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The Korrasami Denier Backpedal is a dance that never gets old, in that it was already plenty old five years ago.

'It came out of nowhere and had no foreshadowing!'

*Lists foreshadowing*

'Well...that just means they're good friends, doesn't mean they're in some kind of realtionship!'

*Points out that the creators intent was explicit and no, they did quite obviously end up in a relationship*

'Well...it's still bad, why are you so upset about it?'

I guess I shouldn't complain that 'well other shows have since given same-sex couples more development' has become a new step in the dance over the past couple years, since it obviously means gay representation has become more commonplace.

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dave_is_slick posted...

Marcie and PB is buildup. This wasn't. I don't know why it bothers you so much.

A umad attempt is a pretty clear sign that you're running out of steam.

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Jabodie posted...

Basically Mace Windu fucked his organs up.

Though I think that little cartoon is technically noncanon now. But until we get another explanation that's what I'll go with.

Unsurprising that they would make some of the best Star Wars side material noncanon.

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dave_is_slick posted...

He's not wrong at all though.

He quite is. The 'that just means they're good friends' stance is not only the most tired and easily-debunked attitude towards Korrasami, but also one of the most tired attitudes towards homosexual relationships in general. The showrunners stated that Korra and Asami building towards a relationship was their intention starting in Book 3, and the foreshadowing is there. His willful ignorance / resistance towards it doesn't change this. There is no ambiguity because it was the showrunners' explicit intent to plant these seeds, and Korra and Asami did in fact end up in a romantic relationship; to continue to deny this is to quite simply deny the reality of the situation.

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masterpug53 posted...

Can I assume that you've already had the instances of foreshadowing starting in Book 3 pointed out to you by another poster at some point, or do I have the privilege of being the first to do so, to be inevitably met with the usual rebuttals of 'that's not enough!' or 'that just means they're good friends!'

StealthRock posted...

4. Guess close friends would never do this either

*slow clap*


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I'm still partial to RotJ's space battle, particularly the shot of all those TIE fighters swarming over the Falcon's cockpit.

Oh, and on any version prior to that motherfucking 'NOOOO' alteration, my favorite all-time moment is Vader throwing the Emperor down the elevator shaft.

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StealthRock posted...

I guess good friends are something that isnt ever mistaken for homosexuality of there is no other context...

• From Season 3 onward, Asami guards Korra's body while Korra is in the Spirit World, a role exclusively reserved for the Spirit World-goer's SO throughout both series (the only exception being Jinora in S2, who has no SO at the time)
• Korra visibly blushes when Asami compliments her haircut, which in these shows is an inarguable sign of romantic interest
• Shortly thereafter, Korra and Asami have a pseudo-lover's fight, after which even Mako takes notice and comments 'is something going on between you two?'
• Asami is the only one Korra feels comfortable writing to while she's in her depressive state

The foreshadowing is there. You can nitpick it apart until you're blue in the face, but your inability to perceive it upon first viewing won't magically cause it to not be there; there was sufficient foreshadowing to bring things to the final shot of the show, which was two same-sex characters coming to the realization that they had romantic feelings for each other. More room for development would have always been welcome, but what we got was very likely the maximum extent of onscreen relationship Nickelodeon allowed the showrunners to portray.

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StealthRock posted...

I personally think its hot, but still forced

Can I assume that you've already had the instances of foreshadowing starting in Book 3 pointed out to you by another poster at some point, or do I have the privilege of being the first to do so, to be inevitably met with the usual rebuttals of 'that's not enough!' or 'that just means they're good friends!'

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5 years later legend of korra ending still causes massive REEE'ing over Korrasami.

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I feel like this topic could inspire an Onion article: 'Man Who Walks Out In Middle of Movie Complains it Only Felt Half-Finished.'

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Republicans - widely and repeatedly criticized for putting party over country - voting exclusively along party lines clearly illustrates how the Democrats are the real partisan hacks. Just like how they are the real racists, sexists, homophobes, etc.

