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I'm halfway through and loving it. Boomworm is everything I had hoped she would be. Two questions though. First, I can't speak for the other editions, but why is the Kindle edition double-spaced? Second, do you do your own covers or do you have someone that does them for you? I like...

Awesome, thanks for all the suggestions. Now I can't wait for Steelheart! I think I got a little bit of chub just reading about it. Hard Magic has been on my list to read already, but is it actually a superhero book? It always sort of looked like a Garrett Files type to me. I realize it...

McFly, if you're looking to balance an economy, you might at least want to take a look at the previous version of Equivalent Exchange and look at the values that were used there. Obviously nothing is perfect and you might have a particular desire for certain things to cost certain amounts, but...

You'll probably be in the minority there. Not saying you can't have a contrary opinion, I certainly don't care, but it gets pretty high marks around here. The second book (which has been out for awhile now) is pretty good too. There is more that I didn't like in the second one compared to the...

Intedasting.

Any reason we can't build Rock Cannon to give those people that just have to dump AP something to build? Doesn't seem like it will use up anything besides beams and supports that the False Town needs. Maybe Moat and Mist Spray too? I mean, it obviously sucks to use up that much water, but...

Just got around to reading this, and I'm intrigued. I'm not an expert editor or anything so I can't really comment on things like structure or voice or anything beyond the fact that I was interested enough to keep reading, and the writing was good enough to let me continue, so in my mind that's...

If there have ever been more troll'ish words typed on the internet, I have not seen them. By storytelling element you mean letting someone's 4-year old daughter make plot decisions I assume. Think about it. Watch the movie, and pause it every time an important decision needs to be made...

Let's discuss novels about superheroes and/or supervillains here. Personally I prefer to keep graphic novels out of the discussion because they are more comic book than novel, but I'm just starting the thread, not ruling it. The X-Men graphic novel, God Loves, Man Kills, was fantastic and...

Hmm, are you sure that one didn't get a second season too? I actually watched that show, because Kristanna Lokan is hot. Nope, checked IMDB and you were right, only one season. To be honest, I'd rather watch another season of that over Defiance.

I rewatched it just for you Araysar. Almost every single scene where anything more than a trivial decision needed to be made, a bad decision was made. The obvious ones already recounted, but also scenese like sticking electrodes into a severed head and making it explode with little concern for...

Apparently Wal-Mart is going to sell tickets for advanced screenings the day before. They go on sale May 18th at 8am. I might actually try to get a ticket because I'm dying to see this movie, and 7pm beats the hell out of a midnight showing if I want to see it early.

The bar must be pretty low for renewal this early. I'm not feeling this show (beyond the hooker titties obviously) much at all. I'm only watching it because I hope it gets better, but if it were canceled tomorrow I'd probably just be relieved.

I don't think that needs to be spoilered since it is just your predictions, unless you have some insider info, which you didn't indicate. I would be really surprised if anything happened to Diggle. He's a vital part of the show in my eyes, and I'd be disappointed if he weren't around.

This is how I felt for the first one. I knew what lens flare was obviously, but it never stood out to me in that movie or any other. I'll clearly be looking for it in this movie though, which sucks.

I'm a huge fan of Stackpole's early BattleTech books, and enjoyed his DragonWar cycle as well, so this book has been on my radar for awhile. I actually have it downloaded (and I think you were the one I exchanged Calibre libraries with, so maybe you even got it from me, not sure), and started...

I know this isn't a solution to your problem, but isn't it amazing the number of services that would work just fine if people knew what the fuck they were doing? I use Dropbox personally, but am very interested in hearing the solution to your issues because I can see it being useful here at...

Yeah, but it is like all those movies. If a person dies in the movies, it is sorta sad. If an animal dies though, it is soul-crushingly sad. He just Hollywood'd it up a little!

Awesome, ordered!

Ancient chinese secret! And the guy did catch an arrow from like 15 feet away. That's gotta count for something.

I don't know if "sealing" Heaven and Hell is being interpreted as souls can't get in, just that demons and angels can't get out. Obviously there would need to be some sort of contingency plan for souls if that were actually the case, and even if God disappeared and didn't care anymore, I sort...

