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ssjevot posted...

I don't see how you can rate Rise as anything greater than a 2/10 on your scale, but we'll see.

I can. Its still better than all the prequels.

SAlYAN posted...

A whole world of possibilities for the Kenobi vs Vader rematch at the end. And what do they do?

A wholesale ripoff of the S2 finale of Rebels. Almost shot-for-shot in some places.

Like, come on, guys.

It is LAUGHABLE you are calling it a ripoff. The whole fight olays out entirely different aside from the damaged mask. Thats the only thing they lifted.

Im guessing you like so many never actually bothered to watch rebels until this show happened anyway

Ragtag28 posted...

@Toonstrack

....I am not a mod lol

Charged151 posted...

Andor had a really slow start and never did get the purpose of the cereal scenes, but other than that was fantastic.

She was the worst part of the show imo. Surprised Obi Wan let her live after knowing about Luke.

Nah she's pretty great in the show. A very unique villain angle that we haven't seen before.

Her methods are far fetched yes, but her resentment of both the jedi and the sith stand out

If you thought kenobi would kill a surrendering enemy after watching the show you dont know kenobi all that well.

bfslick50 posted...

Jedi Knight wannabe with far too little training realizes they have a deeper connection with the person that killed their mentor. Their feelings of hatred get confused with other emotions and thats when the evil one proposes they join together to kill the evil emperor.

1. They didn't discover a deeper connection until the following film

2. The thmatic similarities are there on purpose and that's a deliberate feature in most states wars media. You can also say this for ahsoka and anakin for example.

Despised posted...

I don't keep up with new shows or popular shit other than movies recently, but randomly watched Kenobi and loved it

Guess I'll see if this mandalorian show is good

It was good yes. A lot of star wars fans couldn't handle it tho

TheFuzz3451 posted...

TFA is a rejection of the prequels; TLJ is a rejection of TFA; RoS is a rejection of TLJ

Every movie in the trilogy is trying to bury that which came before it, while starting from scratch, which results in a completely incoherent mess of a story.

Tlj isn't a rejection of TFA any more than ESB is a rejection of ANH.

It changes some things previously established and expands upon all ideas in the original.

Being a rejection of the prequels is hardly a bad thing either.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

The Canto Bite subplot was lame but not as bad as I thought it would be

I dislike Rey and Kylo's dynamic. It's so cliche, rehashing Vader and Luke but with a romantic subtext tacked in.

How is rey to kylo what Luke was to vader??

Snoke feels really wasted; he didn't get much screentime in this or TFA and now he just gets killed.

It really felt like they were just making up shit that the Force could do whenever the plot called for it. Suddenly Leia can fly. Suddenly spirits like Yoda can cause natural disasters. Suddenly Kylo and Rey can project images of themselves to each other to communicate. Suddenly Luke can project an illusion of himself to fight. Textbook lazy writing.

No. All of these are canon force abilities and have been established for decades. This is you not having knowledge of the franchise.

The force ghosts abilities have kitersllt never been consistent.

Oh and the planet Luke was on just happened on to have the old Jedi texts.

No. Luke went to that planet BECAUSE it had Jedi texts. It wss a well known haven for jedi.

BaphometFlux posted...

My answer is Prince, the man was just an amazing artist, pure musical genius and very prolific. I've loved/enjoyed all his musical output and that type of artist is very very very rare to find.

Your answer was correct.

A couple years ago I would've said an upvote/down vote feature would be nice but now? Nah.

Hosting game devs for Q and As would be an interesting angle.

misterbum posted...

Money = sex?

Thats umpossible

Maybe that explains why I consistently have little of either!!

Deej posted...

Imagine paying for porn o_o

The industry wouldn't continue to exist if no one did.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Im not a child and these restrictions will keep me out too. Im not sending a porn website my identification info.

If you were paying for any of it then they already have all that anyway.

Stronger men than him have tried.

So no.

9.5/10

Simple... don't post fetish art. I never have so there's nothing to track.

I also don't make it, so there's that.

epik_fail1 posted...

Please keep this before they inevitably gaslight us and make their clickbait videos about "woke people" triggered by paper mario
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c146a35f.jpg

They literally the exact same sont and style its literslly so clesrly designed as a feedback loop and the idiots that give thrse guys money don't see it.

Honestly I don't even really eat breakfast anymore. I dont get hungry til the afternoon time.

I COULD learn to cook... I decided to be a starving artist with my time instead.

Maybe one day when my out of reach dreams are satisfactorily fulfilled

I love this frugal spending side of CE. We need more threads like this in these trying times.

