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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 7 (RULE CHANGE)
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 8:02:21 PM
#20
1.1
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 5:39:43 PM
#199
I have never enjoyed an Alexa promo. They feel so rehearsed and formulaic.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 7 (RULE CHANGE)
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:35:26 PM
#16
3.2
1.2
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:32:58 PM
#308
What about Fang is like the wrestler and Vanille is her female manager? Like Chris Benoit and Woman.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:27:29 PM
#301
Espeon posted...
Fang is the Big Cass to Vanilles Enzo Amore.

I immediately regret this analogy.

Vanille just got kicked off a plane... how you doin'?
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:25:55 PM
#299
Namor deserved more time!
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:22:57 PM
#294
No you just try to write one. And you were better at Namor, too!
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:08:28 PM
#281
illuminatusbubu posted...
FinaIFantasy posted...
Gatarix posted...
MWC I recommend just lying low until the finals are done

if you need to tell someone off (or whatever you've been getting banned for), write it in notepad and post it after SMFFFC. they can wait, but the contest won't


Im already doing this.

Once it was chained 5 days ago I started taking screen shots and putting my responses in notes for after thanksgiving.

I owe many an idiot on Pro wrestling board, this board during that round, the DBZ board about Broly spoilers, and 2 in particular on the Lets Go Pikachu board the reaming they have coming.

What if Alexa Bliss pins Daniel Bryan to win WWE champ this Sunday?

You misspelled CONFIRMED BACKSTAGE RING RAT
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:05:06 PM
#275
GuessMyUserName posted...
so that's where mwc is always getting banned

...

wait who gets banned over Let's Go Pikachu

He actually typoed. He gets banned over Let's Go Peek at You.
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:02:44 PM
#268
Gatarix posted...
brb drawing cid p as fighting goat

How about drawing him as a native tribesman instead?

ehDl8yO
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 4:01:26 PM
#263
Wow you people are sending Rikku out to the Lightning Plains to die.
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TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:48:33 PM
#25
Okay, they were in order of potentiality, so that's not a deal breaker. Thanks.

Also, Under the Bridge was no-deal because it's so boring for a solo singer.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:47:57 PM
#388
paulg235 posted...
Glad to see some of you trash 2001 A Space Oddessey for the waste of 2 and a half hours it was. One of the most overrated films of all time. Give me Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket any day of the week.

Metropolis is one of the few silent films I have seen that I truly enjoyed (I watched the 2010 remastered version, I believe), so I'm at least happy to see it place higher than 2001.

Also, because they were brought up, Fantasia is awesome and I liked Fantasia 2000 for the most part. Normally I don't post in these things, but I couldn't resist giving my brief 2 cents on those four flicks.

It's cool to see that other people have watched Metropolis!
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:41:06 PM
#387
PrinceKaro posted...
Just because something is important in a historical context doesn't mean it should get a free pass when judging its quality.

Its like when people say Snow White is one of Disney's best just because it was the first big animated movie, when it isn't even close to the top 10.

It's not a free pass to judge something in its historical context. And if you really look at the themes and the message it tries to send, that really enhances the story - especially given the backdrop of a Germany in that interregnum period, torn apart, angry, lost in direction.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:36:29 PM
#23
Higher Love and River of Dreams would definitely be fun songs to try.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:32:00 PM
#383
Karo posted...
Much is often said about this film being 'good for its time' (see also: Toy Story's animation), but in reality there is no such thing. It's like saying a one-armed guy from the Special Olympics is a better boxer than Mike Tyson because he tries his golly gee darnedest!


I have never disagreed with something so vehemently on a Gauntlet list ever.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:28:41 PM
#381
The Outlander Game Part XV: Last In Translation

Wickle - 177
Stifled - 158
JONA - 151
KBM - 136
Inviso - 131
Genny - 114
Snake - 110
Charon - 103
Johnbobb - 98
Karo - 95
Scarlet - 82

Someone could have used one of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's patented Babel fish.

