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It's not the superpowers that bug me (although they could go for a little more internal consistency on how those powers function), it's the incoherent setting and lazy writing that seem to inevitably correlate with throwing concepts like time travel and alternate dimensions around indiscriminately.

Am I the only one who thinks this show has gone way off the rails into batshitcrazyville? All this dimension hopping time travelling alternative earths alternate timelines death reversing thematically matching villain BS is what turns most people off comics in the first place. They did a good...

All of my friends burnt out in S4 and don't have any interest in coming back to the game, sadly, and it was pretty late at night so nobody in the clan was online.

If you like arpgs or the previous Diablo games, then I'd say absolutely. It's come a long way from the piece of crap they released in 2012. Really enjoying the WD for the first time in S5, running around with a massive army of pets is awesome (if slightly frustrating sometimes with the...

Really enjoyed it from start to finish, although I was surprised that things got wrapped up in one episode, I was expecting more of a story arc. Not sure how long they can sustain it on a X of the week formula, but if they keep it as funny and entertaining as that I'll keep watching.

Yeah I thought the Quentin (sp?) storyline was all over the place a bit - especially since all of the drama was about something that's obviously not going to happen. Essentially it was just the aftermath of the ending of the first episode. The chick's storyline was a bit more interesting, but...

Haven't watched this yet, but they're really wasting half of their 6 episodes on monster of the week shit?

Gotta admit, as much as I want to love this series something about it feels off. The pacing or writing or something... the scenes feel rushed together, but at the same time it seems like each episode ends without the plot having moved forward a whole lot. But maybe it's just the result of...

I think they could have done it with 2 minutes of conversation instead of playing it out with a flashback across the entire episode - I guess this way it kind of cements the situation the Belters are in in a way that exposition wouldn't have, but I think the event itself lost a lot of it's power...

^Thanks for pointing that out so I don't have to More Star Wars movies were an inevitability. Nothing that popular, with so many people wanting more and willing to pay for it, and so many people wanting to fulfill that demand and make themselves even richer doing it, is going to hold out against...

It's not that I don't like or care about it. I enjoy the original trilogy as solid, if not perfect, movies, and I recognize the massive pop culture/cinematic influence they've had. And like I said I think they somehow struck on something unique with the scifi meets western meets kung fu movie...

Well fuck.

Really? I was 9 or 10 when Phantom Menace came out. At that point my entire previous Star Wars experience was the day in third grade when for some reason all our teachers phoned it in and had us sit down and watch the entire trilogy (seriously, still no idea why they did that, it wasn't the...

Ok I'm confused - I admit I don't know all the background here, but Mist what are you getting out of this thread exactly? You come here, post shit you should just put on your FB wall, then everyone mocks you and calls you a dude. Am I missing something?

Yeah the second book had some great some stuff (I remember enjoying the showdown with the bandits), but a lot of it was wish fulfillment BS (the whole arc with the fairy chick teaching him to fuck was painful - not surprising, because everything Rothfuss writes about sex or romance is painful)...

I tried Clone Wars, but it felt like a show made for 8 year olds (pretty sure I remember each episode actually having a "moral of the episode" kinda thing) and I dropped it after a handful of episodes. Do they age it up a bit later on?

It's available to torrent on the usual sites. I thought it was a good start and showed potential, but I felt the book itself was only average and especially fell a bit flat towards the end, so I'm not sure how the series will come out. On the other hand they've shown they're happy making...

City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles: Robin Hobb: 9780061561696: Amazon.com: Books Third of four in Robin Hobb's Rain Wild books. I was always much more inclined to the Fitz trilogies, and felt the Liveship books were intriguing in terms of setting and world building but...

Is this a weird American thing? If someone started cheering in the cinema here they'd either have the entire crowd deathglaring them or be kicked out. Why would you cheer at a movie? It can't hear you :/

Could easily have some mechanism where it turns off if there's nobody holding it - measure for hand pressure on the hilt or something. What's odd about a quiet movie audience?

