I remember being young and paying $2k a year for the state minimums on on 77 Dodge Aspen Sedan. I was paying 4x more per year than the car was worth. I actually paid $500 for it.
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
My last renewal quote was about £270, from Admiral.
Hrmm. In that case it's probably a combination of me being a new customer (so I don't have a renewal quote to use as leverage) and not having any No Claims Discount (because the last time I held insurance in my own name was about four years ago and they won't accept a proof of no claims issued that long ago).
Can’t say I know the case, or areas involved enough to make a judgement either way, but I’ve seen rampant patriarchal cultures misogyny brushed under the carpet that way before. Happens all the time in national media tbh.
This is a game that I'll be playing today, it's supposed to basically be Russian Half-Life and also very scary. I've decided to actually play this through, but I might pass out a few times due to fear.
Worst thread.
The differences are pretty big tbh. One of them is an engaging, tense, game set in a very interesting world with really fun action.
Giffords is a badass. Shot in the head with a pistol from a foot away and she's expected to survive. Goddamn.
Also is probably not mentally challenged, either.
Ehh, they haven't said that. The doc said he's as optimistic as he can be "in these kinds of situations", but, optimistic in a "shot in the brain" situation usually means the person being able to tie their shoes again.
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My friend's family make their own brandy since it's a Hungarian tradition. It was raaaaaather strong. I had like, two cups of that and coke and afterwards I just had to swap to cans because I would have been sick from it.
Giffords is a badass. Shot in the head with a pistol from a foot away and she's expected to survive. Goddamn.
Also is probably not mentally challenged, either.
Ehh, they haven't said that. The doc said he's as optimistic as he can be "in these kinds of situations", but, optimistic in a "shot in the brain" situation usually means the person being able to tie their shoes again.
She was talking and responding to commands before surgery.
This leads me to believe she still has decent cognitive functions.
Man, Hyde Park is pretty amazing in this bright sunny Winter's day. Although I think I may have gone slightly overboard with the photos of dogs and birds
My friend's family make their own brandy since it's a Hungarian tradition. It was raaaaaather strong. I had like, two cups of that and coke and afterwards I just had to swap to cans because I would have been sick from it.
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So Nicholas Meyer's commentary on the Star Trek II DVD is really good. He avoids the pitfall of so many commentaries where they just talk about what's on screen ("that car cost a lot of money!") - it really feels more like a wide-ranging seminar about art and storytelling and so forth.
This is a game that I'll be playing today, it's supposed to basically be Russian Half-Life and also very scary. I've decided to actually play this through, but I might pass out a few times due to fear.
Worst thread.
The differences are pretty big tbh. One of them is an engaging, tense, game set in a very interesting world with really fun action.
The other is Half-Life.
Metro 2033 is many things to me, but it's not engaging, nor is the world overly interesting. The action is about as fun as getting repeatedly stabbed through the chest by a massive, deformed rat-monkey-thing.
It's tense. Except where the tension gets bled away by the checkpoint system until the game is just a monotonous grey-white / brown-red blur.
Metro fails on nearly every level
1) having multiple varieties of weapons, and then not letting the player tactically choose between them
2) having a psuedo-RPG feel, but stopping just before it gets interesting
3) having checkpoints that were, to all appearances, designed by massive, deformed rat-monkey-things.
It's not a bad game, but Half Life (especially 2, which would be the metric used above) is easily the better game.
So Nicholas Meyer's commentary on the Star Trek II DVD is really good. He avoid the pitfall of so many commentaries where they just talk about what's on screen ("that car cost a lot of money!") - it really feels more like a wide-ranging seminar about art and storytelling and so forth.
Commentaries walk a fine line, usually.
I like equal parts "story of what happened behind scenes during specific scene on screen" and talking about the entire experience.
I also prefer actor/director commentaries for that reason.
Single commentaries with just actors or just producers/directors tend to be one-sided and boring.
(The commentary on Big Trouble in Little China is funny, because Carpenter and Russell talk about random shit and not about the movie at all)
So Nicholas Meyer's commentary on the Star Trek II DVD is really good. He avoid the pitfall of so many commentaries where they just talk about what's on screen ("that car cost a lot of money!") - it really feels more like a wide-ranging seminar about art and storytelling and so forth.
Commentaries walk a fine line, usually.
