Posts made by Cobert

Grey chip.

As an abstract piece, it could represent anything you slide it under!

You can’t say for sure that the US had intended on going to Germany - they were probably planning on placing that fleet there from the start.

I disapprove of this strategy.  However, later on in the game, landing 2 transports in western canada usually makes the US way overbuild on ground forces out of panic.

We used to play so a person had 12 minutes to do their entire turn.

I usually start shipping troops and a small fleet to africa to threaten the underbelly of Europe, building up enough forces over several turns to eventually launch a strike or reinforce WEU.  At the same time I am slowly building a navy in the Pacific to make sure Japan doesnt go unchecked, and maybe if japan has their navy out of the way I will build a transport and take borneo, just to be an annoyance.

I usually take China, attack pearl, and get ready for a J2 attack on India.

I have never played with a bid, and the axis still manage to win about 40% of the time.

Maybe 3 1/2.

Go to sleep at 2:30 or 3, wake up at 6.  Every once in a while ill sleep an hour or so after coming home, but usually I’m wired and bouncing off of the walls.  More sleep just makes me more tired and grumpy so it’s probably best that I don’t sleep ever.

@Jermofoot:

I hope you aren’t saying those peeps were at the creation.  Very good either way.  The GZA is just a musical genius, yet many people won’t even recognize it because they will never give him a chance.  RIP ODB/Dirt McGirt/Big Baby Jesus.  :lol:

Have to agree with balung on Tribe, probably the best hip hop group I’ve ever heard.  Also, the Pharcyde, De La Soul, Digable Planets, etc.

No, i was just listing some generally good hip-hop.

There has not been good rap since Grand Master Flash and The Furious 5.

This just confirms that you havent listened to much rap, haha.

And while we’re including punk…

POISON IDEA: http://www.myspace.com/pickyourking  (in the late 80’s they slowed down but still made great songs)
NEGATIVE FX:  http://www.myspace.com/negativefx  (from Boston, predecessor to grind/powerviolence bands of today)

SS DECONTROL: http://www.myspace.com/societysystemdecontrol (Boston has made some truly great hardcore, unfortunately this band dropped all of their punk roots and made bad hair metal after a few years)

FUGAZI: http://www.myspace.com/fugazidischord (technically ‘post-hardcore’ and probably closer to indie, but I dont know if you guys are going to knitpick over punk subgenres, and just on the edge of the 90’s)

And what about the founders of actual emo (not bad pop-punk that is mislabeled as such)?

RITES OF SPRING: http://www.myspace.com/ritesofspringmusic  (For Want Of is one of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard)
EMBRACE: http://www.myspace.com/embracetribute  (Might i suggest “Dance of Days”?)

MOSS ICON: http://www.myspace.com/mossiconemo (“I’m Back Sleeping or F***ing of Something” is only allowed to be played at maximum volume on one’s speakers, song has some intense vocals later on, this band is probably my favorite of all of these emo forefathers)

Jurrassic 5 and ATCQ are both awesome.

Disturbed does indeed suck.

This is a better cover of Take On Me. Not being ska makes it instantly better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_xUlC3f_k

Good rap has existed since its creation (See: GZA and the rest of Wu-Tang, The Coup, Ded Prez, Mos Def, The Fugees, The Roots, Busdriver, Talib Kweli), it’s just not played on radio stations.

Honestly, record labels have always been the cause for bad music.  There’s plenty of good music today, you just have to dig to find it.

Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music.  Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.

And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.

The ‘rap’ you’re referring to shouldnt even be called rap, its stupid mall-rap that is directly sold to suburban white kids (like said before).  Its just pop under a different name.  Some of the rappers Ive listed above have actually made good music and have artistic integrity.

Again: there’s plenty of good music today, you just have to dig to find it.

@Der:

Nice List DF,
I’ll add a few more nice list.

Here’s a few more: Slayer, Guns n roses, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Clash, Kiss, Dead kennedy’s, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili’s…

Best list in thread, minus Guns n Roses who annoy me to no end.

@ncscswitch:

“Who’s got the 10 and a half?”

Hell yes!

Also I would add Descendents to my list:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q89Ip66BqOA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8rxmPFy7zSs

Im pretty sure about 1/3 of what i listen to is 80’s punk/hardcore.

Ill check it out sometime, and throw it onto the extremely long list of books I want to read.

