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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I see a lot of complaints about this

Like

I'm a fan

I like being serviced

Fan service sounds great

The fan service was like:

"Here's a cool 3 second cinematic shot from Episode 4, except we've reframed it in a different context"

And they used some of the classic call backs from EVERY movie like "I've got a bad feeling about this".

More than anything, though, the fan service feels especially appropriate because so much of the effort from this movie was about reconnecting the threads fron the OT to the New Trilogy after Rian took a SHIT on so much of that. Sometimes I was just satisfied when J.J. spent a scene just fixing some of the garbage of Episode 8. Like, when Rian "circumvents expectations" by "undermining the entire fucking conceit of space battles by hyperdriving into a Star Destroyer". God fucking damnit.

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That movie was tight as fuck. What the actual fuck are people complaining about?

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I get this all the time because I suffer from major depression and it makes me lose interest it everything quite frequently.

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Gamerguymass posted...

Women did evolve breasts to attract men after all.

Probably not, no.

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Highwind07 posted...

I only agree with GTAV and Portal 2 on this list but that is it.

Disco Elysium is the most well-written game of all time and it's not even close.

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Portal 2, as much as I love it, is probably too short to be a game of the decade tbqh.

Pokemon Go was a fad. It's actual game system was horribly compromised.

Fortnite... Well, I won't give them a hard time for Fortnite. It's too successful to argue otherwise.

Decent list other than that.

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Alright, but fer real, what the fuck?!

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Yay

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Palpatine's plan is another one of the parts of the prequels that was handled surprisingly well. He was maneuvering everybody against one another to create his own rise to power. Episode II showed how he secured emergency powers (and thus the means to raise and maintain an army) by which he could later use to subjugate the systems that opposed him (systems which would eventually become the Rebel Alliance from the OT, systems which include Naboo and Alderaan).

Episode III is about making himself a martyr worthy of permanent power--keep in mind that the Chancellor is an elected position, and over time, as he said himself in Episode III via the story of Darth Plagueis, he was afraid of "losing his power." When the Jedi sought to arrest him for being a Sith Lord, as he knew they would--because he fed Anakin the means by which to bring the Jedi to his office and attempt an arrest--he used their attack as a justification for turning against the Jedi and naming them enemies of the Republic.

It all does make sense if you watch the prequels as Palpatine's master plan, rather than a loosely connected series of political scenes and battle scenes. Almost every single detail winds into the culmination of Palpatine becoming the permanent emperor of the "first Galactic Empire."

Agreed. I thought the over-arching plot was actually a very good template. Palp's manipulated the weaknesses of a democracy to install himself as a dictator, and he was doing clever long-term gambits to make his plans come to fruition. He was using and discarding people in a classic dictator manner. The problem was how Lucas filled in the plot from there on.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

You don't think Lucas intentionally wrote the consequences of not taking a Jedi as a child even after he wrote that the zealous cultists literally ONLY take children?

Anakin being an annoying teenager is the logical expansion of what happens when you take an older child into the order.

Making your main character for 5 hours worth of film be annoying and unlikeable is fucking stupid.

It is fucking stupid.

People aren't annoyed by great protagonists OR antagonists. They need to be entertaining, or relatable, or engaging, or interesting, or menacing, or even baffling. Anything but annoying. It's bad cinema. It's always bad cinema.

Joker isn't annoying. Hannibal Lecter isn't annoying. Darth Vader isn't annoying. Norman Bates isn't annoying. The Sheriff of Nottingham isn't annoying. Hans Gruber is not annoying. Good characters are almost exclusively not annoying for a very good reason. Because annoying characters annoy the audience. Don't fucking annoy me for 5 hours because you're trying to make a point about puberty in a Jedi's upbringing.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Now, to be fair, a lot of the vehicle designs and effects shots from the battle were amazing. Especially that scene of the clones and droids shooting at each other through a sandstorm with the realistic lighting of their blasts against the dust.

That has very little to do with making compelling cinema. That's the Michael Bay method of analyzing movies.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Most of the cringey dialogue is a feature, not a bug.

