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James Blake. Kinda dug the album, really loved his previous EPs and that most recent one Love What Happened Here (I'm not including Enough Thunder because I really didn't like it). He's covering so much ground I'm not entirely sure what he's got next, but Love What Happened Here seems like a step back into familiar territory and if he's producing material similar to those first EPs of his then we're in for a treat. He's also producing remixes under the name Hormonimix which are pretty good. So yeah, no idea what he's got in store, but I'm excited for it.
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Sounds interesting, I'll have to look into it when I get home
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410,401 |
I’m not sure, maybe every single black American when he says things like slavery was a choice, and that he wants to abolish the 13th amendment?
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He later said he wants to amend the 13th.because it allows for slave labor in the prison system. He and his wife are very involved in prison reform
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410,402 |
Right? He seems so totally genuine about wanting everybody to enjoy the movie. Normally a line like that would sound really fake and corny but I totally buy it as genuine coming from Cruise. I don't care about the gossipy tabloid bullshit, I just want to enjoy the movies. And even if you don't like all his movies, there's no disputing the fact that this dude works HARD on his movie sets to try to make the movies as good as possible when he could easily just phone it in. Respect.
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> Right? He seems so totally genuine about wanting everybody to enjoy the movie. Yeah, he's an actor...
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410,403 |
Apple has been releasing major version updates of OSX as auto-updates for the past three years and I haven't seen anyone complaining like this.
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This isn't true. Apple does not auto-update major updates. They do release updates for the current version automatically (basically, hotfixes), which you can disable. They do not, however, force you to update entirely new versions. In fact, I don't think they even pester you. Either way, I wasn't bringing apple into this in the first place...I'm not sure why you are.
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410,404 |
St. Paul and the Broken Bones, solid 2014 should lead into a monster 2015.
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Got to see them live at their very first headlining show. I hope they explode this year!
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410,405 |
If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All). That was a fucking surprise the first time. Who else thought they could get teary eyed while hearing the words "came in your mouth"? Hard choice but this is my all time favorite from one of the most versatile bands.
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I've said that's my favorite on multiple occasions. Mutilated lips for me is just on a whole different level from anything ever.
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410,406 |
I enjoy those funny comedians talking smack about Chris Brown just as much as the next redditor. But I have to know this: Is there proof beyond any doubt that he is guilty? If so, why is he and most other celebrities in a similar position - not actually punished? What can be done about this?
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You mean, besides his conviction in a court of law that's on public record for all the world to see?
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410,407 |
This is just for direct messages man, not for the actual tweets.
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I just wanted to see if I could make a troll post complaining about this in as close to 140 characters as possible. Probably should've used a sarcasm tag. Depending on whether or not new lines are involved, my original comment totals at 139 characters.
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410,408 |
You like Where is my mind, Wave of Mutilation, and Monkey Gone to Heaven but you don't like Hey? not trying to be a dick, but just honestly curious what you don't like about it? I think it's far and away the best song on an amazing album
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First let me say that music taste is highly personal so please don't take offense to anything I say. Now the reason I don't like "Hey". It's musically fairly straight forward (lots of others songs try something new on the same album, La La Love you for example), it lacks energy compare to other Pixies songs (Debaser, Monkey Gone to Heaven) and its pacing is just a bit too slow for my liking. I think my issue is that I don't like Frank Black's vocal and this is a track where the instrument and backup vocal didn't mask it enough.
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410,409 |
I do remember liking it. Putting it on my phone now, I think....
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'Soup' is a fucking masterpiece. It is so goddamn good, I find it difficult to listen to, knowing how and why, it ended.
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410,410 |
Wolf of Wall Street. Even though it was brief, I think he was really good in his scenes.
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He was amazing. He set the tone for the movie
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410,411 |
Thompson himself even said he felt trapped by his persona, not knowing if people wanted to meet Hunter S. Thompson or Raoul Duke. Even though he gets lionized as "crazy drug guy," he was actually a really gifted writer who could give out some keen insights when he wanted to that fit into some major streams of American 20th century literature.
