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this metta stuff is really terrible. two quitters in one shortened season, goddamn. that's a let down.

it's especially pathetic because his wife was literally like "i sure am glad you haven't pressed the self evict button lately, keep not doing that!"

way to let your fans and your family down, metta.
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barney barnes barnes i love barnes
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Samoa had two medevacs and I just thought that made things more lit!
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Ariadna casually shutting James down about a showmance during the baby costumes was excellent.
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18/20 ez

i thought i was gonna bomb this as a non american especially after it opened asking me about Susan B Anthony or the Federalist Papers

rest was pretty common knowledge
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???????????
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i like dane cook
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Brook asking to see Big Mom's panties was incredible. After all these years its the moments like these that get me. Oda's still got it.
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Malfurion and Tarim are extremely good and necessary pieces to most decks you might want to build for their classes over the next year.

Sonya and Kingsbane can potentially be good and can do crazy awesome things but aren't necessarily cornerstones to Rogue going into the next year.

Rexxar is fun but will he continue to be good? Will they even update him to use new beasts like they say they will?

The Darkness is pure meme.

Aluneth I'm not sure. I'm thinking about crafting it to try Secret Mage but I'm not sure how key it is or how useful it will be in other decks later on. Ultimately I don't want to craft it just for one deck, but if it might be useful in other decks then it might be worth.
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Is Joey Chestnut genuinely known?

Do people in the US actually care about this?

Every time they mentioned he eats lots of hot dogs I laughed out loud and couldn't believe they actually chose someone like that. Like that's the kind of dumb gag they use in Malcolm in the Middle or something. Hot Dog eating competitions.

It's actually kinda gross if I even think about it for more than 1 second... Why would anyone care?
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Non sequestered Jury isn't ideal, but eh. It's 1000000x better than a fan vote.
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Whether or not Chuck going for it was a good decision, it was unquestionably a bad decision for them to not line up once the girls+gay lined up
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I've never watched TAR at all to be honest! I'm just here for Jody. I'd say every single team is completely forgettable to me except Yale.
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Also I'm two episodes behind Amazing Race but man I feel so sorry for that girl that got proposed to. That guy is a pretty emotionally abusive asshole when he gets frustrated or angry and it's not going to change. She's just too afraid to be alone after putting up with it all these years. I'm surprised they actually put that on TV.... probably just because of the proposal to "resolve" that arc. Even though it's not really resolved...

Team Yale all the way though.
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Inviso posted...

I feel like someone must've cancelled at the last minute. The table was totally set up for twelve people.

Huh?

It was set up for 10 originally. They had to rework everything to fit 11. There wasn't a last minute cancellation, Omarosa was a last minute addition.
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An excellent game, with tons of charm and gameplay that feels really good. Probably one of the best single player experiences I've ever had, and I've replayed it a bunch of times.

I've never felt like Paper Mario measured up to it at all.
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In other news, Mike Donais found one of Ulti's reddit alts

https://i.redd.it/u65h0in15he01.jpg
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I don't know that I agree with that mindset

If I dust Raza then I'm going to spend it on some stupid shit anyways and then later I'll want Raza again but I won't have any dust!
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I saw this last May! It's a lot of fun. I've seen Symphony of The Goddess twice too and it was also great.

Video Games Live is my real fav though. They have somuch variety. They haven't been to my city for a few years though and they are finally coming again next month, I'm sooooo excited!
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feb 2 how is this still up

i feel bad because tbh i dont have a lot to say on your write ups and you really aren't getting a lot of discussion getting much back

when you did the Buffy watch through, i had tons to say about basically every episode as I've watched through both Buffy and Angel many times, and I even did a sideline watchthrough of my fav moments from episodes as you did it.

With Veronica Mars, I really enjoyed the show. It has a lot of the elements I really love in Buffy, but it's not quite at that level. If Buffy is a 10/10 show to me, Veronica Mars is a 7 or 8 out of 10. I think Veronica, Keith, and Logan are excellent, but most of the rest of the cast is just fine. Meanwhile, I loooove everybody in Buffy.

I remember a lot of "main season" moments but since I've only seen the show once, I don't really remember the individual episode plots too strongly, so I don't have anything to say >_>

I love reading your thoughts on everything happening though!
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I'm hoping FD was joking too.
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Doesn't it say the guy was at a different school?

What boundary is being crossed there?
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How is it compared to Xenoverse, which was awesome?
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oh you sweet summer child
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bumpi
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is this game good

i love fire emblem

and am lukewarm on musou's
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there's no way the genie isn't severely punishing tom nook's weakass solution
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It's way too much time. You'd go insane.

