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Woo board games. I've been getting into them lately.

Of the games so far that I have:

1) Settlers of Catan
2) Boss Monster
3) Carcassone

I'm not too experienced! i like them all though

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TFA at worst did a good job of introducing a few characters to build the trilogy around. The entire trilogy is basically built on the good will of Kylo Ren and Rey (even with all the hate for Rey)

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the comments about splitting up the movie are very out of touch imo

like, they didnt HAVE to cram a million things into this movie, even if they had some catching up to do from episode 8. they did that because they wanted to. because they thought that's what mainline star wars movies need. If they split it up into two movies, you would get two movies crammed full of shit, not two well paced movies.

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So I've seen the first two episodes of The Circle, Netflix's social media style take on these types of reality TV shows. (they've released four episodes).

Big Brother would kill to have character intros like this.

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That doesn't change the plan from the beginning to give creative control to the directors. It just means they freaked out and started changing things late when things weren't going well.

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LinkMarioSamus posted...

When The Force Awakens came out, the MCU was getting backlash over the films supposedly feeling overly "made by committee", with it not helping that there had been a number of high-profile clashes between the directors and Marvel Entertainment. So the whole deal with Star Wars was that each director would have creative freedom. Once Marvel got its stuff back together it became plainly obvious that this approach was not going to work for Star Wars.

I hate to give LMS credit but this is all actually true

has he finally stumbled upon the reason star wars sucks now

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It's always seemed like a stylized D to me

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I think the text write up Tycho did alongside that PA comic is a really good summation about how I feel about the whole thing.

Here it is:

I think Im gonna end up seeing Rise of Skywalker on an airplane at some point, on the back of the seat in front of me. Thats about my interest level. There were inklings of it in the first movie, if you want to go back that far, but it really seems like the new trilogy wasnt conceived of as a trilogy at all. Its genuinely hard to believe. And not just because of what Disney managed to accomplish with their Marvel project, making an ecosystem of movies in different genres and then somehow crafting a kind of metamovie to conclude it. Obviously, they can do it. That they didnt - and that they expected us to go along with it - is incredible.

Star Wars isnt Holy to me. Like a lot of people who grew up when I did, I do like it. But theres a hard cap on precisely how disappointed I can be in it. Seeing the whole thing transformed into some kind of cultural shibboleth when it can barely hold itself together narratively film to film, its like these movies arent up to the task. It doesnt even matter what task you had in mind. A full-throated defense of these things is either unconscious, freelance PR, corporate ring-kissing, or invertebrate worship of a graven idol. They shouldnt come back to theatres until they can deliver something that isnt such a gruesome indictment of their hegemonic cultural control.

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2019/12/25

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Also it's astonishing that people like Pokewars can be directly shown exactly what was happening all season long but still be determined to minimize it or dismiss it as a witchhunt or made up or whatever.

The final incident wasn't directly on camera so it just must have been the slippery boat, there's no way to know for sure so it must not have happened!

I guess this is what makes reality TV so good. Really shows us what people are like in every capacity.

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Just saw the finale, really enjoyed it. All the best things about Noura were on full display here. I loved when she betrayed Lauren and put her up to make fire, and then hung around her pestering her with comments about how she wanted to be supportive about lauren, and then starts talking about taking the hatchets, and then somehow says "I don't know why you are so mad at me Lauren I'm giving you everything you want" and Lauren is just like "you just threatened to steal the hatchets this is CRAZY"

great stuff

Also loved Tommy training Dean to defeat Lauren. "I taught Lauren to make fire wrong. As a joke.".

Final tribal council was awesome, a lot of great discussion going on in every direction. When it rains it pours.

I thought Jeff did a phenomenal job in his interview with Kelley. He was upfront about basically anything we could have wanted him to, and gave Kelley as much opportunity to speak whatever she wanted. she was very nervous so he did his best to enable her and give her places to go in the conversation, and further elaborated on what was going on behind the scenes whenever Kelley wanted to know something or when it seemed helpful to the conversation. Kelley herself obviously had a hard time being in that position but good for her for saying what she felt she had to say.

Don't know why I saw people hating on how Jeff handled that - I don't know what else you could have been looking for besides just not wanting to hear about the situation.

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I'm sure that means something to Han but I don't agree with it.... these movies are definitely Star Wars.