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Even though my only experience with the Witcher series is all the outfits that modders have imported to Skyrim, I have to say that I despise the 'someone skipped leg day' look to most of the male outfits.

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Not surprising that he doesn't know what a quid pro quo is. The sad thing is, this will resonate very strongly will his voting base, who also don't know what a quid pro quo is.

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Eventually all discourse concerning Star Wars will just be people slapping massive air quotes around the other side's talking points and flinging them back across the aisle, until no one actually remembers which side they started on in the first place.

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He's like an uglier Season 1 Leslie Knope who never went through that Season 2 character transition of becoming competent and likable.

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Scotty doesn't know how to abbreviate The Last Jedi.

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ThunderMuffin posted...

no way he can actually be as dumb as he presents himself

I don't think you've spent enough time around actual members of Trump's base if you believe he's incapable of acting that genuinely dumb. Though 'dumb' is an oversimplification. 'Dangerously oblivious to their own constant hypocrisy' would be more accurate.

And that's not taking into account the very real possibility that Trump is senile or otherwise mentally ill.

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The Trent posted...

i remember literally laughing aloud when leia force-propelled herself through space and into safety during TLJ
i'm looking forward to the comedic stylings of ROS

I enjoyed the movie overall, but it was definitely a bad sign when I had the same laugh-out-loud-at-the-absurdity-of-it-all moment during the very first sentence of Ep 9's text crawl.

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luigi13579 posted...

Well I did a bit of alchemy and now I'm literally Superman.

I didn't even use alchemy or enchanting, and went from struggling against Nix Hounds and Cliff Racers to effortlessly thwacking everything in my path (Including all high-level daedra and such) around levels 14 thru 16. This was incidentally around the time I stumbled upon such uber-gear and Eilodon's Ward, Chrysamere, and Dragonbone Mail.

Actually, I take that back, Daedroth had nasty enough spells that they still gave me pause (shame that they ended up devolving them into brainless alligator beasts in Oblivion). I think after that point, the only enemy that was even remotely challenging was Dagoth Ur's final form, simply because he spammed attribute damage.

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If I pay the subscription fee do I have certain...uh...privileges over TC?

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Heh, I was just telling my brother how I simply can't get inside the heads of people who actually think Ep 3 was a good movie. Best of the worst =/= good.

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ThunderMuffin posted...

I hate this. A moral victory? who cares.

I care. This is one of the few times I can think of - maybe the only - where I'm genuinely proud of my government for achieving a moral victory in the face of flagrant partisan corruption and stonewalling (incidentally, I just occurred to me that Trump's greatest sin to date by far is that he actually made me root for Nancy Pelosi).

And lol if you think this won't eat at Trump to his very core.

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Yummy yum yum.

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BotW came this close to finally dethroning LttP, but it tripped at the finish line with a disappointing final boss and ending.

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I found it to be overall enjoyable, but there's plenty to rip apart if you're of a mind to do so.

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It took Hamill a few years to discover that his true calling was voice acting.

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I won't say that Avengers 1 killed my interest in the MCU at that point, but...it didn't do it any favors. That movie just did not click with me at all apart from 'Puny God.' I had the benefit of watching Age of Ultron very shortly after Winter Soldier and GotG reignited my MCU interest with a passion, and I was a lot more forgiving of its flaws. So if I had to pick between Avengers 1 and AoU to rewatch, I'd easily pick the latter.

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Kazi1212 posted...

I aint even trolling

Hehehe, good one.

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I agree. Surprisingly enough, 9 was the only movie in the new trilogy I genuinely enjoyed watching.

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The Dead Speak!

I laughed out loud and thought 'oh my god this movie is going to be such a fucking train wreck' when that was literally the very beginning of the movie, and I hope it becomes a meme.

