Would be cool to see it happen and for Wales to separate as well for the lolz.

There will be no United Kingdom then.

Nah Wales can fuck off in their bed and sleep in it. A majority of them made their choice to leave.

Quote from: Môr-ladron on March 11, 2017, 02:55:19 PM

St Patrick's Day would be good.

Oh, would you look at the time, that's next week.

this is such a meme holiday if you're not irish

it's actually taken very seriously in american elementary schools--everyone dresses in green and we get clover shaped cookies at the end of the day and shit

then in everyone forgets about it by middle school, like groundhog day

Oh fuck really?

Here we just hear a bit about some stories about St. Patrick, how he got rid of snakes, etc, maybe get a St. Patrick's milkshake from McDonald's and a Pint if you're older. On important days scale with 1 being a day and 10 being Christmas, St. Patrick's is maybe a 3 or a 4.

Holy shit I didn't know America bothered that much, that is meme-tier.

It genuinely is Pure Kino. Kubrick was able to perfectly replicate the book while at the same time not butchering the shots or dialogue in the movie. When you make a movie, you want every shot to have a purpose, you can have a scene make sense but have it feel forced because you couldn't tell the audience what was going on in an easy way.

The beginning where the ape "learns" how to use tools is a prime example. If you kept cutting away to the monolith we'd understand it was the monolith's presence that helped spur human growth. Except we didn't need that, we only needed to see it once for a few seconds to get it. The ape is just fumbling around like a primitive animal as usual, then after the monolith appears, he immediately picks up the bones and starts smashing things. This is all we need to understand what was going on, and as such the entire scene was done flawlessly because the whole film uses the same process of "less is more".

YouTube

I know it sounds really pretentious, but when you watch more and more shitty movies, and then watch a good one, what makes the good ones good tend to stick out.

Quote from: Môr-ladron on March 12, 2017, 10:55:22 AM

2001: A Space Odyssey.

It's alright, definitely good for the time, but I don't get why it's so hyped as being an amazing film now.

Oh I get the whole "Monolith = Advancement" thing, and it was easy enough to follow the start of the story. But suddenly it's on the moon, and then there's another one off Jupiter and the astronauts just have to go there, and then the survivor of the trip goes into a wormhole that takes him to another dimension(?) and that's where I lose it.

I guess I'm disadvantaged that I haven't read the book which would fill in the blanks here, but then that in itself wouldn't make it a good movie.

BBC Radio 2 and Radio Nova.

I can't take the shit on Radio 1, and Radio Nova has some odd stuff whilst some French person announces it.

Quote from: Môr-ladron on March 10, 2017, 09:58:10 AM

The droopy pale bastard himself.

Spoiler

Dude, you look so fucking Irish.
I know, I know - but still.

Well it's not like we get a lot of sun in Wales let alone Ireland. Even then, I fucking reflect UV.

Africa is a cursed land

Cursed with some of the best natural resources that the world has to offer.

Oil, Gold, Diamonds. All in huge quantities and apart from South Africa and Conflict Diamonds, barely exploited at all.

And this is ignoring "lesser" ores like Copper, REM's and Iron.

9-11, depending on the shoe.

So...

When's the new Sony PSP/Vita comin' out?

Oh this could be good.

Close your eyes and scroll away

I got something more Moe for ya

Technically not "made", but I got 9k a year for 3 years because University.

(And that's not the 9k for tuition fees, it's another 9k)

I think that's a good thing.

Rather than trying to break the boundaries and technical limitations of the previous generation of console and PC hardware, we're starting to focus on either immersion, compelling stories, and other aspects of games that are arguably more important.

We've already hit the stage of realistic/"hyper-realistic" graphics with more polygons and shaders/ENB's than you can shake a stick at, so stuff like VR and integration into a game (like those omni movement thingies):

are making a successful comeback from the shit in the early 90's.

I can't say stories have gotten better yet as most recent stuff I haven't had time to play (or I haven't had interest in it, contrary to what Verb has for Breathe of the Wild), but it seems more likely as graphics will be far less of a selling point than it has been for every previous generation of consoles, as well as the console vs PC memes that pop out every so often.

No longer will it be "but you can see the aliasing!" or "Man this shooter sucks, the gun barrel is just a dodecagon" but "The protagonist has no depth", "This game is just a fairground ride that you can't get off", "why did that happen? That deviates from canon/lore/whatever".

Men. The physical extremes of men > the physical extremes of women, if we're not factoring in weapons. Even if tactics like swarming the strongest guy first and then focusing on the next, you'd leave the rest open to attack at will and succumb to the same problem.

Ironically though, whoever won would "lose" with no way to reproduce without some form of IVF, eugenics mayhem, and some other sciences that I don't believe we have capable yet..

Man Dar Rin

Rin like Gin.

Yeah.

I may only vote for one constituent in one area of the country which doesn't influence how the government vote may be and which PM I get, but I care about what laws they make and how that will affect me.