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Was that the MAGA Bomber under a tarp? lol
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Dragonblade01 posted...

The real question is which line is dumber?

"Consensual rape"

"Rape victims can get abortions before they know they're pregnant"

I'd submit this gem, from another Missouri legislator:
If its legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.

It kind of explains the first two quotations if you really think about it while huffing paint.
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My ideal GoT game would be more like The Elder Scrolls in concept-- a huge open world with endless lore to discover. Soulsborne is a strong runner-up though, and I have much more confidence in a partnership with Miyazaki than I do in Bethesda at this point. If this rumor is true, it sounds like a system-seller. Could easily be the biggest announcement of E3 for me.
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whos daenerys. u mean kaleesie?
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Might be because the image with long hair is 900% more compressed.
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I'm glad that it wasn't a super-twisty, out of nowhere, subverted-expectations kind of moment. This was a big decision for Jon-- perhaps the most important of the series-- and we needed that long conversation with Tyrion to see how he arrived at it.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

I mean aside from the colors its obvious as fuck whose outfit it's based off of. Wonder woman has worn nearly the exact same thing.

The AOC dress looks extremely generic to me, but on second thought, that might be because Wonder Woman defined the genre. I dunno, it really doesn't look that close to me (it shares more characteristics with a dress than with WW's specific dress imo), but maybe DC has a case.
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I guess it's this cover they have an issue with? I'm not sure, the reporting is so amateur that I can't find a clear answer:


If that's the one then this lawsuit is lame.
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This is nothing new for Missouri, sadly:

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I can't speak to 5G but this topic is definitely giving me cancer.
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It sounds anti-meritocratic on its face but depending on how the score is calculated, it might not be. I loath the Oppression Olympics... But if I were a college admissions officer evaluating two students with equal SAT scores-- one who scraped his way through a low-tier public school while holding down a part-time job, and another who attended a $30K/year private K-12 and had no other responsibilities-- the student who faced greater adversity probably has more potential to succeed.
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Add another state to the Do Not Travel list.
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NK = ranged filth
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I'd have to go with the Night King. In retrospect, I should have known that the show would wrap him up quickly without any final twist, because he's not really a character in the books and the show seems to be contorting itself to get back to GRRM's planned ending. Still they could have done some really interesting or impactful things with the NK after building him up for like 4 seasons (or whenever we first saw him, I forget). Kind of a missed opportunity, imo.
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Anyone who named their daughter "Khaleesi" deserves what they got, tbh.
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GH-7 Medical Droid: Medically, he is completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we are losing him.

Obi-Wan: He's dying?

GH-7 Medical Droid: We don't know why. He has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies.

Senator Bail Organa: Babies?

GH-7 Medical Droid: He's carrying twins.
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God Is Dead and sign your name
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masterpug53 posted...

If you want people to read your entire post, I would advise against starting so obviously with the lame defense of 'oh well she just cray-cray.'

My read is that Dany is more emotionally broken than certifiably crazy, but the "mad Targaryen" interpretation is definitely supported by the show. Dany's father was the Mad King. Her brother was similarly deranged. Dany has come close to flying off the handle before, proclaiming on at least two occasions that she would burn cities to the ground / return them to dirt. The Previously On... montage replayed at least half a dozen quotes relating to Targaryen incest and madness ("Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.") I mean, I'm not fully convinced by this theory but it can't be so easily dismissed.
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That's a solid justification. But I'm also sympathetic to the argument that Fox News is the only way to reach some voters... not that it matters much for the primary, but the eventual Democratic nominee needs to start building name recognition across the entire electorate now (if they don't already have it).
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Battletoads is a tough series to recommend, as it really only appeals to a certain kind of masochistic gamer.

Personally, I find the SNES entry (Battletoads in Battlemaniacs) to be much more replayable. It's a lot shorter, a bit easier, and still hits all the major highlights from the original. I haven't gone back to the NES version in years. If you don't get your fill from Battlemaniacs, then the NES game is great. It's got a ton more variation.

If it were me... I'd learn how to install a new pin connector. It's one of the easiest repairs you can do on a retro console and if you enjoy retro gaming, you should bite the bullet and learn some basic maintenance like replacing cartridge batteries and all that, imho. It's a lot less work than memorizing the wall placement in the damn Turbo Tunnel.
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De Evolution posted...

But this episode showed us that she was able to conquer King's Landing with a highly acceptable level of restraint and lack of civilian casualties.

King's Landing literally surrenders and Dany WINS the battle without having to hurt many civilians.

So it proves that everything said before was total bullshit and that Dany should have went straight to King's Landing as soon as she arrived in Westeros and swiftly conquered it.

Fair point. I wish they hadn't made it so one-sided and such a clean victory before the bells rung. It definitely undercut the premise of Season 7 and some of 8.
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De Evolution posted...

The enemy threw down their weapons and surrendered. Very few civilian casualties, very little collateral damage, and a pretty quick and definitive surrender of the city.

Dany was RIGHT. Her advisers were fucking wrong.

They just showed us that Dany had the ability to take the city with minimal bloodshed and good restraint.

