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Oh boy... Here we go again with the gun stuff.... Guess what? I was inspired by last nights events to go buy another weapon that some would label an assault rifle, as well as take further steps I should have taken long ago to arm those around me that I care for. Eat that up would be gun banners. Or, call me some redneck gun affectionado if that completely inaccurate and wholly meaningless observation makes you feel better. If you think banning guns will solve anything good, you are entirely irrelevant, and totally marginalized as a thinking human being. You are a sheep, end of story. Anon. More to the point: This stuff (suicidal whackos killing innocents en mass) is not preventable at this point (in some aspects it was never preventable). The FBI couldn't stop it, nor could have any theoretical gun ban. We are way past the point of effective debate. On both guns and the bigger issues at hand that inevitably inspire the 'gun debate' every time they rear their ugly head. There is far too much corruption in the culture. Far too many infected. Pandora's box was opened long ago, and a lot of people don't even realize it's open, at least as many don't even perceive the danger of it being opened, and at least as many waste time debating how we can close it. We can't. The gates have been wide open for too long, and the decay on society has taken rotten hold for too long. Western society as a whole has lost it's soul. It has been convinced to tolerate what any healthy culture would not for too long and in too many places. The damage from the rot is too great at this point for there to not be very ugly times ahead for humanity. If this makes sense to you, then, well.... good I guess. For what that's worth, you might be better off, or not. You certainly at least have a better chance. If it doesn't, well... enjoy your bubble while you still can. Chances are very high it's going to pop in the coming years. I just hope for your sake that you finally realize who/what popped it when it explodes.

Saw it last night. I went in with low expectations, and it ended up being surprisingly good. Nothing amazing, but definitely better than expected. Certainly better than anything Marvel has put out in my opinion. At least a solid 7/10. Current and former Warcraft fans will definitely like it, though it's not just for them. The person I saw the movie with never played a Warcraft game so knew next to nothing going in, and they enjoyed it. I look forward to a sequel. Given they followed the timeline/storyline roughly around Warcraft 1, there's a lot of sequel material to work with.

Agreed. That song, along with the one below, were the ones that made me like her music. Prior to that, I couldn't really get into it. Though much of it has grown on me since. She had a lot of great tunes throughout the late 80s and early/mid 90s after this era. Bonus: Cover of the above, by smoking hot Alizee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JruXz3Zgh10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3KVWbiLlY

You don't support the SJW's right to say things? And again, you're misusing Nazi.

Nice. ....and this confirms a suspicion I've long had that Blizzard themselves are indirectly if not directly behind the war on Iraq. Fixed that for you. If you think that's fixing, you're broken yourself.

Nice. ....and this confirms a suspicion I've long had that Blizzard themselves are indirectly if not directly behind the private servers out there.

Ha! Willow and Dragonslayer rate much higher than the Lord of the Rings movies in my book (I am a fan of the books). I'll likely go see it. Though Metzen is a moron, I like Fimmel, Moon was good, and once upon a time I really dug the Warcraft universe. Nothing else better is looking to be out to see anyways (except perhaps 'Angry Birds', which I plan on taking in soon).

30 years ago this week this was #1. She was so damn hot back then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qB5RwPQAA

Empire /= Civilization

If I'd seen it before I'd forgotten about it as I didn't think it worth remembering (and I probably got no further than ~30 seconds before either). However, I have played and beaten Zelda II of course, long ago when the NES was the thing and the SNES didn't exist yet. Zelda I was the reason I saved up and bought a NES (had to have it after playing it at a friend's house), and Ocarina of Time was the reason I bought a N64 (haven't bought a nintendo system since). A Link to the Past is the best Zelda, though not the only reason I bought a SNES (so many great games for the SNES). Anon. I've never seen a good video game reviewer out there on youtube. One may exist, under a rock somewhere, but I'm unaware of them if they do. The last time I read a good video game review was near ten years ago, and it was about Mask of the Betrayer. At that time it was the first good review of a game I'd seen in years (I forget at this point where I saw the review), and was a one off by the author for the most part. It was objective, didn't spoil stuff, was written intelligently, wasn't fanboyish, and told me some things I didn't know. The vast majority of video game reviewers since the mid/late 90s have their tongue up the butt of some or all of the game companies they review. This is true of most movie reviewers too, as well as reviewers of products from all sorts of industries. There's an inherent corruption that generally happens when reviewers of X become popular. They tend to get in with the makers of X so they can have better access to product X and ultimately become like 'Consumer Reports': much more advertisement than objective review. It's similar to the problem that plagues mainstream journalism. Also, Angry Joe is a wussieboy who tongues butts, balls, and reaches around for at least some of the companies who make the games he reviews. I have seen him a couple times because people kept linking him on another forum I once frequented some years back. All that said, I do generally agree with AVGN's take on the new 'Ghostbusters', but I didn't learn anything by watching him, nor did he offer an interesting alternative perspective, so I see little reason to watch him in the future. That's my quick review of all of this reviewer stuff.

