brkl

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  1. Movie/TV recommendations

    I will raise you with Finns speaking deliberately terrible faux-German: Die Kühe K5d7BfjE3Hc
  2. Evan Dorkin

    You must have complicated fraternal relationships.
  3. Movie/TV recommendations

    To be fair Cumberbatch is limited in that the script demands Sherlock is basically incapable of operating on a nurmal human level. There's not a lot of room for subtlety.
  4. Movie/TV recommendations

    I ordered the old (late 80s) Sherlock series with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock. Damn, his portrayal is excellent. Obviously the series has aged a bit and they don't play around with the setting and characters like the current Sherlock adaptations do, but Brett is easily better in the role than Cumberbatch or Robert Downey Jr.
  5. Movie/TV recommendations

    Where are the babies?
  6. Films of Nicolas Winding Refn

    Valhalla Rising makes you hope it's good, but in the end it just isn't.
  7. On topic: there's a nice Far Cry 2 retrospective on Eurogamer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-08-retrospective-far-cry-2
  8. The threat of Big Dog

    That's both awesome and non-threatening.
  9. XCOM returns

    This is what the meatheads looked like in the original:
  10. Books, books, books...

    I did not know of such thing. Huh, I should study for an exam and I've collected quite a backlog of novels, but I feel like reading some more Conrad...
  11. Books, books, books...

    If you liked Heart of Darkness, Conrad's Secret Agent and Nostromo are also very good, though longer and Nostromo especially is pretty complicated structurally.
  12. V The Elder Scrolls

    The contrast in the carpet texture is ridiculous, that's probably the main reason it looks bad.
  13. FAO Thompson

    FOREVER CHRISTMAS
  14. Books, books, books...

    I just ordered this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Sovereign-Robert-Fripp/dp/0978062132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325103443&sr=1-1 It's a book about King Richard III written in Elizabethan English by Robert Fripp not of King Crimson, my favourite band. I'll let you know if it's good
  15. Movie/TV recommendations

    I disagree regarding its relevance!
  16. Movie/TV recommendations

    I wouldn't say that. It works in the Swedish film, at least, because it explains Salander a bit. But I've heard the character is a less vulnerable (emotionally) in the American film, so maybe it isn't needed. It's really weird the American film exists. I quit reading the book after about 50 pages...
  17. Battlethumbs 3

    I'm hoping for some Thumbs shooting at fake people action later this week! Though Wednesday and Friday are not great for me.
  18. Movie/TV recommendations

    Stinks of rehash a bit. Ridley Scott hasn't been his best for a couple of decades. That is, ever since he stopped doing sci-fi... So maybe this one is good after all, we'll see.
  19. Movie/TV recommendations

    Eh? A children's book is exactly what The Hobbit is.
  20. V The Elder Scrolls

    They especially hate elves!
  21. V The Elder Scrolls

    IIRC I stopped playing Oblivion after I broke chameleon and ran about for a while completely invisible, never having to even fight.
  22. Battlethumbs 3

    Well, I'm gonna play in a few minutes!
  23. Battlethumbs 3

    We should play.
  24. Battlethumbs 3

    I applied to the platoon. I'm using the nick prog_hume.
  25. General Video Game Deals Thread

    I'm gonna go against the grain and buy BF3. It's a bit like a holiday sale if I buy a Russian key, isn't it?