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  2. Posted

    Thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone.

    Take it as a sign that you have ambition.

    Thanks. That's comforting and encouraging.

    And enjoy being 23!

    I'll try.

    :violin:

    Heh. Nah, I'm not being an attention whore; it's just that I'm 23 now and I feel like my life is going nowhere. I'm wondering if feeling worried about that is fair with all the good stuff happening.

  3. Posted

    I turn 23 in 35 minutes. I suppose it's not normal to have a mid-life crisis at this age, is it? Anyway, yeah: mid-life crisis.

    On the other hand, a small selection of my friends threw me a lovely surprise birthday party today, as organized by my girlfriend. Did not see it coming. Cherry chocolate cake was delicious.

    My friend gave me a monocle and a top-hat, things I half-jokingly wished for a few months ago. I wore them all day and took "funny" pictures with a delighted 5 year old.

    It was all so consistently wonderful.

    But still, mid-life crisis. Am I being spoiled here? Or is this not completely unreasonable?

    Ignoring that, at this moment, I'm technically in the waning minutes of being 22.

  6. Posted

    Community is getting renewed for a fourth season. Excellent; I loved the first two seasons, and can't wait to get into the third.

    There's some worrying things in there, though:

    In the meantime, in case you need something to freak out about, this Deadline report on the renewal suggests there exists a possibility Dan Harmon will no longer be the series' showrunner. With executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan exiting for their deal with Fox, that would leave a big vacuum on the show (unless Harmon stepped down as showrunner but continued to be the series' head writer somehow)

  9. Posted · Edited by Kroms

    I've heard good things about it and bad things about it, but I don't have access to it and feel iffy about downloading things I haven't paid for. I wonder if the original Danish series is worth seeing?

    --

    I saw The Other Guys the other day. It's OK. The idea is funnier than the actual execution, but it has its moments.

    --

    The new HBO show Girls looks pretty damn good. My curiosity is peaked; I want to watch it.

  10. Posted · Edited by Kroms

    That's a funny, haphazard conclusion to draw. Enslavement, 2012: highway repair.

    I don't know if that excerpt's particularly insightful, at least to me. I had most of those revelations when I looked at a furniture catalog when I was ten.

    Edit: I'm sorry I came across as an asshole. For some reason, that excerpt jarred with me.

  11. Posted

    When you're at the beginning of the very first level in the demo, jump to the bubble where Rayman is dancing. That'll let you play as Rayman.

    I want to buy this. I've finished the demo several times. Alas, no money. :(

  13. Posted

    Baelish is quite the subtle, manipulative bastard in the books. I'm not liking some of the things you guys are saying. I'm not longer looking forward to the TV series as much as I was a day ago. Actually I just looked-up a scene between him and Cersei that was never in the books and he's so out-of-character - so hot-headed - I'm wondering what the writers are doing.

    A lot of Ned's character was cut out of season one. Due to the backstory-lenient structure of the novels, which they can't adapt smoothly into a TV series, you get a lot more to him in print than you could on TV.

    I really, really recommend reading the books. Season one was fine, but pales compared to the novel. Not least for all the little things they understandably couldn't work in.

    Ah, I hope book six comes out soon. I'm going to re-read all five in anticipation of it.

  15. Posted

    I don't know about the TV series, but in the book(s) Joffrey's a fairly well-rounded character. Most are.

    re:the magic: it's mostly going to be very low-key. You're going to get one of the "big" fantasy moments in season 2 (and rather soon, actually); but it'll never hit typical fantasy levels.

    A lot of it is also very tied to character development. I like how magic is used in this series.

    but so far it seems like both the readers and viewers of this tale are having to take it on faith that all of this will pay off.

    It's already starting to. A Dance With Dragons spoiler:

    What about Bran, Bloodraven, and greenseeing?

  17. Posted

    That's awesome, Speedy. That cheered me up considerably. A first is a first is a first!

    Everyone else, thanks for the advice. I'm actually documenting everything he's doing and am now trying to figure out how to make sure my girlfriend is surrounded by friends at all times when we're at university just because that's when she's most vulnerable.

    Yay life, though.

  18. Posted

    Great, no. He's passing by her house in the car now screaming "Bitch".

    What's the right thing here? Beat him up? Let police know about this, screw the dating thing and the trouble it'll cause me and her?

    I mean this is psycho-level behavior, right?

  19. Posted · Edited by Kroms

    Speedy, that's great. But what's a first? :getmecoat

    Ugh, so life has been pretty stressful lately. School, friends, general immaturity and cultural, ah, difficulties (I had a fight on Thursday because I refused to say that Anti-Semitism was not wrong), two people now quite seriously want me dead. One for a really stupid story I don't feel like getting into (summary: I saw him yelling at his girlfriend and yanking her arm around as she screamed at him to let her go, so I went over and told him to buzz off; he later tried to stab me :erm:) and now my girlfriend's psychotic ex has gone stalker-ish and made her cry last night, emailing me, calling her "bitch", making threats to me and telling me to just "die" so he can "get [his] life back". The problem is we can't tell police because of cultural stupidity (what are we doing dating in the first place?, etc).

    That helped me feel a little bit better. Sorry for the random cart rattle, speedy.

  21. Posted

    I hope you did, subbes. :woohoo: Congratulations! Mabrook!

    Twig, good luck. Pass it from the first time, feel happy. I'll dance for you, too. Here's me getting ready to dance: :clap:

  22. Posted

    Alright. Thanks everyone for the answers to the screenwriter question.

    I just saw Johnny English Reborn. Man, someone needs to give Rowan Atkinson a good script and maybe a competent director, because this was poor. It's a very lazy, cliched and uninspired film. The characters in particular are unfocused and with no clear personality. Avoid this.

  23. Posted

    However, most single-protagonist characters I know tend to be on the uninteresting side because out of necessity they require broad appeal.

    I disagree. Broad appeal makes for an uninteresting character. Out with the Mary Sues, in with the Hamlets. Ignatius J. Reilly made A Confederacy of Dunces what it is.

  24. Posted

    I like Accelerated C++ quite a bit, though it assumes you have some basic knowledge of programming.

    If you just need to learn OOP, and you're stuck between C++ and Java, learn Java. Yes, it can be a chore to write code in it (everything has to be in classes), but at least you avoid some of the messier stuff C++ will set on your table; for example, there is no memory leaking in Java, and garbage collection is automatic. Want to learn Java? Read the tutorials on Oracle's website.

    //C++
#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

int main() {
     cout << "Good luck, though!" << endl;
     return 0;
}


    //look at me I'm Java
public class dibs {
    public static void main(String[] godibs) {
        System.out.println("Coding can be loads of fun, so enjoy it!");
    }
}

  25. Posted

    So I was wondering if someone could help me remember any great, great screenwriters? Coen Brothers, Charlie Kaufman, Martin McDonagh. I'm sure there's more. Edgar Wright collaborating with Simon Pegg usually results in great screenplays, though Simon Pegg working alone hasn't been as memorable.

    I'm sure this list could be improved.