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touching peoples shit when they arent in on it is really uncool man

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

its kind of weird how theres all these people super invested in the quality of the ninth movie in a franchise that they maybe enjoyed three movies of. Its like even if this one turned really good the trilogy of trilogies overall would still be an F.

this isn't weird at all. Star Wars is a top tier setting to tell great new stories in. Lightsabres, the Force, all of the tech and culture, the species, the potential is endless. Why wouldn't new movies in that that space be highly anticipated and discussed?

It actually does lend a bit of merit to the idea that the prequels are more worthwhile because at least they did cool things for the setting, while the new movies don't really utilize that design space well. Take Saw Gerrara for example - whatever his deal was could have been interesting, and he could certainly have been a memorable character, but Rogue One wasn't plotted well enough for him to be executed well. He could have been a striking representation of the extreme things the rebels had to do under the empires rule. Instead he's just a forgettable weird old guy who died right after we met him.

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ok googling

this is a lot more boring than the meme

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where's TR-8R

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doesn't it come out on fridays?

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i have an admission to make everyone

iv never seen revenge of the sith

i just didnt want to

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"Whoa whoa whoa. Dan isn't the first scumbag to get ejected. Remember US?!?!?!?"

A very Hantz thing to do.

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It's interesting to think about a lot of things people are mad about - how Dan isn't that badly edited, how they didn't openly hold discussions about what happened publicly after the merge episodes, how sparse interviews have been, how little their statements actually tell us. A lot of people (including the people in this topic) are super hating on Survivor for not handling that stuff right.

But knowing Dan was kicked off now, I think that adds a lot of perspective to this - there probably is a lot of legal action being taken behind the scenes. The little black screens with font might be all they can legally tell us. If Jeff held a round table discussion with cast members about what happened, that could just be fuel for a legal fire. If they edited Dan to be a villain too strongly, then Dan might actually have grounds to sue them for smearing his name. Instead of smearing him, they just showed us what he was doing, all over the place. We saw it all season long. Casually. It's just normal footage of daily life at camp, so there's not really anything he can sue them over there.

One thing people are mad about is not pulling him from the game sooner, and maybe that's valid. But I don't think Survivor production ignored the problem or brushed it under the rug or anything. They just handled it the best way they saw fit at the time. Maybe they could or should have gone farther, but I think it's really weird to crucify them too harshly for not handling exactly the way you think it should have been handled. They didn't ignore it, they just handled it differently than you think it should have been handled, which of course they did, they were making choices in real time with what they thought was the right thing. I think saying "fuck survivor" for stuff like that is really childish and, honestly, hurtful.

And I think they did the absolute best thing they could - they showed it to us. We saw what happened. They didn't edit Dan to be a villain, but they didn't ignore it either. They just showed us what he did casually all the time. Then showed us how people responded - some people were hurt, some people stood up against that behaviour, some people used for their own advantage, and some people brushed it under the rug and act like it wasn't an issue. We even saw how the man himself minimized it and charismatically convinced people that he didn't do anything wrong and that he would never do anything wrong. It's a remarkable way to see how this kind of situation plays out in real life - everything about the way people can react to this kind of thing is captured by what Survivor showed us.

This whole situation doesn't hurt the season IMO - it elevates it to a remarkable case study in human behaviour, showing a genuine issue in society that really does happen today, and that lots of people try act like isn't a real problem. Take Jeff Varner's recent take, or even people in this very topic like Pokewars. They see an issue like this being presented in Survivor and complain about this SJW BS or whatever. I think highlighting stuff like this is peak reality TV.

So I think this is a good season, and that Survivor Production has done a good job trying to navigate a really difficult and real issue.

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also i like this season, dunno what y'alls problem is

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how is dean going to play his fake legacy advantage if we go straight to five

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That would genuinely have been for the best.

And not just sarcastically because then his terrible TLJ arc wouldn't have happened, it would have been a good thing for TFA as a movie.

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TheRock1525 posted...

People loving this trailer when it looks equally as terrible as the 2016 movie (for different reasons) shows how much of the 2016 movie's backlash was just flat out misogyny.

