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Taily_Po posted...

oh wait, he's not otaku so it's probably somewhere boring, like on a pirate ship hidden in a cavern where it's being guarded by a giant octopus who was removed from the theatrical version.

I'm actually more of a history nerd, so it's really just a chest full of rocks because real pirates didn't bury treasure, they just blew all their money on cheap booze and cheaper whores.


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AllstarSniper32 posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though I also get the impression that Brie doesn't give a shit about the Marvel movies other than enjoying the large paycheck

So how many of the MCU actors were super into comics and weren't in the movies just for a paycheck?

Some of them.

Chris Hemsworth? He feels like someone who's actually putting effort into the role, and who turns out a better performance the more invested he is, which improves the film. Natalie Portman? Paycheck, 100%.

I'd say most of the main character actors seem to be invested to at least some degree, but some of the supporting cast actors are entirely checked out, and Brie definitely doesn't seem to give a damn.

I could be wrong, but I don't get the impression that she really cares about her character other than for the payday, so she can then take lower-paying films that are more artistically fulfilling to her.


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Taily_Po posted...

To be fair, the musical was amazingly bad as well.

Bite your tongue, sir!


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keyblader1985 posted...

Without looking into it at all, I'm pretty sure furries are most upset of anyone.

To the furries, it's not furry enough.

For the rest of us, it's an abomination that must be purged with cleansing flame.

The weird thing is, I don't have any issue with the cats when it's just make-up and costumes. Veerle Casteleyn actually looked pretty cute as Jemima (but a large part of that is that Veerle Casteleyn looks really cute as Veerle Casteleyn), but then add in bad CGI and the uncanny valley seems to kick in and make the furriness worse.


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Taily_Po posted...

If they really wanted to excite me, they'd announce that the NFI Marvel shows were being brought back (sans Defenders... unless they *really* redid the format)

Technically, I'm not sure they can. They're never coming back as a joint venture between the two, and I'm assuming the rights issues are such that neither can actually make new episodes without the other.

At best you'd just get new series with recast characters. But they might want to hold off on that for a while (I could see them push out a new Punisher series sooner, though, and maybe something like Moon Knight), but that's it. And you'd still need Disney plus to see any of it.


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Taily_Po posted...

D'ohhhhh, can't I just work for Mr. Scorpio?

Can you kill a couple guys on the way out? It would be a big help.


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When I rename characters, I never name them after myself, and usually give them somewhat exotic names that, generally, are never used for anything else in any other games, so there's never been a conflict once. I mean, if I was playing Skyrim and Alena Frostblade or Lailah al-Zahir suddenly showed up, I'd probably have shit my pants.

Though back when I was still a mischievous teenager, I did name my character in FFIV "Oh shit", because it results in a few conversations where people say stuff like "Oh shit, it's you!" Which is funny for about all of 15 minutes. At which point I'd usually go change the character's name again (because you could change your name in-game at will in that game when you talked to Namingway).


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No standard flavor, no interest.


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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Lokarin posted...

She seems talented when allowed to emote

It's almost like movies have people that direct things like how characters are supposed to be portrayed.

Carol Danvers being a personality-less vacuum is a large part of why I predicted the movie was going to be terrible as soon as they announced it in the first place. If Brie played the character correctly she's lame and boring, if she played it vibrantly and made it interesting it's hardly Carol Danvers anymore.

Though I also get the impression that Brie doesn't give a shit about the Marvel movies other than enjoying the large paycheck, so she was mostly going to sleepwalk through her performances no matter what the director or the script told her to do.


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athomas917 posted...

Seems like Jane basically takes George's wallet and money all the time while all Fred has to worry about is the cat locking him outside.

George has been married longer - he's got two kids, one clearly a teen, whereas Fred just has the one baby girl.

Wilma will likely be fed up with Fred's shit eventually, and might wind up being as distant as Jane is.


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ArvTheGreat posted...

what kinda business did he have with anna she way out of his league

That was mostly my thought (and wondering why they hooked up in the first place kind of goes hand-in-hand with wondering why they eventually got divorced).

But apparently he just had mad game back when she was mostly a nobody who was doing eSports interviews, so maybe he was just super-charming and awesome and she was into that.


