>> ^shinyblurry:

>> ^Ryjkyj:
"I reserve the right to believe in the possibility of God." -Nick Cave

What kind of God do you think is possible?


Good question Shiny. I don't think anything is necessarily impossible, because I don't claim to understand everything. But that's exactly the point, "I reserve the right to think for myself."

Again though, this is just a quote. I can't defend the position of someone else.

"Did you think I was somebody else?"

"No"

HAH!

"I reserve the right to believe in the possibility of God." -Nick Cave

>> ^Sagemind:

No offense to you Americans, but you gun-toting Americans, I don't understand you.


It's obvious, just from your tone, that you've never shot a man just to watch him die.

>> ^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.

It was the boobed owl that got my upvote.

This song would be awesome, if it didn't completely S*** my B****11!!! !1!

On the "Alien" release in 1979:

"Critical reaction to the film was initially mixed. Some critics who were not usually favorable towards science fiction, such as Barry Norman of the BBC's Film series, were positive about the film's merits. Others, however, were not: Reviews by Variety, Sight and Sound, Vincent Canby and Leonard Maltin were mixed or negative. A review by Time Out said the film was an "empty bag of tricks whose production values and expensive trickery cannot disguise imaginative poverty"."

-Wikipedia

FYI: The best mojitos have a little Serrano pepper muddled up with the mint.

What's with all the shaky cam nonsense? Learn how to hold a f****** camera!!

>> ^00Scud00:

I think, Bacon, would be a great name.


I was thinking "MRE".

I thought Basterds was great too, maybe even his best yet, and although it had action scenes, I think it was the first time that he really nailed the dialog without it ever getting tedious or boring. Reservoir Dogs is a great movie, but I've fallen asleep to it more times than I've actually watched it.

>> ^nomino:

Something about seems fake. Just before leaving the room, the father tells her not to move. I don't know. In any event, it's pretty damn cute.


I gotta admit, the first time I saw this, I didn't think it was funny (my son is about this age). But along with only getting funnier ever time I see it, it also occurs to me that this level of skill in a toddler doesn't just happen by chance. I'd be willing to bet she worked her way up to it, and that there's a pillow or something just off-screen.

Or maybe not...

SWEET!

I would argue that China's "one child" policy might have something to do with the negative effects of overpopulation, but that's a different conversation.

I really am curious as to the answer to the question: What use could we possibly have for filling the earth to carrying capacity? Not to mention the effects that reaching human capacity might have on... all the other life on earth.

It wouldn't actually take that much to accomplish something. Free access to birth control for everyone and a little bit of education could go a really long way. Even if only one in a thousand people listened or used contraception because of it, population rates would decrease dramatically.

You keep saying we're well within capacity, but problems like overfishing, the depleting oil/energy supply, the food supply, the need for arable land... these problems actually exist right now. Even with advancements, capacity is a problem right now. All the energy that we put into trying to implement the solutions to these problems could already be getting applied to making them better. Instead of trying to fix problems as they arise, we could avoid them completely and spend our time on other things.

Maybe you're right, maybe it is just hype, but I just can't help but think that the energy spent on reducing the world's population would solve many more problems, way more efficiently than just eliminating Hummers, golf courses and fast food, and then waiting three-hundred years to see if the numbers drop.