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Bloodychess posted...

OctilIery posted...

Has to go through courts before the decision is finalized

...which courts?

Sounds like the DC Circuit is most likely, from what I'm reading.

bover_87 posted...

OctilIery posted...

--kresnik-- posted...

It's finished.

Not even slightly.

bover_87 posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U%2ES%2EA%2E,_Inc%2E_v%2E_Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc%2E

Read that link carefully before you start acting like the courts are going to save us.

That doesn't change it at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Vehicles_Manufacturers_Ass%27n_v._State_Farm_Mutual_Automobile_Insurance_Co.

That's far more relevant.

--kresnik-- posted...

It's finished.

Not even slightly.

Has to go through courts before the decision is finalized, and there's a very good chance it'll be shut down there, especially because of all the fraudulent comments.

Although the best possibility is Ajit arguing something like "those comments are for show, we don't consider them".

gnomefromnome posted...

3.9 isnt that big.

Was it a shaker or roller?

I live in Alaska, and we had both types this year. Shakers are quick, and rollers last a few seconds and feel like the foundation is on roller skates.

Yeah, it wasn't terribly big, and it was very brief. Felt more like a shaker.

I'm a little shook up, but there doesn't seem to be any damage :D

gnomefromnome posted...

California?

California.

Oregon. Maybe 40 miles or so south of Portland.

Nevermind, it actually was an earthquake. 3.9, I'm almost on the epicenter o.o

I was watching a movie on Netflix. I felt a small shake, and then a bigger one(enough to actually rattle some things on the walls and disturb our grandfather clock), thought it was the start of an earthquake, but after that it ended.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Republic Commando

This is legit.

wackyteen posted...

Battlefront
Battlefront 2

Not particularly.

I can think of some like Battlefront and Force Unleashed that had really good parts, but then really shitty parts that dragged them down, but nothing outright good :/

Swagnificent119 posted...

OctilIery posted...

They just recently started to convert but HUGE portions of both games still use cryengine.

Why does that matter if it hasn't actually been released?

Like, there isn't even a playable version of Squadron 42 I thought.

From what I'm understanding, part of the Star Citizen contract was that they had to promote Cryengine, so I guess that conversion attempt just made everything worse, but I haven't confirmed that.

Pepys Monster posted...

This is why I refuse to buy early access games or contribute to video game kickstarters. I won't be buying PUBG until its actual release.

Kickstarter is still good, you just have to be selective with who you back and how.

KazumaKiryu posted...

PiOverlord posted...

Error1355 posted...

lol at anyone who thinks Star Citizen will be an actual game.

It will be.

I fully suspect it was never meant to be. It's just a huge scam that has somehow stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from people.

Nah. For all the money they've taken, there has very clearly been a LOT of money put into the project. Think of it like someone renovating a huge house, but rather than taking it piece by piece they keep seeing new things they want to do and keep pouring money into new renovations without finishing the old ones. Not a scam, just horribly inept management.

MakoReizei posted...

what even is Star Citizen

One of the most controversial games on kickstarter. Was initially posted as a massive space sim, but has since grown exponentially in scale without finishing the initial idea.

Error1355 posted...

lol at anyone who thinks Star Citizen will be an actual game.

I never thought it'd deliver what was promised in the kickstarter, but it had the potential to be a great game in its own right. You know, if they had anything approaching a competent legal team.

Swagnificent119 posted...

Uhhh, I thought they weren't using Cryengine at all anymore.

They just recently started to convert but HUGE portions of both games still use cryengine.

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/23222744/Crytek_GmbH_v_Cloud_Imperium_Games_Corp_et_al

The long and the short as I understand it:

They had a contract to use Cryengine for Star Citizen, and all was fine. But then they announced plans for Squadron 42, and plans to sell it as a separate game. Crytek sent them notifications that this isn't covered under the license but CIG went ahead anyways. They're now being sued for breach of the Cryengine GLA. Looks like Crytek has a very solid suit, and even if CIG somehow wins, this is going to be a PR disaster for them because this will be a hugely expensive case that they'll be forced to dip into crowdfunding money for.