Anyways, the trick isnt eh exams meal 8 or 9 times. The trick is get 4 main courses, 4 sides and alternate between those In rotation. 16 different meal options.

That's basically a version of what I do, because im a pretty picky eater.

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I haven't haven't viewed the specials. So ill have to take your word on it in terms of if he's playing a character of being genuine.

As for his audience, yeah some of his audience probably did enjoy it for the wrong reasons and I think he was always aware of that but just didn't care... from his perspective if he can extract money from racists by telling them something they already believe whilst making fun of them, that's a victory over the racists.

KitKats posted...

If Dave Chappelle got up on stage saying Im team racism! and started peddling racist disinformation, talking about black people are genetically

Lemme stop you right there.

Go look up his Clayton bigsby skit and come back to me.

In case anyone is unfamiliar, that's his "Clayton bigsby, the black white supremacist" character. One of the skits sired on the show openly uses the hard R and im not even gonna post it here in case its ban worthy. It opens with a fake trigger warning about the usage of it, then segues immediately into a white man he hired as an actor on the skit using the term 4 times casually.

Chappelle. Has. Been. Doing. This. For. Decades.

You are clearly not familiar with his routine and his style. Him saying things no one can, would, or should say. That is the point.

Dang. Rip.

ClayGuida posted...

A centrist who won't identify themselves as a centrist has spent 30 posts defending centrists, out of the goodness of their heart.

seems legit

You're fighting a strawman that doesn't exist, and you've been doing that for way more than 30 posts.

I never even defended centrists lmao. I simply said not all of them are Republicans. Thats not a defense nor a condemnation, its just a fact.

ClayGuida posted...

Didn't say there were. Keep up. I'm saying for a party that has 20% registration, how do they win a majority of all elections? Because 'enlightened centrists' routinely vote for them, because they're ashamed of being a registered Republican.

No, thats not it lmao.

Most "enlightened centrists" ala the kind you see online have no shame.

Its just that people in real life have nuanced opinions and stances that neither the dems or Republicans fill all the time.

When that happens; many don't vote at all. When THAT happens, the Republicans voter base still comes out where often the people that WOULD'VE voted against the Republicans dont turn up.

You're saying they're all voting republican. No. Some of them simply aren't voting.

ClayGuida posted...

Imagine bending over backwards to protect your good name as a centrist.

We know who you are and what you stand for.

I never identified myself as a centrist. Its funny, someone earlier said "no one ever calls you a centrist here. They always self identify"

But no, that's exactly what happens here.

All I said was your perception of "centrist" is defined only from interacting with self identifying ones on the internet.

ClayGuida posted...

Republicans win like 70% of all elections. The Presidency is 1 of like 50,000 elections.

Correlation, not causation. That doesnt mean there are more republican leaning people in the country. It means Republicans are better at getting their base to consistently vote in line with the party.

GeraldDarko posted...

The whole concept of a centrist, as put forth by CE, seems to be just an amalgamation of tropes and memes they've seen on the internet.

That's exactly what it is. CE folk tend to bear their entire perspective on the world based on whats the last few internet arguments they had. I truly wonder when some of these folks have actually had a conversation with an actual person about any of these topics, that was a person and not a username on a screen.

ClayGuida posted...

Well you're wrong.

There's far fewer registered Republicans than registered Democrats, yet they still win a majority of races.

That says more about the level of infighting disagreements on the democrats side than it does about the number of centrists voting right.

Also republicans dont win most elections. They clearly didn't win the last big one.

ClayGuida posted...

Centrists are just right wingers.

Nah. That's a stance only relevant on the internet where most who self identity as such are just sealioning right wing arguments.

There are petty centrists in real life with many left wing views, if not most.

bigblu89 posted...

Well, if you go back to the jokes that originally got people in an uproar, the joke basically was that they are annoying, but to each other. It was very much "stereotype" humor, which, if you watched his show or earlier stand up, was Dave's bread and butter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHpnc0oDauc

Yes. His entire shtick his entire career has been playing the heel. Saying the things no one else would say because they'd get backlash. Thats what he built his entire career on.

If he catches wind that a few people got offended by his jokes, his first and only response is always going to be to double down on that. If in the early 2000s someone got offended at one of his race jokes, he would absolutely not stop making them.

Now if you think that makes him of lesser character than others I won't fault you for saying that. But it is consistent.

Hellfire is hard to beat. The imagery, the music and the subject matter is just very intense.

bigblu89 posted...

He always punched down. He just punched down on subjects we were OK with being punched down in a time when punch down humor wasnt seen as that big of a deal.

