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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    03:12 PM

    In reply to Dallas' Eco-Community Could Be the Future of Urban Housing
    Okay, this looks, at first glance, like the remains of a once great city that is now being taken over by the surrounding vegetation. I definitely don't want to live someplace that looks like it's an abandoned factory.
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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    03:10 PM

    In reply to Toy Story 3 Trailer: A Toy's Life In Hell
    I like the way they're bring the story to it's logical conclusion, plus the fact that they're keeping the voice actor who played Andy in the first two films.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    03:01 PM

    In reply to "The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse
    I had not noticed until now, but this thing with the papa doing what it takes for his son, being in the road, etcetera is heavily borrowed in The Walking Dead, right?
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    02:44 PM

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    the old 'visible digestive system' is near the top on the 'Do Not Want' list.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    02:42 PM

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    When watching the video i kept waiting for the camera to get knocked and then swallowed by something with very very big teeth.
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free
    02:40 PM

    In reply to For Thanksgiving, Heroes Embraces Mutant Family Dysfunction
    That first clip reminded me of a family christmas dinner about 15yrs ago.

    Ours ended with one sister frizbie-ing her dinner plate (turkey, stuffing, etc) across the room at the other sister.

    Ah, memories.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    02:35 PM

    In reply to Two Of Our Favorite Monster Badasses - Unveiled!
    I like that the new Freddy Krueger actually looks like a burn victim and not a comic book caricature of a burn victim.
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    Image of cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    02:24 PM

    In reply to Will Global Warming Lead To War?
    "Ed Begley Jr. Loses It On Fox News"

    [bighollywood.breitbart.com]
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    02:16 PM

    In reply to Two Of Our Favorite Monster Badasses - Unveiled!
    I saw several minutes of footage from Jonah Hex at Comic-Con, and it was flat-out awesome. Josh Brolin looks fantastic and grisly as Jonah Hex, and Megan Fox was perfect as the gun-slinging whore.
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    Image of Friedhamster Friedhamster
    02:35 PM

    @Annalee Newitz: I wish it had been leaked like the Iron Man 2 footage.
    I hope this is good... I want more Western amazingness in my life.
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    Image of IraeNicole IraeNicole
    02:13 PM

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    I would think that putting it in the city would dramatically increase the cost needed for the project.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    02:11 PM

    In reply to For Thanksgiving, Heroes Embraces Mutant Family Dysfunction
    Imagen Prince of Bel air but with mutant powers.. Now thats a show I want to see.

    Now, this is the story all about how
    My life got flipped-turned upside down
    And I'd like to take a minute
    Just sit right there
    I'll tell you how I became a mutant in a town called Bel Air
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    02:03 PM

    In reply to Twilight's Bella Is "The Sexual Aggressor"
    Oh a side note, the newest issue of Horrorhound magazine has a brief history of the teen vampire novel for those trapped in NEW MOON Mania.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    01:59 PM

    In reply to The Clearest View Yet Of A 1,000 Year Old Explosion
    Annalee my fave postings Space Porn.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    01:57 PM

    In reply to Cram Your Hard Drive With Sexorcists, Sextremists And Interstellar Sexplorers
    SWV has a ton of great fucked films !!!
    and some good weird scifis.
    I got a great A-Bomb scifi from SWV
    years ago on DVD This is not a Test/Atomic War Bride.
    hercules against the moon men i have not seen that one since i was a child.

    also a lot of the single disc image dvds are only 9.95 each
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    01:55 PM

    In reply to Twilight's Bella Is "The Sexual Aggressor"
    I'm no expert (being a man and having never read nor seen anything Twilight), but it seems like Bella just isn't a good role model for women (of any age) in any respect. When Twilight does so well, it makes me wonder, is this all women really want? In some ways, it seems to setting the feminist movement back a bit, or am I off base?
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    Image of Friedhamster Friedhamster
    01:59 PM

    @TemporalSword: I am SO tempted, as much as I loathe to say it, read the Twilight books. Just to see what the hell is going on in the minds of our youth. I really don't want to do it, but damn my soul... I think I'll probably do it.
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    Image of cmg cmg
    01:59 PM

    @TemporalSword: i don't think there's anything wrong with wanting marriage and a family, but i don't think it's a great idea to give girls the idea that those things are the priority in life.
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    Image of anomaly_kid anomaly_kid
    02:04 PM

