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Not watched the videos, but that light on Avellone on GhoulishVisage's screen shots make it look like he's glowing. I think he might need some RadAway.

Learned a new word today - rapproachment. Thanks Wals!

"Night of the Doctor" prequel mini-episode to the "Day of the Doctor" Anniversary special -

Hope it wasn't already posted here.

AFAIK furries don't use real fur in their costumes. I'd imagine killing a billion rabbits to make a rabbit costume so you can go squiffing would be a bit traumatic for the furry involved. Could be wrong, not really up on furry culture.

*ahem* Furry (pl furries) - people who identify with and/or dress up as anthopomorphic animals Furrier (pl furriers) - One whose occupation is the dressing, designing, selling, cleaning, or repairing of furs

Eh...no mention of methodology or sample size so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Even with that, they somewhat misrepresent the study even from what is known; the researcher categorized things into three categories - pleasure, meaning, and engagement then used those three categories to create a best and worst list from how some unknown size/makeup of people texted about what they did and how they ranked it (so it appears the group may have been self sampling too). Caring for Children was #5 on the best list. The worst list included "recovering from sickness", "Washing" and "Facebook". How these compared across all three categories isn't reported, but I think the categories are inclined to skew the results.

Its because adult men feel a need to justify why they like things perceived as being "childish" because society expects them to put childish things behind them when they reach adulthood and start providing for families leaving their only avenue of self expression being to paint their torso in two colors as a way of showing support to the local teams on game day. RE: the thread in general - I wish there was more depth on why these are super-great "epic games" instead of listing games and slapping up screen shots. Also I really think its hard to justify a list of "most epic games" which includes games that haven't been released and thus the epic/lack of epic qualities are entirely impossible to evaluate.

There's a Porche SUV? Isn't that like the car equivalent of a mullet hair cut?

What the hell does "lesbian car" even mean? That it dates other cars? WTF? I guess this is some sort of weird twist on the car as a status symbol - now it "tells people who you are, really" or some ****?

Well its not a terribly good film, so I couldn't recommend it without reservation. If you have a high tolerance for low-budget sci fi films, war films, films in which people do really stupid things...maybe.

You can't copyright a design, as far as I know. You can trademark one, but I'd think you'd have a hard time winning an argument that the CoD:G imagine is infringing on Darth Nihlus' "trademarked image" without it being on a mask of a character. As an apparently spray-painted design on a wall alone, I don't see it being easily argued that there is confusion of brands - intentionally or unintentionally.

I'm older than you.

Yeah I enjoyed Machete Kills pretty well too - unfortunately I think Machete Kills Again...In Space could be in jeopardy based on poor box office. I watched THOR: THE DARK WORLD which I liked a lot. Good follow-up to the original, liked how they advanced the characters and scenarios. It was well done over all. Later I watched THE MUTANT CHRONICLES. Low budget sci-fi WWI via steampunk mash-up war film with Thomas Jane, Anna Walton, Ron Perlman and a cast of people making short cameos (hello John Malkovich) in a low budget production done primarily in green screen. Taken on what it gives its kind of fun up until near the end when all of the characters succumb to terminal (or near terminal) stupiditis. And is it just me or is Sean Pertwee aiming to be the guy who dies in the most modern genre films?

Happy Birthday!

That's some sort of new sexual euphemism then, is it?

Thing about pedestrians is they're harder to predict and more mobile because they can change direction, start & stop, etc quickly. Mind you the problem with 18 wheelers is that they're very big and less mobile and slower to stop so essentially you're always screwed being in between those two end posts. At least here they do sensible things, like make it a law to stop for people in crosswalks. And then put convenient bus stops at the cross walk so, in theory, bus riders don't have far to go if they have to cross the street but the practical result is that no one knows if the people are waiting to cross or waiting for the bus...

I didn't mention eating the seafood - I said they were working there. Sea Bass at the counter, spearfish at the grill, etc. Bruce's analogy applied to Guard Dog's theorem would be "Don't go into a Chinese restaurant if they sell kielbasa."

Looking at the enlarged photo I'd say piercing.

I tend to follow that eating etiquette as well. For example don't go to good seafood restaurant and expect killer spare ribs. Wouldn't the correct analogy to Guard Dog's situation with a seafood restaurant be "If you ever go into a seafood take out joint and there are no seafood working there, just turn around and leave"? A spare rib analogy would be "Don't go into a BBQ Rib joint if there are no pigs there".

I got 5/9 although there are two questions (life expectancy and wealth distribution) that my initial thought was correct on but talked myself out of

They didn't have honor rolls 150 years ago when kids worked in coal mines as pack animals because donkeys couldn't fit in mineshafts. They didn't have honor rolls when daughters were a liability that you traded for an item of value, like a goat (or in the cultures where that's still true today.) They didn't have honor rolls when infant mortality was 50% or higher. Living to puberty was achievement enough, nobody gave out special recognition for the people who managed to not die of smallpox by the age of 15. And those kids didn't go to school or weren't required to go to school to get jobs, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Me: "wow they're doing a disservice to education by taking this motivator away, IMO." You: "These kids who led miserable lives and died early and never got educated never had that motivator." I don't get it. Right now, our experience is that kids are terribly motivated in classes. Partially this may be that education is always slow to change delivery message and technology is sweepingly altering the ways in which we communicate (even think about communicating) but I'm not convinced that removing any motivation to achieve is a good idea. Then it was the private financial reward that motivated you, not the public recognition as a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD. Also you just told kids not to aim for the top (i.e. AP calculus and chemistry.) Isn't that a little antithetical to your rage about abolishment of honor rolls? Isn't it just that you weren't good enough? The Valedictorian of our class didn't take college prep classes, was the only student with a 4.0 GPA, so I'm not sure how advising students - even with tongue in cheek - to not pair AP Calculus and Advanced Chemistry in their Senior Year (as opposed to not taking them as you suggest) translates to being "antithetical" to suggesting the abolishing of honor rolls is a bad thing. And I was motivated by financial gain and awards and public recognition as I got positive encouragement from all as each tied into positive feedback from siblings, parents, peers and teachers. So.... At the end of the day, I didn't see myself as "raging" against anything. As someone who works in higher education, I do see a large number of students - growing with each new class of freshmen - who feel that the college must adjust to them to allow them to succeed. And while I can gripe about the problems in both societies mistaken weighting of a college education to be things that its not as well as our own inability to achieve the outcomes we say we're trying for (in short that higher education has their own flaws as does elementary and secondary education), I'm not convinced that taking away recognitions of high achievement is going to amount to anything other than continue to encourage students that all they need is the minimum effort applied to jump the current hurdle they face. 80% of the understanding of your rage came from 20% of the people reading the thread.

There's an "ignore" feature for a reason... Not that it makes me sane using it.

My parents paid money out for our grades when I was in elementary/high school. I didn't get a "C" or "D" until I was a senior in High School ("Senioritis" and AP Calculus and Advanced Chemestry II don't mix. Just say no kids.) And I had so many certificates that my mom ran out of places to put them (she joked in my junior year I needed to be dumber because she had no place to put my certificates and awards). And while I might not have appreciated everyone its because I came to expect that I should have one and worked to make sure I did. The alternative - not achieving good grads, good scores, etc. - was a motivation for me to always do my best and get those awards and certificates. I would have been gutted if they took that way to benchmark myself away from me.

And the nerfing of kids and childhood continues...