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In one case I'm basically a caveman, in the other I sit around pushing buttons all day and then go home to in my flying car to my super-high-tech house with robot maid.

Yeah, I think I know which one I'm picking.


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Sarcasthma posted...

Go get a job, Nathan.

You said you'd get one once Erik left, and he's been gone for years now.

Technically he said he'd get one once Erik closed his account to pay off the bet, and Erik explicitly said he was only leaving because he hated us all and waaaaaaaah (and that it wasn't to pay off the bet), so by strict adherence to terms, he wouldn't be obligated to.

That being said... yes, he probably should get one.


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I wouldn't even go if it was Toronto in Canada, I'm definitely not going to Kansas.


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MICHALECOLE posted...

Bitch I am not reading all of that

Then you'll never find the part in the middle where I hid a cipher that leads to pirate gold.


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I mostly know him as the former husband of Anna Prosser, because I watch her in various D&D stuff.

This is one of those cases where I'm super-curious about all sorts of details about this situation, but also accept that it's really none of my business (or anyone's business), so we should probably all just move on with our lives.


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Reposting this from another thread:

ParanoidObsessive posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Youre all gonna see all the movies

Ehh.

When the MCU started, I saw every movie in theaters. But I skipped Spider-Man Homecoming (and I still haven't gotten around to watching it, in spite of the fact that I bought it on DVD like two years ago), and I skipped Ragnarok and Black Panther in theaters (though I bought both on DVD and watched them right after). And then I skipped Captain Marvel entirely. I can literally chart my interest in the films slowly dying off.

I'm probably going to buy Far From Home on DVD when it comes out, but unless I motivate myself to watch Homecoming first, I almost certainly won't bother to watch that one either.

After that, future announced MCU movies include Black Widow (which I don't care about), The Eternals (which I don't care about), and Shang-Chi (who I didn't even give a shit about in the comics, and who I don't really care about in film form). So I can easily pass on all of those pretty much forever.

The only other films in the pipeline that we know about are a Doctor Strange sequel (which I would be interested in, except everything they've said about it so far makes me think it won't be worth my time), another Thor sequel (which I would be interested in, except everything they've said about it so far makes me think it's going to be adapting one of the worst Thor storylines ever written, so I'll absolutely be disinterested in it), and an eventual Guardians of the Galaxy sequel (which I would definitely be interested in, but all the shenanigans with James Gunn and plot points in Infinity War/Endgame makes me wonder if it will be as good as the previous two, or if I should just give it a pass).

Even as a huge comic geek, I have almost no interest in anything they're planning for at least the next three years. Sure, I might go see (or buy the DVD of) one or more of the new movies if reviews (from people whose opinions I trust) say they're really great, or if they reveal a concept I'm super-into, but at the moment, I could drop the MCU entirely and not really miss anything. Mainstream audiences may be even more disinterested, especially if burnout has set in from having to watch 22 movies over the span of 10 years to culminate in Endgame. It's a perfect jumping off point - a lot of people are going to, you know, jump off.

A lot of people are likely to stop watching the films soon, whether due to burnout, or because everything from Iron Man to Endgame feels like a complete story and they don't care about the new characters, or because they were younger when they watched them and feel like they've "grown out" of the franchise now, or because media in general just keeps demanding more and more of our time and we all have to prioritize what's most important to us. I'm sure the new movies will do extremely well regardless (even if older viewers age out, newer ones will likely age in, and China keeps growing as a market), and I'm sure tons of people will keep seeing them, and they'll probably remain cultural touchstones for a while to come.

But that doesn't mean I'll be watching them. Nor would I necessarily assume all the other geeks and nerds I know will bother watching them either.

tl;dr - do any of you feel like you've got total MCU fatigue and a general disinterest in the announced future movies? Or are you still excited for everything?


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Zeus posted...

Black Widow is meh unless they're recasting ScarJo. In general, BW basically killed ScarJo for me. I was iffy on her in IM2 and then Avengers was ugh.