Like pretty much everything surrounding Anakin is supposed to show that he is an angsty teen who doesn't fit in with the Jedi because he wasn't raised to be a robot. So he has to wing puberty on his own, while also being given the impossible task to repress himself.

Obi-Wan's "only a Sith deals in absolutes" line is lolsworthy, but it is unironically supposed to show that the Jedi are hypocrites who can't even see their own hypocrisy.

No, Lucas didn't write Anakin to be annoying and unrelatable on purpose, and if he did, he's a bigger moron than any of us thought.

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Purely posted...

Well I just finished watching Attack of the Clones and it was great. That huge battle scene with all the Jedi, and Yoda shows up to save the day? That is what it's all about right there.

I don't understand how Master Yoda got the clone army to fight for them. They're bad guys but for that battle they helped the Jedi survive.

Boy you were really not paying attention were you?

And if you consider that a "good" fight scene I don't know what to tell you. It was two armies literally running at each other like they were suicidal. It captures NONE of the actual tragedy of battle, the intensity of war, or the majesty of the courage involved. It was a bunch of bad actors doing spin kicks at thin air then panning shots of jedi deflecting blasters.

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MarqueeSeries posted...

This

Imagine bashing people for their work ethic for taking sick days that they earned by working

Seriously. I mean, props to TC for being a good prole, but let's not pretend like working yourself to death is some kind of moral imperative. Unless your job is something that's really special to you, then you should not put your company's productivity above your own mental and physical health.

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Script is wretched, especially Jar Jar and any romance scenes. Occasionally they hit on a few decent lines, but otherwise it's extremely amateurish.

Lucas gets nothing out of the actors. Most of the actors deliver mediorce performances at best with only a few exceptions (Christopher Lee comes to mind). The performances get ESPECIALLY bad whenever they're interacting with CGI elements.

It actively undermines a lot of the compelling features of the original trilogy. Mitochlorians are a famous example of this. It turns Anakin into the most loathesome, angsty, and irritating character imaginable, which undermines the menace of Darth Vader.

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I do call center work all day. I can't afford to merge my syllables, I have to pronounce everything with a perfect mid-atlantic accent or people won't understand me.

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This is some next level shit.

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Corporations are utterly shameless in their pursuit of money.

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The good news is the kid is probably evil and you'll be able to fully appreciate just how much you could have prevented his reign of terror.

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ClunkerSlim posted...

What is Dawkins up to these days? Is he on his meds living a quiet life somewhere and contributing to his community?

Prison, I think

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Just to note, it may be against company policy to recoed coworkers without permission, which could lead to termination. You would first need confirmation that HR was refusing to stop the harassment, then you could record the conversations as proof. If you brought it to HR, you can then use the recording as proof of Harassment. Since you've already documented HR as being inactive in helping you, if they still refused to help you or terminate you you could get a labor attorney and sue them for money.

Document as much as possible.

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Tmaster148 posted...

Oh so your another person upset that people want to hold Trump accountable and is siding with TC on hand waving it. I get it.

No, but I'm glad you're proving my accusations true.

TC is clearly approaching the problem from a realpolitik perspective, where the result here is going to be a loss for Democrats because Trump will inevitably be "exonerated" (sarcasm) by the Senate. This will result in strong talking points for the 2020 campaign that will resonate with certain independent voters. It may even be a net benefit for the Republicans.

I don't believe, even if that's true, that that is enough to warrant dropping the proceedings. I think there are some hills, ideologically, you should die on if need be. I'd rather the Democrats lose 2020 but go down standing up for what's right and fighting corruption where it stands. Just because I disagree with TC about the value of impeachment doesn't mean he's a Trump supporter, or that he's evil, or that he thinks Trump is innocent. I can understand his position.

I guess I'm glad you found a way to feel superior to toxic Conservatives while acting just like them, though. Good mental gymnastics.

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Tmaster148 posted...

Yet you got aggressive at me for no reason. Really coming from someone not trying to make enemies with others.

I got aggressive at you for a very good reason, you're acting like a jackass and intentionally misrepresenting someone's position, which in turn, makes MY positions look weaker because of your garbage behavior. If we don't call out shitty behavior within our own party or ideology, how can we expect our opposition to do so?

