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Agreed, the woman is a total marvel. She's got to be at least partially genetically-enhanced.

Of course. You might even say that if you don't have a reason for being a dick, being a dick is inappropriate to the situation. Wrong crowd?

Well I gave up viewing stand-up as my main thing, I still write quite extensively for other mediums, so I haven't 'given up' entirely. Also, Bluey, if at some point you wanted to stop being a dick for no reason that'd be fine.

I loved Rev, and I've only seen a bit of Him And Her but it looked perfectly passable. Phone Shop is woefully average, and agreed on School of Comedy being the drizzling shits. Might just go and watch Fawlty Towers to make myself feel better.

I think it's more that people went after Mary-Louise Parker for the age thing alone, despite the fact that she's still smoking hot. That's not artificially-inflating standards for the purposes of discussion, which I get (on a side note, Alyssa Milano isn't actually all that hot ) that's just being "eew, the over 35s." Parker is still hotter than most, even at 40+. On the subject of The Saturdays, I really do prefer Frankie, it has to be said, but Una is quite tasty nevertheless.

Kaufman was a complete genius, but less of a stand-up for me so he missed my 10. Same deal as Woody Allen, who I love but hated doing stand-up so I feel odd voting for him as one. Natasha Leggero I love to pieces, makes most other female comedians I've seen look really bad in comparison (not a big fan of Sarah Millican despite the love she got in the voting). She's also the voice of Callie on Ugly Americans, for the uninitiated. Some other good ones there too, but Dice Clay makes me sad. I know only one person voted for him but still. Purely offensive, not at all funny and really a complete dick to boot. Looking forward to the next few.

Yeah, that fact is pretty messed-up.

I think once the technology moves on to the point that you no longer need the glasses to watch the film in 3D, the 'option' part will go pretty quick and it'll be the filmmakers' choice, much the way that surround sound or something is. And it's only distracting because it's very self-conscious right now ("look, this ball/bullet/whatever is coming right at you!") and because it's so new, once we get used to it and it stops being a novelty for filmmakers it'll be less of a big deal. CGI was the same, at the time it was very notable but now I hardly notice it unless it's badly-done or something.

Kids movies, horror movies and action movies. Those 3 incredibly niche genres that make almost no money for studios. And your argument is complete tosh - people said CGI was a fad, they said HD was a fad, they probably said full colour was a fad too. 3D is the next evolution in cinema, it's here to stay and it's already permeating into the home with 3D-TVs and the like. I have no problem with that, some 3D movies are really good, although I think it'll be better when they stop feeling like they have to show off that they've cracked the technology by having things come flying out of the screen at my face. Avatar's 3D was nice like that, it wasn't so self-conscious, although the movie itself sucked quite badly as drama.

I got out of it because I was pretty tired of people telling me that if I stayed away from doing 'political' or 'social' comedy and did more observational stuff, more popular stuff, I could make a lot of money out of it. Not just friends, but a couple of agents and the husband of a friend's sister who works in new comedy for the BBC. I suppose that really, I was very angry at that time about the way the world was and doing the stand-up was cathartic, I never really wanted to be the guy writing 'jokes' per se or doing Live At The Apollo. So yeah, I got out of it because I was tired of being told I'd never become famous and/or rich doing it the way I was doing it, and I didn't want to change the way I was doing it. I still dabble from time-to-time, some friends are doing a sketch show in November and I'm gonna do a set afterwards, etc, but it's not really serious anymore because I just don't have the energy. And, to each their own, but for me Hicks is the master. The great thing about comedy as an art form is that it can, when done properly, shine a light on the world and make you totally re-examine something you took completely for granted, it can literally make you sit bolt upright and turn your head around. Hicks did that better than anybody, for me. That's my main problem with the Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre school, they have this awesome platform and they use it to do jokes about the drawer in your house that's full of old batteries and plugs, or gameshows from the 80s.

I came in here thinking "ooh, cool, a list thread I can get behind," and then I went apoplectic because 15 hours and 5 ballots later not one of you silly sods has even mentioned Bill Hicks. Seriously, for fucking shame. Anyway, here is my list. It is correct and yours is not. [/EWB list thread] 1. Bill Hicks 2. Eddie Izzard 3. Stewart Lee 4. Richard Pryor 5. Doug Stanhope 6. Alexi Sayle 7. Rich Hall 8. Dylan Moran 9. Natasha Leggero 10. Dara O'Brien Comedians who should sit down and shut their cunting mouths include Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre and the inane drivel that they have inspired. "Hey, wasn't the past different to the present in some minor everyday ways?" Fuck off. People like that are the reason I got out of performing stand-up.

Ahh, Cyan, you contemptible fucker, hello again. And the worst thing is he basically has to be in my party for like 2 hours or something. I love it later when you can just leave the bitch in the airship with Relm and Umaro.

Just passed "Son of a Submariner!" which I want on a t-shirt. Also love Terra's "I'm scared!" right after the Magitek battle. Girl just fried 2 heavily armored shock troops, but NOW she's afraid? Fuhgedaboutit.

Didn't end up starting VI the other day, am doing it now. The FMV intro on the PSX version is really nice. Time to roll!

Bruce Dickinson puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like everybody else.

I must have missed the memo where it was stated that you were the purveyor of ultimate taste Never said I was, but the fact that this thread has been full of dissatisfaction about some of the results for 14 pages suggests not everybody is happy with some of the more left-field finishers here.

I don't know a couple of those because I'm quite bad at matching the singer to the band unless I'm really a big fan of said band. That said, Marvin Gaye is awesome and Kurt Cobain is... meh. I get why he's on the list, because it's EWB, but this entire list has been a triumph of questionable taste so I'm just going to wait for the next group.

Edgar rules, way much cooler than his whiny brother or that punk Cyan. Wait 'til Celes shows up, she's legitimately my favourite character in any FF that isn't named Selphie.

Snyder isn't the director for what this film needs to be. As GoGo said, his work on Watchmen was a fairly uninspired adaptation of the book that missed the point in a lot of crucial places and really didn't bring anything new to the table. Similarly, his work on 300 was notable only for its total submersing of the story for the rippling abs and nasty right-wing subtext which rapidly became the text in the second hour. This movie, ultimately, needs to be a human story, it's the only way to make the Superman character work because as has been noted, it's difficult to get peril and drama out of the superpowers alone. You need to combine the mythical Kal-El story, the very universal human story of a young man coming of age and finding his place in the world to lead a life of significance, with the visuals and fight scenes and costumed adventuring stuff... Snyder will be very good at the third part, I have no doubt, but his ability as a storyteller has been conspicuous by its TOTAL absence in his previous two films.

I've never owned a guide or whatever for VI, and I'm fucking dreadful at finishing 100% without guides telling me exactly what to do at each exact moment, so I'll probably do that too. Unless somebody can point me to a guide.

I'm not going to bother, so I'd say no. I'll be playing the PSX port from the mid-90s, so no special new Espers or slightly-improved sprites for me. I'm old fucking school. At least we all get the wacky localisation though.

I have to do a bit of revision today, which involves reading a lot of critical material about Macbeth and Twelfth Night, but I aim to be done by 7-8ish and then it's FFVI time.