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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/24/20 1:04:50 PM
#433
COVID isn't a good reason to consolidate all voting to one place - it's actually a very bad reason, because you are forcing a very large portion of the population to all congregate in the same place as a large group, or at best go into a location that someone with COVID probably just went through.

If that's why there's only one voting station in Louisville, they really fucked up.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/24/20 12:56:11 PM
#431
I don't agree voting should be required.

I've felt before that I wasn't informed enough to vote for somebody in a race, and in that case I feel like there's no reason to vote because it wouldn't be based on anything rational, and it's damaging to influence the votes from people who actually are informed on that particular race.

I've also felt before that I strongly do not support any candidate - so I won't vote for any of them.


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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/24/20 12:49:33 PM
#427
turbopuns3 posted...
I have a question for you Cly. Wherever it is you vote normally, what if that building burned down, hypothetically. So now you get a new place to vote. Sounds reasonable. How would you expect to be notified of the change?


Easy - I look it up online or ask my neighbors where we are supposed to vote on the day of.

I've never known where the place I should vote at is before the day comes. I usually don't even know it's voting day until people around me talk about it! Then I realize it's time to vote for my local ward representative or provincial MLA or national MP or whatever and find out where to go and go vote.

I'm not attached to any particular place to vote - it just needs to be something that's reasonably accessible for me to get to during a normal work day.

And it *should* be that easy. Requiring extensive preparation to vote or requiring a bunch of hoops to jump through is anti voter.

I'm not against opening up avenues to absentee vote or anything - I think maybe thats what DancedDreamers point is trying to be? They should definitely make those options available to people - but you can't just completely take away or restrict the usual way of voting for people who aren't interested in doing that. You might see it as " a new way of thinking" but punishing people who aren't interested in that way of thinking is not good.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/24/20 12:24:43 PM
#418
I'm not sure why this has been so heated, but here's how I vote: I realize it's voting day and I get in my car and I drive to my local polling station

If I had to drive really far to the only station in my city, especially in a congested area like downtown, I'd be pretty annoyed

If it was hour long waits when you get there, and as the only voting station it had an early closing time (especially a super early time like 6pm....maybe that's normal in KY but that'd be super unreasonable where I live) I'd be so fucking pissed.

I think pun probably believes that it'd be my fault for not being more prepared or whatever but I would completely view that as a failing of the organizers of the voting process.

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TopicFlexing the Funimation App as hard as I can, Ol Pun Watches One Piece!
CoolCly
06/23/20 6:38:51 PM
#26
One of the episodes in Nami's arc where she asks Luffy for help is one of my favourite episodes of any show ever. I rewatch it all the time. It's phenomenal.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/23/20 5:20:36 PM
#210
i think its pretty messed up that NYT writer is like "nope i gotta release your whole name, nothing i can do"

pseudonyms are not unusual on the internet... or in journalism....

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TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
CoolCly
06/23/20 5:18:57 PM
#96
Snrkiko posted...
my recollection of details is spotty because in the end it was all contrivance


Sounds more like you didn't understand the movie

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TopicFlexing the Funimation App as hard as I can, Ol Pun Watches One Piece!
CoolCly
06/23/20 2:14:47 PM
#21
I'm not sure I get the "doesnt have a budget" comments

The show was always fine back then? It's just 20 years old. I watched up until Enies Lobby and it improves as animation improved over time, but it wasn't bad compared to other anime at the time. I dropped it after that arc because of how much episodes started needing to be stretched though which is definitely a problem. Not sure when the budget got cut beyond that, but it must have happened at some point because ExTha made a topic awhile ago raving about how good the Dogtooth fight was but man that animation was godawful.

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TopicMixer shutting down July 22nd, all existing deals transition to Facebook
CoolCly
06/23/20 1:44:24 PM
#35
Wow, I'd never heard of that. This just took me from being pretty much neutral on Ninja all these years to strongly disliking him.

Content creators using cheats is even worse than a normal person using them since it normalizes the behavior and makes even more people think its okay to do.

Someone recently in Tarkov just recently got outed for cheating by a somewhat friend who had access to his discord and saw him and his friends all blatantly talking about it. So the dudes friends all started harassing the whistleblower (publicly, strangely?) for outing him and that's not a big deal if a streamer does it. How does en entire group of people believe this shit? It's just fucked up.

