Nivek

Ladyballs?

Mae threatened her sister over nothing, tried to burn her to death, and choked bugs for amusement. She would justify mass murder over cold fries.

I can understand that. It is difficult to watch aggy win, and I know it will make some friends of mine happy… and I want them to be happy….. but….not like that.

I am starting to form the opinion that they run for office in order to keep the campaign contributions for themselves at this point.

Give him credit, he is slightly less bad than MJ Hegar who spent all of the money on a campaign logo with wings and talking about getting shot down riding motorcycles.

Colin is a bad candidate and this was doomed from the start. He can say things about 'border security' but it won't resonate because those people don't actually give a shit about border security. His campaign is starting from a losing position and will stay that way.

I really don't care. Do you?

What gives you that impression?

Meh, got married at the Mansion in Austin, rented out Aquarelle (now closed) for the reception, flew out to the Caribbean a few days later. It wasn’t cheap, put a little into the rings, and the photographer was really A+. We have great memories and pictures. This was important to my wife so it was important to me. I did suggest that we get ripped/dirty tux and wedding dress and take pictures in an alley/dumpster or burned out building, and that was near the end of my input. I was given toddler decision tree from then on.

I am happy my kids moved on from this. The more I think about it, the more I think this is an accounting trick where they are saddling fees in to the costs of this production, such as the rights to buy Star Wars from LucasArts or the studio that Favreau built for Mando (even if they don't use it). Maybe this is how they bloat the budget for the show, give the director the ability to brag she did a $180 million dollar series, but really only had a much smaller portion at her disposal. Supposedly, the Wookie Jedi fight scene was cut to to funding according to one thing I read online. So that doesn't match-up with the listed budget.

That is fucking horrible. I guess with so many people around they have lost all value on life. Especially children.

Always kind of annoyed me that in the games, I could block/counter the force push, but the baddie shows up, and pushes Osha out of the way and then force pushes a group of masters and knights as if they were all unexpecting it. It is literally what Mae did to some of them before. I can see what they were going for with Osha/Jord. But the execution seems pretty off and it comes off threaded.

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanix-Alien-Xenomorph-Zippermouth/dp/B099BLN4Z1?th=1 My kid has one of these.

I am sorry that happened to you and your family. FWIW, I taught my kids violence is the answer sometimes and worked with them on how to do it. Sadly he used it.

We really need a legal definition for NEWS, and reboot the fairness doctrine

I wish I knew how to quit you! /GQP

IIRC, In that show they stated that it is a sign language her brother and her created together. I could be wrong.

I think we tend to agree more than we disagree in general, and I have kind of held this name since LonghornFanZone days, but I was a late arrival to Rogue One, and I do not recall that thread. I mostly do not talk about my family outside of the HISD/Education threads and try to share the story of the outright fuckery people are facing, in hopes of sharing experiences beyond letting HISD's PR department control the narrative. To participants of that forum. I guess I don't understand who the show if for? Maybe there is an audience for it, but I kind of feel like this is my local WNBA team, whoever they are. I know that isn't a product for me. If the goal is to get the LGBTQ community on board, I am not sure this helps because the coven was wiped out as soon as they were introduced. Again, I think this is the easy target, because the product is really not that great. I seriously heard a better magic chant from a Ducktails episode that I watched with my kids last night (end of season 1). I underlined those parts because they are a bit of a projection. My neighbors are lesbians and they have 2 boys. Our kids are friends. There are mixed people in my neighborhood and a variety of professions and economic states. I hate my local HISD school where my son is an ethnic minority not because of that reason, but because it is a shithole (2 page rage rant deleted). So if I had a chance to be in the gated community that was lily-white, with cookie-cutter homes and kidney shaped pools, if the school system was functional than I would consider it. It is also a normal considiton for people to hate change. People grow up, they formulate and develop their identity and we find comfort in the status quo. That is why it is called out as a blind spot bias in some industries. Maybe some of this is related to that. Star Wars had released content that was geared to children before and to adults/teens. I grew its fanbase based on that. Maybe that is a bias that I have. I liked Kenobi (it had issues, chase scene was awful, as was the gate) but give me CW Anikin and a Vader going Vader and I am in. I really enjoyed the last season of CW (more than Andor). I feel like this is Robert Palmer playing reggae when I paid to hear him sing his mid-late 80s stuff. So maybe this is just my mistake for expecting it to be something that would interest me. -------------Back on topic-------------------- How did a Padawan (Torbin) get promoted to Master when all he did was meditate for 10 years?

I am the second reply. Because the person said the first white male was the monk, and I corrected it that actually the first appearance from my recollection were the two criminals. You can see it as a nefarious statement all you want, but it simply is just a point of correction. My second point is that you keep glossing over things that fans accepted. Snips is a beloved character because we watched her grow up. Not because I was also a preteen non-human girl with horns, in a military order during an intragalactic war. ---------------------------------------------------- Fake story: I was watching The 300 with my son the other day. I wondered why he wasn't being represented on the screen. Where is a pre-teen ASD ADHD child in this battle to maintain Greek Independence? Where was my kid in this film? Oh, they tossed him off a cliff in the beginning. (I am really hoping no one thinks too hard about this one and just has a chuckle) ----------------------------------------------------- Ultimately, when people see a bad product on the screen, they are going to start tearing it apart piece by piece. They are going to find things that seem like there is a diversity quota (true or not) being pushed on an audience that doesn't want it or messages not so hidden within the story (true or not) and react to it. The 'mothers' comment was known to get a reaction. It worked. Writers got what they wanted. I don't give a fuck. But when the Black woman was the lead and not the Zabrak, that was strange. When those little off moments add up, it gives credence to the complainers about the diversity elements being shoehorned into a program as a primary or secondary focus. Rogue One did it to see if they could get Chinese people to give a shit (they didn't), but they implemented it so much better as to not alienate their other fans.

I guess their writers can't figure out how to write it with all their strength?

See, they don't think of themselves as being from the same stock. There is a caste system that still exists even though it isn't talked about here.

Fuck him. He knew what he was doing.

@bolverk I think there is always some complaining about complaining. When TLJ revealed the stormtrooper was black the outcry wasn't racism as much as it was "hey, I thought they were clones of Fett?" in my opinion. I also think the idea that we have to find people on screen that represent us a bit ridiculous. I didn't watch Ripley and think she was awesome because she reflected 11 yr old me. I watch Andor and the story reveals challenges he faced, the agony he had, the no-win situations he found himself in, and it revealed why he was so hardened for Rogue One (especially disturbing was his killing of the informant). That is what makes a character relatable, not gender, not skin color, not orientation. Brokeback Mountain was a good movie and according to Wiki was the 3rd place movie in France, Italy, Australia, 1st place in Hong Kong, and earned $83 million in the US. This new wave of shoving diversity and identification instead of quality storytelling is annoying. There have always been shitty movies like "Surf Nazi's Must Die" but those programs never lied about what they were.

This just underscores a philosophical difference, we understate our capabilities, and they overstate theirs.