Perhaps he has more than one channel, but the name of this one is 'Cinemassacre'.

He did say in his previous video that he was going to make this one. As for the thread issue.... I don't see any anger from the guy, nor is he talking about a video game. The new Ghostbusters represents pretty much everything that is wrong in Hollywood this last decade or two. Twitter is for morons or those that would lead them somewhere.

I'm thinking a good solution to this is: If you come here illegally, and we deport you, and you come back. We execute you. End of story. Of course, we are not a society that pursues many good solutions anymore, hence we are a dying society.

It's so good that this forum has such intelligent and mature moderators such as yourself. Always adding something constructive to the conversation. Always raising the bar, and making sure conversation doesn't become petty, superficial, banal, or downright idiotic. You're a model poster Gfted1. Whoever made you a moderator knew what they were doing.

Not really. For all those I've seen post here saying they're ignoring someone, including myself. It's a courtesy. It's telling them don't waste your time. I know I closed my door quite gently. People discuss things here with folks who disagree with them all the time. There's only one person I'm aware of that at least a few have on ignore, and I'm pretty sure for all of them it's not because we disagree with him. In fact, a number of folks have made fruitless attempts to explain to said person what the problem is. Some of those folks have said person on ignore at this point, some probably don't. Either you just missed those posts, you're ignoring those posts, or you're as clueless as the person those posts are aimed at.

Works for me right now, though Obs forums do bug out with videos from time to time for me as well. They have the worst forum software of any site I even remotely frequent, by far.

There is going to be blood in the streets before all is said and done. Lots of it....

More than just one of them...

Here you go Hiro....

It's increasingly common to not bring up all sorts of people that matter. ie: It's safe to safe that some or even all of the names you mention will remain largely unknown to a great many students out there as the curriculum they are taught does not include them. The average modern public school system, and university system fails it's students in quite large ways. This is sadly, and somewhat scarily, increasingly true, as many on the front lines (parents, teachers/professors, and even occasionally students themselves) will attest to. Insofar as Dante's importance to western literature, of those you've mentioned a great many would say he's only second to Shakespeare (if even second at all) in regards to influence he's had on it. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Goethe are names one should know. They arguably more than anyone else have influenced western literature in the last ~1000 years or so, and consequently the culture at large. Going back further: Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, and Virgil are names in literature one should know. The bolded of arguable extra-special import. Then you have philosophers people should be familiar with if not at least aware of, but sadly a great many aren't: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Confucius, Aquinas, and Locke are all names one should know well. There are certainly other names that could be mentioned, and there's also of course works that people should be familiar with that have no known author, ie: Beowulf. I highly recommend reading all of the above. Not at least being familiar with all of the above indicates a sizable hole in one's knowledge of western civilization, and the world at large. Fill it if you have to.

As KP says, such hollow threats as are being uttered in that article are commonplace. Frankly, what's quoted in that article is tame compared to what I've seen playing games like DoTA2, as well as in the comments of many other articles over the years. The article you cite is largely a propaganda piece. That said, I think you might wish to re-evaluate your fence sitting in regards to what's worse: Someone who would quash freedom, or people who use that freedom to utter disgustings. One is tangible and will affect you, the other will not. And in the very off chance that one of those threats are not hollow: there will always be crazy people, this is nothing new. Fortunately those that would follow through with such a threat are quite rare.