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CocoRosie are amazing, I listen to them quite often! Beautiful Boyz is really good but my love for South 2nd, Honey or Tar, and Noah's Ark itself kind of eclipse it for me on that particular album. Tearz tho

tearz

I downloaded for Gale Song & Silhouettes, but I also really like Devil May Cry, Who We Are, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Mirror, and Angel on Fire. FUN FACTS THOUGH, ANGEL ON FIRE is Antony Hegarty, who has been in SOME OF MY FAVE COCOROSIE SONGS ( tearz for animals ).

Yeah, and again that's pretty typical of YA novels. The symbolism within doesn't tend to be subtle. That's an accessibility thing, though. It's like books with training wheels, in a way? Again, not to degrade YA literature or claim superiority over it, but I do find it's usually true. It challenges the reader in some ways (like naming something Panem is fairly obvious for bread, as you mention, but it teaches the reader that there's significance in names, that writers do everything intentionally, and that they have to do some legwork when something seems significant).

Which YAs want! Puberty and middle school suck ass, most of the time, so they crave an escapism. YA novels offer that, hell all novels offer that, but YA novels do it in a way that's designed to appeal to them. That's why I like the idea of the Hunger Games (despite having not read them lol point of thread) because they do offer that escapism, self-insert, fantasy, in a way that at least slightly challenges the reader (we have to, also, appreciate that not all Hunger Games readers are at your reading level) and gets the reader to relate the novel's dystopia to their own society (thus presenting one of the driving forces behind literature, the social criticism).

kid has got hella bone structure

Interesting! Honestly, a lot of this stuff seems rather typical the young adult literature I've read. Character development & plausibility are rarely at the forefront; one can call it lazy or poor writing, but I think it could be partly attributed to the nature of the audience. Young adult readers are quite imaginative, I think--they're more willing to fill in the blanks on their own. One look at fanfiction.net, AO3, or tumblr will definitely tell you that: part of it is what you bring to the story. That's also a defense of relatively bland protagonists: they are inoffensive so that the reader can insert themselves. This kind of thing doesn't really fly in literature or adult fiction, where we have expectations for more nuanced or layered narratives. But I think YA literature having that deficit isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it encourages imagination and involvement on the reader's part.

This isn't, of course, to say that YA literature can't have fantastic characters (coughcoughHARRYPOTTERcough), or that more adult-oriented novels can't be imaginative for the reader. I just find it very pronounced within YA lit. And that's why I'm happy to see YAs reading even Twilight, because at least they're reading and imagining and using their brains (okay, Twilight might not be a good example there heheh).

thank you for your input haya you have been a tremendous help xoxo

Well the mere fact that she is a female protagonist is pretty exceptional, to me. I have heard some criticisms like I said but I'm curious to judge for myself. By well-written, do you mean her character develops very little? I'm not opposed to her being a fairly static character, if her initial character is solid. The Bella comparison does bother me (the world does not need another Bella Swan dear lord), would you mind expanding at all on it? :x

I have heard that there is a lot of filler in the final two novels, yeah. I've also heard that fans can be rather divided over the two. On the other hand, I read an article that compared Catching Fire to Empire Strikes Back, wanna see if it's worth even standing in Empire's shadow heh.

The paperback box set is cheaper than I expected & I have more money in my bank account than I thought so I might pick 'em up. Curious still to hear opinions!

I've been creeping myself out thinking about mortality and **** lately. Like I could get into my car tomorrow and crash and that would be it, I wouldn't have achieved anything I wanted to in my life, and the world would keep spinning without me on it. Scares the **** out of me. I blame all the poetry I've been reading.

I updated my Skype a month or two ago and it subsequently stopped working, rolled back to an old version and I'm staying there.

I used to use Pidgin for MSN & AIM, and I really liked it. Customizable UI and it stored chat logs in txt files, as opposed to Skype, which outputs the ugliest things, and you have to copy & paste them from the client. Sadly there's no Pidgin "service," to my knowledge--you'll have to use one of the services it supports (AIM, Google Talk, etc.). I had trouble with group chats occasionally, and Skype at least does voice & video calls rather well.

y'all can come to my house, I can get you in to see free movies & we'll eat panera mac & cheese

Not yet! I revoked the title of "The Hogwarts Express" from my VW shortly before I found this car, because it sucked so hardcore. I was considering recycling it for the Hyundai but it just isn't the right shade of red.

My mailbox is on my porch which I am told is now illegal 8)
if you want my address to send me presents you only need to ask bby

I DID NOT but I did actually run over this gigantic rock that used to rest at the end of my driveway, notice that it is not there anymore

Awfully sad to hear this. I was a big fan of the Fast & Furious franchise as a kid. Terrible to see someone go so young.

money and friends plz santa

( christmas presents/lists aren't a thing in my house, we are poor so we just get each other lil things. more about the decorations and the time together /lame )

Nights is right that a 32-bit OS can only address just shy of 4GB, so there's no reason to upgrade beyond that. Still, it would be a noticeable difference for you. The only other thing you need to be sure of is whether your motherboard will support more than 2GB (most likely) and what kind of RAM it accepts. To figure that out we'll need the model name & number of your mobo.

It's not improperly balanced. The rocking that people complain about is as designed. When it's sitting on your tv stand, it's totally still... And who woulda thunk that objects rock when you put weight on them. Protip: don't stack your consoles on top of one another (which the ps4 does fine btw).

It does seem like a strange addition to the games in general, but I look at them as a sort of revamped version of KHII's limits, just... more integrated into Disney.

I don't think it's terribly puzzling that they choose to start by featuring gameplay. Other parts of the game, like cinematics/story-related scenes & Disney worlds are more than likely still in motion. They seem to be innovating a lot on the appearance and gameplay of the title, and thus, that's what they would show off. As the game goes further into development I'm sure we'll see more story related trailers.

In my mind, the three major things shown by the two trailers are:

• New look of the game
• Disney rides
• Continuation of flowmotion, i.e. interacting with your environment during battle
• Keyblade transformation

The Disney rides have definitely been more prominent than the latter two points, but they serve to show off gameplay and the look of the game.

@DA: woaho congrats, unless you were not attempting to lose weight, in which case... also congrats but with less satisfaction for you.
@Nomes: I work in a theater and we also gave those out! I took about five home for myself, despite having never seen a Hunger Games movie... c:
@Lithium: BEST MOVIE