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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. If you skip all of the ones I've marked up with yellow and red, the one Arc I'd recommend, and I know it isn't popular, is the the Martez sisters Arc in the final season. I know a lot of folks find it annoying, but it is the only material we have of what happens between when Ahsoka leaves the Jedi order and the last four legendary episodes of Clone Wars. Mind the gap, I guess. There is a lot of character development there, as well as the ruthlessness of the Pykes.
  2. How many acres is it, and what are the sizes of the adjacent plots? We have 350ish acres of family land between my mom and aunt and uncle that is mostly only hunted by me, and I am getting some pretty quality pictures of deer on my lone camera. Also, this guy who I saw about 300 yards away down an oil field road while I was hunting with my flintlock which has about 200 inches of drop and only 100 foot pounds of energy at that range...
  3. I'll make a list for Rebels when I'm done watching it, but spoiler alert, it includes all of them.
  4. Here you go. The ones marked out in red don't really add anything to the plot. The ones in yellow are still worth watching if you want to watch all but the most unnecessary episodes. I marked the episodes as I watched them, so I should probably go back through the list and make sure there isn't anything important to the overall plot in any of the ones I marked, but Clone Wars really isn't like Rebels where seemingly unimportant stuff turns out to be important later on. And remember, this list was created with the mindset of watching as much as possible and only skipping the most useless episodes. But speaking of Rebels, I just finished rewatching season one of Rebels, and with watching them back to back, the difference in the overall writing quality is pretty obvious. Aside from the last few episodes of Clone Wars, while the story lines are great in Clone Wars, the writing in Rebels is leaps and bounds ahead of Clone Wars. It is a much better series overall from that perspective, especially if you exclude the last four episodes of Clone Wars, which is probably some of the best Star Wars content ever written if you've watched the rest of the series enough to be invested in Ahsoka's arc.
  5. I watched it, and saw a few things wrong with his assumptions, but I need to watch it again to confirm a few things.
  6. The concensus, if you could call it that, is that they were there all along, or at least often enough, and we just couldn't see them until we upgraded our radars. Once we upgraded our radars and were able to see them, they sent pilots to investigate and we got the tic tac video. The gimbal video was originally leaked in 2007 here: https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread265835/pg1 So they didn't really have much of a choice in that matter. It didn't get the attention of the public until it was leaked again along with the others several years ago.
  7. Oh, we have much of that stuff. It's just classified.
  8. I think I saw a while back that all their files are on paper and kept in the drafting offices. So if you burn it down they don't have good records of you and it makes it harder to get drafted.
  9. True story, I drank quite a bit one Saturday night while I was home for the weekend in college. I went to church the following morning with my parents, but got sick and threw up an ascaris roundworm. I knew that was what it was because I had just disected one in my zoology class. I had spent the summer traveling in west Africa, but there were some estimates that the prevalence of them in the US is actually pretty high, so who knows where I picked it up. Anyhow, the math checks out.
  10. Finished my binge rewatch of The Clone Wars (complete with notes on which episodes to skip and which ones to maybe skip for someone who wants to watch themajority of the series and not miss out on any important or interesting arcs), and one episode down of Rebels. Let's see if I can finish it before this comes our, since it looks like it is basically season 5 of Rebels.
  11. Well, after 25 years of service, the F-22 finally got its first air to air kill...so it would jive with the simulation.
  12. Is the magician's name Robert Angier?
  13. There is merit to the idea that our society should have some jobs that don't pay a ton for high school kids that want some extra cash and such. Jobs that aren't meant to be a career. I mean, it sounds like a good idea, and if that was the way it worked it would maybe be a good idea. But the problem is that a significant portion of people are idiots. And those high school kids who want some extra cash are probably going to be more valuable workers than the idiots. So the bottom of the pay scale ends up being dominated by idiots instead of high school kids or transitory workers. And idiots need a place to live. And they can't be expected to live forever. We should probably come up with a way to allow them to retire at a reasonable age, even if it isn't very close to the age most skilled workers retire.
  14. I don't get how y'all think Rebecca is hot. She's not even 50 years old and looks like she's pushing 60. I mean, there's probably some 60 year old almost millionaire out there who would be proud to pull that, but come on y’all.
  15. So what you're basically saying is all the good journalists are serving time for murder?
  16. According to them, or at least Grush, that has happened in the past. To assume it would happen all the time is putting way to much faith in the competency of our government.
  17. He talked to multiple someones with verifiable security clearances, and then shared that info with the inspector general of the intelligence community who then spoke with at least some of those multiple someones and also found their stories to be credible and urgent enough to forward them to congress and grant him whistleblower protection. If it is, we have a serious problem with government agencies lieing to the folks who are supposed to hold them accountable.
  18. I think somehow my autocorrect started capitalizing the word that. Not sure why it's in all caps there.
  19. Pretty much any investigative journalist interviews folks about whatever it is they are investigating and then reports their findings. This is the way that major news is broken all the time. How often are you this critical of them? Is this not the way that so many unjustified police shootings have been uncovered? Yes, they usually lead to hard evidence like body camera footage being released, but here we have a situation where people think that the evidence must be so far fetched that they form some sort of mental block that they are unwilling to wait for the actual hard evidence to be released before making judgement. If you apply the same standard for much of the other groundbreaking news these days, it should pretty much all be dismissed.
  20. Because certain factions within the government don't want the truth to get out, and have spent decades convincing the public that it is akin to some fringe conspiracy theory (helped out by a lot of legitimate conspiracy theorists) so that the leaks that inevitably do happen are dismissed out right. However, if you do actually spend a bit of time looking into the issue,there are actually loads of credible folks involved who have tried to get the truth out. So now we are left with a situation where a significant group of otherwise rational people can't take a rational look at the evidence and come up with their own conclusions due to preconceived biases based on decades long misinformation campaigns. Now we have a former intelligence officer who's job it was to investigate this stuff blowing the whistle on governernment programs with no oversight. A whistleblower who has bipartisan backing that is unheard of in this political environment. And some of the congress critters fighting for disclosure are undeniably passionate about their beliefs, whether or not you agree with them. Take AOC, I'm sure that many folks here don't agree with her vision of how we ought to be doing things, but it is hard to deny that she has an honest passion for serving her constituents and doing what she thinks is right. Yet she is one of the ones leading the charge.
  21. Also, the existence of government programs that don't answer to Congress, the President, or the Judicial. There has to be oversight somewhere.
  22. That's like the minimum you have to pay just to escape from target.
  23. Proxima centauri is less than five light years away and believed to have habitable planets. Assuming they have technology to travel at close to light speed, it wouldn't be a stretch for an life there to have made multiple trips back and forth.
  24. Like I said, I rarely shoot it, so I'll throw in 50 of these guys. I can even draw dicks on the bullets with a sharpie for added amusement.
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