No, they're not recasting her. My assumption is they're going to turn that movie into a simultaneous prequel/launching point.

ie, it sort of starts out as the prequel origin story of Scarlett Johansson's character, so they use her pre-established star power/character to pull existing fans in. But then because it's almost certainly going to also involve her early life and the training program she was part of, it gives them the opportunity to introduce other characters, and they can ultimately bring a new Widow into future movies.

We already know they've cast Yelena Belova for the film, so there's the first blatant option right there. There've also been a few other Black Widows in the comics (and a few Red Widows as well), so I could see them going that route. Or they could just introduce an entirely new character they invent for the films to be a new Black Widow. Probably complete with a throughline where there's a scene where "new Widow" is inspired to idolize Nat in a moment of great importance, then at the end of the film you have the new Widow learn that Nat basically sacrificed herself to save the entire universe (well, half of it, anyway), and then be all like "Well, the world needs a Black Widow", and then bam, guest appearances in future films/Avengers 5.

It kind of feels like they're pushing the idea of legacy characters a bit harder in Phase 4 - Falcon Cap, shitty Jane Foster Thor, probably keeping either Pepper or Rhodey around with Iron Man suits and probably bringing Miles Morales into Spider-Man eventually (and potentially introducing Kamala Khan in a Captain Marvel sequel) - so I could definitely see them going that route with Black Widow.

(It's probably too much to hope for that they use the movie to introduce the Soviet Super-Soldiers/Winter Guard, But we basically already got that movie anyway, when the Russians made "Guardians" as an Avengers rip-off a few years back.)


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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Jeez, where do they find these introduction and question asking people? They all seem to be kinda terrible.

Whenever any con opens up the audience for questions, it always seems like the most socially-inept, paralyzed by anxiety terror people march up to ask awkward, stilted questions in overly breathy voices, and try to insert their personal stuff into things, sending jolts of cringe down every spine.

It's not just comics or comic movies, I've seen it in a lot of other fandoms as well.

It's part of why I vastly prefer panels where either the people on stage decide what to talk about and basically just talk the entire time, or if they have to take questions, to pre-screen questions in advance and have them read by a single professional host rather than letting the audience ask them.

I understand that fans like to feel engaged and get a thrill from the interaction with their apparent heroes, but it makes it uncomfortable as fuck to watch/listen to as an outsider.


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MICHALECOLE posted...

Youre all gonna see all the movies

Ehh.

When the MCU started, I saw every movie in theaters. But I skipped Spider-Man Homecoming (and I still haven't gotten around to watching it, in spite of the fact that I bought it on DVD like two years ago), and I skipped Ragnarok and Black Panther in theaters (though I bought both on DVD and watched them right after). And then I skipped Captain Marvel entirely. I can literally chart my interest in the films slowly dying off.

I'm probably going to buy Far From Home on DVD when it comes out, but unless I motivate myself to watch Homecoming first, I almost certainly won't bother to watch that one either.

After that, future announced MCU movies include Black Widow (which I don't care about), The Eternals (which I don't care about), and Shang-Chi (who I didn't even give a shit about in the comics, and who I don't really care about in film form). So I can easily pass on all of those pretty much forever.

The only other films in the pipeline that we know about are a Doctor Strange sequel (which I would be interested in, except everything they've said about it so far makes me think it won't be worth my time), another Thor sequel (which I would be interested in, except everything they've said about it so far makes me think it's going to be adapting one of the worst Thor storylines ever written, so I'll absolutely be disinterested in it), and an eventual Guardians of the Galaxy sequel (which I would definitely be interested in, but all the shenanigans with James Gunn and plot points in Infinity War/Endgame makes me wonder if it will be as good as the previous two, or if I should just give it a pass).

Even as a huge comic geek, I have almost no interest in anything they're planning for at least the next three years. Sure, I might go see (or buy the DVD of) one or more of the new movies if reviews (from people whose opinions I trust) say they're really great, or if they reveal a concept I'm super-into, but at the moment, I could drop the MCU entirely and not really miss anything. Mainstream audiences may be even more disinterested, especially if burnout has set in from having to watch 22 movies over the span of 10 years to culminate in Endgame. It's a perfect jumping off point - a lot of people are going to, you know, jump off.

