Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

I'm remaining a bit skeptical, as what content int the books remains to be covered? While I greatly enjoyed the movies, especially seeing them the first time, it feels to me like it's time to move on to something else, especially if the producer has a big budget to work with, there are a lot of good fantasy books (or even games) that could make excellent movie.

It seems to me they're trying to do this:

There's still the entire Silmarillion, plus a bunch of other books that flesh out the history of Middle-Earth and the places around it.

 

[ZedClampet]

I'll put this here where none of the impacted people will read it, but I'm consistently shocked at the poor quality of surveys people post here for their dissertations. Do they not have to work with professors on these things? Are the professors just as terrible at it as the students? If this is what is passing for academic research these days, that's a pretty sad statement. Reminds me that any time I see an article on "Study shows that..." that I should take the results with a huge grain of salt. Back when I worked in quality systems I wouldn't have accepted any of these surveys. Not one.

 

[Brian Boru]

It seems to me they're trying to do this

My thought too, but I'm not familiar with it so @Pifanjr may have a good point

I wouldn't have accepted any of these surveys

I hear you. I remember the first 1-2 I saw posted here, I made a few 'helpful' comments, but got nowhere—I expect a lot of it may just be ticking a box on the way to completing a course.

These are just student surveys tho, and we don't know how they're received when presented for evaluation. But I sure hope professional surveys are much much more carefully formulated and supervised.

 

[ZedClampet]

These are just student surveys tho, and we don't know how they're received when presented for evaluation. But I sure hope professional surveys are much much more carefully formulated and supervised.

Yes, but people doing work for advanced degrees often get attention in the press if the study says something that might get clicks. Of course, you would have to get your study published first, and I hope that would be a stumbling block for most of these.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, the Silmarillion has a bunch of info that could be used for stories. Like @ZedClampet, though, why mine the lesser-known works of such old books? Really, I would much rather they hire a good writer to write shows/movies for them. That way they don't have to shoe-horn romance into novels that don't have romance (e.g. The Hobbit) or shoe-horn action into novels that aren't into that (e.g. Foundation).

On the surveys - no idea what's up with that. No idea what goes on in all those video game development colleges in general, really.

 

[ZedClampet]

My wife had her first D&D session this past weekend. She enjoyed it, but was a little put off by all the voice acting everyone did, the role playing, basically. She doesn't seem too excited to do it again.

 

[Pifanjr]

My wife had her first D&D session this past weekend. She enjoyed it, but was a little put off by all the voice acting everyone did, the role playing, basically. She doesn't seem too excited to do it again.

It sounds like they didn't do a great job at managing her expectations. D&D has gotten so broadly used in so many different ways that it's pretty much mandatory to do a so called "session 0" to make sure everyone wants the same thing out of the game.

 

[ZedClampet]

Guido has withdrawn from the Tech Bowl. Says he's a senior and wants to relax.

I now have nothing to do but doctor's appointments for the rest of my life.

 

[Zloth]

I now have nothing to do but doctor's appointments for the rest of my life.

That's not true! Have you got your taxes done yet?

 

[ZedClampet]

That's not true! Have you got your taxes done yet?

My wife won't let me do the taxes. Says I'm too "creative". We have to take them to an accountant. Something or other about jail...

 

[ZedClampet]

My daughter got a job at a charity thrift shop that helps the local homeless population, which actually congregates near the shop. First, she got into trouble for buying a homeless guy a Gatorade, and then another homeless person came into the store and used the bathroom (No. 2) in one of the chairs for sale. The manager told her to go clean it up, and she responded, "Nope. Not for $12/hour," so the manager went and did it herself. Kind of a rough start for a job.

On the bright side, everyone in town is hiring, so she could find something else quickly if she needed to. She won't accept parental financial help. She has scholarships and two jobs. Hasn't taken out a student loan, which is good. Basically her tuition and books are paid for with scholarships with a small amount left over for her living expenses.

 

[Zloth]

Impressive!

Speaking of - Jupiter and Venus are right next to each other tonight! Even hovering right over a street lamp, they are easy to see.

 

[ZedClampet]

Impressive!

Speaking of - Jupiter and Venus are right next to each other tonight! Even hovering right over a street lamp, they are easy to see.

HOLY $H!T !

Get away from that street lamp. The gravity could rip you apart. Why do you think they picked a street lamp?

 

[Zloth]

Why do you think they picked a street lamp?

Probably just coincidence. They're clearly here to try and clean up on leftover superbowl shirts/shoes/flags/socks now that the prices have come down.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Just fully shaved off my beard for the first time in about a year and my wife told me I look older and weird without facial hair. Win some lose some, I'll replace it by growing out my monobrow, that'll show her. Why haven't they ever been in fashion?

 

[Brian Boru]

monobrow … Why haven't they ever been in fashion?

But they have/are!

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Not sure if Frida Karlo and whoever that is count as a trend, but I'll take it and roll with it.

The term monobrow has negative connotations, maybe if it was rebranded a forestache or eyebangs.

 

[Brian Boru]

a trend

Sure it is. Not only Frida Kahlo, the above is Cypriot model Sophia Hadjipanteli whose unibrow is her main claim to fame.

Sadly, you can't install her as a browser

rebranded a forestache or eyebangs

Um… middlebrow?

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

She wears it way better than me, thats for sure.

 

[mainer]

But they have/are!

or this:

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

View: https://media.giphy.com/media/140BQZMYDNbN5K/giphy.gif

 

[Brian Boru]

or this

Nice try, but that's not a llama!

 

[Zloth]

The term monobrow has negative connotations, maybe if it was rebranded a forestache or eyebangs.

âï¸ Company of Wolves Rules

26 seconds · Clipped by ZlothZloth · Original video "Company of Wolves Teaching clip" by Mikel Koven

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[Brian Boru]

@Zloth how do you do the clip?
I know 't=' for starting time…

 

[Zloth]

First you click the clip button:

That won't appear on all videos. If it doesn't show up, even under the ..., then you're out of luck. If it is, though, you'll get something like this when you click it:

It will pop up with the next 15 seconds by default, but you can change those time values to whatever you want. (Do try to keep the beginning before the end, though, huh? ) The video will keep looping according to the times you put in, so you can fine tune it if you want. Now go to the top and give the clip a name. The share button will light up. Click it, and it will give you the URL of the clip!

The clip also gets saved to your account. You can find your clips under My Clips on the left side.