[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 21 January 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:

I'll be moving in with the GF in about a month, any advice or avoid fights or break-ups or anything while living together?

Agree with her on everything.

[Micky C]

Won't that result in me being whipped?

[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 22 January 2013 - 01:45 AM, said:

Won't that result in me being whipped?

You've seen Star Trek 2. The Kobayashi Maru?

As Kirk said, "There's no correct resolution, it's a test of character."


My response was in jest. Sarcastic jest. I'm cynical about relationships. Your best bet is to not act goofy or weird. Just keep being you.

[Micky C]

Yep, Wrath of Khan and Star Trek 2009. Although for someone my age the Original Series movies were a bit hard to sit through in one go.

I'm sure there's an acorn of truth hidden in that jest, at least around a certain time of the month...

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Micky C, on 21 January 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:

I'll be moving in with the GF in about a month, any advice or avoid fights or break-ups or anything while living together?

If your overriding concern is about avoiding break-ups, you shouldn't be moving in together. You should both be past the point of the relationship where either of you have to worry about something happening, or her losing interest in you, etc..

[Kathy]

Micky C, on 21 January 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:

I'll be moving in with the GF in about a month, any advice or avoid fights or break-ups or anything while living together?

Have separate PCs. Although, I doubt that's much of problem now with lots of mobile devices. Using closed headphones is also a plus.

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Although for someone my age the Original Series movies were a bit hard to sit through in one go.

You mean sitting through all movies consecutively? Or do you actually mean sittings through 2-hour movie in one go is hard? Haven't seen movies yet, though. I still have a 3rd season to watch first. But I don't really understand what this has to do with an age. Are you too old and fall asleep frequently or what?

[The Commander]

http://www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer/

I thought this was pretty cool.

[Master Fibbles]

Cody, on 22 January 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

http://www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer/

I thought this was pretty cool.

HTML5 is pretty awesome. There is a lot of potential in it to replace Flash and so many other proprietary systems.


However, this did not load all the way for me on IE9 and I didn't notice the warning on the bottom until I loaded it up on Chrome.

[Micky C]

Achenar, on 22 January 2013 - 07:07 AM, said:

If your overriding concern is about avoiding break-ups, you shouldn't be moving in together. You should both be past the point of the relationship where either of you have to worry about something happening, or her losing interest in you, etc..

Well I've just heard that a lot of couples tend to break up after moving in together, and was just wondering about any common traps or pitfalls, since I haven't moved away from home in a permanent fashion before.

Burnett, on 22 January 2013 - 07:18 AM, said:

You mean sitting through all movies consecutively? Or do you actually mean sittings through 2-hour movie in one go is hard? Haven't seen movies yet, though. I still have a 3rd season to watch first. But I don't really understand what this has to do with an age. Are you too old and fall asleep frequently or what?

Well I think there are 2 reasons. The first one is that the pace of the movies, especially the first one, is incredibly slow. I mean they spend all this time showing you the Enterprise from different angles, and I'm not sure whether or not it was an impressive sight back in the day, but with modern CGI spending 5+ minutes on a relatively dull ship exterior is simply a drag.

The second reason is that story writing has "improved" a lot since then. I mean in those movies there isn't a huge amount of stuff going on. Another point here is that a lot of the situations in the movies have been done again at a later date in shows/movies that I've watched, and done a bit better for various reasons. So when you see these equivalents then go to the original, it's just not anything "new" or special. It's the same as watching old comedy shows for the first time, they just don't have anything you haven't seen before, even if in reality they did everything first.

[Sangman]

Micky C, on 21 January 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:

I'll be moving in with the GF in about a month, any advice or avoid fights or break-ups or anything while living together?

Clear your browser history or better yet just constantly browse in private/incognito mode altogether.

Achenar, on 22 January 2013 - 07:07 AM, said:

If your overriding concern is about avoiding break-ups, you shouldn't be moving in together. You should both be past the point of the relationship where either of you have to worry about something happening, or her losing interest in you, etc..

Pretty much. (< has never lived with a girl for longer than 5 days)

[Hank]

Cody, on 22 January 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

http://www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer/
I thought this was pretty cool.

I've got errors, trying to play

Mr.Flibble, on 22 January 2013 - 09:31 AM, said:

HTML5 is pretty awesome. There is a lot of potential in it to replace Flash and so many other proprietary systems.

HTML5 is it out now? I thought it is still under construction??

[Master Fibbles]

HTML5 is supported in several browsers and some websites make use of it.

I think they are still negotiating how to make certain things work and that is why, for example, IE does not entirely support parts of HTML5.

[Micky C]

Doesn't work for me either:

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Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer

[Hank]

@ Micky C - good, at least I don't feel stupid
I checked with Google Chrome, it is HTML5 supportive.

[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 22 January 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

Well I think there are 2 reasons. The first one is that the pace of the movies, especially the first one, is incredibly slow. I mean they spend all this time showing you the Enterprise from different angles, and I'm not sure whether or not it was an impressive sight back in the day, but with modern CGI spending 5+ minutes on a relatively dull ship exterior is simply a drag.

The second reason is that story writing has "improved" a lot since then. I mean in those movies there isn't a huge amount of stuff going on. Another point here is that a lot of the situations in the movies have been done again at a later date in shows/movies that I've watched, and done a bit better for various reasons. So when you see these equivalents then go to the original, it's just not anything "new" or special. It's the same as watching old comedy shows for the first time, they just don't have anything you haven't seen before, even if in reality they did everything first.