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TopicShould the United States ban alcohol?
CoolCly
06/23/20 1:56:12 AM
#2
Ban it only during religious ceremonies

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 8:17:58 PM
#81
GildedFool posted...
When you promote someone and welcome them to your platform, unless you explicitly say otherwise, people will assume you support their ideas.

That's how humans work.

I's a fact.


Well, you can start by choosing not to be one of these close minded humans.

If you genuinely believe there is only one correct way to think and that everybody else needs to get on board with your way, it's going to be a rough time for everyone. That can only end in conflict. ESPECIALLY if you are so opposed to rational discussion to convince people why your way is the right way...

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 8:10:33 PM
#70
HeroDelTiempo17 posted...


How does he feel about abolishing the police?


He doesn't believe that the people shouting defund the police really mean "reallocate the resources to various type of professionals that will work together to solve the myriad of issues that the police have to deal with which they aren't trained for" like people here believe those people mean. They have no real organized spokespeople, so he thinks they are a mob that want the police actually abolished, which he thinks is really stupid.

But he absolutely does agree the longer version would be a great idea.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 8:03:14 PM
#65


MoogleKupo141 posted...
I think its crazy to not want those people deplatformed. If you actually believe in the things you believe in then why would you want to give the opportunity for the opposition to spread? I mean this in regard to serious things like trans rights, not whether or not stars is good or whatever.

I think Ben Shapiro is a bad dude. If Joe Rogan has Ben Shapiro on his show and some dummy listening thinks Shapiro is making sense and starts seeking out more stuff along those lines, Joe Rogan has acted as a gateway to Ben Shapiro, which is bad.


This is the scariest take of all to me, and I didn't think anybody would actually say it so boldly.

You really believe that if someone has an opposite opinion of you, then that opinion automatically needs to be silenced and never be heard?

I guess that's the thing I really like most about Joe - he truly believes that the best thing is always to have open discussion about things, and you can't just shut the people you don't agree with up. You have to have an open discussion and present the right thing the best way you can, and in the forum of ideas, the right thing will prevail when enough people see it. It's the only way to properly changes peoples minds.

You see it as "if Ben Shapiro comes on Rogan's show, Joe is allowing that man's toxic ideas to spread" but is it also not possible that it goes the other way? Debating Ben Shapiro might have some impact on the community of people that Shapiro already has control over?

As a very left leaning person on pretty much all issues, shutting down any open discussion is the scariest thing I find about people I find I should be agreeing with...

SmartMuffin has always railed about people doing this, and I always wanted to tell him he was wrong, but I really hate it when you guys prove him right. SmartMuffin should never be proven right about something.


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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 7:50:11 PM
#60
xp1337 posted...
Well, that's entirely not what I said so that's an interesting take.

Then I guess I have no idea what your post was trying to say at all.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...


Also forgive me if I'm skeptical about Joe Rogan the leftist ally when the initial clip was about him not understanding one of if not THE largest leftist movements of our time, BLM.


Well, this is why anti Rogan takes always seem so silly to me. They are always based on having no idea what Rogan actually does or thinks.

Rogan talks about this movement all the time, all of the things he's in support of and all the parts of it he's critical of. For example, he 100% thinks Floyd was murdered by Chauvin and Chauvin should be convicted for it. But he also thinks looting 100% needs to be stopped somehow. So is he in support of BLM or not? Do you have any idea? Should you just dismiss him entirely for not supporting BLM?

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 7:38:20 PM
#50
xp1337 posted...
I'm always a bit puzzled by the Rogan defenses because it feels to me like looking into a twisted mirror version of "Why are Democrats trying to appeal to right-leaning people who clearly aren't good faith allies?" in terms of the defenders typically being the attackers there.

I think his history/past comments re: LGBTQ, race, sexual assault, and more kind of makes the case itself that that is not a platform that needs to be supported or defended by people who actually want progress on those issues.

In these topics specifically it kinda feels like Gabbard 2.0 where a good ~60-70% of the topic regulars were highlighting that "No, she's not some kind of rising progressive star, if you look at her history it's actually filled with some really bad stuff." that got fought about here for like two+ years until finally enough information finally broke through - whether it was the publicizing of the literal cult or her "present" vote on impeachment - that everyone finally got on the same page there.

Perhaps unsurprisingly there's a link between the two here.

I mean, anyone who is out there leaning into the "Biden is losing his mind" narrative in distraction to literally Trump is just... not someone expressing any valuable opinions here.


