TheMightyEthan

Hopefully one day I'll be able to wrangle together enough people to play it.

There aren't any more mandatory ones, and once you get assassin recruits trained up to Master level you can place them in command of a den and they will prevent that den from coming under attack, so once you have Masters in all your dens you're safe from that game for good.

Right!

I think it was a joke.

It looks like it's just printed and bound Kinkos-style, so I'm guessing he means it's printed crappily.

I'm guessing it's not really that complicated, it's just that

I think lightning bending is really the only "different" kind of bending from the main elemental types. With ice/snow/blood/plant bending you're just bending the water in those things, not the things themselves (well except ice and snow, which are water), and likewise with metal bending you're just bending the unpurified earth within the metal, which is why you can't bend hyper-pure metals like platinum. Sure you have to be a powerful bender to be able to bend the element when it's so diluted in other things, but it's not really different in kind.

Yeah, that is what I mean. Fixing typo now...

I was trying to play Pokemon on my phone a while ago and I could NOT stop doing that.

I think that if I were Aang

No idea why that didn't work, but when I was trying to install an OS from USB on my HTPC recently I was running into problems with image writing apps as well. I ended up just formatting the USB stick, opening the image file on my computer with Daemon Tools, and copying the files over and it worked fine, no special app required.

Wait, you think *Edit* - Oh, I also wanted to say earlier, but forgot:

That ad at the end made me think the season finale was next week, until I looked up the episode listings and saw that there's still one more regular episode first.

There's a deal on Amazon Local for a year of XBL Gold for $35.

NO! I feel really bad for Asami. Masami all the way! (is that the shipping name? I don't check anything but this thread unless I'm googling for something specific)

Okay, so I'm reading The Promise, and at the end of Part 2 it seems like

You mean the impenetrable fog?

Nope, I put it in the right place.

The rolling thing got to me the most. I'm not sure what it was about it, but for some reason I just felt no tension at any point during the entire movie. It was so predictable; at no point did I think someone would/might die and they didn't, or vice-versa. After the beginning, where I was intrigued about what was going on, the only things I felt during the movie were irritation at the characters, confusion as to why they were doing what they were doing, and boredom due to the way it dragged toward the end.

Prometheus.

omg where can I get those?!

I'm going this afternoon. Did you see it in 3D and if so how was the effect? I know it was actually filmed in 3D, not converted later, so it should be good, but I'd still like to hear. Also, I definitely think the best visual effects come from combining CGI and practical effects whenever possible, rather than using just one or the other. Practical effects have the advantage of actually having something in front of the camera and so it looks very physically extant for lack of a better description, and CGI is good for getting lots of little details and movements that you can't get with a model (oversimplifying, obviously there's more to it, but those are to two biggest things to me). I'd say Christopher Nolan does a good job, but I think sometimes he biases too heavily on the side of practical effects. I'm thinking specifically of the scene in Batman Begins where the train crashes through the parking garage; it definitely looks like a miniature, not a full-scale train, and I think it could have benefited by doing parts of it in CGI.