You can't look me in the eye and say "now THIS is Ghostbusters."

now THIS is a bad post

the 2016 movie is a terrible movie in every conceivable way and that's entirely independent of the (completely dumb) controversy.

this looks like an interesting movie. Paul Rudd seems okay, and the kid seems like a workable main character to hinge the movie around. Does it look like an interesting GHOSTBUSTERS movie? I dunno, who cares. The only thing that ever matters is if the movie is good on its own merits, not whether it lives up to its franchise. If the 2016 movie had actually been funny, then it would have been good, even if it didn't take its premises seriously whatsoever. Even if this movie "super serious" (a pretty dumb complaint, because this movie doesn't look super serious, it just looks like it takes its characters seriously, which the original ghostbusters also did), it can be a good movie even if it's not as lighthearted as the original ghost busters.

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XIII_rocks posted...

Me too

This trailer is not good. Tonally it feels all wrong. Like it's a Ghostbusters movie...taking itself very seriously? Why?

posts like this are weird though

did you see ghostbusters? it does take itself seriously.

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This actually looks good, which I am extremely reluctant to admit after the last one was so bad.

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I honestly thought that was just a flashback to the Mando since it doesn't make sense for him to just leave her there without walking up to check on her just like the stinger.

Grand Kirby posted...

Episode 5 is up.

Overall didn't seem as good as the others. Seeing Tatooine was cool, if bordering on pandering. I really hate the cliche of the newbie guard getting tricked into releasing the prisoner, so the fact that it didn't work was nice, but I still don't think it was a good plot point. Why did that guy think he would have any chance of taking on the Mandalorian by himself if he couldn't do anything else without his help? That's exactly why I hate that cliche, people throw away what they already have in order to try and gain something that they don't have a good chance of getting anyway. It's stupid. Also kind of sucks Ming-Na Wen didn't last very long, but then again maybe the stinger means she's still not dead?

Newbie was definitely pretty generically written. He's a newbie bounty hunter eager to prove himself and acts out that trope in every single piece of dialogue he has. You can predict everything he's going to say or do before he says it and not in a good way.

I feel like every episode has been the same way though. The bar intro scene, Mando meeting with his dispatcher Carl Weathers, the last stand against the raiders, the star battle.... Everything is just "take this typical trope and execute in the blandest way possible, but with a Star Wars coat of paint and the Mando in it"

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do people like Abi-Maria? i havent seen her on the show and i thought she was super obnoxious at the live know it alls this week. but it sounds like people loved her being there.

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i hope for a sequel based on GTA RP

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you're gonna love it

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Marina - Happy

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Chivalry of a Failed Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1H_VTSgJbU&;

Zetsuen no Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNMIbQPzCY

One Piece - Kokoro no Chizu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6AZA810FA

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I would agree with that intent, but it slides through things so fast that I have no idea what I'm seeing before it's gone, even when it's something that I actually know.

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SavageInTheBox posted...

The term itself is stupid enough, but I hate how people say "I stan the Yankees" as opposed to "I am a stan of the Yankees."

one of these is definitely the incorrect way to say it
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then why does every other Mando look distinctively different, like the the blacksmith or the dude who picked a fight with MC?

If you look at MC and Boba Fett side by side there are some differences, but if you just see MC by himself he is definitely reminiscent of the Fettman, more so than the other Mando's, and that's entirely by design,
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so i watched the first two episodes and i don't really get what everyone sees in this show. it's pretty mediocre. the action isn't good and the main character kinda sucks. baby yoda and making him look so much like boba fett are such a cheap way to get attention.

third episode was a lot better.
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i do miss the communities i posted on in the early to mid 2000s. There was one in particular on an ezboard and later a proboard that really had an influence on me and I think about the people there every now and then. The proboard is still there but it hasn't been posted on since 2008, and I don't think there's any way to really connect with them. Even if I could, it would probably be weird to do so.

It's funny that board 8 is almost as old as that place but somehow the people are mostly still here
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If it's so well known then you'll have no problem providing him a citation.
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does anyone else think it's kinda weird how much "popping off" is mentioned in competitive smash bros

like it's half the gameplay
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is the file saved as a proper excel 2003-2007 file format? file formats can overwrite formulas and formatting if it doesn't like them.

a very clear example is if you open something as a csv and then do a ton of formulas across a lot of tabs and then save and come back later to one tab with everything as values.....
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Serious question for Dems: do you derive pleasure from debates over M4A/healthcare reform? There is zero chance of either passing in the foreseeable future (no matter who wins the election), so it really is just a theoretical debate for its own sake. I guess if it's satisfying to talk about it then I'm happy for you?

assuming you are correct that there is currently zero chance of it passing in the foreseeable future - what's more likely to increase the chances in the future, talking about it or not talking about it?
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So I watched last weeks episode

wow.

