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411,000 | I'm giving everything a shot. I have a two song minimum before I make a decision on a band. | You want to expand your musical horizons....I'm giving you a band you wouldn't normally listen to. I was first told about them, and I hated them. I then later found them on my own. They have a million songs, and they all vary. It's a country flavor. But once you start listening to the lyrics and the stories they tell, you can learn to love them too. EDIT: One of my favorites: And you have to listen to the lyrics as well, to see the story that they are telling. |
411,001 | Why not? Is it wrecking your day to read this? Meanwhile, some gay sci-fi fan might read this and go "wow! That's super cool! I should check out this movie!" I'm not gay and I did that just now. | I don't think most actual sci fi fans need this kind of detail to be interested in seeing one of the largest sci fi properties in history though. It's a nice easter egg and kind of heartwarming, but the I wouldn't call any person who goes to see the movie because of it an actual fan, much less someone who is getting their sci fi news from Vulture. |
411,002 | If 2/3 of the way through the next movie I hear "____, I am your father." I might leave the theater. I liked the tie ins with ANH but I don't want Rey to be Luke's daughter just so they can't reuse the line. | Well maybe the two will keep it to themselves and try to be clever with it. Or at least have Luke say "shes my daughter" rather than "No, I am her father". |
411,003 | It's really not, but I'm not going to get too worked up over a fan-voted bracket like this... Unless, of course, Del loses to Lil fucking Wayne. | The whole thing is a travesty. How much can you expect fans of [this guy] to know about hip hop anyway. |
411,004 | What, physically, is different about a U3 USB drive than an ordinary USB drive? Specifically, U3 USB drives seem to be able to emulate CD drives and autorun media. Is it possible to format an ordinary USB drive like a U3 USB Drive, or is there a physical incapability between the two? I'm not sure if this is the appropriate subreddit to post this in, but I couldn't find a better one. I'm looking for an appropriate subreddit to pose these kinds of technology questions and it'd be very useful if someone could direct me to a proper subreddit. Thanks. | It's worth noticing that you need administrative privileges on the machine to run the U3 software that makes the key work. Personally I prefer alternatives like Portableapps(.com) instead. |
411,005 | Why would someone downvote you for enjoying what's probably the most critically acclaimed album in metal? | Maybe he thought he would get downvoted for saying "I will now accept everyone's downvotes"? Shit's annoying. |
411,006 | what genre is not satisfied here?? im an east coast coachella and beyonce hater - but this lineup is super solid. something for everyone. more than something. there's a lot for everyone. what hooked me was the smaller acts. forget lines 1 and 2. no point in listing the acts - they're on the poster. but for anyone unfamiliar with the small acts i would be happy to suggest a few based upon other booked artists you enjoy | I'm into hardcore dance jazz, and I am once again unsatisfied. |
411,007 | I actually loved that. Reading many fantasy books, sometimes the dialogue would get so tedious, I just wished they'd get on with it and progress the story, whereas here is just pure world building, my favorite part of fantasy books | That's why I loved it so much, too. And one of my all time favorite quotes comes from there: *But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.* |
411,008 | Most other countries would disagree with your belief that you should be able to interfere on their elections. | If the American populace can be swayed by low-quality fear mongering news articles paid for by foreign governments do we have a "Russia Problem" or a "Domestic Education Problem". To me yelling at Facebook for letting Russia advertise on their platform is like yelling at a billboard company after you go broke for letting a casino advertise on their sign. If the people are dumb enough to fall for it our problem lies with the education and intelligence of our citizens, not the ill wills of foreign actors. |
411,009 | The 'everything is political' view is quite a dogmatic attitude, which I think you've illustrated very well. Certainly anything is political if you insist on viewing it in a political way. It's not the only or the best way of seeing the world. | If you can present an alternative, I'm happy to accept it. |
