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There is no doubt that the decedent was the aggressor in the situation, but the question at the core of it all is: should the officer have used lethal force to stop him? The man was armed with a taser and had proven himself to be belligerent. Who knows what his thoughts or intentions were while clearly highly intoxicated. He could have tried to grab one of the officer's guns. He could have attacked people waiting in the drive-through. He could have just run off and that be the end of it. No one knows.

So I think it boils down to: could the officer have aimed for the man's legs to incapacitate him, and/or should he have?

I'm not going to offer an answer to that question because I cannot speak for the officer. I was not in that situation and cannot adequately understand the stress and thoughts and concerns that would be running through my mind. It's a situation that should be discussed fairly, but it certainly is not a killing as grievous as George Floyd.

Would be a cool way to introduce them to people who aren't WWE fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQjFoKLZj4

Cheese_Crackers posted...

Darth Swolo

XD

What say ye?

I like his stance that you cannot change what happens to you, only your reaction to it

"Practice does not make perfect because no one is perfect. Practice can bring one close to perfection, but the attempt is Sisyphean by its very nature. Inevitably the boulder will roll down the hill. The test of one's willpower is to continue pushing even when this happens; indeed, every time it happens. Do not get discouraged. Perfection is something to strive after, tirelessly.

If your focus is on achieving true perfection, it will slip through your fingers like sand. Do not regard it as an endpoint. View it as a beacon that forever remains too distant to reach, but the more you follow it the farther you will come."

The first music video ever aired on MTV

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I wouldve much preferred it being hinted at or explained in the context of one of the films instead of just the opening crawl. The idea of him coming back i was fine with. It was just terribly executed.

I read a YouTube comment that had a brilliant suggestion. Imagine if The Last Jedi ended with the Fortnite broadcast from Palpatine. Cue the shocked expressions of everyone, even Hux and Kylo, then cut to credits.

Hell with all the revised and edited shit Lucas has done, I'd be okay with Disney doing that.

Cry me a river, bro.
I already told you the movie fucking spells it out in the opening crawl. It's not a goddamn spoiler. Get over yourself.

UnfairRepresent posted...

That makes no sense. Things in trailers spoil stuff all the time

If you're watching Endgame, it's fair on the producers' part to assume you're familiar with the movies that led up to it.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Well I never saw the teaser trailer and it's the 3rd movie in a trilogy.

Now you've spoiled for me that he's the dude behind everything.

Just put *spoilers* in the topic title and blank out the name, it's not hard.

Don't worry, the movie will literally spoil it for you in the opening crawl. It's not a spoiler in the sense you think.

Swagger_Dagger posted...

I always thought Palpatine letting Windu win just always made sense for Anakin's turn? What narrative reason would there even be for Palpatine to actually lose the fight?

To show that he is not an unbeatable foe simply because of unsurpassed skills with the Force and lightsaber combat, but because of his political manipulation and emotional deception that would make even the most sociopathic of men blush. Even when he *should* be stopped, he somehow finds a way to circumvent his demise. Which is why his return in TROS is canonically consistent.

NeonOctopus posted...

He doesn't do anything. Literally the only reason people like him is cuz he's Samuel L Jackson >___>

Led the rescue on Geonosis
Bum-rushed a notorious bounty hunter and killed him with lethal precision
Defeated Darth Sidious in combat (as confirmed by George Lucas)

Jabodie posted...

It was an ass pull based on one line in episode 3.

Maybe, but at least it's consistent

UnfairRepresent posted...

Nice spoilers dude

His reveal is literally in the teaser trailer.
Try harder.

Everyone saying "how the Hell did he survive Return of the Jedi?!" and saying it's silly... do they not remember Episode III and the story of Darth Plagueis and the powers of the Dark Side?

"The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural" (a line even repeated by Sidious in TROS)

and

"Ironic... he could save others from dying... but not himself."

The latter line referring to Plagueis, and it's heavily implied Sidious was his apprentice. So the Emperor coming back in TROS brings all this full circle, and even implies that perhaps he already knew how to bring himself back from the dead way back in Ep III, and possibly knew how to save Padme's life, but purposely kept that knowledge hidden from Anakin.

George Lucas unequivocally stated that Mace Windu bested Palpatine.

Now, once Anakin arrived and it was all "I'm too weak, please help me," that was manipulation on Palpatine's part.

But the dude got beat.

au_gold posted...

D

He couldnt sense a Sith Lord sitting right in front of his face for however many years.

Neither could Yoda or Obi-Wan.

...so who else would be the most badass Jedi in the films?

LethalAffinity posted...