That's the last ranking for both today and tomorrow. My dad fell off of a ladder earlier this week. He's almost completely fine, but he broke two bones in his ankle, and so I offered to go and help him put up Christmas decorations at my parents' house since they are going out of town for the next two weeks starting Monday. It's just one of those family things you have to fulfill.

I'll give you all the hint now so you can continue discussion (and I'll participate in that too, I'll just be on my phone all day tomorrow).

Hint: Your first #1 ranking drops.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:23:57 PM
#379
"I have a lot of respect for this movie. For its time, there was a lot going on. Utopian society, unique setting, robots, crazy futuristic looking machines, you name it! I was impressed. The story really got me interested and kept me hooked to the end. However, and Id really hate to be that guy, but the picture quality just does not hold up that well. While I enjoyed it more than a few of the movies I ranked above it, Metropolis just really suffers from being a silent film. The actors were as expressive as possible, which I have a ton of respect for, but I also have to give the nod to films that feel more complete. If this ever gets a remake, which I very much hope it does, then I will gladly watch it. If it already has, please tell me I am stupid and point me in the remakes direction.

Traviss Opinion: Travis really liked the Pampers commercial that played before the movie. He loved the gears and the clock. Hearing him try to say Metropolis was adorable. He ended up falling asleep on me and missing around half of it, however." ~Stifled

"In a dystopian future city, a downtrodden working class lives in a subterranean complex where they run the silly machines that power the city.
The story is that this rich kid gets a soft heart regarding the hardworking people of the city, and leads us to a plot that goes everywhere from the prince and the pauper to dr frankenstein to the book of revelation. A mad scientist builds a robot duplicate of a rebel nun for the president of Metropolis, which he uses as a tool to incite rebellion to wreck his own city. This is explained as being needed as an excuse to crack down on rebel elements in the underground, except he doesnt actually do anything. In fact he goes out of his way to tell his men to stand down and do nothing while everything gets broken.
Most of the characters look very similar to each other, and unfortunately as this is a silent movie visuals are the only real means of discernment between individuals. Throw in plot points about robot clones and characters trading clothes and things get even more of a mess.
The movie ends with everyone suddenly forgetting they want to murder each other and with the moral 'it takes a heart to join the hands and the head', which sounds like tripe found on a motivational poster or somebody failing anatomy 101.
Much is often said about this film being 'good for its time' (see also: Toy Story's animation), but in reality there is no such thing. It's like saying a one-armed guy from the Special Olympics is a better boxer than Mike Tyson because he tries his golly gee darnedest!
To paraphrase the wisdom of Yoda, a movie is good, or it is not. This film is the latter." ~Karo

"Yay, bearded dude and slim guy shook hands and the girl lived. Its a happy ending! Also crazy dude died like Frollo, also happy ending! Yeah Im not sure how or if anyone got a version where the intertitles were subtitled. I tried a few different things and never could, had to read the entire plot from Wikipedia just to understand what the fuck happened. Wasnt a joyous occasion, Im grumpy as hell that I had to basically watch acting and not really read the story, then turn around and read the plot, often ahead of time. Also, it never crossed my mind that the movie was also in freaking English." ~Wickle
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:23:19 PM
#378
"What It Is: The story of socialism overthrowing a fascistic classist system in a retrofuturistic society replete with robot girls.

Why It Matters: It's the first. And that alone should be enough. It's science fiction film numero uno. EVERYTHING that comes after Metropolis owes this movie at least some acknowledgement.

