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The second movie started off fair enough (with genuine fun and adventure with saving aliens from a volcano) but seemed to slowly implode completely on itself as soon as the supposed Khan got introduced (and we had annoying plot holes like the emergency secret Starfleet committee not knowing the conc...

I liked the Rey melody and it generated better ambience than in the PT, like the ANH's soundtrack, but there was no strident tune like the Maul duel, Vader march, Palpatine dirge, and Battle droid army march.

The Force Awakens is more exciting than the most solid and entertaining of the PT films, The Revenge of the Sith , but the latter film did not loot from the ANH and RotJ as heavily as TFA cockily did. I was glad that the Stormtroopers were performers and stunt men in costume (the CGI Clonetroopers ...

Cops ask politely not to tweet pictures of operations while they're ongoing, Ugh, I can recently recall getting accosted by paranoid, pretentious nutjobs who hate falling into the sight of my smartphone camera in a crowded public space (even if they're a small slightly smudged figure in the corner ...

A little late, but my genuine condolences The Spartan and Joviwan for your recent grievous family losses.

The smartphone industry pulled the carpet out from under me when I traded in my damaged Nokia Lumia 930 for a Samsung Galaxy S4, I got blind sided by the specific size of the SIM cards needed for newer and older smartphone units respectively! So I got a Nano SIM card from my Nokia Lumia lodged into ...

The British PM allegedly, as part of a Bullington Boy gag, committed an act of beastiality and necrophilia.

Yeah, Weird Al looks closer 38-40 rather than 55, he must be really into exercise, but since the 1990s chain smoking is more frowned upon and less prevalent, so you're more likely to have people who don't look like fuck past their older 30s.

He looks young for his age. You (Spartan) look like a smaller, more cheerful Doug Stamper.

Iwata Satoru, the incumbent head of Nintendo, has sadly passed away at the painfully premature age of 55 from an alleged gallbladder or pancreatic cancer.

I don't hate multiplayer, myself, and for many games it's a primary draw. I just also don't mind when people are put off by it, because I do kind of get it. I find GTA Online a little hard and slow to get into, and online multiplayer hasn't developed the reputation of experienced multiplayers freez...

My Nintendo 3DS had charging problems which proved a waste of time and money to fix (at least it got MOT'd).

Dude wrote: I hope the ducks turn out to be a bit smarter, cause this is pretty disgusting.

Now I get why people trim the beaks.

Don't build your hopes up too high...

After many years of suffering, Sir Terry Pratchett has finally conked it.

Yes, let's let in all the refugees into the developed countries unabated, then see how the public services, standard of living, and civil order holds up.

He had a decent enough innings, but a poignant sign that we're not getting younger and TOS in its original run is rapidly dropping out of living memory now (William Shatner, although remarkably fit for his age, must be shitting himself now).

RogueIce wrote:Still though, it would be nice if people could have their catfights over PMs and stuff instead of doing it in front of an audience.

*Sign* Don't give him any ideas on baiting others...

Ralin wrote:

Big Orangutan wrote:
The pseudo-intellectual pseudo-moralising asshole is good at pushing people's buttons.

I suppose you would know!

You should know (without the moralising, of course, because you seem to have none).

Well it was started on Thursday the 19th.

Darksi4190 wrote:Thanas being smug, Flagg and coffee being hyper aggressive.

The pseudo-intellectual pseudo-moralising asshole is good at pushing people's buttons.

Jeez, the "Polish government reparations to unjustly imprisoned/roughed up terror suspects" thread over in SD.Net's N&P escalated into angry, pent up nonsense pretty fast....

To be fair the staff were professional and discreet enough in running the place, plus I wasn't harmed, and nothing was stolen, with the majority of guests being cool and going to the anime convention as well. I just didn't think much about the bathroom facilities and bedding.

Well the communal/bar area to the Arsenal Inn hostel was OK and it was an experience (but if I can avoid it I'd go to the Premier Inn for similar trips next time).

Also we had a handful of pervs kicked out by con bouncers for harassing the professional female cosplayers (very attractive women in skimpy or skintight outfits).

OK, so I stayed three nights at the London Anime and Gaming Convention at a pre-booked hostel (with shared accommodation with rock solid bunk beds and rubbish communal bathroom suites, brrrrrr) and on the second night a fucking idiot was perpetually knocking on the door to my communal sleeping quart...

I now really wished game discs (and DVDs/Blu Rays) from the last 15 to 20 years came in clear plastic cartridge housing similar to the ones for the 1990s MiniDiscs, dramatically increasing their robustness and longevity, making them more genuinely suitable for the second hand games market and librar...