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IdiotMachine posted...

Friend watched it and thought it was okay. Told me to turn off my brain and watch for spectacle.

I've never found it in myself to do this. I'd rather watch something that rewards active viewing/listening, decidedly not this movie. But yes, there are some pretty visuals here. Zero surprises, though.

If you ignore the script/dialogue, the messy themes, the lore inconsistencies, etc, you should have an alright night. I know the only thing sustaining Adam Driver here is the check.

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I don't care that he's on prep. People think that magically immunizes you to everything else you can get from unprotected sex.

Use a condom.

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Knuckles is pretty cut and dry. He protects a magical jewel and is deceived by Eggman into fighting Sonic. So while Knuckles is distracted delaying Sonic, Eggman can steal the emerald. That's it.

Blues has all kinds of stuff around him, being the first cyborg, getting scraped at the beginning stages of the robot conflict, being rebuilt by the villain, and his unwillingness to work directly with the good guys has pubic perception of his heroism looking a bit messy. Even the player doesn't know who he works for and what his story is until he's been around a minute. There is a lot to work through there.

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TLJ tries to steer the narrative away from 'fantasy blood feuds' involving chosen scions of anointed families, a crutch at this point that has been sabotaging the franchise since the prequels. It kind of underlines it with the random force sensitive kid on Canto Bite, only for the fans to wonder which force dynasty he hails from.

This movie basically ODs on one of the very things the last movie tries to distance itself on. With badly scripted meditations on family lineage and it's ties to the light are dark side of the force sucking all the air out of the perfectly valid internal conflict. Rey accidentally using dark force abilities because she loses control of her emotions is great. It has stakes, theme, a nod to inner conflicts central to the franchise. Rey doing it because of her lineage is frustrating. We're unlearning the lessons of past movies for much more shallow ground.

That's kind of just one issue or tension between these two movies. I can't point to a single thing I liked about this. It's creatively bankrupt. It tries to exposit things that's probably should have come up in the first movie to retroactively explain plot developments in the third, pointing to bad or nonexistent planning. Then there's the pandering. The random lesbian kiss between the unnamed rebels in the closing moments is good old fashioned Hollywood cowardice. And beat where Billy Dee Williams, John Boyega, and the other one (I don't know her name) try and solve the post-colonial African diaspora (in space) is such an afterthought it's a little insulting.

TLDR, it's exactly what the worst critics of TLJ wanted. It's only expected that they would be stoked. For anyone else though, the conclusion of TLJ is a much better ending for the franchise.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

I would burn their jeans while they're wearing them

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DaveTheUseless posted...

If it wasn't for me having so much else to play I'd probably at least finish out the hunts

I like how I wasn't even thinking about the Pylraster, and there it was going Hey Baby!

Like, at least killing Yiazmat isn't the time investment it used to be. But I get it. If you've not had to navigate the Great Crystal to find Ultima and Omega Mark XII, quit while you're ahead.

If you've already done the Great Crystal you might as well power through and wrap up Yiaz and Zodiark in the Henne Mines.
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Marry the Hulk. Fantasies of Endgame Hulk are keeping me up at night, and putting him in a sweater seals it.

Fuck Hellboy. He's such a good boy. Who should want to kill him?

Kill the Juggernaut. Boring. Also evil. Who TF gives someone with this name bussy?
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There are already cursed topics with people posting creepy or disturbing stuff. They get posted here every day, and people post in them until their interest is exhausted and then they purge.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Its not quite good, sadly.

I liked it a lot the first time I played it years ago

Maybe I have just become old and bitter

Perhaps, but I think you're also in the part of the game where things drag. Challenge is mostly gone and wrapping up all but a handful of hunts/boss fights feels like a formality. Especially in TZA, the where not only have the changes to the system made the game easier, and being able to double up on jobs compounds the effects of those changes. TZA rebalanced most if not all of the fights in the game to make them easier. This is also true of NG-, where you'll either get mindlessly crushed, or you'll have prepared everything is easy (unless it ignores magic/guns).

If you like the games combat mechanics there's trial mode. Otherwise, I wouldn't even blame you for just putting it down, even though I still really like the game.
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hollow_shrine posted...

Disabled people don't have rich lives 'in spite of their disabilities;' disabled people have rich lives, period regardless of whether or not the experience the world the same as everyone else.

This may be true, but how about we give the babies the ability to hear, and if for some reason they decide their lives might be better if they were deaf, we can take out the implants at their request.