411,010 | That's funny since the Gear watches have batteries that last longer than the Android Wear counterparts. Also, from my experience, I haven't seen any bloatware in any of their recent watches, Gear S included. Screen responsiveness is just fine as well. This is just you continuing the Samsung hate circlejerk that continues to exist in reddit. The fact that you got upvoted further proves my point. | The real circle jerk is you assuming he was comparing them to android, not watches. Like 99% of other consumers, he has no use for these foolish gadgets whoever makes them. |
411,011 | "Set to make its debut"? It has been out for a few weeks now, i have two. Also for the people who say "Hey, the RPi zero was first", even though you are right the zero is still more expensive because you need to buy a sd card and possibly wifi+bluetooth for it. Also, that it costs $9 is borderline bullshit on both for general consumers, because the shipping costs alot. If you buy it in bulk, then yes, it costs $9. Same goes for the Rpi zero. | It's been out for a few weeks now? Gonna look into this, thought it wasn't our until later this year. Edit: Is it only out to kickstarter backers for now or general public? |
411,012 | I think a lot of people struggle with this book because it openly mocks the importance of mankind. It's only when you realize how truly ridiculous it all is that the humor in this book becomes funny. | I found it very boring. I really tried but only made it about 1/3 of the way thru before I kinda just forgot about it. I know everyone loves it but I just don't get it. |
411,013 | Damn, it took me hundreds of words to say what you said in 40. | I read that - your comment is insightful, well written, correct and well supported. Unfortunately this is reddit and what works here is being early, obvious and brief. Profane is a bonus. Keep at it! :) |
411,014 | Yeah, that's absurd, especially because the MXM connector is available. Why the fuck are the BIOSes locked so people can't put a new GPU in an old laptop? I'd love to be able to just put a new cheap, cool and relatively powerful GPU in my 8710w so I can solve the temp issues, spend very little and keep the beautiful 1920x1200 display, but I can't because it only accepts up to FX3600M, and there are NO new laptops that are 17"+ and 1200p+... | You could always mod the bios: sadly the links are down or need registration, but there must be a way. |
411,015 | It's very entertaining and a page turner but the narrator is constantly saying something sarcastic or witty so it doesn't have a super serious tone. | Totally not the place to ask, but what the hell. Recommend any modern novels with a great story line and prose? |
411,016 | I've already heard reviews that it's more entertaining than Transformers 2. | Uhoh. "Entertaining" is a euphemism for "completely braindead action movie". If a movie is described as entertaining, you _know_ it'll be a pg-13 suck-fest. |
411,017 | Many employers know that not everyone in a crazy company is crazy. A lot of Arthur Andersen folks still have great careers in big four accounting firms. | True, the only thing I can say was that some of my colleagues who were higher up and had friends who were CEOs of diagnostic companies told me that they consider any experience that an intervoewer got from Theranos as void. Lab Corp also said they wouldn't hire anyone from Theranos, though this may just have been directed only to the clinical lab specialists. Now that I type that out I think you are right... A small minority may care, but for the most part the majority probably wouldn't really care, talent is talent... |
411,018 | The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. A Feast Of Snakes by Harry Crews. Neither are really that obscure, but I doubt many here have read them | Planning on reading some Jim Thompson over the summer. Is he as gritty and dirty as I've heard? |
411,019 | So is this going to be yet another Kingdom of Heaven? Great director's cut and horrible theater cut? | That's what I expect but we might be surprised. |
411,020 | >nothing is stopping you from adding additional batteries to it. A lack of knowledge about wiring and a general disinterest in causing my phone to catch fire *might* be stopping me. | That's why you buy an aftermarket device that adds additional batteries. |
411,021 | This sounds amazing! I'd love to read their theories too if you have the link. | I have it, tho it's in Russian =_= but anyway) Enjoy! The intro. Part one of the "Dumbledore's Big Game One" And so on. Basically, the authors decrypt the signs of Dumbledore's plan of creating the ultimate hero - quite a read, honestly @_@ They've analyzed the first 3 books thoroughly, but then book 7 came out, confirmed most of their theories and they stopped, leaving only short script analysis of books 4 and 5 and parts of 6 |
411,022 | Quite the opposite, actually. Politicians think long-term (in terms of holding on to their job) to the detriment of their constituents. If politicians knew that they couldn't stay in office more than a term or two, they wouldn't need to worry so much about political alliances that prevent them from voting their conscience. | They're also playing for the election though, Representatives especially which means more pandering to the lowest denominator about smaller issues rather than focusing on larger stuff which needs those strategic political alliances. |