What I Think: Now that we're in the top half of this list, we're just chock full of absolutely fantastic movies that are each separated by mere hairs from one another. If there's any downfall with Metropolis, it's me. The generation gap and the style of film-viewing with which you need to view this belongs to an audience that is no longer contemporary. There may be cultural differences between the Germany of then and the United States of now that also affect by somewhat adulterated appreciation of this movie, but I just marvel at so much of what the movie attempts to convey. It's a true example of what science fiction represents, at least too me: taking the issues of today and addressing them in the context of tomorrow. While there are antiquated notions in the movie, and the same time, seeing the historical imagination and ingenuity of this world from nearly 100 years ago facing certain issues we still wrestle with today... it's all just fascinating to me. It's like reading Frankenstein still today... which is an apt comparison because this movie even seems to borrow a bit from Frankenstein." ~scarlet

"I want to preface this write-up by stating that however low this movie winds up on this list is not necessarily because of any fault of its own, but rather its just such a daunting movie to watch for a variety of reasons, and rewatchability DOES ultimately hurt certain movies on these lists. That being said, Im pleasantly surprised at how high-quality Metropolis was. The two-and-a-half hour runtime is unforgiving, to say the least, and thats expounded by the fact that its a silent movie. Yet, it maintained my flimsy attention perfectly almost the whole time through. Admittedly, the plot is a bit simplistic and kinda rushes some elements, but Im assuming thats just a sign of the times it was created in, so Im willing to give some benefit of the doubt.

I just feel like gushing about Metropolis just because it FAR exceeded my expectations. The lead actress was amazing, essentially playing a double role where she has to be both the overly-sensitive Maria, who winds up as a damsel-in-distress on multiple occasionsbut also as the robotic Hel, which allows her to REALLY ham it up with quirks and mannerisms that accentuate her dastardly plans. Throw in a ton of physical exertion to really sell the struggle faced by the characters, and this is a DAMN solid film for something 90 years old." ~Inviso

"This is probably the oldest movie I've seen, ever. It's a little difficult ranking a silent picture up against the rest of this list, since this movie is over 20 years older than any other film on this list. There are definitely some translation problems when it's nearly 100 years later now; the main character is very hard to take seriously with a face full of makeup on like that. Then there's the highly, highly awkward "sexual" dancing scene with Maria and the group of horny men. It's jarring and breaks your suspension of disbelief due to how hokey it is. However, I'll give this movie some credit. For its age, some of the effects and props were actually quite good; actually surpassing some of the older films of this list which it predates by a great deal." ~charon
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 3:22:41 PM
#377
#26 - Metropolis (1926)
KBM - 7
JONA - 10
Genny - 14
Johnbobb - 16
Snake - 18
Scarlet - 19
Inviso - 26
Charon - 34
Stifled - 35
Karo - 38
WickIe - 40 (Wickle also watched it in German. Wickle doesn't speak German.)

Total: 257

"The grandfather of everything else on this list, I am very grateful to this list for finally getting me to sit down and watch Metropolis (the real Metropolis, not that weird anime Metropolis we watched a few years ago that was just okay). The sets are still spectacular, surpassing a lot of the stuff on this list, and a lot of the acting feels, if not exactly naturalistic, than more so than a lot of the acting from the silent era. Brigitte Helm is particularly great in her dual role as Maria and the android bearing her likeness, and it's a shame she (and quite a few others who worked on this movie) was basically run out of film because the Nazis took over the German film industry. This film's philosophy, though, is quite un-Nazi-ish it's more of an odd combination of Christian mythology, Marxist ideals, and a little Nietschze because Germany but it works great and lends a lot of depth to the relatively straightforward Frankenstein-esque plot. Aside from the last ten minutes, which try to wrap things into a nice little bow with a moral that's a bit too simple and neat to be effective, I was as enthralled as I've ever been by a film from the silent era. The 2010 restoration was also well worth the extended runtime." ~KBM

"The film being in black-and-white and a silent movie actually helps the movie a lot with its atmosphere of a dystopian future and its class divide. The special effects still look great, especially when there is CHAOS in Metropolis. Freders development is pretty believable despite how fast it takes to change his ways. The version I watched felt a bit too long but its absolutely worth watching since it is pure kino." ~JONA

