Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

#37021

comhcinc wrote:
Tribble wrote:I liked Wizards much better.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/ ... 06/kkk.jpg

I was not a fan.

Who are those wrestlers?

#37022

HoneyWagon wrote:
comhcinc wrote:http://i.imgur.com/Rj3ATVk.png

So I guess we can finally say that Shermer did not rape Allison Smith.

The consensus in the comments is also that it is a poe/troll
OP only has a few tweets
https://twitter.com/RLatafah
http://i.imgur.com/UDUSQ9n.png

Assuming the identity of someone lower (or higher?) in the hierarchy of privilege and then antagonizing the SJWs...solid trollwork! They can't argue with it because the troll is using their own privilege hierarchy against them. A white woman, after all, does not have male privilege, but they enjoy all the benefits of white privilege -- they can take a time machine to pretty much any era in human history, as Louis CK says, and the maitre de will greet them and say, "We've got a table right here for you, ma'am." But an Asian woman or a black woman? They're females AND minorities! How could white women possibly argue that they're on equal privilege footing? Absurd!

#37023

Farewell BB King.

RIP with Lucille.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/b-b-king-de ... wyer-says/

#37024

dog puke wrote:Farewell BB King.

RIP with Lucille.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/b-b-king-de ... wyer-says/

Didn't he die last week?

#37025

Brive1987 wrote:
there is a staggering level of hubris involved with a director whose default assumption is that he will simply cut everything and write from scratch when adapting the best-selling novel of the twentieth century. Thatâ€™s not a new interpretation of the source material, itâ€™s contempt for it.

Sadly, that sentiment is all too common among directors adapting brilliant novels.

I'm not saying keep Bombadil in. Obviously that shit needed to be cut. One of Tolkien's main failings as an author is his penchant for trips down the rabbit trail of fapping himself raw over nature and how good he thinks his poetry is.

But even a moron could see that cutting out 60% or more of the original novel in order to jam in a fucking theme park ride, Smaugh bideo james levels, gold statue, during Thorin into Aragorn, adding all that Sauron stuff that just ruins the plot continuity of the original trilogy etc etc was Jackson thinking that he knows better than the original author what the story SHOULD be.

#37026

"during" -> "turning"

#37027

But I see the "if you complain about nerd movies, you're a butthurt nerd" trope has reared it's ugly head again.

As opposed to complaining about horrible adaptations that don't involve nerd shit, such as The Count of Monte Cristo.

[youtube]0CeAZyUs5ww[/youtube]

Shitty movies aren't like, ruining my life or anything. But I was a little surprised how the most recent Hobbit film managed to live down to my expectations. The effects looked worse to me in many ways than the original trilogy.

#37028

dog puke wrote:Farewell BB King.

RIP with Lucille.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/b-b-king-de ... wyer-says/

Salutes. Best known for his guitar playing, but when he was younger he could sing.

[youtube]Zon6qTP_vtg[/youtube]

#37029

James Caruthers wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
there is a staggering level of hubris involved with a director whose default assumption is that he will simply cut everything and write from scratch when adapting the best-selling novel of the twentieth century. Thatâ€™s not a new interpretation of the source material, itâ€™s contempt for it.
Sadly, that sentiment is all too common among directors adapting brilliant novels.

I'm not saying keep Bombadil in. Obviously that shit needed to be cut. One of Tolkien's main failings as an author is his penchant for trips down the rabbit trail of fapping himself raw over nature and how good he thinks his poetry is.

But even a moron could see that cutting out 60% or more of the original novel in order to jam in a fucking theme park ride, Smaugh bideo james levels, gold statue, during Thorin into Aragorn, adding all that Sauron stuff that just ruins the plot continuity of the original trilogy etc etc was Jackson thinking that he knows better than the original author what the story SHOULD be.

It could have been a truly great, perfect in fact, tribute.

But it wasn't for the most purile reason of all - chasing the summer teen market, like thats the only option open. And thats the fucking tragedy here.

Well here is my own sad version. Coming soon to a multiplex near you.

"In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit ...... "

http://i.imgur.com/ncEr9a3.jpg

Guest · #37030

Tapir wrote:
dog puke wrote:Farewell BB King.

RIP with Lucille.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/b-b-king-de ... wyer-says/
Didn't he die last week?

April 30th, Ben E. King, Stand By Me.
May 14th, B. B. King, Rock Me Baby.
May 28th, Sofa King, Discount Couches.