411,023 | Obviously none of those people had read Brian Azzarello's *Joker*. | Well they came out at like the same time, so... |
411,024 | Nah, the downvotes were from before I edited my comment. Used to say "Use an adblocker and you won't look like a tool" | It might have been the "look like a tool" comment then, from a bunch of tight-asses who think such language is insulting. There's a bunch of people like that around here. |
411,025 | Console games have been hovering around $50 since the 80s too. | $50 in 1980 had the same buying power as ~$145 today. |
411,026 | > Now-a-days that's A-OK. I'm not aware of any pop stars who pretend to sing along to someone else's voice. Milli Vanilli didn't get in trouble due to song writing or lip syncing, they got in trouble for not being the singers their songs. | That is partly the reason, but also during Milli Vanilli's time -- auto-tune wasn't present like it is today. Is it REALLY them singing when it's mostly auto-tune and numerous edits and tweaks? Many pop artists can't perform the song live and they know it, so they lip sync. It was a different time, and I think it'd be more acceptable today had Milli Vanilla or an artist like them done this in this era. |
411,027 | Kelsey Grammer rocked that! He had that air of sophistication that you expect from Fraser, yet he looked like he could tear you into two pieces at any time... now thats the beast we all know and love | Agreed. Kelsey grammer is just as good as Patrick Stewart as prof ex. Incredible beast. |
411,028 | There are a hundred ways to ask the question that work perfectly - is it going to be sunny, what's the temperature, do I need an umbrella etc. - you just picked the one version that can be misinterpreted. My main criticism of Google Now from your question is that it should have better French pronunciation. | It's a perfectly acceptable way of phrasing it, and 99.9% of users asking it aren't going to ask about Nice. It's a common problem, and something that Google should engineer around. |
411,029 | 1. Build more roundabouts. 2. Teach Americans how to use roundabouts. | > Teach Americans how to use roundabouts. Teach Americans how to drive first. Teach them how to navigate a 4 way stop (let the person on your right go first if you both arrive there at the same time - seems like nobody knows this rule). Teach them what the word Yield means (in England they say Give Way), and how to do it when you are entering a freeway or when you are turning on to a street and there is a car coming - don't just pull out in front of it, let the car pass first! And when driving on a freeway onramp, it's a really good idea to accelerate to the speed of traffic, it really helps! And so on. |
411,030 | Clause A, Paragraph 123, Point iv: *ALL CITIZENS ARE NOW LEGALLY CLASSIFIED AS FOODSTUFFS FOR GRAND COUNCILOR VARMON* | You know, *foodstuffs* is just a word I can always get behind. |
411,031 | I am a bit late, but: Thanks for the suggestions! | No problem - I hope you found something you enjoyed! |
411,032 | What's your opinion on how they compare to the Stephen Fry read books? | I think Jim Dale is more smooth and kinda soothing when he is reading. That way you can really tell when he builds up to an intense scene. I have nothing against the Stephen Fry version but I'm American so I grew up with the Jim Dale version. |
411,033 | Damn... I am 16. This is supposed to be the most awesome point in my life? Well fuck. | No, it gets better. The best thing about this time is that you are probably not worried about money, job and responsibilities. My life was shitty because i was sensitive and socially awkward when I was 16. Now, technically it is worse since I have been graduated for 5 months and still don't have a job but i feel better, more secure being who I am. Basically at 16 most of your problems are internal, in your mind. At later age most of them are external |
411,034 | > Why does he think these new additions are so important? I think he's embarrassed by his old work. He didn't want people seeing it that way. Which is really a shame, considering how influential it was... | That's only because he became obsessed not only with effects but with control. Its what ruined the prequels. |
411,035 | This is early stage prototyping for when your claim will no longer be true. | The claim of free space on roofs? Once we have solar panels on every roof, power won't be an issue any more anyways. |
411,036 | Weird how competition and not regulation made the market better for consumers. | Weird how competition AND ~~not~~ regulation made the market better for consumers. |
