Ben X
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Thanks for the spoiler tags, everyone. I stopped reading them after the first sentence of Reyturner's post, though, as it moved into prediction territory without warning, and I suspect that's the way the conversation went. Pretty much zero spoilers, but just in case:
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God, Jurassic World sucked. It was dull and clumsy, from the direction through the script and score even down to the shitty new Amblin ident. I left the screening incredibly frustrated. It doesn't come close to Jurassic Park in any way, it's not as good as JP 3, and it's probably on a par with Lost World. Here's a good comparison article on the first film vs first book. And yeah, that one death scene (I guess we're not bothering with spoiler tags?) felt incongruously sadistic and drawn-out to me also. Things Thumbs listeners will want to know:
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Funny you should mention that, my girlfriend is doing some research assistant work for an oral history project of computing in the humanities.
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Idle Thumbs 209: Ten Percent Success Rate
Ben X replied to Jake's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
More Sarah Shahi news for Danielle. -
Good luck!
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Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Ben X replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
It's the war that's good for EDC. -
Mangela, you're being very vague!
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Waaaitaminute, according to isthereanydeal.com, Bioshock 2 and Minerva's Den have both gone cheaper than this in the past year. Fucking broken Steam Wishlist notifications!
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I own Lost Girls but haven't read it yet. I take this to mean you didn't like it? Maybe I'm not keeping up with his work enough to know the bad stuff, I'll take a look at what he's done since his America's Best Comics stuff. EDIT: okay, seems more like he hasn't done much direct work on comics in the past five years or so, and up til then I thought his work was still really strong.
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Remember to check that Idle Map thread or whatever it's called, to see which Thumbs you can visit! Cambridge has the Centre for Computing History.
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http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-peppermint-lip-balm-recipes-from-the-kitchn-214016
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This is pretty close to the one that's served me well for a few years. (Actually, this is closer, and it seems it's only now available in pink, so it would be a strike against gender stereotypes).
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To hear Moore tell it, Morrison copied the whole magic thing off him anyway. And has Moore's quality of work really dipped that much? Maybe LoG Vol3 wasn't as good as the first two, but Promethea, Tom Strong and all that were brilliant.
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Also: it's good to see a second thread with the "hold onto your butts" tag.
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Ace! I have also been waiting for this for over a year, maybe two. Every time Bioshock 2 or a Bioshock bundle goes on sale, I eagerly check whether Minerva has gone on sale too and am bitterly disappointed. Maybe this is the year that Emerald City Confidential goes on sale too!
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My underlying point about Seinfeld was that "lack of racial diversity" =/= "racist" and I also thought a lot of stuff was getting inferred from very little context, but I won't drag the conversation back there. All I want to say is that I really enjoyed Bee Movie.
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I just watched the first episode and it was really slow and rather daft. Have you been watching it, Reyturner?
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Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Ben X replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
Hooray! Please include a name -> handle list in the show notes! -
Good to hear. I just watched the pilot and it was okay but slooow and didn't feel particularly original. I somehow did not recognise Aygeman!
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Well, that article (from the same site) calling the Seinfeld show racist because it didn't have many black characters is kind of proving his point that people use the word incorrectly...
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Here's one Polygon interview with them which shows awareness and intent on their part re. controversy. Also, the quote in the fourth post in this thread (bearing in mind that this forum has an irritating "Pol. Correctness" -> "opinionated in a different way to me" filter. EDIT: duh, of course the filter filtered me
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Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Ben X replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
Gormongous, you goof, you need to edit the link to the 'cast into the original post! I just went off to identify the Kieron-alike (it's the guy who pronounces it anim-ee and is an art school graduate who started with Perfect Blue, Akira and Spirited Away, I think that's Codicier) and it took me ages to find the damn link! btw, if anyone starts a manga podcast, they should call it "You're Reading In The Wrong Direction!" -
Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Ben X replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television