A lot of people are likely to stop watching the films soon, whether due to burnout, or because everything from Iron Man to Endgame feels like a complete story and they don't care about the new characters, or because they were younger when they watched them and feel like they've "grown out" of the franchise now, or because media in general just keeps demanding more and more of our time and we all have to prioritize what's most important to us. I'm sure the new movies will do extremely well regardless (even if older viewers age out, newer ones will likely age in, and China keeps growing as a market), and I'm sure tons of people will keep seeing them, and they'll probably remain cultural touchstones for a while to come.

But that doesn't mean I'll be watching them. Nor would I necessarily assume all the other geeks and nerds I know will bother watching them either.


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Trialia posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

I like flipflops because more sun exposure equals less tan lines. Also comfy and easy to wear.

I can't abide having anything between my toes...

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I've gone out to dinner before with friends and not really eaten, either because I wasn't hungry, or because the food was something I didn't like, or whatever. Because - especially as you get older - the opportunities to socialize with friends start to get rarer and rarer, so you should probably take the chances you have to have a good time with the people you enjoy hanging out with, even if that means all you're going to do is nibble on a couple things and not eat much. Or not eat at all.

Worst case scenario, you can always grab some food somewhere on the way home afterward.


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ChaosAzeroth posted...

Yahoo literally deleted my e-mail address because apparently didn't use it enough. And I know others they did that to.

So no, I don't.

How often did you check it? And how old was it at the time?

I'm at the point now where I maybe check my email like once a month (if not less) and they've never deleted mine.


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A couple different things on local public access, two commercials on more major networks.


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Yahoo search used to consistently give me better results on almost any search I did on any subject than Google ever did, until Yahoo cheaped out and just started using Bing for search results, at which point it got much worse. But it's still better than Google for a lot of things, depending on what you're looking for. The only thing Google is really universally better for is reverse image searches.



CTLM posted...

dragon504 posted...

for my email

Yep. Had the same email address for 22 years now. Why change it?

And this.

I have zero desire to ever use a Google account as my main e-mail for multiple reasons, and I've already got a 20-year old Yahoo email account, so I have zero reason to switch.

Fuck, if Rocketmail was still around (and hadn't been bought out by Yahoo years ago), I'd probably still be using that for email.


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TheWitchMorgana posted...

Lokarin posted...

I'm not sure when you turned salty... cuz I remember before kanakiri, you were always so nice.

you remember incorrectly

Nah, he's right - you weren't such a shit when you were Microx.


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Lokarin posted...

I never heard the word agape before... in that context.

On the wiki there's 4 ancient greek words for love: Philia, Agape, Eros and Storge. (but also Philautia and Xenia, I guess?)

The Greeks definitely differentiated between types of love, and their assumptions color a lot of how the modern perspective tends to see things. Like using "love" to describe both love of family, love of friends, sexual love, and even "love" of material things or experiences.

Agape usually only ever comes up in a religious context these days, though. This video actually touches on it pretty effectively:



(That video tends to define it in a Christian context, but it doesn't necessarily have to be limited to a single religion or philosophy.)



dedbus posted...

Wasn't ancient Greece pretty much the precursor to nambla and the Catholic Church rolled into one. Perhaps Plato invented the concept because he wanted to friend zone some deciple with the scraggly toes.

Depends on which city you're talking about. And "when" - "Ancient Greece" covers a lot of time.

Athens at one point in history definitely encouraged "man/boy" relationships as part of acculturation (ie, older men would fuck teen boys, and in return would provide the boys with gifts, general education, and access to a social network that would benefit them later in life - it was basically a mentorship program). But it's hard to even see it as being "wrong" at the time when you consider we're talking about a time period when teens basically WERE adults (both boys and girls could potentially marry and have kids as young as 13). The entire concept of "teen" as an in-between stage between child and adult didn't even exist until the Industrial Revolution, about 200-250 years ago or so. For most of human history, you were an adult by 14 or so (and potentially dead by 40, so you had a lot of life to cram in between the two). It's not really the same as current man/boy practices (though groups like NAMBLA would certainly try to draw those parallels to defend their position) - arguably today, because of how we socialize children, people arguably aren't even fully adult by age 20, let alone younger.