Yeah other people can hit the button and turn it on, but it's pretty strongly implied that you need the precognition the force gives you to wield it properly in a fight (which makes sense, since it has no weight, someone who wasn't well trained and/or psychic would probably cut their arm off)...

Went and saw it last night, managed to avoid all spoilers beforehand, somehow. Overall, I enjoyed it, maybe a 7/10 or 8/10, although it's hard to rate objectively because the prequels set the bar so fucking low. But a solid entry to the series for sure. First and foremost, it looked and felt...

There's definitely a bit of HP in there - a school for magic, the awesome library, mysterious tunnels, an enemy in the form of a bullying rich kid, etc. Hell, I'd say HP handles romance and sex than Kingkiller does :/

It pretty much ends exactly how you'd think it would. But it's worth it for the experience, Sanderson did a top notch job wrapping it up with a bang.

^ Fkin nostalgia bomb. Used to listen to that on repeat for hours while high. If you like that kind of thing and don't mind it a bit darker/trippier, check out Purity Ring: Friend of mine turned me onto these guys a few months ago and I've been cranking their stuff pretty much nonstop...

I started skimming through the wondergirl POV's with Fires of Heaven (with the exception of my pre-AMOL reread, where I forced myself through the whole series). Literally 1/3 of the book is basically Nynaeve and Elayne travelling the countryside in a carriage, tugging braids and crossing arms...

Yeah the whole sub-plot with Perrin chasing his wife for several books almost bored me to tears. Not only was she an awful character, but the fact that he let her treat him so awfully and became so whipped turned him into an awful character (down from just being the least interesting of the main...

Just finished, I enjoyed the series overall, but two things tripped me out:

Absolutely - but I think it also has a lot going for it, especially if you look at it in the context of the time period within which it emerged. The worldbuilding (and the historical backstory - some of my favorite parts of WOT are those that touch on the Age of Legends), the magic system and...

I'm pretty sure that he's hit a block - there's no way he can take the series from where it ended in #2 up to the "present day" framing device and wrap the whole thing up in a single book, but for some reason he refuses to bite the bullet and expand the length of the series like every other...

Definitely not with limited time, but whatever faults it has it's lightyears ahead of Dragonlance in terms of quality.

Nope - actually I've never seen a hardcover copy of any of the WOT books, which is odd, since usually new releases by an author with this much popularity are done hardcover at first to jack up the price.

Yup, I loved K, was easily one of my favorite drugs, there's nothing out there quite like it. Just be careful about combining it with booze/other downers and don't take it somewhere where you can't fall unconscious safely, and it's pretty hard to mess up. It can be pretty addictive though, so...

Yeah that'd do the trick - I was thinking about the potential for accidental dosing, since it's active in a similar range to LSD isn't it (low enough to be dosed via tabs, anyway)? Seems to be that way for all drugs, and especially hallucinogens. Random sidenote - went into hospital the other...

The only gap they're bridging is the split between people who liked the reboot idea and people who didn't by making everyone agree that this Star TreXXXtreme crap is an abomination worthy of Lovecraft's worst nightmares.

Hah, masochist is right. It's all the worst parts of LSD, with the duration increased by half, a really tweaky, paranoid feel and, unlike LSD, you can actually OD on it. Couldn't pay me to touch the stuff in tab form, let alone mess around with the pure powder. Out of curiosity, how did you...

The holodeck (and the transporters) pissed me off. I get that the holodeck is a good way to explore certain themes/settings conveniently, and that the transporters had something to do with not wanting to being able to afford shuttle sets in TOS or whatever, but when half of the problems people...

Yeah it's an upper thing, they kick the metabolism into action. Meth does the same. Not fun when the only place you have to crap is a disgusting festival portable toilet :| Yeah I had the same problem last time I took LSD (in fairness, combined with DOI, which is a pretty dirty LSD knockoff) and...