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NSFW (gore and tits) Quote the creator: "It's a parody in that it is a conceptual straight faced hyperbole. Every scene is straight-faced and serious and believable. If you watched it and enjoyed every minute of it dramatically, literally - you're not stupid, you're honest. That's what I wante...

I've gone on a retro kick and set up a RetroPi. It's scraping the metadata for every 16-bit Nintendo game now and a USB SNES controller is on its way.

I've also dusted off the N64 and damn, Jet Froce Gemini is as good as I remember. Awesome music too.

joviwan wrote:I am genuinely, actually frightened of the entire republican line up, and especially Drumpf.

It's sad and embarrassing more than anything.

I wouldn't say that I hated it, but it didn't work for me. There were good moments and I could identify with Brolin's character to an extent, but the rest sort of fell flat for me. You and quite a few other people going by the reviews. Seems like it's a clean split between people for whom the movie...

So I went and watched the new Coen brothers movie today. Don't ask me about the plot because I don't think there is one. There are colourful characters and great scenes and interesting ideas but it all hangs together by a thread storywise. The closest it gets to an arc is Josh Brolin deciding on a j...

One of the themes of the movie is that these are basically guys who are >200 years out of date on everything and one is literally a medieval tryrant. When Deacon says he was with the Nazis it doesn't really seem to register with him that there's something wrong or strange about it. As for the deaths...

I liked the first reboot movie. Great effects, great cast. Shoddy story, but good enough to lead into a series.

Too bad they took that potential and ran it off a cliff.

• The Wrath Of Khan
  First Contact
  The Undiscovered Country
  The Voyage Home
  '09
  Galaxy Quest
  The Motion Picture (DE)
  Into Darkness
  The Search For Spock
  Insurrection
  Generations
  The Final Frontier
  Nemesis

Honourable mention: Master And Command: The Far Side Of The World

The biggest complaint I've seen and one that I can agree with is that it's A New Hope 2.0. It's so blatant that it had to have been deliberate. I feel like the plot should have revolved around the Search for Spock Luke, rather than faffing about on Starkiller Base. That I didn't mind at all. Luke is...

I may see it again in 2D. The 3D was well-done for 3D but it still looked murky.

Decades have passed since ROTJ. Luke tried to train a new generation of Jedi but one of them fell to the Dark Side and Luke disappeared. Leia has a theory he went to the first Jedi temple but nobody knows where it is. Meanwhile, the remains of the Empire have been taken over by a Dark Side user cal...

I have seen it. TIE fighters have ejector seats, Stormtrooper armour isn't NBC sealed and TEO ruined me.

The movie is also bitchin cool. Looks good, sounds good, lots of laughs, a few tears, about three end-of-TESB level reveals.

Ah, recruiters. "We have exciting opportunities in Glasgow!" - no thanks, I prefer to stay un-shanked. "Come and work for us at <megacorp>!" - I might've, if I wasn't already working as a contractor for another branch of your company.

Bless 'em for trying, though.

Cops ask politely not to tweet pictures of operations while they're ongoing, so of course the tabloids set up a live stream with every makeshift barricade and perimeter in Brussels.

Is it wrong that I'm silently hoping my client cancels work tomorrow? The office is in Brussels after all.

The Spartan wrote:I hesitated to post my petty problem given recent events

Don't. Every problem is petty compared to something. That doesn't make you experiences any less important or valid.

Also, that sucks

I'm booking a weekend in Paris. I'm not letting some extremist make me miss out on the most romantic city on Earth.

Oxy, remember, let the robot cut the wire, and stay away from people who are two weeks from retirement.

I got tickets for the 16th, who else is going to make the same mistake they made with Episode I?

holy shit I never believed anyone who sung MS Word's praises over libre/openoffice but holy shit mail merge is so much nicer I gave up and bought Word when I decided that I was tired of having the formatting of my college papers be randomly fucked up for no apparent reason when I converted them to ...

that tree just does not give one fuck

In case anyone else wants to show off a pic.

Rey's Speeder, FACTS 2015, Pentax P30 with Hoya 28/2.8, HP5 pushed to 1600:

The Spartan wrote:An anti-lament: Went to the Weird Al show last night and got to meet Weird Al.

Aw, he's making puppy love eyes at you

Talking about retarding your spark plugs would be a bitch if the filter was that eager. Just restarted the Shadow Warrior remake. It's nice to play a game that rewards a bit of exploration and has a combat system with some variety. The first time I played it I gave up after a while because the shott...