411,037 | 1/1 so far. EDIT: 2/2. 3/3 hmm. 3/4 damn, Rylance was unexpected. 4/5 Alejandro G Inarritu is not getting off stage, bold. 5/6. 6/7 The meme is dead!!! 6/8 Every account on Reddit is a bot except you | I really hope it gets 8/8. I wanna make dank meme references. Edit: Damn. Gr8 B8, though. |
411,038 | I think the meat of the argument is that anyone who seeks to make substantial change activistically, even non-violently, against those with clear various faults "in power", comes under scrutiny and plausibly subversion. I think that's the danger worth discussing, because nobody can guarantee the NSA or CIA will forever be pure and abdicative when their strength is no longer necessary. Hence the need for real checks and balances.... | Don't know why you're replying that to this particular comment, but I concur that the real danger is future abuse. Currently, there are a lot of people who are tackling the issue by claiming that the surveillance is really about controlling the population by using the gathered information to attack dissenters (which doesn't happen), or get people to self-censor out of fear that the surveillance (which the government doesn't want people to know about) will lead to consequences (which it doesn't). That goes over very well with the crowd here, but it's a circlejerk. No one in the general public is buying that. |
411,039 | Oh, I just wanted to spam the promote button. Apparently he shuts you down if you do that now. It's all good. And for those who really don't know, there's the info. | Yes when you spam it now you get the look of disapproval from the creator ! Funny ! |
411,040 | youre a sheep mentality flaming idiot. congrats. your life is eternal loser-ville. prick. | i wish i could personally punch you motherfuckers each square in the face for being the progressive, lame generation that you are - a whole lot of internet pussies who haven't the courage for real life wonders. you'll hide behind the internet/masturbation machine and count each agonizing minute of your life just fucking wasting away. you'll remember me in 5 years when you're lonely in your own devised misery pit. |
411,041 | I hope some day you'll join us, and you can be my prison wife | This is the best ending imaginable to any verse. |
411,042 | The nostalgia is why I love this song. Reminds me of hearing it play quietly over the radio late on summer nights. | Was my senior prom theme song. First time I had ever heard it, instantly memorable. |
411,043 | I think people who get impatient are the ones who reads fast and skims. This stems from our inclination of instant gratification. | >This stems from our inclination of instant gratification. That is something we do suffer from tremendously these days. I know I'm certainly guilty of it myself. |
411,044 | If your bank charges you, most don't, we have had cashless transactions in New Zealand since I was a child and we never get charged for transactions, I don't even have monthly account fees because I turned off the paper statements that they would otherwise mail out to me. I don't know why we keep having this debate, many countries have gone cashless for the majority of their transactions and nothing bad happened, time for America to join the future with everyone else. | The banks/payment processors charge the merchants a per transaction fee. In the US they're typically 1-3% of the transaction. |
411,045 | Thank you! I just recently started doing music and I have a long road ahead and you gave me some good points to think about! I will keep this in mind aswell when I start working on my next project. (Tomorrow probably :P) | Good luck my man. And good job on the completion of one of your projects. Who knows, maybe you could become the next David Guetta =p , and if not, at least you have something to show your kids. All the best. |
411,046 | Sounds like a bad plan. Income tax, great! Link it to the use of robots? Not so great. We want more robots, not less. Lets get rid of human labor. | Sure we want more robots but what is the state gonna do with all the displaced labor? Having tax associated could give the state the message to put social relief in place |
411,047 | Books aren't the dominant entertainment form of today. It's not like we're waiting every month for a serial installment from Dickens. I guess the better gauge would be whether or not a show like House of Cards or Breaking Bad fills the shoes a prominent book would have figured in a century ago. | Even twenty years ago, there weren't many regular series that allowed for any kind of moral ambiguity or character development. That sort of thing was reserved for the Miniseries Event that happened once or twice a year. I think when articles like this talk about people not reading literature, they assume that without *House of Cards* all of those viewers would instead be reading Dostoevsky. It's probably safer to assume they'd be reading Tom Clancy or Daniel Silva. Not that there's anything wrong with that; it's better than [not reading] which was plenty popular back in the day. |
