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I'll just have to find another little girl to be president.

What's your friend Janey's number?

The original is pretty much the best video game it could possibly be, so I can't imagine the remake is particularly bad.

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100% just a completely unnecessary money grab. Trying to kill time until TLOU3 is ready to be announced.

**** man I'm not reading 1000 pages of JK Rowling.

SRR_Capdown posted...

She's the 'trans women arent actually women' kind of transphobe.

She's the "being transphobic takes precedent over literally all of my other beliefs" kind of transphobe.

DrizztLink posted...

How are ancient archaeologists going online?

I think if archeologists could see what was happening online, they'd be even more confused.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

TLJ doesn't do that. Everything it deconstruction is done purely to diminish its value, nothing more. Rey's backstory is thrown out, but not because it's actually saying anything about Star Wars' "destined lineage" trope; it's just to say "yeah, it's jot important, dummy." The grand plan of Finn, Poe, and Rose fails almost purely to be mean spirited. All of the emotional highs that make Star Wars Star Wars are undermined basically just because. And regardless of Johnson's INTENT with Luke, it's obvious that the writing just doesn't pan out - it comes across as a wholesale diminishing of a character a lot of people cherish, and it doesn't do anything to replace or rectify those s***tered feelings. The whole movie is a nihilistic treatise on pointlessness and meaninglessness, and whatever "realism" arguments you throw at it, that's fundamentally not what Star Wars is supposed to be.

I feel like some of these are just spinning what happened to be negative. Like TFA copied a lot of A New Hope, but also set it up to go in a different direction, and then people were upset when it did.

They didn't throw out Rey's backstory, they solved it. And Rey's parents not mattering is so much better than her parents actually mattering, especially with the whole movie's point is along the lines of "anyone can make a change". Rey's parents abandoning her is clearly something she has baggage over, so its a good move to make her come face to face with the fact her parents were trash and abandoned her. I wouldn't consider this "subverting expectations" its just a reasonable direction for the build up to go.

Finn and Poe's grand plan was instrumental in both Finn and Poe's character arcs, and its failure is instrumental in Poe learning what it actually takes to be a leader, and Poe deciding the rebellion is worth fighting for.

Though there was nothing Star Wars as a whole could do with Luke that would leave fans happy.

You say Case-A-Dill-A?

Also, its pronounced Fah

Really, Rise of Skywalker did more damage than anything The Last Jedi could do.

If RoS at least went with you know... anything TLJ had set up it could have ended the trilogy well, but they couldn't even do that.

There were 3 FFXIII games? I thought there were only 2.

And FF13 was... fine. One of the few FF's I've bothered finishing.

It sounds bougey though. It doesn't matter if it actually is or not.

Everyone knows real men drink black coffee burnt to a crisp. Milk and cream are for cowards.

theAteam posted...

Mine was the same way. IIRC he said he used to be a drill instructor so he was a hard ass about everything in the class. He would always flaunt about how difficult the tests were going to be. I actually ended up with an A though I liked that class more than most.

Part of it was definitely me being bad at it. The chemistry classes at my uni were pretty known for "tough but fair" and the only thought I had during the actual final was "wow if I had actually been following along, this would've been a really enjoyable test"

Failed that course, and then took a different course to not need to retake it and still graduate.

Some of the puzzles are absolute horse**** though.

There's one in the desert area (still part of the tutorial, just a little farther on) that's just BS. I had to look that one up.

Here's a long video explaining how great The Witness is and why you maybe shouldn't play it (TC maybe wait on this one, its got spoilers) - but the main point is that some of the late-game puzzles don't have a valid explanation beyond the developer trying to **** with you.

https://youtu.be/KZokQov_aH0

You can't really beat up a guy for embezzlement.

I mean, you can, but it won't stop it from happening. at least foiling up a bank robber might make the bank robber not try to rob another bank.

Organic Chemistry. The prof apparently loved the fact that it was a "weed out course" and when too many people did well on the first midterm he made the second harder to keep the pass rate low.

I can still access some of my course websites online, and the only one from that year still there is the Organic Chemistry one. But all the resources are gone, so its only there so I can see the 15 I got on that second midterm.

*insert long ramble about how saying Blue lives matter is pretty obviously missing the point of the whole issue there and comes off as super rude and maybe borderline racist depending on who you say to*

But then it would probably be my fault about not getting a fourth date.

SuperVegitoFAN posted...

What does unlocked mean in this case?

You can install apk files by default afterall.

Unlocked would mean "not locked to a carrier" so anyone could buy it and just put their sim card in and start using it.

Its crazy y'all have to deal with that. We outlawed that in Canada years ago.

Nobody would judge me for choosing the dog first.

Why even bother to fact check when its something by Matt Walsh?

He's obviously full of ****

What Remains of Edith Finch is like a slightly interactive movie. You'll be able to get through it in like, 2 hours, maybe 3 tops if you're like, also doing something else at the same time.