Deadpool_18 posted...

Like...Logan even does the everyone you interact with is dead part of Wolverines character well.

Mind you, Logan probably never would've happened without Deadpool, and Deadpool never would've happened if Ryan Reynolds didn't push so hard for it.

R rated movies are considered a bad investment, generally, though that's being challenged big time lately.

Kitt posted...

AlternativeFAQS posted...

large movie studios didnt think hard R comic movies would sell

This.

Now that somebody did it right with good results, everybody will start doing it.

Yup. Its already started. I can't remember all of the ones announced, but at the very least the new Hellboy will be R rated, though I have little faith in that.

K181 posted...

Actually, I think that we do. During the late heavy bombardment, earth was peppered with water-rich asteroids the cumulatively contributed to the earth's water levels over the span of hundreds of millions of years.

We don't KNOW, but we don't actually KNOW a good deal of science. Most of science boils down to extremely educated guesses - probably not wrong, but can't actually be 100% proven.

ledbowman posted...

None of the three are truly bad movies, and Revenge of the Sith is as good as A New Hope and Empire.

No.

NibeIungsnarf posted...

OctilIery posted...

There are some good things and some great ideas

No.

Yes. As has been mentioned, the music, some of the fights, and a couple scenes are great.

nicklebro posted...

KStateKing17 posted...

daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Blo posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

Why does it matter if they weren't going to buy it anyway?

Do you think every thief intends to buy what they steal?

Artists make much more from shows than from music sales

You still have producers, musicians, distributors, and record companies who would have also gotten paid.

Oh no, the poor record companies! It's about time we cut those shady af conmen out of the loop anyways. Now it's straight artist to fan, fuck those assholes.

Record Companies aren't bad or evil by nature or anything. But they straight up take advantage, and the artists get way too little from them.

Anteaterking posted...

Prostitution doesn't carry with it any connotation of it being voluntary on the part of the prostitute.

Yes it does.

lilORANG posted...

1 and 3 are both better than any of the OT. and of course way better than TFA.

lol no.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I liked the battle set-pieces a lot, but everything else was lame. Oh, and Order 66 was a good time too. I hate the Jedi.

mew4ever posted...

The music is pretty good, some of the best tracks in the series come from the prequels.

And I never tire of McGregor's performance as Obi Wan.

These are true. Some of the battle sequences are great(though some are terrible, and not just the Yoda ones), Order 66 was a well done scene, Mcgregor was amazing even if his writing was mediocre, and the music is fantastic. I'll also throw in that the idea behind the trilogy, showing the flaws in the jedi order and how blind they are to their own mistakes, had potential, but it was handled so poorly.

prince_leo posted...

I think the duel in AOTC would have been cool with Mace Windu instead of Yoda. like, save Yoda's fight until ROTS where both he and Sidious fight without lightsabers and we get to see master force wielders go all out instead of just lightsabers again

Yeah, I agree with this. Mace Windu was an interesting character that was really underutilized. Would've been ever more interesting since he's supposed to be closer to the dark side than other jedi, so it would be much dirtier fighting.

So bad. There are some good things and some great ideas, but so many more flaws.

Also, Yoda should never have fought with a lightsaber. The battle in the senate showed the potential of a straight force battle, and just makes Yoda seem so much more intimidating. When he's fighting with a saber, he just looks goofy :/

:D

Bad_Mojo posted...

jumi posted...

Well shit. I guess I just don't remember the romance because Ernest Cline can't write romance for shit.

So you talk shit, get called out, and now it's Cline's fault because he is teh sux

But....Cline is shit. Ready Player One was a godawful book that relied on nostalgia to hide its many, many flaws.

"Uno, Dos" Poof. He disappeared without a tres.

butthole666 posted...

Music piracy = more potential people at shows

More specifically, more potential people at shows with barely any impact on the artist.

Zikten posted...

OctilIery posted...

