Nachimir

Holy shit, there may be a BG&E sequel after all!

Sorry to hear that Hermie. It's an awful question you face, and the only people who can answer it are you and her. It seems like the language barriers are the things to work at; careers and jobs are a lot more moveable these days.

Finished Dollhouse. It was <positive tone of voice> alright. While I often wish things would drop the (because it's often caricature rather than extrapolation of what we are), there was a lot to like about it. A thing I liked: Hah. Defining image from my childhood, and I think my first ever wide-eyed, "WTF?" moment at the cinema

This was my initial position in the invite: I wanted cardboard and tinfoil robots rather than amazing movie reproductions, or people saying "I'm a cyborg" instead of "I couldn't be bothered to make a costume". The day before though, I told people who'd not made a costume yet to not stress, so there were a few.

I meant to post this in the birthday thread but it seems a bit late. At the weekend I had a dumb, fun, fancy dress party where everyone came as a robot. People put tremendous effort into silly costumes, and at a point in the night where they were getting really annoying to wear, those of us who didn't want to keep them had a pillow fight tournament in the back yard and smashed them off each other. There was blood (nothing serious) and much laughter. I found out that an extremely clever and erudite AI programmer I know is also an animal of a man when put into a pillow fight, and has sound strategy for those occasions. The next day we took all the cardboard to a recycling centre

He makes me piss myself laughing. I especially love the muffled cursing at 21:10ish in the Mario one.

Fuck yes subbes! Prolific congratulations.

Taken to PMs. Sorry guys.

When you typed out an absurd and harsh subtext to an earlier post of mine, a subtext that I never expressed or implied.

You levelled an unfair and untrue accusation at me. If you want to stand by that, even after I've explained your error and still apologised, I'm afraid that really is just yours to live with.

The plaintiff stated: This subtext is entirely inferred by the plaintiff, rather than implied by the defendant. Furthermore: There is no clear implication here that said explanation was A) one page back and personally directed at the defendant. In the context of multiple, spoiler-heavy discussions about the TV show in question, A+B was not a likely assumption for the defendant to make. In that context, let us examine reasons why the defendant might not go an unspecified number of pages back to find a post that had non-specifically been referred to until the plaintiff linked directly to it in the post above: The ways that search and pagination interact in vBulletin fucking suck. Now, let us examine reasons the post might have been missed in the first place. The defendant likes to click on Exhibit A: and lots of Exhibit B: and, because the Idle Forums are a busy place with many threads not necessarily relevant or desirable to read for a given individual, sometimes Exhibit C: For those unaware, Exhibit B takes a motherfucker directly to the first new post, positioning the top of the browser window on that first new post, excluding any prior posts from both that window and the likely subsequent downward scroll. Inevitably, there are sometimes periods between clicking on Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and Exhibit C, in which further new posts can be made by others and accidentally be ignored by the defendant. While the defendant tries to minimise this period with swift clicks, it is impossible to reduce the time to zero, and he may also have been distracted by a shiny internet bauble. Furthermore, vBulletin does not notify users that their username has been included in a post. While it is imposible to determine absolutely what happened, given all of the above, the best and most likely hypothesis is that the plaintiff's post was accidentally missed by the defendant, rather than intentionally disregarded to annoy the plaintiff. Thunder, I am sorry if my words offended you. I didn't mean for them to, and have honestly been baffled at the amount of offense you could take at them. I am quite a direct and sometimes succinct person, but you assumed the worst, while also expecting me to make some assumptions I really didn't. As far as answering something here and it being ignored, that happens to me too sometimes. vBulletin has a lot of annoying quirks that I've been aware of for a long time, and people also have all kinds of reasons. Sure, it can be annoying, but I try to let it pass and assume the best of people.

Phew. We're safe forever!

I honestly don't know what to say to that, Thunder. From here, that seems like a really strange thing to say. Some days, I'm too busy to read these forums. Other times, I'm perhaps trying to avoid spoilers, and that has certainly been the case with Twin Peaks. It is not rude to have missed a post of yours occasionally, or perhaps not remember it, but you seem to be saying exactly that.

I don't think I caught that.