I think positive medical intervention (and yes, correcting a disability is always positive) should be pretty universally appreciated. There are deaf people like the man in the tweet who do choose to identify themselves as deaf people first and foremost, and those people tend to be the ones who take offense to there being a cure/fix for their disability.

That's fair. The experience of moving through the world with a hearing disability is part of who he is and he values the opportunity to have made the choice for himself (assuming hearing aides would have worked for him).
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DuranOfForcena posted...

i'm just saying that deafness is factually an impairment of a natural function of the human body

And now we're making an appeal to naturalism, as though it were the way things 'ought' to be, and that anything falling outside that boundary is 'crazy talk.'

DuranOfForcena posted...

it is a bodily impairment, and if it can be treated, that is always a positive and never a negative.

Yeah. I think this is too comfortable with assuming too much, and bases that comfort on personal experiences as a hearing-able person. It runs right into Foucault's 'medical gaze' critique, especially with the implication in the OP that some treatments are uncomfortable. If you'd been born never able to hear, you might easily decide that your life is fine and that the personal sacrifices of curing deafness, aren't worth it for you.

The op is literally just asking us to be more aware of the larger context of medical and social attitudes around disability and how those don't necessarily line up with the attitudes of disabled people themselves.
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Rexdragon125 posted...

Having hearing is a direct upgrade over not having hearing. Nothing is stopping hearing people from learning sign language. I don't get his logic unless it's just "crabs in a bucket" mentality

He does say there's nothing wrong with getting hearing implants, and that if they work he's happy for them. But he does oppose using those on babies if less invasive methods exist. Presumably, that child electing to get them later when they can chose them for themselves, would have his full support.

And this claim that being able to hear is a direct upgrade over not being able to hear is just an unwillingness to engage with the point because you can't de-center your perspective from the conversation.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

anyone who thinks that deafness shouldn't be cured or at least mitigated is mentally ill

I guess. You're kind of over-committing here.

The tweets in the op are alerting us to the fact that we often reduce hearing disabled people (and disabled people in general) to their disabilities without considering their lives from their perspectives. Disabled people don't have rich lives 'in spite of their disabilities;' disabled people have rich lives, period regardless of whether or not the experience the world the same as everyone else.

When we erase that, disabled people kind of 'become' their disabilities, and the disabilities are a problem to be solved. When we repeat miracle narratives without proper context, we make the same mistake.

Living in that 'disability as problem to be solved' mindset lets us justify invasive procedures that may or may not work, and may not even be necessary because non-invasive workarounds (sign language is the example given in the op) already exist. His tone, "inner cochlear implants on babies = violence" will rub some people the wrong way and get them instantly defensive, but I don't think what he's saying is wrong.

At the risk of derailing the whole thread, I might compare that to the circumcision of male babies, as an invasive procedure that often isn't necessary for the child's well being and may carry more social (or religious) weight than medical.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

I can kind of get what theyre saying but I think music is something everyone should experience (I do know there are deaf musicians though)

This probably gets thrown around a lot, but apparently there's a pretty avid following of deaf people who enjoy music. They go to concerts and hold inflated balloons between their hands and against their chest to feel the vibrations of the music, for example

I love this example, because it illustrated that hearing disabled people aren't broken. They just experience the world differently from people who can hear.
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I think Foucault wrote some things about this in the idea of the "medical gaze" as a framework which dehumanizes people because it reduces them to their pathologies and reshapes social thought around them in ways that other and manipulate them and depower them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic#The_medical_gaze

Disease or disability as social framework justifying invasive or restrictive strictures on the lives of people who are less 'unwell' and more 'atypical.'
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V-E-G-Y- posted...

Also like

They should just hide it.
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I know Roman Polanski is beyond cancelled, but it's still Chinatown for me.
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Egotism? Sure.

I'd even extend that to having a fragile ego, that prompt you to cast yourself in a positive light compared to others and get excessively defensive whenever you feel threatened.
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10. Cinderella
9. 101 Dalmatians
8. Frozen
7. Moana
6. Coco
5. Aladdin
4. Tangled
3. Mulan
2. Beauty and the Beast
1. The Great Mouse Detective
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You're supposed to spike their food and drink with it. That's consistent with the whole 'love potion as date rape' metaphor.
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Ryven posted...

Batgirl schools all three easily. She has batgadgets after all.