Are you running yours through Windows? I don't have an option to shutdown anything but XBMC, but admittedly I only did some cursory looking around right now. I spent the majority of my time getting the remote and library functions set up first, now I'll deal with the punch list items to make...

Mine didn't pass, and I confirmed it by looking at my exact model number. Turns out mine is just the 55" version of the 50" he had at the bottom of that AVS article, which also failed. That's fine though, as I don't notice anything when watching actual movies or shows, and according to Sean...

Grimmlokk, I'm very interested in the superhero genre as well, but haven't had a lot of luck finding much that really stood out to me. I haven't read a ton of different ones, but I wouldn't mind comparing notes over ones we've read or want to read. Just not sure if that's something best put...

I'm assuming you are still talking about the Panasonic plasmas at this point. All I know is that I never have to mess with audio delay unless the rip itself is obviously fucked up. I have no idea if that means it is the ARC doing it or what, because I have no technical knowledge to go off...

The one thing I thought about Tommy at the end of the episode was that he's no Michael Rosenbaum. His Lex Luthor was pretty much awesome I thought, and they didn't have to heavy-hand stuff like having him see Oliver banging Laurel through the window. Lex took years to truly develop into the...

Fuck that art history stuff, I took music appreciation instead. We had to go see 3 different musical performances and write a paper on each. One of them was a Megadeth concert (this was 1989, although I still listen to them). Dude gave me an A+ and read it out loud to the class, and then...

Yeah, I had to order it from a place in the UK, got here in about a week and a half. If you want I'll look it up and give you the info. EDIT: By the way, I've pretty much solved most of my issues through extensive googling. I was able to add a few lines to my advancedsettings.xml file that...

I think you answered my question, but I just want to be clear. I do not have a bluray player hooked up. I download bluray rips, hdtv rips, etc. So everything is coming through the HTPC completely, and supposedly being output to my TV in 4:4:4 according to what you said. Obviously it didn't...

I've seen it discussed repeatedly in the open here already, so I don't think we are really spoilering it, but I will respond in a spoiler just in case.

Like Fazana, I was pretty bummed that I will have to wait another week. They've done a pretty good job overall this season, I'm impressed. Yao Fei (no clue if I spelled that right) getting capped was not unforeseen, but still pretty surprising. Going to be disappointed when this goes on...

Yeah I was pretty disappointed with that as well. At least this means she'll show back up in future episodes. If they close Hell it is a pretty good bet that she'll at least still be walking around, with arguably a power level just under Lucifer/Crowley. Or nice tits at least.

I'm not gonna lie, I will watch The Last Ship simply for Adam Baldwin and Rhona Mitra. He's awesome and she's gorgeous. Shit will blow up every episode, guaranteed. If there's actually some sort of plausible story, that will be an added bonus!

I do not know enough about any of this 4:4:4 stuff to speak with any authority, but would this have any effect whatsoever on actually watching movies/shows through the HTPC? In that article it states that all TV, bluray, etc. is 4:2:2 or less anyway so not having 4:4:4 is fine...but if it is...

I got the latest firmware that was listed, if it wasn't the beta then I guess not. However, I don't have a Harmony (well I do, but it is over 5 years old and ate batteries like candy), I have a super awesome $9 RCA remote that I was turned on to from the AVS forums, and I love it. It is...

I'm not looking at it right now so I can't remember if I'm telling you the exact terms correctly, but when viewing the movie/show information, hit refresh. That will allow you to properly select it, like the issue I was having with Castle vs. Castle (2009). Once you choose it, it seems to...

Figured out the answer to my own question. It seems that menu I was referring to is called the context menu, which has an alternate keyboard shortcut of "c" so all I needed to do was program one of the buttons on my remote to send a "c" and it works great. There are keyboard shortcuts for...

I'm assuming that the speaker placement microphone they give you with a lot of receivers (I have this Yamahahttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1) that automatically pulses and measures sound is doing the same thing that your Radio Shack meter does? EDIT: NM, I finally read...

I don't disagree with what you just said here. However, I don't expect the characters to do the logical and rational thing 100% of the time. I do expect them to do it at least some of the time though. I'd typically expect a pretty high percentage for a "smart" movie, but I'd have been happy...