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It was pretty cool, it had Kung Fu and space magic and laser swords and explosions. Don't go thinking you're better than all that because you're not.
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Jun 29, 2022 22:02
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veni veni veni posted:It's like how the Last Jedi sucked but a bunch of dweebs actually think think it's empowering to talk about how its amazing just because people hated it. I thought The Last Jedi was popular & well-liked! I thought it sucked total rear end, but aside from a couple of reviews I saw on YouTube, I couldn't find anyone who agreed with me. Seriously, a "your mom" joke. In a movie in the god drat '10s. 
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Jun 30, 2022 00:14
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Most of what people like about Rogue One are the Vader scenes, which admittedly are cool but the rest of the movie is pretty forgettable and dull. Rogue One is good at recreating the ANH "aesthetic", though.
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Jun 30, 2022 02:05
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The Pod Racer game is amazing and haters can get out.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I thought The Last Jedi was popular & well-liked! I thought it sucked total rear end, but aside from a couple of reviews I saw on YouTube, I couldn't find anyone who agreed with me. I felt like The Last Jedi was two completely different movies that had been edited together. I kind of liked the movie with Rey and Luke and Kylo Ren, but for some reason they kept cutting back to the other movie, the stupid one, with Finn and Poe and the casino planet. F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Most of what people like about Rogue One are the Vader scenes, which admittedly are cool but the rest of the movie is pretty forgettable and dull. Rogue One is good at recreating the ANH "aesthetic", though. The final Vader scene is definitely the cherry on top of Rogue One, but the movie has its own merits. Yeah, the first half drags a little, and the only really memorable character is Alan Tudyk as the droid. But once they go to steal the plans from the tropical atoll, the whole "WW2 commando squad in space" thing is plenty fun enough to carry the rest of the movie.
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Jun 30, 2022 03:03
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Powered Descent posted:I felt like The Last Jedi was two completely different movies that had been edited together. I kind of liked the movie with Rey and Luke and Kylo Ren, but for some reason they kept cutting back to the other movie, the stupid one, with Finn and Poe and the casino planet. Oh yeah, I always forget about the casino planet. But it felt fitting enough in a Star Wars movie to have an extended silly scene with adorable droid slapstick.
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Jun 30, 2022 04:20
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Most of what people like about Rogue One are the Vader scenes, which admittedly are cool but the rest of the movie is pretty forgettable and dull. Rogue One is good at recreating the ANH "aesthetic", though. I like it for those reasons but also a bunch more. It's honestly the only Disney Star Wars fanfic that totally works for me. I started doing  about it but it was very dorky and exhausting so I'll just leave it at that.
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Jun 30, 2022 07:15
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I liked how much it emphasized the dread of the Death Star.
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Jun 30, 2022 07:29
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Gaius Marius posted:The Pod Racer game is amazing and haters can get out. Everyone remembers the console/arcade version but the gameboy version also ruled. If you lost a race as Sebulba he'd go "drat you suck" and you had to unlock him again to race as him. PYF podracers, I'm keen on Bullseye Navoir and Neva Kee. YeahTubaMike posted:I thought The Last Jedi was popular & well-liked! I thought it sucked total rear end, but aside from a couple of reviews I saw on YouTube, I couldn't find anyone who agreed with me. I'm genuinely impressed you are online enough to be on SA in 2022 but avoided the extreme nerd rage about Last Jedi. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 11:18 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Jun 30, 2022 11:16
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Powered Descent posted:The final Vader scene is definitely the cherry on top of Rogue One, but the movie has its own merits. Yeah, the first half drags a little, and the only really memorable character is Alan Tudyk as the droid. But once they go to steal the plans from the tropical atoll, the whole "WW2 commando squad in space" thing is plenty fun enough to carry the rest of the movie. veni veni veni posted:I like it for those reasons but also a bunch more. It's honestly the only Disney Star Wars fanfic that totally works for me. I will say that Rogue One is probably the best and most successful at what it's trying to do ST movies. The others seem to suffer from 'written by suits in committee' syndrome to sell more toys, but RO sticks to a single set piece - "right before the events of ANH" - and pretty much nails it. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 15:28 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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sephiRoth IRA posted:
lol I hope you dont learn the sugar % of the southern drink call Sweet Tea.
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To elaborate on what I meant, Josef Bugman, here’s the blurb for Her Majesty’s Royal Covenquote:At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. Why would a witch during Elizabethan times know the word “intersectional”? Why would a witch from then care about intersectionality?
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Jun 30, 2022 18:22
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thetoughestbean posted:To elaborate on what I meant, Josef Bugman, here’s the blurb for Her Majesty’s Royal Coven I haven't read the book, but it sounds like it's set in the modern day? It says HMRC was established by Elizabeth I, not that she's still alive. The "decades later" refers to the decades since the four girls joined HMRC, not since Elizabeth I established it.
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Jun 30, 2022 18:35
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being really into star wars is the same as being one of those adult disney people, but for sci-fi nerds. however, rogue squadron was a good game
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Jun 30, 2022 19:00
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thetoughestbean posted:
"If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple." From the first paragraph of the first Google result. Sure doesn't sound Elizabethan.