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Part of the problem was after his first few works, he couldn't anonymously worm his way into the heart of the story anymore. He would show up and everyone would start watching to see what he was about to do.
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410,412 |
ebay.com looks fine but the UK site appears to be offline, the android app isn't working either. Anybody know if this is a planned outage etc?
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OK, this is a bit weird: Using [downforeveryoneorjustme.com] - [ebay.co.uk] - Down. - [my.ebay.co.uk] - Up. - [ebay.co.uk/bhp/google-nexus-4-8gb] - Up. So it is only the top-level domain that is down, all other pages beneath it seem fine. Try just using the [my.ebay] link for now!
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410,413 |
You have to be at least 23 to be alive during the course of all these movies. Fuck anyone who says I shouldn't see this movie.
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Toy Story came out in 1995 so you have to be minimum 19, but people born in 1995 don't have memories from then. I'd say 1992 maybe 1993 is the latest you could be born to be cognizant for all the movies
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410,414 |
I remember reading something about beaming power to drones via microwave to negate the lack of sun. Some smart fellow will come up with a solution eventually.
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> The advances in battery tech lately make staying with the sun unnecessary.
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410,415 |
Metallica - Phantom Lord. Pixies - There Goes My Gun. blink-182 - Wasting Time. Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor. Cream - Take it Back. Dr. Dre - Fuck You. Counting Crows - Ghost Train. Alice in Chains - I Stay Away. The Stooges - L.A. Blues. Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You (Unplugged)
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You think you were born in the wrong generation.
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410,416 |
Not necessarily, because his actions in the past greatly changed his present (his family, the mall, etc). Doc Brown didn't have the note at the beginning of the movie because history isn't immutable in this universe. Basically, Marty returns to an existence that only he doesn't really belong in. If the other timeline still exists somehow, Doc Brown is lying dead in a parking lot and Marty has vanished with his car.
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But what about the Marty from that existence? If original Marty shows up in alternate 1985, that would mean there is either two Martys there now, or the alternate Marty took the time machine to yet another alternate 1985.
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410,417 |
> I've been kinda curious as to if pi-hole would be a useful tool. No, but setting up a proper server to do the same thing is...
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Or set up a PowerDNS recursor with some filters. [You can even lua scripts in it]
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410,418 |
Nice to see OIS on the larger one, still sticking with Android though.
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I like the way they implemented parts of the OS on the plus model. Really made use of that extra space. Nothing revolutionary, but a neat addition non the less.
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410,419 |
Authors worry about every step of their book. Authors are asked to write the synopsis and weigh in on cover art. You don't have a baby and then let someone else dress the kid.
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Writers are asked (sometimes) as a courtesy, but are often overruled if they have a problem with a cover. What writers don't often have is a marketing degree with years of marketing experience and research under their belt to know WHY a good cover is good, a bad cover is bad, and which covers work best for the different genres.
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410,420 |
The last time Cudi was making dope music was back when I was in High school, I'm about 24 now.
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Have you heard the rage? It definitely sounds like a soundtrack song But he still got it
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410,421 |
Talking between the two vehicles might help in a few very odd fringe cases, but it generally isn't necessary for yielding and it wasn't necessary here. Both the bus driver and car already knew that the bus had the right of way. The accident would have been avoided if the Google car had simply made the correct decision to yield to the bus. Communication between vehicles will help with speed and congestion by letting vehicles execute maneuvers at higher speeds and closer distances, but communication is not necessary to avoid this accident or others like it.
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It may have had the right of way but the bus still should have yielded when the car was changing lanes. Only one of the drivers involved wasnt paying attention. Both the car and the driver made the same decision and believed the bus would yield.
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410,422 |
I hope they try, but bring back some past characters to fill the hole. I'd love to see the dude from Tokyo Drift join the team after his cameo in 7 and I'd love to have Suki back from 2Fast2Furious.
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Yah the tokyo drift guy could fill a spot. I would like to see them go back to being about racing and not so much just straight up action. The first 3 were more about racing.
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410,423 |
Ghost Love Score. Hands down. Every different theme in it is glorious.
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I agree. This song is magical, especially the version from [Wacken!]