Guest · #37031

Apparently BB King, not B. B. King.

#37032

Shitty movies aren't like, ruining my life or anything. But I was a little surprised how the most recent Hobbit film managed to live down to my expectations. The effects looked worse to me in many ways than the original trilogy.

There's just not enough material for a trilogy of three hour movies in the Hobbit. Even adding some material from other stories (like the Sauron stuff in Dol Guldur) there still isn't enough material. So there's a lot of padding, mostly fight scenes for the sake of a fight scene, the boring Orc vengeance subplot or the whole love triangle nonsensical subplot.

I went in expecting the movies to be shit. You simply can't squeeze eleven hours of material out of a book that's 300 pages long, not even if you add some padding.

#37033

I liked both LOTR and Hobbit trilogies, the third Hobbit being the best of that trilogy, IMO.

There, I said it!

#37034

Could Jackson have fucked up the Hobbit even more than he did?

Yes.

http://i.imgur.com/eueO1Vn.jpg

#37035

Here's an interesting case in the light of the Shermer-Smith incident.

A man and woman meet in a departure lounge and she claims he paid for a lot of whisky shots, which she drinks before they board.
She asks to switch seats so that she is next to him and a little later another passenger complains that they have a jacket over their laps and are engaging in mutual masturbation.
The woman is sent back to her original seat and the couple are both arrested when the plane lands. The woman does herself no favors by freaking out at this point, assaulting the arresting officer and kicking holes in the walls of the office she is taken for questioning.

The woman claims she has no recollection of the events and that most of the drinks were bought by the man.
(So surely SJW rape?)

The really interesting part is the way this attempt to evade responsibility is treated by the legal bods in the linked video:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... in-5672536

#37036

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I liked both LOTR and Hobbit trilogies, the third Hobbit being the best of that trilogy, IMO.

There, I said it!

Clinical rigour demands you provide a more extensive list of 'things you like' - before a diagnosis can be attempted.

#37037

One day i will watch the third Hobbit movie.

Today is not that day.

#37038

OMFG!

TRIGGER WARNING!!!!! FOX NEWS!!!

[youtube]xuWlOhP36LY[/youtube]

#37039

Brive1987 wrote:One day i will watch the third Hobbit movie.

Today is not that day.

I had no idea there was even so much as one, never mind THREE Hobbit movies till you Shitlords brought it up.

#37040

I saw all three LOTR movies at the Sydney Opera House.

Big screen, turned the sound down 90% had subtititles - and the music was entirely played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with massed choirs.

Fucking awesome. The music and some of the visuals do rock, once the plot is excised.

#37041

AndrewV69 wrote:OMFG!

TRIGGER WARNING!!!!! FOX NEWS!!!

[youtube]xuWlOhP36LY[/youtube]

http://i.imgur.com/gVqNpqT.png

I'm not sure I entirely agree with that guy, but damn was that a funny trololol. :lol:

(I don't agree because there's supposedly still a 5 cents or so wage gap when you account for all known factors.)

#37042

I was there :)

[youtube]25DlWW6EuRU[/youtube]

#37043

Zbut i had better seats!

#37044

Did you just dox yourself?

You're the one with the beanie?

#37045

Good pick up. My dress-white beanie for special occasions.

http://i.imgur.com/Rq1CeIz.jpg

#37046

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Sunder wrote:Best LotR adaptation is still the BBC radio drama.
While I happen to agree (and remember being glued to my radio those nights), I'm tempted to suggest that Ralph Bakshi did LotR best just to yank on some chains.

No, this is the best LoTR adaptation:

[youtube]Koj0V7G46fs[/youtube]

:cdc:

#37047

I've only been to the Opera House once. It's too far away to go more often.

The Canberra Playhouse just isn't the same.

https://www.canberratheatrecentre.com.a ... G_9827.jpg

#37048

Tribble wrote:
James Caruthers wrote: I was pretty impressed with how the main actor in Dredd (the new one) kept his fucking helmet on the entire time.

We need more adaptations like that one.
I avoided it like the plague, after what Rambo did to the one before, but someone here recommended it so I watched it. It was outstanding and I really felt like Karl Urban got into the character perfectly.

