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LCHorn

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  1. I haven’t watched House of Dragons but why is the viewership drop a good thing?
  2. I mean, let’s be frank, all those California originators that got rich in the late ‘90’s are constantly sucking each other off and giving each other bullshit awards. I mean; you basically had to be an imbecile not to make money in mortgages back then in an incredible growth market. It’s like it was for us in 2021-2022 but they had a decade of it. At least Barry has the balls to hang himself; everyone else is in coaching or peddling software. There’s also not a whole lot of competition in that space. Pretty much all the macro guys I listen or read have been predicting a recession to happen any day now since May of 2022.
  3. Look, I don't give a shit about women romancing each other or everyone being a representative of some minority group, but a fat Jedi is just a bridge too far. Even worse is he was British and appeared to have normal teeth.
  4. I’d like to know why a 26 and 27 year old David Hensley is performing worse every season at the same level. It’s a small sample size but the numbers support playing Loperfido at first. I’m presuming there’s a good reason they are resisting that idea because God knows it’s Singleton isn’t the answer.
  5. I’m sure to regret treading in these waters, but I would rebut that alienating your core fans, however insulated and fragile they have revealed themselves to be, in the hopes of expanding the audience to consumers who have previously a) enjoyed your product despite the fact they didn’t see racial/gender characters more closely resembling themselves or b) ignored your product because they don’t particularly care for the genre trapping doesn’t seem good business. Alternatively, the Star Wars movies are westerns that aspire to be Wagnerian Operas or Shakespearean dramas and, if you follow Campbell, hope to tap into the universal subconscious by using universal archetypes. You shouldn’t need to include a fat jedi in order to cultivate an audience, because your story or characters are familiar in 20 other ways. Including a fat Jedi, or a bisexual or gay character (if either isn’t in service to the story) just feels like cheap pandering. Unfortunately, too much of modern entertainment seems to feel like tokenism and I think it immediately rings false.
  6. I’m an unabashed defender of The Last Jedi and one of the things I liked best about it was that it wiped the slate clean for the next film maker. You had two films gradually leaving the old trilogies main characters. Film 3 was ready to stand on its own. Instead it became a really bad JJ Adam’s film that pandered so hard to fans of the original trilogy that it reeked of inauthenticity. It’s like they started first with “let’s make a list of all the shit the fans like” and then wrote the script from that.
  7. Did you think they would trade him? I can’t see that coming from either side.
  8. Lively is bouncy. Clingan is a bruiser.
  9. Why not both? This is also why I think it’s unlikely anyone else but Trump can bring his basket of deplorables to the ‘28 election and hopefully it doesn’t take someone evoking Obama to re-assemble his coalition. Of course, all that is national. Texas will have effectively evolved into a quasi-authoritarian Christofascist state by then.
  10. None of that is news and no fucking way a baseball lifer is quitting one of the 30 GM MLB positions in the universe. He's almost 60--this is his one shot at it. Hopefully Abreu's DFA is the start of Brown doing SOMETHING.
  11. Haha, I’ve told myself that same thing many times. Unfortunately guilt isn’t a great motivator for most people. More often than not, when that happens to me it’s a referral from an agent that I know pits us against another of their favored agents, at least somewhat deliberately.
  12. Hell of a cast
  13. So I haven’t watched ep 3 yet but I’ve been unable to resist reading the comments on this thread. It sounds like those of you that watch ep 4 will be hate-watching it, no?
  14. I don’t know how big a piece they actually had remaining but the PE firm kept him on-they initially had Tim as CEO and I expect that was part of the deal (I.e, they wanted him as CEO and in exchange he retained some ownership). Again, this is all presumptions, but I think he got really tired trying to manage the increasingly insolvent business and also caught flack for not providing sufficient sexual harassment protection amongst theater staff (which is probably somewhat a byproduct of running a business that was kind of boot-strapped and informal from inception). Add Covid breaking theatrical and they’ve kind of been running a zombie business. At least locally, it wasn’t food that made Alamo, it was that it was fun. It was the programming, the Rolling Roadshow, doing crazy stuff that probably didn’t make a lot of money but created a kinship amongst patrons that the owners and staff were huge nuts about curating an experience. That part didn’t get revived after Covid and I think THAT is what Tim lived for.
  15. I think it’s telling that the League’s were bought out. I would think Sony would be happy to have them on board, even if it’s just for appearances.
  16. I grew up in a small town and probably 75% of everyone I knew was Baptist or non-denominational but in congregation that had broken off from a more traditional Baptist church. There was definitely good people and pastors that cared, so I don’t want to paint with an overly broad brush. That said, talking in tongues, proposing that the rapture is imminent, anti-Christ lives among us now, etc., it’s all just bananas. Plus my experience was 20-30 years ago and the world should have (by their predictions) should have ended 5 or 6 times by now. I’m mostly just amazed that it’s taken this long for membership to fall because membership amongst pretty much ALL organized groups have declined over the past 20 years, and it’s at least correlated with the increase of online activity.
  17. The cost or the price? If your concern is the latter, that’s market economics.
  18. I guess…let’s be honest, that’s probably not top five, for me at least, in weird practices among the Baptists.
  19. Also, I bet they didn’t pay anything but will take on debt obligations.
  20. It was a long-time coming but end of an era-Tim and Karrie League built something really cool. I’m really interested to see what they do next.
  21. I don’t know why you think Sheppard is getting past the Spurs at 4. Of course, Murphy’s Law-if they draft him he’ll be a two time all-star and a starter on a perennial championship contender. Buzelis is my number two option at 3, mainly because all the scouting reports talk about how weak he is and that’s fixable with age and training.
  22. Hah, we watched it last night, too, same outcome. I’ll say this-it’s much better than the Anne Hathaway cougar romance show I was made to watch last week.
  23. Do you think maintaining faith is an institution unworthy of it is a virtue?
  24. Well goddamnit, they are even worse. A bunch of antisemitic poop fetishists. I bet we can draw a straight line from the supposed superiority of the “master race”, immigration into central and west Texas, and the current, misguided, sense of Texas exceptionalism.
  25. And that’s why we should have never let those dago guinea bastards (and their wives) into the country in the first place. What’s next, we’re going to let in the thieving Irish?
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