I'm just not sure what to make out about this post at all

Like, I guess you have some measure of what value someone gives to the goals you want achieved, and if they aren't contributing to that goal - then they are bad? What kind of way is this to view the entire rest of the world?

Rogan doesn't need to be in support of issues you want progressed to have value. He doesn't have to say things you agree with to have value. He can say things you completely disagree with to have value.

I think that's my strongest point on Rogan.... somebody doesn't have to be for all of the things you are for to be worthwhile as a person or a commentator.

In fact, you SHOULD expose yourself to people who think differently than you. You aren't right on every issue, so not only should you not have that expectation when judging other people, you should get into the habit of seeing what people who think differently than you. That's the best thing about Rogan. I see all kinds of cool and intelligent and crazy and weird and stupid viewpoints I would never have even known about without listening to him. .

In response to Kupo - why would I want to only listen to people who always agree with me? I think it's shortsighted to only want to listen to people you agree with, and i think it's CRAZY to want people you don't agree with to be deplatformed.

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TopicMixer shutting down July 22nd, all existing deals transition to Facebook
CoolCly
06/22/20 7:13:29 PM
#18
th3l3fty posted...
the growth rate disparity tells it all

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*gMd9PzqY5K5ETIdHCp_M7w.png


Yes! This is what i was thinking of.

How could this even be possible when they didn't have shroud the previous year?

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TopicMixer shutting down July 22nd, all existing deals transition to Facebook
CoolCly
06/22/20 6:37:41 PM
#13
Business is funny like this.... you'll invest a whole bunch of resources into a project, and then one day management decides "k, this isn't working, end the whole thing"

Maybe we should have expected this in context of that one infographic recently about how up twitch, facebook, and youtube are on live stream views over prior year but mixer somehow managed to be exactly flat?

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TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
CoolCly
06/22/20 5:59:02 PM
#45
Some REAL bad takes about Civil war itt tho

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TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
CoolCly
06/22/20 5:57:22 PM
#44
Phenomenal movie!

The tippie top of the MCU is a competitive place though.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
CoolCly
06/22/20 5:55:17 PM
#38
I'm very much on Team Rogan in that last topic

He's great. He adds SO much to online discourse on so many topics by bringing in scientists from all kinds of different fields, people from all sides of the political spectrum, or just his dumb comedian friends. He has very long form discussions on pretty much any topic. He often lets the guest talk about whatever they want. Sometimes he pushes his own dumb ideas too much, which kinda has been the case lately.

Like some people said in the last topic - ultimately, he's a meathead who can't get out of his own way sometimes. But he does try very hard to genuinely listen to what the person in front of him is talking about and ask directed questions to make them expand on whatever is its they just said. Sometimes he lets guests off easy, lots of times he presses them to elaborate if they make a sweeping statement about something.

Is every take he makes good? No, Joe says all kinds of dumb things. he's a meathead that engages in very high level scientific or political discussions with people much more knowledgeable than him. He has bad takes, he misunderstands things all the time. But so what? He doesn't have to be right to be worthwhile to listen to. He makes more of a solid effort of understanding things he doesn't understand than the vast majority of the population, including people here.

I find it very alarming online that I see people who completely dismiss him because he has a clip with a dumb take or had a guest they don't like. Yeah, I think Ben Shapiro is a complete dumbass, and Joe had him on. You know what? Joe kinda thinks Ben is a dumbass on a lot of the things he says too. That doesn't mean he can't talk to him. That was kind of the point of talking to him.

I've seen many users in these politics topics dismiss Joe the same way - and I strongly think that if you are the type of person to dismiss Joe Rogan entirely because he has guests you don't like or has said things you don't agree with, I think you need to completely reevaulate the way you approach politics.

Lasa said something like "ok well why should I care about Joe?" in the last topic - well, you don't have to. there's a million people on the internet you can invest your time in. There's no reason you have to "like" him or even spend your time listening to him. But if you have a kneejerk reaction that Rogan is bad news who should not be on the internet... well, you are wrong.

The poor reaction people had to Bernie "being endorsed" by Joe Rogan was an especially bad take...

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/21/20 10:50:49 PM
#31
Bump

even non anime fans should watch this kthx

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TopicWhat's the best Lonely Island music video
CoolCly
06/21/20 10:43:10 PM
#25
Jack Sparrow is a beloved board 8 meme kinda like Phoenix Wright

Who was it that would make topics raving about how good it is all the time? Nick?