But as it turned out, I actually enjoyed tRoS, and would say it's handily my favorite of the new trilogy. Of course that's not high praise considering TFA was a bland rehash and TLJ had two things I hated for every one thing I liked. The movie's still a hot mess in many ways: the biggest problem is that the pacing is terribly fast for the first half of the movie, and the existence of Palpatine is such painfully obvious damage control after TLJ. And even though the CGI Carrie Fisher is at least an improvement upon the Rogue One attempts, it's probably the most uncomfortable I've felt watching a reanimated actor. But other than that, for once I actually gave a shit about Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo, and just generally had a good time watching the movie.

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So what, we some kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

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I would have been in this topic 20 minutes ago, but I used up all my stamina briskly walking here and was killed by a rat because I couldn't hit the little bastard.

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It's basically the Zelda Cycle; the difference being that it only quantifies trilogies instead of single entries, and therefore takes waaaay longer to see the effects.

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She's exactly one steamy workout vid away from regaining your support.

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...you're one of them, aren't you TC?

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Trump is the comedic equivalent of a latter-day Family Guy gag that's been strung along nonstop for three years straight. It was kinda funny in a dark, depressing way for all of three seconds, and then just dark and depressing for the remainder.

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Off the top of my head, 'The Man Who Killed Batman' is one of my favorites. As I child it was my first deep look into the Joker's psyche, and how he only really cares about staying locked in an eternal struggle with his nemesis. And the ending, when Batman sends Sid the Squid off to prison with a knowing wink, always reminds me why this is my favorite portrayal of Batman; he may beat criminals to a pulp, but he understands their motivations and is not unsympathetic with them.

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GOP: votes strictly along party lines in spite of everything
GOP: 'Why the Dems gotta be so partisan all the time?!'

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malenz posted...

can you stop being irrational and actual ly argue with logic for once

You'd be permanently irrational too if Obama made your wife leave you. None of Trump's so-called 'crimes' can compare to that.

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If it gets more people to go back and read the GN, I consider it a win.

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MC_BatCommander posted...

For real tho Rich Evans might have the most contagious laugh I've ever heard

My opinion of RLM as a whole is pretty lukewarm, but honestly, this exact thing is what endeared me to them in the first place.

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Dibs on the Maids-a-Milking.

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burns112233 posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1207277859519238154

Can you believe that I will be impeached today by the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, AND I DID NOTHING WRONG! A terrible Thing. Read the Transcripts. This should never happen to another President again. Say a PRAYER!

I genuinely pray fairly often that his dumb ass gets removed from office as soon as possible.

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Katrina.

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Beep Bep is a coded language that only the Enlightened Elite can understand, similar to how Luke understands Artoo.

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I'm starting to think that the reason American blockbusters are becoming so popular in China is because their government views them as nonfiction.

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EvenSpoonier posted...

They're mad that Luke isn't Goku. That's pretty much all you need to know.

I do want to give more credit to the people who hate Luke in TLJ, but honestly, I think they misinterpreted the characters all these years. The outrage over him contemplating killing Kylo while he slept seems to be the biggest offender to people who think this way, as if old man Luke could never be capable of such a thought. Thing is though, Luke has always been emotional, impetuous, quick to anger and frustration. His occasional moments of speaking like a wise old master in RotJ don't change this, as he still lashes out emotionally in many scenes. He really is his father's son in every way that counts; they both walked right up to the edge up jumping into the dark side, and the only thing that separates Luke is that, in the moment of truth with the Emperor, he chose not to turn back and not give in to his dark desires.

I think people were expecting him to become the new Obi-Wan: a wise, patient teacher type, which isn't Luke's character at all. The personality traits present in young Obi-Wan are very consistent with old Obi-Wan; I have no trouble believing that Ewan McGregor and Alec Guiness are playing the same character at different points in his life. Similarly, I find young Luke and old Luke to have the same consistency. Some people like to think that characters don't have meaningful arcs if they're not completely different people from where they started. But even in fiction, characters rarely ever change completely; they just learn how to better deal with their bad nature and impulses. To suggest that a character is ruined simply because they returned to such impulses in a moment of weakness is, honestly, pretty unfair; I think it goes a long way towards humanizing them.

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