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I only just saw this video

One of my favourite parts of the trilogy in hindsight was the music, it had such a cool consistent sound the whole way through it

Hope they don't screw it up and it keeps that trademark sound
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Instinct is to go with 2 > 3 > 1 but... I dunno, I have a hard time putting 1 last because it's so simple and yet so good
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Spyrpruehsiruwhdyeyfueyrbee anything

Why is it still 5 months away

Lol I finished Crash 3 today and all I was thinking the whole time was "god damn Spyro is so much better than this garbage"

AND NOW SPYRO
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I was about to post this

I fucking cried
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We don't deserve Jeff Goldblum

From the comments

No we do not
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I like Alexa a lot

Does a lot of cool little things for her character. Like her facial expressions.

She's not as good in the ring as some of the top talent but like, neither is Miz, but he's been great because his character stuff has been so good. Alexa isn't Miz-tier at that stuff yet, to be fair
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TheRock1525 posted...

Asuka's streak will be broken at Summerslam. They aren't wasting it on a random PPV.

My thinking as soon as Rousey signed was they would keep her undefeated and have Undefeated vs. Undefeated at Summerslam
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Fish
Duck
Lamb

I had a seafood risotto last night that was fucking phenomenal, like sushi, love shrimp, Fish and chips, yeah. Fish is great

Duck is good. Had a great duck meal recently, also duck pancakes I mean c'mon

Lamb I literally only like when my mum does it. I've never ordered it at a restaurant, been disappointed every other time I've had it too.
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Really not a fan of beef ribs fwiw
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Pork chops are worse than Roast Beef or Chicken imo

But if you take the whole Pig then Bacon is the best thing available.

Can't really decide here. Chicken is dependable, versatile and sometimes surprising - I'm a big fan of the thigh meat, much more flavour - whereas beef and pork have a mich wider variation
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Better to put Cena legit in the crowd imo
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You'd need an intimate idea of the costs involved I think to make a call about 2 nights. Two gates, but both slightly diluted because you'd 100% want to offer tickets as a package deal at a lower price rather than buying two separately.

I dunno. I'm in favour of it but with WM there's a lot to think about, more than with NJPW given the sheer scale of WM.

Anyway I have to say I'm really on board with this Cena/Taker thing. I can't believe they committed to it all the way to WM itself. Unless the match (or any kind of confrontation) just doesn't happen, which actually would be super lame.

My guess would be it gets announced very early on in the show and happens later, rather than being impromptu, to give the news time to spread on social media. But it could just be impromptu.
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Yeah I've seen some really suspect stuff from the book, but the movie looks to have trimmed off some of those edges and more readily showcased some of the main character's flaws

I was really annoyed with the music though, It was so fucking clichd

But mostly a fun adventure
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Yeah man

I am so on this train

red
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More economic than political but they're tied together. Sorry if it's old to you guys but it's new and surprising to me

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/a-wild-ride-behind-the-scenes-as-saudi-crown-prince-does-america

Saudi are going to make 5% of Saudi Aramco public. This explains some of MBS' moves lately and increased transparency etc.

For reference:

Saudi Aramco's market value has been estimated at between $2 trillion and $10 trillion, making it the most valuable company in the world.

Madness
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I really didn't like Minority Report

But I only saw it once, when it came out, so I might be kinder to it on rewatch
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Do you have like a list of them
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Bucky/Cap is the movie's throughline

It's a Cap movie
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Snake/Sephiroth is like the best one of them all
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I can't remember, are the robbers the good guys in Heat?
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XIII_rocks posted...

The rural town of New Hope, Ala., has a pair of super-sized problems heading its way: There's a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf coastline, and there's a team of 30 well-armed mercenaries intent on looting the local treasury facility.

Sadly no

Stealing a Hurricane would be a much better movie. Call Soderbergh.

I was thinking about this movie earlier today

The idea of using a vicious Hurricane as the cover for a heist is such a ridiculously audacious idea that I'm instantly on the side of the thieves here. Or heist movies have really done a number on my moral compass, I dunno. But it feels like they made the wrong people the good guys in this one. I 100% want the people with the balls to rob the US Treasury during a fucking killer Hurricane to succeed.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

The references were fun, but once the main plot/conflict took over, it was a slog to get through. Movie felt like it was three hours long.

