Ben X

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  1. Life

    :'(
  2. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    I'm pretty sure the advice for that isn't prodding them either.
  3. Star Wars VII - Open spoilers

    A short time ago in a thread very, very nearby... And just to illustrate your point about how longt it's been going:
  4. I guess I should stop making bong water jokes and chime in to say that I'm not bothered by references on the podcast to smoking marijuana recreationally. Has there ever been a reference to the Thumbs drinking alcohol? They're on the same level to me, like a movie podcast recommending a six-pack of beer to go with a crappy slasher movie. I'd balk at tales of shooting up heroin, but anything up to that wouldn't be jarring to or disapproved of by me.
  5. Star Wars VII - Open spoilers

    Nitpicking aside, that's incredibly impressive for essentially one person to have done on their own. Here's a vid about how he inks over 3D reference models:
  6. The whole podcast is pro-marijuana propaganda. "Poopwater, New Mexico" is clearly a euphemism for bong water.
  7. Movie/TV recommendations

    The PCC has now added a few more screenings starting April 3rd. (Sorry for the London-centric posts!)
  8. Words...losing...all meaning....gack!
  9. Life

    I didn't get a stopwatch out or anything, but it was uniformly around that...
  10. Idle Thumbs Forums.... I choose you!

    I'm sure there is already a Does This Thread Exist? thread.
  11. Life

    The neighbour below us isn't too bad, except when she gets a new album and plays a track off it on repeat for an hour at a time until the bass line is burned into my ear canals. The neighbours above are incredibly loud with everything they do. They stamp around, they hammer things, they yell conversations. The worst thing when we moved in was their twice-daily sex sessions. For half an hour we'd hear subtle squeaks, then there'd be 5 minutes of jackhammering, then a loud crash as they leap out of bed. This happened at 11pm and 7am every day, above our bedroom. At least we weren't getting woken up by it, though. That is until they started having sex at 4am. After that happened a couple of times, I had to write them a note revealing exactly how detailed a knowledge of their sex life we had and asking them to indulge in more considerate activities at 4 in the morning. Since then we haven't once heard them have sex again, at any hour.
  12. Feminism

    Ha ha, no worries
  13. Feminism

    I also posted that quote six posts above yours!
  14. Didactic Thumbs (Pedantry Corner)

    So that's how you all use it? You don't use it in the traditional way, ie relating to utterances? (Looks like the new meaning was coined by Judith Butler in 1990.)
  15. The Corny AMV/VGMV Thread to Ruin Everything

    Apple Cider - you have to use the youtube.com url, not the youtu.be one (no tags or anything needed):
  16. Feminism

    *ahem*
  17. The Corny AMV/VGMV Thread to Ruin Everything

    That code monkey one is really good. I could probably have been fooled into thinking it was the official, bespoke video. Also, I really liked that song and it's inspired me to check more Coulton out. I didn't realise he went so Nerf Herder-y.
  18. Feminism

    To clarify something further (spoilers quoted): The implication is purely in the actions of stripping and photographing her, right? It's not implied in other ways?
  19. Feminism

    You don't happen to have any links for this, do you? I've read a few interviews where he's made an offhand comment along the lines of it being the worst story he's ever done, but he was never specific about the reasons, so I just assumed he didn't like the writing generally or how heavily it leaned on similar techniques to the ones he was using in Watchmen or something... EDIT: wikipedia did send me to here
  20. That's a good jake (joke), I rodkin (reckon).
  21. Comics Extravaganza - Pow Bang Smash!

    It would be expensive to get him the whole lot, but if he likes Saga then Y: The Last Man is a good bet. Same writer, and it's a finished, self-contained story. Or you could get him Private Eye, as recommended above!
  22. Comics Extravaganza - Pow Bang Smash!

    Dammit, I wanted to beat you to this one! Well, now the final one has come out, it's a good time to recommend the series again. It's PWYW and I can vouch for the superb quality of at least the first nine issues! It looks gorgeous, it's clever, funny and exciting, and all the money goes to the creators.
  23. I don't live in the same city as my dads so I can't nick their stuff.
  24. EGX Rezzed: March 2015

    If I'm reading this correctly, it was shot on HD but then "piped" through VHS players, similar to what the Alien Isolation team did:
  25. GOG added six new LucasArts games today (20 JAN)

    They just added a load more, including the digital premieres of Zak McCracken and Outlaws!