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Yeah, the evidence that he originally intended Taim to be Dem is pretty conclusive - even the narrative structure of book 6 (mainly the events of the prologue and epilogue) only makes sense if Taim is Dem. But he changed his mind at some point, I guess either because he was annoyed at how...

I think he got a handle on Matt in the second two of the books he wrote, it's just so jarring because he does such a horrible job in the first (Gathering Storm?). It's interesting - a great insight into Dem's worldview, which I would have loved more of from the Forsaken in general. I wouldn't...

^ yeah definitely. IMO there's no harm in a top-up dose if the first dose hasn't quite got you there (I used to swallow the initial dose, then wait till it had kicked in and snort some more if I felt it needed a boost), but once you've really come up then you've got 4, maybe 5 hours of good...

On the MDMA thing, came across this article earlier, Alex Wodak is an excellent source for harm reduction information and one of the few serious voices pushing for proper drug reform in Australia. Is ecstasy really that dangerous? All your questions answered | Alex Wodak and Gideon Warhaft |...

I never found sex on MDMA that great - in fact I generally found it a profoundly non-sexual experience, and turned down easy sex several times on the drug just because I wasn't in the mood (though that was in a club/rave context - it's different with a girl, although even then we'd spend as much...

There's more than that though. You're right that Dresden being an urban fantasy helps us imagine the setting, but even in the fantastical side of things (the Nevernever, the White Council's headquarters, etc) he gives fairly vivid descriptions. Like the scene where he rescues Molly from the...

Yeah the cat thing is weird. He keeps using the word "batman" as well, so I'm guessing he wrote the first draft around the same time as he was working on Cold Days. Does anyone else find that the characters feel really fake? They don't seem to have any concrete motivations or unique...

I actually tried at one point, but the DMT I had didn't cook up and I had nothing to smoke it with at the time (not to mention the logistics - guess I could have done a big IM shot and then smoked the DMT just as the K started kicking in). Would have been kinda interesting, but I'm not going to...

I dunno. I think the prequels sucked as much as anyone, and whether they're inline with Buddhist philosophy or not doesn't change that, but I'm not sure I'd want a Star Wars which is all "heh, get it, it's a reference to modern political events, get it, this, this here is a parallel to that...

No, but I've never heard anything about it which makes it sound worth the effort - it's usually described as a pretty uncomfortable trip, from memory, and it's not easy to get in Aus. Opiates are a bit of an acquired taste for a lot of people - Do yourself a favor and don't acquire it. It's...

I've heard it can be ok if you throw it on top of other opiates, but I've never bothered actually getting any to find out. And yeah after all my agonizing over set and setting, I ended up getting trashed on cheap wine, then more trashed on GHB, smoking the DMT with a friend until 5am and...

That season ending hit me in the feels so hard they're still bruised But yeah Get Schwifty and the balls transplant episode are definitely the low points of the show for me so far (although the second one mainly because Harmon redoing the whole "multiverse TV" crap was boring as hell and...

Been trying to like it, but 100 pages in and I'm just not into it. The setting is kind of cool (and has the potential to be a lot cooler), but it feels vague and in need of a good fleshing out (which has always been one of Butcher's weaker points imo). But worse, the characters feel like...

I think it just reminded me of the way Harmon went with Community too much. "oh, they like wacky and random? We'll give them wacky and random!" Hopefully not a prelude of things to come, because I really like this show.

Is there a list anywhere which rates the Horus Heresy books in terms of readability? I've really enjoyed some of them, but others have been either boring or completely nonsensical (Descent of Angels in particular made me really 'wtf,' they obviously skimped on the editing for that one).

Really wish they hadn't gone back to the whole "intergalactic TV improv skit" thing. First time was funny, second just felt gimmicky and I found myself waiting for the episode to swap back to the Jerry/Beth storyline after a minute or so.

Not sure which is more absurd - the pricing for this stuff or the fact that adults are obsessing over it.

Don't understand the obsession with nude scenes - tits are literally all over the internet, what's so amazing about seeing them on TV?

Playing a monk for s4 and really enjoying it so far, just about to hit 70 though so I'm not in deep. Only complaint is that all the best weapons I seem to find are 2h'ers, while I find the faster duel wield playstyle a lot more fun.

Description made it sound like it had potential, but I couldn't get past "cloaking device is fried man!" at 10:30m-ish :/ Why waste so much money getting decent Trek actors then throwing atrocious amateurs next to them?

