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  1. Aldarion

    Stephen King's The Dark Tower

    Just checking in to point and laugh. Oh, the movie where they had such blatant disregard for the source material they decided to cast a black dude as the gunslinger... it flopped? This is my surprised face. I'm only trying to figure out -- from now on, when ass backwards casting decisions make...
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    Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

    This is awesome. Your post reads exactly like someone making a parody of what a SJW would say. "Its <current year>!" I'm gonna deduct 1 VSP for failing to use the phrase "you're a white male", and 1 VSP for failing to use racist/sexist/homophobic/cisnormative. But otherwise this was a really...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    first you advocate spaces over tabs (cause multiple invisible characters instead of a single invisible character totally makes sense) Now vi instead of nano? Yall just enjoy pain. Its the only explanation.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    /brofist putty is right next to Chrome and R in my my frequently used shortcuts. Putty for life
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    So's my dad. Wish we could sign up for experimental treatments like this; this sounds like a really great concept with low risks and promising early results in clinical trials.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm constantly surprised by the number of coworkers I encounter who have never been shocked by household current and think its some kind of instant death. I mean, every house is wired with this stuff. How you get to age 20+ and never experience a taste of household current? I guess I'm a little...
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    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    An eyebrow model? WTF Do the brits just have a thing for oddly large, dark, and shaggy eyebrows? I am genuinely confused here. She's otherwise fairly average for an actress and I obviously wouldnt kick her out of bed but her eyebrows are freakish.
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    Black Lightning

    So when they cast a white superhero, they're all "lets just pick a good actor regardless of whether they look like the character". "Its all about the acting chops". Then when they cast a black superhero, theyre all "lets get a black actor". OK, got it.
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    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    This is correct advice from someone who actually seems to know what spanking is and how its supposed to be used. Like your parents, I've only spanked my kids a very small number of times. A few spankings early in life teach lessons that let the kid avoid much greater pain later in life. Which...
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    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Its literally the most important thing to teach your kids: to overcome your emotions, not be ruled by them. Its literally what distinguishes a worthwhile human being from the masses. I dont understand your use of the word "gross" in this context, but its clear you disagree. "Oh no dont teach...
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    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    This thread is a shitshow, and I aint touching it, but this made me laugh. Everyone's feelings are without merit or worth. The moment a person first recognizes this is the moment they qualify as a full-fledged human being.
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    The struggle is real

    Of all the random shit to get upset about, this is just bizarre. By extension I'm guessing you are also enraged that people shop at Walmart instead of supporting shitty local mom and pops? I'm an angry guy and can appreciate a rant but lol at white knighting electricians unions.
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    American Gods

    Considering your self declared proclivity for buttholes and weird sexual shit, I dont know why this would surprise you. Did you think most straight people do things with funnels in buttholes? No judgement, but can we agree youre not representative of the average straight person when it comes...
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    American Gods

    Wow, Id genuinely forgotten that. How fucking stupid. At least in this case its the author being a SJW idiot instead of Hollywood casting idiocy. Right? Wasnt shadow moon black in the book too?
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    Parent Thread

    spanking is not beating. Spanking is not violence. You people are delusional and projecting.
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    Parent Thread

    This is such feelzy bullshit I'm actually a little surprised to see it on FOH. There is a place for physical discipline. Done properly, its not even a little bit abusive or damaging -- it is positive and loving.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You misspelled "obvious, inarguable, and correct".
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    American Gods

    Damn it. My only complaint is if this keeps up, I am going to have to re read the book!
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I have no criticism of Emilia herself but itd be swell if the makeup artists had taken a moment to look at an actual blond person prior to dying her hair. Every scene shes in I'm like "why are there two giant black hairy caterpillars where her eyebrows should be?" To be clear this is not a...
  20. Aldarion

    Stephen King's The Dark Tower

    Wow, fuck this. The only comparison I can make in terms of completely ignoring the source material would be the old Dune movie.
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    American Gods

