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Like you said, shit happens. Is the responsibility really more on the parent than Walmart? Is the parent a "typical, idiotic consumer" for expecting Walmart to keep to their legal duties of providing the product that was paid for? Is expecting the product not to be a box of rocks expecting "stores to do everything for

I think it's really, really, really stupid. That said, I don't have anything inherently against them, I just can't help but judge them. Am I going to refuse to be friends with you if you're a Brony? Of course not. But respect would be hard to give.

Yeah, I completely know how you feel. I did that 3 times before going through the book finally and it was worth it. Although the series gets really convoluted in the last half of the series Erikson does an incredible job of making a story come together. You don't always see the ending coming and when it does, it'll

I don't have a problem with influence from real world cultures—after all, that's the best way to make a believable world. Tolkein based his whole world on Norse mythology and culture but he also made it his own world.

Yeah, when I first attempted Gardens of the Moon, I was pretty lost. But as you go through it, it really comes together in a pretty fluid way and the next few books are some of the best books I've ever read. He even makes some fantasy candy for anthropologists, like the whole history behind the T'lan Imass.

I don't agree about the world building. Outside of the War of the Roses inspired bits, his cultures are just mashups of stereotypes. The Dothraki, for example, are literally just a collage of stereotypes from every well-known nomadic culture. Even the bit with gold was just a famous incident with the Jivaro in South

The guy is dismissively arrogant when he thinks he's successful and only apologizes as, he points out, he realizes that the problems are more than a tiny minority?

The sun, the Earth and the center of the galaxy align on the same horizontal plane once a year. It's a negligible phenomenon that has as much significance as you give it.

lol. I don't understand all the hate for Parker's death since, as your last paragraph points out, deaths in comic books are rarely ever permanent and most certainly won't be for Peter Parker.

Because they want to be sure that if they find life on Mars, it's life FROM Mars.

"He's serious about archeology"

"Various people have already pointed out the text crawl is pretty much based on the Flash Gordon serials, which I pretty much knew."

Didn't say there weren't high quality products. Just said the cheap end of products in China go far lower than the cheap end of products in America.

Was this ever an issue or a question in anyone's mind? Who has such a weak grip on critical thinking that they actually wonder why mirrors don't project us upside down?

There's a difference between infomercial products in America and infomercial products in China. For example, you'll get crappy budget game consoles here but they're advertised as such. You don't get Playbox 360Us loaded only with a 16 pixel version of Centipede.

Well the Mayan reshaping is more in the lines of gods physically remaking the worlds and its laws of nature. Like a literal reshaping. As far as life, I don't doubt in 50 years I'll be interacting with technology I never even imagined right now.

While Mayans didn't think the world would end, the end of each cycle was usually accompanied by a reshaping of the world and the end of life as we knew it (and the start of another one).

You'd think someone living IN China would know how unreliable so many of their products are.

Things like this happen in the Chinese countryside all the time. There are stories of people beating up their elderly parents and throwing them out of their houses all the time.

You seem to know a lot about acting. I bet you're an actor. I bet you're on broadway and Bollywood and stuff.