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  1. Void

    The New Year & Resolutions

    1) After my shoulder surgery I still have severely limited range of motion. My major goal is to be able to do a complete pull-up once again (it's a big deal for me, as I can't even hang off the bar right now without excruciating pain). 2) Lose 30 lbs, which will not only help with doing a...
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    Home Theater In a Box ?

    If you just bought it, can you still return it without a hefty restock fee? Depending upon the size of speaker you are looking for, you could probably easily buy a separate receiver and a couple of fronts and a center for around that price, but it should all be significantly better quality...
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    Lost Girl

    Not much that I saw, a little language perhaps, but not much beyond that I don't think, as there wasn't any blatant nudity anyway, just lots of really close think you're going to catch a glimpse scenes. For fun, here is a video someone put together of a bunch of Kenzi's lines in Season 1...
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    Lost Girl

    New season starts January 6th for Canadians and pirates like myself, Syfy will run it January 14th it seems, which is much sooner than I expected. This is my ultimate guilty pleasure show. I absolutely love Kenzi, but every other female on the show is usually smoking hot as well. The...
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    Domestic Violence/Violent Neighbor, what to do?

    Congratulations, hopefully it turns out to be true. I've got a similar situation going on, except without the actual beatings that would allow me to call the cops. Just yelling and slamming doors and shit. My favorite, however, is that anywhere from around midnight to 6 am I'll randomly...
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    I use Goodreads as well, although I only have a couple of friends on there (forever alone) so the most use I get out of it is new releases by authors I've rated each month, which comes in a handy email. If we all want to be Goodreads friends I'll post mine as well, once someone tells me where...
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    The Black Company

    There is a reason the ending is like that, more or less. Also, as I mentioned in the FoH thread, don't forget that these are also supposed to be told from the perspective of the Annalist (Croaker for now), so he focuses on the things he wants to focus on, and shies away from the things he...
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    Anemone's Music Thread! (everyone is invited)

    Here is a great song about a guy with a great mustache.
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    The Eternal War (by me)

    I've read all of these and really enjoyed them. As an objective observer, I can say with complete sincerity that I thought I knew exactly what I was getting into before I started, what with there being a female protagonist that kills vampires...but I was very, very wrong. This isn't sparkly...
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    Movies That Would Be Made, If You Could Make It Happen

    The Black Company. I would kill to see The Dominator, The Lady, The Limper, etc. on the big screen. Elric, as mentioned before. A faithful depiction of Stormbringer would give me wood. The Paratwa Saga (first book is Liege-Killer) by Christopher Hinz, which I recently mentioned in the...
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    Arrow

    I was noticing that too, but I'm going to assume she probably got a boob job. Which is a shame, but not like I'm ever going to touch them anyway.
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    HDTVs

    I had a DLP and I liked it, but I doubt I'd ever go back for various reasons. I actually never had a lamp go out (even though I bought a spare...go figure), but the entire "light cartridge" I think it was called did. Fortunately it was under warranty. Then the power supply went bad. Then...
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    The Hobbit

    I loved the Lord of the Rings movies, and obviously am a fan of this book, so the story was great, I enjoyed the parts he added, and I was completely fine even with the fact that he's going to make 3 movies out of it. I will enjoy every single bit of story I'm pretty sure. That being said...
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    Welcome to retrolled

    Some routers given out by companies like Comcast have a setting that will prevent you from flooding a site with views (like say if your machine were infected with a Tyen bot and it started trying to DDoS a particular site). It happened to me at times on games like Die2Nite when we'd be spamming...
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Most David Weber books are exactly that (Honor Harrington, etc.). In particular the ones he did with Steve White. There is a 4 book series of Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and The Shiva Option which are pretty damn good, and have a lot of space battles as well. Also, there are...
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    Surgeries and what to expect/ask/consider

    I had shoulder surgery two months ago for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder), and I'm glad I did. It is something that might (usually does) go away in a couple of years, but the excruciating pain during that time would have been too much for me to handle. Not being able to raise your arm...
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    Epic Movie Moments

    He gets shit on a lot for most of his movies, but this scene was just perfectly done I felt. Not THE most epic moment of any movie, but one that always stands out to me. I can't find a link, but the scene in The Seventh Sign where she stabs him and he pulls out the knife and says "I came...
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    The Walking Dead

    Put me in the column of thinking that a show like this wouldn't survive killing off its main character (Rick). I'm not saying they won't ever do it, but if they do it will be time for the show to die. You guys aren't thinking like all the non-nerd and/or female viewers out there that would get...
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    Home Theater In a Box ?

