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AlSymerz

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Necrolord said:

    As much as Slayer get ridicule for their solos, I think they're pretty genius for standing apart from the crowd. They always said they don't play solos, but make high-pitched noises that sound like hell & tortured screams. You can tell a "slayer solo" from a mile away and that uniqueness makes it refreshing. There's the way 99% of bands play solos, then you have the way Slayer play solos. Standing out (as long as it doesn't suck) is always a win in my book.

    It seemed like at nearly any point in their career people always knew who Slayer were. Some might have said it was because the solos were boring and uncreative, others said the opposite, but they always knew who Slayer were. Love them our hate them they went out playing to full arenas and they went out with many fans demanding more. that's a pretty good career in any ones book.

  2. 8 hours ago, navybsn said:

    It is fake. Somebody has already admitted to fabricating it. I think the reunion was planned a while back and all the press with KK was engineered to draw interest prior to announcing. Dumb imo because anything Slayer does would draw major commercial interest at this point.

    I dunno if it's retirement money or just boredom. Most people figure out that no longer doing the things you did basically your whole life isn't quite what you thought it would be. Not uncommon to see people come out of retirement to work part-time to fill the void.

    Yeah I'm not surprised it's fake, there was only one site reporting on it for several hours. I can't imagine that would have happened had it been real news.

    I say good luck to Slayer. I don't care if they want retirement money or they are doing it because they miss it. They went out on top and they'll come back on top and unless they have absolutely terrible gigs they'll go back out on top. I really don't see this being a huge reunion with a big tour or anything, but I could be wrong.

  3. 33 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    You've paid yer 10 quid, so here's yer argument. Saying books are better than movies is like saying whales are better than volcanoes. Books are books. Movies are movies. Whales are whales and volcanoes are what they are. You can prefer whales to volcanoes. Good for you if you do, but preference does not equate to a superior value  and to assert that whales are 'better' you'd have to closely define what better actually means in general or at least in this case.

     

    I paid nothing. Your analogy is ridiculous, or it's naive. You can chose which.

    35 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    I prefer cats to a poke in the eye wth a sharp stick, and I can define why that is and by what criteria I make that judgement. Better? Define better - more pleasant to me, not (usually) harmful to me, easily accessed - yep, cats win. Less damaging to the environment? Well, no one cares about my eye but me so cats lose. Morally superior? That's a meaningless contrast and surely no judgement can be made

     

    Again, ridiculous or naive. But since you seem to be going with it, I was not asked, nor was I inclined, to give reasoning for my statement. I can quite easily, as you proved, make a ridiculous statement that defines what I said but at the time no such definition was required.

    39 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    You can prefer books to movies for any number of reasons just like you can prefer your favourite music to mine, but you have to carefully define better in this case too if you want to think your music is better and on most criteria you won't be able to rationally defend your judgement beyond 'it's what I like.' And - as we have all here been over endlessly - there's nothing wrong with that.

    Thank you for your permission however as you can clearly see it was not required as I had earlier stated that the books are better than movies and in the context of my post there was nothing wrong with how it was worded. It only became and issue when you decided that one sentence in a paragraph was not to your liking.

    42 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    I love books. I have a library full of them and I am always reading 6 or 7 books - some in my study, some in another room downstairs and some upstairs in my bedroom. Books give me so much that movies can't, but I love movies too. The interactions of mise en scene, natural features artfully presented and the intimacy of human form, movement and voice gives me feelings and thoughts that books cannot. They are different media, almost different magisteria, and they do different things, like whales and volcanoes.

    Congratulations I like books too, they are much better than movies, and in nearly all cases the books of movies are better than the movies as well.

     

    43 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Of course not. And I hope you have had your money's worth. Any further argument will require actual payment.

    There will be no payment as the only argument is one you created by deliberately taking a sentence out of context.

  4. Of course I can say it. I can even mean it.

    Books are better than movies.

    See I said it again, and meant it.

    Of course you are free to disagree, but it doesn't make me wrong, or stop me saying it.

     

     

  5. 41 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

    Are you more of a true crime/serial killer guy? I ask because I gravitate toward the supernatural in my horror films, and Hereditary definitely hit the right notes for me, but I know people who simply can't stand make-believe in horror, and that was their problem with the film. They usually enjoy movies like Fincher's Zodiac and it's ilk, and I definitely respect the craftsmanship of those films, they just don't really work for me on a horror level. It's sort of like talking to the "hard" sci-fi guys who will carefully discuss and dissect the details of terraforming down to a granular level, but absolutely hate the twist in Event Horizon because it doesn't work for them on an objective and practical level.

    I'll watch any horror, it was just that Heredity sucked. The idea was good enough and there was some good scenes but the story was poorly written and the producer failed to do his job.

  6. I fell asleep though Hereditary. I tried to watch it again and feel asleep a second time. The movie got so many rave reviews and I remember the trailer being interesting enough for me to decide to see the movie. But the movie as just boring and uneventful

     

  7. I'm pretty sure my old man's not doing it to make me feel uncomfortable because he knows it doesn't. He's doing it too make excuses for not being as enthusiastic about things as he once was. He's doing it to remind me that although the house is technically on my dirt it's still his house and he'll do what he fucking likes when he likes.

    We've talked open and honestly about death for a long time. Being executor and enduring power of attorney for both my parents I've known exactly what they want to happen and how much of it they have organised. I even know what they'll leave behind and what they'll be worth when they go.

    My dad was faced with his father's dying bullshit where my grand father orchestrated a rift so deep between Dad and his brother that they would never talk again after his death. He planned it long before he died and it played out almost fucking perfectly because Dad's brother hasn't spoken to any of us since the will was read. Dad (as executor) even went against the will and gave his brother an equal share of the estate. But the fact that his own father actually wanted to give my uncle as little as legally possible and gave him no say on the estate drove the wedge deep. 10 or so years on that wedge is still there and that made my old man the polar opposite to his dad.

     

  8. 26 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

    I hope my parents have a while ahead of them, they're both in their mid 70s. They recently moved to an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere about a 16 hour drive south of us, so there's not a damn thing I can do about helping them. They've always been self sufficient and they still are, and they're having fun together, which is great to see. But this makes me think about how, at some point within the next 20 years or so, my brother and I are gonna be in the same position.

     

     

    My parents wouldn't expect us to look after them. Mow the lawn, clean the house maybe that sort of stuff but if they can't cook for themselves they'll put themselves into a retirement home. The time will come when they want to get out of the house they are in, mum already pays a gardener to do the any gardening that isn't vegetable. Dad just seems to want to remind me constantly that it's going to happen. What he doesn't realise is that I know it's going to happen and I have plans for that bit of dirt!!

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