One regrettable thing about Fury Road is that it did the pursued-across-the-desert-by-freakish-mutants thing so well that should we be (very) lucky enough to get a Dredd sequel, it definitely won't be based on the Cursed Earth storyline. There's no chance they could top it, despite the fact that it'd be perfect for Travis & Garland's more grounded, gritty take on Judge Dredd's world.

#37049

DaveDodo007 wrote:[

Can't we leave their children out of this. :(

Excuse me, but she's put herself in there more than once and has been active in the atheist community since at least 2007 on her old website (now taken down) skatje.com. She's been featured on The Atheist Experience. She's guest posted multiple times on multiple blogs, especially her father's. She's been involved with some of her father's other bullshit on many occasions. And she's a SJW on her own right, even if she doesn't 100% toe her father's line (like abortion). She's even run at least one AMA on Reddit to 'cash in' on her 'fame' of being PZ's daughter:

This is no innocent waif dragged in, she's gone full retard on her own. OTOH, you'll notice that her siblings don't get dragged in because they avoid the bullshit she jumps into with both feet.

So, fuck this 'think of the innocents' bullshit you dropped. Nobody is dragging in his wife or his other two kids into anything. They don't play his game, and they are left 100% alone as far as I know.

#37050

You know. I do believe the SJ war, at least as it impacts A/S may be largely over.

Carrier cannot loose more credibility if he tried.

PZ has been run out of town.

Benson couldnt pay bums to leave comments amidst her timbleweed of a blog.

SZvan has largely given up, thrashing and gasping on the beach while being poked by curious school kids.

Watson is struggling for meaning outside of SGU, constrained by Patreons terms and conditions.

If she hadn't had a small recent spasm with Jadehawk, there'd be no proof of life for Greta.

I doubt we will ever see again the halcyon days of WiS2, con-policy mayhem, wastsonian boycotts, Vacula's shit, grenades and Radford data dumps. People in A/S just don't give a shit about the rainbow hair brigade anymore.

[youtube]mTLqp-KKuo4[/youtube]

#37051

Brive1987 wrote:Definitive review of Jackson's LOTR

http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/the- ... h-orcs.php

Yeah. pretty much.

#37052

Keating wrote:I've only been to the Opera House once. It's too far away to go more often.

The Canberra Playhouse just isn't the same.

https://www.canberratheatrecentre.com.a ... G_9827.jpg

Looks fine from here. Probably has better accoustics than the Opera House

One of my small luxuries are season tickets to the SSO. We go there quite a bit for other things as well - like Bill Connolly's high horse tour. You can't beat the setting.

I also saw the Gladiator movie thingie done by the SSO. The Wheatfield singing was performed by the original NZ (?) singer and writer. That was a good day.

#37053

On LotR:

IMO Jackson was the editor that Tolkien sorely needed. I enjoyed the movies, both the first trilogy and the Hobbit more than the original books, although I do think LotR was leaps and bounds better than the Hobbit, which in the end was kinda meh and didn't really have the same impact, but I think that's the nature of the story.

There's several things in the movies that they just got perfectly right. The weight of the Ring as an example, was done masterfully. There are things I don't like, to be sure. Some of the CGI is awful. But the positive way outweigh the negatives.

In the end it remains some of the most masterfully produced movies. Especially in how the soundtrack is integrated, and the use of audio cues is wonderful.

#37054

ISIS is at the very least, honest.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32744070

He adds: "Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels."

#37055

dog puke wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
Tribble wrote:I liked Wizards much better.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/ ... 06/kkk.jpg

I was not a fan.
Who are those wrestlers?

The Fabulous Freebirds.

http://cache.onlineworldofwrestling.com ... ebirds.jpg

Michael "Pure Sexy" Hayes is known for being kinda a racist in a Steermans type of way. He works behind the scenes at WWE as one of the head guys.

#37056

Brive1987 wrote:The Wheatfield singing was performed by the original NZ (?) singer and writer. That was a good day.

Lisa Gerrard (AUS).

#37057

[quote="Brive1987"]

SZvan has largely given up, thrashing and gasping on the beach while being poked by curious school kids.[quote]
That was mean even by my standards. I still laughed though. I wouldn't count her out entirely yet. I believe she has it in her to do something truly appalling in a desperate bid for attention.

#37058

Oh, fer fuck's sake.

Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity was taken to task for having no playable female characters?

