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Would you rather....
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Go back to age 5 with everything you know now or know now everything your future self will learn?
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You can only live one day of your life forever..
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Which day do you choose??
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What time do you wake up?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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and do you hit the snooze button alot or are you right out of bed? I am always up by 6:30am, and I usually am right out of bed (only cuz my dog is all over me to take her outside), otherwise I would hit the snooze a couple times since I really have no where to be for now.
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Time freezes for everyone....
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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but you for one day. What do you do?
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What I do besides studying, and gaming...
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 1 follower
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Art. I love Star Wars, so I decided to make my own characters and possibly a new storyline that's comparable to a comic. Fly-Bot (needs shading-unfinished) http://m.imgur.com/j7LH65m Shockwave (Transformers Animiated) http://m.imgur.com/n8Bxbi7 Mini Comic http://m.imgur.com/PVAovOs
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Sick, F'd up people...
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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First off I gotta say that those that can just kill someone for the hell of it are sick enough, but here locally and very recently a lady was found in a lake and she had been hacked up into parts. Now it gets really messed up in that somehow the cops managed to find the people who did it, 6 PEOPLE....6!!! worked together to kill this lady and take her apart and then take her to the lake. How do 6 people this screwed up manage to find one another, I'm just trying to figure out how that would even come up in a conversation and everybody there thinks it a great idea...
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If you joined the circus...
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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which act would you like to perform? Lion tamer for me.....cuz I'm badass like that @Dodge could be the bearded lady
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pics from around the world 1 2 3 4
by BustyRose- 1 follower
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We have crew members from all over the world. Some of the most beautiful places that most of will never get to see. What if once a month each one of us posted a pic of something really cool from where we live. Several of you have said you would like to come to the United States. I am here so I would like to see some of the sights through your eyes. The other day I was playing with one of our new members for Egypt. Will never have the money to go but I would really love to see a pyramid. This would be so cool. The pics from Spain was beauitful. So us more.............Show me yours and I will show you mine....
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If a bear shits in the woods type questions..
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Post stupid questions if you know them like...the ones I list, or feel free to answer any posted... If a trees falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a bear shits in the woods and no one is around to smell it, does it still stink? or this type of question Does a one legged duck swim in circles?
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Theoretical question about evolution
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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If you believe the evolution theory vs the creation theory read on.. Let's say people evolved from bird like creatures, rather than ape like creatures, and can fly. How do you think society would be different? Specifically, would there still be a need for roads?
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What in the actual hell Fido??
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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@Fido_le_muet, I know every country has a few things it citizens shouldn't be proud of and I hope this is the case with you lol, I seen this on tv today and my link is a couple years old. But I knew I had to give you some shit about it http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21624696
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Stuff our parents did that would get them arrested now
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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#1. Riding in the front seat was no big deal. #2. It’s about family time not the fact that kids are in the back of a pickup. #3. Everyone played with fireworks. You just had to have quick reflexes. #4. You were supposed to be sleeping not playing. #5. Helmets? Our heads were strong enough. #6. You didn’t have to play with lighters given some toy options at that time. #7. We didn’t think about excessive amounts of sugar in juice rotting away our teeth. …
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Have you patented anything?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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We all get an idea once in awhile and say "I should patent that idea"....so have you ever got a patent on anything? If you have ideas you probably shouldn't post the idea as this is a public area of the site, I have 3 real ideas and am looking into the patent process, one for the elderly, one for the handicap, and one for home construction
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Going back to school
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Well, I have decided to go back to school, already signed up to begin soon to get a degree in web development, it includes learning some stuff I already know (which isn't much), advanced HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL, MySQL and Jquery. Also some shit I never heard of, Ruby on Rails 4, Python, and AngularJS. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, I have "tinkered" with web coding, enough to learn some of the basics (and advanced site breaking) but I can't wrap my brain around most of it on my own, Rose finally kicked me in the ass enough to give it go.
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Tool talk
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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I bought a new screw gun the other day and was wondering what brand of tools you like to use. Doesn't matter if it is hand or power, construction or auto The screw gun I bought is a 20 volt DeWalt, most of my current power tools are either DeWalt or Milwaukee with a few Craftsman. I think the Milwaukee power tools a far superior in quality than just about anything made, these are made to be out on the construction job all day everyday, built like a tank but also weigh as much as a tank. DeWalt is decent, fairly comfy on the hands and are sold just about anywhere. Hand tools wise for auto I have shit loads of Craftsman, I know they arent the best made to…
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Iam on twitch now so come see me cry a lot lol
by marcuspeel1978- 0 replies
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Come see me at marcuspeeel1978
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So what if you kill someone in your home?
by HoTWiiReD- 1 follower
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Damn! I take it you don't have problems with trespassers I would use my shotguns for self defence if they weren't so goddamn loud. In my state it's illegal to use weapons for self defence, even just simply pointing the gun at someone will get you jail time. What I find absolutely ridiculous (this was said by a police officer), is that if someone enters your property - and threatens you/your family you are only allowed to use "reasonable force" to get away from that individual, and if you use excessive force and cause irreversible damage, you have to compensate them for the damages caused. Fuck that. Though if someone entered my property and threatened t…
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For today only.....
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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if you could do anything for today only and money was not a problem what would you do? I would probably want to experience taking off in a F18 from an aircraft carrier, do some crazy fighter jet bullshit and then experience the landing back onto the carrier
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How awesome are you??
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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Take the test http://brainfall.com/quizzes/how-awesome-are-you/ I am 63% awesome "Not bad, not bad. We shall dub thee "Quite Awesome." But we sense there is even more awesome hidden in your heart. You just gotta let it all out!"
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If you could go back in time.....
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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And give your 16 year old self advise.....what would it be??
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Learning French
by TECHFL227- 19 replies
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I was not sure where to put this topic and was unable to locate if one as already been started. I did locate the topic on which language to learn in high school but didn't know whether to add this onto that one or start new. Does anyone speak French that would be willing to allow us to reach out to you for help if needed during a high school French I class? My daughter is starting French I as an online class through Florida Virtual School and is freaking out because we do not know anyone that speaks French that she could go to with questions if needed. She was accepted into the Cambridge AICE program which requires additional work and advanced classes through hi…
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Best balloons ever
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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When we reopen the flower shop I am going to insist we stock these along with the other balloons we normally keep
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Finish the story/sentence. 1 2 3 4
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 87 replies
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Point of this game is simple; meant to give you guys/girls something to do on here *Source: A minigame my Phys Ed classmates played to past time last semester Rules: You must add to the story by adding one word You can post multiple times, but only after someone else has posted to prevent double posting 2. The story can only go to a certain number of pages (let's say Page 2 max or something) to prevent people from skimming X pages to understand the story. End it off with a color coded period on a large font or something very eye catching, then start a new story. Ex. <2 Pages past> "End". "Once" …
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How did you know?
by ScottyB- 2 followers
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Since this is a gaming site originally made for couples, I'm disappointed at the lack of topics on love and relationships! To get the ball rolling, I ask you the not so simple question; How did you know that your significant other was the one? Was it love at first site? Did you feel a strong connection with them unlike anyone else before? Did you ever have any doubts? Feel free to say anything else you'd like on the matter as well Obviously due to the personal nature of this question, feel free to write as little or much as you want.
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Boaty McBoatface
by Skorpion- 4 replies
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/18/british-science-minister-does-not-want-to-name-300-million-research-vessel-boaty-mcboatface/
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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