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Really good piece by Lindy West: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/07/daryush-roosh-v-valizadeh-and-his-acolytes-pilloried This stood out (emphasis mine): "To see Roosh and his acolytes pilloried on an international scale has been a strange experience for me. I don’t write about them (because I’m busy, they haven’t earned my time, and they have mistaken attention for legitimacy, a delusion I have no interest in feeding).."

I appreciate them in principal because it takes you out of your comfort zone in terms of setup of equipment and buddies. But in practice, I am slogging through them and not enjoying them at all, because I like my comfort zone.

Well, fuck.

This is why I love Coen Brothers - already across 7-8 different people, what each person prefers is wildly different. I quite like how you compartmentalised genres within the Coen Brothers ouevre. As I was making my list I was trying to look for patterns in terms of what 'type' of Coen Brothers film I preferred. I think I might like their bawdy comedies less than their more 'serious' stuff.

Okay, so I have had that big battle after the hugely annoying unskippable section in the jeep. I just finished a subsistence mission, does that mean I can just return to the base and I should get pretty close to finishing the 'true' ending of the game? Also:

I really enjoyed Burn After Reading, but I just found there to be better Coen Brothers films, the satire and performances were great but I think it suffered from having been straight after No Country For Old Men. I get a lot of stick for Blood Simple but I've tried to watch it 4-5 times and apart from M Emmet Walsh it was just okay, nothing is bad about it but there is nothing that I could latch onto and enjoy whole heartedly. As for Llewyn Davis - that film is all about Oscar Isaac, his central performance ties the whole thing together. There shit going on in his face all the time, you can see the ticking time bomb of a personality degrading his ability to be a civil person to even the nicest people in his life. Yes, the film is essentially small in terms of what it explores but, fuck me, it is so powerful because in a weaker actor's hands it wouldn't have worked, in a more melodramatic writer or director's hands it would have some kind of explosive ending (Llweyn breaking down, killing himself, killing someone else - something really BAD would have to have happened). Instead, nothing really happens, Llweyn just carries on being empty like so many before him.

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See, I have never seen it, I heard it was bad so stayed away. Could turn out that I really like as I avoided True Grit for ages and that turned out to be great. Also, everyone said that Intolerable Cruelty was awful but I found it to be fun as hell and a really nice throwback to screwball comedies. It is one of the few times that I have found Zeta Jones charming. Hmmm, maybe I need to watch The Ladykillers. So, yeah, Hudsucker is at the bottom of the list for me. I agree with Patrick on quite a few things but Burn after Reading is waaay too high on that list. COEN BROTHERS OFFICIAL POWER RANKING 1. Miller's Crossing 2. The Big Lebowski 3. Raising Arizona 4. No Country For Old Men 5. O Brother Where Art Thou 6. Inside Llewyn Davis 7. Fargo 8. True Grit 9. Barton Fink 10. Burn After Reading 11. The Man Who Wasn't There 12. A Serious Man 13. Intolerable Cruelty 14. Blood Simple 15. The Hudsucker Proxy ??. The Ladykillers EDIT: Too fun not to mess around with

That was what I was going to say. I would add that I also love Raising Arizona. I think just as interesting question is - what is your least favourite Coen Brothers film. Mine might be The Hudsucker Proxy.

People just seem to love dragons more

A recommendation from you sir is one that I will definitely check out, seeing as we seem to have incredibly similar tastes (I still haven't played Armored Core V yet, and I feel guilty)

That actress is a talented stunt woman, as far as I know. She was also in Death Proof and hung off the front of a car for most of her scenes (and has my favourite moment in the film)

Sorry Ninety, I am going to make the point that pretty much every time I see some one disagreeing about something in a thread, I can guess it is going to be you. Personally, I like it in most threads. But you have to go back and read old Toblix threads - that is a person who knew how to disagree with everyone in style. That, or look at Norfolk'n'Clue who used to rile me with his dissenting opinions but he also had humour about it.

I have no idea what that is but I really want to know what the answer is. Otherwise, after recommendations on here, I watched seasons 1 and 2 of The Mindy Project. That first season is gold, then they start jettisoning characters in the second season and focusing on the most boring aspect of the show (Mindy and Danny's dynamic). The quality drop was so disappointing given how good it was in the first. I blame the writers almost entirely but the fact that Mindy Kaling agreed to do some of those episodes astounded me. Season 3 is better.

4 threw out the ending of 3 in the most predictable way. As 3 came to a close I knew they were going to undo it in 4 because there was no way they could have stuck to that. I then felt that the rest of the episode was busy trying throw stuff into the mix (around the murder mystery conceit) to try and make the twist seem significant. 4 wasn't bad (I liked it) but taken as the build up to episode 5, I could see how it was going to mess things up.

I wrote up a piece on the blog I contribute to as part of our 'best of 2015': http://www.arcadianrhythms.com/2016/01/ajs-best-of-2015-best-game-with-ashley-burch-in-it/ Re-reading it I really wish I had spent more time editing it but overall I think it says what I wanted it to say.

Tales from the Borderlands is close to being my favourite Tales game. You can play LiaDST in single player and you command an AI player around. It is playable, more or less, but having a Co-Op partner feels almost essential to get the most out of it.

I finished Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, what a wonderful, messy game. Gutted that the visuals are going to put off a lot of people. My friend summed it up with 'this game is so cool, imagine if they had made it a bullshit Star Wars game where you were controlling the Death Star - it would made so much money. Or, if they had made it ultra violent and gory'. I am glad they didn't but I totally get what they mean, the game is tough as nails in places, there are so many different things going on as well that it doesn't explain until later that keeps you coming back.

Man, reading through the early thread and seeing people guessing part of the plot a long time before release was thoroughly enjoyable waste of 40 minutes. I saw the film and basically thought it was fine, not a big Star Wars fan anymore so it was entertaining.

As for Milo's popularity (not to say that he has the reach of Kardashian), I was browsing Youtube for David Bowie tracks and alighted on an Aphex Twin remix. In the comments section was a conversation that started about David Bowie and ended in an endorsement of Milo and Theodore Dalrymple.

Nice write up, even if I don't agree with it entirely. The tensions in the first half is definitely the better bit of the film. However, there are two scenes (both mentioned in your piece) that I would have happily axed from the film. It was nice to let the characters breathe and develop but the post intermission sequence was pretty awful and unnecessary. Seeing this film reminded me of the story about how when Ian Banks's original editor died, his books bloated out of control as no one wanted to tell him to cut things from his book. Tarantino needs an editor/producer that can slap every now and then and tell him to cut out the fat.

Man, still not gone online with the Xbox One version - and I wasn't planning to. Dewar - if I never went online and I don't care about getting all the weapons (only a few rocket launchers and Sniper Rifles are likely to be important to me) and all the other rubbish I can still complete the game right?

And that is exactly why I haven't given a shit about a GTA game.

That all sounds awesome namman. I quit my job of 4 years a few days ago. Planning to go sit on a beach somewhere in Asia and drink beer until I figure out what to do with my life next. I've been in the games industry for over 11 years and it is starting to look like the only thing I can do so I need to sort out exactly what that is.

I don't know where a link like this would belong but this is really interesting: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com%2F%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fbecoming-disabled-by-choice-not-chance-transabled-people-feel-like-impostors-in-their-fully-working-bodies I remember reading about this condition in a newspaper about 17 years ago and being fascinated by the fact that someone could almost hate one of their limbs, that having a leg or arm could upset them.