Bjorn

If I remember correctly, SOTN on the PSN is completely untouched, and SOTN on the 360 has more compressed music and voice. I don't remember anything being directly cut from the 360 version. There's also Shadow Complex on the 360 for another sci-fi one (which does have a tangential relationship to Orson Scott Card, but he ultimately had nothing to do with the game itself).

Yes they did. I don't think I saw any of those animal movies as a kid. The whole animal movie wave seemed to come late in my teen years.

Hey, it's lapsed once before, so this will be the third time they've had to re-register it. Third times a charm?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory must also be a nightmare for you. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is actually one of my favorite movies, and one of the few all time classics to come out of the 80s, in my opinion. Of all the movies from my childhood, I've easily rewatched it the most. It was also the first movie I ever bought. I saw it, but I remember absolutely nothing about it.

In the US, when you buy points cards, they are counted as "gift cards" and thus no sales tax is charged on them. Is that not the same in Canada?

I don't think we'd have seen a multi-page argument about the propriety of the interview if it had been an individual who invested a half million pounds in 22 Cans. Some people would still condemn it, but I ultimately think it would have been dropped. Obviously there's no way to test that, but I suspect that's true. I think part of this is a question of whether Walker has the right to talk to Molyneaux that way, in a way we wouldn't ask that question if it were an investor.

For those who hate, or are really bothered by, the interview: Would it change your opinion in any way if this were the leaked transcript of an investor chewing Molyneaux' ass instead of a journalist interviewing him? Essentially the same tone and questions, but different context.

Actually that looks like a pretty standard laptop hinge. It takes me about 15 minutes to replace one, but I've done it hundreds, if not a thousand, times (the bezel on the screen is easy to remove, and the palmrest usually only has 6-10 screws holding it in). I'd say it takes a typical person between 30 minutes and an hour to do the job the first time. This has been my business for most of the last decade, repairing laptops and selling laptop parts and other hard to find computer parts. The worst case scenario is that when it broke, it broke the little nuts the hinge screws into in the LCD housing, which is probably one of the more common problems I see. At any rate, if you decide you can't or don't want to buy a new one now, drop me a PM on here and I'll see what I can do.

What model of laptop do you have? Depending on what it is, I might have a hinge that would work for it if it's from a major manufacturer.

On being traumatized in childhood by a movie, apparently my father-in-law was terrified by the Wizard of Oz when he was a little kid, particularly the flying monkeys, and hates the movie to this day. It doesn't help that he's only ever lived in Kansas.

ET will always hold a special place for me because of how I saw it. We had a single screen theater in the town I grew up in, and it only showed movies 4 days a week (Thurs-Sunday), and never the same movie two weekends in a row. E.T. was one of the biggest movies ever at the time, and the theater sold out each of the nights. My brother and I desperately wanted to see it and hadn't been able to get tickets. On the last night, we still didn't have tickets, but we begged the theater manager to see if there was any way we could get in. She and her husband were neighbors of ours, lived about 5 houses down (small town). She took pity on us, let us in for free and we sat on the top steps in the back to see it. The funny thing is, I barely remember watching the movie then. I couldn't have been older than 6. But as a kid, I just thought it was the coolest thing that this adult let us in to a sold out movie. As an adult, it's something I look back on and realize the power that adults have to enable or crush kids' dreams, even when those dreams are simple things like seeing a movie.

Fascinating piece on the war against venereal disease in WW2, in which the military turned its propaganda wing towards soldiers' health and in so doing, elevated women to an equal or greater threat to America than either Japan or Germany.

Oh man, Willow, I don't think I've seen that once since I was a kid. I have no idea if its any good or not. For some weird reason Labyrinth was in vogue last year, two of my local theaters ran special nights with it and we went to one of them. It's ridiculous, but still awesome. But I also super love puppetry.

That place looks awesome! My favorite local coffee house has a cereal breakfast bar, with like 5 seats and a few vintage televisions showing 80s cartoons. But it's like a shade of the dedication that place went to. They do have a neat little randomizer on their site so if you don't know what kind of cereal you want, you can just have a robot pick a combo for you.

We just watched Bill and Ted's with our daughter in the last few months, she's 20 and enjoyed it. And she's not shy about hating our old people crap when it's something she didn't like.

Bates Motel Season 2 is out on Netflix, and Season 3 starts next month. I love this show, bunches. And I don't say that about many TV shows.

Eeeep, that was easy! You should totally watch it then. It's like an experiment, with Junior Mints as both scientist and subject.

Isn't that true of most live action kids movies? I've never seen Blank Check, but I'm sure it's awful to watch as an adult with no knowledge of it. I do find that hard to believe about Goonies though. I'm going to have to see if anyone I know hasn't seen it. I know a few 20-25 year olds, might be able to find someone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7_LetEm-ez8YH4XGJPdSXgg1oTMZ0n5T&v=qVO3sNcJ7A8&feature=player_embedded

Good lord I shouldn't post on my phone, I look like I'm drunk. Seriously though, you're all wrong. It's Goonies. There's pirates, and super heroes, and treasure, and ghosts and awesome villains! It's like a bunch of kids playing make believe Indiana Jones.

This is a ways down in the comments on that: Also, has anyone watched the interview with Konrad and Peter. It's...well, it's probably as uncomfortable as the Walker piece, but for really different reasons.

I didn't really address it, but I think there's a real difference between activist call out culture (people who are consistently advocates online for social justice), and the kind of whipping mob stirred up by someone like Biddle, who is driven by lulz and a paycheck. I picked on Biddle alot, but he's hardly alone, just convenient given his place in the Sacco story linked here.

The shining firs wish fulfilment. He gets to run around a giant hotel all by himself with his two new bestirs! Real talk though, Goonies.

The Shining.

You could pay to shorten, or lengthen, the amount of time that it would take to open the cube. The real wrinkle is that late in its existence, there were some allegations/claims that the cube never had a fixed amount of stuff to remove in the first place, that 22 Cans just made it a finite amount once they were ready to be done with it...which would be hella problematic if that could be proven.