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i'm not completely sane as is and no. i lose my cool often enough but no matter how angry i get, i never get the urge to physically attack people.

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Giggsalot posted...

He was good for about 5 years and has been mostly appallingly bad for nearly the last 20

He's obviously a legendary figure, but at this point, I think that has to be a no

pretty much this, yeah.

plasmabeam posted...

Alien Movies (Pre-Reboot): 2 > 1

Avengers Movies: Infinity War > Endgame

neither of these are consensus opinions at all.

i don't think there's a consensus for die hard, other than "1 is at the top and 5 is at the bottom."

redrocket posted...

Batman 89 > Returns > Forever > and Robin

i wouldn't say there's near total agreement on 89 > returns. many people like returns better because "it's a pure tim burton movie," whereas burton was rather constricted by the studio when he directed 89.

jaws: 1 > 2 > 3D > the revenge

windows 11 on my PC, windows 10 on my laptop.

banananor posted...

i still think the overall style of letting your guests wander is excellent.

part of the problem is that rogan didn't always do this, even in the pre-covid days. he ripped steven crowder to shreds because he disagreed with his stance on the legalization of weed, for example. when you make steven fucking crowder look like the reasonable one, you know you're doing something wrong.

if your format is "i'm just going to give my guest the floor for 5 hours," fine, but then stick to it. don't throw a hissy fit the moment someone says something you strongly disagree with.

CaptainOfCrush posted...

No. This is what the guy's really like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CvmS6uw7E

If you can't stomach listening to an 8 minute clip, here's my brief summary. Joe yuks it up with his guests talking about a new species of mega-sized chimp that's supposedly been discovered, citing all sorts of "credible evidence." A PhD primatologist calls in to tell him that no such species exists, and he immediately launches into an insulting tirade against the woman, barely allowing her to get in two words edgewise. He ends his rant by mocking her - "I have a vagina!"

I remember another video from years back (probably before he even started a podcast) where a woman argues with him at some event, and he flies off the fucking handle. The guy clearly can't handle being challenged by women - his insecurity is pathetic.

he already makes himself look like an idiot even before the woman calls in tbqh.

"i read a lot and WE'RE FUCKING MONKEYS, MAN!"

lol no

Dua Lipa's debut was good but Future Nostalgia is a huge improvement. This is an album filled with instant classics and it justly won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. There are no bad songs to be found here.

I absolutely adore "Levitating", it might be my favorite song of 2020. I love the chord changes and spacey feel of the song. "Cool" perhaps best exemplifies the retro '80s synthpop sound of this album. "Pretty Please" is so funky, it could have been a lost Prince track. "Good in Bed" doesn't make my top 3, but I still think it is a fantastic pop song and I'm not sure why people seem to be really down on it? I hope it's not because we're offended by a young woman singing about sex in 2022 >_>

The only two songs that keep this album from being perfect are "Love Again" and "Boys Will Be Boys". "Love Again" is fine but it doesn't leave much of an impression on me; I thought White Town utilized this sample better. The baroque pop of "Boys Will Be Boys" is uh... kind of a weird choice to end the album on, after all the pop-disco-funk music, and unfortunately, it's not a particularly great baroque pop song. Still, amazing album!

1. Levitating
2. Cool
3. Pretty Please
4. Good in Bed
5. Physical
6. Future Nostalgia
7. Don't Start Now
8. Hallucinate
9. Break My Heart
10. Love Again
11. Boys Will Be Boys

2, both of my grandmas

haven't watched boba fett yet but i thought luke looked pretty bad in the mando season 2 finale and didn't get why everyone was so hyped about him being in it tbqh. sure, it's cool that he's back (if rather fanservicey) but the execution wasn't great.

just cast sebastian stan in the part imo.

just do a TV show about an era way before the prequels

knights of the old republic let's go

wow.

it could be worse as long as it's just that one school district but that's a really crappy decision.

TheRock1525 posted...
And finally, Grogu HAS to choose to return to Mando, right? I can't imagine they want to run another full season of the Mandalorian without them teamed up.

spoiler tags just in case

in mando, i kinda lol'ed at how in episode 5 of season 2, ahsoka is like "oh no i can't train grogu mando he's way too attached to you" and then in the finale, luke is like "hey mando i'm taking grogu from you byeee" >_>

i'm fine with grogu not returning in season 3 but the way he left was kinda sloppy.

1. Ragged Wood
2. Quiet Houses
3. He Doesn't Know Why
4. White Winter Hymnal
5. Sun It Rises
6. Your Protector
7. Blue Ridge Mountains
8. Heard Them Stirring
9. Meadowlarks
10. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
11. Oliver James

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I think the entire top 9 is fantastic. The bottom 2 songs are not as strong, but they're still good indie folk songs.

