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I enjoyed it. I even liked the storylines. It was nice having a bunch of more personal character based stories rather than the save the world type stuff you see in 99% of JRPGs.

DIstance77 posted...

It's a very slippery slope. If you don't hold Baldwin accountable here, then what's stopping this from happening again? What's stopping another actor to fire another live round "accidentally" on a movie set, but for them to claim "they didn't know it was loaded" and skate away with no consequences?

It's braindead to not think Baldwin should be held accountable on some level here. He needs to be made an example of so this never happens again. An innocent person was killed on a film set that he was not only acting in but was producing. He fired the projectile. Claiming willful ignorance doesn't undo what happened. Obviously the armorer is far more responsible for what happened than Baldwin, and you can make the argument that Baldwin had no responsibility to what happened. But I strongly disagree. Because if you don't think an actor has any responsibility then you set a dangerous precedent and make it more likely for something like this to happen again. You allow actors to continue to not check whether their firearms are loaded, you turn a blind eye to film set safety so actors can kill people then claim willful ignorance that it was just an accident, and the cycle has a greater chance of repeating itself.

Alec may not have intended to kill, he may truly have been unaware that the gun was loaded, but he was the person that fired the projectile. He has to bear some responsibility for what happened, especially since he's been going around claiming that he didn't actually pull the trigger which FBI experts claim is impossible. If he continues to make that claim at trial under oath, that presents a problem as to his credibility which makes him more suspicious that maybe he's hiding some of the facts about what happened and playing dumb to avoid more bad publicity.

If you don't punish Alec Baldwin, not for being at fault for what happened, but for being negligent and for not taking proper precautions along with the armorer then you send the wrong message. The message that needs to be sent here is that actors are responsible as well as the armorer for checking, and double checking, that any firearm used on set is not loaded as a backup failsafe to ensure this never happens again.

An actor should never have the opportunity to load a gun.

Following your logic we should be charging literally 10,000+ actors with criminal negligence. In 90% of movies you watch the actors aren't checking for real ammunition. In fact I doubt the majority of actors and actresses can even tell the difference between a real bullet and a blank.

I hope that if Alec either had any inkling of an idea that the gun was loaded with live ammunition or if he was responsible for poor safety culture on set he is charged and thrown in jail/prison.

In no way is he responsible as an actor pulling the trigger though. Holding actors accountable for shooting what they believe to be a prop gun is such a braindead take. It doesn't matter if he shouldn't have been pointing it at the camera woman. If it wasn't her it just would have been someone else during an actual scene when he's supposed to point the gun at someone and pull the trigger. The fault lies with whoever allowed live ammunition on set and permitted it to be loaded into a prop gun. If he was involved in those decisions then he should burn but it has nothing to do with him being the one who pulled the trigger.

Are you trolling by not including the obvious winner (Zelda) or just implying it will be delayed?

No one was actively mean but felt like I didn't really exist at times. Spent a lot of time reading in classrooms on breaks.

There are frequently coupons or specific restaurant deals that make it more reasonable. Still a premium but it's more like $5-$10 instead of doubling the actual meal price.

Just got bumped up to 15 days vacation (from 10) plus all the standard holidays I think add up to 10 days a year. 12 days of sick leave per year as well but I almost never use that for anything besides dental and eye appointments.

What a shitty decision. Really giving fuel to the "both sides" crowd. I hope they strike anyway. Who gives a shit if gas goes up for a bit and consumer goods are late. Everyone deserves a generous amount of sick leave hours and they can more than afford it.

I don't have any major problems right now. Besides the constant existential dread most people have of working during all my prime years, with the exception of a couple vacation weeks a year (if that), to experience life in a boring job I don't want to be at. Money would solve that.

-BrokenSpiral- posted...

You're probably not as big of a nerd as you think, because even black twitter was calling it out since Tolkien clearly outlines geographical locations and peoples in his lore and stories.
Hell, there's a Youtuber named "JustSomeGuy" who went over it.

In fact, it's weird to me. An American acquaintance sent this to me about how it's actually the black community at odds regarding recasting T'Challa:

https://twitter.com/chillmongerr/status/1584721810855104512

But no, it's more convenient to ignore all of that.
If anything, all of you sound like the racists, or at the very least egotistical and only saying such crap to make yourselves feel good rather than actually address the context and reasonings as to why the complaints are drawn, much less from the demographics involved.

It's like you want USA ethnic minorities to have leftovers rather than unique, original characters that won't be overshadowed by their legacy counterparts. Bet you don't care enough to even know that James Gunn tweeted a pic of Mr. Terrific.

But oh yeah, sloppy second characters like literal black Superman instead of a unique black Superman in the character Icon? Yeah that's the best thing ever. Lmao what a joke.

What a stupid post. Thunderbolt Ross being recast is not even remotely equivalent to Tchalla. He was a side character and an old man. Society very obviously treats deaths of the young very different than death of the old. The only comparable example to Tchalla is Paul Walker from Fast who they did not recast.

I would have to drive nearly 3 hours to see it. Super limited releases are dumb.

I always think of dark humor as more like Tarantino movies rather than racism or asshole stuff. Wouldn't be surprised if the alt right took over the term and I just didn't notice though.

knightmarexx posted...

If anyone who vandalized toilets, had their access revoked to use any public toilets -- they'd be a lot less vandalism.

There'd also be a lot more shit in the streets.

At $26 an hour with 12% going towards retirement my takehome is only slightly higher than that and I still have plenty of money leftover for enjoyment and separate savings so yeah. Granted I split bills with my girlfriend. Without splitting bills it would still be possible but I'd need to find a cheaper place to live and wouldn't have any savings besides my employment based retirement accounts.