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by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:21 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises Review (Caution - SPOILERS INSIDE)
Replies: 22
Views: 503

Oh my god. I'm not sure I'll be able to watch without dying of laughter . Is this what happened to Heath Ledger? They gave him a preview of Deckard Bane? "Shtay a while, and I'll shoot you before throwing you out of a plane!" Oh, man, that's what it reminded me of! It's kind of uncanny, r...
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:13 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises Review (Caution - SPOILERS INSIDE)
Replies: 22
Views: 503

The voice effect on Bane was an awful choice, as it made some of his dialogue much harder to catch. I've heard several people basically couldn't make it out at all, depending on the theater's sound setup. I haven't seen the film, obviously, but I'm sure I will sometime, and that's definitely someth...
by AtemHutlrt
Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:41 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Refraining from being inappropriate.
Replies: 13
Views: 478

Marius wrote:Buttsex!
That's about the most appropriate thing you could possibly discuss here.
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:39 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Compleat Lovecraftian Bar Guide
Replies: 5
Views: 265

Re: The Compleat Lovecraftian Bar Guide

Ingredients in some of these other "exotic" cocktails include absinthe, opium, laudanum, and cantharides (the latter two in a recipe attributed to Aleister Crowley, "Kubla Khan #2"). We've been drinking a good amount of absinthe around here lately, and, though there may be a bit...
by AtemHutlrt
Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:39 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: All tied-up(Bondage and BDSM)
Replies: 18
Views: 508

Start slow, and communicate well. More specifically, it really depends on what you're looking for. If she just wants to be tied to the bed and fucked, then that scenario kind of writes itself: get some rope and go to town. I'm sure you can at least tie a knot . If you don't have a sturdy headboard, ...
by AtemHutlrt
Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:16 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: [United States] The 2012 Elections
Replies: 38
Views: 736

It's really kind of shocking how much of an idiot Rick Santorum is. The fact that some people are somehow not embarrassed to be represented by him is pretty sad. My state's ears are burning. It's not even that I disagree with his various retarded ideas, it's just that he's one of the stupidest peop...
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:28 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: [United States] The 2012 Elections
Replies: 38
Views: 736

It's really kind of shocking how much of an idiot Rick Santorum is. The fact that some people are somehow not embarrassed to be represented by him is pretty sad.
by AtemHutlrt
Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:01 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What Do You Tell Your Kids about Santa Claus?
Replies: 5
Views: 235

I don't have children, so I feel not entirely qualified to comment on these issues, but I don't imagine myself playing the Santa card. I was a bit of a precocious non-believer, like I suspect most of us here were, but my family definitely did the Santa thing, though I honestly don't feel like it enr...
by AtemHutlrt
Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:28 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Ever edited the 'pedia?
Replies: 4
Views: 221

Ever edited the 'pedia?

I was just adding a few details to a Wikipedia article that I am particularly well-qualified to edit, and I decided to go back and check on some of the other random things I recall contributing over the years. I was surprised to see that most of what I added to the plot synopsis of The Tempest is st...
by AtemHutlrt
Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:55 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Spiritual but not Religious
Replies: 4
Views: 188

Christopher Hitchens once said, "if one could make only a single change in the world, mine would be to separate the numinous from the supernatural." I would probably change something else, but I very much agree with the sentiment. Many people, probably most, experience transcendent events,...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:56 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Discuss: Marmite
Replies: 7
Views: 283

I'm not sure it exists in stores around here, but I've never really looked. It does sound like something I'd like.
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:42 pm
Forum: Words Without End
Topic: [Shadowrun 4]Police Evidence Log
Replies: 17
Views: 792

3 dead cops? I go on vacation, and this is what you idiots get into? So disappointed.
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:16 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cars, Part III
Replies: 449
Views: 6361

I might be in your neighborhood on Saturday. I can't provide much help beyond lame puns and general eye-candy, but at least that's a niche 32 can't fill!
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:22 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: A question about morals, ethics, and whatnot
Replies: 26
Views: 574

I find Anne Frank jokes highly inappropriate. The poor girl's life was an absolute horror: not only did she have her diary published, which is every girl's worst nightmare, but then she didn't even get paid for it, which is every Jew's worst nightmare!
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:40 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: A Day Without Science
Replies: 18
Views: 319

I think people are way overstating how difficult this would be. Let's say you're near fresh, flowing water [without fresh water, things get exponentially more complicated]; what would your day be like? Well, assuming weather isn't a major issue, you'd sit around, look at a few squirrels, maybe catch...
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:21 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New Batman comic
Replies: 16
Views: 229

