Sure. Also no idea, I rarely have to use VPNs for streaming anything. And just jump in now, the story isn't crazy hard to follow anyway.

I'll probably end up reviewing a PPV at some point. I should just start a blog.

Kaiba. Seriously.

Even if you aren't going to have the same reaction to it as I do, its very different.

Aight here's what you do.

You watch all of NXT take over on the network because Bayley v. Sasha was the best match I've seen in years, you watch up through the the Rollins v. Cena match from Summerslam because fucking who cares about Brock Lesnar v. Undertaker and main roster divas aren't written well, and then you watch RAW on hulu because its an hour and a half even with commercials.

Don't waste your time with smack down, it hasn't been relevant in ages and should just be rebranded to WCW and made for tweezers, and fucking who cares about 3 hours of RAW when hulu has the promos and matches anyway edited down to a tolerable time.

Also while watching summerslam, be sure to see the creative team entirely mishandled Roman Reigns because they haven't written him a character or given him mic time like at all. He looks like he could fuck people up and is a good wrestler but boy that match was awful and his character is "I just came out of the shower."

Oh god we do don't we. It's like the advertising cycle for a fucking marvel movie only at the end you don't get a decent blockbuster you get shit on.

Eureka 7 if you haven't already watched it.

Gargantia of the Verduous planet is decent. It's surprisingly enjoyable for how very basic it is.

I really enjoy Log Horizon, but it's not for everyone.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise is only good if you like Ghost in the Shell and want to know more about the characters, but it's not like....great or anything.

Welcome to the NHK continues to be my go-to recommendation and a dramatically underappreciated show.

Eureka 7 is probably my top suggestion to humans, though.

Man. I heard that was worse.

This is a fairly personal issue with me. I don't know if this will help you, but it helped me.

When I first started my degree in computer science, I had to tank 3 years of a history degree. Those 3 years were basically a waste of time. I knew people who got married before I even really knew what I wanted to do with my life. I was fat, working a dead end barista job, living with my parents, and playing WoW and that was it. That was what I got from 3 years of history. Part of it was depression, but the bigger part of it was that I didn't learn the real shit yet. I was waiting for someone to stumble across my clearly hidden genius and make me an overnight success.

That doesn't happen. The opposite happens. They stumble on what you're doing and they try to tear it down, with good intentions and bad. Sometimes they're absolutely right, but I wouldn't have known the difference, because every time something I was doing was called in to question I backed down. I let them break it, no matter what it was. Idea for a book, for a program, for a game? Been done before. That's how other people see it until it's out of your head to some degree, because they can't imagine what you're doing different because they aren't you. So you have to fight for it, even if you eventually realize that they were right. Hey, if you're going to say that you have a million dollar idea and it's a locations app for beer pong cups? That's a bad idea. But fight for it.

Nobody else is going to be able to fight for your new ideas, period. They can't. The ideas aren't even born yet, they can't see what they'll look like. You know why say, PewDiePie is big? He pushes the shit out of himself. I don't think the guy is particularly funny, I think his act is a little grating, but he works his ass off and pushes what he's doing. By all reports he genuinely enjoys what he does.

If you want to rise above the millions of other let's play channels, the other writers out there, then you have to push for it. Otherwise yeah, you'll get lost in the noise, same as everyone else. If you fight for yourself though, if you take what you're doing and improve it and run all the way with it? You'll get somewhere.

I mean shit, DarkSidePhil has a semi popular channel. That's your competition. Somehow I think you'll find a way.

I will at some point have to find a physical copy of Ready Player One and edit out all of the direct references to 80s nostalgia. I feel like that would be the most appropriate way to experience it.

I'll also have to give Sol Stein a read, but I will avoid other shitty science fiction books for a good long while. They're aggressively painful to read, especially anything dealing with computers.

Weirdly enough, the movie would somehow be worse, and I need to see how

I mean I'll have to, won't I? Just to see it come to fruition. To see it all there. Like watching a nuclear explosion.

Hopefully I have some terminal illness where I know my exact time of death, so that I can plan to die right as the movie ends and blame it for everything.

When I was on a class trip to Turkey, one of my sort-of-friends-but-not-quite-friends-not-really was crying on the bus. I noticed it and threw her a pack of tissues without saying anything, because I felt bad. She flipped out because she thought I had thrown something at her, and then apologized profusely when she realized it was just tissues.

We are all the stupidest monkeys.

Hey there, I suppose I have to respond in some kind.

First off, I actually came to ohio with a pretty positive attitude about getting a chance at a fresh start, and it only became negative after the fact. I gave no indication in that post or any of the comments in it that it was other wise, so I'm not sure where you draw that conclusion?