The Spartans, on the other hand, tended to look down on the Athenian practice. They also probably had more progressive views of homosexuality than most modern countries (being gay was pretty much mandatory in their military)... but they also had few qualms with murdering slaves as part of training, so it's not as if we should be looking to them as a model for modern behavior.

Other cities saw relationships in different ways, and you could probably write a book on the full complexity of ancient Greek sexual practices.

For most of history, cultures and groups would adapt to the conditions of their time, and do what worked best for them, in the context of how they saw the world. Our morality today isn't "objectively correct" any more than theirs was, and it's entirely possible that people 1000 years from now might look back at us and consider all sorts of things we do to be repugnant. You can't really expect people to conform to morality that won't exist for centuries after they're long dead (and which may itself in turn be deemed immoral or offensive by later generations).


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The Phantom Menace had an awesome trailer, too.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverTrustATrailer


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Korruptor posted...

I think GameFAQs won't be around in a few years.

Came in to say this. I suspect GameFAQs won't be here in 10 years, let alone 20.

Younger people tend to think that everything that's popular now (or that's at least be around for a long time) will stay around forever, but I've been on plenty of forums, boards, and chat rooms that no longer exist, even if they'd been around for years beforehand.

GameFAQs continues to slow-bleed users, technology has made the concept of a FAQ more or less obsolete, and click-ad revenue is becoming less and less effective as a means of income for Internet services. GameFAQs will eventually reach a point where it doesn't generate enough money to justify the costs, as which point C|Net/CBS will shut the whole thing down (they might try to salvage the branding by restructuring the entire site or trying to establish premium subscriptions to support things, but neither of those things would even remotely work for this site in the current environment).


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wwinterj25 posted...

I'd be more shocked if I actually saw you type something positive about something.

Then either you need to learn to pay better attention, or you don't actually read any of my posts.


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Skystrike70 posted...

Standards don't exist if that's the case. The whole point of a written code of law is that justice is doled out EQUALLY

No system of law on Earth has ever actually worked this way.


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Literally everything you mentioned was a case of "Fair, next."

It's not so much that you're being punished for having a moderation history, it's that you were probably previously getting away with things you should have been modded for.


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Depends on what you mean by "new spiderman".


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I've heard way too many negatives to be hopeful about this, but we'll see. I'd like for it to succeed, if only because I enjoyed Witcher 3. On the other hand, that wasn't enough to get me to read the novels, sooo...


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ferko420 posted...

Green day and weezer both started great

This is where we disagree.


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I can quote every spoken line in order in a lot of shows I used to watch. My memory is more verbal than visual, but it's near-photographic.

Or, at least, it used to be. As I get older, I've noticed I'm starting to get the stereotypical old people "senior moment" sort of memory blackouts where I can't remember things as well as I used to.

I may have to defrag my hard drive.


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ilovePUBG posted...

For Amazon Prime members only.

So not really free at all.



ilovePUBG posted...

so I bought Fallout 76. Game looks fun.

Oh, you poor blind summer child.


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Lokarin posted...

Platonic love is underrated and undervalued

I don't know if I'd entirely agree, but I have said for years that people in the modern era have completely forgotten what the concept even means.

In pretty much any TV show, movie, or form of media where two characters show anything resembling affection for either other, whether they be friends or even relatives, the Internet immediately explodes and the assumption seems to be that "affection = fucking" 100% of the time, no exceptions.

Supernatural basically had to introduce Castiel as a character so the shippers could fantasize about him and Dean fucking so the shippers would stop fantasizing about Sam and Dean fucking - because apparently two brothers really caring about each other can only mean unresolved sexual tension!

Two girls hold hands, for any reason? Holy shit, lesbians! Two male characters share a moment of camraderie? Dey gonn fuck! A guy character seems seems to be friendly with a female character? Obviously, they're either going to wind up together, or he's a beta cuck who secretly loves her while she doesn't care about him. The idea that, hey, maybe they're just friends is an alien concept these days.

And if you tried to explain the concept of agape (pronounced ah-gah-pay for those already preparing to make jokes) to people today, it would probably make their heads explode.