    @cmg: What better priorities could you have? Your job? Yourself? We begin and end with family. Why not applaud those who make the choice to put that first?
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    Image of cmg cmg
    02:05 PM

    @Friedhamster: i understand that temptation. masses of my coworkers were reading them and i almost caved. then i remembered there were about a million other books i'd rather read.
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    02:09 PM

    @anomaly_kid: as is said, nothing wrong with it, but i hate that some people think that life is less fulfilling if you're not married and procreating. family is what you make it and for some people that means friends and not necessarily a spouse and children.
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    Image of Friedhamster Friedhamster
    02:18 PM

    @cmg: Hey... good point. I still have The Dark Tower series to finish.

    #calendar
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    Image of sororitysheep sororitysheep
    02:25 PM

    @anomaly_kid: Healthy and stable relationships, family, and children are laudable things. But I think the main point is not "family and children", the main point is becoming a person who has wants, needs, and interests other than just finding your studly undead stalkerish boyfriend and being with him forever.

    Bella's relationships with others are incredibly unhealthy; without someone (preferably male) to define who she is, she has nothing. She has no friends when Edward or Jacob are around, because they're her world. The banal world of friendship is a distant second to this idealized fiction of soulmates. Basing your world around one, very fallible person (even if he is a supernatural being) isn't the most well-adjusted attitude towards life. She doesn't want anything... unless it's her man. Family doesn't really define what Bella is looking for. She abandons her family without a qualm in order to essentially succumb to a death wish and stay young and pretty forever.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    02:29 PM

    @anomaly_kid: It's not that Bella puts wanting a family first. The problem is that the man she's attracted to is vain, emotionally distant, and a stalker.
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    Image of SNForrester SNForrester
    02:32 PM

    @TemporalSword: Having just seen the New Moon movie yesterday, I was struck by a scene in the film towards the beginning where the characters are watching Romeo and Juliet in class. (I can't remember if this scene was in the book or not.)

    It's obvious that in both R&J and Twilight, the couples suffer from an extremely obsessive kind of love. Obsessive love is prevalent in literature of all kinds. Wuthering Heights is another example that comes to mind.

    Clearly, Twilight is not in the same league as these famous works of literature. I just wanted to point out that this type of relationship is nothing new. Girls have been obsessed with these stories for generations!
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    02:37 PM

    @anomaly_kid: We may begin with family but we don't end with it. And just because we begin with it doesn't make it all that great. There is more to life then getting hitched and knocked up. There is research and learning and exploring the world around us. Adding to the knowledge and understanding of the world. Meeting new people and creating connections. The problem with every one putting marriage and family first is that we end up with a bunch of inexperienced kids running out and getting married and having babies before they are ready. And with out people who put other things, like careers, first; we would not have some of the greatest doctors and scientists that have existed.
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    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    02:38 PM

    @anomaly_kid: I'd pick Enlightenment over family.
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    02:43 PM

    @TemporalSword: I don't think it's setting anything back, or at least it's not setting it back before proto-feminism, when feminists were actually after realistic and achievable goals. I'm probably going to make enemies by saying this, but the anti-male pseudo-fascism that often passes for feminism these days is a little scary.

    Like it or not, some things are just inherent to our gender--they are in our genes. Now, that doesn't mean I believe women should be confined to the kitchen and men are destined to lead or any such crap like that. What I mean is, I think Twilight acknowledges something basic and honest about human nature, or at least female nature (the males are much less realistic though)--females form strong attachments to the males they become attracted to and are more easily devastated when relationships are severed. It's just the way it is. There is a sound evolutionary reason for this, having to do with holding onto men to help raise and protect the offspring. Males, however, are genetically prone to spreading their seed far and wide.

    Of course, recognizing this is true doesn't mean we must idealize it--that would be playing into the naturalistic fallacy. But by the same token we should recognize the limitations of our respective genders and not try to whitewash them.
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    02:48 PM

    @TemporalSword: By the way, the idea that we are somehow handicapped in our opinions of issues affecting females because we're male is as ridiculous as the idea spouted by some parents that unless you have kids you just don't understand. Can you say genetic fallacy? I knew you could. ;-)
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