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Zeus posted...

No matter what, it was going to be a shitshow. Blaming it on Trump is just silly, especially considering that it's liberal areas -- places that don't like, trust, or listen to Trump -- that have been hit the hardest.

False.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-unique-threat-south-young-people/609241/

The South and most Red states are getting hit much harder proportionally, mainly because their idiot leaders followed Trump's lead and refused (and still are) to act accordingly. WA is only bad because it was ground zero in the US, and NYC/NJ is only suffering because it is the mostly densely packed place in America. CA is actually doing pretty damn well. That's a far cry from states that are reeling due to political incompetence.

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The only oddity for me was when I thought I would be getting the most recent Dominion expansion when it came out on March 16. The delivery dated was changed to like September 16 just days before it was supposed to ship. Some digging indicated before the shipment from the game manufacture had been delayed due to COVID.

Stranger still, I got an alert that it shipped today, but still says it won't arrive until September. So yeah, I guess their algorithm is being a bit wonky.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My best friend's currently in the hospital. He started showing symptoms shortly before being told that someone else he works with had tested positive.

So that sucks. Fortunately he's extremely likely to make a full recovery with no problems because of his age/health/etc, but this is now the first case where someone I actually know in real life caught it, as opposed to just random strangers.

Not entirely surprising, considering how intense it is in central NJ (more than anywhere outside of NYC itself - and the NYC region as a whole accounts for like half the infections in the US at the moment).

Truly feel for you, and hope he makes a full recovery. To be in the hospital is interesting, though-I didn't think they were sending people to the hospital for it, unless you were at risk/had really bad symptoms.

Case in point, one of my best friends is 99% he got it, and is just now over it. He was tested last week, but he won't have the results until tomorrow at earliest, and he's already out of the woods. But he was told not to go to a hospital. I know someone else that feels fairly certain they have it, in another state, and they were also told not to go.

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Zeus posted...

Shit, Onward is *already* on Disney+! And here I went ahead and read the spoilers a few weeks ago since I figured I wouldn't see it any time soon.

Glad I waited. It's been available to buy for like $20 on Amazon for a week or 2. I wasn't that interested, but boredom and the allure of seeing something out now in my home almost made me do it.

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I'm really lucky. NBC has paid me for all 3 weeks I haven't worked, but that ends after tomorrow.

I'm not essentially, since all I do is make expensive, grown-up make-believe. The irony of course being that the arts and entertainment are the only thing keeping people sane right now. But there's enough media to last a person many lifetimes, and it's impossible to do film/TV without being in close proximity to other humans.

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Veedrock- posted...

Galaxy 1 is so two decades ago. Didn't realize Odyssey got such high ratings actually, but it missed the 2017 finals due to the one game per system format that Zelda won.

Yeah, SMO is one of the highest rated games EVER, along with it's Galaxy brothers. It should be beating basically everything.

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Not as good as XC1, and hard to compared to XCX, but still a great game. I feel like all the characters and overall story were a step back, but I liked how it all relates at the end. The combat was WAY more satisfying I thought, the Burst Combos and the stagger-topple-launch-slam aspect was fun. The revolving door of Blades to tinker with and power up also because a lot of fun and made combat fresh. Plus, I loved having the announcing be like "OUTSTANDING!" and whatnot. Once the combat started clicking, it really carried the game.

One thing that makes me want to imprison the design team to hell is whoever thought it would be a good idea to let all the characters, blades, SFX, music, and announcer speak over each other at once. You'll have like 10 characters/blades all saying shit at once, with all the other sounds, and it sounds like a god damn debug test. Compare that to XC1, where they actually talk to each other during combat.

I did like the world and the story, and like the dynamic between Rex and Pyra. Prefer the more "mature" cast of AC1, and felt the story was more pressing and interesting.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Was that the super-realistic CGI one? I liked the twist in that one at least.

Yeah. It was a cool twist at the end.


