Well, when we are given, even at the primary level, a pack of well funded alpha sociopaths to vote for, what do ya do?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Run for office and show those bastards a thing or three, right? Me against sociopaths with millions of corporate dollars and a media machine to crush anyone from outside the political class.
And, no, I don't have a solution. I'm one of the few people left willing to admit when he has no answer rather than copypasting something from some ideological pamphlet.
Employers in Japan put your name in Google, and simply associate everything that comes up with you? They don't even check if it's the same person? This doesn't even pass a level 1 stink test.
Eh... I really think the fighting style was dictated by the situation. You really think a fencing style would have worked in that scene? And why can't he know more than one style?
I think it just suffered from "need to establish the world" syndrome that any first film in a series has. It's a reboot, so they need to re-establish all the characters and the fictional universe. Sorry fellow ST fans, but there's lots of people out there now who didn't grow up with TOS, and those new generations need to be considered. So, I have some level of confidence for the series at the moment. Abrams has been a big hit and miss for me, but the hits have been solid, ones, personally.
I thought what they did to a certain planet was actually a pretty ballsy move, dramatically speaking. I just hope they handle it in an interesting manner in the next film. If they can reign in the patently illogical WTF moments, the reboot could do well for a while.
Prolly not, and it wouldn't matter, because we're currently seeing a very inefficient use of capital.
Exactly. One of my favorite SF films is still "Primer" which cost less than $10K, and has a time travel story the film's creator had to flow chart on his web site before many people could unravel it.;-) "Chronicle" was another neat film and cost a relatively paltry $15 million.
I actually enjoyed John Carter as a straight up action film, but, holy cow, where did the $250 million go? I thought CGI effects and sets were supposed to give us epic scales at independent film budgets? I hope it wasn't the marketing, because the ad campaign was one of the worst I've seen in a while for a big budget film. When amateurs are posting better re-cut trailers for your film on YouTube, you've got a problem.
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Pissed off majority will then go and vote established Party lines. Um, yay?
Well, when we are given, even at the primary level, a pack of well funded alpha sociopaths to vote for, what do ya do?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Run for office and show those bastards a thing or three, right? Me against sociopaths with millions of corporate dollars and a media machine to crush anyone from outside the political class.
And, no, I don't have a solution. I'm one of the few people left willing to admit when he has no answer rather than copypasting something from some ideological pamphlet.
Sssssh! That's the new ending DLC to Mass Effect 3! SPOLIERS!
The press corpse
(squints)
Not sure if clever or typo.
o.O
No, I was just poking fun at, ah, who cares...
OK, I"m testing that.
I went to the fair, met an acrobat named Fox who balanced on a beam, and got some News from the crier.
Science!
Well, at least someone wrote it.
Maybe he's using metric time. Or dog years. Metric dog years.
I put 38 oz of cola Slurpee and 26 oz of cherry Slurpee in a 64 oz cup.
You are toying with powers you can't possibly hope to understand.
Dude, I have no idea what you just typed, but pass me whatever you are toking.
*Was* a mass effect relay. D'oh! Spoiler!
I vote ancient Reaper battle.
o.O
Bill O'Reilly was right! We can't explain it!
so this type of thing can happen, especially with common names.
You must have it really bad. There's an astonishing number of people named Anonymous Coward around here.
Employers in Japan put your name in Google, and simply associate everything that comes up with you? They don't even check if it's the same person? This doesn't even pass a level 1 stink test.
I guess he wants to work on an actual game.
lives of quiet desperation and all of that
Huh? What? Oh.
Sounds like a perfect Summer Glau vehicle, did you contact her agent to see if she is interested?
Where do you think the restraining order came from?
So my romantic comedy/alien invasion musical based on Euler's number can just be copied?
And there goes my 36 part interpretive dance western series based on DeVicci's tesseract constant.
Moon (2009)
Eh... I really think the fighting style was dictated by the situation. You really think a fencing style would have worked in that scene? And why can't he know more than one style?
I think it just suffered from "need to establish the world" syndrome that any first film in a series has. It's a reboot, so they need to re-establish all the characters and the fictional universe. Sorry fellow ST fans, but there's lots of people out there now who didn't grow up with TOS, and those new generations need to be considered. So, I have some level of confidence for the series at the moment. Abrams has been a big hit and miss for me, but the hits have been solid, ones, personally.
I thought what they did to a certain planet was actually a pretty ballsy move, dramatically speaking. I just hope they handle it in an interesting manner in the next film. If they can reign in the patently illogical WTF moments, the reboot could do well for a while.
Prolly not, and it wouldn't matter, because we're currently seeing a very inefficient use of capital.
Exactly. One of my favorite SF films is still "Primer" which cost less than $10K, and has a time travel story the film's creator had to flow chart on his web site before many people could unravel it. ;-) "Chronicle" was another neat film and cost a relatively paltry $15 million.
I actually enjoyed John Carter as a straight up action film, but, holy cow, where did the $250 million go? I thought CGI effects and sets were supposed to give us epic scales at independent film budgets? I hope it wasn't the marketing, because the ad campaign was one of the worst I've seen in a while for a big budget film. When amateurs are posting better re-cut trailers for your film on YouTube, you've got a problem.