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  1. 2 hours ago, Red Five said:

    The rewatchability of TLJ is pretty much zero. Even the prequels had parts that I wanted to see again, enough to sit through the rest of it. There isn’t one scene in TLJ that I feel like I ever need to watch again.

    I completely agree with this take. i suppose that episode 9 can do something to cast episode 8 in a better light, but i have zero desire to watch that film again.

    and here is the reason, and should be reason #1: there is not an obvious coherent storyline. i think they overreached in ep 7 with the star killer death star, but this movie doesn't build off the last one in any meaningful way. yes, it's dark, but so was empire. luke loses a hand, han's frozen, life sucks and then you fight on. 

    this movie departs from the ethos of the previous film, and that's why so many viewers dislike it. there's this idea out there that fanbois will hate on anything different. that's not true. different is good. but finn is terrible in this movie, and that's a wasted character, i guess because rian didn't find a meaningful role for him to fill. same thing happened with poe. neither of these characters seemed to change in any meaningful way, except, i guess poe is more likely to follow orders now? 

    in empire, all three main characters grow by bouncing off each other, sharing experiences, hardships, and failures with a few small successes. you got a real sense of them getting to be closer friends. that wasn't the case in this movie. and that's part of what makes it so unlikable. 

  2. i mean, we could argue the existence of deities all day long, but the question in the OP is "why are there fewer religious adherents?"

    i think the answer is simple: because the evangelicals are destroying the christian faith by acting unchristian and uncompromising. and their heavy involvement in politics, and in, say, the gay marriage argument has really affected how young people think about religion. whereas in the old days, people would still go to church, even if they did not believe, now people feel fine not involving themselves in the one-time necessary social sunday circle.

    i don't think it is a war of science against faith, which seems to be what most of you are arguing. it's a war of faith vs humanity. people now know gay people, and they are finding out that they are just like us, except they like to put their sexual body parts in different spots. more people know more things, now, about other human beings, and the hyper-conservative, political approach a lot of christianity espouses turns off the youth. 

    just my dumb take.

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  3. 11 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    Alcohol + No Upward Mobility = ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

    It's not just that. I mean, booze is definitely a factor, but I was in Greenwich one Sunday afternoon, and watched one normalish looking dude with his daughter on his shoulders try and start shit with another drunk guy. They just like to fight and break things, regardless of social station. 

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  4. 23 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    Right. Let's recap what happened today:

    1)Someone asked a question about the game

    2)I answered his question

    3)Like five of you started talking shit to me and insulting me out of nowhere, completely derka'ing the thread

    4)Y'all whined about the thread being Derka'd

     

    thats a factual recap of what happened. it's amazing how you all actively seek me out starting shit and then whine when you get what you went looking for. 

    oh and of course hen you all pos rep and circle jerk each other about it. edit: case in point, cheeseweasel, the guy who called me a douchebag out of nowhere starting the whole thing is pos repping your post. you all are delusional 

     

    @hayden_horn tell me that's not exactly what happened today 

    i dunno, i took off work to watch the game and i'm mostly drunk right now. i saw some shit in the thread, but couldn't be bothered to read it. 

  5. 16 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

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    kind of funny, but kind of indicates that you haven't partied in london. those fuckers are crazy, and i cannot even imagine the more blue collar towns.

    here's a great article i found about the prep england put into the penalties. their manager, southgate, famously failed in a penalty shootout against germany in euro 96:

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/29/gareth-southgate-lay-ghost-euro-96-penalty-shootout

    redemption stories are fucking great, man.

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  6. 3 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

     

     


    So be thankful that we're not involved in the war he was leading us towards?

     

    ok.

    ok.

    yall see what's happened in this tweet, right?

    it's more than simply touting some semblance of success (as much as it can be a success with the north koreans upgrading nuclear facilities this last weekend).

    he is actively throwing the democratic party in with the press as something to be castigated. not only that, but he has continued his campaign of dehumanization. the press is "fake news" not to be trusted, and now the democratic party is the "Opposition Party", with caps to make sure the message is driven home. that, my friends, is despotic, chavez-style rhetoric.

    this is exactly how chavez began his takeover of the venezuelan government. this is now officially kind of scary. combine that with the optics of our government celebrating OUR independence day in fucking russia, and it seem that they are actively trying to thumb their nose at american convention. 

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  7. i also think that he game has a momentum factor built in. if my opponent, superior or inferior, scores an early goal, then shit gets impossible. i think that's kind of a fun idea, honestly, as momentum is a real thing. 

    but late season games against shitty teams should look like early season games against shitty teams. i don't mind losing to better teams. that's going to happen more often than ont, and it is what makes building a better team fun. but i feel like there are false equivalencies built in at times. i was playing a rather poor leicester squad in the second to last game of the season, with the championship in the balance. spurs would simply not lose, which is another thing that happens in this game during the run in - the game identifies a team to compete with you for first, and makes them a cut above in every match including against equal competition. whatever. i get it. but leicester RMs were keeping pace with mine and shoving me off the ball with regularity. when i play a ball through, probably 8-10 yards ahead, on a break, somehow their super-middies would catch up and make my life miserable. i still won, but even my wife was again asking why i play this game if it is so unfair and she barely pays attention over the top of whatever book she's reading. 

    i must be doing something wrong, i reckon, that it makes it that difficult. i even do very regular training exercises with my team to make them individually better. doesn't seem to matter in certain matches. i don't want a 38-0 PL season. i just want to feel like the pitch isn't tilted in one direction without reason.

  8. I also love how in the league run in or cup quarters through finals, your opponents become stifling defenders in every passing lane, while you or your guys can't take the ball off anyone's foot and even if close to a passing lane nobody stops out. 

    I don't mind losing, I want to lose some games. I don't want to feel cheated when doing so.

    And I get what the game is doing I think. It wants me to learn all the fancy passes, tricky dribbling moves, etc, but I'm a father and husband. I can play maybe two matches per night. Semi pro is too easy but pro is stupid hard. Which is fine! Make it hard but make it equitable. My defenders should be doing equal to what theirs are doing. Difficulty should be a bit more complex than nerfing and hulking skills. 

  9. Just now, Ragnarok said:

    These boards have no serious discussion on them any more, if they ever did. It's just one long boring parody of liberal rage.

    well, except when you, johnny sack, tahoehorn, ttomterrific, el guapo, and any number of conservative posters post. this idea that you are somehow persecuted because there people unlike you on the board does not mean it is a circle jerk. this narrative stretches all the way back years to the other board. conservatives seem to think different philosophies and world-views mean that somehow they are being shouted down. no, people call out your shit because it's all fucked up. yes, that's run some conservatives off these boards, because it's impossible to defend the current shitshow with any semblance of dignity or self-respect.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said:

    The challenge was bad without any contact and would get a red now (more worthy of a caution back then), but Klinsmann had his arms flailed as Mozon dove in.  It was also the first video I found.  If you don't know Klinsmanns reputation as a flop, I don't really know how to respond.

    oh, i agree about the hysterics, and said as much in my post. i just didn't think that was as blatant as i've seen. now i know why that was the video was chosen, fair enough.

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