But... but.. this is in Canada, y'know, the modern Utopia where everything is just perfect. Or so many Internet memes today would have you believe. The next time I'm on Memedroid and I see one of those annoying memes, I'm bringing this up . Hah.
That's definitely true, especially your last sentence. Logic is not a necessary element of the fabric of dreams; one moment you're one place doing something or talking to someone, in the blink of an eye, it's all different, you're somewhere else, or the place you just were is different but the same place, etc.. yet it's all perfectly seamless and you never question it: "How'd I get here?"; that part of Inception really hit the nail on the head.
Sometimes I wonder, if I were in a coma and got to dream like that all the time, would that be so bad? Sounds pretty damn awesome actually, if that were possible. Seems to beat the pants off reality in many respects. (Well, at least until you're a parent, I couldn't bare to leave my son behind like that, so no comas for me thanks). But sometimes I can see - to refer to yet another movie- why Cypher told Agent Smith he wanted to be plugged back into the Matrix.
That's good objective journalism for you: " "Bob Alvarez has a terrific article on the history and realities of thorium as an energy fuel... "
Can we dispense with adjectives such as "terrific" that are clearly subjective judgments in describing an article, especially one as biased and contested as this is?
Well, if they ban these masks, guess they better ban Burqas too. Or neither. But I'm sure that will never happen in the US. It's surprising that France did.
I never got that far as to have full control and stay dreaming, but I could always wake myself up when things got very unpleasant, which is pretty rare, fortunately. At one point I started a dream journal, but the problem was after writing stuff down in the middle of the night, I couldn't fall back to asleep.
... I was a teenager. Was really pretty cool. Especially being able to fly everywhere.
Me too. I still have them, irregularly, and I'm decades past being a teenager. They're the best dreams.
More often than not they start where I'm standing, and I can just lean back slightly and lift my feet off the ground and float, from there, I can move up, or jump for a jumpstart. Sometimes it's just floating, less often it's full out flying around. In almost every one of these dreams, I wonder to myself why I never tried this before. Usually I go no higher than, say, full grown oak tree height, but that's perfectly fine.
In Independence Day, they didn't come *here* specifically just to wipe us out. The premise was that they were like locusts, hopping from system to system, traveling the galaxy, and stripping planets of their resources along the way. They sent scouts out ahead of time for the best candidates, and it seems logical that Earth would be a good target for it's resources.
Not that the movie was exactly a bastion of logic, I'm just saying that particular aspect of it was not too far fetched, it was one of the better plot devices, relatively speaking.
I'm sure that's what he was saying in his head as he made this statement. They've raised the level of the half truth to a new art form, now it's like a quarter truth or less, and the scary thing is, they can actually say it with conviction and a straight face. This is nothing new to me though, those with a golden tongue such as Obama often hide behind their words while those who listen mindlessly swoon and cheer. These guys are just intelligent enough to be devious.
Well, that's your opinion. Most authors seem to like to write sex into their stories somehow, and in a multi-species world, things would tend to seem more "kinky" by comparison (some people have enough issues with just interracial sex); but in any case that in no way detracts from the brilliant ideas and insights he put into his writing. The only thing that detracts from stories, IMO, is his frequent reference to data tapes, which today sounds so incredibly dated.
As a dramatic/horror type scene, yes.. but for an action based space opera, it just wouldn't be remotely as engaging without the pwew pwews added in. They had the exact same discussion when developing the original Star Trek series in the '60s (and probably for TNG again too), and knowing full well there is no sound in space, they nonetheless decided to dub it in anyway after doing some tests. Consider it poetic license.
Why assume all else is equal? You refuse to acknowledge the possibility that more blacks kill whites than vice versa, regardless of population, because.. let me guess, that sounds racist? I'm just looking at the numbers. Think about how many of these murders are committed by gangs, like the Bloods and the Crips for example, or for that matter, MS-13, though that's latino. The vast majority of gang members are minorities. It's not an improbable scenario. Though they kill even more of themselves probably than non gang members.
Klinger wasn't trying to be gay, he was trying to be crazy.
This is explored in one of the episodes where a visiting psychiatrist offers to discharge Klinger from the Army -- but under the heading of a homosexual or transvestite. He refuses the discharge.
That homophobe! This would provoke outrage in today's media.
It does make some sense to use a laughtrack for all the good reasons listed above and below. I have no problem with them so long as they're used judiciously, and it depends on the show.
I think BBT is pretty damn good so I don't even notice the laugh track; but on a truly suckass shitcom like, "Two Broke Girls", when they're cranked up and fired off after every. single. line. uttered -none of which are remotely funny or clever- that they get really annoying and feel canned.
FYI: one of the shows creators has stated that Sheldon does not in fact have aspergers. Though he'd be hard pressed to explain that, because it sure seems that way to me.
That's patently absurd. You guys are only proving how nerdy and socially inept you are by being so butthurt over a freaking sitcom. It's fiction, most of us get that. Geez, take a joke.
At the end of the day, the characters still come across as likeable as well as smart (if not flawed, but that makes them human). That beats the hell out of most US sitcoms. The main focus of a sitcom is entertainment and to make people laugh, not espouse how cool science-inclined people actually are.
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I was just going to mention Skyrim; the modding community for that game is absolutely huge. Damn near everything for that game can be modified
But... but .. this is in Canada, y'know, the modern Utopia where everything is just perfect. Or so many Internet memes today would have you believe. The next time I'm on Memedroid and I see one of those annoying memes, I'm bringing this up . Hah.