I'm holding you to the standard that I want Republicans to be held to. You have demonstrated an inability to even meet that standard. I am going to publically mock you so, even if you are too stubborn to change your behavior, then perhaps ither members of my party will come to realize YOUR behavior is bad.

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Tmaster148 posted...

You poor thing.

I don't scour the internet trying to make enemies with everyone who doesn't share my exact opinions. It is not I who deserves pity.

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Tmaster148 posted...

I get it, you really want your man Trump to not be held accountable.

Just shut the fuck up. Some of you people are just as bad as the Republicans you complain about.

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The problem is that independents by and large, and anyone who doesn't think Trump has abused the power of his office regarding Ukraine, are idiots.

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Being called Fake Vegy is a compliment based on what the real Vegy is like.

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Mike Matei has a monster cock.

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If you think about it, though, since you lost this time, it means next time you're more likely to win! The laws of probability owe it to you!

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Well, that's a bit of a shock. Good for the SCOTUS.

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Do people think this dead joke is still funny?

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LightHawKnight posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis

Let me rephrase my statement.

If a child receives a moderate blunt force trauma to the chest, there is an extremely minute chance of death due to cardiac arrest about on par with your chance of being eaten by a shark. However, it is probably just about the least likely way someone is going to die from a fist fight, which is in itself a very unlikely cause of death.

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Holy shit when did Kumail get ripped.

The dude is super funny too.

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LightHawKnight posted...

Technically, if hit at the right spot in the chest at the right time, you can stop someone's heart. Usually lethal.

No, you can't. Stop getting your info from movies and anime.

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This is the first sign of an AKIRA situation.

Don't ignore the signs.

Check your Satellite-Laser-Cannon Targeter's batteries to make sure they're charged.

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JFC of course Joey Salads spread that garbage. That man should be on a watchlist. What a racist creep.

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You'd have to be a fairly ignorant and stupid person to expect anyone trying to enact widescale ecological change would somehow be able to avoid using our infrastructure which is built almost entirely around greenhouse gas emitting vehicles. The entire point is that eco-friendly alternatives are literally too inconvenient and expensive to use still. They are put in this situation by the problem they are trying help fix.

It's all just terribly transparent concern trolling.

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Obi-wan was way, WAAAAY too strong in the Prequel Trilogy. It defeats any sense of tension when you know Obi-wan is just going to casually, calmly defeat an army of droids and General Grievous single-handedly. Like, Lucas somehow thought that for people to still think Jedi were cool, they needed to do lots of flips, spins, and kill thirty enemies in every scene. Obi-wan, being the main character, was basically the most egregious of this.

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Paragon21XX posted...

Looks like the beams were melted by the wheels slipping. Wasn't it painful to have the wheels grind on your dick like that? Geez.

Hnnnng

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I'll strictly say "Happy Christmas and a miserable Hanukah, Kwanza, and non-Christian New Years " just so people know I'm a true Christian.

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Wow, crazy if true.

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I did that. My username used to by Pogo_Marine92 because I played Terran in SC, but I didn't want to give the impression I was a service man so I bought a "Dangerous to Go Alone" shirt and changed it.

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If you be my gf ill give you rune scimmy

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

I dunno. Like take Ronda Rousey. She's "hot" when she's sweating up a storm from puking and shitting all over the mat while training with good poisoning.

But if you put her in the frozen Siberian wastes is she still "hot?"

Yeah, you know? I think I'm done with this garbage. Time to block.

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LA isn't even a super team. The Big Three Celtics, the Heat, and The GSW with Durant were all super teams. I'm hesitant to even call the Cavs with Lebron, Love, and Irving a super team tbh.

There are no super teams in the league currently, just a lot of very good teams.

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I mean, nearly half are probably people I strictly want to spend as little time with as possible, but as long as the interactions are short they're fine. Probably... 5% are legitimately intolerable. I usually take about 70 customer service calls on average daily and about 3 of them per day are mind-numbingly mean or stupid.

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I don't particularly mind people who only care about military history, but it is a sure-fire way to lose sight of other, equally more important parts of the human experience. I would certainly receive their opinions or analysis on any given topic with much more caution.

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Lmao

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