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410,424 |
Stock went up because the last fine with shopping increased Google profits. Suspect the same here as now will just charge for Android. As I post this Google is up $5 a share.
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Except that the vast majority of Android is free open source software so phone makers can just compile it themselves for free
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410,425 |
Long time user here - Tubalr is officially the shit. Keep on rocking Cody!
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Proud to be part of history. I can't wait to say, when it's finally popular, that I used it before it was cool :P
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410,426 |
Honestly I think this is fake, why would Taylor say yes to those lyrics... And then the video, I don't think she'd agree to any of this. And in Kim's snapstory she said "it's a complement" when Kanye asked about the lyrics. Why don't you people see through their bullshit!!!!
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She admitted they recorded her convo in her Instagram statement though. She probably said what she did to get him to include the line knowing she'd throw him under the bus later and get free publicity.
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410,427 |
Their new album, Artificial Selection, comes out Jun 8th, so two more days til DGD graces us with a masterpiece
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It actually leaked a couple days ago and it's fantastic
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410,428 |
This is tooooooo fuckin legit. I noticed that the rhythm is very similar, if not the same as some Manu Chao songs. Is this just because it's a common/popular folk rhythm?? What's it's history if anyone knows???
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>This is tooooooo fuckin legit. What the fuck does that mean? >folk rhythm?? One question mark is sufficient. >What's it's. Its is used to denote possession. It's is a contraction for "it is." >knows??? Seriously, we understand that you're asking a question with merely one question mark. Honestly, all of my other points are just secondary points to my first one. What the fuck does "this is tooooooo fuckin legit" mean?
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410,429 |
There is no 60 fps version of The Hobbit, is there? All I was trying to say as a matter of fact.
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There is, but if you haven't seen it it's probably because not all cinemas have the tech to play it at 60 fps.
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410,430 |
I really liked the Cap mask in [his film] I don't know why they changed it for Avengers. I did not like the Avengers costume at all.
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That's his world war era outfit, it's much busier looking and uses materials and sewing methods that more match the the time, wide sewing and thick military war materials much like a soldier. His newer version is cleaner looking on account of much higher quality machine production, thinner less visible sewing, etc. The busier older version I agree looks better. It however makes sense that he had a new one made. He was frozen in ice in the above one for quite some time, and presumably newer materials would be lighter and much less restrictive than the thick canvas used there.
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410,431 |
Ok, I don't like it, but you're really misunderstanding the establishment clause.
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I dunno. Seems pretty clear that it violates every prong of the Lemon Test.
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410,432 |
Well, that remains un-sensible. I know next to nothing about DFW, since I don't find his writing interesting I've not bothered to learn about his life. I'm not criticizing the man's life or personality, I don't have an opinion about them. I have an opinion about his writing: it is less good than the writing of Nabokov, of Perec, of Calvino, to list only a few examples pertitent to comparisons with *IJ*. If people think that I'm *wrong*, *mistaken* to have this opinon of a body of literature because they feel some connection with the author of it, well, I can only shrug.
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Whether or not you know anything about DFW’s life is irrelevant. I’m only trying to explain why people are offended by your analysis of his writing. Of course, you’re free to shrug if you want. In case I said it poorly, I will try again: People connect with DFW because they share and identify with his perceptions. When you criticize his work, it is felt personally by his readers. If you’re using sensible synonym for logical, you’re right, it isn’t really sensible. But that also doesn’t really matter.
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410,433 |
Tres Caballeros was my favourite film as a child, I understood the spanish words that came up which helped.
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how dare you. mouse detective , fox and the hound, and the rescuers down under are fantastic movies. you underrate them completely with your segregating categories. I fart in your general direction.
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410,434 |
Children of Men. [The opening scene perfectly sets the tone for the entire movie]
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The music for the death of Baby Diego always starts to get to me but is quickly replaced by the shock of the woman walking out from the cafe explosion. This abrupt shift in tone sets the movie's chaotic rhythm for a lot of other scenes (e.g. [the car scene]
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410,435 |
DSL articles without distance figures are useless. From. Distance Performance target[B] <100 m, FTTB 500-1000 Mbit/s. 100 m 500 Mbit/s. 200 m 200 Mbit/s. 250 m 150 Mbit/s. So the deployment scenarios are much more limited. Unless you live right by the VRAD (or whatever they're going to call it), you won't be getting much speed increase.