    I would definitely get as many HDMI ports as you can, but I wouldn't spend a ton extra for just them either. My HDMI switch cost me under $30 I believe, and adds 5 more, and has worked flawlessly for a year and a half now. It even has a tiny little remote (which I never use, because the...
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    The Black Company

    No. You want "Chronicles of the Black Company" which contains "The Black Company," "Shadows Linger," and "The White Rose." Or buy those 3 individually if you find them, either way that is where you want to start.
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    Man of Steel

    You can always second-guess someone with impossible standards like that, and obviously in reality he wouldn't work. But in the comics, there is ALWAYS a way that Superman could have achieved the same goal without arbitrarily killing someone. As shown in those clips that Kinkle posted, when it...
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    HDTVs

    For that price you're going to be hard pressed to find any 60" TV that is any better than that, so it sounds like a good deal. Might be a last years model they are trying to blow out, but nothing wrong with that, get some of the best deals that way. The closest I can find in Panasonic plasma...
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    The F*** Cancer Thread

    Sorry to hear about your friend. Currently I have no one in my immediate family dealing with it, but I figure it is only a matter of time. Sometimes I feel like it would be better to go first so I don't have to watch my parents and possibly sister go before me. I don't know how well I'm going...
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    Man of Steel

    I keep hearing that and telling myself I should. Too many real books I want to read at the moment, but I should definitely make the time, I know.
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    Oblivion - Tom Cruise goes WALL-E

    I don't really mind him in most things, the Reacher movie has me a bit bent out of shape though because Reacher is a huge fucking guy that uses his bulk and size to his advantage all the time. Now we're going to have him beating people up with quick little ninja moves, not hammer fists and...
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    Supernatural

    Something has to come of those flashbacks, doesn't it? I mean, he can't just up and retire and go back to live with the vet chick out of remorse, although I could see them trying to make that a "big deal" in the season finale. Hopefully she's a special sort of undetectable demon, or angel, or...
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    Man of Steel

    Well, I'm eager to hear what Heylel has to say, but in the meantime I'll give it a shot. This is sort of tough for me to explain because I wasn't much of a fan of Superman in the comics (remember though, my "comic time" was before a lot of you were born) because I was always a Marvel guy...
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    Arrow

    Good thing Windows 8, Internet Explorer, and Bing were there to help catch the bad guy! I didn't catch the tablet brand, but I have a guess.... Thought Thea was going to mount Oliver there at the end though. I could have gone for some Lannister action.
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    Dexter

    Maybe she'll drop the soap in lockup. Wait, is that even a thing in women's prison?
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    Thank you Draegan, Goodbye FOH

    I agree 100% with Saladus. You know she will just feed off of the drama and diddle herself and Tyen over fucking up yet another board, so let's deny her that pleasure altogether. She shit her bed once, don't put her in another one and not expect her to do it all over again. Let her lay in the...
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    Supernatural

    I completely agree with you, he's by far my favorite on the show. The other 5% is Castiel and hot pieces of ass. Said hot pieces have been sorely lacking lately too, now that I think about it. I remember reading an interview with Ackles near the end of Season 5 where he said it was over...
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    Once Upon a Time

    I'm not a fan of Snow either. She's clearly not ugly, but she just doesn't do it for me like Red does. And I'd take Regina over Snow any day. I enjoy the show quite a bit for the different spin it puts on things. I shouldn't be watching it though, I should be saving it for some future...
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    Home Theater In a Box ?

    Those Polk speakers mentioned from Newegg are the shit for the money (when they're on sale). I bought four of them, because for the price they weren't much more than good rear speakers. Now I just need a place to put the two rears.... Also picked up the center when it was on sale separately...
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    After Earth

    All I can think of is the Key & Peele skit where the agent is talking to Will Smith's kid about a script and he has to keep explaining things like "outside"..."you know, the stuff that goes by the window of your limo."
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    Big Bang Theory

    Wow, that was absolutely terrible. The girl was ok to look at, but had absolutely no chemistry with the guys, and was cast as nothing but a using bitch, so she'd have zero sympathy from the audience, which is never good for a show like this. You have to like the characters at least a little...
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    The King Henry Tapes (By Me!)

    Going to spoiler my comments just to be fair to the people that haven't read everything yet. Not giving anything away outside of the two books, but just trying to be fair.
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    The King Henry Tapes (By Me!)

    I am pretty sure that Boomworm is going to be my favorite character (after King Henry of course). T-Bone was a nice addition as well though, really liked him. So, my big question to you is, how many of these do you plan to write? It is obvious that you could fill a dozen books or more with...
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    Dexter

    I took it as a "Instead of letting me fall in love with you and think that I might have a normal life with a man I could truly relate to, you should have just killed me because knowing I almost had it, only to have it ripped away so abruptly, is the worst torture you could have done to me."...
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    Man of Steel

    Well, we already know he does the whole crab fishing thing, but I think it ties back to what his mother says to him when the voices are overwhelming his head. She says to listen to her voice and picture it as an island all alone in the middle of the ocean. I think he sort of just does that as...
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    Supernatural

    Hell, I even giggle each episode when I hear the assumed names they are using that week. Like Van Halen and Anthony, or Plant and Page, etc. Dumb, but it resonates with me, so I keep watching (for other reasons as well).