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Do kids these days know what a CD is and have a computer with a disk drive? And even if they did, would they care enough to try it? Sounds very unlikely.

Apparently the B in CBS stand for Bootlickers. I don't care if you think this is good for Colbert. It's bad overall. I wonder how long Kimmel will last on ABC.

Yeah. People acting like this is some "hear me out" situation. That stick is amazing and is coming home.

He's not defending Trump or Epstein. He says that shit is all true, he just doesn't believe there's an actual list.

Using Twitter is indeed always a mistake.

I consider myself a patient gamer, in that I can wait years for a game I want to finally be really cheap. But I am not a patient gamer. I hate stealth missions. Especially if the game makes you just fail the level if you're discovered. I'll gladly murder my way out, thank you very much.

I was surprised to see that you are correct. 173 StGB only mentions "Beischlaf" and that is indeed only vaginal intercourse. You learn something new every day.

CSAM sure, but is incest porn really mentioned in the StGB? There's 173 StGB, but that is for the actual act and not pretending.

He might appear to be in the middle, because he also goes after Democrats. And while they might not be nearly as bad as the party of American fascists, Democrats are very far from being perfect. They have at most a handful of decent high profile people. Bill Burr is just reasonable and calls out assholes, no matter their affiliation.

I know. But I only saw that much later, when I wasn't an impressionable child anymore.

That movie and even the second part will forever have a place in my heart.

I found that holing up is really bad for my health, both physical and mental.

I'd rather make a step into the right direction than no progress at all. It doesn't mean the journey is finished.

Yes. And let's not forget that making a movie is infinitely more complex than writing a book. For a book there's usually a single author. Sure, they might get feedback from editors and friends, but ultimately it's just the author. A movie requires a load of talented people and their artistic vision and abilities need to align. Script, director, photography, editor and so many other departments need to come together to create something good or sometimes even great.

But, that's my whole point. How are you supposed to put the depth of a book into a runtime that people actually want to watch? Even LotR, which has a runtime of 12 hours for the extended cut had to leave things out. It's not feasible to expect to see everything that was important to you in the book brought directly into the movie. I'd argue that a lot of the movie adaptations that people hate tried too hard to stick to the source material.

See, that's the great thing about art. Different people like different things. I found the book for RPO terrible, really awful. The movie however was quite entertaining. Spielberg knows his stuff and can polish a turd. For The Martian, I really enjoyed both the book and the movie.

I hate this stupid take. Books and movies are very different mediums, with very different rules for storytelling. The chance that a director captures what you see in your head is so abysmally small, that you will always be disappointed. Just see the stories as abstract things, with books and movies being different interpretations of it. There are cases where I prefer the book over the movie, and cases where it's the other way around. It's all fine.

Salmiak is life.

I'm sure I could, given time. I'm already so much fitter than when I started. But time is the actual problem. I don't have time for three hour workouts plus cooldown. I'm happy if I can do an hour.