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Topic**SPOILER TOPIC** The Last of Us Part 2 **SPOILERS**
CoolCly
06/21/20 3:39:33 AM
#375
I've been wondering if people are just overreacting because they heard the spoiler and it pisses them off, so now they won't like the game no matter what it does

But surprisingly Tyler1 of all people had a great take comparing what happens to Lee in The Walking Dead game.

The premise if these games is literally identical, but people aren't up in arms about Lee. Why? Because the execution was phenomenal.

They just fucked this up.

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TopicWhat's the best Lonely Island music video
CoolCly
06/20/20 4:46:12 PM
#11
Spring Break

i'm gonna need all the hot girls to come up to the stage right now

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 9:26:18 PM
#30
UshiromiyaEva posted...
Every single change and adjustment in the anime is a massive improvement and absolutely for the better. Heavily shows how it's the work of professionals and not the amateur the writer was at the beginning, kind of shocking how on point the Anime's direction is.


Oh yeah I wanted to comment on this - I think that is an interesting difference in the anime. I've read a ton of webtoons, and some are terrible and some a pretty good, and overall it's cool people can pretty much publish their own work how they want... but even in the good ones, the lack of an editor to reign in a creator on bad ideas or to tighten things up is very felt.

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 9:24:08 PM
#29
not that similar. the first arc is about the various characters who happened to be lobbed into the same group for testing as the main character so it's pretty much character driven on their interactions, competition, and scheming against eachother.

Later arcs (spoilering this out incase people don't want to hear anything about life beyond the current anime) are about the politics and conflicts of the various kind of people who live in the tower, and what life is like for people climbing the tower. The Tower is more like a world that people live in, rather than a video game environment to just continuously progress through.

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 1:55:38 PM
#26
It's always pretty disrespectful to go into an adaptation topic and start literally naming future arcs that you prefer and the ones you don't like

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 1:41:45 PM
#24
the entire first season is "testing" but there's almost no classroom stuff lol

also gonna need you guys to reign in talking about the webtoon and future arcs and shit

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 306: McMuffin Times Matter
CoolCly
06/18/20 1:25:11 PM
#137
It's interesting that Tim genuinely believes there's no problem...

This is why things are ramping up - the police departments all genuinely believe there's no problem, and they should just keep doing what they are doing. It's the public that's wrong. How do we bridge this view?

Unrelated question - in that twitter video we saw where a guy was filming a beatdown from his apartment window, and a cop just shoots at the window (i'm assuming with rubber bullets) - what is the ordinary recourse that guy should take? Who does he report that to? My reaction to that is that's insane and somebody should be facing harsh punishments for doing that.... but even if all of this insane rioting wasn't happening and this was a normal day, would that even happen?

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 11:33:48 AM
#17
I haven't reread the first arc since the first time I went through it, so there's some small details that changed that I didn't even notice that my brother pointed out, and there were only a couple details I did notice. All of the important beats I was looking forward to happened pretty much as I expected from memory.

So I don't think adaptation is really an issue unless you are absolutely #nochanges

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 1:21:39 AM
#10
Yuri best girl

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 12:20:15 AM
#7
pyresword posted...


I know the music for the anime is done by Kevin Penkin, which makes me pretty confident the show is worth watching even if only for that.

it's so strange to me that someone like this would be composing anime music.... Does that include the opening / ending?

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/18/20 12:19:05 AM
#6
The 12th episode just came out, and only 1 to go before it finishes the season with 13 episodes.

I think watching it right now up to the end of the current episode and letting it digest before the 13th episode comes out is the perfect time to watch it tbh. It's kinda why I made this topic today and not in the last couple months while it's been airing or after the final episode comes out!

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TopicTower of God recommendation topic [crunchyroll] [anime] [webtoon]
CoolCly
06/17/20 11:53:46 PM
#1
I'm here to recommend an anime to the board.

I highly recommend this series to any fans of anime.

It's based on a webtoon and is produced by crunchyroll... so it's kind of fake anime. But it's first season is just about wrapped up.

The premise is that there's a tower.... and you can climb it. If you can clear every floor and get to the top, you can have your dreams granted. The main character, Bam, has a girl that's really important to him that leaves to go climb the tower - so he follows her in.

The first season takes place on the first two floors which are based around testing people who enter to see if they are even worthy of climbing the higher floors. I'm honestly not that big of a fan of the webtoon as a whole, but this arc is very good and the anime did a great job animating it.