"Metropolis was... interesting to say the least. I'm pretty sure that "erotic" dance will haunt my nightmares forever. Thanks scarlet! For an older film- and a silent one at that- I was shocked that I actually enjoyed it, and not just for the social impact it has on the film industry. No I legitimately enjoyed it despite thinking more than once that the male lead looked entirely too effeminate. I will likely never watch it again, but I'm glad I did once." ~Genny

"In a movie about a mad scientist turning a robot into an identical copy of a woman, the least believable scene is our spoiled, rich hero holding off an entire army of angry blue collar workers by blindly flailing his arms at them. I did enjoy this movie quite a bit, but I almost wish I had watched one of the shorter edits, because this isn't a story that really took 150 minutes to tell. But it IS a damn good story with some brilliant cinematography. Ultimately what made me like the movie as much as I did was Robo-Maria, who was absolutely chilling and by far the best part of the movie. It's a little silly at times and comes on a little strong, but it's also easy to see why it's had such an impact." ~Johnbobb

"A groundbreaking, landmark achievement in film. Despite being made all the way back in 1927, Metropolis still feels fresh and modern, from its great architectural vistas and instantly iconic mechanical Maria. Also timeless is its commentary on class warfare, which makes even this silent picture feel loud and boisterous in its message, with limited use of intertitles for the time. Its a true visual masterpiece that captures what makes film so special in the first place. " ~Snake
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TopicWhat is your opinion on rallies?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:53:14 PM
#22
Shepard was the greatest contestant in the history of contests and that match proved it. He want neither paragon nor renegade that day.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:43:15 PM
#373
I felt like my write-ups were much worse than normal because I don't have particularly negative write-ups this time around for anything.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:40:26 PM
#183
PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I should probably point out that the "material from the writers" that people complain about with Ronda is actually stuff she came up with. Like that Avocado tight jeans line? That was all her. It was extremely confusing when Bryan mentioned the weird lines Ronda gave and Meltzer said that those ones are actually Ronda's and this is the sort of way she talks.

It's super strange and I would've never pegged Ronda for saying crap like that.

....huh. That's really, really weird.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:38:13 PM
#371
I'm pretty sure Karo likes some of the movies way more than he lets on from write-ups.
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:37:27 PM
#109
Fang
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:16:34 PM
#368
Snake5555555555 posted...
I think HAL not having a more "exciting" defeat is deliberate. HAL is nothing more than cold machinery, a drab symbol of technologies' march, and is whatever we reflect on to it. It's defeat also illustrates that in the end, HAL and similar AIs are not the next step in human evolution and not part of our ultimate fates, we as a species will always triumph over computers.

It's a point of view that I actually don't jibe with that well; I stand on the AI functionally eventually becoming sentient side of things, and I don't think Clarke and Kubrick - at least at the time - believed that would ever be possible.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:12:11 PM
#180
FUCK I was about to post that, got a quick text, hit refresh and THERE IT IS. Dammit, I'm so mad at Rock right now.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 2:11:43 PM
#367
Okay, I can live with that. Thanks for trying at least.

I don't think you can't think critically, far from it. I think criticisms and opinions are worn around by certain users as badges of honor in some of the topics, and I do feel that at times you're one of them, but I'm sure I'm one of them too and I don't realize it.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:55:26 PM
#176
TheRock1525 posted...
Like my biggest compliment for Ronda is that she sells like a champ.

She somehow got a compelling match outta Nia Jax.

"When a Concussive Force meets an Unworkable Object"
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:54:22 PM
#173
I actually became marginally interested in Miz last week when there was some real character work (hamfisted but still) between him and D-Bry as co-captains. But with the turn, I probably am getting more of the same sort of generic Miz promos that I feel like I suffer through constantly.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:48:18 PM
#170
STElNER posted...
scarletspeed7 posted...
I am completely nonplussed by the topic's two favorite WWE entertainers


who are we talking about here?

