Hat Thoughts posted:

Ah, the old Air Bud defense


somehow it was about star wars i think, pretty sure it was in the star wars thread at least but good luck lookin thru that bad-post haystack

Magic Hate Ball posted:

Nobody seems to be talking about it, but Jackie is a really, really good movie, even if it has to transcend a slightly mawkish script.

CPL593H posted:

If you go into a thread and click the question mark button under people's user names it will isolate all of that person's posts.

Lurdiak posted:

Don't do that with me, it will reveal the embarrassing posts I make.

Lurdiak posted:

Don't do that with me, it will reveal the embarrassing number of posts I make.

Skwirl posted:

I haven't seen it, but I do know the cinematographer was a woman and no woman has ever been nominated for a cinematography Oscar.

CPL593H posted:

I Before E posted:

Also they would have to read your posts.

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

Magic Hate Ball posted:

That loving sucks, the cinematography in Jackie is stunning.

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

DC Murderverse posted:

I'm watching a really disgusting episode of SVU and man, James Van Der Beek deserves to be a star. Not like, a lovely Dawson's Creek star, but like, "plays sociopaths for the next 40 years" star.

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

DC Murderverse posted:

I'm watching a really disgusting episode of SVU and man, James Van Der Beek deserves to be a star. Not like, a lovely Dawson's Creek star, but like, "plays sociopaths for the next 40 years" star.

DC Murderverse posted:

I'm watching a really disgusting episode of SVU and man, James Van Der Beek deserves to be a star. Not like, a lovely Dawson's Creek star, but like, "plays sociopaths for the next 40 years" star.

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

married but discreet posted:

So has anyone actually read an Archie comic?

Skwirl posted:

You should watch Don't trust the B.

Lurdiak posted:

That episode is probably among the top 10 grodiest Law and Order episodes.

CelticPredator posted:

link me to a good SMG rant. I don't care if it's with me or about me. I'll do the Rick and Morty voice thing. I'm kinda in the mood for that.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

People on the internet are under a continual pressure to generate 'opinions', even in the rudimentary form of a Like or Subscribe. But forming an actual opinion requires actual work. (Note: work is distinct from 'effort' or 'caring' or whatever). You have to go through the process of interpretation.

Let's go over the basic plot of TFA, for example:

The evil Snoke is for some reason obsessed with killing Luke Skywalker. He has the basic goal is pure technological progress or whatever, but killing Luke is his main concern. To that end he has brainwashed a bunch of children by putting them in robot suits. He then uses his new robot army to convert the ancient planet Ilum, source of the mystical Force-related Kyber Crystals, into a giant factory and secret base for a nuclear-grade laser weapon.

That's the wookiepedia backstory, of course. In the actual film, the characters are just dumped into this conflict and told that they've got to go fast. Run really fast in a straight line and avoid traps. Bop the stormtroopers in the head and they will immediately revert to an 'innocent' state of nature. There is CG imagery of greenery and of ancient temples being crushed by Snoke's progress, but the heroes don't really think about the implications. The plight of the stormtroopers is an afterthought. The goal is simply to burn away 'impurity' with cleansing light - humiliating the bad, pompous totalitarian.

So yeah, as I was getting to earlier, TFA is absolutely identical, in both plot and narrative, to the original Sonic The Hedgehog series of games:

"The evil mad scientist Dr. Eggman is up to his old nasty tricks again. 'Sonic... that annoying, impertinent hedgehog. Thanks to him, my great plans are always laid to waste! Oh, but this time, I'm going to rub him out with the power of science! Ha ha ha ha ha...'

South Island is a treasure trove of gems and ancient ruins. They say that it's the island where the mystical Chaos Emeralds lie. The Chaos Emeralds are a super-material that give energy to all living beings. Also, when applied to scientific purposes, they can be used for nuclear and laser based weaponry. However, nobody knows exactly how to get ahold of these emeralds. At the same time, though, they do say that the reason why South Island is always moving is because the emeralds are somewhere inside the island's hazy depths.

One day, crisis visited upon the island. And who showed up with it but Dr. Eggman and his cronies. 'I'll find those emeralds even if I have to dig up the entire island to do it!'

Dr. Eggman set up a fort in one corner of the island, and went about carrying out his plan.

'Eggman, you still haven't had enough?' Sonic hurried as soon as he heard the news. Dr. Eggman never seemed to leave him alone, even though Sonic had beaten him every time so far. It sounded like Dr. Eggman considered Sonic his sworn enemy, but he was never any match for Sonic.

However, this time something is amiss.

'Have you seen it, Sonic? This time is going to be different! Because this time, I've turned all the animals on the island into robots!'

'E, Everybody!?'

''All of them go about in accordance to my orders. In other words, Sonic, everyone on the island is your enemy! Gya- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ^cough^ ^ack^ ^ahem^. This time, the world really will be all mine!'

This is terrible! Hurry! Sonic the Hedgehog - everyone is waiting for your help!"
_{-Sonic The Hedgehog instruction manual, 1991}

The comparison of TFA to Sonic is obviously not limited to that aforementioned weird adult presexuality; these works share an ideology. One of Sonic's subgoals is to 'free' the industrious worker drones from their tools and into nature. It's just taken as a given that they don't want to have cool mech suits equipped with drills and saws. The animals are tossed naked into the virtual paradise of polygonal trees and grid-textured dirt. (It's his status as an immortal adult plastic cartoon in a virtual Garden Of Innocence that gives Sonic his immense proto-furry appeal. It's the stuff inflation fetishes are made of.) In Sonic's view, he will be 'greeted as a liberator.' None of those ugly factories are allowed on South Island - but then, who makes Sonic's red Nikes?

TFA is pretty much a straight adaptation of this. Not even the more-nuanced JC Avatar has as many points in common.

CelticPredator posted:

I want to do that one, but I don't know where it is! I think it's in the Star Wars thread, but I've left that for a bit so I have no clue where it would even be.


Editttt! There she be!

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

That's nothing more than the Hedgehog/Prower phenomenon of ostensibly adult characters engaged in prolonged and intense bouts of presexual intimacy.

FN and Poe - despite being twenty- and thirty-somethings, respectively - are several steps behind Matthew Broderick's teen hacker in Wargames, who tentatively explores how it feels to take his shirt off in front of a girl.

For fans, the actual erotic appeal comes from the fact that Sonic The Hedgehog does not gently caress. Ever. He achieves full satisfaction just by staring at you with his massive hypersensitive eyes, and passionately filling his rounded belly with chilidogs. Poe and FN, likewise, will never move beyond hugging and trying on eachothers' clothes. They have no need to.

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CelticPredator posted:

link me to a good SMG rant. I don't care if it's with me or about me. I'll do the Rick and Morty voice thing. I'm kinda in the mood for that.

DC Murderverse posted:

so hosed up. someone went into the writers room at SVU headquarters and said "you know what we need to do an episode on? genetic sexual attraction" and instead of shaming this person for being a weirdo, they said "yeah, and we're not just gonna do some brother and sister meeting after being apart their entire lives, we're gonna go full-on batshit and have a guy pretend to be the donor father of a bunch of 16 year old girls as a pretense to have sex with them".

but my man Beek goes HAM in the limited time he is given for sure.

Coffee And Pie posted:

I finally watched Stop Making Sense. It was good.

<sub>Know what else I did?

Had sex

Twice

I'm so loving sore</sub>

Lurdiak posted:

At least everyone in the show agrees this is a really messed up situation. It's not like those episodes where one of the characters has to be like "Do transgendered people REALLY deserve to live?" or some other such nonsense. There's a few episodes in season 14 where the entire cast is on the obviously wrong side of a really hosed up situation and at no point do they walk it back.

CelticPredator posted:

Holy Sweet poo poo. This beer, Sour Monkey by Victory is drat good.

Would shove down my mouth again.

DC Murderverse posted:

we are not your livejournal

Magic Hate Ball posted:

Stop Having Sex

DC Murderverse posted:

I got really mad because the episode before it had someone talking about costumed vigilantes (thanks, SVU) beating up rapists and at one point they strung an accused rapist up on a fence, and one of the detectives said "it's kinda like the Trayvon Martin case", which made me yell "HE WAS JUST A BLACK KID, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING" at my TV.

Coffee And Pie posted:

Y'all I just had possibly the best possible night:
-had French Onion soup
-made kickass White Russians
-showed my new GF Green Room (she loved it)
-shortly after I got my first beej

Life is beautiful.

Coffee And Pie posted:

This is the wildest thing I've seen today and I performed a sex act while watching Pink Flamingos just now.

Yes, that was a humble brag.

Coffee And Pie posted:

I hope Trump doesn't actually cause the apocalypse I literally just started getting blowjobs and I'm not ready to give that up yet.

At least gimme until after I do my first 69.

Coffee And Pie posted:

Hey you guys.

Guess what I just did,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o

Coffee And Pie posted:

I finally watched Stop Making Sense. It was good.

<sub>Know what else I did?

Had sex

Twice

I'm so loving sore</sub>

DC Murderverse posted:

we are not your livejournal

FreudianSlippers posted:

I had sex once, or maybe twice, I don't remember.