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Metalsonic66 posted...

The "Good Hunting" episode of Love, Death, Robots was pretty neato.

Beyond the Altaris Rift or w/e is definitely my favorite one.

Fun fact, that series came into being after the creators tried to write a new Heavy Metal movie for years, and it basically turned into this.

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Got Animal Crossing, but holding off on Doom until I free up more of my Steam backlog. And I basically can't even look at social media anymore, it's pathetic how much everyone is freaking out over having to stay inside.

We're in the golden age of beer, board games, and media accessibility. There's zero reason this should be a problem to anyone. And for those that legit have a hard extrovert personality, Skype, Facetime, and a litany of other programs can easily replicate the need for social interaction.

For me, this is more or less the same as I would be doing with time off anyways. I'm only going out to see my lady at her place, and she hasn't left anywhere, either.

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Airplane! is even older, and basically kicked off Nielsen's comedy career, and is considered a top 10 all-time comedy.

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Aculo posted...

the one with milo ventimmiggolololo, or whatever his name is?

The same.

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Judgmenl posted...

Do none of you have 401ks?
Do you guys even have jobs?

What does that have to do with anything?

All of those things are going to affected, and there's nothing anyone can do about it, especially not the waste that just occurred. People who have student debt have those things too, you know.

Hardly anything is stronger than Purchasing Power. Stocks will recover.

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Aculo posted...

what is your show?

Evel (as in Knievel)

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At least here in New Mexico, Stranger Things, my show, and every production that I know of just got put on a 2-week pause.

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papercup posted...

Why do the dems want to lose

Polls show Biden consistently beating Trump, and I'm not sure how the candidate failing to get more Democrats to show up for him would somehow do better. Unfortunately, most of Bernie's support is in the Youth Vote, also known as the exact bloc that doesn't vote- despite recently increases.

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darkknight109 posted...

Seriously, have people forgotten that the PT turned Darth Vader, arguably the most iconic fictional villain ever, into an angsty teenager that leg-humped his way to the dark side?

That's not shitting on canon, though- hell, there's almost no way Anakin WOULDN'T be angsty. As it's repeatedly stated, becoming moody, short-tempered, and impatient is a natural path to the Dark Side. Anger>Fear>Hatred>Dark Side. Having Anakin be a stone-cold, evil hearted bastard would be unrealistic and stupid.

What was clearly weak was WHY he became angsty- Padme. He should have just been written to be impatient and frustrated that the Jedi were holing him back, possibly out of their own fear. Which the movies DO show, it's just that Padme and his prophecy ending up becoming the lynch-pin reason, which is dumb.

Or that it turned the Force from a mystical energy field into a bacterial infection?

As fucking stupid as that is, it doesn't really change anything, though. It just attempts to apply a science-y way to measure the Force. Dumb, but this doesn't ultimately matter, and is never mentioned after TPM.

Or that the Jedi were portrayed not as a sect of enlightened warrior-mystics, but as a bunch of scowling old guys that sat in a circle and talked about politics all day?

And...why wouldn't that be the case? The Republic is portrayed as a relatively stable enterprise, that's just starting to break apart in civil conflict. It makes perfect sense for them to be more political and communal.

On top of that, I'm not sure what movies you were watching, but a big part of II and III WAS showing the Jedi be badass, enlightened warrior-mystics.To the point where a plot point of emphasis is that the Jedi don't have the numbers or time to be the Republican's personal army. Hence the need for the Clone Army.

And this is without touching the myriad of plotholes that the PT opened up, like how Leia could possibly remember her mother when she was all of three minutes old when Padme suddenly died of the dumbest cause imaginable; or how Obi-Wan somehow completely forgets R2-D2 (and vice versa) and also claims to have never owned a droid despite, y'know, owning a droid in Episode III; or how Obi-Wan claims Anakin was already an amazing pilot when he met him despite the fact that Episode I shows us that Anakin had never even set foot inside a starship when he met Kenobi (and also that he was nine years old).