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Jun 30, 2022 19:12
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That really sounds like particularly bad YA fantasy
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Jun 30, 2022 19:23
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A far better one would be in Kingdom of Heaven where the main character's big inspiring battle speech is about how religion is dumb and nobody can claim Jerusalem, and then everybody in 1187 cheers wildly and tells the Patriarch to gently caress off when he protests. Then they fight Saladin anyway because ???
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Jun 30, 2022 19:31
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Saladin probably was worth a lot of XP and GP.
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Jun 30, 2022 20:26
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Look I’m already here for the raid boss so might as well
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Atticus_1354 posted:"If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple." Well, darn. I guess I need to work on my reading comprehension
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Byzantine posted:A far better one would be in Kingdom of Heaven where the main character's big inspiring battle speech is about how religion is dumb and nobody can claim Jerusalem, and then everybody in 1187 cheers wildly and tells the Patriarch to gently caress off when he protests. Then they fight Saladin anyway because ??? I mean we don't have many accounts written by secular authorities or people from that time period, but I suspect there is a reason that "corrupt monk" was such a popular character archetype. Probably people back then hated the church, they just also had some level of belief in divinity as well.
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Jul 1, 2022 07:40
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They hated religion so much they signed up for a crusade
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Gaius Marius posted:They hated religion so much they signed up for a crusade The fall of Jerusalem happened after the second but before the third crusade. The people there were possible pilgrims but they may not have been crusaders at all. It's important bear in mind that holiness was not solely something centrally directed from the Church and, in many instances, excessive piety was looked down on if done in the "wrong" way. Josef bugman has a new favorite as of 09:26 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 09:22
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Reclaiming “queer” was a mistake.
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Josef bugman posted:I mean we don't have many accounts written by secular authorities or people from that time period, but I suspect there is a reason that "corrupt monk" was such a popular character archetype. This is just supposition though. You keep going “well they didn’t leave records so maybe they were like me!” and tbh it seems more like wishful thinking than anything else
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People I've met from my spouse's church are vastly better than any cynical atheists opining about how dumb and bad the religious are that I've met, just sayin.Josef bugman posted:The fall of Jerusalem happened after the second but before the third crusade. The people there were possible pilgrims but they may not have been crusaders at all. What church, cuz it sounds like you're specifically talking about medieval roman catholicism, almost as if your worldview isn't secular at all but entirely coloured by one specific brand of one religion doing things a thousand years ago you happened to grow up with. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 17:25 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Josef bugman posted:I mean we don't have many accounts written by secular authorities or people from that time period, but I suspect there is a reason that "corrupt monk" was such a popular character archetype. I mean, sure, but that's nowhere near "bellowing 21st century humanism from the city walls and having everybody instantly agree that religion is pointless". Edgar Allen Ho posted:What church, cuz it sounds like you're specifically talking about medieval roman catholicism, almost as if your worldview isn't secular at all but entirely coloured by one specific brand of one religion doing things a thousand years ago you happened to grow up with. We're talking about the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187, so yeah, it's supposed to be medieval Catholicism.
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Gripweed posted:Reclaiming “queer” was a mistake. It's fun to say in an exaggerated Bostonian accent though. Try it right now.
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thetoughestbean posted:This is just supposition though. You keep going “well they didn’t leave records so maybe they were like me!” and tbh it seems more like wishful thinking than anything else Im not saying that they were like me, but I am saying they may be different from our conception of them. Like the idea of the peasantry as idiots. Edgar Allen Ho posted:What church, cuz it sounds like you're specifically talking about medieval roman catholicism, almost as if your worldview isn't secular at all but entirely coloured by one specific brand of one religion doing things a thousand years ago you happened to grow up with. Medieval Roman Catholicism is the one I know the most about. However I do think that most faiths will always see people critiquing their structures because they are made up of people. Byzantine posted:I mean, sure, but that's nowhere near "bellowing 21st century humanism from the city walls and having everybody instantly agree that religion is pointless". That's fair!
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The internet has made it so people can’t have and grow through phases in their lives as everyone that comes to dislike them will have photo evidence of something to hold over their head. So, children and young teens shouldn’t have unmonitored access to the internet and should be barred from all forms of social media.
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The marketing push leading up to and surrounding The Phantom Menace is still probably the most insane marketing push I've ever seen for a movie. Child Me: The gently caress do you mean, Taco Bell AND KFC AND Pizza Hut are all doing their own tie-ins?! They're not allowed to do that! That's not how it works!
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It even pre-dates Phantom Menace, PepsiCo/Yum! Brands went absolutely apeshit in promoting the Special Edition theatrical releases Like you couldn't even get a single soft taco without eleven pounds of star wars merchandise being thrown at you Pepsi must have gotten some seriously lucrative contract behind the scenes, because drat
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Who da man? Yoda man!
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thetoughestbean posted:To elaborate on what I meant, Josef Bugman, here’s the blurb for Her Majesty’s Royal Coven This is an extra lol because HMRC is the name of the British tax authority, and that is a different kind of wizardry I do not want to gently caress with
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Gaius Marius posted:They hated religion so much they signed up for a crusade Crusade was a way to go kill, loot, rape, with blessings. Some probably cared about the blessings, some just cared about there being a force they could join for the other reasons.
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"The crusaders we're atheist actually" has got to be the most bonkers take I've seen this month
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I don't think people who join Isis care about Islam either, they just wanna own sex slaves.
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That's dumb bro
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You think an Isis recruit has a deep understanding of the five pillars?
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