If it was only 3-4 days a week or an hour or two every day, it'd be doable. But that's such an insane restriction on your life to do 8 hours every single day forever.
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up

oh man you are well into season 2 now

as much as i disagree with so many of your gripes about high school, yeahh.... charisma doesn't have a lot going on here

just fyi dick and beaver are nicknames
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shokugeki no soma 247 spoilers



HNNNNNNNN
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woooooooo my favourite book series of all time

the last book was soooo satisfying
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I mean there's two main consequences for what she's alleging he did and I don't think he deserves either of them. I think it's quite the strawman for you to single out that line.

Anyways, did you guys see Dan Harmon's admission and apology for his sexual harassment of Megan Ganz? It was really good stuff. I recommend a listen. It starts at 18:35

http://www.harmontown.com/2018/01/episode-dont-let-him-wipe-or-flush/
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looks like people get pretty busy making babies in the winter when they can't go outside as much
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SeabassDebeste posted...

Another episode for Logan, another episode where it feels like a man's show with a conveniently female protagonist. Here, domestic abuse of a girl - Logan's sister - is used as an opportunity for the men to appear awesome as they protect her. We're meant to revel in Aaron's beatdown of the colossal douchebag boyfriend - the comic music and the gleefully manic camera clearly emphasize this. It's redemption for Aaron! It's a chance for Logan to feel closer to his father!

It's not like I'm above being taken by it a bit - it is satisfying (and rather amusing) to watch Aaron kick the boyfriend's ass, and to have that feeling of realization before the kid about what's coming to him. (He offers a bit of meat at the pointed end of a very long, very sharp steak-knife. The kid says it's perfect, and Aaron responds, 'not so much.') I'm not against some cathartic violence in my TV shows, but the fact we have to introduce a throwaway domestic abuser just to give Aaron a chance to redeem himself is bad. I guess violence is an aphrodisiac, though, since it spurs Logan and Veronica's deciding to take it further.

I thought about responding to this earlier but I didn't want to give much away... but I never got the impression that this was "redemption" for Aaron.

Like it was good he was standing up for his daughter, and it was an incredibly well done scene, but I thought Aaron came away from that scene looking like a very terrifying man, and he was already pretty intimidating.
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whodunnit
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I find it strange people are so down on Luke. He's the best part of the movie IMO.

Seems like people are super hung up on the idea he'd try to kill a sleeping child and that the very idea is super out of character for Luke. And sure, maybe if you want to frame things like that you can convince yourself this is true... but it's not true. Anybody can be capable of anything if pushed into the right circumstances.

Let's imagine what happened that night.

Luke has been training Ben Solo and a bunch of other students for a while. But he's noticed Ben is a bit too aggressive than normal. He's vicious in training. He has explosive bouts of anger. He often goes too far when practicing forms and destroys things, like how Rey destroyed that one stone outcropping on the island by accident. Maybe Luke is also aware of some kind of contact Snoke has had with Ben in the past.

So he decides to touch his mind while he's sleeping with the force and see what Ben's true feelings are and if he's intentionally creeping towards the dark side. So Luke comes to Ben when he's sleeping and mind melds or some shit. When he does this, he senses the overwhelming evil Ben is capable of. it's terrifying. He can see that not only is Kylo Ren capable of mass murder, but also the murder of those around him. Not only is he capable of this, but he WANTS to do it. Out of pure horror and instinct, he feels that this darkness has to be stopped before it can do any of those things.

Then looks down at his hand and see he's drawn and activated his lightsabre. He's even more horrified at what was about to do than even what he saw in Ben's mind. So he turns off the lightsabre and leaves, resolving to find a way to save Ben from himself.

To me, this entire sequence seems COMPLETELY believable and within Luke's character. He's always been quick to fight when called for, but reflective of the implications of what he does. Honestly, this is definitively Luke.

The hiccup in this scene comes when Ben wakes up and sees Luke looking down in horror on his activated lightsabre. There's not really any other way to interpret that other than Luke is about to kill him in his sleep so he reacts appropriately and developes a burning hatred for Luke, the master who betrayed him.

And what can Luke do to convince him otherwise? He really did have a moment of reactionary weakness where he did want to kill Ben. "Oops, sorry, I was gonna kill you but I changed my mind." How can he explain this to Ben, or to Leia, or to Han? How can he even justify this to himself?

Luke is a good guy. He's an astonishingly good guy. And he had a very brief but understandable moment where he felt like killing Kylo Ren was the best thing to do. And he's deeply ashamed of it. Now he sees HIMSELF as the monster. Of course he does. He's a good guy. Good guys dont kill kids. So he must be a pretty bad fucking guy. The universe is better off without him.

