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Copy pasting my comments from elsewhere
The Lego Movie may well be the best kids movie ever made.
It's outrageously funny, deceptively deep, quirkily outrageous and ends of an amazingly positive message for both children and adults.
It manages to perfectly capture the mythos of Lego and what makes it special, whilst simultaneously being an excellent commercial for younger viewers and a wonderful nostalgia trip for older viewers.
The Lego Movie may well be the best kids movie ever made.
It's outrageously funny, deceptively deep, quirkily outrageous and ends of an amazingly positive message for both children and adults.
It manages to perfectly capture the mythos of Lego and what makes it special, whilst simultaneously being an excellent commercial for younger viewers and a wonderful nostalgia trip for older viewers.
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I find it hard to believe it tops Iron Giant (my favorite family/ kids movie and probably why I'm really getting into Gundam which has a similar message) but I've not heard a single bad thing about it. I'm definitely gonna see it, but like I said on FB I'm waiting for the bluray. I'm gonna see Robocop tomorrow but I'm not going to sit in a theater by myself with a bunch of annoying children.
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OK, I've steamed right through my Breaking Bad boxset, finding most of the show addictive and mesmerising, and one death scene in particular stuck in my mind:
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Is it just me or is SDN down almost as much as SB these days? I wonder if the server's failing again.
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its working fine for me. Not had any problems for a while.
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I'm slightly puzzled why you still post there, I felt much better when I spent more time in the real world with real people and did things I liked. Every other talk forums and social networks easily feel more easy going than SD.Net; SB has its chronic technical issues with a server bottleneck and a relatively high number of vocal loonies, but has a less closed in and awkward atmosphere.
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so i just got back from another baptism and mingled a wee bit with the folks there
one of the ppl was axing me about work and such and it came out that i'm a homeowner and he found that incredible.... he thought i was 19
how weird, most people think i'm older than i really am and he was way undershooting (i'm 27 right now)
maybe he just figured since i'm unmarried i couldn't possibly be older than 23 lol
one of the ppl was axing me about work and such and it came out that i'm a homeowner and he found that incredible.... he thought i was 19
how weird, most people think i'm older than i really am and he was way undershooting (i'm 27 right now)
maybe he just figured since i'm unmarried i couldn't possibly be older than 23 lol
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SDN still has the occasional bit of discussion that interests me, but it's mostly for the sake of nostalgia and lamenting the loss of a place where I felt like I fit in.Big Orangutan wrote:I'm slightly puzzled why you still post there, I felt much better when I spent more time in the real world with real people and did things I liked. Every other talk forums and social networks easily feel more easy going than SD.Net; SB has its chronic technical issues with a server bottleneck and a relatively high number of vocal loonies, but has a less closed in and awkward atmosphere.
SDN was a big, if not the biggest aspect of my social life from years 15-21. It's where I went to talk about things that interested me because no one else I knew was into them. My school didn't have a Sci-fi club, or an anime club, or a D&D group. I had some friends who were into games and movies from a pure entertainment standpoint, but there was always the unwritten rule that I shouldn't start talking about the EU in a Star Wars discussion, or bring up The Fall of Reach when we were playing Halo or anything like that, and discussion of anime was limited to "Gundam Wing/DBZ/whatever's on toonami right now is kind of cool."
On SDN it wasn't weird or awkward to read chronologies or cross-sections. It wasn't weird to pour over pages of spoilers for a new movie or television show. Things my classmates and family members had always condemned and ostracized me for were normal and accepted.
Now a lot of my RL friends are into stuff like role-playing, and Spacebattles has some pretty good discussions going, but I just miss the old days of SDN.
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I just have some friends there and I like to have friendly debates. I try to be better than I was and shit you know?
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I spent way, waaay too much time on SDN during my awkward 18-25yr old days. I think it speaks volumes that as soon as I got an actual real-world life my time on SDN basically dropped to zero.
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For me it was age 17-23 or so. I'm still there, but I've had about a hundred posts in the last five years.
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I started posting there because I was bored as hell at work and was allowed to surf the internet unless I had more work to do than just sit there in uniform.
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I lurked around the "vs." community for years because crossover-type stuff always seemed really cool. I naturally took to ASVS more than SB because I was primarily a Star Wars fan and in those days SB leaned heavily towards trek and B5, with wars being seen as "technologically inferior science fantasy." I think I might've posted on ASVS all of four times, but I visited the Fan Fic archive frequently.
