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04/05/16 13:30:49
icepick wrote:As a series, it would be tough to get interested in, because they're constantly killing off main characters. The Dragon Mother chick is pretty cool, providing they haven't killed her off yet. But within a single season, they killed off every main character that I found interesting, in some of the most disgusting ways.The guy who wrote (is writing actually. He's still putting out new novels) it says that it is based on England's War of the Roses. Well, we all know how bloodthirsty it was. And they didn't have any real life dragons either. At least the war ended before Henry VIII was born. That man had to be the worst tyrant England ever had. "Gee, I want a divorce. Think I'll kill my wife today". What a guy eh?
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04/05/16 13:46:14
04/05/16 22:38:43
icepick wrote:There aren't many people that sensitive. You say you are, and I believe you, simply because I know how things can impact a person. I may realize it when we have to do difficult things, but I'm definitely sensitized to things like this. Angelique was the same way. Just like myself, if there was a person harboring angry thoughts toward anyone at someplace we wound up at, we both had but two options. Either fix it ........... or leave. Leaving was the inevitability in most cases naturally. It's tough to pick up on things like that, is it not? Perhaps if more people did, we wouldn't have those tough choices I just mentioned?If you ever figure out what drives people to write stories like that, maybe you could explain it to me? Because in my opinion, it makes no sense to create a storyline that's so intentionally offensive. None what so ever.
04/10/16 23:22:20
Virtual reality enthusiasts are drawing ire when they forget about actual reality. On public transit, in cafes and on sidewalks people wearing VR headsets are getting judged, hard. With Facebook's Oculus Rift and HTC Vive available for purchase and Sony PlayStation VR arriving in the fall, virtual reality is finding its way into the lives of tech enthusiasts with a little cash to spare.
Virtual reality enthusiasts are drawing ire when they forget about actual reality. On public transit, in cafes and on sidewalks people wearing VR headsets are getting judged, hard.
With Facebook's Oculus Rift and HTC Vive available for purchase and Sony PlayStation VR arriving in the fall, virtual reality is finding its way into the lives of tech enthusiasts with a little cash to spare.
Read more @ http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/08/473436382/wearing-vr-headsets-in-public-is-now-a-very-awkward-thing?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
04/11/16 13:30:48
PeacefulSwannie wrote:icepick wrote:There aren't many people that sensitive. You say you are, and I believe you, simply because I know how things can impact a person. I may realize it when we have to do difficult things, but I'm definitely sensitized to things like this. Angelique was the same way. Just like myself, if there was a person harboring angry thoughts toward anyone at someplace we wound up at, we both had but two options. Either fix it ........... or leave. Leaving was the inevitability in most cases naturally. It's tough to pick up on things like that, is it not? Perhaps if more people did, we wouldn't have those tough choices I just mentioned?If you ever figure out what drives people to write stories like that, maybe you could explain it to me? Because in my opinion, it makes no sense to create a storyline that's so intentionally offensive. None what so ever.Hi TimI was only thinking today what kind of warped mind could write something like that..... one would have to be really warped. What bothers me is that its so popular and people love it..... Its nothing to do with separating fantasy from real life when we have real life equivalents in ISIS.... how can anyone fantasize something so depraved. Tonight we watched other shows that we enjoy...... and after a couple of shows my husband said, do you want to watch the last episode of Season 3 Game of Thrones and straight away I felt anxiety in the pit of my stomach. No one can tell me that these violent shows do not harm a person's psyche and steal energy from them. You are like me in that I can sense bad energy the moment I enter a room..... I have been in those situations too Tim. And I hate it when everything is sweet and someone injects the negative in and spoils everything.
04/11/16 14:34:01
Yes, negative energy really kills things for me. I always thought I was unique in this respect until we met Angelique. You wouldn't believe what a boost and relief it is to have somebody who backs you up in this. Or maybe you would. I don't really know. I only know that people as sensitive as we happen to be are unbelievably rare. Perhaps the world might be better if there were a lot more of us?
That show would be very interesting ............. if only it were not so blatant and bizarre, to the point of being offensive. It actually made me sick on a few occasions, with its shock value tragedy. Entertainment should never be like that. Gee, I would have made a terrible Roman, wouldn't I?
04/11/16 14:58:38
04/11/16 23:19:45
icepick wrote:I didn't pay attention long enough to know character's names. I noticed that there was a dwarf who happened to have high integrity, and the dragon mother girl seemed to be a good person too. But when half the cast went bye bye after five shows, that was too much for me. It's like being in the Vietnam War ............... on the side of the North Vietnamese. Born to die.Why do you think we pulled out of Vietnam? NVA soldiers kept getting younger and younger. The military brass thought it would be too much for the American psyche. Not even we are not averse to killing eleven year olds.Your son is one too? Interesting. I can't comment beyond that though. Since we never had children, I don't know how ours would have turned out. Good I hope. You never know though.