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Also, when I say RPG, I mean pen-and-paper RPGs, not video games RPGS. Big, big difference. The few attempts to make a movie based on Dungeons and Dragons have failed, miserably. Yah, but they have always been fairly low budget, and trying to use dungeons a Drago's to advertise. There's no plot the...

I think before you as that you have to ask why GoT was successful. Frankly I think that it had nothing to do with it being a fantasy series and a lot more to do with the fact that it heavily exploited the sex and violence, and relied on an increasingly cheap 'shocking' events. Look at the way it dev...

Strange made "a deliberate decision" (only one out of millions he saw) where they "win". Is that really a choice? Well, yeah, I suppose, if he valued half of all life in the universe . I mean, Strange could have picked a future where the people he liked survived, "too bad, ...

In Endgame we see the survivors (especially Thor) have to live through five odd years of living in an horrific sort of post apocalyptic world. A universe put through hell because Star Lord couldn't keep his shit together in a life or death situation. While I agree it's not a huge character flaw, it...

Grayza also mutinied and murdered Maryk because she felt he was too weak/not competent enough to lead. And then lead the Peacekeepers into a straight up conflict with an enemy that outmatched them. So possibly not the best example, unless your point is Holdo was lucky Poe didn't execute her as soon ...

Gandalf wrote: ↑2020-06-18 10:46pm Watching the right wing bigwigs eating each other as the Trump ship takes on water is comedically unmatchable.

Armando Ianucci should make all the films about this.

To be fair, that's Avenue 5 in a nutshell.

On might even say that the standard tool/procedure for dealing with bushfires in Aus is to find/create a firebreak and then backburn towards the firefront. Kinda. In conditions like this though no, because lighting more fires is just asking for trouble. A backburn now is just a new fire trying to g...

Not really an option. With any decent sized fire, let alone ones like this, you need firebreaks kilometres wide and deep to have any real impact. Ember attacks (burning embers in the air, landing ahead/wide of the fire front) can start spot fires 20 or so kilometres out and in contitions like this, ...

Bob Hawke has just died.

I have no idea how this effects a labor campain based on the achievements of governments past but fuck, it shook me.

Vale. Any boss who fires anyone for not turning up to work tomorrow is a bum!

Bob Hawke has just died.

I have no idea how this effects a labor campain based on the achievements of governments past but fuck, it shook me.

Vale. Any boss who fires anyone for not turning up to work tomorrow is a bum!

My favourite thing about this line of argument is that half the issues the Lannisters have were because push comes to shove, the Starks we at least by Westeros standards, honourable and fair rulers. No one, up to and including his children, really gives a shit Tywin Lannister was killed. The Stark f...

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That was sarcasm K.A. The only reason not to is to pretend that we don't need proper training for pilots on this entirely new type of aircraft, which is clearly not true. But clearly Boeing shouldn't be responsible for this. For some reason.

TRR. Real talk. I've made a comment like this before and you ignored it, but I actually want to engage you on this. Politics is not just about being right, it's about looking right. The way you deliver rhetoric, at least in text and I can only assume in real life as well, does not look right, This i...

The question is whether Obama think he did. If he really did think he captured the Republican voters, then his entire perception of his presidency will be based on that and his actions becomes even more understandable. He knew he didn't. Enough research goes into voters to know exactly who voted fo...

To be fair, if the problem is with the AoA sensor going haywire, this part is most likely a common item shared with all the other models. And if it is a software bug, it could also be in all 737s. Nope. The MAX is basically a completely new aircraft with different AoA software to try to make it fly...

Probably a combination of the age-old notion that the larger your estate the greater your wealth and status, particularly land you aren't doing anything practical with, and the fact that countries like Australia and parts of the United States have land values low enough that the lower-middle classe...

From who? The general public or his cluster? His cluster doesn't think rationally about him. Even if he wasn't involved in a terrorist attack against them, the kiss/kill effect pretty much means they will love him or hate him due to shard fuckery. As for the general public, the Fallen are at best as...

Yeah, Vicky is the most likeable of his protagonists to date, largely because she acknowledges she's got problems and is trying to fix them. That goes for most of the characters, they're pretty broken people, significantly more so than a lot of characters in Worm, but they're generally actively tryi...

So Wildbow's new project is a sequel to Worm, starring Victoria Dallon, who we all remember better as Glory Girl, aka Jesus Christ Amy what are you doing!? I'm not sure that I like it as much as Worm, it's a different type of story but it has the classic WB flavour and I'm enjoying the new perspecti...

I never cease to get a kick out of the neverending number of uses for Roy's useless bag of tricks.

It is interesting that you bring up Antifa, because they are a fantastic example of how the opposition can disingenuously label them falsely. They are not a violent group, but they have certainly been played up as being as such in the media which does furthers your point that the left cannot allow ...

I haven't been able to find a link to the article, just the retractions so if someone has one they could post I'd appreciate it. Straha, I'm not going to pretend to be well educated enough to argue the terminology with you, but could it be said that the 'White' and 'Black' cultures you're referring ...

And for her dress to be a uniform... a Mess Dress perhaps... but those are only used for formal occasions. Also her outfit shows no allegiance. Everyone else wears the Phoenix Symbol. (Leias outfits lacked that one too, but at least her TFA outfit didn't stand out of the crowd in Da'q base) So now ...

So? Montgomery was described as dressing like a Bohemian Artist. Pretty much everyone that ever served under him worshipped him. You don't even know what Resistance uniforms look like, or if there even is one. For all you know that is the uniform because it can wrap around more or less any life form...

Anyway, finally got around to seeing the movie. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. Overall I'd say it was a decent movie, just not a very good Star Wars movie. The scale just doesn't fit with the rest of the films. Poe continues to irritate me. I suppose it's an improvement to say he had a purpose in t...