Well, no surprise then that the fact that AC Syndicate will have a playable female character is - well, just not fucking good enough.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/assassins-cree ... pr-1501503

#37059

Feminism, the video game no one can ever win

Crabman · #37060

Tigzy wrote:Oh, fer fuck's sake.

Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity was taken to task for having no playable female characters?

Well, no surprise then that the fact that AC Syndicate will have a playable female character is - well, just not fucking good enough.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/assassins-cree ... pr-1501503

Didn't they see Anita's guide to good female characters? You can't have a character that's identifiable as female, she has to be a string of pixels in ambiguous shape. Also she shouldn't have any personality nor say things. Nor should there be much plot really, or an arc.

The devs should just have included a beige square that said "strong independent womyn" and a red button that if pressed wins the game.

#37061

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:The Wheatfield singing was performed by the original NZ (?) singer and writer. That was a good day.
Lisa Gerrard (AUS).

Of Dead Can Dance fame? (must be, unless AUS is swarming with singers of that name)

#37062

feathers wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:The Wheatfield singing was performed by the original NZ (?) singer and writer. That was a good day.
Lisa Gerrard (AUS).
Of Dead Can Dance fame? (must be, unless AUS is swarming with singers of that name)

Yup, the very same.

#37063

Tigzy wrote:Oh, fer fuck's sake.

Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity was taken to task for having no playable female characters?

Well, no surprise then that the fact that AC Syndicate will have a playable female character is - well, just not fucking good enough.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/assassins-cree ... pr-1501503

It's nice when the first line of an article let's you know it's going to be complete shit :

Historically, games have respected women about the same as you might respect a banana peel, or a used tissue. Women have been sexualised, objectified, belittled, discriminated against and misrepresented at every juncture.

I didn't bother to read the next few paragraphs ; I skipped down several lines and landed on this gem :

The female characters in videogames are not given half as much attention as their male oppressors

It's been a crap week, so I really needed a good laugh this morning. Thanks !

#37064

katamari Damassi wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
SZvan has largely given up, thrashing and gasping on the beach while being poked by curious school kids.
That was mean even by my standards. I still laughed though. I wouldn't count her out entirely yet. I believe she has it in her to do something truly appalling in a desperate bid for attention.

[youtube]7X0hq0ug9q4[/youtube]

#37065

Crabman wrote:
Didn't they see Anita's guide to good female characters? You can't have a character that's identifiable as female, she has to be a string of pixels in ambiguous shape. Also she shouldn't have any personality nor say things. Nor should there be much plot really, or an arc.

The devs should just have included a beige square that said "strong independent womyn" and a red button that if pressed wins the game.

A BIEGE block? STOP ERASING BLOCKS OF COLOR! And why privilege blocks when there are other perfectly valid shapes?

#37066

James Caruthers wrote: (I don't agree because there's supposedly still a 5 cents or so wage gap when you account for all known factors.)

Some studies found as little as 1 or 2%. The important point: whether the remaining gap is 1% or 5%, it's unexplained. So it could be sexism, but nobody has proven that.

#37067

The chief problem with the Hobbit movies is, they're based on a very silly book.

#37068

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:The chief problem with the Hobbit movies is, they're based on a very silly book.

HOW DARE YOU

#37069

NoGodsEver wrote:

http://images.complex.com/complex/image ... 3epx56.jpg

In my vision, that beard would have to go. And be replaced by a much bigger one.

John_Brown_Painting.JPG: (63.3 KiB) Downloaded 195 times

#37070

Brive1987 wrote:You know. I do believe the SJ war, at least as it impacts A/S may be largely over.

Generalising, North American exceptionalism has discovered post-modern political correctness, and it has been appropriated with a rare zeal.

The rift was always a microcosm of a bigger cultural wave - it approached the mainstream with Gamergate, and I think 2015 with Rolling Stone, the Columbia case (there will be others, I'm sure) will be the year this strange phenomenon starts to break everywhere; people are finally realising it's absolute poison.

#37071

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
James Caruthers wrote: (I don't agree because there's supposedly still a 5 cents or so wage gap when you account for all known factors.)
Some studies found as little as 1 or 2%. The important point: whether the remaining gap is 1% or 5%, it's unexplained. So it could be sexism, but nobody has proven that.

Eh there's a lot of potential explanations. It's just that it's not what we would conventionally think of as sexism. For example...the average woman probably takes two years off of her career to have children. Well, subtract the raises that would have been received during those years. That alone is probably a couple of percentage points. Tend to work less OT/Take more time off? That's another couple of percentage points.

