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Inspector Javert from Les Misrables but hes a werewolf

I know a couple Ambers and a couple Morgans.

Also my Grandmothers first name was Lily, although no one called her that, and I would have been named Lilian after her had I been born a girl.

She was pretty good in Dopesick

May be a controversial take but I gotta give it to The Exorcist. The Thing is great and a close second but The Exorcist kickstarted an entire subgenre of horror. The Shining is a classic as well, but I honestly think it gets outdone by its own sequel, Doctor Sleep.

Adeem the Artist - Going to Hell

https://youtu.be/goUWMpSv2xA?si=pfDnSmG-rKNGKKZq

Nick Shoulders - Snakes and Waterfalls

https://youtu.be/3I7ME1oacMA?si=iokpRdCTYEuSz5u2

Tyler Childers - In Your Love

https://youtu.be/II-L8Hq0_i4?si=KUnKuvlQYo1Wb1_Z

Amigo The Devil - Letter From Death Row

https://youtu.be/htcOeAW0Swk?si=WJlJfteJmBprNRAp

These are the closest things to proper country that I get real into.

saspa posted...

The movie ends with trying to make us feel sympathy for the dude because he'll never be rich... but they're damn villains, I want to know how the rich folk fared. The movie didn't even attempt to make the rich folk the villains, they were nice (and unfortunately gullible, almost weirdly so in the case of the successful businessman husband) the whole time.

Plus not only did they have good relationship as a couple, but he was going to dress up in costume for his son's birthday party? If this were an American movie it would be all about how the husband is never home and cheats on his wife and she stays at home drinking the whole time. Yet their relationship is wholesome. And at the beginning of the movie that's how it seems like it was presented with the young pretty wife randomly napping like she had narcolepsy or something

Yeah the rich people arent made out to be the villains of the movie because they arent, in fact, the villains of the movie. The house is.

The message of the movie isnt that rich people are bad, its that the structure of society (like the architecture of the house where the maids husband lives a wretched life in the secret basement chamber, and the layout of the neighborhood with the rich people living at the top of the hill and the poor people living in a semi-basement apartment) stratifies people into classes and dehumanizes those in the lower classes. But this dehumanization, if left unchecked, eventually reflects back onto the upper class in the form of violence. And in this way the architecture of the house that we are all forced to live in harms everyone, not just those in the basement.

Seems like a good warning to haveit would be unfair to the customer not to let them know that drivers will pick up or pass on orders based on the tip.

How long til they (fast food places in general, not just McDonalds) start adding versions of those terms and conditions to the ordering kiosks in the stores themselves?

008Zulu posted...

Never watched it. Summarize it if you will, preferably as a haiku.

Keeping in mind that I only saw the first season, and maybe not even the whole thing, and I dont actually remember anything specific that happens within the show:

Boy without navel
Grown inside some sort of lab(?)
Stranger Things but worse

I feel like I watched the first season of this show but I dont remember any of it, other than him not having a bellybutton

Why not just go full Georgism if thats the direction you want to take things?

I still crack up every time someone on Black Twitter comes up with a new nickname for him (Talcum X, W.E.B. Defraud, etc.)

I thought it was okay. The scares didnt really hit for me in this series, and it just felt like a bunch of stuff other shows had done better thrown together with some tangential Poe references.

I think I struggled to care about what happened because there really arent any characters that lend the plot any sort of relatability. Everyone is basically either this irredeemable shit heel, or an unassailable saint, with very little in-between or nuance. At the end of the day, having fleshed out, compelling characters the audience cares about is what enables the good storytelling in Flanagans other series and its just missing here. I felt nothing for most of the time I watched this show, which is something I cant say for any of his other shows. Now the few times that this show does make you feel something are pretty great. But they were few and far between for me.

Euripides posted...

Offensive line was complete ass. Allar under pressure all game

Truly pathetic. On their last 4th down attempt Ohio State literally only rushed 4, and 3 of them got to Allar.

Euripides posted...

14 point swing on that defensive holding play. Can't do that on the road

You also cant go 0 for 14 on 3rd down conversions

Embarrassing

I enjoyed the first one, but Im never very good at stealth games so they can be frustrating. I started the second one but my game crashed and didnt save my progress when I was like 90% through an early level and I havent had the motivation to go back and re-play that part yet, so it sits unfinished.

Leftists are against Israel, because they oppose settler colonialism. Liberals still support Israel, by and large.

MarcyWarcy posted...

Why are they so bad at faking this shit? Is it because they haven't had to care for so long because not having any excuse would suffice?

When NBC News is going to tweet it out like its gospel regardless, why bother putting in the effort?

On Demand, Without Apology

It depends on the game. Im not a huge fan of huge inventory management systems, so games like Breath of the Wild really put me off.