I've gotta say, this is a totally fair point. In retrospect, I think it was a mistake for them to show literally no casualties prior to the bells ringing. The whole point of Cersei cramming people into the city was to make it impossible for Dany to take the city without civilian casualties, but... yeah you're right, they wound up undercutting that. Good point.
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Have Rheagon get hit, go down. The peasants cheer, she loses her shit and decides to burn them all.

This would have been a significant improvement, imo. I like the direction they went with Dany and it was well-established and foreshadowed, but I actually don't think they sold her in-the-moment decision all that well. This suggestion would have made the scene feel more natural, for sure.
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Dany's been threatening to take the throne with fire and blood and return cities to the dirt since Season 2. Jorah had to council restraint, then Barristan, then Tyrion and Varys, every step of the way. Viewers might have been quick to brush off these scenes as misdirection because it seemed so obvious that Dany was destined to be a hero, if not the hero of the story. But she's always had to have her violent impulses kept in check by her advisors. Now that she has no advisors left (save Tyrion, who she's lost confidence in), there's no one to stop the dragon from waking.

Her motivation is to take back the iron throne. She's always felt entitled to it. The people of Westeros don't love her and she doesn't love them. I'm not sure she's even interested in ruling, despite the aptitude she showed in Meereen. Dany's spent a lot of the show overthrowing tyrants and then moving on to the next conquest.
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The vocabulary of SQL is very simple, but constructing real-world queries can get pretty complicated. You also need to truly, fully understand the command categories before you go poking around a real database, imo.
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weird flex but okay
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Dany had to be talked down from burning King's Landing so many times, I lost count. Tyrion spent all of Season 7 trying to keep her in check. I agree that the final turn came so fast that something about it felt unnatural. I wish that Dany's ultimate descent had been spread across more episodes. But... it was well-established and to me this always seemed like a plausible trajectory for her character arc. There might be a failure of pacing here, but not a failure of writing or planning or foreshadowing, imo.
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I'll never complain about GoT subverting my expectations again if this actually happens.
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pikachupwnage posted...

Polycosm posted...

I was ready for Dany to burn them all by the end of 8x4... but then they showed a sympathetic side of the common people in 8x5. King's Landing had some pretty vicious mobs in past seasons though. There was the mob that almost raped Sansa in S2, the mob that cheered for Tyrion's death at his trial in S4... the mob in S5 even made me feel a little sorry for Cersei during her Walk of Atonement.

The show so successfully vilified the people of King's Landing up until this point, I don't think it's all that unreasonable to head into 8x5 feeling detached from them and questioning whether they're worth saving. But then the episode answers that question definitively, imo.

The problem is a shitload of children are in King's landing.

Agree'd. And we don't really see much from their perspective until this episode (aside from some brief scenes with Margaery visiting the orphanage in S3, contrasted with the kids shanking Pycelle back in S6). The little girl with the horse figurine in 8x5 is the first time I can remember the show really taking some time to humanize KL. Could be that I'm forgetting some scenes from earlier seasons, but I needed the reminder this episode.
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I was ready for Dany to burn them all by the end of 8x4... but then they showed a sympathetic side of the common people in 8x5. King's Landing had some pretty vicious mobs in past seasons though. There was the mob that almost raped Sansa in S2, the mob that cheered for Tyrion's death at his trial in S4... the mob in S5 even made me feel a little sorry for Cersei during her Walk of Atonement.

The show so successfully vilified the people of King's Landing up until this point, I don't think it's all that unreasonable to head into 8x5 feeling detached from them and questioning whether they're worth saving. But then the episode answers that question definitively, imo.
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I somewhat agree on the Night King. The show built him up way more than the books (I mean, he's not really even a character in the books), and so maybe he was doomed all along to have an abrupt ending as the show contorts itself to end in the same place as the books.

More than anything though, my main issue with this season (and the previous one) is that they feel rushed. Dany's turn was well-established but it still happens so quick that something about it feels unnatural despite all the setup. I think this could have worked just fine without Griff if they had just given it a little space to breath instead of cramming it into the last few episodes.

Unfortunately, the books might suffer from a rushed ending too... not in terms of the time GRRM is taking to write them, obviously, but in terms of page count. I don't see how he can fit the rest of the story into two books when the books are basically just caught up with the end of Season 5.
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Episode 5 is already down to a 7.2 and it's not even out yet (nor has any footage leaked at the time of this post):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6027916/?ref_=ttep_ep5

Again, not taking anything away from the legit complaints and criticism expressed ITT but... it's pretty clear that there's an internet mob which has predetermined their hate for the remainder of the show.
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I'd rate it slightly above average for a handheld Zelda. For reference:

High Tier
1 - A Link Between Worlds
2 - Link's Awakening

Middle Tier
3 - The Minish Cap
4 - Oracle of Ages / Seasons

Low Tier
5 - Triforce Heroes
6 - Spirit Tracks
7 - Phantom Hourglass

The Oracle games have some things in common with Link's Awakening and many people would probably rank those higher than Minish Cap. Either way, I'd say the top four on my list are all safe recommendations; they're all great.
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