So go watch it.

Thank you for your time.

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TopicBest Community Character Day 5
CoolCly
06/17/20 11:32:06 PM
#11
I think Shirley's actress is just streets behind the rest of the cast. She has a couple moves that she relies on, which mostly involve talking in her high pitched sweet voice and her low bitch voice. 90% of her comedy just comes from alternating between these two modes... and that's it. Not nearly as dynamic as every other member of this great cast.

I especially dislike it when for some reason a director stuffs her into a movie like Tropic Thunder or Avengers and she just overacts her brief cameo scene....

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TopicBest Community Character Day 5
CoolCly
06/17/20 6:30:18 PM
#2
how the hell do chang and the dean go before shirley

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 305: Where's the beef? With the police.
CoolCly
06/16/20 2:10:14 AM
#294
i love how smartmuffin is just smugly sitting through all this being like "see guys, i TOLD you that cops are tyranny"

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TopicSo im trying to get into chess.
CoolCly
06/15/20 2:59:16 PM
#9
I've been watching the Pogchamps tournament and enjoying it a lot. Hikaru, Botez, and Hess are pretty good personalities to build this little surge around

XQC's 6 turn loss and the Fuslie / Natehill match are legendary.

I've just been doing puzzles on chess.com to brush up. It's funny that I've been playing chess casually my whole life with my family and friends but terms like skewer and pin are brand new to me. I guess I'm basic af

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TopicSo I started watching Hunter X Hunter
CoolCly
06/15/20 1:26:42 AM
#280
my favourite arcs are the hunter exam and greed island and it isn't even close come at me

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TopicWhen you roll more than zero, but less than two dice...
CoolCly
06/13/20 6:38:20 PM
#11
i wouldnt eat anyone alive for a dice either

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TopicWhen you roll more than zero, but less than two dice...
CoolCly
06/13/20 5:34:51 PM
#8
it's technically a die but i think it's personally acceptable to refer to rolling one die to be "rolling the dice"

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TopicWhich is more important on a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich?
CoolCly
06/12/20 12:08:44 PM
#9
the pb&j sandwich is just a delivery mechanism to deliver more peanut butter

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TopicWhen does Game of Thrones (the show) start to go downhill? [spoilers abound]
CoolCly
06/10/20 3:26:01 PM
#71
Here's my perspective

I read the books long before the show even went into production. I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't love them like most people. Definitely great world building, so many moving parts that were kept track of so well, All of the scheming and maneuvering were great, with lots of characters I loved (I distinctly remember raving to my brother about how cool the Red Viper was). But there was a lot I wasn't too fond of. I don't enjoy especially grimdark were horrible things happen just to happen, and the sex scenes were something I just didn't enjoy. They often brought me out of it. All in all, I liked reading the books a lot, but they were not my favourite series.

I LOVED the show. The actors brought the characters a life that they didn't have for me in the books, especially the Stark children. I thought it took things to a new level pretty much at every turn. Mysteries were set up and paid off, fights felt very visceral, the acting is so good everywhere. I didn't really care about the Hound in the books, but by the Blackwater he was a star of the show. Even small characters like Bronn and Shae would get added and fit into the cast effortlessly. Even really minor characters like Dolorous Edd (one of my book favs) were being done well.

So, I read the books first and thought they were a 7 or 8 out of 10, and I thought the show was a 10/10

Then as seasons went on, the show was losing some luster. Daenerys had such a strong season 1, she became khaleesi in everyones hearts. But they didn't really use her well in most seasons. Qarth was introduced well but the climax was super lackluster, and it didn't feel like a lot of Dany's victories were earned. The show started adding stuff that wasn't in the books, like the prostitute present in a lot of scenes. The scenes were often good, but she wasn't. I guess I saw these as cracks. The show continued to overall be good with tons of many great moments, like the Red Wedding, VIper vs the Mountain, I'm going to eat every chicken in this room, etc.

Then, in season 5, the show caught up to the books. I don't remember specific issues I had at the time, but I remember thinking there were a lot of cracks in the stuff was doing that diverged from the books, and that characters were changing their positions on things to suit what the plot needed to do in that moment, and not because that was what they would do, and I didn't like it. And that was as someone who didn't even like the book that much compared to the show. It's not like I care if they do things differently... but the things they do differently need to be good, and that isn't how I felt at the time. I still really liked the show, but I was concerned that it wouldn't stay that way going forward.

