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Weird.

Well that sucks.
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Its gone from all my old posts, but not any new posts I make.

Has this alway been the case? >_>

Also apparently "goobies" is flaming. Dangit. <_<
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ForestLogic posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Lol.

But tofu actually is good. Yall goobies need to try mapo tofu, or fried tofu.

Idk man. The fact it needs to be deep fried or smothered in a strong sauce doesn't really lend much to it.

Tofu isnt something you eat for taste, but texture. It takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it in/with.

Its got a firm, yet spongey texture thats nice to bite into and melts in your mouth. The fried varieties even more so.

It pairs really nice with rice or noodles. And is great in curry
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Bojack's 1st ep is awful but if you push forward it gets better and better. Unfortunately the first ep establishes everything you need to know so you cant really skip it >_>

@SSJCAT you should try to get through two or three episodes before you write it off. I was in your camp until I forced myself to watch the second ep.
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Lol.

But tofu actually is good. Yall goobies need to try mapo tofu, or fried tofu.
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Compelling? Million Yen Women starts as a weird as mystery amd gets crazier every epsiode. By the halfway point I couldnt put it down
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Try "Million Yen Women"!
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Madoka's "omnipotence" only really extends to being the patron deity of Magical Girls. Her biggest feat was the result of a single wish that was the result of specific conditions.

Its like saying Sayaka can heal other people because she wished Kyuskiko would have his hand fixed. >_>
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From personal experience, you should not initiate small talk if you're not interested in small talk. It comes out as awkward and insincere. There's nothing wrong with not being good at it, by the way.
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mach25687 posted...

The fuck would you change Ralph weapon? That already the biggest fuck up. Hell, I have no problem with April being black, hell it worked for Iris in the Flash. But wow this is like when they change Mikey weapon for the Europe version of the show.

I want to say its so they can have Raph actually use his weapons without audiences wondering why he isn't stabbing everybody.

But then Leo still has a sword so... >_>
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It's two very different animals.

The flexibility of American super heroes is what makes some of its most famous stories possible.

Bill Finger and Bob Kane would have likely never made Nightfall or Under the Red Hood. Superman wouldnt have "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow". Wonder Woman wouldn't have the George Perez run.

Deadpool wouldn't be nearly as famous as he is now if he was forever Rob Liefeld's. Heck, most of the modern X-men characters would not exist in their current, most popular forms.

Meanwhile, manga's unilateral control under a single writer and artist allows great overaching continuity and artistic integrity, these stories are generally made under intense deadlines and directions can change on the whim of the author, the editor, or the audience week by week.

Fairy Tail never kills anyone important because the author was afraid of alienating readers. Dragon Ball Z is constantly making stuff up on the fly.

In some cases, these wild divergences work. Other times they dont.

In summation, both models have advantages and disadvantages. You should care more about the story being told than the medium telling it.
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dave_is_slick posted...

Yes really. The dude was unimportant as all he'll and it was fully in Poe's character to do that. Y'all need to lighten up.

You mean the character who, one movie ago, gave a Hitler-esque speech before blowing up multiple planets? That character is supposed to be unimportant?

Imagine if Carrie Fisher gave Tarkin a wet willie. That's the level of nonsense of that scene.

And while it may have been within Poe's character, it's not generally within an evil empire's character to fall for a prank that could have opened a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The movie doesnt need this scene to happen that way. There are countless other ways Poe could form a distraction to buy time without turning the FO into a power rangers villain.

Ivan Ooze had more dignity for goodness sake.
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I misred title as "George's mom shoots sex offender" and now my brain is trying to piece together an absurd Seinfeld skit.

But glad for her. Hiding in her closet? Dont take any chances with that.
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Was it a picture of ahegao or a "we'll just print the word so normies cant figure it out " shirt?
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He got cucked by his own kid.
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I don't believe anything will come of this investigation. Not necessarily because I have faith in Trump's innocence, I just have a gut feeling that he'll come out of whatever dirt they could pin on him.
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I played one of them. Liked the actual game, but the plot felt like some Jr High student's fiction project based on everything he thought was cool about anime.
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I'm so picky. Darling in the Frank is good, but they dragged out the beginning too long. Hopefully things will pick up now that Shinji finally got in the robot. >_>

Cant bring myself to care about the other stuff. But I keep meaning to check out the Antarctica one.
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I'd love this actually.
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The first 3 epsiodes of PB would make for an amazing live action movie. Its the only arc I would realistically trust Hollywoo with. But for sheer feasibility...

They could probably pull off Battle Tendency. It would feel rushed as heck.

Part 3 is way too long and episodic to work as a movie.

A Part 4 movie could also work, but it would have to be very different. Skip Angelo and RHCP. Make it all about Kira. The story would be structured entirely differently, but you could tell a good story, I think.

