Lament 2: Cry Harder

[Aaron]

Yay!

And that was a fantastic film.

[joviwan]

I liked that movie, though I remember spending most of it cringing at obi-wan's really bad accent.

[Sandman]

Any film with Ewan McGregor is basically a game of Spot The Slipping Accent.

Except for in films like Trainspotting where he's not bothering with an accent, he has an almost universal tendency to slip into something noticeably Scottish in nearly every film he's in.

[Gands]

Any film with Ewan McGregor is basically a game of Spot The Slipping Accent.

Except for in films like Trainspotting where he's not bothering with an accent, he has an almost universal tendency to slip into something noticeably Scottish in nearly every film he's in.

I like to pretend it's part of his character. He's always secretly from Scotland, but trying to hide it.

The Island? When he had memories implanted at "birth", one of them was accidentally a scene from Highlander.

[Sandman]

Obi-Wan Kenobi is from Space-Scotland, but eventually lost most remnants of his accent after spending time on a planet populated mostly by hicks?

[adr]

letia loves game of thrones so i watched a couple episodes with her

and jesus christ there's a lot of boobs in it. apparently someone told them "exposition is boring" so they figured "hey let's add a bunch of boobs while they talk!!!!!!!!!!"

[Dooey Jo]

they call it sexposition

its purpose is to make boobs boring

[evilsoup]

made it kind of uncomfortable to watch with my parents

also
god
fuck this cold, it's really knocked me out
OTOH hot toddy is awesome, it's brought me from death's door to sitting up & talking

[artemas]

i wouldn't really call game of thrones 'heroic fantasy' exactly

also good job on watching men who stare at goats everyone

it is sweet

[Sandman]

That it is.

As for Game of Thrones, my description for it (beyond 'shite') would probably be 'low fantasy'. Maybe. I prefer 'shite'.

[Crazedwraith]

Yet you like malazan: garden of the moon.

...

I do not get you.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

letia loves game of thrones so i watched a couple episodes with her

and jesus christ there's a lot of boobs in it. apparently someone told them "exposition is boring" so they figured "hey let's add a bunch of boobs while they talk!!!!!!!!!!"

Season two has one of the most egregious examples. I';d personally advise against watching season two. It's probably the worst bit of television this year. If you're interested, I'll explain why when I get back from class.

[Sandman]

Yet you like malazan: garden of the moon.

...

I do not get you.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen has enough appeal to my love of high magic and epic demon or dragon battles that I can forgive its flaws for entertainment value. A Song of Ice and Fire lacks anything that appeals me and in fact suffers from several things that directly put me off from reading it.

*shrug*

It's a basic matter of what I like in fantasy, and A Song of Ice and Fire is specifically what I don't like about a lot of recent fantasy.

[Oxymoron]

So, in today's weekly discussion with my therapist, the subject moved on the topic of "violent videogames". Oh boy. I understand she has, as she said, an "ideological" point of view on the question, and I respect it ; but goddamn, no, that's not because a kid is going to play a violent videogame that he's going to turn violent himself. I am proof enough of that, having been raised with Doom, Blood, Rise Of The Triad and all that shit...

[evilsoup]

yeah, keep up that story, so long as noone looks inside your murdershed it'll hold up

[Oxymoron]

Eheheeee... What did I tell y'all 'bout stayin' outta my shed ?!



Anyway, I'm not going to get sidetracked again. I'm not saying you should let your kids play violent videogames, and in retrospect my parents fucked up by letting me play them ; but at least I am proof enough that violent videogames don't magically turn kids into little sociopaths (which is a kid's natural state, by the way ). It can contribute, but it's not the principal factor.

[Losonti Tokash]

the first movie i remember seeing was terminator 2 and i turned out fine

it does mean i say "i have detailed files on human anatomy" too much though and that's almost as bad

[Sandman]

I'll bet you have detailed files on human anatomy. Careful with that wrist strain, though.

[Oxymoron]

You would hope so from a medic

[Aaron]

So Val and I are taking the course to get our Restricted firearms license in Nov. But the last day of the course is on Nov 11, Remembrance Day.

So we agreed that we would bring up having the minute of silence at 1100.

[Oxymoron]

4-day long extended week-end.


I can't wait to be a lazy fuck and play all these videogames

[Bounty]

So Val and I are taking the course to get our Restricted firearms license in Nov. But the last day of the course is on Nov 11, Remembrance Day.

So we agreed that we would bring up having the minute of silence at 1100.

No gun salute?

[Aaron]

Lol

You mean the present arms or a volley?

[The Spartan]

Like this?

[Aaron]

We do it with the rifle held out in front of us, mag out.