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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

"catgirls" like the one in that thumbnail are why people who like anime catgirls can't ever seem to talk about them without getting called furries. No. That thumbnail may well count as furry, but a "PROPER" catgirl is NOT. .

No, it's more that when you start talking about catgirls, the rest of us all start immediately assuming you're a yiffing pillow-fucking tentacle porn fan because the few thousand bad apples have spoiled your reputation.


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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

If you do not like ANY handheld, then don't come into a topic about handhelds, yes?

You're not the boss of me!


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EclairReturns posted...

No, because I have no Switch and have no intention of buying one.

This.

Plus the whole "I've never given a shit about Fire Emblem at any point, ever" thing.


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BeerOnTap posted...

r/teenagers

I'm probably old enough to be your dad.


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Zeus posted...

AllstarSniper32 posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I dislike them all equally.

Gotta go with this!

That's some low-class spoilsporting!

Not really. There's a world of difference between "I don't care about any of these things" and "These things are all objectively terrible and anyone who likes them is an idiot who should feel bad about themselves."

Like it or not, there are plenty of reasons why someone might not like handheld systems. And that even applies to the Switch, even if you want to try and say "No no, it's totally a console" just because you can dock it. Especially if someone has no real interest in Nintendo's first party titles.


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RedPixel posted...

Nade Duck posted...

what if episode 9 has time travel

Flashback to Episode 1:
[Jar Jar Binks walking through sand, sees a capsule stick out... he presses the button...]

So many possibilities, boys

The real reveal is that Anakin originally succeeded at stopping Palpatine, bringing balance to the Force, and ushering in a new golden age for the Jedi and the Republic with Padme by his side and his two loving children growing up under his protection and guidance, until they too go on to be incredibly influential figures in the Republic.

But Jar-Jar, the last of the Sith and Palpatine's hidden apprentice who went underground after his defeat, finds the last remaining fortress of a long-dead and forgotten race of technological masters, who invented working time travel. And then he uses it to travel back in time, to Naboo, where he pretends to be his own younger self and beings to manipulate events, sabotaging the Jedi, paving the way to Anakin's corruption, and the ultimate victory of the Sith.

Everything we've seen, in all of the movies, only happened because of Jar-Jar. He was indeed the key to all this.

But now, an even older Jar-Jar, embittered that even this new timeline ends with the fall of the Sith, has spent years trying to duplicate his original feat - he will travel back in time, track down Luke and Leia as children, and murder them before they can ever become a threat to the Empire and the Sith.

"I don't care if I have to change the past a thousand times - the Sith will win. After all, I only need to succeed once... and time... is on my side."


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

lmao probably realized they were gonna get shit on for being the hacks they are

"WHY DID YOU RUSH THROUGH A HALF-ASSED ENDING OF GAME OF THRONES SOLELY SO YOU CAN START WORKING ON A STAR WARS SERIES THAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO HATE INSTEAD?"

There would have been SO many awesome sarcastic questions, wedged between the whiny socially-inept questions from people who feel personally betrayed by bad writing, and people complaining because they named their kid after Dany.


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There's been a faithful release of the musical performance on VHS and DVD (about 20 years ago), but no literal film adaptation.

But I would also enjoy seeing a gritty reboot film of Zoobilee Zoo.


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If I ever had any kids in spite of multiple efforts to prevent their existence, the only recommendation I'm going to make is that they go to the abortion clinic.


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I've spent the last 20 years defiantly refusing to ever have kids. It's one of the first conversations I ever had with my girlfriend when we started getting serious about our relationship (the other being my refusal to ever get married). Fortunately, she was of more or less the same mindset, so it wasn't a conflict for us.

In fact, if I remember correctly, I think her reaction was along the lines of "Oh god, I don't want a baby growing inside me like some kind of alien parasite that comes busting out after nine months", which was the point when I knew it was indeed True Love.


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Krazy_Kirby posted...

they used real-world mythology as backstories to create the character. the mythology is the authority on the name thor.

Does the fact that comic Thor is blond while mythological Thor is a redhead absolutely shatter your entire worldview and call all of existence into question for you?

Because it should.


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