David

I replayed it either last summer or the one before that. It definitely showed it's age in the graphics department, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I had mostly clothes and some money, nothing major. Being old on Christmas is kind of lame. My mom bought my sister and I mace. Pretty funny since, as a guy, I'll be attacked for carrying that around if anything. I think it was to get my sister some without making it a big deal since she goes off to college next year.

Was force my hot wife to make out with the other female characters. Bonus points for nude hot tubing. Don't pretend you didn't do the same in that otherwise boring game.

I thought the same thing, but the language classes are extremely grammar and structure heavy, definitely more so than any other language I've had experience with. We don't study roots much, so an etymology class would probably be far more helpful for that sort of thing.

It always amazes me how much multiple languages are pushed in Europe. I guess it's more important when there are so many different countries with their own languages right by, but still. Even though I only know one language I'm still far beyond most Americans, who only have a very basic understanding of their own language, much less others.

English obviously. Then I took 2 years of Spanish in High School, none of which stuck. I can pretty much just tell the number and person of verbs. I've also taken 2 semesters of Latin in college, which is cool except it's obviously useless since it's a dead language. Guess it might help if I ever need to learn a Romance language, but eh. 4 semesters is a university requirement.

Live again.

Well, they made it. One billion. I don't think qoutes work on mobile btw. Fix it Traag!I fixed the mobile quotes shortly after Eric posted this; if anyone still has an issue with it you just need to clear your cache. I'm not sure what formatting bug Deathirst is talking about, though. PM me or post it in the support forum.

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Nah, that was just another of my rants against my stupid 12 year old facebook "friends". I actually chuckled at the Australia thing.

The three billion posts I've seen in the last day about how it's not going to happen - all submitted by idiots who think they're being clever non-conformists - is infinitely more annoying that the precisely 0 I've seen hinting that it's real.

This guy claims that guns are not to blame because they can't kill people. He then blames video games. Lmao.

And you seeing the movie before me has what to do with anything, exactly? I do see what you were trying to say now, though. The Necromancer and Radagast are added to the Hobbit to relate the events at that time to those that happened in the LotR trilogy. You have to remember that Tolkien wrote 'The Hobbit' before the other books. Had he done it the other way around, or even lived long enough to finish his other works relating everything, he almost certainly would have gone back and made additions like those that made the timeline of events between the two stories obvious. Having the Hobbit story as a prequel to the movies that are already made makes things like that necessary for viewers. I can see why people wouldn't like Radagast. I even read one review that likened him to Jar Jar Binks. That's obviously a little overly critical, but you have to remember that the Hobbit is SUPPOSED to be a much lighter time and story. Most people seemed to hate the bunny sled and not Radagast himself. I should clarify that I thought Radagast's characterization was well done; I'm pretty "meh" on the whole bunny carriage thing, but don't hate it that much either. Radagast isn't an idiot; as Gandalf says he's "brilliant in his own way." That's just part of who he's supposed to be.

Radagast was in the movie, and he was easily one of the most interesting characters for every scene he was in (not that many). The Necromancer gets a short appearance but he is mostly just alluded to. Saruman is in the Hobbit and comes across as kind of an oblivious prick, but he obviously has an ulterior motive that no one knows about yet.

This is all in terms of the movies though, which is what most people know.

Good but not great movie. It was very long at 2 hours and 50 minutes. This wasn't a bad thing since I needed my LOTR universe fix, but there were several times were I thought "This must be the ending" only to see it continue on. Bilbo is MUCH more relate-able and entertaining than Frodo. I thought that was a weakness of the first movies with their boring, slightly homosexual Frodo/Sam scenes, so it's good to see a better Hobbit lead. The tone of the movie is much different than the dark, foreboding feeling of the originals; there is a lot of color, festivity, and wild-life featured. A couple scenes last for a strangely long period of time; one of my friends thought that this was an attempt to get scenes from the book involved in the movie since much of it was obviously just Peter Jackson making stuff up. Overall I didn't think it was as good as the first trilogy, but again, much of that may also be nostalgia from when I was younger. When I think back to the first movie of Frodo's journey, The Fellowship of the Ring, I remember it being substantially weaker than the following two. That's likely what's going on here - story-building taking precedence over getting into the epic adventures right away. My only real large complaint is that the main characters spent over half the movie running away from something while being scared shitless, which is kind of a let-down after the badassery of the first group of heroes.

She lives like 20 minutes away from me. Hahaha But seriously.