Why does everybody (and their mother) have a podcast these days? Why are most of them shit?
Do they know no one is listening?
I just sat through well over two hours of (sometimes less sometimes more subtle) Alien references and set-up for a sequel. Yes, Ridley, we get it. It’s 2012, nobody makes non-franchise movies anymore. You could’ve at least given your film some sort of independent plot structure, instead of just leaning it on other movies.
I really want to like Noomi Rapace. She is real pretty and Swedish and all. Shame about the acting.
As much as I enjoy watching Idris Elba and Michael Fassbender, I ended up sympathising the most with the character who had no soul.
A must-see for those who enjoy a good Alien circle jerk.
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“I know I can’t speak for everyone - at least not until “The Device” is completed - but surely it’s not just me who’s getting fed up with fantasy. That’s generic-style fantasy, not the personal kinds of fantasy where I’m locked in a small room with a nuclear bomb in a schoolgirl outfit that can only be disarmed with a vigorous spanking. This is precisely my point - the word “fantasy” is supposed to evoke any wondrous scenario the imagination can conjure, but for some reason we keep coming back to the elves and dwarves! Elves and dwarves, elves and dwarves, elves and motherfucking dwarves. Also wizards.” — I’m not a huge fan of Zero Punctuation but this, for the love of god, THIS.
The steel band is assembling. Soon after this they played Final Countdown. It was interesting.
It totally pays off to be Erin’s nordic doppelganger, she’ll ship outside of Australia and include a few samples too. Thanks, pretty lady!
(If you are down under, check out her shop.)
P.S. I now have Metallic 4 Life on my nails, and I don’t care how much I’m going to curse the glitter when I try to take it off, IT IS THE PRETTIEST THING EVER.
Look who’s home. With antibiotics for what appears to be a respiratory infection.
So yesterday I went to the fancy reception doctor who took 23 eggs out of me (I KNOW, THAT’S A WHOLE FUCKING LOT). Hurt like a bitch but I feel okay now. It’s going to be a few more days until I can get with the sexytimes, sooo… Don’t mind me going quietly insane over here.
And today I went to the animal doctor. Because of course my dog is sick. Again.
I had to leave him with the vet for IV drip and blood work, the X-rays showed nothing too odd. But when you don’t have to sedate your dog for X-rays, you know something is seriously up. Hope they figure it out. It’s weird not having him at home.
I’d watch the FUCK out of this movie.
(Source: vanityfair.com)
Her reaction when we brought out her birthday cake
“Oh you guys…!”
(via tulekuisaad)
Since when did being dumb become cool? And not just dumb, but proud and dumb? Gloriously ignorant?
The people who loudly proclaim they’ve never read a book and never will suddenly enjoy mainstream social acceptance. As well as those who have no interest in traveling abroad, or visiting the “shady part of the town, you know, the one with all the immigrants”.
Grown ass folk who refuse to eat things, just because. Mushrooms are gross, fish is gross, broccoli is gross, yuck, yuck, will not put in my mouth. Then they sit in restaurants, ordering shit dairy and gluten free, without the onions. Not because of actual allergies, mind you, just because.
Maybe it wasn’t that sudden, maybe I just didn’t notice until it was too late. Until I saw the people sitting in the Finnish parliament who openly despise such trivial things as education and manners. Who like to dabble in legislation concerning the Internet without having the first clue of how Internet actually works.
I’m a librarian and I see this shit at work every day. People who can’t do a damn thing for themselves and need help for everything, even if the instructions are RIGHT THERE. And that’s okay, I don’t mind going over it and slowly explaining how stuff works or how to find things or whatnot. But they don’t listen. They make it loud and clear they don’t give a shit about what I’m saying, they just want it done for them. So that the next time they come in, I can do it for them again.
And yet, everyone’s a fucking expert. Because they have an opinion. Because surely everyone’s opinions are equal and just as valuable.
Well let me tell you something, dipshit.
THEY AREN’T.
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In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.
Now, once you’ve selected the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference. Initially the computer will tell you how many points you get and how they are divided up. If you start with 25 points, and your dump stat is wealth, well, then you may be kind of screwed. If you start with 250 points and your dump stat is charisma, well, then you’re probably fine. Be aware the computer makes it difficult to start with more than 30 points; people on higher difficulty settings generally start with even fewer than that.
As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.
Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.
” — John Scalzi
I’m doing this thing again where I’m trying to be a nice person and give to those who are in need and my ovaries are the size of grapefruits and it’s starting to get uncofomrtable.
Not as uncomfortable as the constant Diablo 3 going on. I’m starting to wish I had more shifts at work so I had somebody to talk to.
I called my mom and it’s the only damn thing I’m going to do all day.