There IS an element of gender bias there, but virtually everybody is going to look at those things in their particular circumstances and think they're justified.

#37072

Sulman wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:You know. I do believe the SJ war, at least as it impacts A/S may be largely over.

Generalising, North American exceptionalism has discovered post-modern political correctness, and it has been appropriated with a rare zeal.

The rift was always a microcosm of a bigger cultural wave - it approached the mainstream with Gamergate, and I think 2015 with Rolling Stone, the Columbia case (there will be others, I'm sure) will be the year this strange phenomenon starts to break everywhere; people are finally realising it's absolute poison.

I believe the end-game is coming soon. Probably within this calendar year, and it's going to be over "anti-harassment" policies being applied to the in-group as well.

#37073

Tigzy wrote:Oh, fer fuck's sake.

Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity was taken to task for having no playable female characters?

Well, no surprise then that the fact that AC Syndicate will have a playable female character is - well, just not fucking good enough.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/assassins-cree ... pr-1501503

This is exactly why you never surrender to feminists and SJWs. Nothing you do will ever be good enough. Ever. Even as they give their allies passes for the same kind of stuff (Joss Whedon) until they turn on them, too (Joss Whedon again but the list is long).

#37074

Karmakin wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
James Caruthers wrote: (I don't agree because there's supposedly still a 5 cents or so wage gap when you account for all known factors.)
Some studies found as little as 1 or 2%. The important point: whether the remaining gap is 1% or 5%, it's unexplained. So it could be sexism, but nobody has proven that.
Eh there's a lot of potential explanations. It's just that it's not what we would conventionally think of as sexism. For example...the average woman probably takes two years off of her career to have children. Well, subtract the raises that would have been received during those years. That alone is probably a couple of percentage points. Tend to work less OT/Take more time off? That's another couple of percentage points.

There IS an element of gender bias there, but virtually everybody is going to look at those things in their particular circumstances and think they're justified.

Sure myself or someone else has posted this before but Maddox really hits it out of the park with this video.

[youtube]BDj_bN0L8XM[/youtube]

#37075

rayshul wrote:Feminism, the video game no one can ever win

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

#37076

Karmakin wrote:
Sulman wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:You know. I do believe the SJ war, at least as it impacts A/S may be largely over.

Generalising, North American exceptionalism has discovered post-modern political correctness, and it has been appropriated with a rare zeal.

The rift was always a microcosm of a bigger cultural wave - it approached the mainstream with Gamergate, and I think 2015 with Rolling Stone, the Columbia case (there will be others, I'm sure) will be the year this strange phenomenon starts to break everywhere; people are finally realising it's absolute poison.
I believe the end-game is coming soon. Probably within this calendar year, and it's going to be over "anti-harassment" policies being applied to the in-group as well.

I'm curious, because as I'm sure everyone at the 'Pit knows, as soon as you think people recognise the emperor has no clothes, something even more insane happens and nobody bats an eyelid.

#37077

Sulman wrote:I'm curious, because as I'm sure everyone at the 'Pit knows, as soon as you think people recognise the emperor has no clothes, something even more insane happens and nobody bats an eyelid.

Because it's not about the outsiders recognizing that the emperor has no clothes...it's about people on the inside realizing that.

The eventual end will come when the "true believers" start butting heads with the "hangers on".

#37078

I was just dicking around with Google Trends. Apparently Thunderf00t passed Myers in search interest in the middle of last year. I think that's pretty funny.

I also did another comparing Thunderf00t to Freethought Blogs as a search term.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q ... cmpt=q&tz=

Quite the down-turn in search interest on FTB while Thunderf00t continues to be erratic because of his up-and-down video making. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not many.

I guess they shouldn't have kicked him out. Interest brings page views. Page views bring ad revenue. Not that Thunderf00t needs their ad revenue. He's pulling in $3,700+ a Patreon video. And, unlike St. Becky of the Booze, he puts effort into them. Hell, he puts more effort into most of his 'free' videos and, unlike St. Becky of the Booze, doesn't just take the patronage for granted.

#37079

History repeats itself: I just got stuck 40 minutes in my very tiny elevator, waiting for the tech to come and help me out. Luckily, I was alone.

#37080

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:... my very tiny elevator ...

Yeah, I've heard that about you.