Oh yeah, it did start to feel the length a bit. It felt like they were going after the third key for ages. Like it had a climactic pace at that point, but then just maintained that for ages and it started to drag.
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the lights are not all on upstairs
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Aggron
Bisharp
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guffguy89 posted...

My Galaxy s7 still works swimmingly

Oh hey that's what I have

It's nearly time for a new one though I guess. I got the last one in June '16. I might see how long I can keep it though.
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Garchomp
Staraptor
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banananor posted...

oh, i dunno. i think it's just easier to get people to respond to something silly like the light-speed technology than to engage on more complex topics

like how in the last page i talked about how episode 8's message is "nothing matters, let the past die and watch cool fights and fight forever"

True

Like with Thrones last year, again. 99% of the criticism on the TV board, not so much here, was of these silly nitpicks rather than deeper criticisms like structure, acting quality, character development, etc.

What I would say though is I read that and wasn't really clear on what you meant or how you came to that conclusion and I was in the middle of an argument, so I didn't want to get into arguing on like 3 fronts.
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Yeeeessss

I wanted it at the bottom.

I feel so accomplished!
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Krook
Ampharos
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With a single Easter egg I bought from the supermarket today

I'm also going to a nice hotel for a couple of days to unwind though that's more because I have a week off than because of it actually being easter
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A little bit, but it also allows me to clear out my bookmarks and a bunch of stuff from my computer
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I can understand that point of view. My big issue was with the dismissive way Lapis handled this entire discussion. I found his post worse than the one Corrik just made with his bullet points. I did make an assumption that you were supporting that statement, so that's my mistake. Your position is definitely more nuanced than Lapis' "Fuck people who have opinions about something I really don't think is important."

Well I can't say I totally disagree with LTM, in that I think it does come off as a bit nitpicky. Reminds me of the stuff on the TV board about Thrones last year, where it became cool to criticise it and as a result people started looking for stuff.

But I do understand the potentially universe-breaking ramifications of it so I'm not going to go too hard on "it doesn't matter". I can see why it would matter, I guess...but, again, only if you choose to interpret the events that way.
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Well scarlet, would it make you feel better if I said that I know there are people who like the movie and still have a problem with that moment...and that my opinion is largely the same? It still ultimately comes down to the choice to interpret something as a negative.

You're right that so far I've been dealing in extremes. I pointed out two issues - A) interpreting it as a negative when an alternative exists, and then rejecting arguments to the contrary and B) layering the criticism on after the fact to give themselves extra ammunition against the movie. A "hater" of the movie might do both A and B. But someone who liked the movie isn't going to do B, they just won't accept the positive explanation, if they ever get one, and will therefore continue to do A.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Is it really that surprising that there are Star Wars fans who care about the technology in the series? You seem to be of the opinion that they don't exist and people just cite concerns with the technology as a cover for their real problems.

Concerns are one thing. But this wasn't egregious. This is a thing where it possibly is universe-breaking if you interpret it a particular way.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

To me, this is actually placing your own worldview on other people and in effect dismissing huge swaths of arguments simply because you believe they couldn't possibly be the real reason someone dislikes a movie.

The real point there is the "choice" aspect - that they're choosing not to like it, choosing to see it in a negative way, choosing to make it an issue.

Like there are some things you are going to see and just instantly dislike, and those come from inside you. Things like the gender stuff or the casino stuff or how Luke was handled or the plot or Carrie Fisher's acting. Some of those fall under the "garbage" category I mentioned in my first post but I understand that they are innately personal and absolutely subjective. I think they're dumb things to hate a movie over, particularly the gender one, but I understand the innately personal nature of those ideas.

But this particular thing is an event we don't have all the information on, something that can be interpreted in different ways, something you can possibly interpret to be "universe-breaking" if you take the most negative slant possible. If you have it explained to you how it possibly isn't, and then double down? You've chosen an attempt at stubborn victory in an argument on the internet.

That's the core of the problem more than the "layering it on" thing. We don't know if it is or it isn't, and if you claim to know, you're a fool. So why then argue that it is, just to give yourself another reason to hate something? I don't understand that kind of person. It's either "winning this argument on the internet is more important than my own personal enjoyment of something" or a choice to indulge in and enjoy negativity.
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Corrik posted...

What?

Your post doesn't make sense...?

Read it again then
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StifledSilence posted...

I enjoyed the movie. But Holdo refusing to tell anyone about her plan was completely stupid.

Yeah see this I actually get. It's a genuine problem and a clear contrivance from the writers

LapisLazuli posted...