411,048 | This shit really came straight out of left field, I thought he was doing better too | Yes exactly! I hope it’s not drug related, I really thought he was clean and happy |
411,049 | Less than 20V? for a wireless induction charging unit to charge a 19.5V battery? That seems like the system would be very very efficient. You sure about that pedro? My laptop PSU can give you a pretty nasty shock if you expose the wires. | Induction charging efficiency is a function of distance more than anything else. |
411,050 | I wouldn't be surprised if half of all phones still in use have fingerprint scanners at this point. | Not even half of the world population own a smartphone. |
411,051 | It is the first stepping stone though. I don't always carry my dslr around with me, but I always have my phone. If it can shoot photos that are comparable to my dslr, that's a pretty big deal. | I don't carry mime everywhere either and it suitor be nice but I don't know that it would make me 500 photography dollars happier. |
411,052 | Everytime I see *Middlemarch* mentioned here I get bad conscience. I would love to read it but am stuck at around 12% and haven't picked it up in months. I just can't decide if it's worth the investment of time. | Attempt a few pages every day, you'll be done in about 3 months. |
411,053 | To say that everyone who likes complex music hates pop music is a generalization. The fact that it is not true in all cases make it a false statement. That those appreciations are not mutually exclusive is not a generalization, it is fact. I've always been more of a pancake guy anyway. | I like simple & complex music. What I don't like, are carbon copies of my grandparents' bluegrass & my parents' folk music. |
411,054 | My niece is 1 years old. She is shockingly brilliant. As her uncle, I want to make sure to make the right decisions for her, but at what age is the earliest she can read this book? Would it have to wait until high school? | I would wait until at least the end of middle school. While I'm sure she'd understand it as a book about animals who do stuff, she'd miss a ton of the allegory at a young age. |
411,055 | Great acting by Tom Cruise. The plot could have been better. Also, his wife now has thousands of copies of her husbands. | This will make for awkward infidelities in their marriage. "I followed you last night and saw you canoodling with that *pig* Tech 57!" |
411,056 | > 1.67B (Jurassic World) What? I don't know anyone that's even seen it. There's no way it made that much money. That must be the typical Hollywood accounting lies. | I mean... it's pretty well documented. They did make more than 60% of the revenue from overseas, but regardless, it did very, very well. |
411,057 | So it is about the crash, and the aftermath. Looks like it could be a pretty good movie. | It shows his bio prior to the event through flashbacks if it is faithful to the book. |
411,058 | its singing screams of agony from being cut down | That's just silly. Trees don't scream. How do you know if they even feel pain? If they did how do you know they are not all masochists? |
411,059 | Another similar moment was when that guy they stayed with near the beginning (can't remember his name) was about to get shot. I was wondering what kind of a movie it was: 'Will we see a headshot? Is it that kind of movie? Or will the camera stay on Michael Shannon as he fires?' Instead, no gunshots are fired on-screen. For some reason this really stuck out to me. We weren't spoon-fed or placated or anything. Given just enough info to follow the story. *Just* enough. | Wasn't he alive later when the two goons from the ranch went back to his house? Did Roy not actually shoot him? |
411,060 | Thanks for explaining that. I haven't listened to the commentary. It still doesn't make sense to use that device, though. | I think perhaps it was filmed with the wrong dialogue and he didn't realize it until later, so chose to keep it considering how far apart the two sequences are in the film and the likelihood it would be overlooked. Very easy to claim he meant to do it this way later. Who's going to contradict him? |
411,061 | Ridley Scott is just a moron when it comes to metaphors/symbolism. Uhh, bad guy is good - make him release a dove in the middle of beating some guy up. | The bad guy immediately realized that him killing Deckard would have solved nothing and nobody would have cared and committed spiritual sudoku. He knew that if he left Deckard live, *someone* would remember him |
411,062 | I heard it as lead on, but according to some searches he did say lay. | I played it a couple of times but it doesn't really sound like "lead". If it is then he's saying it in a very odd way, which I could believe given the character. |