Like, to many, he was approaching GOAT status when he was doing punch down jokes and his subjects were poor, black, drug addicts.

This is facts and no one wants to have this conversation.

He didn't change tactics that much. He just changed his target.

Thats why ultimately a lot of the outrage in response even if it comes from a good place(and hes not helped the situation by doubling down) kinda has rung hollow to me.

That being said. He was more creative when he had the outlet of doing skits.

Should be more.

Texass can afford it.

DnDer posted...

Good comedian and funny aren't always the same thing.

Theres funny comedians that aren't good, but there's no good comedians that isnt funny.

Im not invested, I just hope all who are have already made peace with the fact the show ending is going to be the only one you ever get.

He has zero incentive to actually finish these gd books and hes old af.

Its never getting finished.

Very.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6ff8b193.jpg

This was a bit of a challenge but fulfilling

LonelyStoner posted...

It is a Cudi reference. Post your favorite SZA song and Ill give her a listen.

I dont have one, i said im not actually a huge sza fan but I know who she is and have since at least 2017. She does good features. What I will say is due to her label she had to wait an obscenely long time to release a real 2nd solo album so I will give yall that. But that albums 2 years old and won 9 grammys noms and many other awards so you also have to not follow those either.

Listen to all the stars by Kendrick, she's on there. Or telekinesis by Travis Scott, she has a "verse" on that track.

Dont know if she's worked with cudi yet.

LonelyStoner posted...

Literally never heard of SZA.

Been bumping that new Tech N9ne song heavily, tho.

Ya see hearing that and your username being a possible cudi reference is crazy to me someone who follows hip hop has never heard of her. Like I dont even know how that is possible.

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Its not but many have that perception. It is a black dominated genre, partially because the community was pigeonholed by execs in that direction.

Anyways, SZA us one of those artists so big in the genre and other genres its hard to miss her. Shes featured on the main credits of the black panther movie in a song with Kendrick Lamar, she's headlined multiple shows and done features with artists from all over the music industry. From pop artists like Rihanna and dj Khaled and full on rappers like Travis Scott and Megan thee stallion and has been doing so for nearly a decade. She's featured several artists herself including Phoebe bridgers.

You basically have to not listen to or follow at least 4 or 5 different genres, including radio play and just random encounter at ALL not know who she is or have encountered her. So you can imagine its hard to believe when someone says they haven't heard of her at all.

Im not even a huge sza fan. Shes got good stuff but I prefer her as featuring on other artists songs than her own stuff.

PballDepot posted...

Oh yeah I didn't consider that. I live in a major city so there's hundreds of options.

O live in a major city but there's mostly 4 or 5 chains some have multiple locations but the price variation isn't toooo much. They're all within probable 20 bucks of each other

PballDepot posted...

I've gotten used to not going to certain places now, even cheaper prices prob won't bring me back.

I mean where I live you got basically 4 or 5 options for getting your food for the week/month and target is one of them, gisnt eagle, Walmart or like aldi or something. and then you got a few bulk buy options(which I dont need as a single guy living alone)

Are yall buying food items from convenience stores or something?

pretzelcoatl posted...

If the message is "nobody has the money to purchase goods now" it unfortunately probably cannot be remedied l.

Starbucks sales dropping too. People can no longer afford things.

Well a few things can happen because people being unable to afford things too much is actually bad for the corpos.

1. Is they will start dropping prices and monitoring numbers to see if there's an equilibrium.

2. Is wages go up until it reaches an equilibrium.

3. Is the economy collapses for a while and we begin a recovery process that could take a while but would maybe act as a soft reboot.

Im no economist but thats what I see happening

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Im serious. I saw it back when it came out and just watched it again over the weekend. I got chills.

Your right. Its one of the best scenes.

I visually remember my and my family's reaction in the theater and that was a decade ago. Keep in mind I hadn't watched the other ape movies at the time, so I know only the basics and that this was a setup.

There comes a point when watching this movie that you kinda get the feeling he knows hoe to speak but hasn't yet. When that moment comes it changes the entire film after it, the apes actually start winning and the paradigm shifts.

Its great storytelling.

JTilly posted...

i feel so violated rn. All the cool kids are kicking it and having a blast, meanwhile Im locked out with not even a window to look in :(

Most of them are whining and a lot of long time users have already been kicked out.

Like you I was in purg when it happened. If you message dtoast he will grant you access. But if you get another purg or suspension you're gone for good.

Thing is like how much of learning it is just mechanical memorization and how much is actually "feeling" the language? I think the difference is probably when you become fluent

Promise?