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    The Very End of the book, is what I understand explains why it seems there are some discrepancies in the story / characters and allows them a little artistic freedom to modify things a bit, if this is a prior or later incarnation of the endless quest of Roland. That may just be fan speculation, but it would make sense to me so they don't end up trapped in a GRRM like " you didn't copy page 48 exactly like it was in the book" sniveling festival of the hyper fans.
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    I haven't checked the chemical formulation but this may be one of these rare places where model makers can benefit from women's products at a cheaper price, I buy acetone / thinner by the gallon from beauty supply store for less than a small bottle of paint, but my girlfriend buys men's razors and shampoo because it costs half as much. I think this is the same or a similar formulation that is used for UV Gel fingernails, not the paint color they use, but it's a two part powder / gel mixture that when applied and dried under a mild UV light for a few minutes hard as a rock and transparent. I tried playing with this stuff a few years ago to make some canopies and failed miserably but to be honest I only spent a few dollars, it didn't work and I gave up.
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    Switch Hunting If you have a couple Target stores in your area, I got mine Monday, checked the stock online, the first time I went in they were sold a few minutes earlier than I arrived, even though they showed limited stock, but when you go, you can ask about their shipments, my stores get their trucks Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, so you know when to check the stock checker and drop by the store first thing in the morning.
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    I saw some early harsh reviews giving it the "Alien Wanna-be" rip off of a lifetime award, from the trailer I can already see a lot of it's shortcomings but I'll still watch it, I'm a hopeless space / sci-fi / horror fan, it's got to be better than 80% of what's floating around on the internet that I haven't already seen.
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    They would have would a million or so more in the US if they had stock at the stores.
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    Yeah, they should have taken a scripting note from the fan reaction to Cloud Atlas, the "true true" nonsense just sounds stupid, having a bunch of people develop a whole new regional dialect ( We talk like the trashpile people of the ancient garbagian empire! ) in the span of a few years is just silly. Maybe their leader has autism and it will explain the shorthand, but if they spontaneously developed the "Junkyard Engrish" it's going to grate on my nerves every time they appear.
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    This...
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    I'm betting they are a plot vehicle for Alexandria to re-arm. Either soul-less villain types that Rick and company can dispatch with abandon to remind the viewers how tough they are, or like-minded victims of the Saviors with a just cause and willingness to re-arm the Alexandirans on the down low in return for creture comforts and a few houses in Alexandria with hot showers and bottle of chianti.
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    LoL to each their own, I don't particularly care for The Fast and The Furious series, but who cares, what equate to fun, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I love the Final Destination movies, my friends think they are idiotic, I don't give a fart. This isn't fine art, it's just a fun diversion for an hour or two. Life's short, find stuff that makes you laugh and happy, who cares what other people think
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    Oh I'm sure I'm out of date, but my LHS charges exorbitant prices and has limited selection, the last convention the PG kit I wanted was 300 bucks, I just got back from Thailand, the mall hobby shop was charging converted 400 US, and I got it 10 bucks less than HLG and free shipping saving over 50 dollars total, just throwing it out there. In the past when I searched amazon it was only scalpers charging a thousand bucks a perfect grade kit, now they are selling some retail.
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    This may be old news, but I just found that Amazon has started importing Bandai Gundam kits and selling them from their prime service forwhat appear to be very reasonable prices if you get them from either themselves or a competitive vendor.
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    Giddy with excitement over this, these mindless action movies that are just fun for the sake of fun are great IMO.
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    I didn't read the books, I was enticed by a review on NPR over the weekend, I ended up watching the first six episodes Sunday. So far I enjoy it very much, I'll probably go ahead and read the books as well. Patrick Warburton's deadpan delivery as the narrator amuses me greatly.
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    It will be interesting to watch the next few seasons to see how the characters evolve based on what we just saw.
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    Third party developer support looks good for Nintendo finally, hopefully they learned a lesson. I'm convninced we've hit or passed "peak graphics" where the cost to produce games has created such a high barrier to the console market that we're going to keep getting really pretty, crappy games with a few exceptions, while lots of game developers will focus on the shallow, crap mobile market. If Nintendo can get great game developers to make really good, solid games and help with cost control by limiting the insane graphics arms race, I'm in. Final Fantasy 15 might look like a playable HD anime, but if the gameplay is a drag or the story is blah, who cares. Super Mario or Pokemon Switch might look like any other Nintendo Game, but if it's actually fun, I'll play it a hell of a lot longer.
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    I watched it a few days ago, I had a few laughs, but as a "re-boot" in my book it was a total failure, it didn't do anything to improve upon the original, it wasn't as funny as the original, and the attempts to jazz it up with the eccentric "Q" type ghostbuster was just not worth the effort they expended IMO. I think this is another great example of why the re-boot phenomenon needs to die, if you cant' take the original idea and add something new and clever, and/or if the original or previous incarnation of the story wasn't a turd, just stop. They should have made this as a late / modern day sequel, payed homage to the original and written this one around their new ghostbusters with an original storyline, the team that made The Heat, Bridesmaids, Spy, those are some of the funniest movies I've seen in years, NuGhostbusters wasn't. I can't imagine how anyone who loved, or even liked the original movie, would watch this as think, "Wow, this was way better than that old version of this story." Let's all look forward to the Back to the Future re-boot starring "insert slightly different main character" and a time travelling "insert different unique car type here", to go back to the year ( Insert random 1980's year) with slightly different soundtrack. Yay, money!