I know you might find this infuriating, but I straight up hate the midwest. I am very much a person who likes and belongs on the coasts. I like cities, and dirty places, not knowing my neighbors, dive bars, broken things, and weird obstacles to overcome. I don't like knowing everyone in my community. I don't hate people who like that, but I will never understand their enjoyment of what I think is an incredibly tedious lifestyle.

You can like it all you want, but I've seen nothing to convince me to change my mind. Skyline Chili actually blows. Cincinnati especially is such a poorly managed city that rows of shops are just straight up empty. There's shitty parking and no foot traffic, the amount of crime by the college campus is crazy high, and while the people are polite, they aren't friendly in the slightest and the roads are the hottest garbage.

We could sit down and have a thoughtful conversation about the state of cincinnati especially if you want, but to do that you're going to have to get over the fact that thoughtfulness does not mean that we are going to agree or even be polite about it. I'm incredibly candid with my opinions, and I'm not going to dress up what is becoming progressively worse criticism in niceties because it does not fit your ideal image of this website.

Also you can't expect a post under usatoday to gain much tranction, since before your post, usatoday was last used 307 days ago.

Oh I don't actually care that much. I can be the biggest idiot most of the time.

Yesterday I fucked up a pancake, quite literally 24 hours after making the exact same mix of pancake (egg, batter, oil, milk, all meticulously measured) that had produced a near perfect circle the day before.

Hey now. :(

I have a twitter. I think I've said like 3 thing on it.

I don't understand the appeal, not really. When I want to talk to people, I just get their number and text them, and if I want to talk to a lot of people that I know, I send out a group text. If I need to organize an even or send a link, well, I have e-mail or facebook, even if I rarely use it.

I follow people I think are interesting but overall I just get snippets of a conversation I'm not a part of, I have no context for their jokes and since I listen to the giantbombcast I hear all the best stuff from their twitter anyway.

So why do regular ass human beings use it? I understand the need for a PR platform that let's you put out small messages, but that's not useful for a regular human being. What's the deal, other people?

That's rarely true for the vast majority of the internet, or if it is, it's buried fucking deep down in there.

Reddit can sometimes make the exception, same with Hubski. From my purely subjective experience - which is the best I can offer - comments on sites that AREN'T heavy on the comment sections (i.e. article comments, youtube comments) are usually a lengthy, cliche libertarian follow up to something by and large unrelated, blatant racism, or just "wow I totally get that joke! lol"

I tend to avoid the comments. I'm not these people's friends. I don't give a hot fuck what they think about the issue at hand or their opinion on anything from what I'm wearing to the latest political turmoil in the Middle East. Do what people should have been doing this whole time; read the article and think about it critically on your own.

Also be sure to follow this maxim when reading about any advance in technology; if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

$100 worth of Breakfast Club soundtracks,.

A fun narrative, but likely inaccurate.

The reason the genocides in Africa occurred is the same reason all violent racism starts (regular ass racism starts with income disparity and unfamiliarity, but thinking that a group is inferior is different than wanting to murder them.) It's actually incredibly understandable; it'd have to be, because it can, of course, happen everywhere.

You start with a group of people who are having a real shitty time. Usually this means poverty, for whatever reason. Not a lot of work, not a lot of money, people are hungry, there's a problem. Well, the government, entertainers, pundits, revolutionaries, etc. can't actually solve these problems. This is because solving poverty is actually incredibly difficult and can't be done quickly. But, they need to keep their viewers, or their votes, or their lives, and if you can't placate the angry population, you need to at the very least turn the anger away from yourself and towards your enemies. Revolutionaries just need to promise that they'll be better; the anger is already pointed in the right direction.

Being able to blame a group of people is incredibly easy, because it simplifies something complex. It makes it understandable, and you can incorporate it in to your mental schema without a whole lot of effort. Are you hungry, are you out of work? Well, it's not you, it's not the economy; the jews stole your jobs. Or black people. Or other white people who aren't your specific type of white person. Or they're just a general blight on the country.

Violent racism in America, the one that wasn't just outright slavery, came about not because of rich white southerners but because of poor white farmers. Why? Well, they went from having no competition for work to having almost 30% of the population as competition for work. Plus they had just lost a war, and weren't really getting any benefits from it. And they had lost it hard by the end, when they came so close to winning. All to free people who they hadn't even thought of as humans. The first person who stood up at a public meeting and said "fuck all black people" turned all of those negative emotions in to a very solid, very coherent hatred.

Why did violent racism diminish over the course of the 20th century? Well, that's also really simple. After World War 2, we had a lot of money. Money buys food, and it buys things that are fun. It relieves stress, mainly the stress of not having money. We just won the war. Sure the racist attitudes were still there, because they had at that point been ingrained in the culture for so long that they still persist, but it became a time when people would even bother to look at civil rights. It just took a couple of years of pushing. Realistically, if we had been poor as we had been during the Depression when the Civil Rights movement took to the streets, it would've gotten no where.