So that's why he lives in exile. That's why he does everything he does in the movie.

And it's awesome.

It's really weird to see the same people complaining about Luke as the same who say this movie played it safe or took no risks. Yeah, apparently having Luke briefly consider killing a kid and becoming a bitter old man due to it is both playing it safe and completely out of character for OT Luke.
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I didn't get the twist in context of everything that was going on. I did call it early on in a "lol what if they were really in the bad place" shower thought but it wasn't really serious or based on anything I'd seen, so I don't think it really counts.

Love the show and every character though. Except Jason. He just goes too far into the realm of both stupidity and selfishness. I just don't believe he's a real person. I guess by tying him to Janet we are supposed to buy him being worth saving too but he's pretty completely irredeemable. Like the other characters might not be good enough to go to the Good Place, but Jason actually should go to the Bad Place.
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Finn and Rose's Excellent Adventure - I wanted to like this, but... it just didn't deliver. I thought the idea of going on a whirlwind adventure to some planet when the star destroyers were RIGHT THERE seemed weird, but w/e I was on board. The casino planet was cool and showing the people who profit from the war between the First Order and the Rebels is cool. But they didn't really do anything cool or interesting there. Avoiding guards was boring and I didn't like the stampede scenes. They didn't feel like they were taking their extremely time sensitive mission that seriously either. They even left without finding a codebreaker. They just lucked out and BB8 brought that dude to bail them out. Speaking of the codebreaker - he was just one interesting speech pattern away from being a cool character. I couldn't understand him half the time though so he was kind of a miss.

comedy - I've seen people say this is a Marvel quipfest or something but I don't get it at all. A couple characters like Finn make jokes but for the most part this movie was played pretty damn straight.

Lopen - he's just a big dumb stupid head
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Okay, I just read through the last 500 post topic quickly before it purged. Here's a bunch of thoughts on random things that popped out at me:

The Knights of Ren - These guys might still exist. TFA indicated that Kylo Ren destroyed the academy with the Knights of Ren and there's a vision of them standing looking all cool. TLJ Luke mentions that Kylo Ren massacred most of the students and left with a few of them. This is consistent. Those guys could still be out there and show up. Or they might just get forgotten. They might have been part of those lightsabre ninja guards of Snokes that got killed, but that seems unlikely to me.

Phasma - lame pointless character made to sell toys that did nothing in both movies. She could have been an interesting foil for Finn. Instead she's a pointless boring foil for Finn that shows up for a pointless and boring fight. She's a big disappointment

Snoke - I think he was fine. He was cool in this movie. Fit the bill for evil sith lord / galactic emperor 2.0 to a T. I'm completely okay with him dying like he did though. I thought they were building him up now for us to overcome in Ep 9, but instead he's just a cool sith lord they brought out of the wood work to facilitate Kylo Ren's rise to power. I've seen a lot of people complain about where he came from, but it honestly doesn't matter. It's not a plothole that he was around during the Empire's time. Obviously Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda survived off the grid. There's absolutely no reason that other Jedi or powerful dark side users couldn't have survived as well. Just because the movies told you there were no other force users left alive doesn't mean it's true. Palpatine could have known about Snoke, or he might not have. It really doesn't matter either way.

Wigs being confused on Kylo Ren's betrayal - For some reason Wigs kept talking out to himself about why Kylo Ren flip flopped on his allegiences. That's just a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened. Kylo Ren never flip flopped at all. He was always 100% loyal to Kylo Ren. He followed Snoke until it was no longer convenient to keep Snoke around (when Snoke wanted to Rey dead) so he killed Snoke. It's classic sith apprentice supplanting the master backstabbing and it was done wonderfully. The movie presents it to us as if he's face turning and joining Rey because of the relationship they've built (which was developed pretty decently well), and Rey genuinely believing Kylo Ren could be turned to the light side. However, Kylo Ren's plan the entire time was to kill Snoke, assume control of The First Order, and convince Rey to join him as his partner. He really believed it would all work, too. He never once changed his mind here or intended to "join the light side" . As conflicted and immature as he is, he's dark side for life.

Mary Poppins Leia - for some reason literally everyone is hating on this scene. No idea why. It's a cool scene. We know in the OT that Leia is force sensitive. The force protecting you from the void of space temporarily is absolutely within the realm of possibility of the force. It's not like it protected her from death... She still ended up in intensive care. It was just a cool inspiring moment for the rebels. She's a hero of the resistance. She's already a larger than life figure to them for what happened in the OT, but they literally watched her get blown into space and fly back in. It's great.
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I really enjoyed TFA, but I never understood when people said they liked Poe. He was generic rebel fighter pilot heroman. I've seen a million characters exactly like him in the games and novels and stuff. He was just soo generic. He had literally nothing to his character in that movie except being a rebel. But it was fine I guess because he was just a background character who set up the plot for actually good characters like Finn and Rey.

