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Yeah, I read the whole thing and it kinda blew my mind. Even more so because the trailer makes it look like some Robin Hood type shit and glorifies the kidnappers, making it look like a fun movie about the gym and stealing from comically stereotypically rich Jews (seriously could the way they...

The world didn't even end in time to save me from my Christmas shopping. Fucking Mayans can't be relied on for anything.

I honestly believe this one is happening, and that by the time most of us are in our ripe old age the war on drug will be looked back on as some archaic barbarity. Or maybe I just want to spend my retirement puffing a big opium pipe on the porch. Either way, this is probably the first and most...

Yeah the shit with Littlefingers and his whores really annoys me. In the books the brothels were just one of his many investments, he was a businessman, and he didn't visit and hang out in them (unless he needed a convenient place to hide someone or shit like that) any more than a franchise...

Do they use the matching gender narrator for different dialogue? Always wondered that about audio books.

It's a question of connotations. Empathogen implies emotional closeness, an opening up, a removal of barriers, an understanding, where entactogen, to me at least, makes it sound like the drug experience is all about how fun it is to touch soft fluffy stuff and bone while high. Since the...

Yeah, all those guns they have are the reason the Iraqi's threw off the American invaders and Saddam Hussein is still in power, right? They're the reason The Taliban still control Afghanistan and it isn't an occupied country or anything? Yeah, the war over there was slow and messy and stupid...

It's not about patience, we should be past the stage where it's acceptable to be bored for weeks just to start having fun. Everybody already does that, it's called a job and it's what they play games to get away from. I don't care if the combat is mind blowing and revolutionary after a month of...

Pretty much every character talking about the situation made a subtle or snide comment on Renly/Loras, and GRRM even threw in some (not so) subtle meta-humor with the whole 'Rainbow Guard' thing. I honestly wonder if he just isn't as comfortable with the homosex as he is with writing in depth...

I'd actually say empathogen is a more appropriate label, especially in relation to the current studies in utilizing MDMA to help with PTSD.

That combat looks about as fun as grinding my balls with a cheese grater. Not a good thing in an MMO supposed to be based on martial arts.

Really loved Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis of RHCP. Devoured it in a single setting and re-read it a few months later, it's an excellent read if you're a fan of the band or remotely interesting in rock star biographies/the music business/drug addiction.

That's a load of BS. No gun in the world is going to protect you against tanks and rockets and drones and fighter planes. Those don't kill people (or at least in the case of the car, aren't designed to). You realize large swaths of Mexico are one step away from being in a state of anarchy or...

What I don't understand is why people need anything more dangerous than a revolver or a hunting rifle/shotgun at all? I can at least understand the argument for those, I don't agree with it, but I can see the logical thought process though which someone could think that owning a revolver for...

Which is great in theory, but when you show no sign of making progress towards fixing the problem, it's generally a good idea to halt the symptoms in the meanwhile.

I'm actually very wary of them. I've come to the conclusion that Mythic struck gold with DAoC entirely by accident, they had absolutely no understanding of what actually made the game good and drew players to it, which is how they managed to fuck it up so epically for nearly a decade.

Israel is a unique circumstance, living partially in occupied territory and being surrounded by enemies who'd love nothing more than to annihilate them, and even then I'm not sure what the situation is there with gun ownership. The swiss, as someone said earlier, are allowed a single rifle with...

Maybe a slight derail, but any suggestions on a cheap controller to pick up to play the PC version of the first one? I got a copy as a gift and the world and the atmosphere look amazing, but the controls feel like they were designed by someone with 4 hands of 3 fingers each who'd just dropped a...

Sure they'll go up, but overall the harm to society goes down, that's the point. Outside of a military situation, more guns around is just going to make it more likely that people are hurt by them.

Your avatar made me read that whole thing in Roger's voice in my head for some reason :|

There was yeah, and while it'd be weird if he plays a major role, having him pop up does make perfect sense, given that the wood elf king and a bunch of his random cronies play a fairly major role, and Legolas is his son.

The sad thing is that a lot of them were only half a man by the time they got back, both literally and figuratively. My grandfather was one of 2 who survived his air force unit (or squad or w/e you call it), and yeah I admire him for that, but by all accounts the man who came back wasn't the one...

New Weird is a term used to describe a bunch of writers (only one I remember off the top of my head is China Mieville) who's writing is well, weird. Not sure why it's 'new,' except maybe it sounds better than just calling it 'weird.' It's a bit lovecraft, a bit steampunk, a bit urban fantasy...

Dude I think I love you, I spent 2 hours reading about the collapse of the roman empire on wikipedia yesterday (at which stage I opened too many tabs and crashed my browser). This site looks awesome.

Yeah same. a Bioware style RPG set in the WOT universe could be all kinds of amazing if handled correctly.

Yeah that was pretty over the line. A crying kid? Kids are annoying as fuck, they don't do anything else half the time.

If you want to go to some truly weird places, ketamine is the only drug to go with. There is nothing you'll ever dream that will touch the bizarre, twisted clarity of a k-hole. It literally feels like being transported into whole other dimensions and consciousnesses.

Oh I'm as critical of the Police as anyone, if not more, but here in Australia they seem to have managed to carry firearms on a daily basis without any significantly regular misuse or accidents, which I think demonstrates that they can handle it. If kids were getting 'accidentally' shot up every...

The fact that they're killing themselves seems the suggest the reverse though, doesn't it? Obviously they'd rather die than be cramped in a cell till they rot away of old age. Military/cops are specifically selected and trained in the use of firearms on the job, and regular involvement in...

I don't disagree with your general sentiment, but as a matter a fact the drug trade in Australia is actually, I'd be almost certain, more profitable, per capita. We have among the highest rates of useage in the world for many drugs, and the combination of the highly concentrated population and...

I give a shit about controlling handguns. I think anything other thanmaybea rifle which can only hold 2 - 3 shots before needing a reload, when there's a legitimateneed, has no place in civilian hands, ideally. I know that's not a realistic goal for a country like the US with such a fucked up...

It's not about isolated massacres, it's about your firearm murder rate being an order of magnitude higher than the rest of the civilized world. We had a massacre in Australia in the 90's, was a pretty fucking huge thing at the time.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Ar...nment_Reaction So...

This is what the pro-gun crowd don't get, it's about statistics, not individual events. Even if giving every other teacher a concealed firearm does stop a school massacre or two, it's still an overall net loss for society if you lose 2 or 3 kids to accidents or teachers flipping out or whatever...

Wonder how long it'd be between the passing of a law allowing concealed carry by staff in schools and the first time someone is killed because a staff member flipped, or was just stupid enough to leave their gun lying around and let some kid grab it? Like most loosening of gun control laws...

Not sure how to link them, but there's a whole bunch of cool vids (both animated shorts and cast interviews) up on the official FB page. Am 'not' used to hearing Pams voice come from a completely bangable tiny brunette.

Yeah Egwene is actually kinda tolerable later on, unlike most of his female chars. Moiraine and Lan were both always badass, even if Moiraine suffered because of the power inflation that went on. She kicked a whole lot of ass in the first few books. I started back in uh, 2000 I think? Was on...

Can't make that shit up.

Internet, no girls, sharp knees, etc.

Just put the first on my tablet, trying to streamline my reading so it'll have to wait till I've finished my WoT catchup, but I'm keen for something different after that.

Yeah I think that's a decent compromise. It'd be nice if people labelled their spoilers (correctly!) but that's probably too much to ask from SS.