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| Topic | NHLCE playoff topic 1 |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 9:56:29 PM #349 | Paper_Okami posted... Blues getting flat out dominated Yeah, it's pretty pathetic really. Sitting here watching and saying "hey guys you might have better luck if you tried playing at the other end of the ice". --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Biden looking for 'middle ground' climate policy |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 3:50:56 PM #11 | JamesVanDerBeek posted... ThanksUglyGod posted...s0nicfan posted...Well given that the most prominent climate proposal right now, the green New Deal, is a giant flaming pile of shit, I imagine any reasonable proposal made from a perspective that doesn't involve throwing Society into the garbage to make it work would be considered "middle ground." I believe one of the single largest polluters in the world is the US military so fuck off with that nonsense. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 12:22:29 PM #16 | I prefer to watch the first one but I think that objectively Part 2 is a better film. The bouncing back and forth in the timelines really does a good job of showing the differences between Michael and Vito and why Michael could never really achieve his goal of being as beloved as his father while still accomplishing the same thing. Not to mention the "IT WAS AN ABORTION MICHAEL" scene is some of the best acting i've ever witnessed. I legit thought Al Pacino wanted to kill her, that look on his face conveyed so much rage and hatred. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Anti-vaxxers are selfish, idiotic, overconfident twits |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 12:09:43 PM #27 | Nall posted... DirkDiggles posted...Nall posted...There shouldnt be, but the fact of the matter there is. And insulting and mocking the other side is just going to push them farther back. If you want to win people over and convince them vaccines are good, you cant insult them. Show some compassion. Youre a physician. Then let them live in a giant anti-vaxxer community in an a state with plenty of space for it and where they aren't a threat to anyone but their own. Then when they've all died of easily preventable diseases we can at least hold their idiotic sacrifice up for future generations to see the perils of being that fucking stupid and dangerous. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | NYT article, Was I Right to Call the Cops on a Black Man Breaking Into a Car? |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 11:59:15 AM #13 | sevihaimerej posted... This isn't worthy of an article...reporting crimes is never a bad thing ffs It is if you can't trust the cops to show up and handle the situation appropriately rather than murder an unarmed man over a misdemeanor. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Anti-vaxxers are selfish, idiotic, overconfident twits |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 11:57:27 AM #13 | Nall posted... Im all for vaccines and pro vaccination, but your attitude towards the situation TC is counterproductive. Youll push people away from your side. Why should we be polite to people who put other people's lives at risk with their ignorance and irresponsibility? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | NYT article, Was I Right to Call the Cops on a Black Man Breaking Into a Car? |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 11:49:20 AM #4 | Umbreon posted... Some joke user is going to come in and go "See, this is why people who call the police on black people (for the flimsiest of reasons)shouldn't get in trouble!" But bro what if I was totally threatened by that black family barbecuing in the park. How do I know they aren't just casing the place for easy marks? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Anti-vaxxers are selfish, idiotic, overconfident twits |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 11:47:54 AM #2 | It's one of those things like a religion, so much of their self and who they are is wrapped up in it that to question is almost like questioning their own existence. It isn't going to happen. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro storms out of BBC interview |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 11:23:48 AM #124 | Veteran conservative reporter makes snowflake storm off set. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | I'm watching Scarface for da first time ever |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 3:22:14 AM #43 | NES4EVER posted... brestugo posted...It was cool when it came out but I don't think it aged well. The music downright sucks. That guy's sweaty face and twitch acting really sell the scene also "Uhh...ye...yeah Tony....sure" *Huge swig* --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | Reading ASOIAF. |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 3:18:33 AM #28 | Bad_Mojo posted... ScazarMeltex posted...Have fun with pages long vivid descriptions of food and clothing while getting short paragraphs describing battles. Dude, Joffrey's wedding is way over the top with that sort of nonsense. Is it interspersed with small bits of conversation between minor characters? Sure? Does it also have in depth details on what type of alcoholic beverage was in Tyrion's cup? You bet. It has songs and every trivial detail about the guy/girl who sings it. It's not even that i'm opposed to that level of detail. It takes a good writer to cram that much level of detail into something and still tell a compelling story. The problem is that it permeates every scene of social gathering within the books and really fucks with pacing and flow. Especially when it's 9/10 times only the social gatherings that get that level of detail. Battles get glossed over in a paragraph or two because he rarely places the viewpoint character in them, and when he does he does things like knock out the viewpoint character part of the way so you can find out afterwards what happened when someone explains it to them. It's simply that he likes writing the fashion and food more than he does anything else. He's even said as much at a reading I went to back when Feast for Crows first came out. (Before the show was dreamed of and most people hadn't heard of the books, he still had time to do appearances at local small conventions and the like). Tolstoy does the same thing, especially in War and Peace, though in that particular case it's his editorializing on the nature of history that drags it down. All that being said, The Battle of The Black Water was one of the best written battles from multiple viewpoint characters I've read in fiction, so when he does want to the man can write a good long battle narrative. I get it, it's probably just a personal preference thing, but I don't think it would hurt anything to tone it down a tiny bit. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | I'm playing ME3 multiplayer for the first time. |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 2:59:50 AM #104 | I'm replaying the game again and this thread has me wondering if anyone still play the MP on PC. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | I'm watching Scarface for da first time ever |
| ScazarMeltex 05/11/19 2:59:04 AM #41 | I love watching Frank so pathetically beg for his life. Like give it up guy you hired the worst hitmen ever. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
| Topic | NHLCE playoff topic 1 |
| ScazarMeltex 04/13/19 9:42:08 PM #42 | Calwings posted... I can't wait for this year's annual dose of crushing disappointment from the Blues As a life long Saint Louisan I agree with this post. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
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