Run It Up

 

Speaking of twitter....

 

http://i.imgur.com/fWpJY1n.png

 

That pretty much seals if for me.

 

Sounds like a good feature.  They only ban you for cheating which takes away from the games anyway.

 

They ban people for much more than cheating. They ban people for literally everything on the TOS as well as things not on the TOS - such as playing a game before official release, despite having paid for the game at a retailer.

And most of their TOS is already a grey area with the interpreter being them.

 

 

Actually NC Commish I agree with you that in one sense it's unfair to compare Hannity and Maddow. Maddow is more intelligent, more interesting, and has more personal integrity.

 

But I was making a larger point that Maddow's viewers, like Hannity's, are there mostly because they want to be reassured. Granted that I believe Maddow does a much better job at reassuring them. But the desire is still there; the viewers are not watching for facts that might change their mind, they're watching for facts that will reaffirm what they already believe. In that sense, the two are very comparable.

This is true about everyone, everywhere. People don't want to hear things, they want to hear someone agree with them or state an opinion that is in line with theirs.

I find watching broadcast news almost unwatchable. MSNBC and Fox are overly slanted, CNN goes so far out of its way to be unbiased it reports absolutely no actual news at all.

I've liked Maddow since she came on the scene, shes smart and charismatic and she presents her slanted view with enough evidence that its easily digested but with enough depth that if you wanted to you could easily investigate on your own. I watch Fox and listen to talk radio sometimes because I feel its important to hear what others hear, and I can safely say there isn't a single conservative pundit who doesn't preach hate.

 

This is really not true. Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager are good examples of why this is not true. I don't agree them very often, but they are thoughtful conservatives and I don't think they are hateful at all.

 

I'll have to look into it as I'm completely unaware of who they are - which makes my hyperbolic statement even more silly. I should have said I don't know of a single conservative pundit who doesn't preach hate.

 

 

 

Prometheus 2 on the way and it has a new writer (so...no more Damon Lindelof).

 

Lindelof ruined that movie.  The original script made so much more sense.

 

Ruined? What were the differences from the original and final?

I'm a huge fan of the alien mythos, I liked prometheus.

 

 

think I posted a link to the original screenplay in here somewhere

 

I don't know how its could have been much different, Prometheus is pretty in line with the mythos that existed before it.

edit: Read the cliff notes version of the early script you linked

 

Finished Bioshock Infinite - far, far better than I thought it would be and really an improvement on the first.

You think so? What did you like better?

 

I thought just about everything was better in the first. 

 

Same opinion, I didn't even like infinite until the end, which was entirely predictable, but the way they executed it sealed the deal for me.

Actually NC Commish I agree with you that in one sense it's unfair to compare Hannity and Maddow. Maddow is more intelligent, more interesting, and has more personal integrity.

 

But I was making a larger point that Maddow's viewers, like Hannity's, are there mostly because they want to be reassured. Granted that I believe Maddow does a much better job at reassuring them. But the desire is still there; the viewers are not watching for facts that might change their mind, they're watching for facts that will reaffirm what they already believe. In that sense, the two are very comparable.

This is true about everyone, everywhere. People don't want to hear things, they want to hear someone agree with them or state an opinion that is in line with theirs.

I find watching broadcast news almost unwatchable. MSNBC and Fox are overly slanted, CNN goes so far out of its way to be unbiased it reports absolutely no actual news at all.

I've liked Maddow since she came on the scene, shes smart and charismatic and she presents her slanted view with enough evidence that its easily digested but with enough depth that if you wanted to you could easily investigate on your own. I watch Fox and listen to talk radio sometimes because I feel its important to hear what others hear, and I can safely say there isn't a single conservative pundit who doesn't preach hate.