But thinking about, for example, knives in REmake 2 having limited usage before they break, I think that system works just fine, it makes them a resource that needs to be conserved the same way other ammo types are.

Its as real as the WMDs that Iraq had in 2003

Punished_Blinx posted...

The biggest strength of this show is how much it's like the cartoons. It's a trip seeing all of these designs and even the same voice actors in some instances translate directly to live action. Seeing Hayden get to play Clone Wars Anakin especially was a lot of fun.

The biggest weakness of this show is how much it's like the cartoons. The motivations of these characters are paper thin and it doesn't have the breathing room of the cartoons to get you invested in any of these relationships with the content provided.

It's a fun experiment seeing someone who handled the cartoons transition to live action but I don't think it was a big success personally. Filoni is clearly a Star Wars fan and is passionate about the property. He's good with the big picture stuff and connecting pre-existing stuff in interesting ways. But to be frank he's good at iterating on foundations that others have already built and established. He's good at positioning the important things and utilizing them but he seems to have an issue making a story that's about why these things are important outside of fan service when given a more limited run time of a live action show.

The show is called Ahsoka and yet most of her character development happens when she fell into a magic doorway puddle to talk to Anakin. Why does she want an apprentice after she left the Jedi? What does she want Sabine to be? What does this journey actually mean to her as a character? What is her goal outside of stopping a bad guy?

Thrawn isn't exactly immune to this either. Why do the Empire remnants want to follow him? Ahsoka says early on they're loyal to the empire because of money. In that same episode people willingly give their lives to stop her from stopping the search for Thrawn. That doesn't seem to really be an accurate reasoning?

We get a little bit about how Thrawn likes authority. But what does that look like to him? Throughout Rebels he didn't seem to care much about anything other than besting his opponents in warfare. We didn't even really see his relation to the Emperor. What is his Empire supposed to even look or be like. Why should we the audience consider him to be some scary threat that's potentially worth stranding a hero over?

It's just all over the show. Sabine was willing to sacrifice everything to see Ezra. Why? I suppose it's because she lost her family and she made a promise to Ezra to find her. But again despite this being a 7ish hour show this is all just sorta skimmed over. We just have to roll with it and accept that this now means everything to her.

All of this is fine in a fun little cartoon. But it just feels pretty lacking when brought into a medium that's presumably supposed to be more adult. Especially when we're coming off Andor which is all about the why people do what they do.

Like I recognize that Andor is a high bar but this is pretty basic storytelling 101. Even Rey has a rather basic motivation of wanting to belong to something after being abandoned by her parents. It doesn't take much to give a human motivation to these characters outside of "I am a good guy who wants to help my friends and stop the bad guy."

Agree with all of this, particularly the bolded parts. I will add that I did like the way they characterized Thrawn, even if his motivation as a character feels pretty thin. His cold, calculated tactics come across pretty perfectly, and even if the rationalization of why his troops support him so steadfastly is nonsensical or hand-waved away, the characterization of that support is done well.

The lightsaber fights were well choreographed, although I think I prefer the one Ahsoka and Morgan had in Mando season 2 to the one they have in this finale. The best fight of all, for my money, was easily the first fight between Ahsoka and Baykal Skoll. The clearly contrasting fighting styles each used made it a much more visually interesting fight than most other lightsaber fights, even counting other Star Wars media. Im in the camp that didnt care as much for the fast-and-furious, disorienting lightsaber choreography of the prequel movies, though, so my opinion here is admittedly shaped by that.

All in all my opinion of the show hasnt changed from what I summed up in the last topic about it I posted in: its a mostly good-looking show, with lackluster writing due to its somewhat bland characters, that leans waaaaay too heavily on every episode having some sort of extremely contrived fan service moment, so that the audience can tweet about how hype it was.

ai123 posted...

Good point, but they are not pro-life either.

I wonder, what is the correct term for someone who would allow abortion with some limits? (Not the kind of limits that amount to an effective ban).

I tend to agree with Asherlee, here. You might not want to think of your views as being pro-life but youre still taking an anti-choice stanceyoure just splitting hairs with other pro-lifers over where you think the cutoff should be 22 weeks? 12 weeks? 6 weeks? 10 seconds? Its still taking away autonomy from women (and others who can get pregnant).

Even the most ardent pro-lifers, for example, who dont even hold space for exceptions due to rape or incest, still generally include exceptions for cases where the mothers or fetus life are at risk. Those exceptions dont make them not pro-life. Same logic applies to these cutoffs. Imposing them in the first place is anti-choice. Moving them to later in a pregnancy doesnt make them not pro-life.

When it comes to violent conflict, bad things are going to happen on both sides, regardless of our feelings on them.