I was disappointed at their choice to continue exploring Batman as a father. I get why some people could find appeal in it-but frankly it's a little too butch ghey for me. And add to that a lackluster plot that left me feeling like I'd missed 50 issues and i think 52 is going to be something I'll s...
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:36 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: A Day Without Science
Replies: 18
Views: 319

What really blows my mind isn't that so many people are not confident they could survive under difficult circumstances, it's that most of them are perfectly fine with it . My mother uses OnStar to guide her two miles to the grocery store, and she loves it. I've asked her before what she'd do if she ...
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New Batman comic
Replies: 16
Views: 229

Oh, and I did try to actually buy these comics, but, apparently, that's not really possible. Like U.J., I encountered some difficulty catching my preferred local comic shop during business hours, so I ended up going to the larger, better-stocked, but completely fucking horrible store on the other si...
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:12 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New Batman comic
Replies: 16
Views: 229

I've been more-or-less bedridden for a couple days, so I downloaded and read a few of the New 52 books. Overall, they're pretty "meh", but there are a few I might follow: Swamp Thing and Animal Man were pretty solid, though not mind-blowing; Detective Comics was decent [though I didn't car...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:45 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Authentic Nazi Items
Replies: 24
Views: 429

3278 wrote:I'd check around to make sure it was legal to sell, for one thing.
A good point. Ebay, Craigslist, etc. probably won't be ok with it, so you might have to go the private-auction route, but, depending on exactly what it is, it's almost definitely legal to sell in the US. Now, in Europe...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Authentic Nazi Items
Replies: 24
Views: 429

I'd be less focused on the "Nazi" element, and more on the "relics of an interesting, important part of family and world history" angle. I'd keep the stuff, probably; generally speaking, family relics have to be worth millions before I'd consider selling them.
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:41 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Oxycontin Express
Replies: 30
Views: 572

Well, Florida should buy a computer, then. Maybe they could get a younger, tech-savvy state to help them.
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:09 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Oxycontin Express
Replies: 30
Views: 572

Jeff Hauze wrote:I'd actually hazard a guess that drug users tend to associate more with noir than fantasty, but that's just personal experience talking.
From my experience, drug users tend to associate with Half Baked and Pink Floyd.
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:19 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Oxycontin Express
Replies: 30
Views: 572

3278 wrote:Hmm. You don't suppose that's because a lot of drug addicts read fantasy, do you?
Is that any good? I've heard it's good.
by AtemHutlrt
Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:47 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Oxycontin Express
Replies: 30
Views: 572

I just don't understand how it is that every single manufacturer and distributor of this drug is known, licensed and regulated, and, yet, somehow this is a problem no one can figure out how to solve. Well, it happens when guys like me get proscribe pharmies for a minor injury/surgery. We take a few...
by AtemHutlrt
Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:10 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The Oxycontin Express
Replies: 30
Views: 572

I just don't understand how it is that every single manufacturer and distributor of this drug is known, licensed and regulated, and, yet, somehow this is a problem no one can figure out how to solve.
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:46 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New Batman comic
Replies: 16
Views: 229

I'm thinking of getting the new Swamp Thing and Animal Man, though I haven't purchased an actual comic book in at least 15 years.
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What the Fuck is Cyberpunk?
Replies: 36
Views: 432

Serious Paul wrote:Right now I'd settle for anything that was at least once a month.
At the rate we've been going, I'd settle for anything that was at least once a year.
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:09 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Game of Thrones
Replies: 149
Views: 2642

So what don't you like about the way he writes? I don't think he's a bad writer , just not a very good one . It may have been overstating it a bit to say that I hate the way he writes; he certainly does well enough to get the job done. I've just never been impressed by how well he writes. Now, how ...
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:52 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Phoenix Jones, Superhero
Replies: 62
Views: 791

Have you thought about acquiring more money?
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:51 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: 22 Character Sentences
Replies: 13
Views: 276

Wow, was that 22 characters? I hadn't noticed. :D
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:12 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: 22 Character Sentences
Replies: 13
Views: 276

Damn that's a sexy cow
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:55 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Game of Thrones
Replies: 149
Views: 2642

About 300 pages into A Storm of Swords now. Man, I like the way this guy writes. Anyone else been following casting for the second season? Stephen Dillane as Stannis = genius. Gwendoline Christie as Brienne looks awesome. There were a few more I saw, and the producers seem to be changing a few thin...
by AtemHutlrt
Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Tax Cuts generate Jobs... I don't get it?
Replies: 29
Views: 428