XIII_rocks posted...

Nobody actually hates it because of that,

You would be surprised by how nuts some people can be.

But that's what I'm saying - people don't think the movie sucks because of that, they came out not liking it for other reasons (character stuff like how they handled Luke, not liking Holdo, etc) and then used it later to bolster their argument against the movie.

Similar: friend of mine arguing that because of the directors changing, they might make Rey's parentage different to what it was revealed as in TLJ and therefore the reveal is stupid, irrelevant garbage. My counter: it makes sense that Kylo would lie and trick her in that situation, so you're basically looking for a meta-criticism rather than treating the movies on their own terms.
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Corrik posted...

Um, no. That was the biggest criticism of the entire movie and one many star wars faithful had right away.

Universe breaking details is not a minute, surface thing fabricated to hate a movie.

But it's only universe breaking if you want it to be.

We lack the necessary information to make the factual call, so if you really want to make the argument that it is, go ahead, but that's exactly what it is - an argument. It's not a fact, we're not dealing in 2+2 here. You think it's universe-breaking.

So why shoot yourself in the foot? Why fight tooth and nail, claw desperately to prove that it's universe breaking, to try and convince other people? Because you don't want to like the movie. You're choosing negativity, and worse, choosing to spread negativity, when the alternative option exists. All to stubbornly justify your own dislike rather than changing your mind.

And that's without even getting into the most salient point of, again, why would you ever give a fuck
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I won't take every opinion at face value, sorry. Especially when you can tell the true motivations behind the criticism. If someone says the movie sucked because the lightspeed ramming thing broke the physics of the universe, that person is choosing to dislike the movie and they're probably layering that one on after the fact.
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I mean it possibly does. It also very possibly doesn't, and we're not given all the information so you can literally just choose whether it does or it doesn't. So you're making the choice to criticise at that point. And even if you did genuinely think it does, why would you ever give a fuck. It's a contrived justification for hating the movie, a mountain out of a molehill.

Nobody actually hates it because of that, it's the kind of bs you come up with after the fact to justify your existing hate. This is what I'm talking about when I talk about handwaveable criticisms. It's such a minute, surface thing to make a big deal out of.
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Zard
Infernape
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The problem with your post is the use of "true". We're talking subjective here. It's just some of them are total bullshit that I have no problem with completely disregarding. I'm as free to blow off their opinions as they are to have them.

But yeah that's the inherent difficulty with discussing this movie - did they dislike it for insane, conspiratorial or political reasons, or for reasons that don't say more about you than the movie itself?
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The film being bad because women are competent and tend to make the right calls and sometimes even, gasp, teach the men a thing or two is absolutely a garbage criticism that I have no time for
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Still love the movie and will defend it to the death. Know a few people who hated it.

So many of the criticisms are a bunch of hot garbage which makes it frustrating to discuss sometimes. I've got no time for the gender politics bullshit, for instance, or this stuff about Rian Johnson secretly hating the franchise, or the Mary Sue stuff
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Jesus this is harder than I thought it would be.

Like I have a LOT of crap saved

Regardless, I'm basically done with 2012 now and all the general, miscellaneous stuff, leaving only the cards and specific misc stuff from 2013-18 to post.

Another day, lol
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The archival process has begun.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/853-b8uca

I just posted all the Ruins from 2012. God that was laborious.

Next up, PPVs and other cards/stuff I have lying around...then I'll do the other years another day, lol. That's a lot of shit to post.
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No, from b8

I would have though had it not been for b8
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5tarscream posted...

I've heard pretty bad reviews. I hear it just tries to jam tons of 90's nostalgia references down your throat one after another with no real reason for doing so. Just like a remember this, and this, and this. Haven't seen it though that's just what I've heard.

I'd say there's quite a bit of that but that it would be unfair to say it's "just" that.

I like the weird visuals of it too. And it impressed me how Ben Mendelsohn's character in the game matched the mouth movements of the actor irl. I know about facial capture etc but it was much more noticeable and cool with him because he speaks in such a unique way.

There's a couple of cool, if slightly obvious, lines about dangers of social media etc but that gets buried deep underneath the next pop culture reference
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MariaTaylor posted...

didn't see this topic till just now but my answer would have been 'go if you want to go, don't go if you don't want to'

seems like that's what you did

I was wondering if someone had seen it and would tell me if it was worth getting out of bed for

I'm pretty sure it's better than Hurricane Heist anyway
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