Only the first one is a plothole, but one that ultimately doesn't really matter or affect anything. It really can't be justified how Lucas fucked that point up with Leia. That said, it's just a bad continuity error, and doesn't ultimate affect the story or change anything, which is what you're confusing the PT for doing, when the ST ACTUALLY is guilty of this- a LOT (more on that below).

Obi-Wan claiming to not own a droid isn't really a plothole, because it's debatable if their Star Droids are just assigned to Jedi and their ships, rather than being "owned" by them. This is clearly different than Anankin, say, owning C-3PO. And no one seems to have ever concretely owned R2-D2, beside from maybe Luke from Empire onward.

And Anakin being an accomplished pilot comes from A) his Pod-Racing B) his exploits on the Battle of Naboo, which Obi would have heard about later.

Say what you will about the ST, at least the characters were consistent with their OT incarnations.

Yeah, no. Largely the biggest gripe with TLJ and the ST as a whole is how badly they fucked up Luke's character. Leia and Han are barely in it enough to matter.

Now, compare this to actually shitting on the OT, like:
-Completely doing a 180 on Luke's character
-breaking the lore of space travel in half: "Holdo maneuver" (shouldn't be possible) or Hyperspeed skipping (literally impossible as established by the OT. Entire scenes revolve around the plotpoint that going to Hyperspeed needs to be done in a speific way)
-Taking absolutely hilarious liberties with The Force, allowing it to randomly now teleport objects, interact with objects physically from far away/via the Force, heal, life drain, apparently the ability to ghost possess people (or something), Force Ghosts can physically and metaphysically interact with the real world, etc. jesus I can;t go on
-Basically rehashing the entire OT in general

And that's just speaking strictly within the confines of "shit on OT." There's SO much else that's bad in addition to this. How much random shit happens in TRoS without any explanation alone is staggering. There's a lot bad about the PT, but the ST look like they were made by someone who has no idea what Star Wars is, or simply doesn't give a fuck,


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Basically, Iran shot on an empty base, and there are no known casualties so far. And they claim that's all they will do, so long as the US doesn't retaliate.

Let's see if Trump and the generals are dumb enough to do it, anyways.

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Diane Kruger is 43.

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wwinterj25 posted...

I'd agree although I think attack of the clones is worse.

AotC's biggest offense are the horrid Anakin and Padme scenes, which admittedly take up a lot of time. They are poorly acted, the writing is awful, largely pointless, and a stupid plot point that sets up an even dumber plot point (Anakin's reason for falling in RotS).

But TRoS's Palpatine non-sense and completely loose way they apply the Force shits on the entire series canon and point, which is a greater sin than anything else.

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I mean, metric is pretty shit when being used to measure small ranges (like human height), is definitely inferior when it comes to weather temperatures, and is a little clumsier when it comes to car speeds. Basically, metric isn't a good fit for all things.

adjl posted...

I see the "0-100F intuitively covers a reasonable range of air temperatures" point made a lot, but that's completely meaningless.

That's untrue, though. Anyone working out of a base 10 system (i.e., basically everyone) is almost naturally going to be more comfortable with a 0-100 range, which absolutely applies to weather temperature and automobile speed ranges. It's just easier to conceptualize. Fahrenheit is also for that reason an unquestionably better way to measure weather/air temperature as it relates to day-to-day human concerns. 0 being very cold and 100 quite hot is more precise and easier to relate than -18 to 37.

And I dunno about you, but I can definitely make the distinction between 70, 75, and between. And it's useful to know!

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That's not even a hot take. Most would agree at this point that the PT>ST, which is pretty remarkable.

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Zeus posted...

Either Pokemon or a harem anime.

This, although I'd say Death Note first. Not gaining their powers doesn't matter, since the Death Note IS the power. Having one would rule so hard for me.

But yeah, not getting their powers means like almost all Shonen is out.

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