    Ep 1 was much more fun than the book. The world was always great, but the writing just left me not caring about anyone. I'm in.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Ahh I didnt understand that detail. Well, in that case I have no objection. (Who gives a shit about compiled file sizes) Although, not a relevant fix for me b/c you can pry nano out of my cold dead hands :) (And youre wrong; Python is ugly and unreadable. Worse, it is always ugly and...
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    Parent Thread

    I should be clear: I wasnt saying theres no such thing as a speech delay that requires or would benefit from intervention. Just that my parents position was: "All kids learn to talk. Speech delay is only a thing for the first couple years, then they all catch up". And for my first kid, that was...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Umm, you have to hit the space bar 4 or 5 times to make a useful (visually obvious) indent. You only have to hit the tab once. How is that not an advantage? This is probably my biggest gripe about python. No coding language should ever interpret whitespace as meaning anything other than "not a...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This is one of those sarcasm things that I always fail to get, right? Real life human beings with functional brains dont actually use spaces in code instead of tabs. "Here, lets use four or more characters instead of one. Brilliant!"
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    Parent Thread

    I dont recall how old your kid is. But for whatever its worth, they rated my son "speech delayed" for hist first 2-3 years. He was our first, so we were mildly concerned. Turns out my parents were right and its not really a thing. In my sons case, by the time he was 5 or 6 he had more than...
  27. Aldarion

    The Last Kingdom

    Wow great show. One more show I wouldnt have noticed except for FOH. Almost as good as Vikings.
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    Career Change

    Yeah, I think you prety much resolved the thread right there. HS teaching would be a shitty job for many of us, and would be an ideal job for others. This is subjective. Its not a difficult job for anyone who's completed high school. I wouldnt want the job, but the pay to difficulty ratio is...
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    Career Change

    One of the intellectually easiest jobs in the world Absurdly easy hours Basically cant ever be fired Takes almost no schooling to be qualified for the job K-12 teachers are not underpaid, thats the market responding appropriately to a job that could be filled by almost anyone who graduated high...
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    The Flash

    I like that suggestion but lets do it differently and kill two birds with one stone. Instead of moving black Iris lets have Flash go to the original universe where Iris is white and hot and kid flash is a red haired white kid. Timeline restored, and black Iris is safe. Win win.
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    Eight Values

    I'm hooked on these things but the content and weighting are so bad. My score -- Closest Match: Liberalism
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    The Expanse

    I love sci fi, and near future colonization of the solar system sci fi is especially high on the list. e.g. I've already reread Seveneves three times despite several mediocre aspects to that book. This thread makes Expanse sound awesome. Every time I try to watch it I fall asleep. Its like the...
  33. Aldarion

    Who falls into anarchy first?

    Why no Venezuela?
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Especially when the fact is, women are nearly 100% of the time the decision makers about whether sex happens. If there is one party to "blame" for sex its nearly always the woman, outside of rape which is exceptionally rare relative to consensual sex. Of course the idea of blame is ludicrous...
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Is this real? Are there adults who dont know how to tie their shoes securely? When we taught my kid show to tie their shoes we didnt give the knot a special name "here son, let me teach you the Double Knot", its just called "how to tie your shoes".
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    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    CGI can build planet sized cities or giant alien monsters, but it cant fix those eyebrows?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You stupid cockloving motherfucker. How did I miss this gem of a post. Downloading a digital copy of a movie or song is exactly the moral equivalent of when your friend made you a mix tape in 1992. Exactly the fucking same thing. If there is any crime involved, the crime is on the part of the...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Your fuckin trollin me. A seemingly internet savvy person in 2017 still selling the pathetic "downloading = theft" crock? I cant understand the psychological forces that would drive a person to make such a statement. Theft is morally wrong specifically because it removes the property from the...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    LOL What is this, 1994? Downloading = theft? I'm just not sure where to pick up this debate; I thought it ended a decade or two ago.
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    Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

    I may be reading too much into a trailer. But is that a black female love interest for spiderman? Writing white male characters with black girlfriends is about as believable and demographically realistic as writing a white male character as transgender. Yes, TV Flash (and apparently MCU...