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This amuses me.
There's something about the military that keeps attracting me, but I don't want to make it my carreer. I'm planning on enlisting at the School for Reserve Officers after university. You get to become a Second Lieutenant in only six months of training.
And then Milos was MarkVonLewis.
Nah, I kid.
That's good news Nova. In other news I have obtained gainful employment today after the most surreal interview in my life.
> people being pseudointellectual on /u/
> people being smug about showing off their smarts
goddamit 4Chan, I thought you were better than this. Or at least too stupid to be able to try and show off your smarts.
If we had signatures here, this would be mine now.
Grant Morrison's JLA says otherwise. (So does Infinite Crisis, I suppose.)
But yeah, that wasn't the best writing the Joker's every gotten. I still liked the voice though (and thought the line about juggling would have been good if they'd just stopped with the word juggling, because, clown.)
The only arc I really remember is the one where the JLA fought off the white martians. It helps that I've only read like two or three before I couldn't find the rest.
And well, Inifinity Crisis' point was that Joker is too scary and he kills redheads in an alley. Oh, and superboys tend to be drama queens, I guess.
Oh, Spiner's performance is cool. It's just that he often didn't make jokes and when he attempted them, they were kinda sitcom-y. I get that the Joker is not really a grade-A comedian, but still!
Also, I felt that the bit where he aknowledged he had different personalities was kinda out of character for him.
Aw, man, I'm learning how fucking magnets work in Physics now.
@Wicked: I had a similar prompt; the premise was the same, but the class was allowed to choose which book to analyze, and explicitly told that we ought to use a book we read in a previous class, since there wouldn't be time. And we didn't have to write four-five+ pages, with multiple copies or anything.
Oh, and I saw the second half or two-thirds of A Few Good Men. It was pretty good, and now I know where "you can't handle the truth!" comes from.
Milos - oh how it was kinda rambley. Like he went on about how he wanted to throw his kid's annoying R2-D2 toy out the window into the pool and then shoot it. Or how he used to shoot bow and how his dad gave him shit for not wanting to unstring/restring the bow each time he used it. Or him not believing Arizona is a real place. Or this conversation.
Him: So you have family in the city?
Me: Nope, my mom's dead.
Him: Father?
Me: I never met him.
Him: Brothers or sisters?
Me: Nope.
Him: Grandparents?
Me: Died before I was born.
Him: ... welp, I hope you have some friends in Milwaukee.
And he hired me on the spot after the interview too.
But not unstringing it when you're finished using it can ruin the bow.
You know, I normally don't buy the fact that people think I'm smart or wise beyond my years and attribute a lot of it to the internet and being able to think through the things i say.
So I kinda was surprised with myself when I managed to have an actual discussion with my sister about my viewpoint on conformism and nonconformism (And how it relates to existential angst) and where I managed to say how I felt without hestitating or making my points unclear.
I honestly think that this is Reiner's best movie, to be honest. Also, Jack Nicholson's best non-Cuckoo Nest's performance.
Nova - it depends. Old school longbow, yeah it's a problem. Modern recurves, not so much. And restringing a compound bow every time you want to use it is basically going to make you ponder if you can make a noose out of bow string.
Cuckoo's Nest was another good one. I like Nicholson. And now that I've finished reading The Shining, I don't have much excuse not to see the movie, do I?
Crake- It does tend to depend, yeah. I guess I don't really know enough to be able to say.
the Shining was....not bad, but I think it could've been better. I did enjoy it a lot when I watched it, though, and I'm by no means an Stephen King fan.
I've heard that the character of Jack Torrance was greatly simplified and exaggerated, compared to the novel. And I saw one guy wank for pages and pages and literally hundreds of paragraphs about how Kubrick's a fucking genius or something and used recurring numbers for . . . some reason I didn't care to dig out from that sea of words. That was damn trippy.
EDIT: This isn't quite it (not nearly as long), but it's the same guy.
EDIT 2: Ah, found it.
All I know about The Shining in comparison to the book was that it it deliberately tried to be a mirror adaptation of sorts to the book (IE: A lot of objects were coloured opposite to the book, and some moments happen differently in a way that is both similar and yet dissimilar and so on) but I didn't read the book, so I can't exactly evaluate it as an adaptation, but as an horror film.
Yeah, same here. Then again, if he has a past, he'd prefer it to be multiple choice.
And you're missing out on the JLA, there. Morrison got saddled with electric Superman for a couple of arcs, but he rolled with it.
made a stupid thread
whee
I know, I know, goddamnit. ;~;
Nice way to ninja Juan there Anonus.
Also have goal of catching the original 151 Mons.
I can't listen to Rhapsody-style power metal, 'cause I get a case of - we have a trope for that, Longing For Fictionland I think. Similar with folk metal and other styles of power metal, only it's not fiction. I can't listen to gothic or symphonic metal, 'cause I get that gothy-gloomy-Romantic feeling. Black metal? Gets a bit uneasy after a dozenth call for a church burning. Hmpfh, what's left. Vanilla heavy, thrash, and death. Heavy is like power. Thrash I don't really like, either too depressing or I don't like the tune. Perhaps I should start listening to death metal. Too bad that most of the time I don't really like it either.
And yet I'm now listening to heavy and power. Pffffft.
>Birthday
>Wall gets plastered with congratulations messages
>Most of them cheesy puns or horrid nicknames
I can live with this. Also, going to Hed PE tonight. Instead of the usual hyperbolic misogyny, their more recent album delves far more into bizarre conspiracy theories. Going by their site, they're actually truly believers. I'm hoping the singer is gonna do the genero-political-message gig between songs.
Might as well have called it, "missingthepoint.tumblr.com"
Very much ninja because of the forum bug that skips over the last post of a page.
"It has to have two women in it: Elsie and Anna Rausch.
Failed"
...Uh?
Someone who thinks our forum is a "very interesting site" has just joined us. Let's see what happens.