Part 5 could handle a movie. The premise is perfect for a movie, actually. (Gangsters go renegade to take down their own boss). Treat it like a heist movie with really charismatic performances for the gang and it would be fun.

Part 6 lol. Well actually...yeah. This would be great. Most of the arc is "survive in prison" except the final sprint to Cape Canaveral. It might work better as a movie, actually. The audience knowing nothing about Dio or Jotaro would do them a service, since a big part of Jolyne's arc is having this legacy forced upon her and resenting her absentee dad. They'd have to rewrite Pucci's parts a bit to not lean too heavily on intricate lore knowledge. But "perform a ritual to create a macguffin out of ambiguously sexually charged admiration to a vampire" is fine.

7 could work, but it would have to focus entirely on Johnny's character arc and be three hours long.

Part 8 would be a pretty fly Netflix series.
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Wait, I just realized we're talking about 2 different scenes. "Talk first" was 7. Youre thinking of VIII.

In which case, the distraction was the worst thing ever. It requires the movie to make an ass out of its villain, by having a military officer (an entire room full of them) completely fall for a juvenile prank.

Thats not outsmarting the villain. Thats forcing your characters to act out of character to prop up a joke. The scene would not work in any normal context, you need to actively dumb down your villains to make it work.
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Darmik posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Explain why a distraction requires neutering your villain's gravitas in the opening scene. Because your defense does not address anything I've mentioned.

Because then we'd get a minute long conversation where nothing else happens until the action starts? That guy isn't even the main antagonist. He's a boring New Order officer.

It's typical adventure movie stuff. The hero outsmarts the villain. Often they're being a smartass.

We didnt get a minute long conversation. Poe's quip was ignored and his "distraction" was never in any danger. The scene would have played out exactly the same way if he'd never said anything.

He was carted off, the villagers killed, BB8 runs off somewhere.
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Darmik posted...

It was a scene where the guy was trying to distract him long enough to set up an ambush.

This stuff is pretty common in action movies.

Explain why a distraction requires neutering your villain's gravitas in the opening scene. Because your defense does not address anything I've mentioned.

stoltenberg11 posted...

I think having the jokes come right at the beginning of the movies is the worst thing about it. It immediately kills off some of the tension for the rest of the movie for me when I see the villains being joked around with in the first scene

Yes! These opening acts set up the tone of the entire film.
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Darmik posted...

spanky1 posted...

Yeah I get what you're saying. So to contrast, the original trilogy would use humor in places between points of dramatic tension, while the new trilogy uses humor during these same points of dramatic tension, at the expense of the dramatic tension.

What a load of bologna. The Princess Leia rescue is full of comic relief.

And not a single joke undercut the situation because of its timing.

Lines like "That was a boring conversation anyway" and "What a wonderful smell you've discovered" came during natural lulls in the action.

By contrast "Do you talk first, or do I talk first?" Happened at the climax of rising tension of an otherwise very serious scene. It treated the drama as a set-up for a punchline.
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Yeah. The OT wasn't perfect, to be fair. Most people roll their eyes at the Ewoks for similar reasons. (Its hard to take a fight between imperial soldiers and teddy bears seriously. You need to have a certain taste for kitsch)

My problem with modern star wars is the severity of the switch. Like I said, VII was almost perfect in the opening.

VIII was way worse. The FO were strategically defeated by a crank call

Its frustrating in Marvel too, but its always been sort of like that so I can enjo a few for what they were. In Dr Stranges case (which the video mentions) I felt the times it did devote to pure drama were good enough to make up for it.
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Evening bump
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A big fun of DBZ is its ever-building mythology.

So when a non-canon movie happens that cannot further build onto that mythos, it's going to feel hollow.

I liked a few of them, though. Like Cooler, or the first Broly movie.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...

Well I don't watch these movies because I want a deep, compelling drama. I'll take Poe's jokes over George Lucas's failed attempts at making C3PO jokes

So what did you watch the original trilogy for, assuming you did?

Because while it could be silly or poorly executed at times, serious character drama has been at the center of every major arc in the franchise.
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averagejoel posted...

Star Wars has always been full of comic relief. did you not watch the original trilogy?

You seem to have missed the point entirely.

It's not the existence of comic relief that is the problem, but the timing. The Sequel Trilogy uses jokes to undercut dramatic tension.

Its not all bad though. In TLJ, BB8 doing the "electric whack a mole" was great. It was humorous and complemented the tension, rather than destroying it. Mark "do you feel it" Hamill's sarcasm worked because there wasn't any tension to break, and helped criticize Rey's character to set up her growth.

