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I lol'd at the US's recent take over of China. It's really driving a rift between the US and their ostentiable allies.

http://brandonsanderson.com/events List of book signing events. He'll be in Chicago tomorrow, but I can't make it sadly. He's a very interesting guy to meet and hear talk about the writing process.

I remember reading last year that the reson there are no dewback/tauntun/rancor mounts is because the engine can't do animated mounts. Is that still true?

I heard the Tarantino interview on NPR and he talked about how there are two types of violence in the film. There is the violence of the mandingo scene and the dog scene. That violence should make you cringe and feel revulsion. Then there is the violence like the shoot out in the house. The...

http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comme..._rasoiaf_2012/ Best of the SoIaF Reddit for 2012. I had no idea that Benjen Stark was Daario.

To be fair, it's really amazing how dominant passing is today.

The defection of a sizable portion of the Syrian Army? You do realize that is what happened right?

Submitted my Dwarf Team, the Kaladim Steelers.

I just played a game of Lizards vs. Dwarves. The opposing runner broke 4 tackle zones two turns in a row to make a perfect launch pass to a blitzer near the end zone who caught it and got a TD. Most unlikely thing I have ever seen. The runner had no special skills other than block either.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...vid-keene.html Has the NRA gone insane? Waxing nostalgic about being able to bring your shotgun on a plane?

We're painting Asia yellow.

That's some obscure information from a book most people hated.

1st Corinthians 13:13 King James Version And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Love is the more modern translation, which would indicate that Charity will take up Love to me.

New posters are out. http://imgur.com/a/F8Hwm#8aR0P

Well, the apocalypse has been avoided in new Zealand so far, which was my biggest worry for interfering with reading A Memory of Light.

I'm sorry. I was unaware that you had to be an expert to discuss things on the internet. Seriously though, you just agreed with me in the post above. It would reduce deaths if Lanza only had handguns. Now you're shitting on me for agreeing with you?

A few handguns? No, it would still be very difficult. A semi-auto handgun would make that feat much more difficult. In addition, there would be longer stretches of reloading and more time for his prey to flee. Im sure the deaths would still have been in the double digits but there would have...

Yes, I read the sentence wrong. It is a bullet every 3 seconds. Of course that does not take into account his travel time between rooms, breaking into the school, etc. Regardless, the second part I quoted shows how the speed of the weapon, as well as time available, makes shootings deadlier. My...

Really? Let's look at the statistics.http://www.slate.com/articles/health...shootings.html Already we have evidence that Lanza was only able to kill as many as he did because he had a weapon that could fire a bullet every 3 seconds. Obviously there are two approaches here. Make sure that people...

I actually have some faith that change will occur now. Joe Biden is not one to give two shits about stepping on toes.

Stop biting my nails. I know.

As a LFR only this expansion is pretty great. I can do raids, farm, play alts, and still hit the valor cap easily. I really don't understand the hate for scenarios. They're short, give out good valor, you can really push them hard to see how well your min-maxxing, and are pretty unique with some...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rotection.html 11 year old pulls the gun his parents told him to bring to school for protection on a classmate.

Towers of Midnight really turned it around for Perrin. He's a BAMF now. Being able to take the focus off Rand for a while to develop him alone helped immensely. The scene in Tel'aran'rhiod where he runs into Egwene and pats her on the head and tell her to be careful because it's dangerous was...

One of the prevailing theories is that Rand will die but kick Ishmael's soul out of the Moridin body and come back with that. As far as other deaths go, we know Mat is safe because there was talk when TGS came out of a sequel series with him and Tuon sailing around the world and getting into...

I like Tom Cruise, but nearly everything he does is big budget action movie. And I have a hard time believing that a guy who is 5'2" is an action hero.

As expected, once we start a Civil War to rake in the gold, OGD tries to dick with us. If you aren't assigned to fight in the CW, it is your job to HOLD THE LINE. Let us show USA and the Danes that we cannot be beaten, even with one arm tied behind our back. I am the current referral btw, and...

He got the cliffhanger scene in the last book, Towers of Midnight. That's not a good thing.

Never reached critical mass sure, but would have made an effective dirty bomb, which is what were mostly afraid of these days.

So Sanderson is coming to sign books the day after release. I know I should thus buy a copy from the retailer there but that would mean waiting a day to start reading. Would buying at another Barnes and Noble and bringing the receipt to the signing count?

All these worlds are ours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

From the info I've read, every mech requires two pilots for some reason. Idris Elba and Rinko Kuchiki are piloting an obsolete mech brought out of retirement for the final battle with the kaiju. Spoilers for Evangelion: Shinji dies in the first episode.

As one of those kids who once contemplated these acts, I call bullshit. The reason to kill is to make others feel your pain. Depression and mental illness is not a positive, let's go be famous, outlook. It is about negativity and suffering. This is of course anecdotal, but I do not buy into the...

We may have tossed people in mental hospitals at one time, but that's all we did, toss them in. Today we should expect a hospital to serve as a place of treatment, not just a place to lock undesirables away. It is about time that we got serious about helping people get better and integrating...

I really take issue with the idea that mass shooters are doing it for "the fame". If you are psychotically depressed you aren't in it to glorify yourself, if that is even what they think of it. You are in pain and you've come to the idea that the only way out is to bring pain to as many people...

Good luck, have you seen the names that people have called the recent shooters in this thread? If you have a mental illness in America you are ostracized and turned into a subhuman. This will be the next frontier of civil rights I am sure.

Relevant image is relevant. Multiple wounded at a Connecticut elementary school. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...tells-nbc?lite

It's not that he couldn't get the money for Mountains of Madness, it's that he couldn't get the money for an R-rated movie.

This thread and the Oregon shooting thread are connected by one thing. Crude insults and dismissal of mental illness. Is it any wonder why people avoid mental health treatment when revealing your condition gets you instantly labeled as a whore, nut, 15 year old girl, and better off gone from the...