They wouldn't be dumb for being mad about it tbqh.

are we talking about a normal Hamilton movie? or a movie version of the musical? I'm talking about a normal historical movie about the actual hamilton. some people probably think it's just a story, and he is supposed to be black, and would get offended by a historical drama

The latter. Obviously if it's a serious historical drama then yeah, they should be white.

Women are allowed to go topless in many places.

Zikten posted...

I wouldn't put it past dumb people to actually get mad about that. probably the same people who thought the Titanic was just a story

They wouldn't be dumb for being mad about it tbqh.

That'd be a battle to see.

darkjedilink posted...

GATTJT posted...

darkjedilink posted...

So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

No, they don't. Not even close.

Birth Control coverage should be mandatory for anything that covers viagra. Hell, even more than Viagra, because birth control has legitimate medical use outside of sex.

And I'm at my parents house for a week :(

pegusus123456 posted...

I think the Juggernaut's power is magic-based too, so it might be able to affect the shield enough to throw Cap, at least.

Sort of. The source of his strength is magic, but the strength itself is still just physical force.

Second_Chances posted...

imagine taking that channel seriously

They take themselves seriously.

Cinemasins has always been crap.

Xerun posted...

I really enjoyed the book.

(End of book spoilers)
I was just disappointed that there were so many loose plot threads. It really felt like only Dalinar progressed anywhere

I thought Shallan and Adolin had good progression, though Kaladin not as much.

Mikablu posted...

Depends on why she's doing it. Defending herself from sexual harassment? I tell her to keep beating the shit out of anyone who touches her.

This, long as she reports it after.

Man, so many good characters. The Lopen is so good, and every major character has had a great, satisfying arc. Especially Dali narrative, holy shit. Learning everything about his wife was chilling.

And the stuff about the unmade makes me badly want a horror story from Sanderson.

I'm not quite at the end, but getting there. Holy shit. This series is shaping up to be one of the best in all of fantasy x.x

Every man deserves a right to a fair trial, and he's right that when they said it was behind the dumpster, it made it seem like he was attempting to hide.

He's right that he deserves a jury that understands he wasn't even trying to hide his crime. And that he deserves a judge that will give him more fair sentencing than he previously got.

Xelltrix posted...

OctilIery posted...

He literally didn't. He did no work on the AI. He left the tests running and went to a party, then Ultron activated and made himself out of the bots.

Pretty sure they showed him constructing the AI that became Ultron.

They didn't considering it came from the staff, not Tony.

LightHawKnight posted...

OctilIery posted...

LightHawKnight posted...

OctilIery posted...

Avengers 1 was Shields fault. Tony was partly to blame for Ultton, but not really, he was just investigating and Ultron created himself.

In the comics, both Ultton and Civil War and much better moral issues set up. At least the registration program in Civil War made sense.

Eh, Tony pretty much made Ultron, though I blame it on Scarlet Witch the most, if she didn't mind rape him into seeing all his friends dead, he would have never tried making Ultron.

He literally didn't. He did no work on the AI. He left the tests running and went to a party, then Ultron activated and made himself out of the bots.

He literally did. He was working on that AI for the explicit purpose of protecting the world so his friends wont die.

He had the plan, but he never started any work in it. At that point it was only experimenting.

LightHawKnight posted...

OctilIery posted...

Avengers 1 was Shields fault. Tony was partly to blame for Ultton, but not really, he was just investigating and Ultron created himself.

In the comics, both Ultton and Civil War and much better moral issues set up. At least the registration program in Civil War made sense.

Eh, Tony pretty much made Ultron, though I blame it on Scarlet Witch the most, if she didn't mind rape him into seeing all his friends dead, he would have never tried making Ultron.

He literally didn't. He did no work on the AI. He left the tests running and went to a party, then Ultron activated and made himself out of the bots.

.... Scarlet Witch and Vision.

lww99 posted...

I refuse to believe anyone has lasted this entire topic without fapping.

I've only looked at it when I can't fap.