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I appreciate people like you who make me understand why I shouldn't be happy about things.
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410,436 |
The Metreon IMAX in downtown SF. They just installed a [laser projector] which should be a massive improvement in presenting 3D vs. the 70 mm projector that is being replaced. I just hope the conversion is good! And I got a single seat for a 5:30 **am** showing on Friday, because it's reserved seating and all the reasonable seats were taken for days in the other showings. I'll see it again on Sunday with a big group (also reserved seating, but non-IMAX).
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so that's better than the imax at amc van ness?
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410,437 |
That didn't happen. Apple still sells many other headphone brands. Bose, B&O, Pioneer, Jaybird...
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Third-party headphones are even listed online for purchase from Apple.com. Don’t know why he’s spreading false information. Oh wait, I just remembered which subreddit we’re on.
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410,438 |
Name one first? And then,what do you mean changed? It wasn't changed. Was just a terrible choice.
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like making the new spiderman black. i dont personally care, but ive seen people saying making spiderman black to just be PC is stupid, which I'd probably agree with, but comic books are always getting reboots with different protagonists and story lines, so its nothing new and nothing to be upset about. that said, if you took a character like storm or black panther and made them white people would flip the fuck out guaranteed, so its definitely a one way street. you can make white characters black or whatever but never the other way around.
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410,439 |
The Social Network. Such a dull title. or 2001: A Space Odyssey... not a bad title, just doesn't do the movie justice.
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2001 - To be fair, back when it came out that might have been a pretty good title
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410,440 |
just a thought, most people don't notice or care. If I was him i'd add more just to piss neckbeards off. but I can be an ass.
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I thought that was the case, most people I know make a joking, passing mention of it if they say anything at all. Also it's alright. We can all be asses sometimes.
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410,441 |
Actually I'd put that one at one of the greatest dissapointments of the year for me. Loved the book, and didn't like how they shifted the theme in the movies.
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I think that happens any time a book is made into a movie. I mean, Tolkien's son thinks the movies are an insult to his father's legacy, but it's hard to dispute that they're some of the greatest movies of all time.
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410,442 |
We have and are continually seeing rapid production and efficiency increases across most industries. What have we seen? Massive wealth consolidation and complete destruction of the worlds largest middle class. Please stop saying that robots and tech are inherently improvements to economic wealth distribution and benefits the masses, when we have 30 years of direct counter evidence. We need economic policy advancements as much as we need technology advancement. They both need to evolve together and just like the old man who doesn't want to learn to code and use uber eat, he does not want to learn about new economic realities.
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The article points out how "{the cost savings} could incentivize businesses to keep their warehouses in the US." But forgets that the whole point of "keeping ______ in the US" is to employ Americans. Edit: After some thought why would a warehouse even be a candidate for outsourcing? Isn't the point of them to be a central storage facility close to the ultimate destination? Like if all of Walmart's warehouses were out of country their shipping costs would become tremendously higher, and they'd still have to operate local warehouses for receiving.
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410,443 |
Definitely not one of the best shows I've ever been to. All three times.
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Even when they came out on stage after Rancid and covered Racid's playlist, they were meh.
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410,444 |
Nobody has seriously been expecting it since...well since ever. Especially not those of us who work with Linux every day.
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Too busy making the desktop irrelevant by making all the business apps webapps.
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410,445 |
There's a couple amazing songs but overall it's not my favorite. Cynical is amazing, The Only Thing That Matters channels the TOYPAJ days, but I wish they'd try appeal a little less to the young audience and get weirder/heavier again like Untitled. The title track of Dogs Eating Dogs is my favorite on that EP.
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For me Cynical and Bored To Death are the only songs I can handle.
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410,446 |
Thanks for reminding me of that banger! Just in time for Electronic season.