Cried like a bitch when he got his hand cut off and his dogmatic devotion to the order completely blinded him.

(1) his reaction to the dismemberment sounded more painful than other Jedi because he was unaccustomed to pain; no one had ever managed to seriously harm him before

(2) all the Jedi back then were blinded by dogmatic devotion

I say Confirm.

Okay, so a long time ago I spilled a drink on my laptop's keyboard, which ended up making it act wonky.

I bought a plug-in keyboard to take care of this problem, but now every once in a while the laptop's keyboard acts weird, like certain keys are stuck. The "3" key might be binded so it goes 3333333333333333333 until I blow underneath it and fidget with the key a little.

Anyway, right now it seems that the Delete key is activated. Any time the cursor is in front of some text, it deletes it automatically.

I'm trying to get my laptop to completely ignore its built-in keyboard and only listen to my plug-in.

modena posted...

I have to do that several times a year at work.Well I guess I dont really have to but eh, they will sit there like "Thank you God".

Where do you work?

Pretty damn cool :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4VlMzv0-tM

True.

I voted option 2, because I remember in ESB when Luke asks Yoda "is the Dark Side stronger?" Yoda replies, "No. Quicker, easier, more seductive."

So I don't think Yoda would gain strength or power in the Force, but he's a such a potent Force user that I don't see him losing anything in the process, either.

Thoughts?

Ricemills posted...

freezing + suffocation, trapped under ice lake.

Ironically enough, I believe this combination actually makes it more feasible for you to survive. I've seen a few stories where people were trapped under the ice of a frozen lake for several minutes (10-15) but when they were rescued they were actually revived and suffered no brain damage. Something about the super cold temperatures lowering their metabolism and heart rate so much that their body was sort of in a "stasis" mode.

dr_strangelove posted...

hopefully they gave him a HUGE shot of morphine beforehand

Not even sure that would help, to be honest.

bigtiggie23 posted...

Freezing is a walk in the park compared to everything else on the list.

That's the one I would choose as my way to die, from the list. I actually like the cold and I find it much more bearable to withstand extreme cold than extreme heat.

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OxrBik16Hzg

If that's Thich Quang Duc, I'm well familiar with him. And I would be hard-pressed to find a more awe-inspiring example of human willpower than that. Un-fucking-real.

au_gold posted...

Burning seems like the most painful.

Indeed. I can't even fathom it. I mean, I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but when you think about the difficulty of, say, keeping your hand on a hot burner (I think most people could only handle a second or two at the absolute most), to imagine that kind of pain across your entire body, and prolonged, possibly for minutes. Ugh, no thanks.

Underleveled posted...

My actual least-preferred way (to the point where it's practically a phobia) isn't on here.

I am curious

Burning for me, followed by drowning, which IMO is a worse form of suffocation.

There are so many of these fan edits on YouTube, of the climactic scene in ROTJ, in which flashbacks are intercut in the scene, showing the thoughts going through Vader's mind. This one is my favorite; if they ever decided to include such an edit in the official version, this is the one I would go with. So emotional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZGyFm6zZeU

DeadBankerDream posted...

Please don't.

Why not? It's an interesting thought experiment.

ChrisTaka posted...

Has anyone ever actually died by force lightning? For all we know Windu probably didn't die till he hit the ground.

I dunno man, Windu's shouting stopped a few moments before he got sent flying out the window, and the look on his face seemed like his whole system was just caput at that point, like an unresponsive meat sack twitching with electric impulses

What say ye?

What do you think?

The beginning of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
The ending of November Rain by GNR.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Ancient Greeks didnt have to compete against Americans, so that old record is irrelevant

I could just as easily say that Americans don't have to compete against ancient Greeks.

What's your point?

Strider102 posted...

You know what they say.

Once you go grey there ain't no other way.

The Longest Yard reference?

The record was 12 independent Olympic wins, set by ancient athlete Leonidas of Rhodes.

It's like Tony Robbins' quote from Shallow Hal: "The brain sees what the heart wants it to feel."

:)

Look at it this way, TC, if you were an ugly old witch, that means probably no one has ever wanted to be physical with you, so you'd be seething with horny rage. I bet she's a monster in bed. :D

Strictly measured I'm 6.75"

Average is around 5.5" so I'm good.

What say ye?

Veggeta X posted...

I'd say 90% of people on FB talks out of their ass. They are all self-righteous and entitled like hell. They feel their opinion are the most important thing in the world. No one knows how to be modest on FB.

In person I bet most of them would be too timid to even speak their mind at all

Cracks me up. Like I really give a fuck who you are lmao