Deadlines? What Deadlines?

5 minutes ago, mormont said:

I'm not sure there's any solid evidence for either part of this assertion.

Seven seasons of Clone Wars on the one hand; Diddly squat post episode 9 on the other. 

On 9/5/2023 at 10:34 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Ray Stevenson was an incredibly good actor.  He had such presence.  I’m sorry he’s passed…

I'm sure I saw one website that reported his passing and said, "Best known for his role as Volstagg in the MCU."

"Volstagg"?!? THIRTEEN!!!

On 9/7/2023 at 7:15 AM, Corvinus85 said:

Big episode next week?

 

OHMYGawd. I just got this terrible feeling that Anakin is coming out of the whatchamacallit realm. Like, physically. I guess that means we'll forget about the prequels for a few days... 

Batten down the hatches because the nerds are going to be shtting themselves. The rage. The shit posting. Sweet Jesus, the fights.

The next episode can’t come soon enough. 

It seems

7 hours ago, polishgenius said:

The prequels are dogshit in themselves…

7 hours ago, Kalnak the Magnificent said:

…after the prequel got shit on…

59 minutes ago, karaddin said:

I think the prequels…

I love you all. 

19 hours ago, The Social Liability said:

I'm thinking about buying from Walmart season 1 of the Lord of the Rings TV show Rings of Power. I haven't watched any of it! But I sure do love The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the books as well. 

I keep watching Ancient Aliens since there are marathons on the History Channel. As well as Friends, The Office, Futurama, Chicago Fire. I guess that I am not that open to discovering new things because I've been viewing these things forever. 

I watched The Truman Show again and the music is stupidly good according to me. 

 

Rings of power was fine. Production values are pretty impressive. Opinions are divided. 

If you’re looking for something different and really engaging, The Expanse and Arcane both really blew me away. 

1 hour ago, Ran said:

Musk's reasoning for why he shut it down is rather suspect, but the facts are that Ukraine was misusing the service.

His “Pearl Harbor” analogy only makes sense if the Americans invaded Japan before the Japanese attacked them in the Pacific.

And since when did billionaires have moral qualms about doing business with both sides in a war zone? If he grew a conscience, why not, I dunno, take the side of the country being invaded?

1 hour ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

There are invitation with a chance to shit on your rug?  Bloody hell, and I thought Americans are prudes.

Are the invitations free? Or is it some sorta fund raiser, like the tfg does for Giuliani. And for what end?

I don’t know what any of this means. Are you on a treadmill?

… also, maybe this isn’t the correct thread for this but I’m hearing some wild shit about Musk, Starlink and the war in Ukraine…

Private billionaires unilaterally dictating foreign policy? Nah, that couldn’t possible go wrong…

Yup.

On “free speech”; because people are confused (or suckered) by this.

1. When you sign up to a Twitter (or any other social media account), you agree to terms of service (that thing that no one reads). Included in that agreement is a set of community guidelines.

They set the rules, they determine whether or not those rules have been violated, and they determine the punishment. Again, you agreed to this. 

2. Most importantly,

YOUR RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT OBLIGATE ANYONE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A PLATFORM.

If I invite you into my home and you shit on my rug; I’m kicking you the hell out of my house. The why is obvious.

Let’s say I call up the publisher of the New York Times. I tell him, “Eugene, you’re going to publish my op-ed in your paper next week. I have some spleen to vent by god.”

Eugene would be justified in telling me to go fuck myself. It might make me sad but it isn’t a violation of my rights. 

Platforming toxic shitheads moves the needle on freedom of speech not one millimetre. It just makes your platform toxic. 

On 9/3/2023 at 6:29 PM, DanteGabriel said:

If they start making more appearances they'll be needy, grasping attention seekers who are leveraging their kids for publicity.

If they don't make more appearances they'll be shiftless and ungrateful deadbeats who suck on the royal teat without earning their keep.

What appearances? They are “non-working Royals”. They’re out. I’m pretty sure these guys know this.

Unless what’s being proposed is “half-in half-out”. I think I heard that somewhere. 

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Just finished the last 3 episodes of Heart of  Invictus. Goddamn. So emotional. 

Yeah, that wasn't bad. Ended strong. I'm still not digging some of the dialogue delivery. What's with the mid sentence pauses?

But we are agreed, More Ray Stevenson and less dialogue. This is the way. 

A guy who was never a relation by blood or marriage and who she probably never met. Jesus. Where the hell do they find these idiots?

48 minutes ago, Varysblackfyre321 said:

He can be out on parole in a decade or less. It should have been much higher.

As should most of the insurrectionists.

I feel we’ve learned nothing from the Beerputsch

The ones who feigned remorse at the sentencing hearing then screamed “Trump won!” on their way out the door; they might get a surprise or two at their first parole hearing.

More likely is that a future president will pardon them or commute their sentences. 

Inside Job

Saw that it was free on YouTube and I hadn’t seen it in a while so I rolled it.

One of my holy tetralogy of GFC films (including Margin Call, The Big Short, and Too Big To Fail); although this is the only documentary. 

Still great. Highly recommend. Interesting to see legislators who behave like adults (sometimes).

1 hour ago, Kalnak the Magnificent said:

I'm aware of it and how it works. I'm trying to figure out why actors are behaving like they're on Valium.

ASMR Star Wars

When it comes to the volume, I don’t think it’s a problem with the technology itself. The Batman and Oblivion were both filmed with volume or volume-like technology and they look great. 

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. 

Actually pretty good. The first half drags but I really like the second. The third act is pretty bonkers. Harrison Fords Greek sounds pretty good. Great action scenes; especially the tuck tuk chase. 

This should have gotten more love at the box office IMO.

We have a higher midichlorian count

Which means that you have a lesser amount

Canon. 

1 hour ago, Kalnak the Magnificent said:

It's an homage to the prequels.

Wow. 

There have been a lot of reports in these threads of gen x’ers passing away for health reasons. Am I the only one that thinks this is unusual?

2 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

Were you sober when you wrote this?

Insomnia.

28 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

It seems like everyone I know who’s gone traveling comes back with Covid. The most recent are friends who returned on Saturday after being in Italy for a month (she’s a professor who teaches a course). Her husband and adult daughter have both tested positive, but she hasn’t…yet.

That just makes me feel gloomy. I want to go to Glasgow for Worldcon next year.

You could cosplay as something that has an air bottle and functioning respirator as part of the outfit. 

Your friends are obviously spies. "Professor who teaches a course has to go to Italy because 'reasons'." Uh, huh. Daughter's probably a assassin. Bet they're not even related. 

2 hours ago, DaveSumm said:

Let’s not forget this is a man who reveres the prequels, the granddaddy of all the static, monotone, wooden deliveries.

I'm a connoisseur.

2 hours ago, sifth said:

I feel the same way. Something is just strange about the dialogue. Why are they taking such long pauses, between each sentence? It's not even bad dialogue, it's just being delivered in such a strange and unnatural way and as you said it feels cold and lacks emotion.

Dare I say... "wooden"?

You can't see but I have a pinkie touching the corner of my mouth and my face is scrunched up and my posture has shifted to "computer neck".

Where I am, there’s a five month interval where you’re not eligible to get poked after getting poked. They also recommend five months after a confirmed Covid infection. Strong antibodies, etc, etc.

Oh, yeah. “For the sake of family unity.”

Fucking vultures.