@Jermofoot:

And I knew that lock (and the sudden wreck) was coming, so it didn’t get me too much but it worked well for my date!

Without having read the book I felt both the lock and crash coming, but yes, it easily surprises women, hahaha.

More like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGijtpSID3k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv6pLhTgxao (old band, old song, new performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6HuaPsVdo8

IM GONNA STAAA-AAAAAY YOUNG
UNTIL I DIIIIIIIIIIE

@Jermofoot:

Sorry, Cobert, I should have said inconsistencies instead of plot holes.

For instance, in the book, the girl Lewellyn meets by the pool has a much bigger role.  You also know who kills him (hint, it’s not Chigurh).  The scene in the office building, there is not a second guy in there…just the guy behind the desk that Anton kills.  The street battle involves a lot more people, not just Anton and Lewellyn.  And you know exactly what happens with Carla Jean and Anton, and it’s not a decision by Anton (except for allowing her a coin flip).

The fate vs. circumstance thing is played heavily upon by the Coen brothers.  I’m not sure Mccarthy was pushing that notion as much in the book, but I know the Coens concentrated on that theme.

Yes, Bell perceives things to be changing.  Just like all people say that America is going in the toilet now.  People always have said that, and always will.  He just realizes that his job isn’t as honorable or good as he thought, and that it will just end up getting him killed.  Especially with a unstoppable psychopath like Chigurh.  Bell’s good intentions meant nothing when death was around the corner.

And speaking of that, many people have concluded that Chigurh not only represents death, he actually IS death.  He’s unstoppable, ruthless, untiring, and always gets his man.  Remember how he asks the one guy if he saw him?  Or the kids after the accident?  Anyone who didn’t “see” him lived.  People always see death before they die.  Bell never actually saw him, but Lewellyn did.

How does the girl play a bigger part in the book?  In the movie, her sole purpose seems to be to begin a short bit of dialogue that further explores the fate theme:

“Whatcha looking for?”
“I’m lookin’ for what’s comin’.”
“Well you don’t know what’s comin’.”

Its implied in the movie that Chigurh doesnt kill Lewellyn.  The Coen Brothers decision to leave out Carla Jeans coin toss can be taken as it being Chugurh’s choice and pushing for their theme of fate.  More people in the street battle seems like it may have ruined it, that scene was definitely intense.  Everyone I watched it with jumped when the lock shot off the door.

I guess I can buy the ‘Anton as death’ thing, it ties into my idea that Bell’s dream is about the only certainty in life is its end.  Anton, representative of destiny and against free will, could very easily also represent death, the only thing certain in life.

Well what I meant was that it was about Bell’s percieved changing of the times.  Like I said, the story about the indians killing the man on his porch discredits Bell’s belief.

Elaborate more on these plot holes and confusion about the book.

I understood the ending, at least I think I did.  The entire film seemed to be about two things: The changing of the times (and how it really is ‘no country for old men’, who fall behind while everyone else gets more greedy and violent, but this is disproved when Bell’s uncle tells him the story of the indians killing the man on the porch as he claims ‘its always been this way’) and Destiny (where Chigurh represents complete fatalism and predestined timelines, as he seems to know everything in advance and thinks fate decides things, but this is disproved in his final cointoss scene and the event that follows, where Carla Jean Moss makes Anton himself decide instead of the fate of the toss).

I interpreted Bell’s first dream as meaning that his fathers work as a sheriff meant something in society (as evidenced by his fathers wealth in the dream), but in modern times, after passing the money (his profession off) in the dream, Bell can’t handle it like his father had, as  he believe crime has changed and law enforcement is overall failing.

I interpreted Bell’s second dream as meaning the only thing definite in life is its end.  The cold and dark and poor weather is supposed to be the uncertainty of life.  The only thing that would be visible in this dream would be his father’s fire, where his journey will end, and Bell says that he knows that his father will be there when he arrives (as if his father’s fire is heaven and death).

…a helluva motion picture, if I say so.  Absolutely incredible.

What are all of your opinions on it?

What other good movies from last year am I behind on?

Yellow.  Second is green.

Would a Great War Free For All be stupid?

I think if anyones up to it Ill take that one too.  The Bigworld free-for-all was definitely good, I suggest you all try it out, maybe Zero Pilot could just post a .zip of it.  Theres a big game called Global War that I wouldnt mind seeing as a Free For All either.