Excellent show.

Really, fucking excellent, it brings the sitcom back from the shitholes of despair that are Everybody Loves Raymond, Oh, Dear, and King of Queens.

I fucking hate shows about married people and families... I already lived through it, don't wish to repeat the experience.  Sheldon is excellent, really a great show.

Seinfeld was a masterpiece, TBBT will be regarded as such... good writing, excellent characters, good character development, bringing the sitcom back and let's face it we as americans need a good sitcom in our primetime line-up.

Serial crime dramas can suck the hairiest part of my left testicle.

agree partially. it tends to suffer from, A: all looking the same, and B: being really weird.

you have successfully described the contents of my trashcan.

alvin toffler.

I'm sorry... not edgy enough.  Please try again.

I have an endangered species of cardinalfish, but generally speaking nothing too edgy about fish tanks.  And no, nobody says "reefer" anymore as a reference to cannabis except in an exclusively ironic context. 

And yes, everyone smokes weed.  So that's not edgy either.

here's a kicker, anyone know what a machine elf is? sometimes referred to as a self-transforming elf machine?

I've been dealing with this since I was a child.  It has nothing to do with aging.

Likewise, if you read the original post, I've had this issue since I can remember... and before I can remember, I was the only kid who slept in on Christmas morning.

Well, fuck.

Demosthenes- Have you had an official diagnosis?

Short review: I want to like it, but it just feels off to me, boring yes, and something else is weird about it, I can't really say what. It just is... odd.

agreed, I have astigmatism in one eye, sometimes it takes me a second to adjust focus, I feel like for those without perfect vision, it is somewhat difficult to take in the 3d transitions...

Story is recycled garbage, whatever, irrelevant, this does not separate it from any other blockbuster hit of this genre of the past ten years, or perhaps longer.

My qualm is with the actual 3d/cg part, I for one, could not truly ever get immersed into the imagery of the film... i found especially when the close-ups happened it was impossible not to be "taken out" of the experience... my visual senses simply could not process the rapid changes in the field of depth which I think were the inherent flaw of the movie.

there were certain scenes, such as the slow moving scenes in the first 15 minutes that take place in the lab and such, where I felt you could truly be immersed in the movie, but many of the close ups on the avatar planet, whatever it was called, like of the floating tree spirit things, couldn't be processed.

maybe I have a flaw, but I suspect I'm not the only one who felt this way, and maybe there is just a certain percentage of people who cannot process the imagery as it was intended, like those who see rainbow striping in DLP televisions.

who knows.  I am often to prone to see "the wizard behind the curtain" and though this movie really made probably the best attempt I've ever seen to truly take computer generated graphics to a level of realism never known before, i still find the primitive special effects of the original star wars trilogy to be far more captivating than anything I've seen to date.

not to mention whoever they got to play the main character, joe marine jimmyfuck, was an absolute and total douche and unrelatable to anyone, even other extreme and total douches.

characters lacked any semblance of depth, and maybe that's why i couldn't buy it.  the mind is a complicated instrument.

I believe I have a sleep disorder, 26 y/o male, still can't hold down a job for more than 6-12 months without inevitably sleeping in despite having up to five alarm clocks.

I've been this way since I was a young child (7 or 8 years old), never truly able to reliably wake up before 11 am...  I have used everything, including schedule II medications, to combat this...

The only thing I haven't done is get a sleep study, but I'm skeptical about it, especially considering I seem to sleep for somewhat normal hours, and have no trouble falling asleep (at around 3-4 am that is) and no insomnia (except for a brief period when I quit smoking).  So I think my actual sleep, is fine, just that my circadian clock, is off.  And I think in a sleep study situation, I would probably never truly sleep as I normally do, for example, when I have a "guest" stay in the same room with me, I don't really sleep normally, it takes me a lot longer than normal to fall asleep and I sleep very lightly, so I awake usually whenever the sun comes up or I hear a noise or the other person wakes up, rolls over, etc... far before my alarm does.

I do believe that I have a very strong power of will, but it seems that I often wake up and fall back asleep if I get up before 10 am, without even knowing it... As if I'm sleepwalking.  Sometimes I will "wake up" turn off all of the alarms, and fall back to sleep with absolutely no recollection of the event (at least I assume that's what happened as they are all turned off when I wake up) or I will sleep straight through them, and awake several hours later to at least three of them blaring. (I use a combination of buzzers, beeps, radios, etc)

I'm often in a daze for an hour or two after I wake up so I have to set my alarm for several hours before I have to do something, maybe hit the snooze button once (more than once and it's doubtful I'll make it anywhere before noon).

It's also interesting to note that no matter how sleep deprived I am, or how exhausted I am from my daily activities, I cannot sleep before 3-4am... EVER.  If I do happen to fall asleep at say 9 or 10pm, I will awake about 1 to 1.5 hours later unable to sleep until about 6-7 am.

I've done some research and there is some mentioning something called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder/Syndrome, does anyone know anything about this, is it legitimate?  If anyone has had any kind of similar experience, please relate it, as well as what you did/are doing to overcome it, I was recently fired from an important job and it has sent me into despair about the situation.

I thought I had actually overcome it a few months ago, but eventually, it seems that my biology, or neurology, or psychology, wins.

wow.

"reefing" is the hobby of "reef-keeping", or maintaining "reef aquaria" 

if you still don't get it... it's a fucking saltwater fish tank. with corals. you know the ones that make up what some refer to as coral reefs, that special 1% of the ocean that houses 80% of the biological diversity within it.

at least that one dude said something about surfing, and coral reefs, he was close... but damn... i think most thought it was a reference to smoking pot... and this is not 1957, nobody calls pot, "reefer," anymore and i don't think pot-smoking was ever referred to as "reefing" anyways.

ouch.

i figured somebody would have at least googled it.

YOYO.

I have no idea what this forum is about, seems random.

I guess I need to know "what goes" on this forum?  Anything?   Hopefully anything, hopefully not one of those boards that is censored/content restricted, because I'm an asshole and prefer to not have to censor myself on an internet forum.

That cool?

Anyone here into reefing?

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