Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

tabiicat42 posted...

The level of cringe in this thread is awe-inspiring

thank you for your incredibly worthwhile contribution.
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Crossfiyah posted...

Like you people have as poor of a grasp on what matters as they do.

this is stupid.

again, we all know and agree that a grown man sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl is fucking disgusting. it's the most obvious thing in the world. there's nothing to dicuss there and saying it is completely pointless.

we were discussing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia because a) some people weren't aware of the difference and b) there's actually something to discuss there, because there's some disagreement.
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discussing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia isn't "threadshitting." it's valuable and highly relevant to the topic at hand. it's not like rock went "HEY GUYS HERE'S MY TOP 5 GAMES LOL." that would be treadshitting.
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GuessMyUserName posted...

Nothing is wrong with Rock's comment but discussion should have ended there, this isn't the topic for it. Please don't rederail we already ended that thread.

you're being overly dramatic.
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Like call it whatever the fuck you want a 32 year old man sexually assaulted a 14 year old and that was getting downplayed for "WELL ACTUALLY IT ISN'T PEDOPHILIA"

nobody is downplaying anything.
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lol
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i don't see the big deal with rock's explanation?

like, what else is there to say here? "it's fucking disgusting"? no shit, we all agree with that anyway.

explaining the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia actually adds information to the topic that some people (evidently) weren't aware of before.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alex-jones-michelle-obama-man-proof-infowars-conspiracy-theorist-sandy-hook-a7911996.html

holy shit libertarians are dumb
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libertarians are geniuses though
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it can take as long as a week.

occasionally mods don't respond to an appeal at all, though. if you think it's taking too long you can make a topic about it on hellhole.
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sounds like a better system.

here they can tell you to GTFO too but you don't have the "employed indefinitely" bonus!

the employer does need to have a good reason to tell you to GTFO, though. it can't be something like "i'm having a shitty day today."
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In news related to the topic, I'm going to do a Zappa News item on Halloween 77 (yes, it did get released), but for now I'll point out that it is available on Spotify! Wasn't sure if they were going to do that since it is kind of an anomaly, being a "USB stick release" and all. I'm very much looking forward to listening to the whole thing if I can find the time!
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SmartMuffin posted...

werent you looking for like a year and a half

and the one you finally found is only for two months?

well, when i was studying i wasn't looking for a super serious job yet. i received my BA in february and quit studying then (for now, at least - i still want to get my MA some day) so it's more like 8 months. still a really long time, yes, but it's not a year and a half.

and i'm not sure how this works in the US but here in the netherlands it's very rare for a company to offer a 20 year contract or whatever. usually they offer a contract for 1 or 2 months and then they offer one for a longer period (varies between 6 months and a few years, roughly), and then they offer another one, etc. etc. so it's not like i'm already 100% sure that i won't still have this job after december. whether or not they want to keep me will probably depend on how well i do the job in the first few months.
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obligatory


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haven't watched south park since like 2000, aside from an episode here and there.

but out of the songs i remember, i like chocolate salty balls.
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it triggers me that they're gonna skip phoenix and go straight to dark phoenix. they did this in the last stand and now they're doing it again!
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apocalypse is the "guys it isn't that bad" movie for me, but it was certainly an incredible disappointment after days of future past. and i have a feeling the dark phoenix movie is going to be even worse...
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never seen wolverine 2.

wolverine 1, the last stand and apocalypse are all pretty bad. i guess i like apocalypse slightly better than wolverine 1. i'll agree that wolverine 1 is better than the last stand, though.
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VeryInsane posted...

Only exception I can think of is Iron Man 3 but Im probably the only person who likes that movie

according to the post right before yours, certainly!
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Gatarix posted...

If I recall, the machete guy said, "Really, just watch the OT. But if you insist on watching the prequels too, then do it in this order."

ok. but it's still dumb because inserting AotC doesn't do anything to make AotC or the experience of watching all the movies better. it's just inserting a bunch of horsecrap in an enjoyable trilogy.
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my problem with the machete order is the implication that AotC is a good movie that adds to the overall star wars viewing experience when in reality you should only watch it if you're a star wars completionist.

it's like inserting the star wars holiday special after a new hope because "it makes you see chewbacca in an entirely different way when you watch empire" or something. it's just dumb.
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yeah, a movie that primarily exists to set up other movies is, like, amazing spider-man 2. people are really exaggerating how much the MCU movies do this.
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Maniac64 posted...

Man, so much MCU negativity in here.

for real. i like most of these movies.
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yeah, the machete order is a stupid thing that got popular for no reason.
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lol @ wolverine 1 being better than first class.
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also, wolverine 1 and x-men 1 supposedly take place in the same timeline, which also doesn't make much sense since they have completely different sabretooths.

i know having different actors is par for the course - kitty pryde is played by like 5 different actresses throughout the series - but the sabretooth from wolverine 1 also has a totally different personality than the sabretooth from x-men 1.
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redrocket_pub posted...

It's all the same continuity, there's just two timelines.

yeah ok.

doesn't logan have references to movies from both timelines though?
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also, the x-men movies have several continuities as well.

there's the original continuity, the continuity that starts with first class, and who knows where deadpool and logan fit. edit: pretty sure wolverine 1 and 2 don't fit into any continuity either.
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LinkMarioSamus posted...

For the record, ALL the pre-Casino Royale James Bond films are supposed to take place in the same continuity.

even the original casino royale?
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bump
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i'm not a gollum fan (unpopular opinion) so i appreciate that he's almost not in FotR. if you love gollum you'll probably like TTT and RotK better.
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swordz9 posted...

I'm sure I have the most garbage ranking to most people here

yeah.

i could forgive stuff like "transformers > star wars" if you've only seen transformers 1 and AotC or something, but ranking LotR last when you've seen fellowship (the best movie in the series) is, uh, a thing.
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redrocket_pub posted...

The only flaw here is that same argument could be used against the James Bond series.

yeah, this is my problem with the exclusion.

my vote wouldn't change with the different poll options, though. sure, there's great batman movies, but if everything counts that means crap like batman & robin is also included. LotR still wins easily, even with the hobbit trilogy included.
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oh, to answer the topic question:

LotR > star wars > MCU > x-men > who cares

love the harry potter books, but the movies really aren't that great.
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and what's the best of the ten highest grossing movies of all time?

out of the ones i've seen i'd say avengers, probably.
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Surskit posted...

I guess all the Halloween celebrations in my country have been dreams.

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about a year ago i guess? got an NKL for insulting timjab.
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tabiicat42 posted...

Is there a way to check for that?

there isn't.
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i only know ulti has me on ignore.

timjab did too but he's gone so...
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i hope i can make time for this tomorrow.
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my job is only for about two months though.

joe was able to work in the utility muffin research kitchen indefinitely (though in a bootlegged show from '80 frank revealed that the story continued with "joe eventually getting bored with the job and quitting" or something).
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well yeah, she already has a movie.

you could say she's getting another movie.

>_>
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yeah, not taking the libertarians numbers at face value they would obviously be much lower.

still interesting though. pretty sure most people in general haven't even heard of "libertarians" (though of course they got a massive boost in popularity in '12 thanks to RP).
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quick let's have a toxic argument in here to trigger scarlet
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aecioo still posts.
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yup. you can read the topic in GMUN's archive. the title is "man slowly bumps into protesters blocking intersection, injuring nobody [video]"
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0, but only because the board is so dead i don't want to make it even more dead by ignoring users i dislike. otherwise it would be like 80.
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