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Breaking Bad s02e10 was more greatness once more. Shame not more people are watching it yet. Originally I think I touted this as Weeds meets The Wire or some shit, and while there's no comparison in terms of the scale of casts, or the realism, there's certainly a slow-burning flavour that permeates, with a dark humour frilling the episodes. Each episode numbs. And that's a great thing. Watch it, people!

1) Loltastic gif - never seen that before :P 2) DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE! Stick around. It's only a few minutes of your week. You'll get back into it again - everyone does. If we're lucky we could get enough new folk next season to get THREE leagues going, so you would be in the middle league and ever eager to avoid relegation at this point of the season

Ok so I'm going to do a mafia game. I've... not thought it through at all just yet, and I won't be starting work on it 'til the weekend but I figured I'd open a sign-up thread now. There will be a maximum of 20 players, so first-come-first-serve-it-up. Zell Mundi Ellmeister Cube Gizmo MoogleViper Not_So_Tiny MadDog Jonnas Dannyboy_the_Dane Coolness Bears Mr-Paul Dyson Nintendohnut Tellyn The Fish Eenuh Maase The Lillster Jimbob

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That poster is pretty awesome. Fan-bait in the bottom right, too :P

It's an interesting last 5 rounds. I've been scrawling on a sheet of paper for a few minutes, trying to work out point ranges for me and my relegation combatants. I figure that I have the best set of games to try and squeeze points from; with games against cube, Domster and ReZ being evenly matched to me. Most other people in the bottom half only have one or two 'even' games, and it's Gaggle with the next best chance. Haden vs. Happenstance for 4th place will tie in with the relegation battle massively. Haden has 4 out of his last 5 games against us lot, while Happenstance only has 3. Dyson has a tricky set of games left as he'll be up against lots of mid-tablers, while roosophe has less games but marginally easier opponents, and Oddy -- well oddy has a cakewalk. Um..I predict cube to go down, and either moogle or gaggle - depending on who loses that match :P Lower league's promotions are, I reckon, tied up now. The question of the order of the top two is to be decided. Shorty's game in hand will, I think, seal his victory position. Tin Can Club does have to face to face both Shorty and Charlie, but he should be safe in teh knowledge that Ell has to win all of his last 4 games to steal his place.

I got both of my CDs now - not given each a chance yet, mind you. Caris; really looking forward to yours as there's a lot of stuff I've not heard but have wanted to listen to. Cheers for the knighthood too :P As I said - I'll mix and send mine off after friday, sorry dudes >_<

I was really hoping that more people would lose more players in order to give me more of a chance :P curse you all!

I've had just the one retirement; a 7-skilled defender aged 36, so it's understandable. a 34- and 35-year old stuck around though, and I've just acquired two 5-skilled defenders that'll more than replace the loss in a couple of seasons. I'm quite pleased with my squad now. Lots of promising youth!

I just spent 406k on a 20 yr old defender with 5 skill, only to get a talent in the youth team - a defender, 19, with 5 skill, and my second youth offer thing in a week, and third in a fortnight... I think I need to find someone to sack in order to squeeze this bad boy onto my squad!

I don't care if it's just an intro, and you can't do anything like that at all; I'd love to have a sequel to the game. Mmm!

Davey_T; THAT, my man, would be epic. Shorty's a fair ol' fan of the Manchester Orchestra; he ACTUALLY paid for their newest album. He's coming with me to see Brand New so that combo would make for a great date evening. Started listening to the new mewithoutYou album (thanks Gizmooooo!) and... well track 6 (Goodbye, I!) is, so far, the most similar to their older stuff. First listen through... I'm not really liking the happy-go-lucky bandstand sound yet. I loved the anger with God, and eventual loving submittance in the previous albums and this almost ska-like tone is almost offensive to that notion. Lyric wise, they're a lot more parabolic with animals and food and have less of an emphasis of "I" and more of a "we"; this communal christianity goes over my head because I don't feel like I'm 'in' on the whole 'woo, god rocks" thing. At least the old albums had conflict. IT'S TOO DAMN HAPPY! At least Yellow Spider on Brother, Sister resolved itself with Brownish Spider, keeping with mewithoutYou's tone of a faith in the unknown... But dammit this one is too camp-fire cheery for me. Praying it grows, as I hear it's going to be their last album.

Tellyn; you get points deducted for obtuseness.

Before Sunset Set nearly a decade after Before Sunrise we see our characters from the prequel exchanging stories and emotions about the years they spent apart. Linklater provides much more ambiguity, and another case study on the differences between men and women. The eternal 'unknowing' of each present moment of life is reflected upon their answer to the previous film's ending, and while there's less 'discovery' there's certainly a tone of maturity and a sense of self-acceptance that is, as a twenty-something, very pleasing to look forward to. The first film had a sense of wonderment and curiousity, while this one tends to be more muted and in a way melancholy about the difference between 'right' and 'true', especially in regards to ones life choices. It accepts that things will never be perfect but drives forward the idea that while there is still life then there is still time and chance to at least dream again, if not hope. In combination, the movies cover a range of sentiments in a way that reflects the director/writer's own maturing between scripts. Many are to do with more 'grown up' life, with issues developing from the 'lost children' aspect of the first film into more responsible odes of adulthood. Each character is more aware of the psychological ramifications of the memories they invoke and share to one another. Linklater is someone who believes that we have to struggle first before we can reap rewards, which is rather contrary to the default way of life we have of borrowing for instant satisfaction only to face the long stretch of repayment. The couple, Jesse and Celine, appear in a bed-scene in Waking Life, where their script is largely based upon certain dialogues from these two films; in reflection Waking Life blemishes the couple, it over-excites them and overlooks the romance/cynicism that fueled their debates. It reduces them to just symbols and, I guess strangely, portrays them in a more realistic and day-to-day light that perhaps pointedly juxtaposes their original portrayals. The joy of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset lies in the subtle body language, in the cuts between scenes and the way Linklater integrates the moment passed with the new (particularly look at Before Sunrise's few scenes of Celine saying 'ow', for examples) while the scene in Waking Life just... I dunno. It just agitates. Both films combined is a 9/10 for me.