That's definitely true, especially your last sentence. Logic is not a necessary element of the fabric of dreams; one moment you're one place doing something or talking to someone, in the blink of an eye, it's all different, you're somewhere else, or the place you just were is different but the same place, etc.. yet it's all perfectly seamless and you never question it: "How'd I get here?"; that part of Inception really hit the nail on the head.
Sometimes I wonder, if I were in a coma and got to dream like that all the time, would that be so bad? Sounds pretty damn awesome actually, if that were possible. Seems to beat the pants off reality in many respects. (Well, at least until you're a parent, I couldn't bare to leave my son behind like that, so no comas for me thanks). But sometimes I can see - to refer to yet another movie- why Cypher told Agent Smith he wanted to be plugged back into the Matrix.
That's good objective journalism for you: " "Bob Alvarez has a terrific article on the history and realities of thorium as an energy fuel... "
Can we dispense with adjectives such as "terrific" that are clearly subjective judgments in describing an article, especially one as biased and contested as this is?
But .. but ...on TV, all they have to do is say "enhance" and it comes out like 1080p.
The first mask laws were about 100 years ago against the KKK
So....... if you don't support a ban against masks, then you must be a racist? *ducks*
Well, if they ban these masks, guess they better ban Burqas too. Or neither. But I'm sure that will never happen in the US. It's surprising that France did.
I never got that far as to have full control and stay dreaming, but I could always wake myself up when things got very unpleasant, which is pretty rare, fortunately. At one point I started a dream journal, but the problem was after writing stuff down in the middle of the night, I couldn't fall back to asleep.
... I was a teenager. Was really pretty cool. Especially being able to fly everywhere.
Me too. I still have them, irregularly, and I'm decades past being a teenager. They're the best dreams. More often than not they start where I'm standing, and I can just lean back slightly and lift my feet off the ground and float, from there, I can move up, or jump for a jumpstart. Sometimes it's just floating, less often it's full out flying around. In almost every one of these dreams, I wonder to myself why I never tried this before. Usually I go no higher than, say, full grown oak tree height, but that's perfectly fine.
France was involved in the Vietnam War before the US was.
The older I get, the more I begin to wish this were real.
In Independence Day, they didn't come *here* specifically just to wipe us out. The premise was that they were like locusts, hopping from system to system, traveling the galaxy, and stripping planets of their resources along the way. They sent scouts out ahead of time for the best candidates, and it seems logical that Earth would be a good target for it's resources.
Not that the movie was exactly a bastion of logic, I'm just saying that particular aspect of it was not too far fetched, it was one of the better plot devices, relatively speaking.
That's so wrong on so many levels, where to begin? The majority of shootings are gang related. Hardly "law abiding" citizens.
This is exactly why they crap on our cars, picnic tables, and heads. It's retaliation, pure and simple. :)
The fuq? I think you mean Obamatainment.
- or games. Valve is getting there but it ain't ready for prime time yet.
I'm sure that's what he was saying in his head as he made this statement. They've raised the level of the half truth to a new art form, now it's like a quarter truth or less, and the scary thing is, they can actually say it with conviction and a straight face. This is nothing new to me though, those with a golden tongue such as Obama often hide behind their words while those who listen mindlessly swoon and cheer. These guys are just intelligent enough to be devious.
I never understood why stormtroopers even bothered to wear that "armor", it never did jack squat for them, even against a simple pistol sized blaster.
Well, that's your opinion. Most authors seem to like to write sex into their stories somehow, and in a multi-species world, things would tend to seem more "kinky" by comparison (some people have enough issues with just interracial sex); but in any case that in no way detracts from the brilliant ideas and insights he put into his writing. The only thing that detracts from stories, IMO, is his frequent reference to data tapes, which today sounds so incredibly dated.
As a dramatic/horror type scene, yes.. but for an action based space opera, it just wouldn't be remotely as engaging without the pwew pwews added in. They had the exact same discussion when developing the original Star Trek series in the '60s (and probably for TNG again too), and knowing full well there is no sound in space, they nonetheless decided to dub it in anyway after doing some tests. Consider it poetic license.
Why assume all else is equal? You refuse to acknowledge the possibility that more blacks kill whites than vice versa, regardless of population, because .. let me guess, that sounds racist? I'm just looking at the numbers. Think about how many of these murders are committed by gangs, like the Bloods and the Crips for example, or for that matter, MS-13, though that's latino. The vast majority of gang members are minorities. It's not an improbable scenario. Though they kill even more of themselves probably than non gang members.
Klinger wasn't trying to be gay, he was trying to be crazy.
This is explored in one of the episodes where a visiting psychiatrist offers to discharge Klinger from the Army -- but under the heading of a homosexual or transvestite. He refuses the discharge.
That homophobe! This would provoke outrage in today's media.
It does make some sense to use a laughtrack for all the good reasons listed above and below. I have no problem with them so long as they're used judiciously, and it depends on the show.
I think BBT is pretty damn good so I don't even notice the laugh track; but on a truly suckass shitcom like, "Two Broke Girls", when they're cranked up and fired off after every. single. line. uttered -none of which are remotely funny or clever- that they get really annoying and feel canned.
FYI: one of the shows creators has stated that Sheldon does not in fact have aspergers. Though he'd be hard pressed to explain that, because it sure seems that way to me.
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That's patently absurd. You guys are only proving how nerdy and socially inept you are by being so butthurt over a freaking sitcom. It's fiction, most of us get that. Geez, take a joke.
At the end of the day, the characters still come across as likeable as well as smart (if not flawed, but that makes them human). That beats the hell out of most US sitcoms. The main focus of a sitcom is entertainment and to make people laugh, not espouse how cool science-inclined people actually are.