Miz and Elias.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:46:37 PM
#365
Mr Lasastryke posted...
scarletspeed7 posted...
I'm willing to eat defeat on that one. It's wrong of me to call you that, and I apologize for it. I don't honestly remember the circumstances that surrounded it, but it sounds like something I might have done in the heat of anger, and it's unacceptable.


i genuinely appreciate that. the REAL thing that's "wrong with this board" is that nobody ever wants to admit defeat on anything or apologize for anything, so it's quite nice to see an example of the opposite of that for once.

as for the rest of your post, i'm not going to respond to your character assassination of me. i'm not denying that you guys put a lot of time and effort into this project. but yeah, clearly this topic isn't for me, so i'll leave you to it.

I probably wouldn't get defensive except it was just "I can't take this seriously because of one opinion, and I'm not interested to hear upon what these opinions are founded, and furthermore I can't separate the individuals from the group". At least, taht's how it read to me.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:45:27 PM
#167
Yeah, everyone's different. I am completely nonplussed by the topic's two favorite WWE entertainers, so I'm willing to accept I'm a minority opinion on Ronda here too.
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 96 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:37:08 PM
#6
Kefka
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:36:54 PM
#163
I feel like if she stuck to her vicious side, it would work well as both a face role and a heel role. Vince tried to push a focused, vicious Roman at one point, but I think Ronda would actually pull it off better because face and heel only matters to a character based on their motivation and their opponent, especially with that type of role.
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TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:33:53 PM
#20
ExThaNemesis posted...
The Killers - Mr. Brightside

Thought about this one, but it's so monotone that I feel like it's a snoozer if you aren't an entertaining performer, and I doubt I will be.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:32:19 PM
#161
Ronda is a complete oddity that I have a tough time wrapping my head around. She can be a great promo at times, but at other times she really can't overcome the material she's being handed, and I have such a tough time believing that Ronda Rousey is saying what Ronda Rousey is saying. Maybe some of that is due to my preconceived notions of her from UFC. Maybe some of that is due to the jarring emotional flips she goes through from time to time in terms of being doe-eyed and thankful to the audience for "just being nominated", Sally Fields style, to being a focused, aggressive, brutal and single-minded competitor.

Maybe it's in the switch between those two modes that I have trouble with her character from time to time. But simultaneously, I have much more interest in Ronda than, honestly, anyone else on RAW.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:27:40 PM
#362
Mr Lasastryke posted...
scarletspeed7 posted...
In what world do you think it's remotely constructive to enter a topic where people are sharing their opinions in an open way to be social and perhaps even to have their minds changed in thoughtful discussion and simply put the opinions on blast?

Even if I agreed that 2001 should be higher on the list, the way you handle yourself is puerile, childish behavior representative of someone who clearly can't think critically and has no interest in possibly developing an understanding of an alternative point of view. You are representative of everything that is wrong with this board.


wow, you can sure extrapolate a lot of knowledge about me from a few short posts.

also, this is an interesting post coming from someone who called me a "middle-aged nobody."

I'm willing to eat defeat on that one. It's wrong of me to call you that, and I apologize for it. I don't honestly remember the circumstances that surrounded it, but it sounds like something I might have done in the heat of anger, and it's unacceptable.

However, I think I haven't extrapolated too much. I follow the political topics, and I think you come at everything that could involve being critical the same way. And I'm also way too sensitive of a person, but I refuse to let someone just completely be dismissive of something that took a huge amount of work to accomplish. These people, this group of that ranked these films, went through the time and effort to watch all 40 of these movies in the last few months, not for some agenda to tank a movie that is beloved, but to experience a wide array of films in a genre and share their thoughts and experiences with each other in order to bond and learn and grow together. Some of them sacrificed all of their dwindling free time to participate because that's what you do when you have friends, and you want to share with them. And your response is the complete antithesis of that. It's derisive, flippant, completely ignorant of the human element of this list, and it demonstrates to me (and it's all my point of view, and the rest of Gauntlet may not even give a fuck) that your interest is consistently in demonstrating your own superiority to others by simply holding points of view.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:13:06 PM
#358
Mr Lasastryke posted...
scarletspeed7 posted...
Did you read any of the write-ups?


i'm not interested in the writeups of a bunch of people who (collectively, not individually) think fucking men in black should be above 2001.