I'd definitely recommend it. A+ experience.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

Ironically now the fact that the "physical presence and talking" rule has been removed is what's responsible for preventing tons more laws that would better people's lives from passing

They still do talking every once in a while, its just used by republicans for PR.

They should bring the rule back, but also at least require you're talk to be on-topic. Then we can't have **** like "reading Dr. Seuss to waste everyone's time"

Because completely unrestricted capitalism is really stupid for a lot of really obvious reasons.

Its a little unfair, because the CW got to do so much more with both Supergirl and Green Arrow, but the CW versions by miles.

But really, having a whole show revolving around a character means the character is going to be better than being featured as a supporting character for a little bit for someone else.

Intro2Logic posted...

So when does this guy say interesting things?

About 4 years ago before Covid started and Rogan thought he knew about politics.

Vote republican if you are aware the system doesn't work and just want to burn it down.

Then blame the other guys when you vote in the people ruining everything to make your life worse.

Then blame minorities and poor people instead of the people running the show and making the choices that ruin your life.

Its so crazy that conservatives are literally just suggesting that Trump should just perpetually be above the law.

We don't give that right to KINGS

Saga is 100% the kind of over the top setting that a video game would love, where it would be able to do basically whatever it wanted and still remain pretty safe in regards to the source material.

Shirtless Bear Fighter. I don't need to say anything else for this one.

A Telltale style game where the actual gameplay is limited, and the focus is on story would be an ideal pick for basically every comic, but especially the really OP superheroes like Superman or Martian Manhunter that wouldn't necessarily take well to gameplay.

Have an S10e going in to its 4th year and it basically runs like the day I bought it.

Might one day move on to a new one, and the gimmick-ness of a flip/fold does have me interested, but smartphones have gotten super expensive, and I'm a neaderthal who wants a headphone jack, which just doesn't seem to exist in the nicer smartphone market.

According to Pokemon Legends: Arceus, humans are incredibly durable and while the pokemon appear to be vastly more powerful than humans, they can't actually do that much damage.

Not to mention humans are likely normal type.

If its just one of each, might be able to take them. Given they are just gas you can probably beat them with like, a vacuum.

wait, what?

ooger posted...

Joe Rogan: Goop, for men.

God Rogan has fallen so hard the last few years.

lol I went to the JRE Spotify page, and like every ****ing episode has Covid-19 disclaimers wtf.

Was the only 3D Mario I played as a kid and so its therefore the best.

I imagine it wouldn't land too well, because we really don't see too many westerns anymore.

I thought Libs of TikTok was banned due to the whole, being horrible and calling for violence and **** thing?

I feel like I would have found this a lot funnier when I was 12.

Man, remember when Kyle said he just wants to go back to having a normal life?

The right-wing grift is too tantalizing.

Only played the first game, but it had a really cool style and I think it would transition really well into a movie.

I hope its animated though, a Gravity Rush movie would 100% need a really creative and unique style like Into the Spiderverse to really do well. Live Action would just make it way too expensive for how niche the title was.

Most tech reviews tend to lean into stuff like video rendering even though most people watching/reading probably won't be doing it.

Though MacBooks aren't good computers for students, 5 year old MacBooks are good computers for students because even like 6 years in Macs tend to work really well, and if you don't know what in the computer to go for, you can easily accidentally buy a **** windows laptop, and its completely possible for a worse windows laptop to not last the 4 years you might need it for, even if its for Facebook/instagram/twitter and the occasional research.

wanderingshade posted...

These f***ing people are so obsessed with trying to find "outsiders", it's so odd. Especially when they prop up rich people and charlatans in the process.

Its because everyone is fully aware the system we have doesn't actually work for like 90% of people. So its easy to get behind the person that's smart enough to actually point that out, and push for actual change. The problem is we have it set up so the people pushing for change either have no intention or are incapable of actually following through with it (see: Justin Trudeau in Canada, Obama in 2008) or are exactly the kind of people the broken system benefits and are taking advantage of people not knowing better to further break the system, which also lets them cry about how its broken and they're the only ones who can fix it.

The status quo sucks - why would you trust the people that made it that way?

Friday the 13th movies with 3 extras added to really hammer home that the whole franchise really isn't very good?

Turbam posted...

No.
Where's your goggles and pool towel?
And you probably don't have sunscreen on either, you nasty ass slut

I bet its been less than half an hour since she last ate too.

Mike Hardmore (Michigan State University, Class Of 2026)

When I shared an uninformed opinion in class, this old guy at the front of the room said a bunch of facts and stuff that proved it wrong.

Lauren Dawes (Columbia University, Class Of 2025)

For the most part, people are really respectful, but every morning Tucker Carlson comes through with a megaphone and yells at us about how oppressed we are.

Cliff Miller (University Of California, Los Angeles, Class Of 2025)

[Redacted].

damn Onion knocking this one out of the park.

pogo_rabid posted...

Ok, i'm as progressive as the next guy, but implying that being pro any race is a negative is racist as fuck.

I guess the better explanation would be "anti non-white people"

You tip the dentist?