So, out of concern for these cracks and a fear of spoilers from the books, I paused watching. I didn't really think I would stop forever... I figured I would pick up watching again. But I didn't. And before I knew it... the finale was here and everyone was SUPER MAD about it

So out of a whim to plug myself into the zeitgeist, I watched the penultimate episode when it aired. The devastation of kings landing was breathtaking - just beautifully shot. from the perspective of the people on the ground to the overall city, the people who made that should be proud. But I didn't like anything else. Cleganebowl was really pathetic, and I thought that was a disappointing end to Cersei and Jaime. Both because it was a weak end for Cersei, who I thought had been struggling in the show for awhile before I stopped watching. Similar to Dany, Cersei is generally just yelling a lot and demanding things instead of using her limited guile to earn it, and it seems she's still in that place at the very end. Jaime is in the midst of a redemption arc in the books, but it seems that evidently goes nowhere.

And Dany.... the Mad Queen is certainly a possible end for her. One that I would be definitely saddened by if it happens, but one that could be done really well if built up to properly. The Dany I left in Season 5 was portrayed as a saviour and didn't seem headed this way, and my book Dany stuck with the Meereenese Knot is NOWHERE close to going that route - her compassion for the people and unwillingness to put them in danger is a defining trait. So I wondered how they developed her to get to this point.... and the resounding answer I found on the internet was that they didn't. They just flipped her switch to Mad Queen coming into that episode... which is what I saw starting to happen to characters in season 5. I didn't bother to watch the finale.

So.... if my experience with the show is something to go by, I think Season 5 is probably the turning point where it started moving downhill.


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TopicAvengers IW/EG- How satisfied were you with how they ended the MCU? [BEE Week 3]
CoolCly
06/10/20 1:33:07 AM
#3
this was a cinematic masterpiece, the likes of which will probably never be seen again

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TopicAnyone else really love showers?
CoolCly
06/09/20 11:24:02 PM
#22
i love showers. i shower right after waking up, and i love dozing off standing under the hot water. it's so relaxing... one of the highlights of my day and I get to do it every day

I'm often in there for like 20+ minutes, and it really pisses my brother off. I don't really plan on changing, though. We have a hot tub and honestly relaxing in the hot tub is only like half as enjoyable as dozing off in the shower which I was already always doing....

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG
TopicI can't stop reading a pretty terrible Chinese xiaxia novel
CoolCly
06/08/20 8:56:44 PM
#3
i wonder what good chinese literature looks like because wuxia / xiaxia isn't it

I've tried so many and they all have the same generic premise and the storytelling certainly doesn't elevate beyond it

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Topicanyone seen dragon prince?
CoolCly
06/06/20 12:37:39 AM
#13
i thought this show was okay, but I definitely didn't love it.

Ezran is my favourite character by far. Viren is great. Claudia had a lot of potential that unfortunately wasn't realized. Soren was pretty decent. Callum and Reyna are meh. I was really hoping the Dragon Prince would add something when he hatched, but he really didn't. Somehow annoying kid Ezran turned out to be insightful and great but the Dragon Prince might as well have just stayed an egg.

I thought the climax of season 3 was just poorly managed, especially the logistics of where everyone was. It really bugs me when people start fast travelling all over out of nowhere and combat scenes don't really keep track of where everyone should be.

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TopicSettle an argument [Punny Vs Palmer]
CoolCly
06/05/20 11:06:36 PM
#49
It's kinda sad to see someone genuinely believe you should just put a hamburger bun on anything

i love wendys cheeseburgers but goddamn

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 302: No Justice, No Peace
CoolCly
06/05/20 11:05:09 PM
#354


Jakyl25 posted...
An article about the Buffalo PD mass resignations

https://www.investigativepost.org/2020/06/05/police-unit-resigns-in-protest/

Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders, said John Evans, PBA president.

Dont put them out there if you dont want them to do the job, Evans wrote in a text to Investigative Post. This is an example of officers doing exactly what theyre supposed to and then getting charged. Its so wrong.


So this is pretty much admitting that police brutality is literally what they are trained and ordered to do and that it's not "just a few bad cops". And that those officers don't see anything wrong with carrying out this training on protesters.

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TopicRise of Skywalker is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life *Spoilers*
CoolCly
06/05/20 9:19:51 PM
#103
ultron is great and that movie gets way too much hate

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