, that there's no actual consequences to most things? Apart from the relatively binary options of which half video plays at the "end point". You have all the options for exploration and wandering, but there's no options or outright consequences to any story or character stuff.

Common SJW phrases translated (this one's for Bruce) Have you ever looked at an SJW and wondered “just what is this idiot trying to tell me?” Or, have you perhaps contemplated the intellectual musings of a Tumblrista and wondered “what in the everlasting **** is this person actually saying?” Well, wonder no more. Your friendly neighborhood Lord High Inquisitor of Capitalism has provided these translations from Communese into modern American English. For my friends of British persuasion, just add an occasional pointless “u” into words like color, in order to translate into the Queen’s. 1. “Let’s have a Conversation.” The direct translation for this is “your opinion hurts my feelings and you need to change it.” But this fails to capture the essence of the phrase. When an SJW says this, what they really mean is that you have departed from the traditional narrative, and you are being warned that your non-conforming opinion needs to be changed immediately. Failure to do so will result in denunciation and accusations of racism, sexism, etc… Having a conversation means agreeing with the SJW on all particulars. 2. “Educate yourself!” Directly translated, this is “I can’t understand why you don’t agree with the accepted narrative.” But again, there are nuances here. This can be considered a final warning before denunciation and attempts to attack your character. The SJW is warning you that there will be consequences if you don’t agree with the politically correct narrative. Perhaps they will try to get you fired, or dox you, or some other form of unpleasantness. The subtle translation is “obey the dictates of Social Justice or else!” Educate Yourself = Listen & Believe = Turn off your brain so that we can fill it with as much Taco Bell-derived intellectual sewage as humanly possible. 3. You are a Racist!” You’re white. And probably male, cis-gendered, and straight. Remember, all white men are racists, and any accusation of racism is prima facie evidence of guilt. Progressive white men can be exempted by proclamation by the SocJus community. But this exemption can be revoked at any time, in which case you revert to being a racist. 4. “You’re a Misogynist!” You’re white. And probably male, cis-gendered, and straight. Remember, all white men are sexists, and any accusation of sexism is prima facie evidence of guilt. Progressive white men can be exempted by proclamation by the SocJus community. But this exemption can be revoked at any time, in which case you revert to being a sexist. 5. “You’re an Islamophobe!” You have common sense, which is, of course, a violation of accepted SocJus norms. The only sense you are allowed to have is fed to you by the media. When the media tells you Islam is good and Christianity is evil, you must accept this with no further discussion or demands for evidence. 6. “I can’t be a racist because racism equals privilege plus discrimination.” This means the SJW is a racist and hates white people. Bahar Mustafa, a woman of Turkish ethnicity famously proclaimed that her Turkish heritage meant that she could never be a racist. My Armenian ancestors would disagree, of course. But college feminists are far more oppressed than people thrown into rail cars, shot, beaten to death, and/or crucified. Totally doesn’t count. Why, look at those Armenians oppressing the poor Turks. 7. “That’s Triggering!” Directly translated, this statement means roughly: “waaaaaaaah waaah waaaaaaaaaah!” A more nuanced translation would be “this made me cry, and I will throw a temper tantrum unless you make it go away.” 8. “We need a Safe Space!” The SJW wishes to re-institute segregation along racial and ethnic lines. Members of the KKK are currently kicking themselves for not thinking of this idea first. “Damnit,” says the Grand Wizard Dragon of Podunk, “if only we called Jim Crow ‘Safe Spaces for People of Color’ we could have pulled it off…” Don’t worry, I’m sure the guys with torches, crosses, and pointy hats will be happy to provide them for you. 9. “Sexuality is Sacred!” When the dog humps the couch and manages to get himself off, you are required to give thanks to the environmentally-friendly, non-judgmental, transsexual, ethnic Goddess of Fedora-wearing neckbeards. Femen protesters, of course, can run around buck naked, touching themselves, and this is no big deal. The SJW is really saying that if you are not an SJW, all sex is rape and therefore you are a rapist. Of course, male SJWs never have sex with women anyway, so de facto, the SJW is saying that all heterosexual activity is rape. 10. “This is an example of Rape Culture!” It’s something that normal human beings have been doing since the dawn of time, or creation, or whatever. This may mean having sex, reproducing, looking at attractive members of the opposite sex, etc… Usually, however, this is a specific reference to anything which depicts a beautiful or attractive woman in any way that would interest men. Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover, for instance. A direct translation would be “I saw a woman more attractive than my lard-filled, unshaven rear-end, and this hurts my feelings.” 11. “I am oppressed.” Generally uttered by upper-middle class white SJWs, but can occasionally be spoken by wealthy members of other ethnicities. What it really means is “I feel threatened by the peasantry.” It is a variant of the famous phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette: “let them eat cake.” She was a woman, therefore she was more oppressed than the white guy cleaning **** out of the sewer. Let him eat cake.

What was your favorite prop or costume from the “Harry Potter” films? I love the progression from young actors who are very sweet to adult actors who focus on craft and technicality to older actors who give zero f***s.