First you eat, then you care about your fellow man.

This is true in the middle east. It's actually a really simple formula. The region is by and large very poor. Wealth distribution is bad; oil, after all, only benefits the people rich enough to extract it. It's also war torn, and it's been war torn since the 1900s, well before Israel was even a twinkle in the eye. It went from being the Ottoman Empire, a powerful, if bloated, political and military force that commanded some serious respect for centuries, even when it was technologically behind the rest of Europe. Prestige goes a long way to relieving national stress, after all.

Blaming the Jews, blaming the other sects of Islam, it's all a very simple and very old method of getting people to look away from the fact that their wallets are empty. Same with Rwanda. Same with China. The best way to alleviate it? Build up industry, get people jobs. Everything else is a bandage.

I'll just live in a city instead.

I've had this post sitting here all day. It's a very concerning post to read.

Sit down and take a deep breath okay? Get a cup of water. Go get a book on meditation.

When I was a goalie on my high school lacrosse team I learned just how mental the game is. The trick to it is not to be.

You cease to exist. There is no conscious you, not in the sense of a thinking human being. There exists a ball. It is small and fast. There is a stick to stop the ball. You do not move the stick. You enable it. You cannot move the stick, you can only stop the stick from moving where it needs to go. The best way to stop the ball is to not exist.

Think on this. When you understand what it means to not exist, you will be happy.

Ugh women always coming and ruining our posts claiming that extreme racism is better than feminism. How dare they inspire 13 year olds to make uninformed posts on the internet!

This is why liberals are the real racists.

Fixed it.

And that's entirely a possibility, but it's always good to get information to people before it becomes critical. Crash courses make for interesting reports and rants, but aren't actually all that helpful.

What a strange world we live in, where the law molds to business instead of business to the law.

Living in Dayton and going to school in Cincinnati, the whole area just looks like it's aging real poorly.

I picked up on it because most of my time on reddit is spent on subredditdrama, so the red pill shows up there a whole lot.

They also stalked me for like 24 hours once? But it was like 8 people who I think all got banned.

It was really ineffective stalking. I'm very open about my real name so finding it is like finding where google.com is.

"That Mr. Rad thought little of IAC is evident in at least one obscene text he sent to Ms. Wolfe in the summer of 2013, depicting IAC Chairman Barry Diller as a penis."

My favorite .

The drama bug in me is shivering in anticipation.

EDIT: Christ those fucking texts.

Tangled.

Frozen is a solid (heh) 8/10. It is good. It is a quality film, really good songs, some fun moments, etc. You can go out and enjoy it; at no point will you sit down and go "man fuck this movie." Disney continues to make mostly decent films (please apologize for Princess and the Frog).

BUT!

It's Disney's first big 3D film since Tangled and Tangled was great. You want to talk about a classic Disney film? Fucking Tangled. I will fight you on this. Come at me.

So you have a pretty big swell of hype from the first 3D Disney film and Frozen came at a time when "children's films" have mostly died. Go on, name me a quality children's move that's come out in the last, oh, year. Two years? Three years. Four. Four is pretty easy, actually. Four years ago, we had a glut of good films. Since then?

The Lego Movie is out since it was out after Frozen.

That leaves you with TinTin, which was a fine movie but nothing close to a mass appeal Disney film, Brave - a quality movie, it's good don't worry, and shitty comedies. The only okay one that I can think of off the top of my head is The Croods, which was only good because a really excited intern was put in charge of designing the weird animal shapes and had a shit ton of fun with it.

By and large children's animated movies have slowed down incredibly. Pixar does not make films that fast and Dreamworks continues to not learning anything at all from How to Train Your Dragon, as most of it's films continue to be dogshit pressed in to a film reel and then flung at the audience.

So if you're going to compare Frozen with a shitfest like Turbo and Despicable Me 2 then you're expectations, whether you are conscious of them or not, are going to be met very easily. Frozen exceeded expectations by a little bit by having some fun moments, and having a terrible marketing team. The marketing team in the U.S. played it up as a goofy comedy movie for babies when it was in fact a Disney movie, and so everyone went in with super low expectations thinking this was going to be like rubbing your nose in rank asshole (like Despicable Me or Turbo) and instead were pleasantly surprised.

If you're wondering why so many people like things that are just above average, or act like it destroyed their world, it's because by and large people have no standards and aren't familiar with movies to any extent. Anything that is slightly more quality than Transformers will seem like gold when it is in fact dogshit.

Fuck movies.