Recent content by Axolotl

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    Is Hollywood a purveyor of garbage?

    While Hollywood is indeed a system based on the manufacture and sale of processed shit you are completely wrong about Nicolas Cage, he is a god amoungst men and a glorious king of the acting profession. Your incorrectness on this front is unforgivable please report to your near brainwashing...
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    No more dystopia!

    Well for a start the first and third event on your list were caused by second not third world world nations. Secondly both the vietnam War and the Indonesia anti-Communist prges had casulty rates that are comparable or exceed that of the Khmer Rouge so you're selecting data just to fit you claim...
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    Rampant Police Brutality and Media censorship in Ferguson Missouri

    Things I learned today: If the cops straight up murder a guy for no reason people will still write long reality denying screeds defending them.
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    A criticism of Bob Chipman

    Well he doesn't make an actual point until two and a half minutes in and the first actual critisim is that the sound editing has sped up his voice slightly. The horror, the horror. He makes a couple of actual valid points at around the six minute mark but otherwise it's just not a very good...
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    Looking for Book Recommendations

    I would recommend the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. It's one of the books that inspired Game of Thrones so there's that. But it's also a unique book series in it's own right. The setting is a bizarre mash up of late Imperial China with 1930's England a huge crumbling castle full of...
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    What is the hardest degree to get?

    The real life consequences of histories being wrong include genocide. Now a program not working is serious business but not that serious.
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    Comic book material should never take itself seriously, apparently!?

    That's really not true. I mean one of the earliest Batman stories (as in before Robin of the Joker were introduced) had him fighting a guy who thought he was a reincarnation of Napoleon who used a death ray equipped blimp to blow up New York. Batman has always been silly. He was silly in the...
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    Escape to the Movies: Transcendence - SkyNet? More Like SkyNot

    Bob, I love you I really do, but of all the people to be complaining that someone else is "stupid but thinks they're smart because they read a coupe of books". Yeah the film looks and sounds pretty goddamn terrible but seriously people in glass houses man.
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    Escape to the Movies: The Raid 2 - Brutally Intense, Action-Filled, And Very Good

    Yeah it really isn't for people who can't handle broken bones. The Raid 2 is for people who hate skeletons with a fiery passion and want to see them smashed and broken in every possible way.
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    Is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland really that awful?

    Um, no. It's not a world without logic, that's like as far as you can get from what it's about. It's about logic, Lewis Carroll was a logician and Alice in Wonderland is a protracted series of logic games that are entertaining enough to sucker in a much wider audience.
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    Is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland really that awful?

    It's not a good film.On it's own merits it's just a generic fantasy film with decent actors and an awful script. However as an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland it's a vacuous that misses the point and replaces what was unique and interesting about the story with the typical chosen one in epic...
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    Intro into to Comics and Graphic Novels

    Watchmen and Sandman are the biggest things I would say are must reads. Pretty much nothing since them in mainstream comics has managed to equal them.
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    I don't understand the praise for Evangelion

    Well it's hard to explain what makes something great of you haven't even seen it. The original series juggles a lot of balls some of which don't mean anything and some of which are deliberately impenetrable and many of which are very unlikely to make the transition to the remake. If you think...
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    I don't understand the praise for Evangelion

    So you watched part of the remake and you're disappointed you don't see why the original is lauded? That's like watching the first season of Enterprise and complaining that Star Trek sucks.
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    Mikhail Kalashnikov Passes Away.

    Technically the other option was accepting the conditional surrender the Japanese were trying to work out with the Soviets.