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I wasn't aware there was a season for electronic music
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410,447 |
Yes! I loved this book. I was very hesitant because the movie was "eh" but I loved the many layers. I hope he someday writes the 'Misery's Child" novels. The part about Paul Sheldon's fans was very interesting, a peek behind the curtain into Kings life. It made me happy and very disturbed.
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I just watched that movie again last month. Loved it and so did my teenage kid.
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410,448 |
This is soothing as hell. When I had a crotch rocket, I found that any upbeat, rhythmic songs kind of made me drive more aggressively. Not angry, just faster. You get lost in the music and then look down and you're going 95... that's not good. "Go with the Flow" - By Queens of the Stone Age, for example. Dangerous.
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Definitely don't listen to [The Seatbelts - Rush] if you want to avoid a speeding ticket.
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410,449 |
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.” - Arthur Golden, *Memoirs of a Geisha*
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You just made me want to read the book again, so beautiful
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410,450 |
That's the case, but it's a weak distinction - it's still helping law enforcement break into the phone.
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It's not really breaking in if you already have access. In that case it's just turning over information.
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410,451 |
You don't get a GTX 970m, a cut-down, less powerful mobile chip based off of the GTX 970. Instead you get a full desktop grade GTX 1070 in your laptop. A full size desktop card that can run just as fast as a desktop card but in a thin laptop. These are stupid-fast cards running in form factors unthinkable even last generation.
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They're not the desktop versions, they're slightly modified (Mostly in clock speed, which is lower than the desktop version.) Also from the article: Most of these are being put in laptop chassis that formerly held a GTX 980. Which makes it a bit less than unthinkable last generation.
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410,452 |
sigh muse? really...fuck... white stripes. radiohead. built to spill. pavement. pixies. sonic youth.
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I didn't like them very much either, but that was just because I was sick of hearing Supermassive Black Hole on the radio all the time. After listening to the rest of their stuff, I realized they're actually quite peachy. But it doesn't matter what **I** think--they're pretty popular on their own.
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410,453 |
Not license plate related, but thank you so much for keeping the stock exhaust system on your Civic. I am so tired of people putting an aftermarket exhaust on a car to get 20hp more out of a 4 cylinder.
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More like 2. I'd point out further how you don't know what you're talking about but I'll leave it at the general idea.
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410,454 |
No one needs to teach you "how to read," silly pleb. >I was your typical liberal arts college kid. I studied the night before every test and never did any reading. I fully admit it. It was only later on (25 now) that I realized the central role liberal arts and culture in general play in giving us fully formed thoughts and identities. The culmination of the human experience. Hahaha. Plebs gonna pleb, I guess.
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In reviewing your comments, I found a really exciting website I feel might help you!
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410,455 |
Yea, the absolute best musicians are found there. It wouldn't be fair to compare Esperanza Spalding to the trash found in pop.
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I love her. Half of her stuff is accessible jazz for normies like me and the other half is jazz music for jazz people.
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410,456 |
It can be disabled remotely. So that isn't true if the product works how they say. Physical encrypted security like pins is far superior than passwords or any online product by far.
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If physical security is far superior over passwords, then it would be the default by know. But it isn't. That's because passwords are superior big time. Unless of course you're using weak as fuck passwords like password123 or hunter2. Regardless: my point was about the master key being a master key. A single point of failure, whether physical or not. Horribly insecure no matter which kind of underlying security.
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410,457 |
Do we really need a sound editing AND sound mixing category?
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Editing is done in post and mixing is done on set.... Or something like that I can't remember which is which.
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410,458 |
Too bad most devs don't include it in games.
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For good reason. It would give KB\M players a vast advantage.
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410,459 |
even after that announcement, even up till the last few days i read from people on reddit talking about the EU as if it's still canon. or speculating about EU characters in the movies.
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It annoys the shit out of me. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I accept trashing the EU as a good idea. What annoys me even more (KOTOR being my favorite game of all time) are the people talking about how a new KOTOR should happen with Obsidian despite EA having production rights for Star Wars games for the next 3 or 4 years. Don't know how fans can be so delusional.
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410,460 |
Because they weren't giving away upgrades for free in the past, I can understand why people would be wary.