I signed up on SDN my first year of high school, but didn't start posting heavily until the first STGODs were up and running.
I signed up on SDN my first year of high school, but didn't start posting heavily until the first STGODs were up and running.
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so the robocop remake
in many ways it's like the conan remake, in that it's actually pretty good, but takes itself a little too seriously
also the beginning of the film had a section from a much better film (I would watch the shit out of
also also, it was weird seeing Sarah Lund as an evil corporate exec talking about money MONEY moo hoo ha ha rather than EU fisheries subsidies or whatever
it wasn't great, but it approached the subject matter from a fresh angle (it was mostly about transhumanism and body horror -- there was still some satire, but...), so I think it's a rare worthwhile remake.
in many ways it's like the conan remake, in that it's actually pretty good, but takes itself a little too seriously
also the beginning of the film had a section from a much better film (I would watch the shit out of
). I thought they could have done more with the 'war on terror' junk
also also, it was weird seeing Sarah Lund as an evil corporate exec talking about money MONEY moo hoo ha ha rather than EU fisheries subsidies or whatever
it wasn't great, but it approached the subject matter from a fresh angle (it was mostly about transhumanism and body horror -- there was still some satire, but...), so I think it's a rare worthwhile remake.
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This is a small thing but his robot parts, are they black or the classic bare metal?
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bare metal at first, but the corporate types decide that making it look all black and tacticool would play well with the public
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Judging from the reviews and spoilers, I get the impression that the Robocop remake is like the fairly recent Total Recall remake; solidly made and watchable on its own, but kinda bland and unnecessary. Robocop 3 also suffered greatly from being a bit too bland and commercialised, even if its satirical script was not far off from what's happening in the past decade (with PMC mercenaries, Detroit becoming a bombed out wasteland, OCP's implosion mirroring corporate collapses of the 2000s, and poor urbanites being downtrodden by corporate/banking interests, etc).
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that's a pretty fair summary, yeah
like, it's not bad, and it has a few really good bits, but overall it's just there
like, it's not bad, and it has a few really good bits, but overall it's just there
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I really enjoyed it, although for very different reasons than the original.
Some of the body horror is just deliciously uncomfortable to watch.
Some of the body horror is just deliciously uncomfortable to watch.
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"this isn't the way to honor his/her memory... think about it, what would he want?"
"REVENGE!" *fires*
seriously heroes really shouldn't say that without actually knowing the person
"REVENGE!" *fires*
seriously heroes really shouldn't say that without actually knowing the person
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I was posting mainly from the age of 21 to 25, then slowly decline in my posting, and stopped indefinitely the past couple of years (when I found the arrogant stupidity a bit too much).Gands wrote:For me it was age 17-23 or so. I'm still there, but I've had about a hundred posts in the last five years.
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The Last of Us is fucking great
the DLC is on exactly the same level, it's just awesome (this is the first time I've brought something on the playstation store, that's how damn good the original game is)
this is the only game I'd put on the same level as spec ops: the line, for reference (I don't think it's quite as 'god-damn', but it's still amazing)
you should all go and get PS3s just to play this game
the DLC is on exactly the same level, it's just awesome (this is the first time I've brought something on the playstation store, that's how damn good the original game is)
this is the only game I'd put on the same level as spec ops: the line, for reference (I don't think it's quite as 'god-damn', but it's still amazing)
you should all go and get PS3s just to play this game
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God damn backup script wasn't pruning old backups like it should have been.
:edit: Backups only keeping so many on-box is working now
Also played around where the website's temp files where kept. Next step is to ensure the backups are stored on a separate file system but don't have the time yet.
:edit: Backups only keeping so many on-box is working now
Also played around where the website's temp files where kept. Next step is to ensure the backups are stored on a separate file system but don't have the time yet.
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I highly recommend Wolf Children - think 80s/90s Studio Ghibli, a bit more bite than today's Ghibli.
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with everyone talking about the new movie, i decided to watch the original robocop again just now
it is a fine feature film.. something i noticed this time that i never saw before: the guy at the beginning taking a piss who is all like "mind if i zip up"
his last name is "cox"
LOLOLOLOLOL
it is a fine feature film.. something i noticed this time that i never saw before: the guy at the beginning taking a piss who is all like "mind if i zip up"
his last name is "cox"
LOLOLOLOLOL
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