I suppose we're not getting to the bottom of the whole Eloise/Widmore situation this season, but there has to be a story behind how they leave the island. Can anyone remember what year young Ben effectively ended teh Dharma initiative? In correlation to the nuke/hatch and all. I mean, the nuke going off surely won't kill everyone because someone covers it in concrete, and because someone builds the hatch. I'd genuinely forgotten about Eko. Now I'm remembering Charlie's dreams about Aaron with claire dressed as an angel, too. to some extent a lot of shows just lean on christian mythology to add a shallow version of 'depth' to the show. Well... we have less than a week to see the final double episode. Gonna be awesome!

Desmond! Of course! What is he all about? Yet he surely exists within his own metaphysical time constraints too. Remember when he was trying to buy a different wedding ring and eloise stopped him? When he was re-living those 5 years? Those seemed to make it vital that he go (slash RETURN) to the island, so if there is some freedom in changing the 'future' then it seems to have to occur after both the incident and also the second one (where the sky turned purple and the island started moving). On the same tangent; how was eloise in desmond's engagement-ring-shop? How did she know he would be there? She knew that guy was going to be killed by teh falling bricks but... how? In some matters we can presume that Dan's journal had helped, but surely it didn't contain, what, 5 years of desmond's life? Desmond as a bridge can surely operate between a certain past and a certain present. There must be time periods that bookend each of those phases. I still don't understand that pendulum in that church that eloise had to always locate the island. We've got some egyptian mythology in the island, of course, so is there meant to be some christain involvement to be read into, or was the church just symbolic of that particular moment rather than the series as a whole?

Cat! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! ... Sidenote: has anyone ever seen Ethan Hawke and Tom Cruise in the same room at the same time? I'm really starting to think that Hawke is just Cruise with some fake teeth, y'know.

It's been enough time for her to rationalise it, so yeah, bring it back up Three's a crowd! A party is blates 4.

That would make some sort of sense, i mean they poured concrete on the site after the 'incident', which is how they deal with nuclear meltdowns. I think you're right; they will detonate the bomb. I guess the new question is; who survives? Who detonates it? Maybe the guys off the island try and ensure it all occurs as it's meant to out there (getting people on the plane, etc) while we have people left on the island, somehow trying to ensure that everything that happened after the crash still happens (like how lost told alpert to take the bullet out of his past-self's leg and tell him that stuff); so maybe someone pushes the plane so it lands on Boone, and... that's all I can think of right now. Small question; the compass. Is there one or two now? When past-lock dissapeared after alpert took the bullet out of his leg, did he give the compass back to locke or did locke give it to him? Alpert had one when Present-Locke returned, and gave it to locke, so did Locke give it back to him to give past-locke? I honestly just wasn't paying enough attention at that point.

Before Sunrise Written and directed in 1995 by Richard Linklater, the man playing philosophical pinball in Waking Life has a game of budding love fusbol in this movie starring Ethan Hawke. Heavy emphasis on life being a journey, transcended via the medium of transport, Linklater seems to suggest that while the path is on rails, it is what we do when we get off and stretch our legs that matters. Everything is a method of 'saving time' that we then spent on saving more time. An american guy meets a french girl on a cross-euro train from budapest to paris. He convinces her to get off in vienna and spend the night walking the streets. They encounter various personified characters of philosophy that challenge and provoke both the characters and the viewers; the former through conflicts and how they internalise the external, and the latter, in a vicarious manner, who aren't as much tested but more tutored and asked to apply the pseudo-rationalities to their own journeys. I think Linklater doesn't outwardly declare one life- or world-view over another, rather he beamingly acknowledges the differences, both in concept and in form. Great film to think to. Checking out the 'sequel' imminently.

Just got a CD from ganepark32 - thanks dude Will give it a listen later. I've not done mine yet because I want to do them well, and realistically I won't get a great chance before the deadline BUT I will be doing them for sure. I may try and pester nami to send you both a CD sooner, of her own stuff though

Good going Jonnas I enjoyed my role. I mostly picked my character just to see how you would run with it. Unfortunately, re-living the same day over and over wasn't meant to be :P

What about the other IPs, presumably held by 3D realms? Prey and Max Payne? *hasn't a clue who owns the rights at all* Duke's too good a character to dissapear forever, mind you!

I've not been in this board for a few days and yesterday I was listening to Battlestar Scralatchtica and wondering "they couldn't do this on Rock band. They'd need decks." and BAM! Here it is :P The controller looks like it needs a surface to work on/would be cumbersome on lap (of course, we're judging scale based upon the buttons. I'm guessing you hold one down and turn it a set distance, maybe switch fingers to pull it back. Wondering if it will be spring-loaded to return to a default position. There's not much out of shot, maybe one button there? Maybe some 'trigger/shoulder' buttons? Any which-way, it still looks shoddy... but the music on that sounds way more interesting than the generic rockathon.

Supergrunch has such gurn rep that he can churn purges! ... Is that better? No, I guess not.