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Arts & Entertainment / Re: First Look at Ben Affleck's Batman

« on: May 14, 2014, 07:29:52 PM »

I really don't understand why there is a young Lex Luthor yet Batman is supposed to be older (late 30s, 40s?). That really shits on the lore.

No. Superman and Batman will be meeting for the first time and Lex Luthor is a Superman enemy, so his age in contrast to Bruce's is irrelevant. It'll probably be the rise of Lex Luthor, and Batman will likely be an established hero whereas Superman is new. Superman is already ~30 in Man of Steel, so Batman will likely be in his very late 30s or somewhere in his 40s. They don't have any frequently-established constant age difference, so saying it "really shits on the lore" is pretty wrong. Anyway, Jesse Eisenberg (who's playing Lex Luthor) is the same age as Henry Cavill (Superman), so that's all that really matters (though it wouldn't really matter if he wasn't, because changes are fine as long as they work out).

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: First Look at Ben Affleck's Batman

« on: May 14, 2014, 10:47:48 AM »

I'm sure Affleck will be fine.  The main reason why this movie will probably be shit is the people making it.

This. Also, I'm fairly sure that Affleck's Batman is supposed to be an older, already-established Batman. That's what I've been hearing, at least. I like the idea of Ben Affleck as an older Batman.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: May 12, 2014, 06:18:45 AM »

Quest design alone makes Oblivion significantly better than Skyrim.

How so, exactly? It's been a long while since I've played Oblivion, but I don't remember the quests being a whole lot different.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: May 12, 2014, 03:02:47 AM »

That's kind of exciting, actually. I joined in and talked to a Netflix employee about it. They seem kind of optimistic about it. We are the Save Greendale Committee!

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: May 10, 2014, 09:09:02 AM »

Incorrect, it should have been cancelled after this season. It was worth getting a good season of the show

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: May 08, 2014, 07:00:44 AM »

^ Will do sooner rather than later, most likely. I've been getting back into listening to recommendations again recently, albeit not in the list's order...like I said before, I may start foregoing the order overall just to facilitate my actual getting around to it. I was out of the groove for a bit, but I've gotten that spark of getting excited about new music back again. :]


Dntel - Life Is Full of Possibilities: I've been wanting to listen to this for a couple of years now (it was one of the first albums I put on my list) and just now got around to it. Honestly, I was kinda disappointed. It was very good, but I think I built it up way too much in my own mind and had too much time to project what I thought it would sound like onto it. Dntel is one half of The Postal Service (the music production half), so I was hoping for some of that to show through but it really didn't. So on its own, it was a nice glitchy experimental electronica album. My favourite song was “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan”, which featured Ben Gibbard (the vocals half of The Postal Service) and is the song that made their duo happen. It was really nice and sounded like a heavier version of their later collaborations. Other than that were “Why I'm So Unhappy”, which reminded me of Frou Frou, “Fireworks”, which  was a wonderfully glitchy dance track, and “Last Songs”, which was just a really pretty finish.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: OFFICIAL POKEMON OMEGARUBY/ALPHASAPPHIRE HYPE TRAIN!

« on: May 08, 2014, 12:16:54 AM »

FFFAFJKLDKSJ I'M SO EXCITED ;W;

seriously this thread made my day, i didn't hear about these and wasn't sure if you were serious and fjskalfjsadflkj

Ruby/Sapphire were my favourite Pokémon games world-wise, I'm going to be so ridiculously excited to explore Hoenn in full 3D!! And now that Pokémon bank will make it simple to import Pokémon I fjklafj.

SO EXCITE I really hope those are mega evolutions, I don't think not being able to bring them back to X/Y will make a difference. You can't transfer items between generations, so they'd likely just make it so the mega stones are only in Ruby/Sapphire.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: May 07, 2014, 08:14:40 AM »

I really like the song Koka Kola, even though its about a minute long...

That's part of why I like it. Too many of the songs on the album are longer than they need to be. Part of what I loved about the first album was how concise the tracks were, short and to the point rather than dragging them out with incessant choruses.


The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward: I dunno what I expected from the album, but this was probably far more gorgeous than it. The first two songs were very pretty but didn't completely enamour me, but once “Built Then Burnt (Hurrah! Hurrah!)” came around, it became pretty masterfully beautiful. The album conveys so much, evoking a plethora of emotions (often within a single song) and just overall being a glorious work of art. My favourite is “C'monCOMEON(Loose an Endless Longing)”, which has a huge range of tempos and is the one that pulled at me the most in general. Second would be “Take These Hands and Throw Them in the River”, which is incredibly intense and actually made me feel a little anxious as my heart fluttered at the same time from how great it was. The closer, “The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes.”, is almost as good. It's just really, really beautiful. I highly recommend this to everyone and everyone.

Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder: I didn't like this album nearly as much as Born into Trouble, but it was very nice still. My favourite tracks were the odder ones, namely “There is No Dance in Frequency and Balance” and “Côte d'Abrahams Roomtone/"What's Going On?..." (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #3)”, but the rest of it was really good too. Yet still, nothing struck me quite as much as the prior album did, but it was still a great listen. I did thoroughly enjoy some of the crackling, odd ambience. I don't really have a whole lot more to say.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: May 07, 2014, 03:10:51 AM »

The Clash - London Calling: So, the album started with “London Calling”, which...is easily one of my favourite songs by The Clash already and when I heard it. That song alone gave me pretty high expectations, the way it sounds like a dirge foretelling the inevitable fall of London. It's absolutely fantastic. From that to “Brand New Cadillac”...I dunno. The song's not bad, but not anything real special. From there it kinda goes downhill...good on them for experimenting, and I'm not gonna bash them for doing so as I actively promote experimenting from artists, but I don't particularly like it here. Things look up a bit once “Lost in the Supermarket” comes around, which is a wonderfully sad, lonely song, and “Clampdown” is nice for the lack of a chorus and being a bit better. I will say, the album peaks again for a little while, “The Guns of Brixton” comes around and feels a whole lot more punk in attitude despite being so reggae, “Wrong 'Em Boyo” follows and is surprisingly fun, different and jazzy, “Death or Glory” is wonderful in spite of its clear dadrockness and then “Koka Kola” becomes one of my favourites for the oddness of hearing cocaine advertised with soft drink slogans. “The Card Cheat” is cheesy but good, and then the album takes a huge dip after that with the weird, awkwardly sexual love song that is “Lover's Rock”. From there it never really picks up and ends with the dadrockiest song I've heard from them, “Train in Vain”, which—to be fair—is pretty good.

So, all-in-all, I didn't enjoy this album as much as their first. It was good, not terrible, and had some of their better songs, but as a whole it just was more of a drag to sit through. The biggest culprit was how padded their songs became, with so much repetition of the chorus, punctuating verses with it and then often having it repeat multiple times near the end. Basically, this album was much more dadrock and kind of cliché and typical. Again, that's not to say it's bad, just kinda disappointing.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: May 05, 2014, 11:43:43 PM »

The Soft Linen

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:35:16 AM »

The Ant-Man movie will be the best of them all.

It's directed by Edgar Wright. His entire filmography (aside from one young college project) is Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The World's End. It can't be bad.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched

« on: May 02, 2014, 12:06:02 PM »

They weren't worried about being true to the comics when they turned the Mandarin into a joke!  Anyway, they should have at least toned it down a little.  It just didn't fit the sci-fi setting to have all that silly fire-breathing and whatnot.

Yet...you were disappointed they didn't actually have the ridiculous character with ten super-magical-powers rings? I was delighted by the twist because a) the Mandarin is stupid, and b) they would've had to pull some really dumb strings to make him realistic or "sci-fi" at all.

Also, I'm looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy because the Guardians of the Galaxy are awesome

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Announcements / Re: The library is up and running again!

« on: May 01, 2014, 04:16:04 PM »

Out of curiosity, will you be copying over updates and new finds that Daniel uploads?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: May 01, 2014, 02:07:25 PM »

My mistake. I legitimately meant to use the word "alt", don't know why I said troll.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (cast list released!)

« on: May 01, 2014, 02:06:49 PM »

>III
>better than VI

excuse me

That seems to be a pretty solid consensus, even (surprisingly) among critics.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Piracy

« on: May 01, 2014, 09:25:09 AM »

You've deprived the artist of the money they would get through a sale.

What if you only pirate things you were never going to buy anyway?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: May 01, 2014, 02:22:27 AM »

That's your fault for not playing a dodge build.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (cast list released!)

« on: May 01, 2014, 02:21:49 AM »

I get the feeling that they also mean they may take bits and pieces from the extended universe, but that overall it's, yeah, not all official.

Though to be honest, I find it really hard to care. There was a lot of ridiculous crap there, some of which hurt it as a whole.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: May 01, 2014, 02:13:49 AM »

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

You're not even trying at this point, are you?

To be fair, that is an incredible album. Doesn't make the troll any better, but

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: April 30, 2014, 05:34:25 AM »

It's not really that good.

Well, I guess it's no surprise that an album you don't think is that great turns out to be something wonderful. I should start listening to more albums you think are just good and less that you actually recommend. :]