Yup. And the money and access of the whole Batfamily franchise.
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I've heard Control and Three Houses bandied around. Those are the two I actually bothered to look into. I thought Sekiro was basically another Souls title, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
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A ticket in OKC = ~12.00
That same ticket in Austin = ~16.00
NYC = 20<

If you can find a matinee (my closest matinee is like $5.00 and I love them) or a theater that carries slightly older films, that's your best shot. But if it's new or you're splurging on a date night or something, be prepared.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Because Charmed is popular because of its name rather than its content. Never has a person sat down a critically thought about the content of a Charmed episode and not concluded that its gutter trash that is only popular because witches doing magic things are cool and Alyssa Milano has a nice rack.

I loved charm growing up in the nineties. There was nothing else like it on television and it was fun enough, even if it never reached the heights of Buffy. I still have positive memories of that show, even though it never tried to be anything better than it was.

Currently, I think Buffy has turned out to be way more popular than Charmed. I don't think anyone wants to talk about what happened in that show after the sixth season.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

When people defend the gambit system I always point to Yiazmat and explain that when the people who designed the system were figuring out how to design the best possible challenge for it, what they came up with was a boss that plays itself for an hour.

It doesn't though. You need to still manage positioning in that fight and figure out a way to tank him that doesn't cause the party to crumple if his 10% instant kill procs. Also you want to watch and see what attacks he's preparing so you can move around gear equips to block his attacks.

If anything, that fight would be a nightmare without the gambits. So much stuff to micromanage and your ability to react does matter.

Yiazmat shifts skill demands to the preparation side of things instead of 'in the moment' decision making.
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Because the show is getting rebooted instead.

It appears like it's going to be a sequel. Whedon is involved but not directing or writing it. SMG is not going to be in it. Other news has been pretty mum.

Personally, I think this is better. The buffyverse set the gold standard for character development over several seasons of a show. I would love to see them do that again with a modern cast.
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masterpug53 posted...

Yeah, the Pharos is pretty brutal. After a certain point in the game, everything basically boils down to a test of endurance: making it through the 100-floor tower, grinding for rare weapons and loot for rare weapons, fighting a superboss that has a million HP, fighting a super-duper boss that has 7 million HP, fighting a holy-shit-are-you-kidding ludicrous boss that has 50 million HP...

That's very true. I've played through 99% of the game like three times and always take like a year's break after defeating Yiazmat and Omega XII. I can't even be bothered to finish the fisherman's quest to get the Wyrmhero Blade because of all the stuff I had to do just to fight and kill those bosses. Now with the new game I have my NG- Trial mode run to complete. I've done enough runs to know I can kill every boss up to the nineties, with a handful of truly awful fights. But the real super boss is killing the 100th trial and I need to grind up some materials for that.
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He's still pretty dumb. You can check out his record in Indiana. He's less obvious about it though, and knows how to keep his name out of the papers.
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Cancel culture exists if you know, ignore the fact that Chapelle's stand up skit has had millions of views since it dropped and he's likely going to make millions off of it. Or that people like Rogan or Shapiro have some of if not the most downloaded podcasts or YouTube videos out there, likely netting them millions. Or the fact that almost anyone who cries to the press about it ends up coming out on the positive end due to the culture war identity politics the Conservatives in this country have adopted.

You know, totally a real thing...

If it was up to people like you, Chapelle's show would be scrubbed from the internet and he'd be imprisoned. Don't deny it, you know what you'd do if you had the power to do it.

You imagine fantasies and then get mad about them.

Where do you find the time/energy?
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Remind us. Who heads the DoJ again? Would that be Attorney General William Barr?
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Tyranthraxus posted...

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He doesn't just take it. Balthier convinces him that escaping the Barheim Passage is more important than settling his grievances with Basch. And by the time they escape he's convinced that Basch isn't as bad as the rumors claim and that hating him won't bring back his brother or his parents.

Fun fact: Through that whole situation Balthier knows Basch is telling the truth.

Larsa also must have known and didn't say anything.

Larsa knows how Gabranth appears and likely knows he's a twin but he doesn't seem to have not known his and Vayne's hand in the toppling of Dalmasca and the fabrication of the betrayal narrative. At least not judging by his reaction to the events in the Lhusu Mines. That's the moment he starts to suspect his brother of something, but he doesn't tell us what.
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I'd play it.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

I think you could have had Basche as the main character as well.

Honestly Basch was a dumb inclusion and Vaan's willingness to take "no it was my evil twin" excuse at face value is the dumbest shit ever.

He doesn't just take it. Balthier convinces him that escaping the Barheim Passage is more important than settling his grievances with Basch. And by the time they escape he's convinced that Basch isn't as bad as the rumors claim and that hating him won't bring back his brother or his parents.