In what world do you think it's remotely constructive to enter a topic where people are sharing their opinions in an open way to be social and perhaps even to have their minds changed in thoughtful discussion and simply put the opinions on blast?

Even if I agreed that 2001 should be higher on the list, the way you handle yourself is puerile, childish behavior representative of someone who clearly can't think critically and has no interest in possibly developing an understanding of an alternative point of view. You are representative of everything that is wrong with this board.
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TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:02:55 PM
#17
firefdr posted...
Get drunk and sing hotel California

Always works

Absolutely not going to sing any song that lasts more than 5 minutes. Especially one that is super-repetitive in its melody on the verses; I don't want to bore people to tears.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 1:02:10 PM
#354
Mr Lasastryke posted...
wooooooooooow.

ok time to stop taking this topic seriously.

Did you read any of the write-ups?
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TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:54:36 PM
#14
Rthan posted...
sing Aqua's "Im a Barbie Girl" its always a crowd pleaser... failing that at least sing "Call me maybe".

Call Me Maybe crossed my mind but I don't want to down an octave random parts of the song.
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TopicSnake Ranks Anything Horror Related Vol. 3 *RANKINGS*
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:43:00 PM
#368
Snake5555555555 posted...
That's why I like to expand my definition of horror as much as I do. Just because something isn't about a big serial killer, or a vampire, or zombie, or a demon, doesn't make it any less scary. 1984 definitely scares because of its huge implications on society which can be a scarier reality than any physical threat out there.

I think the most tense and scary scene in a movie of any sort for me is in All the President's Men (coincidentally, the director passed away today). There's a scene where Robert Redford is confronting Deep Throat in a parking garage, and Deep Throat hears a noise. Even knowing the end of the true story of Watergate, I still always have this ominous, pulse-pounding fear of a shadowy, amoral governmental organization thinking it will stop at nothing to protect its secrets. And here's Redford, alone in a remote, dimly lit, abandoned building with no protection and a host of reasons why someone might want to take him out.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:40:27 PM
#12
Crossfiyah posted...
Sing something that isn't ultra cliche.

Okay, so let me give you my short list of 4 so you can tell me if these are ultra cliche:

"Desperado", The Eagles
"Nine in the Afternoon", Panic at the Disco
"Californication", Red Hot Chili Peppers
"I Want It That Way", Backstreet Boys
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TopicSnake Ranks Anything Horror Related Vol. 3 *RANKINGS*
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:21:56 PM
#364
Wow, fantastic write-up on 1984!
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:17:05 PM
#351
And also there is actually an entire chunk of Fantasia that presents a certain historical perspective on the history of the Earth that is definitely tangential to the evolution of man.
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Science Fiction Films I
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:12:53 PM
#350
PrinceKaro posted...
Fantasia and 2001 didnt really have anything in common other than a classical score

And use of said score in huge swathes of scenes without dialogue where the visuals are meant to be powerful tools in conveying tone and meaning. So yeah, there are aspects of 2001 that are very much like Fantasia.
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TopicTomorrow I Am Going to a Karaoke Bar for the First Time... Advice?
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:08:53 PM
#7
That's some good advice, thanks.

I don't have any of my most favorite songs on my shortlist right now, so I'm partway there!
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XX: Day 95 (RULE CHANGE) [smfffc]
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 12:02:19 PM
#385
Here are characters for whom I would be willing to ally with others if someone is interested in maining one of them next SMFFC:

1. Balthier
2. Cid H
3. Cindy
4. Setzer

I'm also open to lesser favorites of mine as well, but the priority is that I want to work with someone(s) else next contest. I think my past gimmicky things just end up annoying people and I'd rather have more social fun.
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TopicSnake Ranks Anything Horror Related Vol. 3 *RANKINGS*
scarletspeed7
11/16/18 11:54:11 AM
#360
lmao Candyman
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