Back in 79 TMP was sorta visually impressive, sorta. It was for Trek fans who were used to the 60s TV show, really seeing the scale and such, and to this day I still love the effects, but yes. TMP is notoriously slow. It's often been called "Star Trek :The Slow Motion Picture" or "Star Trek :The No Motion Picture"

But Wrath of Khan? While I agree that in terms of plotting "not a lot" is going on, it has many layers and themes. Revenge, age, sacrifice, friendship. It's classical story telling at it's finest, and frankly as far as writing is concerned nothing has changed since 1982. Editing? Yeah, nowadays the MTV hyper-cutting has taken over from the times of using slow pace to build tension. Wrath of Khan is a very low budgeted film that does a lot with what it had. It had a fraction of the budget TMP had.

However, the reason I referenced TREK 2 was that one specific line. It has been my experience there are some situations in relationships that you cannot come out of "winning" however you want to "technically" define that. You'll be wrong, no matter what you say, simply because you both feel differently. So you have to deal with those situations as patiently and as best as you can. Don't be a push over, either. Just.... Just be you. If it's going to work, you guys will make it work. It's about give and take, and trying. If you're always giving, then that blows. If she's always giving, then that blows too. There's gotta be, and there should be, compromise on both sides based on whatever situations are. If you guys are happy, then there's no problem. I guess, "cross that bridge when you come to it." Nobody can honestly predict what will cause problems and what won't between certain people.

[Lunick]

Sangman, on 22 January 2013 - 04:13 PM, said:

Clear your browser history or better yet just constantly browse in private/incognito mode altogether.

Wouldn't that make her more suspicious

Just be normal is all I can say which probably easier said than done. If there is something that you both don't agree on then that is normal too but if you two don't argue then there is something up.

[Micky C]

Yeah I can be normal and myself. Thank you Lunick; the king of relationship advice

@Commando Nukem, I'll have to watch Wrath of Khan again. It was alright, but that was the first Original Series movie I saw, and was expecting quite a lot more out of it because of the hype of everyone saying it's the best movie and everything. I'll probably like it more the second time around.

[Kathy]

Micky C, on 22 January 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

The first one is that the pace of the movies, especially the first one, is incredibly slow. I mean they spend all this time showing you the Enterprise from different angles, and I'm not sure whether or not it was an impressive sight back in the day, but with modern CGI spending 5+ minutes on a relatively dull ship exterior is simply a drag.

I wonder what you would say about 2001: A Space Odyssey... Although, it is still visually impressive and hasn't aged a bit.

Sangman, on 22 January 2013 - 04:13 PM, said:

Clear your browser history or better yet just constantly browse in private/incognito mode altogether.Pretty much. (< has never lived with a girl for longer than 5 days)

Or use OS's different user accounts, lock you screen etc.

[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 22 January 2013 - 06:21 PM, said:

@Commando Nukem, I'll have to watch Wrath of Khan again. It was alright, but that was the first Original Series movie I saw, and was expecting quite a lot more out of it because of the hype of everyone saying it's the best movie and everything. I'll probably like it more the second time around.

Most people consider it the best of the original Trek 10 because it's the most focused, and generally the best written of the lot. The death of Spock pretty much makes every long time fan choke up. Nothing is done with excess, etc... Most successful Trek movie though is still Trek 4.

[Micky C]

Burnett, on 22 January 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

I wonder what you would say about 2001: A Space Odyssey... Although, it is still visually impressive and hasn't aged a bit.


Or use OS's different user accounts, lock you screen etc.

I sat through most of that I think.. it was a while ago. Big chunks of it were indeed boring though, and it didn't help that parts didn't make much sense, like the end. I love the premise though.

Commando Nukem, on 22 January 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Most people consider it the best of the original Trek 10 because it's the most focused, and generally the best written of the lot. The death of Spock pretty much makes every long time fan choke up. Nothing is done with excess, etc... Most successful Trek movie though is still Trek 4.

I've only seen the first few episodes of season 1, which I like and I'd love to see the rest. I found the death of Spoke quite hammy. Obviously the fact that I knew Spock doesn't die/comes back to life took away from the whole thing, but it was just way too cliche for me to have any effectiveness.

[The Commander]

http://www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer/

It works perfectly fine in Firefox, I haven't tested or use any other browsers.

[Hank]

Cody, on 22 January 2013 - 08:04 PM, said:

http://www.adityarav...nd-and-conquer/

It works perfectly fine in Firefox, I haven't tested or use any other browsers.

I used Chrome. Yep, Firefox works - cheers - time to play

[Martin Howe]

I can't make up my mind whether this guy is trolling like no troll ever trolled before or, on the other hand, whether he is completely and utterly insane

God help him when Anonymous find out : p

[Kathy]

He's right, though. Domestic cats should be exterminated.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Nobody likes cats.

[Mikko]

Cats are awesome. What this activist doesn't understand is that cats are simply better than birds.

They should exterminate dogs instead. Those loud-mouthed, filthy, submissive creatures...

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Dogs will shit on your carpet and drool on your clothes and destroy your furniture and bite your neighbor's kids, but at least they love you. Cats can go rot in hell.

[Mikko]

Yeah that's what I meant when I said they're submissive. Who wants to be loved anyway? The human-cat relationship is based on mutual respect.

[Radar]

Loved this part:

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Before you say it, even well-fed cats kill. The fact is that cats kill on instinct, not because they need to eat, it is one of their most pleasurable activities. In one study, six cats were presented with a live small rat while eating their preferred food. All six cats stopped eating the food, killed the rat, and then resumed eating the food

Cats are awesome.

Also, figured I may as well tag this on:

[Hank]