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You got windows 8 upgrades for like £10 in the first month. They probably said what's that worth to us vs massive amounts of the 7 and 8 base moving forward.
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410,461 |
"Originality has only its own self to copy." - Vladimir Nabokov
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Could you explain that a bit more? I think I understand what the quote is getting at, but I've always found Nabokov a bit illusive.
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410,462 |
There are so many reasons that a smart speaker is a terrible idea, which is why it's so surprising how well they sell.
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Devices with microphones aren't exactly a new thing, we've been using them for decades.
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410,463 |
They list the 850 pro but not the much more popular 850 evo. I wonder why
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There's a minor chance they're unaffected, although one would think they'd use mostly identical firmware. They do have different underlying architectures though (TLC vs MLC) which is why the last major Samsung SSD issue only affected the 840 EVOs and not the 840 Pros. So testing would have to be done on EVOs to confirm or reject that the issue is also present for them. I'd have to imagine people are doing so now. Also so far the issue only appears to have been demonstrated in Linux environments, but that doesn't mean there isn't an issue for Windows users, it just means the issue hasn't yet been seen on Windows.
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410,464 |
Speaking of Will Smith: "I, Robot" was another terrible adaptation. Actually it really just shared the name of the book, and not much else
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I thought it was the name and the laws.
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410,465 |
When will people learn that human behavior has nothing to do with religion or lack thereof. Let any ideology, worldview or belief system gain enough followers and you'll see the same abuse as any other. People don't follow their ideology, worldview or belief system in the first place. People follow their heart. People will accept or justify anything that satisfies some fundamental need or desire of their heart. Hatred, ego, insecurity, jealousy, envy, loneliness, purpose, resentment, fear, fleshly desire, arrogance, hunger, thirst... these are the things that people follow and obey. Everything else is just a mask that people put on to explain or justify themselves to others.
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I agree 100%. In the case of Philip Pullman specifically though, he seems like a pretty nasty guy. Read anything he's ever said in interviews and the like about religion, it's actually kind of unsettling how vindictive and petty he sounds.
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410,466 |
>There's no reason we shouldn't be having AMAs from George RR Martin. He's going to do an AMA, but he's spent the last four years writing the title and text for the thread.
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And all of the mods who agreed to run the AMA had their accounts killed off one after another.
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410,467 |
Thank you. He's such a tool. It's so funny people are defending that loser.
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it's not funny, it's sad. especially because these fans are all like 40 years old and you'd think they'd know better and would've outgrown Green Day's repetitive music style by now. fuck. they've bought into the band's brand so hard they're obsessed.
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410,468 |
That's what is probably most frustrating. "Dystopian" is an overly saturated market right now and has been since *The Hunger Games* came out.
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Which wouldn't be a bad thing, if the books that release in this genre were any good.
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410,469 |
There's a lot of post-Freddie Mercury stuff that seems almost shameful, in my personal and hopefully not too hipster-ish opinion. I'm just sayin'...the remaining members of Queen wanting a PG movie??? The living members of Queen wanting to make a Glee-like, cash-raking event out of a Freddie biopic?!?! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. I'm just sayin', Paul fucking Rodgers y'all. This band should've Zeppelin'd. But they're old dudes who gotta make payments on that new beach house they're having built in OC.
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Well come on, how many hits have Queen had? How many Glee episodes does that amount to? Can't have buttsex rearing it's ugly head. In the movie version Freddie dies of a broken heart after his puppy gets run over.
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410,470 |
I just recently discovered them. They're like a more pissed off punky version of The Sword. And that is awesome as shit.
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Agree with that assessment. Gonna get to see the sword live soon!
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410,471 |
Yep. The colour of Magic. Which is a lovely book, but he still manages to get better. Enjoy!
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A great book. I had always hoped Rincewind would feature in the later books but I guess that will not happen now.
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410,472 |
I'm not a big U2 fan, but I saw them on the 360 tour they did about four years ago and it's one of the best live shows I've ever seen. They're not even in my top 20 bands, but that was easily in my top 3 concerts.