411,063 | >any of us with an internet connection and half a mind to look it up know, you don't make money on a record deal. You're not seriously trying to say that there is no such thing as a profitable record deal for artists? Sure it's very difficult for a *new* band to make money from a record deal...but that doesn't mean artists aren't making money from big labels. | The reason I take issue with it though is that they had to GET big. Getting there is the issue. A record label will throw money at someone they want to keep, but no one starts there. It takes a lot of good business decisions (and musical talent) to get to the point where a record company would legitimately pay you to put out a record. Even so it seems like musicians make more money on sponsorship and endorsement than on album sales. |
411,064 | We don't need thinner phones... we need longer battery life. keep the batteries the same size just make them last as long as a pager used to. | I don't know why are most companies fixated with making thinner and thiner instead of products that fit people needs, like having a phone battery that last for a few days at least! Everything has to be expendable these days! |
411,065 | There's a lot of bad pop and a lot of good pop. There's also a lot of good indie and a lot of bad indie. I find statements that there is an overwhelming sway either way when you compare the two to be pretty presumptuous. | That's a pretty old example. I think when most people refer to pop they're talking about Black Eyed Peas or will.i.am. But yea, I agree with him. While there are good pop artists (Calvin Harris' "I Created Disco" is my weak spot), I find most indie bands to be more consistent. |
411,066 | This quote from the linked page grabbed my attention: > People living in homogenous communities grow both more extreme and more certain in their beliefs. It is intuitively correct, but is there actual evidence? | The book cites many, many academic studies to support that contention. I highly recommend it - really opened up my eyes!! |
411,067 | "This all begs the question, can one of these laptops really replace your laptop?" Wat? Typo much? | > “This all raises the question, can one of these laptops really replace your laptop?” Fixed. |
411,068 | Modern Hollywood tends to ruin all modern adaptations of great books from the first half of the twentieth century. Exhibit A: Kerouac's *On the road* Exhibit B: Trailer for *The great gatsby* ... vomit | I'm going to be honest now, I always thought *On the Road* was a terrible book anyway, and the movie was quite watchable considering the source material. |
411,069 | [0:20-0:22] Although anything the comes **MAGICALLY** out of the guitar when Buckethead picks it up is upvoted by me, this tasty riff stands out. ^^ | I could live off of Buckethead's tasty riffs. So delicious. |
411,070 | WB is planning to release this to the public and they don't want some grainy leak to be the first thing people see. | Right. So my point was, why not just officially post their glossy high quality print of the footage online so we can all see it. Maybe not day and date of the SDCC unveiling but a couple days later. |
411,071 | I watched it the other day and the main reason they give him the job is because he chased down one of the aliens on foot, not because of the application process. | I was actually wondering about that too, though. What about J chasing down the guy at the start was the qualifier for MIB? |
411,072 | In UK the range of fittings, bulb type, light tone, and lack of bright warm white led bulbs available makes buying the right bulb almost impossible. Most LEDs are still surgical white. They are really expensive too, massively overpriced. The bulb companies know if they make good led available at a good price and sell nothing else within a couple of years everyone will be on led and bulb sales will plummet. They did exactly the same with incandescent and then the same with CFL - most CFL were low wattage and a bad tone and it made people hate CFL and so take up was slow. Now we see history repeating itself yet again. Hopefully other countries are a bit less backward. | IKEA sells nice LED bulbs. they are still pretty white compared to incandescent, but MUCH better than most CFLs. nice and affordable too. |
411,073 | Well, selling you special plastic paper would probably result in the same bullshit. Also, nobody wants plastic paper. | Maybe I didn't explain "recyclable" well enough -- you can reuse the same plastic paper over and over. |
411,074 | shut the fuck up, did you see tree of life....? ulgh | Actually, the one I really want directing it is Michael Bay. There weren't enough explosions in Beetlejuice. |
411,075 | Thank you for putting the time in to do this, tis very much appreciated. | I really enjoyed it, I hope you people do too! |
411,076 | Nolan has many strengths as a director, dialogue is not one of them. | really? i thought the joker's dialogue was absolutely perfect. |
411,077 | I like it. Not a huge fan of rap, but it hit me right in the feels. | Thank you for listening, I really appreciate it! Have a great day, man! |
