Ben X
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Interstellar is now getting criticised for its sound mix. I had no issues with the sound, personally. There was one scene where a couple of lines of inconsequential dialogue were drowned out by the score, which I took to be an interesting choice. The score can get noticeably loud, but not uncomfortably so. This story reminds me of when a load of "anonymous industry people" said the Hobbit 48fps footage looked crap, and when cinemas had to put signs up reminding people that Terrence Malick films can be slow. I hope this isn't the beginnings of a trend towards wide-release movies doing anything different being berated by critics and anonymous industry people, and complained about by mouth-breathing movie-goers.
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Thanks Denial & Twig.
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Well, Denial's post seemed to be linking the tweets in that image to death threats, then Gorm seemed to be doing the same with the "death threats are sexist" reference.
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Wait, what has this shirt thing got to do with death threats?
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You can't re-use words!
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Yep, love it. Are you au fait enough with both the theatrical and director's cut to have a preference?
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Cool, thanks SBM! (We need someone with the initials SCM now, to continue the trend of you and SecretAsianMan. SometimesCrazyMan?)
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I'm with BigJKO on Snowpiercer - brutal, inventive, loads of great performances (except Ewen Brenner, who was miscast), looks great. But yeah, the pacing slows to a crawl occasionally and it doesn't always make total sense. I assume the second one (after Pitch Black but before Riddick), which was messy and overblown but lots of fun. I'd watch that again before Interstellar. (Riddick was awful though, and I didn't love Pitch Black as much as most seem to.) Titan AE is disappointingly cheesy and clunky whenever human characters are involved. I also haven't watched Dune, but it's on my Netflix backlog along with that Jodorowsky's Dune documentary.
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A bit cheerier: The 1982 TRON Holiday Special
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A piece on Sainsbury's using WWI to flog groceries.
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If someone retweets my retweet, that also counts, right?
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Where are you, Merus?
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More of a 'sleep' question, this: Does anyone here sleep straight through the night without vaguely waking up at any point? I always seem to snap out of a dream at some point through the night and then take a couple of minutes to doze off again. It's really annoying because it makes me feel like my last hour or two of sleep were restless, even if that's not the case (I don't check the time because that thought process will start to wake me up).
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YES! Nerds are the ones who can do crazy maths problems in their heads, geeks are the ones who know every Star Wars character name.
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Calvin & Hobbes snowmen: Brief making of thread And IRL
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Idle Thumbs 184: Super Pools 'n' Ghosts
Ben X replied to Jake's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
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They haven't actually announced it as a gender there, though, they're just comparing the oppression faced by the three groups. To do that is still typically self-involved, though!
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Is your mum also working on a retro-style zombie survival RPG?
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Yule Love it! as an adult too. Here's an amazing gingerbread house with reindeer cupcakes that Mash of Project Zomboid made for Xmas last year:
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Re. Interstellar:
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Is it to do with this? https://twitter.com/britishgaming/status/532220537519767552 https://twitter.com/britishgaming/status/532223184696008704
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A medley of Danny Elfman's ace score for Scrooged (slideshow spoilers for the film - go watch it if you haven't already!)
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A very hipster Christmas. Some Christmas mash-up film posters including:
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Holy shit, I hadn't made this connection. It works especially well with the seventh book where . So, Maddie Bryce leaving Twitter etc - she made kind of a baiting joke, so did she receive a different level of harassment than she was expecting or is used to? Is it that this one joke happened to kick off more than others? It's hard to nail down details out there, even reading through her Twitter feed, and things often get referred to rather obliquely in here!
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Team Fortress 2 Holiday Cards!