Eyru

You are amazing. This is brilliant, and really interesting! Can't wait for the next one!

dear veterans

what was the bzprpg like without power limits

i hear it was cray

I always look forward to these. Good choices!

One question: Why?

A good question, one with several answers. Here they are, in no particular order:

1) A vegetarian diet is generally considered to be healthier than am omnivorous diet. This, of course, depends on on exactly what you are eating -candy may not contain meat, but that doesn't make it healthy. You still need to get all your nutrients. On the whole, however, replacing meat with plants has been shown to be a smart choice health-wise.

2) A vegetarian diet is more ecologically friendly. Animals take an enormous amount of food and water to raise. An easy way to visualize it is to place a dime on a typical kitchen table. The dime represents a cow; the table represents the approximate amount of land it will take to grow the food needed to feed the cow to adulthood.

3) Regardless of whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, there is animal cruelty in the world. A simply Google search will pull up hundreds of articles on how animals are mistreated throughout the course of their live, up to and including the slaughter. I, personally, do not agree with this.

Please not that I do not condemn anyone for eating meat. You are all free to make your own choices, as I am free to make mine.

i'm totes proud of you, eyru. congrats on your half-month milestone and whatev. <3

 

-Tyler

Thanks Ty you rock. <3

...if you transfer games over from the Wii, upgrades will cost $1 to $1.50.

Not good. Personally, I don't see why I should have to pay for something I've already bought. It's not expensive, true, but it's the principle of the thing, having to buy a game (an old game, too!) twice.

It's all good! I once gave a speech on the Legend of Zelda.

@Bio D: uhhh no. Anything you add cilantro to immediately becomes ambrosia.

:3

I disagree that LotR was more faithful to the books. You go chapter to chapter and you see that they cut a lot of stuff out, including favorite characters, sequences, ext. The second movie itself had the most changes; Sam and Frodo never went to Osgiliath, the elves didn't show up at Helms Deep, there was never technically a warg attack, ext. The problem was that there was just too much in the books to show in the movie.

 

Inversely, I think the Hobbit suffers the opposite problem; its hard to fill in one book (which itself was less detailed than LotR, IMO) into three movies, so they're adding in everything and then some. Some of it I like; they're giving more character to the dwarves for sure, and it's nice to see what Gandalf is up to.

 

Okay, not really a big issue, just thought I'd point it out. Lovely movie tho!

 

I'm glad you pointed this out, because you're right!

Taking it chapter by chapter and scene by scene, the LotR movies do differ quite extravagantly from the book. There's a lot that's missing, and a good deal that's been added. However, in my opinion, the changes that were made to the LotR movies helped make them more cohesive as a whole; after all, you can't simply take a book and translate it word-for-word onto the big screen. Things must be changed and adapted, otherwise, well, the movie will suck.

The LotR movies did this and did it well: they adapted Tolkien's story to the big screen. At the end of the day, however different they may be from the books, the movies still feel like they're telling Tolkien's story.

The Hobbit, on the other hand, doesn't feel quite as cohesive, in my opinion. So much as been added and changed (mostly to fit the trilogy format) that it doesn't feel like Tolkien's story anymore; it feels like Peter Jackson fan faction.

At the end of the day, the Hobbit is a great movie. My only disappointment is that it feels like they're rewriting the story to fit the big screen, while the LotR movies were adapted to fit the big screen. The changes in LotR don't feel quite so intrusive, and they assist in the telling of the original story. The changes made to the Hobbit, on the other hand, almost seem to make it a different story altogether.

Of course, all this is subjective. I grew up with the Hobbit, so I know it backwards and forwards and it's one of my favourite books. Of course I was going to be disappointed if they didn't adapt the movie exactly how I imagined it (which was never going to happen).

I think it's weird how, to reach customer service, you have to kneel and fold your hands. Kinda wish there was just a phone number or an email. If there were one, I'd like to ask the developers to patch the inability to communicate with other players until you've leveled up enough: it's pretty inconvenient.

Audiobooks are great for car trips, or other places and times where reading the book is impossible/ inconvenient. Personally, while I wouldn't call it "cheating", per se, the purist in me insists that you won't get the full experience you'll get by reading the book.

If you're having trouble reading the books, I recommend setting yourself up with a reading plan (I know it sounds dumb but just wait). At the moment, I'm slowly working my way through Les Misérables, and I've found that the size of the book can overwhelm me if I let it. Along with that, it's easy for me to forget about reading for awhile, and then have to play catch-up a few weeks later because I forget what's happened in the chapters previous.

So I just make a rule that, by the time I go to bed every night, I have to have read at least ten pages. Depending on what's going on that day, those pages can take me anywhere from fifteen minutes in total to a good forty-five, but that way I'm always working at the book. Keeping up momentum is the hardest part; once you've got that down, you're golden.

why hello ew's blog

That's really cool. It's amazing how people as a whole can rise to meet challenges like this.

@dotcom: chocolate milk comes from brown cows, not llamas. get your facts straight.

@Jean: no. i am a llama. duh.

D:

Good luck bro

I prefer Google. Bing's format doesn't work for me, and I've found that it tends not to bring up as relevant of results as Google.

The llama replies...

@Sumiki: Of course I dream of farm animals; farm animals are awesome. I would know. I am one.

@Tekulo: Was the train carrying food that I can eat? If so, then I want to eat it, so tell the train to stop so I can get at it. Also if Sumiki is smart he dreams of farm animals and you tell me if he is smart or not.

I always mentally autocorrect to To Kill a Mockingjay before I remember which is the fictitious word. : P

This is honestly one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. Kopaka's voice had me breaking out into hysterical giggles every few seconds.

Moar? :3

I am very glad that I bought MPT right when it came out (in fact, some of my earliest blog posts detailed my anticipation and purchase ), and don't have to fork out $70 for a used copy now. That's why I will continue to buy games when they come out instead of waiting, even if it means I miss out on incredible deals like buying Other M for only $8.

Oatmeal chocolate chip is brilliant. I don't care for overly sweet cookies, so oatmeal is right up my alley.

yaaay i'm so happy for you :')

The lullaby was creepy.

Macadamia Nuts

Banhammer'd

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Ooh, I missed this entry while I was gone. I love language, so it was a good read.

The best advice I have ever heard on this subject came, funnily enough, from my math teacher. He said, "If someone uses a word incorrectly, but you understand what they mean, then ignore it and continue your argument."

Too often we forget (or ignore XD) the fact that the whole point of talking is to communicate. If you say I'm homophobic, and I understand you mean that I dislike homosexual people, then communication has been achieved. Success. If I then try to find wiggle room by claiming homophobic doesn't translate exactly the way you says it does, I'm creating an issue where there is none.

Believe me, I love the English language, and I hate to hear people butcher it, but when discussing/debating/arguing, creating issues over the exact definition of a word is being a poor sport. Like you said, the underlying point still stands, regardless of how you may have expressed it.

Anyway, thanks for the interesting entry.

mario is sooo overrated luigi is the bees' knees

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