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Yeah, that's what I heard from my sister-in-law. I find the band quite bland. I like Bono's voice, but The Edge is as bad of a guitarist as I am (note: it is my third best instrument, but I have worked professionally as rhythm guitarist with some lead, including covering U2 songs) and depends way too much on effects. I can't even name their bassist, but he's as dull as Van Halen's (bass is my second best instrument and the one I primarily played professionally and in studio sessions). I guess at least he does fills, where Michael what's-his-name was drinking whiskey instead, but they aren't very inspiring.
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410,473 |
Emits...it doesn't sound right. It sounds like it came out of an orifice. Releases, releases is better.
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Yeah, if I had t to do over ,I would have re-titled it or picked a different source.
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410,474 |
Dragonlance Chronicles is what reawakening my love for reading. The books were nothing special, but it reminded me how much I enjoy fantasy.
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My babysitter gave me these books when I was a kid and they grabbed me. I haven't stopped reading since.
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410,475 |
wat is het raarste dat je hebt meegemaakt tijdens het optreden?
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Dat de apparatuur in een volle Heineken Hall weigerde denk ik.
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410,476 |
John's lyrics may be as deep and complex as some of the *best* folk singers, but to say he's on par with anyone out there that is or was writing his style at the time is just untrue. It's one of the reasons his music resonates with many people for a long time. There's always something to find in those words, and you're certainly not going to find it in your first listen. Or your 10th. You may find it if you turn on some mountain goats the day after your wife left you, your dog died, and your business went under, although I can't promise anything.
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So his lyrics are deep and complex because of the associations you have made with them. i find that the best lyricists in my opinion are great because you don't need to have "been there" to understand the writer's perspective. that is my humble opinion and by no means is it fact.
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410,477 |
Nice choices. Good Night is such a hauntingly beautiful song. Extra kudos for the piano recording of Real Love. You may also like the demo of Strawberry Fields Forever. John by himself is so beautiful.
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I just listened to it and I loved it. It's really cool to listen to skeletons of songs as they're being worked out, you know?
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410,478 |
**Scar Tissue, by Anthony Kiedis** ([Goodreads Link] Just starting and it's already a wild ride. I didn't know that Kiedis rubbed elbows with rock royalty as a kid. He mentions run-ins with Keith Moon (The Who), Sonny Bono, Led Zeppelin and others.
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I really liked that book. I have an autographed copy too!
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410,479 |
Try historical fiction set in pre-industrial cultures. Here are some examples: *The Saxon Stories* (also known as *Saxon Tales*/*Saxon Chronicles* in the USA and *The Warrior Chronicles* and since the BBC TV adaptation as *The Last Kingdom Series* in the UK), by Bernard Cornwell. *Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era*, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Author), Charles Terry (Translator). The *Conqueror* series by Conn Iggulden, about Genghis Khan and his successors.
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That sounds like a great idea I will definitely try one of those.
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410,480 |
> I'd rather we didn't replace one monopoly with another. Google Fiber existing alongside Comcast would not fit the definition of a monopoly. It would be competition.
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So telco vs cable is competition? People discredit every option and claim that cable is the only credible option for them as it is much faster than DSL. It'd be the same if you had "slow" cable vs gigabit fibre from someone else.
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410,481 |
And you run and you run to catch up with sun but its sinking/racing around to come up behind you again. Time by Pink Floyd. Gives me chills every time.
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The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath, one day closer to death. Same here, man. Also: And then one day you'd find ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.
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410,482 |
Same with Shakespeare. Often people had a choice between watching one of his plays or the bear fight going on next door.
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you would think they could have worked something out with the scheduling.
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410,483 |
I have one as well! I love it. Just have to get one for work now. Would be nice to have a wireless mouse with solar cells on top that charged when not used.
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> ... wireless mouse with solar cells. I agree 100%. I just figured out today that my logitech wireless mouse can use the same receiver as the logitec solar keyboard. All I had to do is [install this simple utility]! This would have been a big help over the past 2 years if I would have figured it out sooner. One more free USB port... so much room for activities!
