Everything posted by DanRydell
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Avatar: The Way of Water
It dragged a bit at times but it looks spectacular and I had a good time at the theater. The last 30 minutes or so is one of the best action/war set pieces in recent memory.
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Survivor 43
The last 9 seasons have made it clear that the jury is very easily distracted by the shiny object in front of them of winning fire making. Since that change was made, the fire making winner has won 5 times, the person who taken along by the final immunity winner has won 3, and the person who had immunity has won 1.
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Survivor 43
Perhaps the biggest flaw in the new-ish final 4 firemaking is that it completely neuters winning final immunity and somehow makes firemaking a greater accomplishment than both winning final immunity and in politicking your way into the final 3. The idea that it would have somehow been a stronger game move for Cass to give up the necklace and make fire against Jesse (thereby increasing Jesse’s chances of making the final 3) is fucking insane.
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Survivor 43
Jesse really blew it at final five. He was too busy worrying about winning tribal and not nearly worried enough about getting to final tribal. The smart play was to let them vote for him, then play the idol and vote out whoever he considered to be the best at making fire (presumably Gabler). I think Cass was probably in the driver’s seat but she really blew it at final tribal. She couldn’t even clearly and simply state that she weaponized Gabler to take Jesse out. Oh well, hopefully Gabler winning means he never comes back so I never have to listen to him again.
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2022 Austin Elections - Mayoral and otherwise
That's an extremely bizarre takeaway from a race where both candidates were high quality.
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Huge Piece of Shit and alleged Woman Abuser Chris Beard has been hired at Mississippi
That first part is not even remotely true but yes, girlfriends qualify as family violence.
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Survivor 43
I’ve mostly enjoyed it but the editors and Jeff have been really focusing on trying to force sappy “inspirational” moments which has been pretty cringey.
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Survivor 43
I didn’t hear Dwight’s name brought up at all. Did I miss something or was this just a terrible edit?
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The Supremes
Affirmative action might the best example of the difference between textualism and originalism. I think reasonable minds can disagree on what exactly "equal protection" means from a textualism perspective but there is absolutely no honest originalist argument that the equal protection clause prohibits corrective race-based programs when the same Congress that enacted the 14th Amendment also created the Freedman's Bureau.
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Survivor 43
I thought they were setting her up too much with the edit and that Jeanine was going to play the idol for her.
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Survivor 43
Jeanine was the one who actually went through his bag
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Tik Tok?
There really weren't any apps that did what it did (Vine had been the closest but had gone defunct), which is why it became so popular (a pandemic keeping people home and bored also helped).
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House of the Dragon
Yeah, there’s the off-screen battle at the end of season one where Tyrion gets knocked out just as it’s starting and we wake up with him after it’s over.
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House of the Dragon
The first battle was Season 2, Episode 9. The second wasn’t until Season 4, Episode 9.
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Survivor 43
Seems like the producers perhaps underestimated how easy it would be to get beads from one’s tribemates.
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House of the Dragon
So you think season one of GoT suffered from a lack of sufficient table setting?
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House of the Dragon
I’m literally asking for the opposite. What the fuck are you talking about?
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2022 MLB thread
This. Trying to avoid unanimity because Ruth, Mays, whatever weren’t unanimous is dumb, but if I think 11 guys are worthy, I’m gonna leave of the guy who doesn’t need my vote to get over the top.
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House of the Dragon
This has been the longest prologue ever. I guess we’ll find out if it’s been worth it once the show starts in earnest, but I doubt it. If GoT had been set up like this, we would have had a first season just rushing through Robert/Lyanna/Rhaegar, the Ned/Cat and Jon/Lysa courtships, Littlefinger’s history with Cat/Lysa, Robert’s Rebellion, Jaime’s king slaying, the Robert/Cersei wedding, Ned taking in Jon Snow, and Jon Arryn’s poisoning. Instead we started out in media res, spent some real time with people and let the story breathe, and just learned these things as needed as we went.
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BB24
The competitions play a significant role in who makes the final two. They mean power, they mean safety, they can lead to and/or destroy alliances, etc. If competition performance is important to the jurors, it can also play a significant role in who wins the jury vote. But there’s certainly no requirement that the jurors care about competition performance.
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BB24
Of course it's true, and it always has been true. Fortunately there are literally countless other TV shows you can watch that don't involve a winner being declared by the judgment of their competitors.
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BB24
Where do you have “building relationships with the jurors” on their resumes? The point of Big Brother is not to win comps or even to avoid the block. The point is to get to the final two and to then get a majority of the jury to vote for you. Winning comps can certainly be a tool for getting to the end, and they can be a tool for winning votes to the degree jurors think they should matter, but they don’t have to be.
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House of the Dragon
The pacing of this show so far is all sorts of fucked IMO. They're throwing a lot of plot at viewers but then not really giving the show room to breathe or doing the work that's necessary to let people really get to know and love/hate the characters. If these characters aren't really important and we just need to some major plot points for later, this is pure prologue and probably should have just been done through interspersed flashbacks or something. If they're intending to convey something other than prologue, then the first five episodes should have been drawn out for a full season. This show feels like it would have chopped Ned's head off halfway through episode two, which doesn't land remotely the same as doing so in episode 9.
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House of the Dragon
Yeah, this makes no sense George.
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BB24
If he should have, he would have.