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the first fleet foxes album reminds me of a period when indie folk seemed to be really big. i associate lumineers with that era too but also kings of convenience, bon iver, iron & wine, the tallest man on earth, fink, etc. etc.

for what it's worth, i don't really get the heroin hype myself. perhaps it's because i'm a fan of frank zappa, who's done this "using the instruments as a metaphor for the lyrics" thing tons of times in his music, so it's not all that special to me. it's a good song and i get that it's historically significant, but i think the record has plenty of better stuff to offer (hence why i ranked it pretty low).

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I figured people on this board would at least be familiar with ONE of the three I mentioned, but I guess not.

people on this board don't even know who mrbeast is. not sure why you would expect us to be familiar with three youtubers with few sucscribers.

LiquidOshawott posted...

I like Lou Reeds style and I like the honest brashness of the album, and as someone who has been learning to be a musician it allows me to realize there is more creativity to being a musician than just being really really good at your instrument a la a Hendrix or a Neil Peart. But thats just like my opinion man.

i agree with this. one of the reasons why i put european son (a track that most people in this topic seem to dislike) so high is that it reminded me that technically superior instrumentalists aren't necessarily superior period. i'll take this improvisation over any "technically flawless but boring as poop" yngwie malmsteen guitar solo.

i understand being confused by the universal praise this album received, really. like, every critic listed on wikipedia gave it a perfect score. i love the album but i think it's far from flawless.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Also, Zack Snyder doesnt need a LOL. Hes a passable director with weird fans. He only has two true stinkers (not counting theatrical Justice League) and one of those was cut to ribbons by the studio. Sucker Punch is legitimately awful though.

haven't seen army of the dead but that one was also very poorly received.

1. Femme Fatale
2. European Son
3. Sunday Morning
4. I'll Be Your Mirror
5. I'm Waiting for the Man
6. Run Run Run
7. All Tomorrow's Parties
8. Heroin
9. Venus in Furs
10. There She Goes Again
11. The Black Angel's Death Song

i had the opposite reaction to mando. i liked 1 and thought 2 was meh.

the really good stuff doesn't come until later in the show, though.

haven't seen the snyder cut but i wouldn't say the original being so bad is whedon's fault. it's mostly WB's fault because after snyder stepped back, they literally thought whedon would be a good replacement for seemingly no other reason than "well, he made a superhero ensemble movie that people liked, right?" even michael bay would have been a better fit.

incredible artist, RIP.

joe the plumber

in fairness, i'm pretty sure the critical reaction to VU&N was fairly mixed when it first came out. it didn't gain "one of the greatest albums of all time" status until much later.

all the time.

NFUN posted...

they're always good what are you talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgVbIo372uI

nice

all my problems? no. not all of my problems are money-related.

it would solve some problems but it would also make for new problems.

Nanis23 posted...

IMDB scores of previous episodes dropped a little (like E9 dropped from 9.7 to 9.6)

People shouldn't do that. Don't downvote episodes because the finale sucked.

i know next to nothing about dexter but i disagree with this. if the finale of a serial show sucks, this can make the episodes leading up to the finale worse in retrospect. for example, in loki, i like all of the episodes where sophie played a major role less now because i now know the way the loki/sophie romance was executed in the finale was dogshit.

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MZero posted...

anyway ask Ulti, he claims to have made the first post here

ulti made his account on 8/18/'02 so i don't see how that's possible, unless he had a previous account that i'm unaware of.

steiner recommended dream theater to me in 2005.

still love them!

just went to GMUN's site to look up if someone made a topic on 7/1/2012 to talk about the 10 year anniversary of the first contest match ever.

harrich did!

interesting!

i don't know the answer but this topic made me look up when the first archived contest and stats discussion topic was created (8/15). apparently, there was one even before that that was modded for being off-topic (???).

DoomTheGyarados posted...

Plum remembered to tag and beyond that no one really cares who makes the threads.

uh, we do to some extent. half the board has blocked ulti (and ulti has blocked the other half) so it's not ideal if he makes the topics.

i'm fine with plum making it, though.

edit: oh didn't see that jakyl already made a new one and apparently GMUN blocked plum. let's use the other one then.

still need to watch this show but i'm already down on it now that i know it's about tatooine and tusken raiders. you could do so much with the star wars universe but they keep going back to the same shit over and over and over again.

pretty sure nobody in this topic (aside from maybe LotM) likes obamacare lol

jcgamer107 posted...

Sadly you could make a case for Nixon out of those

out of those, this legitimately would be my answer.

staying home all day is not reasonable, but i see no reason to say "fuck it i'm just going to stop adhering to any covid measures now." for instance, wearing a mask is an incredibly minor inconvenience for me. i'm happy to keep doing it until it's absolutely not necessary anymore. granted, perhaps i would have a different outlook if i wore glasses and this were a big inconvenience for me.