TheFreeMan

Orson Scott Card, yup. I read Enders Game as a kid and I loved it. Now I can't read anything by him without thinking about what a fucking nut he is - dude's a real asshole and is also full of dumb conspiracy/anti-gay bullshit, so I'm totally okay with not giving giving him any attention through his work, ever. Also Empire and New Empire were hilariously, shockingly bad (like, even ignoring all the political what the fuckery it's stilted and boring and who gives a shit about anybody) so I wonder if he's even still got it left in him, anyways.

I kinda have a thing with Roman Polanski, too - I went to watch The Pianist for the first time a few weeks back and I was kind of reluctant because I couldn't stop thinking about, you know, the whole fleeing from the law thing. But for some reason I can oversee that because so many other people were involved in that movie and it'd be unfair to write the whole thing off even if the director creeps me out.

If somebody's just an asshole I can just focus on the work, though, like with Kanye.

Orson Scott Card, yup. I read Enders Game as a kid and I loved it. Now I can't read anything by him without thinking about what a fucking nut he is - dude's a real asshole and is also full of dumb conspiracy/anti-gay bullshit, so I'm totally okay with not giving giving him any attention through his work, ever. Also Empire and New Empire were hilariously, shockingly bad (like, even ignoring all the political what the fuckery it's stilted and boring and who gives a shit about anybody) so I wonder if he's even still got it left in him, anyways.

I kinda have a thing with Roman Polanski, too - I went to watch The Pianist for the first time a few weeks back and I was kind of reluctant because I couldn't stop thinking about, you know, the whole fleeing from the law thing. But for some reason I can oversee that because so many other people were involved in that movie and it'd be unfair to write the whole thing off even if the director creeps me out.

If somebody's just an asshole I can just focus on the work, though, like with Kanye.

I'm just under 5'11'' so I figure anybody above a flat 6'0'' is "tall". Then again some girls I know have described me as tall which I always thought was funny because I feel a little short next to some of the guys I know. And then I read somewhere that the average height of a man in North America is, like, 5'8'' so whatever.

when he looked at Dark Souls, cause that game is so ugly hey oh

i'll walk myself out.

I dig me some Modest Mouse but I couldn't really get into Good News so much - the first half of the album hit my buttons pretty good but it sorta fell off after that for me. I fuckin' love me Moon and Antarctica, though, that stuff is gold and is maybe my favourite album of all time, but I don't think I could ever actually decide a definitive #1 anyways.

Also cool points for the Rilo Kiley love. A Better Son/Daughter is the most simultaneously uplifting and saddening little rock anthem I ever heard.

@Pr1mus said:

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Dogs, all the way. Nearly every cat I've ever come into contact with has been something of a psychopath that avoids/hates people 90% of the time until it needs food when it becomes super needy. Granted, they are sorta low-maintenance in that regard, but I've heard too many stories about them wrecking shit around the house to put them much above dogs. Dogs, while needy all the time, are fucking loyal and adorable and provided you trained them right, will guard your shit and won't bark nonstop like my neighbours insane animals.

Kittens are adorable, though, and there are some cats that I'd be lying if I said that I didn't think were pretty cool.

I like romance stories. I just kind of have high standards for them, sometimes - like, Katherine Heigl movies and Jennifer Aniston movies? Nah. But I dig Love Actually, and, like, The Notebook, and Ruby Sparks was good, and even though it says it's not a rom-com 500 Days of Summer and also Garden State, and Like Crazy. Beginners was fucking excellent, same with Say Anything, and I feel no shame in saying that I thoroughly enjoyed Dirty Dancing. I feel I have a healthy affection for romance stories, but looking over that list they're more of the "indie" variety, or whatever. I can enjoy a good rom-com more than an action movie, sometimes (i'd rather watch say anything than expendables 2), and movies that can successfully mash those things together for me, like True Romance, are fucking tops.

You'll never see me reading one of those romance paperbacks you could find in a zellers, or something, though. Neither the cheap action paperbacks that are right next to them, whatever that says. I guess I don't get the same sense of care from the creator from those sort of books that I do from the ones that I actually like (like, I love A Farewell to Arms and that's pretty much a romance primarily, it's just super sad, but god damn if hemingway didn't put some soul into it. i understand comparing a dime-a-dozen romance story to hemingway is insane but it's the only dominantly romantic book i can think of that i've read).

I guess guys, generally, don't like romance stories because...uh....I can't really think of a reason other than that the stereotypical "it's feminine" thing. I don't get it but yeah.

Meh. I really like Halo 4's multiplayer (a hell of a lot more than what was offered in Reach) and if it's considered casual or unrefined or whatever, well, at least I'm having fun with it.

I keep on trying to post something about how i'm disappointed but it all ends up coming to: lol games journalism

eric kain trying to have some sort of sane discussion with kuchera, who's being a z-grade forum asshole, is one of the saddest/funniest things i've seen in a while.