But they pushed Poe to the forefront in this movie and... he's exactly what I thought he was. Generic rebel fighter pilot heroman. He jumps in his X Wing and he blows stuff up. Leia points this out and it's meant to set him up for character growth later, but instead he just starts a mutiny and sends some people on a foolish mission. That mission actually caused all the ships to get revealed too. i'm kinda annoyed they glossed over the fact that Finn and Rose got the rebels killed like that.

But Poe's character arc is kinda meaningless. Maybe it'll pay off in the next movie if they suddenly figure out how to write him well, but it didn't happen in this movie. I didn't care for the "we'll be the spark that ignites rebellion across the galaxy" stuff he was spouting at the end because the entire rebellion thing annoys me, and he annoys me. Who knows what'll happen next time though.

All of those rebel tactics for surviving the chase were what made this feel like Rogue One. Rogue One is an interesting story that tells it's own one off story within the Star Wars universe. This random set of characters has a problem that they gotta deal with and they deal with it. This whole rebel cruiser story felt a lot like that. It didn't really feel like "main star wars storyline" material. It was a neat setting but I didn't really understand why they put us here.

All the Luke stuff and the Rey/Kylo Ren stuff felt like main star wars material though and it was great. I'm pretty happy with all of that stuff. The only thing I'd like to have seen a bit more of there was a little more solo Rey stuff exploring herself on the island that might have led us to believe she might turn to the dark side a little more. I didn't *really* believe she would join Kylo Ren, even though his pitch was actually pretty good.
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Reg posted...

ClyTheCool posted...

Just saw it finally.

Liked it. Didn't love it. I have a lot of little problems with stuff in the film and a big problem with something the franchise has done as a whole. But it was okay. It felt more like Rogue One than The Force Awakens most of the time.

Luke was the bomb

Why is everyone crying about how the franchise sucks now.

What were your thoughts on Holdo's plan

This is the critical point to determine whether your taste is good

Seemed like a good rebel trick for evading star destroyers. In fact, her plan is basically exactly what I imagine when I picture what kind of tactics the old rebels used to use to survive the empire. Keep your eye on the birdy and all that. Keep the star destroyer focused on the big cruiser while slipping out some smaller ships out right under their noses. In fact, I kinda liked the strategy of keeping out of range of the star destroyers. It does make sense, and if it wasn't for stuff like that, the rebels would never had a chance against the insanely superior empire.

The only reason it's kind of dumb is the entire premise of this being the last remaining group of resistance. This is the "big problem with the franchise" I alluded to earlier. I really dislike this setup they've made that the First order is huge and overwhelming and there's only a small force of rebels to oppose them. They started this in TFA and really pushed it forward here. It's been thirty years or whatever. The Republic should be stronger than this. They should not be the underdog like this. They are in an even worse position than the rebels were in the original trilogy. It just doesn't make sense. The only reason they set it up that way was to engineer a sense that our heroes are the underdogs and give them this sense of hope they can overcome an overpowering enemy, just like last time. It's stupid as hell. And it set up the entire premise of this movie, which is the last remaining rebels are fleeing a powerful force of First Order ships. I really dislike the status of the rebels in the new trilogy in general, so I really dislike the premise they based this entire movie around. Holdo's solution is the solution to this dumb premise, so it must be dumb too, right? WRONG. It's fine.
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You kinda lead into this in your posts a bit, especially when discussing from a meta perspective, but you're a good way into the season now, so what's your general theory of the murder?
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oh yessss i felt so bad letting this purge

i like a lot of the individual episode plots but the highlight usually is how she pieces together the season long mysteries bit by bit every episode

SeabassDebeste posted...

* As her fake identity, Veronica uses Betty, from Riverdale. Nice.

betty from Riverdale lol wtf
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Panthera posted...

thundersheep posted...

I'm Canadian, anything hovering around 0 is cold (Fahrenheit).

That's roughly -15 Celsius I think? Sounds like a decent cutoff point

Sounds about right

somewhere below freezing, but even then i might risk it without a jacket
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i love this game i'm so excited

but god damnit i'm going home for christmas tomorrow I CANT PLAY THE DESERT MAP
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I'm impressed that you didn't spoil the joke
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damn toast this is not looking good for my creep defense
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great game. i really suck at bullet hell though
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