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Spinarak
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Spinda
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Lotad
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Kill Snorunt
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Suprak the Stud posted...

This is a potentially dangerous point of view.

It's tragically true on this board though

But I think the decent conservatives also have a lot to answer for. Apparently like baubeta is one, for instance. People like him allow conservative discussion to be dominated by people known for other, previous reasons to be bad or gimmick posters.
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Pidove
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Jesus I almost want Mexico to concede as punishment for all the good positions they have completely wasted.
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Mexico have been so good tactically but their final ball is really lacking. That Hernandez ball was awful

Swap Ozil for any of their forward players and this would be very comfortable.
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She's no Corbs
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They've been great with the ball in tight spaces which is enabling them to get away on those counters.
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Absolutely brilliant

Mexico have been excellent. Great tactics, pacy counters, more than worthy of the goal
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Jesus christ even italicized exclamation marks now
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God damn Kolarov

Terrific
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Wormadam
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is terrific fun. Love that movie
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Anorith
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Goldeen
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Nah

His awfulness is more insidious. When FF was trolling muslims in the Ramadan topic it didn't have MWC's aggression. It had slightly more subtlety to it.
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Kill Ludicolo
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Awful version of the Pokerap
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Meganium
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Mandarin plot twist was literally amazing

I could how you could think it was bad if you actually bought into what fake Mandarin was saying in the first act. If you bought into his generic talk about "lessons" and american greed etc. If you thought that was compelling rather than by the numbers.

He was designed to be so, so generic and I was really disappointed with how much they wasted Ben Kingsley. And then bang - all those generic threats and silly, OTT "mystique" was the whole point. He was designed to be that way because he was a "custom made terror threat".

But I mean if you thought that stuff in the first act was actually good, then yeah I could see how you might have problems with the twist.
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Kill uh

Bayleef
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hylianknight3 posted...

It's not even close

Saying the prequels are worse than, or as bad as, the sequels is just grandstanding and exaggeration in an attempt to show just how much you hated TPM/AOTC

Clever but come the fuck on
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KamikazePotato posted...

There's a load of valid criticisms you can give to TLJ, but I can never take conversations about the movie seriously because the Star Wars fanbase is full of lunatics. You know it's bad when Luke Skywalker calls you nerds and tell you to get over it.

Also yeah this is the problem. So many of the criticisms are illogical, poorly-conceived bullshit that are, often, objectively false or willing misinterpretations or too small to ever matter or be a deal-breaker of any kind.

And then there are interesting and sane ones. But it's a hard sift that more often than not isn't worth the effort.
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trentpac posted...

46% audience score at Rotten Tomatoes...that's hardly well received.

A really flawed system
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KujikawaRising posted...

Don't ask me! It's stupid shit I've actually read online. People need to enjoy things for what they are, not for what they aren't. And political messages are wholly unnecessary in things that should be an escape from them.

No you misunderstand me

Your argument that entertainment media should never have a political message is jaw-dropping

I'm not saying it always should, either - there's a place for both

But a piece of media never needing to have a viewpoint is mind-boggling to me.
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Take your draw and run
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The sheer audacity of Portugal having the cheek to try and win this now
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God Pique is an idiot
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That said Spain's goals have been a thunderbolt, a long ball to Costa and a set-piece
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FlyingForever posted...

Sometimes being the one who controls the pace of the game and controls time of possession isn't a good thing

It's not about that, it's the quality of their passing and movement
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The fuck

Spain are so clearly the better side as well, especially since their equalizer
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Because Deschamps is a fucking moron

But yeah
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The fuck happened to VAR

Did Costa not foul Pepe
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pjbasis posted...

New trilogy defenders are about as annoying as the haters

Nobody needs to "defend" the new trilogy. The consensus is that they are good movies and they were critically well-received.

The notion that someone like, idk, Corrik, and his associated small minority puts me on the "defensive" is insulting. Call me a "fan" of the new trilogy if you want, but I'm not a "defender" or "apologist" or whatever you want.

Using language like that indicates that it needs to be defended or that those who liked it are in a minority.
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KujikawaRising posted...

I've heard both. If you're looking for political messages in movies, then you need to stop watching them. Not everything needs to be politicized. Why can't you enjoy an epic movie for what it is? I've seen people criticize video games for not having "any anti-Trump message" - which defies the very point of what video games should be. Like a game, Star Wars is meant to be FUN. And TLJ was fun

What the fuck is this shit?

TLJ is a terrific movie but are you listening to yourself?
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Legion (Mass Effect)

Robot Jesus for the win.
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It's not even close

Saying the new ones are worse than, or as bad as, the prequels is just grandstanding and exaggeration in an attempt to show just how much you hated TFA/TLJ
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Shotguns are literally the best.
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That 5th goal was hilarious

The keeper's arms all over the place. Waving around. Madness
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Wow

Lmao Saudi
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Beautiful finish
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Been a decent goal
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UNLEAAAAASSSSSHHHHHH it
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Had to do it

World Cup starts with maybe the most uninspiring opening game ever.

Russia vs. Saudi

But it's fine because it's the WORLD CUP
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I've wrestled a bit with how I feel about the RSE starters.

I basically think they're all really good and about equal to each other. But none of them are all-time material. They're lower top 10, better than most but not at Zard/Ape sort of level
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That is some beautiful sounding shit
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Oh yeah I didn't say well done to Stifled

I obviously don't think Chatot was a good winner but the effort to get him to win was terrific. Nice job
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Leafeon13N posted...

Everywhere but board 8 would have thought the top 8 was fantastic.

Probably! I think the likely reaction would be "that's a pretty solid top 8, but why is Chatot there?"
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