Fuck Edit: A bunch of this looks really fake. SNPJMk2fgJU

I'm currently watching Twin Peaks for the first time with friends. We just got to the end of that weird arc with Hurley and the rich lady. Consensus: James Hurley is an insipid little shit who couldn't keep his wang in his pants even if it were riveted to his thigh. God knows why they give him so much screen time. Edit: Mostly though, we love it. Beyond it, I especially like that Major Briggs talks of , then years later the same actor turns up in a very similar uniform in Stargate

Dollhouse gets much better throughout season one, and explores some really interesting things. Unfortunately, the last episode of that series plumps for a sci-fi trope I really hate*, but overall I enjoyed it. I'm only two episodes into season 2, but it seems to be picking up the more interesting aspects of season 1. *

Absolutely, it feels very different without him at the helm. Whenever the other directors try to do one of Twin Peaks funny, strange, inconsequential moments, it feels like arbitrary disjointed weirdness. When Lynch does it, it either defines a character a bit more (bing), or seems like something completely natural that's emphasised or shown a different way (the long shot entering the police station, where ). He does it kind of seamlessly.

Ben: Loki shows a very mechanistic and quite unempathic understanding of the people around him, in this and Thor. His choice of location puzzled me a bit at first, but I think Thunder is right, it makes total sense as a flamboyant display. I'm going to back away from you both now. I just got back from seeing the Avengers; it's an incredible film, and an amazing amount of fun. I'm not massively into action or superheroes, and this is the first such film that's made me feel actual god-dammit excitement to be sat watching something at the cinema since… The Matrix. Hulk totally steals the show. Well cast, has some of the finest moments, and they develop Bruce Banner with a really light touch throughout. Very small amounts of dialogue, but often extremely meaningful. While it was every bit as over the top as the other fights, the bit where Black Widow I may be reading too much into it, but it seemed like a nice choreographic nod to the character's home country, and none of the other fights evoked the same thing. It's one of few films I've seen where there's not a single character I hate either, which is rare. Thor never appealed to me in comic or film form, as it seemed ridiculous and camp. Watching Thor in preparation last week, it totally won me over. Even Captain America, who I expected to dislike, is presented fairly well and has some great moments.

Apparently that was the original idea though; for it to run indefinitely like a soap opera, but with the supernatural stuff it alludes to and David Lynch's sublime sense of the weird and funny. Unfortunately, the later directors failed to reproduce that, and the first plotline was such a major piece of structure it just, as you say, is a writeoff without it. I've not quite finished it yet. I just got to this bit: I can see the episodes I'm in the middle of are going to be forgettable, meandering, horrible filler. There's no sense of it building toward anything, even with around.

Congrats Chris; that makes so much sense

I daydream about Canal Mania being a great game, which I don't think it is. I want to love it for so many reasons, but can't. From the design notes for the first edition: I love that the inspiration was a "fuck you" to railways, what they did to the infrastructure that started the industrial revolution, and their dominance of routebuilding games. The game has some beautiful touches. The scoring track has a marker printed with the Stevenson Rocket, and when it reaches a particular date denoting the ascendance of railways, the canal network goes into decline. The players spend the whole game building up the life's work of some amazing, pioneering engineers who are named within it, then play out an end game in which it all becomes obsolete. There's something quite sad and beautiful about that, and it's a kind of context I've never seen in any other board game. Usually it's all ascent, struggle and dominance; playing out the decline of something seems quite unusual. Unfortunately, there's much that isn't so great: It's basically a routebuilding game somewhat like Ticket to Ride, but uglier, more fiddly, and more complex. I've played it twice with friends, and it's bored people shitless in a way Ticket To Ride: Europe never does. Also, the name is historically derived, but the first thing about 50% of people do when shown the box is cover the C and snigger (Yes, of course I did it too). The aesthetics are kind of troubling to people. It uses a hex grid, which outside of niches, I've heard referred to as "commercial suicide". Most of the game is brown and yellow. When laid out, it is not a friendly or approachable looking thing, nor very pleasurable to look at (It makes me uncomfortable to say that too, because the visuals are still refined enough that I can see that work and love has been put into them). The game design feels kind of like it's got some fiddly expansions shoved in from the outset, but would be too simple if they weren't there. I'm glad I own it just because of what it is. It's a strange artefact of boardgames, but it'll never float to the top of the pile when we're deciding what to play.

I honestly didn't realise Dreamweaver still existed. Sorry I can't help Shoot lecturers, dump bodies in concrete under new data centre. It is indeed a retarded dumbfuck approach to web development, and more than a decade out of date.

What Orv said, x infinity +1. Another that gets under my skin in the same way: u1D4s1xOgNg

I'm hoping they don't actually go for the terrible "Hey it's okay, " that they so heavily telegraphed.