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It looks like it took a lot of effort to put together, and it's certainly more than I've ever done either for web design or as a fan work. Cut out the music, though, and definitely don't make it autoplay. It feels intrusive and frankly at this point it's practically a faux pas. It's an easy mistake ...

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being shot.*

*Yes, it's a new link.

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I think I saw in another topic that you aren't done reading through the series, so I won't spoil the details, but IFCOM didn't create Jane.

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Went and saw Machete. I didn't see Grindhouse, so I didn't realize going in that the whole movie was based off an idea from a parody trailer in that movie, but if I had, it wouldn't have disappointed. It pulls off a perfect blend of having the entire action of the movie not even bother taking itself...

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I think my love for Lupe Fiasco might have been a summer holiday. He's still a lyrical genius, but now that I've gotten over the initial fascination with the themes of his music, I'm less enthralled by it. However, I've just sort of discovered Radiohead and Johnny Cash. Not in that it's the first ti...

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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/or ... 78952.html

If I had the money you'd better believe I'd shell out more than $1.7 Billion for that.

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I will laugh my ass of if Duke Nukem Forever actually makes it out before Half Life 2: Episode Three. Picked up Crackdown today. Controls are fairly unsuited to the high-agility platforming. Not quite frustratingly so, but disappointingly. The game feels a lot more like Grand Theft Assassin's Creed ...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson! I know he didn't have much to do with it, but Tyson is always going to be tied to the killing of Pluto in my mind. He was really getting into the swing of being the face of science in America right when it happened, and he ended up having to explain the decision a couple times ...

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Yeah, the Daleks have been seriously diluted by the RTD era. I mean, they were jokingly the most threatening pepper shakers on Earth at the start, but now when they show up they're about as intimidating as, well, pepper shakers. The whole irrational omnicidal enemy made sense following WWII when we ...

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I think the Angels arc might have been slightly ruined by shotgunning it. It was really the suspense and cliffhangers that made it fun to watch. I personally don't find the Angels that scary just because of the assumed immortality of the characters I care about. They were good the first time because...

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I sent a friend of mine a watch, a ring, and some awards and certificates that mean a lot to me. Every week I set goals to accomplish in projects I'm working on, and if they aren't met at a preset time, one of them gets destroyed. We're still working out kinks in the system. Right now the destructio...

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The point is that Stilson is just about the only case where Ender shows no compassion at all, and simply goes completely overboard towards the aggressive end of the scale. Stilson should have indicated to the IF that Ender had been damaged by his interactions with Peter and that he was incapable of ...

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I don't mind that Card is big on family, it's just the way Ender's marriage is just pre-supposed that caught me off guard, and completely tears away my suspension of disbelief. Here's Ender who grew up with parents who were distant to the point of reckless endangerment, a brother who tortured small ...

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I consciously tried to counter this when taking Japanese. When it came time for us to conduct interviews with some Japanese people that had come to our class to visit, I spent the entire night before worrying that I'd make some obtuse otaku reference and weird everybody out. Come time for the actual...

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Does it count when several people who are fans of a movie, show or something else find themselves in a familiar scenario and act it out for each other's benefit without directly acknowledging what's happening, preferably with several completely oblivious parties present?

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A lot of Card's characters seem to edge toward the "Stable, Settled" side of the spectrum that Valentine and Ender discuss at one point, as opposed to the "Wandering Inseminator" archetype. I forget where it happense, but John Paul and Theresa, too discuss how they were intent on...

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I don't know how anyone else feels about it, but fan fiction is always a mixed bag, but unless you've been published on your own for an original piece or have some other compelling reason for us to look at it, very few people are going to be interested. I've no idea what OSC's position on fanfiction...

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnrealistic I can't come up with any specific instance, but I will admit that when CSI first came on and the whole ENHANCE thing happened, I thought it was possible (I was like 12) until I actually started using image editing software and came to u...

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I live in Jersey, probably the most interesting bit of weather that I've gone through is when one April a 90F heatwave broke on Tuesday and on Thursday it snowed 6 inches. We've had small Earthquakes, bigger hurricanes, and bigger snowstorms, but not as big as some places. Basically just enough of e...

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So pretty much we've reached the conclusion that penes are awkward. Can we move on now? This whole thread is getting kinda awkward. (Side note: The spell-check on Firefox says penes is a misspelling. I suppose it says a lot about the awkwardness of penes that discussing several at once at all gets y...

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Harry took a deep breath, feeling the water gurgle harmlessly in his lungs. They'd fought in the forest, and he hadn't gotten a chance to say it. They'd fought in the corridors of Hogwarts, and he hadn't gotten a chance to say it. They'd fought in the air, broomsticks issued to every soldier, and i...

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Not a webcomic, but I present Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality! Yes, it's a fanfic, but it's very well written fanfic. In fact a fanfic written by an Artificial Intelligence researcher which starts with the premise, "What if Petunia had married a scientist?" and goes from there....

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First Meetings, I think details John Paul and Theresa's first meeting. It's arguably a bit of a retcon, but the truth is that John Paul was originally scouted to be what Ender would eventually become, but was determined inadequate for reasons I can't remember, but it's hinted that the IF engineers h...

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Exactly. That one's obviously not exactly literal, but Bahamut ZERO, Doomsday, and other summons are more debatable. FF4, FF6, FF9, FF10, etc. take a very literal approach to their summons, and so their power can be taken more or less at face value. FF7, for example sees much more ... abstract inter...

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Anyone here ever legitimately beat Megaman in one sitting on the NES?

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FFVerse is too vague, but even with relatively narrow parameters, FFVerse would win. Kuja and Zidane at the least are walking planet-busters, and after that it devolves into questions of how literally battle animations can be interpreted. Also, I'll comment on the Thrawn vs Ender topic here instead ...

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Skipping ODST was a poor choice. I picked it up because of the Firefly cast voice acting, but the gameplay turned out to be about a hundred times better than Halo 3, despite using the same engine. They took everything I hated about Halo 3 and corrected it. Also, owning ODST offered the chance to pl...

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Meh. At it's heart, the iPad is just a big iPod Touch. There are certainly more uses for it at the larger scale, but to be quite honest, for most computing tasks, tablet functionality is of limited importance at best. It's useful on portables for certain tasks that would otherwise be poorly done wit...

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I remember reading through and feeling strangely curious about Petra's character. She got more attention than a lot of Ender's jeesh, but still wasn't central to Ender's time at Battle School. It seemed like OSC had a couple of different directions he wanted to go with her, and none of them panned o...

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That's so weird. I keep hearing little hints of his other accents and expecting him to go veering off, but he doesn't and so the whole thing end up feeling jumbled. It's rather unsettling.

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The US Department of Defense was working on a strategic airlift lighter-than-air craft which was cancelled, but the civilian cargo version should be coming along shortly. Once it hits commercial viability, we can likely expect production costs and other improvements made to it. These are more akin t...

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Korra's stance in that shot plus the description of Republic city make me hope that Legend of Korra will basically be Elemental-Magical-Steampunk Batman. Which would be awesome on a whole new level.

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Lots of PWebbers are pretty avid readers. We wouldn't be here if we weren't at least a little given to digging into books like most of us did with Ender's Game. How do you keep track of your favorite book series, authors and when new books you might be interested in are coming along? Wait for someth...

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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I kinda got the feeling that M. Night took inspiration from LotR. The North Pole was too similar to Helms Deep in too many respects. But LotR took two movies to get there, and for good reason. Rushing to the big fortress battle doesn't give you enough time to make it seem like there's anything at ri...

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