The problem is that common sense, and even collective welfare, aren't really the things driving legislation or enforcement. It's weird, because all I ask is that my government be rational, and make logically-tenable decisions under whatever paradigm it happens to operate, and it can't even come rem...
by AtemHutlrt
Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:43 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Phoenix Jones, Superhero
Replies: 62
Views: 791

This has become a bit of an epidemic lately. There are "superheroes" in a lot of major cities, and a huge number of them nationwide. Most of them don't actually do anything, or, at least anything useful or significant, but it's become kind of "a thing", a trend which should surpr...
by AtemHutlrt
Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:36 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Online identification
Replies: 14
Views: 227

I'm pretty sure Pascal Wallisch is Serious Paul.
by AtemHutlrt
Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:10 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: [Tech] Monitors
Replies: 58
Views: 916

It's like megapixel counts in digital cameras: a consideration, yes, but not a majority consideration. There's so much of this in the electronics marketplace. It seems like every product has one key feature that is marketed above all others in order to, as far as I can tell, provide people with an ...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:32 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

I will say, though, that, as valuable as I think it can be to go out of your way to embrace flavors you don't immediately enjoy, there does come a point where it's not worth the effort. I mean, it's just beer, right? See, and that's how I feel about sex with darkies. Why don't people accept that? O...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:50 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What's your flavor?
Replies: 19
Views: 276

Re: What's your flavor?

Obesity can obscure many of the traits our species is designed to find attractive, while "brown skin" says very little about viability and universal "attractiveness". Obesity can accentuate many of the traits our species is designed to find attractive, as well. And what individu...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:37 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

I will say, though, that, as valuable as I think it can be to go out of your way to embrace flavors you don't immediately enjoy, there does come a point where it's not worth the effort. I mean, it's just beer, right? Beer enriches my life, but it's likely it never really will for you, so you're prob...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:25 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What's your flavor?
Replies: 19
Views: 276

Re: What's your flavor?

That's probably the case, but, I think where you and I differ here is in how far I'm willing to branch-out from my ideal. It could be, although considering the host of women whose only relation to my ideal is that they have legs and skin, I think it's possible that I'm willing to branch out a littl...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:56 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What's your flavor?
Replies: 19
Views: 276

Re: What's your flavor?

Yeah, I don't find fat chicks as attractive as skinny chicks, but I'm still straight. Some guys like fat chicks and don't like skinny chicks: they're still straight. Some guys like small breasts, others large, some tall girls, others short. Some guys are attracted to anything with two or more X chr...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:49 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What's your flavor?
Replies: 19
Views: 276

Re: What's your flavor?

Some of this has to do with with my preferences; I like thick, curly hair, high cheekbones and full lips, so I find myself attracted to a disproportionate number of Mediterranean, African and South Asian women. Yeah, see, what it seems like, then, is that your "type" includes characterist...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:27 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

I think a big part of acquiring a taste is eating or drinking something you hate for so long your brain just forgets to care about it.
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:20 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What's your flavor?
Replies: 19
Views: 276

What's your flavor?

I thought this deserved it's own thread. Most of my friends, other than Paul, the undiscriminating fuck-machine, aren't attracted to non-caucasian women [though I have seen them make the occasional exception for East-Asianers, light-skinned Middle Easterners and one very busty Turk]. Basically, as a...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:45 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

It's too bad I'm not more attracted to brown people. No one seems to mind when they go missing. Is there still a country somewhere in the world where no one notices when a white person disappears? Are all of the third world countries brown? I'm not sure, but I've never thought about it much because...
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:11 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

They scrape off pretty easily with a sharpened paring knife.
by AtemHutlrt
Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:58 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

Have you tried not having the taste buds of a twelve year old girl?
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:26 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

Anyone ever sample a can of Big Flats 1901 ? A beer that was confusingly-named to obscure the fact that it's produced by fucking Walgreens? $3 for a six-pack? I bet it's just awesome . I'm totally getting some if I ever find myself in a Walgreens for some reason. $3 for a six-pack isn't reason enou...
by AtemHutlrt
Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:31 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
Replies: 51
Views: 629

Anyone ever sample a can of Big Flats 1901? A beer that was confusingly-named to obscure the fact that it's produced by fucking Walgreens? $3 for a six-pack? I bet it's just awesome. I'm totally getting some if I ever find myself in a Walgreens for some reason.