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410,484 |
War of the Worlds itself doesn't make any sense. Since the aliens don't implement any sort of quarantine, we know that the virus or whatever is present in most places in the atmosphere. Why did they not test the atmosphere before entering it?
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You have to think of it in the context of the time it was written. Bacteriology and the germ theory of disease had only really been around for 50 years, and had only become mainstream in the last 10 years, when the book was written. It's kind of like how every story in the 50s is about radiation and every story in the 2000s is about DNA. It was a novel invention at the time.
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410,485 |
Thanks! The Seventh Tower was written for LucasFilm, who own it, so now Disney owns it, so I have no say in whether it is reprinted or not. The books were envisaged for that 8+ market where most books are relatively short.
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Ah that makes sense. Time to go bother Disney then :)
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410,486 |
Neat, but I wish the article went into more detail...
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Yeah I agree with you on that. It seems like the software they are using is proprietary
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410,487 |
I had auras since I was 5 preventing me from speaking and making me sleepy didn't think anything of it as I was to worried to had my first grand mal seizure 3 years ago had about 8 since then
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Yeah, it's interesting how you just ignore certain things. I wish you the best with your condition.
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410,488 |
Yeah! Very energetic film never slowing down and being entertaining all around, Chris Pine was awesome and same can be said for all since they fulfilled their characters. Not a great movie but very entertaining!
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>Not a great movie but very entertaining. I couldn't have said it better myself. That is exactly what it was, an enjoyable movie, not great but a good movie that I would recommend.
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410,489 |
Ada or Ardor is my favorite book. Lolita is a close second. It's not just well written. It's a work of genius.
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Ada is far and away my favorite Nabokov book. This is not a popular opinion that we have.
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410,490 |
Perhaps you should try the amazing score by Alan Silvestri.
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Thanks /u/foreskin_trumpet! Now, whenever I listen to this song I will think of you.
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410,491 |
Well I own a new one and I can guarantee you it is not "garbage".
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Getting 21 hours of battery life is godlike, use my phone with usb to tether my x250 to the internet. Its light and powerful enough for a full days work without needing to carry around a charger.
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410,492 |
7 myths of the Spanish conquest covers the biological aspect in one section. I've heard Guns, Germs, and Steel recommended. But I've also heard it gives a slanted deterministic view of the history.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel is a good solid book, but like with all pieces of Anthropology you have to take it with a grain of salt, I wouldn't recommend saying that you like the book on Reddit though, because Reddit despises it so much that it sometimes feels they want to bring back book burning parties just for it.
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410,493 |
I love Cage the Elephant. They're from my hometown and my siblings went to school with them.
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Hell yes - and you know what else is awesome? They play them all the time on LRS, I guarantee way more than most radio stations across the country, which I'm more than okay with.
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410,494 |
Best: Life of Pi. Worst: A Clockwork Orange. Also, Ulysses for two reasons: (1) Because it never should have been adapted, and (2) that's my answer to every question on this sub.
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Apparently anthony burgess hated the movie and thought they completly missed the point of the book.
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410,495 |
I heard it was Mr. Peanutbutter who took it. He's such a nice guy!
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Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, fiddle dee dee.
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410,496 |
I can't stand this book. It could possibly have to do with the fact that when I read it, my English professor told us he was in a mental institution after the first chapter. I just felt like I couldn't get past his whining. Always whining about other people and how problems aren't his fault. Maybe because I can't stand that in real life, but the plot was overshadowed by the fact that he was just a shitty person. I know that there's a very fanatical response to this book, so I feel bad for not liking the book, but I just can't appriciate it
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I got 3/4 of the way through it before I noticed I was getting angry at everything and found absolutely no enjoyment from it.
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410,497 |
**YES.** But as an HBO series. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Agreed. Would rather see it as a high-end TV production rather than a movie series. A more in-depth story can be told when you have 10 hours to tell a story rather than 2 to 4.
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410,498 |
The log sing is a take off from the slinky song.
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I think you and I are the only people that old here.
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410,499 |
My favorite band as well. Seeing them in a couple weeks, so excited
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I saw them last year for the first time and they were so good. That being said, Dinosaur Life is hands down the best album as a whole.
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