411,078 | Not to share the data to begin with. Ask me before you share. See if I am okay with it | Outside of friend-data being shared, you were asked if you wanted to share that data. It's part of the Permission Dialog that opens, where you give an App access to your Facebook Data. |
411,079 | That's why he's such a hypocrite. One minute he's like 'Hilter's not cool' and the next, he's hanging Nazi stuff everywhere. | Spielberg hung Nazi stuff up too when he made Schindler's List... |
411,080 | > but was bogged down by the endless technical exposition. I'm honestly glad he kept all that in. I'm sure his publisher warned him that he would lose much of the general audience who don't really go in for the nerdy technical details. But it's refreshing reading someone who is obviously enthusiastic about space travel, technology, and science and doesn't just use those things as a shallow aesthetic backdrop. | Only Trv Nerds will like Seveneves with all the nitty gritty smart person details! Come on man. I read technical details all day long at work, I don't need it in my fiction. |
411,081 | ...unless their only purpose in doing those good things was to appear to be "good" to the outside world. | Yeah, because they told everybody about that right? I think you people think all Scientologists are nefarious evil scum, hm? |
411,082 | That guy is totally stoked to be walking on the ceiling | Like, the happiest guy ever to be walking on the ceiling! It's infectious, really. :) |
411,083 | Too bad this is in /r/tech and won't get the exposure it deserves. Great analysis. | Why wouldn't it? I don't have any interest in paintings, but this was exactly what I hoped for when I entered the comments: Analysis by an expert in the domain so that I can get some sort of understanding of where this failed and where it succeeded. You can always expect two things to do very well in a reddit comment section: someone arguing that the post is wrong, and someone posing as an authority in some niche interest. This comment has both. |
411,084 | In her eyes, I'm an adult. And adults rape each other. Kind of a lot. | I don't look like I've done anything. I look like I've just been sitting in a room for 28 years eating saltines |
411,085 | I don't like labeling cultural norms as sexism I think it's counterintuitive to the problem personally. It's not a "sexist" that men gravitate towards STEM work while Women gravitate towards Liberal Arts it's just the cultural and society we are raised in. It becomes sexist when women or men are actively discouraged from going for what they want. Social norms will change and evolve as time goes on and I bet we'll see changes in the ratio of men to women in all industries in the near future. | What's interesting is that publishing used to be a male dominated industry? What changed? How did culture or society change so that publishing and books became associated with women? Women weren't even taught to read for the longest time, so why the sudden shift? |
411,086 | David Fincher's *Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* was an emotionally-intensive movie and hard to re-watch. *Seven* is another movie that would take a lot for me to rewatch, and not because it was bad--I loved it, but because of the impact of some of the scenes. | While i recall the glutony scene to be quite graphic, I didn't see the other crimes as emotionally draining. I just watched Seven for the first time a week ago and while I agree with being intense at times, I don't think it is as nearly as emotionally draining as The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo |
411,087 | A: no. I like Goodreads but there is a definitely a bias towards genre that means a lot of well regarded and award winning literature can get lower ratings than whatever is next in a popular fantasy series. It's a weird reverse snobbery in effect. B: Yes, and I have. Most recently was a book that was just translated into english so none of the reviews were in english yet. | > there is a definitely a bias towards genre that means a lot of well regarded and award winning literature can get lower ratings than whatever is next in a popular fantasy series. Or do you have a bias towards something that a literary professor somewhere told you should be liked? There are plenty of "well regarded" and "award winning" books that are only such for a singular aspect, and are poor in almost every other regard. Those weaknesses don't matter to the award committee, but they also aren't ignored by a public that wants more than a limited offering. |
411,088 | while you are certainly entitled to your opinion on To Kill A Mockingbird, it seems silly to judge a writer strictly based upon how prolific they are. | My opinion is certainly not JUST based on that. It's only PART of my opinion. |