Some very strange things going on there. The weirdest to me is that somehow the ending attitude among the tribe somehow ended up being "Dan didn't do anything wrong or even weird".

I saw vague comments about it throughout the week since then but I've avoided reading any of it, will be really interesting going through all the reactions people have had to it.
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The main thing about women in WoT isn't that there isn't well written or strong women, it's that there's a pervasive gender bias between men and women in how they view eachother

The men are basically always acting like a husband who's afraid of being in the doghouse with his nagging wife. Like "ugh women, can't live with em, lets get out of here and figure out what to do before they start giving us chores"

Meanwhile, the women are always acting like their idiot husband won't be able to put his shoes on without them. Like "ugh men, they'll never be able to figure this out, we'll just have to do it ourselves"

Then they'll both tackle the problem. Neither side is actually incompetent.

It can be grating but it never really bothered me. IMO, it's a really good example of how people can view the same situation entirely differently. I think it had a good impact on me as a teenager when I first read these - I could see that objectively both sides were seeing things "wrong" but also I could see why they seeing them that way. It was coloured by their own perspective and life experiences.

One thing the Wheel of Time DOES NOT DO is portray women as simpering damsels that need men to solve their problems for them.
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skullbone posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

The Doc is there in character, lol

He only breaks character when he's cheating on his wife

that's the most in character thing he ever did
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Great write up. The Wheel of Time is my favourite book series and I identify with a lot of what you wrote. What a rollercoaster it was when RJ passed away...

I remember doing a business class in 2007 that had presentations just to practice speaking to a group and one was a throwaway assignment to pick a few topics that are important to you and teach the group something interesting about it, so people talked about sports teams or their horse or whatever. I chose WoT as one of my topics and talked about how it was my favourite series, and how it was very unique since the author had just passed away and it had been announced someone else would finish the series (who I hadn't heard of before), so it would be interesting to see how that actually worked out.

Boy did it ever work out. Sanderson NAILED it and it led me to reading his other series. Wheel of Time is still my favourite book series but Sanderson has become my favourite author.

I'm very excited about the new TV show. I'm telling everyone I know about it so they keep it on their radar when it eventually launches

PLEASE BE GOOD
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I'm wondering if they'll ever put dedicated channels to tune into thats just playing shit form the library to replicate the "jesus take the remote" nature of just turning on the TV sometimes.
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Yeah, this does exactly that

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bIYvKcqVL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

One of the ears has a slew of buttons. You hold that phone button to turn it off or on (or hold it for like 10 seconds to pair it with your device), but just pressing the phone button pauses and unpauses whatever is playing

Above the phone button are skip forward and backward buttons to change songs, and below it is volume control. They work fine.

You can also use it for calls when paired with your phone since it even has a microphone. I've only ever done it once but it seemed to work well.

...The only problem is I always forget which set of buttons is volume control and which skips songs....
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I use this and I've never had any issues with them, but maybe there's some reason these suck

https://www.amazon.com/Kinivo-BTH240-Bluetooth-Headphones-Hands-Free/dp/B00AWIPITS/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=kinivo+bth240&qid=1573859621&sr=8-2

I chose them because they were inexpensive so maybe it's not what you want. I bought a bunch of them in different colours so i have a bunch all over the place for different reasons. One at work connected to my laptop, one at work connected to my phone when I go for walks, one in my car that I use when I go shopping, one at my house for going for walks, and one in my gym bag. none of them have ever given me trouble

....but I've lost a couple, so I replaced them with these, which are in ear

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01NARSNET/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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watching moonmoonnow play this and it looks pretty good
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What exactly did you not like in the Shae and Tywin finale?

I read the books years before the show was made and have never reread them, so maybe my memory of those events was fuzzy, but I remember looking forward to the Tywin/Shae climax in the show and when it happened, it was exactly what I expected and wanted, and I thought it was executed better than I ever thought possible.

Just like the Red Viper!
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