Gross, the movie isn't even out yet and they're already fucking with the story with comics

Yeah I had the same reaction - think I'd actually do it if I could drag some friends away from HOTS.

Yeah Stargate makes excellent binge watching. I'd recommend giving SGU a shot when you finish Atlantis - the first season starts out slowly (they were obviously going for a BSG feel which didn't work out and put a lot of people off), but it really picks up later on and especially into the second...

I know I'm really late to the party but I just binged through the first season last week and holy fuck, that was simultaneously the most amazing and most terrifyingly depressing thing I've ever watched. I mean it was a work of fucking art, the best thing done with television since The Wire - but...

I'm 50/50 on it - I usually agree that 20+ episodes results in a lot of filler, but with all the crazy backstory stuff they've got going I'm sure they could put out the material without stretching too far. On the flip side, they're obviously on a limited budget, assuming they renew the show I'd...

But Stargate was way way lower on the personal drama (even SGU), especially at the beginning. Diving into a love triangle in the first 5 episodes is just plain excessive - who in the audience do they think that shit is appealing to? In Stargate each character had a basic personality and role...

Could be a source issue, but he's been doing this a long time and he orders samples from basically every half-respectable vendor which pops up. Usually he'll get a good batch or two from a vendor, then they'll start sending him crap or they'll shut down and he's back to square one. I skipped...

Yeah I've had a fair bit of fun with MXE, but it's a very different drug to K. Good for watching movies with mates or going out, but sometimes you just want to lie down in bed with some music on and dive into the floaty black k-hole place, which you can't do with MXE. And the tweaky comedown is...

I dunno, I found the whole thing with the android getting jealous really weird - I thought they were basically walking computers with no emotions/consciousness. Android with emotions gives me a real "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" vibe. Otherwise it was a good episode, although I...

^Pretty much. It's digging into the standard scifi tropes hard, but mostly in a way that's engaging if you like that stuff. Group of people cruising around a fucked up galaxy (mining colonies, cyberpunk style mega-corporations, Chinatown space stations, etc.) getting into violent shenanigans and...

Iirc, when they were debating whether they would make decisions by vote in the first episode someone (I think Three?) said she shouldn't get a vote because "she's what, like, 15?" or something like that. So yeah, I think she's meant to be mid-teens. Actress is obviously a few years older than that.

Goddamnit. I was enjoying the show, devoid of originality as it is, has a nice SG (especially SG:U, in a good way)/Firefly/dab of Mass Effect vibe to it, then they had to go and add fucking space zombies. I'm sick to death of goddamn zombies, really hope that episode was a once off and they...

Never heard of dexmedetomidine, I'll look into it though, thanks for the heads up. As for the names, it helps prevent confusion, especially online. There are usually 3+ brand variations of any given pharmaceutical in any given country, and generally at least one or two are specific to that...

I haven't tried that particular one, but I tried a similar supplement called Alpha Brain after a friend recommended it to me and can safely say that after consuming an entire course at the recommended dose (and slightly above it towards the end, just to see if it helped), I felt absolutely no...

Problem is that that living world was rather intimately derived from Pratchett's unique worldview and life experience - which imo is what made it so alive and so unique. Nobody else could write Discworld the way Pratchett did because nobody else is Pratchett. Even towards the end, you could tell...

I found the "focus on the individual" is exactly what killed going solo in other MOBA's. Everyone is focused on doing their own thing instead of working together to win the match - I'm as guilty as the next guy, the traditional MOBA setup just doesn't inherently encourage teamwork. That was fine...

Yeah, I figure that's probably the next and easiest move. I've already swapped out white bread for a brown multigrain, but I hear there's a lot of dodginess with how healthy they claim the bread is v. what it actually contains, so I'm not sure it'll make a huge difference. Either way, it tastes...

^ Curious, what spec are you using with Kael? I'm really enjoying him, but compared to Valla (the other ranged assassin I've played extensively) he seems somewhat hit and miss. When you have a good team, especially coordinated over skype, you can hang in the back and just wreck shit from a...

^On the flip side of that, at the end of last year I swapped over to drinking water almost exclusively (maybe every other day I'll have a single glass of milk or diet ginger beer, and a 6 pack of beer maybe once every other month) and found that, even with no changes to my otherwise not too...

Yeah I get where you're coming from and I've had the same experience occasionally, but it's still a frustrating experience when it doesn't work out that way. Like you I wrote it off as a shitty League rip off at first, came back later to play with friends and started enjoying it then, but even...