Posts by Thrik

That place looks great. I didn't Portugal looked so nice!

Thought I might as well make a centralised thread to put my photos rather than them getting lost in the random photo thread.

First up: gay pride!!!!!

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There's another mapcorian getting married next week btw.........

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Well, that's probably about it for Zynga now — their stock values have been free falling for some time now, so I doubt they have the energy or resources to seriously contest EA here. But it's very much deserved as the company seems to have a corporate culture of it being totally fine to rip anyone and everyone off.

Welcome, Jord. Great to have another UK-based member around.

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Well it does, but it lacks something that I cant put my finger on.

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Haha agreed, they go crazy for them. I got her a matching panda last year which is similarly sweet.

Nice shots. They've done a really good job of capturing England.

LOL that is great, just posted it on the FB. Would have been even better if you'd had a quick montage of wide pans showing the map off like in the shots, funny trailer though.

Pretty bad. We get a few days of awesome humid sunshine, then a few like this — repeat ad infinitum.

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Looks fuckin' great IMO!

End of July and it's still pissing it down...

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So, I'm sure we've all heard but The Hobbit is officially three films now. Only several months away from the first, omg. Still awaiting the final trailer though so here's the old 2011 one (from before most of the film was shot) plus some newer promo pics:

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I'm pretty much OK with the extra film. The Hobbit is only one book, but there's a lot of stuff in it that's described briefly and could easily be expanded into much more significant scenes. Not only that, but the Lord of the Rings appendices and The Silmarillion provide huge amounts of backstory behind events and characters in both films' worlds which could easily be used to enrich both The Hobbit and LotR.

Something that's kind of just occurred to me is when I read The Hobbit as a kid it was much 'lighter' than Lord of the Rings — as in, not so full of depressing death and destruction, more humour. I'm guessing Jackson's making this film retain the serious tone of Lord of the Rings, and if he starts bringing in stuff from the other sources I mentioned above (which detail how Middle Earth was completely obliterated in the past, where all the 'gods' and wizards came from, how the kingdoms rose and fell, the other crazy stuff going on in the world at the same time, etc) it's going to get even darker. Kind of happy with that, though. :derp:

This is probably the last time we'll ever see Tolkien's amazing world portrayed by these actors and with such an incredible team behind it, so you know what? Bring it fuckin' on.

The food I post on Facebook is probably non-representative of my day-to-day eating.

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O gad.

Yeah pretty much what D3ads' quote says. It's an analytics service (like Google Analytics) so the forum can track things like screen resolutions, web browser versions, and let me know what kind of forums/threads are most popular to better inform what the new version of the forums supports (which is believe it or not rapidly nearing completion). Not going to cause any problems if you choose to block it.