Fun fact: Through that whole situation Balthier knows Basch is telling the truth.
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

White hat has been used since the fucking 70s

I think the term Becky is as old as the euphemism "good hair." So I'm putting that in the fifties or sixties.

Firewerx posted...

I dispute that I have any need to know at least half of that list.

You don't need to know anything. But that's a reasonable list of terms to have encountered to have a certain level of cultural literacy. 'Stacy' is pretty recent, though some people on CE actually use it. So you might encounter all but Becky and White Hat on this very board.
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All of them
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DaveTheUseless posted...

I kinda wish this game had a goofy optional party member who didn't have any direct interest in the war itself.

You could argue that is Penelo. You'd be wrong. She's just as affected as Vaan, it's just less personal for her. But to hear people on this bored talk about her you'd assume she was just a hapless comic relief little girl.

Actually though, Fran doesn't have any direct interest in the outcome of the war. Her only interest is Balthier. And his primary interest in the conflict is a personal beef with his father and his machinations. There is a case to be made that beef has larger implications for the safety of anyone living between the Rozzarian and Arcadian empires, but that conflict is not why Balthier decides to intervene
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

AsucaHayashi posted...

roseanne

True, haven't heard much from her

She's got a show in the works, actually.
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In Jewish mythology (because Lilith is not a figure in Christianity/Christian mythology) Lilith was conceived as a fix for a contradiction early in Genesis. In the passage describing the creation of mankind, the verse states (paraphrased) "man and woman, He created them."

But a couple chapters later we have then the description of Eve's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, and the naming of Eve as 'woman, because she came from man.'

So did woman exist before God created Eve, supposedly the first woman? Contradiction.

So Jewish mythology attempts to reconcile this with the apocryphal story of Lilith, Adam's first wife who was exiled from the Garden of Eden. Some accuse her of being the mother of a variety of demons, but that's a whole other can of worms, somewhat inspired by the surrounding cultures.

Now it's very important to know that none of this mythology exists in a vacuum. In nearby nations' mythologies there are other figures like Lilith, some of whom even have similar names, who pop up all over the Proto-Semitic pantheons. Comparative religious studies do a lot more digging here, but TLDR: she's not the first, nor is she particularly unique. It's reasonable to assume much of what we associate with Lilith in Jewish mythology developed parallel to cultural and religious development across Mesopotamia.
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Goats posted...

Is cancel culture an actual thing?

No. You'll notice like 90% of the names in this topic still have active careers and continue to book gigs, run shows, and make way more money than most of us will see in our life time.

'Cancel culture' is these people projecting their fears of social backlash for shitty behavior, on you. That's it.
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konokonohamaru posted...

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Hanky_Bannister posted...

why are you asking us?

This seems like a good place to ask.

What about this place has convince you of this?

Stop sealioning

Really? I don't think you know what that phrase means.

CE has manifestly bad opinions about a lot of things, and the only thing I'd come here for in this regard is an ironic conspiracy theory. I think asking why someone should expect to find valuable insights concerning anyone's impeachment on CE on all places, is 100% valid. And you think I'm trolling? At least the serious topics talking about impeachment give an article or post a link compiling relevant information, and then center discussion on that content. By comparison, I don't even know what the OP is.

Truthfully, I assumed the topic was a troll equating a pro-impeachment Pence argument, which hasn't even been articulated yet, to the pro-impeachment arguments gaining momentum against Trump. The juxtaposition undermines the real story with the fantasy one. I'm always open to the possibility that I'm wrong, but I still suspect I'm right.
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Germany.
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friendbuddypal posted...

Hanky_Bannister posted...

why are you asking us?

This seems like a good place to ask.

What about this place has convince you of this?
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I can't wait to choke my EDH games to actual death with Deafening Silence and Hushbringer.

I want someone to do an alter of Deafening Silence replacing the vague magic auras will ball gags.
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TC, that source reads like an opinion piece. No sourcing. No data. No cred. You can believe what you like, I suppose. But why do the rest of us need to hear about it?
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They might have been stronger, but with how the equipment system works, I doubt they're totally useless. Put them in your team and start hunting for some rare materials to craft your endgame weapons. They'll catch up quick.
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Lawful Good

I loathe deception and believe we all have a responsibility to one another to create the society we want to live in.
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Oh my God. It's me trying to come out to my dad for the nth time in like ten years. Only without the frustration.
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Guide posted...

Iron Man? No?

Isn't*
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