...So are you still around, or have you abandoned us here at VideoSift?

I hope our crazy antics haven't scared you off..

Wow! The Hives are still around? I listened to them a while back. Thanks for that, dude!
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Another KEXP concert, this time The Hives.

You still around?

>> ^Payback:

My purchased-brand-new-for-like-twice-my-bleeding-edge-gaming-PC Apple //c is still around here somewhere...


I got rid of mine back in late summer of 2008. I was hoping it would be rare and expensive to sell. Nope!

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb8DVSmHoIw

My purchased-brand-new-for-like-twice-my-bleeding-edge-gaming-PC Apple //c is still around here somewhere...

I wish detective @chicchorea was still around.

i remember those days>> ^wormwood:

They actually tried to go metric in the 70s. We started learning it in elementary school and there were TV spots trying to teach us all about it--schoolhouse rock kind of stuff. And you started seeing dual units on packaging and speedometers, etc. Coke went from 2-quart to 2-liter bottles, which were a bit larger and therefore popular. Those 2 liter bottles are still around as the only remaining effect of the effort--even NdGT has given up! Americans hate the metric system, but they will put up with it if it means a slightly larger volume of sugary liquid to suck on.

They actually tried to go metric in the 70s. We started learning it in elementary school and there were TV spots trying to teach us all about it--schoolhouse rock kind of stuff. And you started seeing dual units on packaging and speedometers, etc. Coke went from 2-quart to 2-liter bottles, which were a bit larger and therefore popular. Those 2 liter bottles are still around as the only remaining effect of the effort--even NdGT has given up! Americans hate the metric system, but they will put up with it if it means a slightly larger volume of sugary liquid to suck on.

Wha....
Grace Jones is still around...?
I haven't heard her name since she acted in Conan the Destroyer (the role, I thought, that ended her career)

>> ^kymbos:

For a second series that was just inching along prior, the final two episodes finally gained some momentum, IMO. I was stoked with the last two episodes.
But explain something to me (and forgive my lack of names - I'll try to describe them).
The red-head guy who took Winterfell - he made a speech, the guy from the Office clocked him on the head, and the next thing the whole place has burned down. How does that work? Why didn't the 500 Starks outside bust in and stop them? What happened to the red-head? They couldn't burn down Winterfell and then hand him over and just wander off, surely? They'd have them on spikes in no time.
Also, Sansa is told by the Dog that he'll take her to Winterfell at the end of ep.9 - then in the finale he's just gone and she's still around. What?
Apart from that, on the whole, my only criticism as a noob is general pace. Some story lines are left unprogressed for ages, while we watch Rob slowly fall in love with someone. There are so many people we're attached to on cliff-hangers, spending half an episode setting up a romance between Rob and his ladyfriend is just redundant.
Otherwise, it's no Breaking Bad but I like it.


That scene doesn't come off very well in the book either. I can't really tell you what happened in the book without spoiling it, suffice to say that a few more things happened between those two parts of the story. They handled it differently on the show than in the book, and I think they'll explain how it played out at the beginning of the next season. One note though: Robb did say in the show that any Ironborn except Theon could leave unharmed if they surrendered.

Sansa's story will also play out more, you're supposed to be confused.

As to the pace, that's just the way the books are written. It gets so bad that eventually, the two latest books take place simultaneously, with different characters. Book four: A Feast For Crows contains no Tyrion at all, you have to read through to the fifth book to find out what Tyrion was doing while the events of the fourth book were playing out. Weird huh? But I couldn't stop reading them.

For a second series that was just inching along prior, the final two episodes finally gained some momentum, IMO. I was stoked with the last two episodes.

But explain something to me (and forgive my lack of names - I'll try to describe them).

The red-head guy who took Winterfell - he made a speech, the guy from the Office clocked him on the head, and the next thing the whole place has burned down. How does that work? Why didn't the 500 Starks outside bust in and stop them? What happened to the red-head? They couldn't burn down Winterfell and then hand him over and just wander off, surely? They'd have them on spikes in no time.

Also, Sansa is told by the Dog that he'll take her to Winterfell at the end of ep.9 - then in the finale he's just gone and she's still around. What?

Apart from that, on the whole, my only criticism as a noob is general pace. Some story lines are left unprogressed for ages, while we watch Rob slowly fall in love with someone. There are so many people we're attached to on cliff-hangers, spending half an episode setting up a romance between Rob and his ladyfriend is just redundant.

Otherwise, it's no Breaking Bad but I like it.

You don't have to believe in imaginary friends or secret places in the sky to know that Samwise is still around. Not in the same form, but it's a simple fact that he left his mark on everything and everyone he ever touched (in more ways than one, I imagine). That can't be undone, in the very same way that matter and energy (and information, according to my own recent theorizing) can't be destroyed, only changed.

I know all too well that doesn't replace what's missing, but it's worth thinking about.


[edit] tl;dr: what UsesProzac said.

this guy is still around?! he's awesome!

MCAs' still around as long as we poppin' this
Lookin' down on us all, eternally rockin' hits
'cause when it's time it's time n' it's crime is its providence;
Pinchin', scrimpin', 'n skimpin' her thrift;
But the legend lives on so the party ain't miffed!

Add my vote to the amazement that paper towel dispensers are still around. The airblade ones are awesome, and if you can't get 'satisfied' by using one of those, I'm not sure what the hell you want from your hand drying experience?