But then you go back and VII destroys Phasma's character just so old fans can laugh about a trash compactor. Its all over the place.
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Tl;dw: "Bathos" is a literary device that uses a sudden change from drama, to humor.

The video creator explains that even if the jokes can be funny, they come at the expense of allowing an audience to get emotionally invested. Goes further and says the pervasiveness of this tool makes the movie creators seem afraid, and are using the drama-breaking quips as a crutch.

I'm inclined to agree. And I feel like all too often people use arguments like "its a movie about superheroes" or "its a movie about laser swords" to defend this trope. But just because a movie can be fantastical or silly in premise doesn't mean they can't tell good stories.

Star Wars as an example, for two episodes in a row now, have sacrificed the gravitas of its villains in the opening scene so Poe Dameron could make the audience laugh. Which sucks because otherwise VII couldve had, imo, the best opening scene in the franchise.

I don't care if the good guys are going to win anyway. Laughing at the incomptence of Storm Troopers is something you do when you're back at home talking about the movie with your friends. When I'm watching the movie I want to be invested. And I can't care about the heroes if the movie won't at least pretend the villains are a credible threat. >_>
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Balrog0 posted...

I just don't really understand why you would switch their roles like that

Just to be different.

It's a shame, because I don't mind Raph being a leader, but it would be so much more impactful if he became the leader because Leo deferred it to him out of respect or something. There's a lot of potential with this dynamic that cant be realized because (i assume) the traditional characterizations and lore are different from the outset
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April looks more like Irma to be honest. Must be the glasses. >_>

Anyways the art style is trash. But whatever. Turtles get a new series every five to ten years, this will blow over.
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As a Sonic 2 fan, here's why I feel Sonic 2 is better than 3K

-levels dont feel overly long
-levels are generally more fun and interesting
-art direction just tickles my fancy better.
-music is better
-special stages are simpler to find and more satisfying to win(blue spheres is ugly and clunky)

And specifically, Sonic 3 has Hydro City, Carnival Night, and Marble Zone, none of which I particularly care for.
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When I was a kid I could never bewt Dark Link without Dins Fire and a magic potion.

These days I feel stupid for not figuring out I just need to not Z-target lol.
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Couple of possibilities:

Your boss is a time traveller, and prevents you from playing foosball to protect the future. Skynet probably just activated after that last game.

The Reverse Flash is trying to ruin your life.

You're living the plot of a Goosebumps book and your boss is an angry ghost that haunts the table. If you burn the table he'll move on to the afterlife and youll be free. But as the credits begin to roll guy 2 will look at the camera and have glowing eyes and creepy laughter. Freeze frame. The end.
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thelovefist posted...

I know he was in court yesterday for the 3rd degree sexual exploitation of a minor charges, but can't find anything as to what happened.

What? Thought that was some other state. Did they extradite him? >_>
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PiOverlord posted...

Why did I click that?!? What else did I think was going to pop up?!?

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Was your cashier Natasha Fatale? O.o
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DevsBro posted...

Gus, don't be lukewarm cheese on a reheated pizza. No cashier cares about the soda you buy.

I mean you say that but I literally had this conversation with a cashier once:

*hands a PSN gift card*
"Oh pley stey shown I het pley stey shown mai boyfrend hez a pley stey shown and it iz all he doez do you hev a 3 or a 4?
[Lie]"... Actually, it's a gift."

Ah. But, judging by your humorous appropriation of early 2000's text speech, she can't read. She wont know it says "gamer fuel". >_>
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Hoping its good. Didnt donate but I was looking forward to it.
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Gus, don't be lukewarm cheese on a reheated pizza. No cashier cares about the soda you buy.
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I saw this too.

I doubt it'll literally be marketed as "girl Doritos" any more that diet coke is marketed as "fat coke". It'll have some catchy name and emphasize its "cleanliness" in hopes that women (who apparently dont buy doritos) will buy them.

Heck, Id love to try them. I actually love Doritos but I hate always needing to wash m hands after eating a few chips. >_>
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@BignutzisBack ?
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Link HT posted...

TheGrindery posted...

Tezlok posted...

nintendo makes up shit on the fly about their stuff, particularly mario. there is no real mario canon, and everything nintendo says is bullshit. just play each game as it's own thing and don't think about it too much

My favorite is when people wouldn't fuck off about the Zelda timeline so Nintendo forced Hyrule Hystoria.

And then proceeded to release BotW which fits in none of the timelines.

Nintendo doesn't give a shit about timeline consistency between games if it gets in the way of what they want to make. At most the games contain some cool references for fans of the series but they never go out of their way to make sure everything makes sense.

Didn't they openly admit that they completely ignore timeline Placement during development? Swear I read that in an interview. Its like the last thing they think up before its finished, if they even bother. >_>
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