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    LOL, I was totally on the voodoo with my RX-8 I was pre-mixing my fuel every fill up and had near perfect compression testing after 5 years and 60,000 miles, mine was a 2007 before they added the third oil injector in what was it 2011? to help protect the seals. I lived by the red-line a day rule, which meant I had to have fun driving the car at least once a day. The maintenance routines actually made me a lot closer to that car than any other I've ever owned. I was always terrified of someone stealing my Cat, for a while there was a huge surge in people having their catalytic converters stolen off their 8's because of the obscene fuel /exhaust problem, the cat in those cars was designed with a platinum plate that helped burn off excess exhaust material to pass emissions testing, depending on your location they cost $2,000 to $3,000 to replace if yours got stolen. I have no idea what the platinum in them was actually worth, but they were apparently worth enough that people learned how to cut them off cars and steal them from cars with only a few inches clearance off the street.
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    If Mazda made an RX- ( Rotary Experiment) without a Rotary engine, the Rotard community ( myself lovingly included) would converge on Hiroshima and riot at the manufacturing plant
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    Sorry if I muddied the water, I think this is an original movie. The director that made this made the Evil Dead remake a few years ago.
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    I sold my RX8 a few years ago and have regretted it every day since to get a pickup for utility purposes. I'm starting to see some chatter that the RX-9 might actually become a reality in the next few years. Saving my pennies, I loved that car so much
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    I despise how ready people are to dump on this when we have an accomplished director who actually cares about comic books and really loves this stuff doing the movie. I wouldn't hesitate to check this out, and finally, they let someone make a new Batman movie which does't look like it's going to require another "origin story" reboot. If I have to watch another 30 minutes showing the Wayne Family deaths, Superman falling to earth and the destruction of Krypton, Peter Parker getting bit by a radioactive spider, the Fantastic Four getting irradiated in space, and on and on and on, Jesu Christo, enough with the origin story psuedo reboots!!!!!!!
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    I"m going to see it in a few days, I loathe remakes, but my family bought me the Evil Dead Remake because they didn't know my purist rage, so I watched it and while I don't know how you'd screwbar an awesome plot/script if it was handed to you with a how-to video on how to shoot the film, I thought the remake was a really fun movie, I'll give this director a chance regardless of how he had to get into getting movies into theatres. The trailers for this movie looked pretty good to me and the decent reviews so far don't hurt. I hope he makes more original films.
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    I work for a large company in my town, there are 5 landmarks that are some kind of collection points around the building, we've had tons of employees crowding the windows and going for " poke breaks". I imagine most 35+ year olds will wear off this fad quick, but the augmented reality piece of it is pretty fascinating, I've already heard a lot of buzz about ways to use this sort of "gamification" to get more work out of people. Get ready rats, they are building the maze now, but don't expect good cheese, your'e gonna get the cheap stuff. P.S. If you haven't seen the news search " Pokemon GO Dead Body" and you should find articles about the children finding dead bodies, stepping into traffic and getting hit by cars, muggers using the game to lure people behind abandoned buildings to rob them, myriads of car accidents from people playing behind the wheel, etc. Common sense has completely left the building
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    I'd like to see Jaime save the day and ride off into the sunset with Bronn and Tyrion to go off and have future adventures, to have Dany and Littlefinger kill each other trying to obtain the Iron Throne while King's landing burns down around them and since they made her so cool in the show Lyanna Mormont end up taking control of the North. After whatever happens to breach the wall ( and I suspect it will have to be catastrophic to the Wall, and allow the Night King's army to flow through, I suspect the Night's Watch and probably Winterfell's days are numbered. I still can't get on #teamSansa, I hope the Night's King flushes her down a toilet and Sam comes back with his magic Valyrian Steel sword and the wisdom of the citadel and pulls Jon's butt out of danger and slays the Nights King. Since someone let it leak, maybe GRRm that Brienne is related to Sir Duncan ( Dunk) it feels right for her to go off on adventures with a Targareon if she survives, so again, maybe Jon Snow and Brienne go off to explore the land of Dragons, off the edges of the map of the world we've seen thus far. Bran has been such a footnote in the show, I'm wondering if he does play any significant part in the ending of the story if GRRM actually told the show writers how the story ends, likewise for Arya, fun "girlpower" storyline, but if she's just going to snuff a few douches, pretty minor player, Maybe she'll get to Cersei right before she flicks her bic to blow up King's landing and save Jaime the dishonor of being a queenslayer as well. I'll be disappointed if the ending is Dany, Jon and Tyrion on Dragons defeating the Night King's leadership/army army solo screaming "Dracaris" flying over the army of the undead and doing a Duke's of Hazard freeze frame ending, with a symbolic Yeee-Haaaa!!!
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