I like equal parts "story of what happened behind scenes during specific scene on screen" and talking about the entire experience.
I also prefer actor/director commentaries for that reason.
Single commentaries with just actors or just producers/directors tend to be one-sided and boring.
(The commentary on Big Trouble in Little China is funny, because Carpenter and Russell talk about random shit and not about the movie at all)
Big Trouble is one of my favorite commentaries. Actually I think all Carpenter/Russell commentaries are pretty much like that - it sounds like they just get some booze and let 'er rip. The one for Conan the Barbarian is pretty awesome in a similar way.
I guess the other kind I really like are the ones that are really technical/informative, like the ones for the Batman animated series - you'll hear the producers and writers talking all about key frames and "off-model" and all this other stuff and it's kind of a neat insight into this really complicated world.
I agree, Carpenter and Russel just sound like two buddies bullshitting everytime they do a commentary together.
They do stay on point during The Thing commentary, though. :P
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I feel kind of embarrassed watching some of the commentaries on old Doctor Who episodes because it's, like, two actors who played minor roles in one episode of a six-part story and an octogenarian TV director who probably directed dozens of other things that year and barely remembers even working on the show.
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car insurance for young people costs $Texas
deservedly so
I drove the car off the road yesterday
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It was a dammed good one though!
M240B all up ins!
I guess he broke the camel's back?
Ahhh memories.
Hrmm. In that case it's probably a combination of me being a new customer (so I don't have a renewal quote to use as leverage) and not having any No Claims Discount (because the last time I held insurance in my own name was about four years ago and they won't accept a proof of no claims issued that long ago).
Urgh.
I fucking hate when politicians decide they need to make statements addressing "the [ethnic or religious group] community".
It's like they don't realise it makes them look like massive bigots.
Look like? O_o
Can’t say I know the case, or areas involved enough to make a judgement either way, but I’ve seen rampant patriarchal cultures misogyny brushed under the carpet that way before. Happens all the time in national media tbh.
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The differences are pretty big tbh. One of them is an engaging, tense, game set in a very interesting world with really fun action.
The other is Half-Life.
Holy shit did the go out on a limb with that last trilogy. Tycho is letting his word obsession show pretty strongly.
last time I ever drink homemade alcohol though
First work day of the year (tomorrow) will be a tired one.
(Never ride the white lightning)
I don't get the euphemism...?
My friend's family make their own brandy since it's a Hungarian tradition. It was raaaaaather strong. I had like, two cups of that and coke and afterwards I just had to swap to cans because I would have been sick from it.
This leads me to believe she still has decent cognitive functions.
Metro 2033 is many things to me, but it's not engaging, nor is the world overly interesting. The action is about as fun as getting repeatedly stabbed through the chest by a massive, deformed rat-monkey-thing.
It's tense. Except where the tension gets bled away by the checkpoint system until the game is just a monotonous grey-white / brown-red blur.
Metro fails on nearly every level
1) having multiple varieties of weapons, and then not letting the player tactically choose between them
2) having a psuedo-RPG feel, but stopping just before it gets interesting
3) having checkpoints that were, to all appearances, designed by massive, deformed rat-monkey-things.
It's not a bad game, but Half Life (especially 2, which would be the metric used above) is easily the better game.
I like equal parts "story of what happened behind scenes during specific scene on screen" and talking about the entire experience.
I also prefer actor/director commentaries for that reason.
Single commentaries with just actors or just producers/directors tend to be one-sided and boring.
(The commentary on Big Trouble in Little China is funny, because Carpenter and Russell talk about random shit and not about the movie at all)
Big Trouble is one of my favorite commentaries. Actually I think all Carpenter/Russell commentaries are pretty much like that - it sounds like they just get some booze and let 'er rip. The one for Conan the Barbarian is pretty awesome in a similar way.
I guess the other kind I really like are the ones that are really technical/informative, like the ones for the Batman animated series - you'll hear the producers and writers talking all about key frames and "off-model" and all this other stuff and it's kind of a neat insight into this really complicated world.
They do stay on point during The Thing commentary, though. :P
Holy fuck. What was he on?
Rhetorical question of course, from baffled me.
Carpenter is a really awesome dude and I wish he would make better movies, although I've heard good things about Pro-Life or whatever it is.
His new movie...what is it called...The Ward! It looks decent. Sadly, he is not doing the music for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWrnTbLRmMA