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MizPiz posted:I will because the best sport is cornhole thats a party game, not a sport
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Star Trek is better than Star Wars
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The new star trek movies are the only truly good star trek thing. DS9 comes close to being good but it has way too much filler episodes.
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Sep 8, 2018 18:22
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There are lots of unnecessary and sometimes bad filler episodes in all the old 22 episodes per season shows, so sort of don't disagree. Except, the new movies are not good. Most of the old movies are not good either. Star Trek shines, to whatever degree it does, in a long form TV format. Nothing really gets me "excited" anymore but am looking forward to the new Picard show, and am really curious as to what it will be like, and if they will address things like the Dominion war, or Janeway using time travel and viral weapons against the Borg.
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Sep 8, 2018 18:37
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The Star Trek movie with the whales is better than the best Star Wars movie.
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doverhog posted:Nothing really gets me "excited" anymore but am looking forward to the new Picard show, and am really curious as to what it will be like, and if they will address things like the Dominion war, or Janeway using time travel and viral weapons against the Borg. I really really hope it doesn't do that, and is instead is what made Star Trek good in the first place; fun, well-written space adventures about people learning new things and meeting new cultures and solving conflicts peacefully.
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Sep 8, 2018 18:40
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Improvised Star Trek is the best Star Trek series.
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Goku and Piccolo going to driver's ed justifies all filler episodes ever created.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Goku and Piccolo going to driver's ed justifies all filler episodes ever created. I've been doing a rewatch of the original DBZ, and the pure filler episodes aren't bad. Some of them are legit good. The real problem is how much it stretches out the fights
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I don't hate american sports per say but they are definitely second monitor material. I do not understand how any human being can sit for 3 and a half hours and focus on one match of American Football. It's not exactly dense with action. I haven't watched a lot of basketball but the entire point of the game seems to be for both teams to get to 100 points and then they'll worry about any kind of margin, it's dull. Baseball seems really cool, if I was American I think i'd love it but its not on that often in the UK and usually its on at silly times. I love how its vaguely diametric to Cricket in that baseball giving away your "wicket" for lack of the right term is a common thing but runs are difficult to come by whereas in Cricket runs are plentiful but "outs" are relatively uncommon. Ice Hockey is probably fun to watch, its by far the most popular american sport where I live in the UK, there's an ice-hockey team 20 minutes drive from me but for whatever reason I've never taken in a game.
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CrRoMa posted:I don't hate american sports per say but they are definitely second monitor material. I do not understand how any human being can sit for 3 and a half hours and focus on one match of American Football. It's not exactly dense with action. I mean this is basically like every American who thinks soccer is nothing but scoreless draws and faked injuries. You either grow up watching a sport and you understand it from early on, or you make a serious effort to get into it.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I really really hope it doesn't do that, and is instead is what made Star Trek good in the first place; fun, well-written space adventures about people learning new things and meeting new cultures and solving conflicts peacefully. Just watch The Orville then.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I mean this is basically like every American who thinks soccer is nothing but scoreless draws and faked injuries. You either grow up watching a sport and you understand it from early on, or you make a serious effort to get into it. Yeah, american football is actually pretty dense with tactical play but unless you know what's going on and are invested then it's not fun to watch. Even most american fans need tv personalities explaining plays to them.
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Teaching literacy is wrong, because it's extremely difficult for a person to return to illiteracy once it's lost.
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Sports are dumb, I always felt, but after many years of depression and alcoholism, I thought, maybe all these normal people who are into sports know what they are talking about. Maybe my self image as an intellectual, a nerd if you will, is actually harmful. Maybe I should work out and follow a sport instead, MMA is a sport right? That seems honest. I've been beaten up, I relate to that. That works, you are what you do. Any inner core that may or may not exist, good luck, you are in for a new kind of ride.
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spit on my clit posted:thats a party game, not a sport They air tournaments on ESPN, therefore it's a sport.
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Sports are (for some people) an entertaining way to make some time vanish. There's nothing either particularly noble or particularly disdain-worthy about them. (Not even about American football. Sigh. I SUPPOSE.) I don't find most of them particularly interesting (though I can get into a good basketball game) but not everyone has to like everything. There's a lot of hosed-up bullshit tied up in college/professional sports, though.
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Red Dead Redemption isn't very good
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docbeard posted:not everyone has to like everything. 
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MizPiz posted:They air tournaments on ESPN, therefore it's a sport. they air street fighter tournaments on espn, would you call fighting games a kind of sport
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They're esports.
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Of course fighting games are sports
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well i guess most of the competitors are about as salty as soccer players so i'll accept that its a sport
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Caufman posted:Teaching literacy is wrong, because it's extremely difficult for a person to return to illiteracy once it's lost. I must be illiterate because I can't figure out what the gently caress you're trying to say here.
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Innocence once lost can't be regained. Think of an illiterate as you would of Eve before she met the snake. Literacy coexists and in a sense is civilization. When you walk down the piss stained streets, drunk on liquids and ideas that could never exist in a world without literacy, remember that there was a time when none of it existed, and that time is never coming back.
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WRONG, plenty of oral civilizations made booze. Some people think we invented farming for beer, not bread.
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One of the greatest crimes of our modern times is that there isn't a single set or series of sets collecting the Hammer Horror movies. They're scattered across dozens of different random DVD collections. It's a mess! It's a loving disgrace.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:WRONG, plenty of oral civilizations made booze. The first domesticated crop was barley sooooo yeah. That probably checks out. Hunter-gatherers never had much difficulty getting enough to eat but stuff to make booze was only available sometimes. The civilizations that never invented booze usually found some other way to get totally wasted. Fact is, humans like recreational substances.
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Guy Goodbody posted:One of the greatest crimes of our modern times is that there isn't a single set or series of sets collecting the Hammer Horror movies. They're scattered across dozens of different random DVD collections. It's a mess! It's a loving disgrace. I think the same thing about the fact that there is no 30 Rock Complete Series box set. It's uncalled for.
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Ommin posted:I think the same thing about the fact that there is no 30 Rock Complete Series box set. It's uncalled for. At least you can buy season one and go from there. Look at this Bluray collection, that claims to be "Volume One"  Like Taste The Blood of Dracula was Hammer's first Dracula movie. It wasn't! Dracula was Hammer's first Dracula movie! The Hammer collections available are actively lying to you about the film order!
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Guy Goodbody posted:The Hammer collections available are actively lying to you about the film order! Yeah, that's bullshit. There is just no love left for those of us that still appreciate physical media.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:WRONG, plenty of oral civilizations made booze. They didn't distill it and then store it in barrels for years.
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doverhog posted:They didn't distill it and then store it in barrels for years. yeah, some of them did.
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I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation#History and as far as I can see it doesn't suggest distillation existed before literacy. Do you have some specific source you wanna mention?
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Oil is actually dinosaur whiskey.
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(Made by, not of)
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The best episode of Star Trek ever is the Magnificent Seven homage with Ferengi in DS9. Also Iggy Pop plays a Dominion dude in it.
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doverhog posted:I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation#History and as far as I can see it doesn't suggest distillation existed before literacy. Do you have some specific source you wanna mention? The only reason humans learned to write was to remember how to make whiskey.
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I like S3 of Twin Peaks more than S2. I mean S2 was horrid in the middle.
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