411,089 | 35k base with current 7500 tax rebate so far. | Unfortunately that rebate will not apply to anyone who is reserving a Model 3 now. |
411,090 | I see posts regarding the future of energy and renewable tech and then wait...and wait... ...and wait. So much promise, so little delivery. | Scaling a solution to operational levels is hard. Media attention is easy. |
411,091 | the only movie im planing to go in blind, not knowing ANYTHING (im planing to not even see the trailers) is Star Wars 7... i dont want to know what it is going to be about and who are in it | I feel the same. There's so much tension on the fact that there's going to be a 7 that I don't want to give to either side. I would rather go in and love or hate it from the movie without preconceived "Oh, they're in it?!" "What the fuck, this isn't star wars material" or another thought coming from just a couple minute trailer. |
411,092 | Except Beyonce is an extremely accomplished and skilled singer. Adele certainly doesn't agree with him. | But she doesn't want to be a singer as much as a pop icon |
411,093 | I actually seriously really thought of that. But one purpose of doing a long trail (we're doing the Benton MacKaye-Appalachian Trail loop) is to cut myself off from the electronic teat as much as possible. So... looking for a real, good book. (I think that was the first time I said 'real good' and had it be grammatically correct!) | >(I think that was the first time I said 'real good' and had it be grammatically correct!) It's the comma that brings the win. For the kind of journey it is I would highly recommend Che Guevara's diaries. You should be able to pick them up for pennies and Motorcycle diaries for one is full of descriptions of locations in South America and, I suspect, you might be able to relate to the journey. Don't worry if socialism isn't you he doesn't get particularly political in the first one and rarely becomes preachy about it in the others. |
411,094 | I've always wanted to read Pride and Prejudice so I will definitely start there or with Persuasion. All the other suggestions sound interesting as well. Thanks! | Pride and Prejudice is my favourite with Emma a close second. |
411,095 | There's also the option of just writing characters as people and casting them in a race blind way. I believe the screenplay for Alien famously specified that any character could be played by any gender or race. It would be a big leap in my opinion for a movie to star a black performer that didn't specifically deal with the issue of "blackness". Obviously the issue of race is totally ripe and valid as a subject, but I think the progress we have yet to see is movies where characters aren't just default white and only cast as black when it's an all-black comedy or an issue movie. | The fuck kind of movies are you watching that only cast black people of its a race-related movie? Have you literally never seen a movie starring black people before? Nothing Will Smith is in? No Denzel? There are probably a dozen current leading men that can star in major movies that aren't white who have done movies that aren't in any way dependant on their race. Considering how few leading men there are in Hollywood that can be trusted to carry a big budget movie, that's a sizeable amount. |
411,096 | Try some of his newer stuff. Honestly. I think he's always been absolutely great with both setting and characters, but since around 2000 or so, I think his writing is actually really good. Obviously that's subjective. You might disagree entirely. But Duma Key was written really wonderfully, I think. And Revival was . . . something. | Duma Key had me scared of a garden gnome. I'm not sure if that's a commendment or not, but it certainly made an impression. |
411,097 | I really enjoyed "The Enchantress of Florence" .... Is this book in written in a similar sort of style? (if you happen to know, by chance) | To tell you the truth, I don't know because I haven't got around to reading "The Enchantress of Florence." I would say "Shame" is similar to "The Satanic Verses" in some ways, although it was one of Rushdie's first books I believe. Most of his work I have read seems to be written in a post-modern style with similar themes taken from Rushdie's own life, like Islam, East vs. West and being an immigrant. If you liked any of his other work, chances are you'll like this one too. I've liked everything I've read by him so far except "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" and it was targeted to a younger audience...and it was ok, just nothing great. |
411,098 | Was it really that bad? Yeesh, I must be a slobbering moron huh ahahah | It's a divisive movie for sure. I assume you liked it? |
411,099 | I think unbearable is overused reason for not liking a film. | Perhaps it is. But for me, the experience was, I had to force myself to watch just to see how it ends. I couldn't say it changed my mind, however. |
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