When the Allies invaded Germany during World War 2, they specifically and intentionally selected civilian targets and infrastructure as part of their bombing campaigns, because they believed that demoralizing and devastating the civilian population would force Germany into an earlier surrender. Over half a million German civilians were killed in Allied bombardments, and as Allied ground forces made their way across the countryside they raped between one hundred thousand to two million German women and girls.

Are those bad things? Certainly. Do they make the Allies the bad guys in World War 2? Certainly not. It would be weird if, for example, anytime anyone showed support for the Allied war efforts, they were questioned as to whether they supported the rape of 2 million German women. If people were banned from social media or forums for stating their support for the Allied forces. If Veterans Day parades were interrupted with journalists asking WW2 vets if they condemned the actions of the Allied military forces in Germany.

Bottom line is, you dont have to defend every action taken in order to take a side, and taking a side shouldnt be construed as agreeing with every single action that side has taken.

GranTurismo posted...

what?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/2/AAVdKdAAE61u.jpg

Absolutely, bring them right back to Friday nights on ABC

I feel like there are circumstances where gaslighting someone is okay. For example if you want to surprise someone with somethingsay youre engagement ring shopping because you want to propose to your partner, or you are setting up a surprise birthday party for a friend or family memberand they are getting suspicious about it, then its not necessarily bad to gaslight them into believing that nothing is up.

The logic, flawed as it is, is that homosexuality cant be naturally occurring and therefore must have an external cause. Since gay people dont have children naturally, the cause must not be purely genetic, which means that they must be recruiting or converting straight people into being gay. Children are obvious targets of such recruitment efforts because their minds are easier to mold.

Thats the basic ideaobviously its got more holes than Swiss cheese but bigots arent exactly known for their deep and well-reasoned critical thinking skills.

Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.

Free Palestine

Lmfao

Can you imagine losing to a TD from a Matt Canada offense?

I never would have guessed there were model truck toy enthusiasts who had also never heard of My Boyfriends Back

Ar0ge posted...

Andor by far.
Mando1
Mando2
Ahsoka
Obi Wan
Mando 3
Boba

Unfortunately, it gets harder and harder to take any of these shows seriously or treat them as canon for me.

This is pretty much spot on. I might swap Mando 3 and Obi-Wan but other than that all I would stress is that nothing comes even close to Andor. Nothing else is in the same league, let alone the same ballpark.

Im too far left to be considered a liberal at this point

King_Rial posted...

If I'm understanding the change properly, I think the Social team will just manually add the title of the article to their Tweet. No muss, no fuss.

From the looks of it, The Onion is testing out a few different options: first just using the headline as the tweet text, and allowing the link to display as normal (just the picture)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/6/AAVdKdAAE5w4.jpg

Second, using a sentence from the article as the Tweet text and including the headline in the graphic so that it shows up in the new format
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/7/AAVdKdAAE5w5.jpg

Third, attaching a photo to the tweet (to bypass the automatic link formatting) and using the headline as the tweet text, followed by a link to the article
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/8/AAVdKdAAE5w6.jpg

And fourth, attaching a photo like in the third method, but this time with the headline over the picture and text from the article in the Tweet text before the link
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/9/AAVdKdAAE5w7.jpg

I mean if Im a headline copy editor Im probably happy with this change, because its one less social media site I have to worry about formatting for when Im coming up with headlines. Might complicate things a bit for social media managers, but ultimately its something that youd expect your followers to adapt to pretty quickly.

Alternatively you can just coordinate with the photo editor and social media manager to game the preview image to include the headline and that solves your problem as well.

It should go without saying, of course, that Elon is a little twerp for trying to fuck over the very news outlets that are driving traffic to his website to begin with, but once your megalomaniacal brain decides that your website should be the only one that exists, there arent really any lows you wont sink to.

Didnt they get that dog to replace Bidens other dog, who had to be removed from the White House for biting people?

The Outer Wilds >>>>>

El_Marsh posted...

"Oh George...not the livestock"

So many great ones in just that movie alone.

And stay out of the Woolsworths!

Every Tory should [REDACTED]

You know what HYUNDAI stands for Fix It Again, Tony!

PoopPotato posted...

Dock Brawler feat selected

fixd

Not so much a single line but the I think he took his wallet guy from Back to the Future Part II gets me every single time, an instant classic.

Applebees is pretty bad, but of the ones listed the worst experience Ive had was at a Ruby Tuesdays. It was my first time getting food poisoning.

Overall though Id say Chilis is the worst major chain. My high school friends and I used to do a yearly dinner there and it became something of a running gag that they would invariably get my order wrong every time. Sometimes it was just the wrong side or wrong drink but on two different years they brought me completely incorrect entrees. And this was in the height of their popularity. I can only shudder to think how bad it must be to eat there now.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

Leans? No, there's no lean here. It's a solid stance.

This