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Xminus6

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  1. Yeah. I don’t get what he’s doing. They never really show him interacting with his family so I don’t get the sense of decades of pent up hate and frustration like with Tyrion. He don’t have the background of poverty and trauma to motivate him like Littlefinger. He feels powerless and overlooked so his big plan is to kill his father, the Hand of the King, and his brother, who has lands to rule in hopes of possibly receiving favor or blackmailing the Queen, who might never have a son sit on the throne. Without sufficient backstory about his familial relationships it seems like he should be scheming more to advance his family’s interests over a Queen by marriage.
  2. I’m a big fan of this. It shows Sark was paying attention to everything. We all saw Bijan being tentative. I’m glad Sark told him to just run them over.
  3. Plus, other than the Pick 6, Harris is really accurate on the run. It was pretty remarkable.
  4. Looks like at the very beginning of that clip Sark says “This just happened?” Than after Sark says “That’s between you and me.” He says something like “He came right up to me.” So it sounds like they were reacting to what someone did after the game.
  5. I was hoping they’d just lure all the guys in and firebomb the whole area since Daemon is ostensibly fireproof.
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    #Texit

    Even if they were able to secede without having to fight the US, how long would it take for the Mexican cartels to take over the whole state/nation do you figure? Tac vests over beer bellies will seem less cool when people are chopping off your neighbors’ heads.
  7. I'm pretty sure the US doesn't recognize dual-citizenship with Turkey. Turkey does accept dual citizenship from citizens of other countries. My wife is Turkish and is "dual citizenship" as well as my elder daughter, who was born in the USA.
  8. The weird thing with Casey is that his accuracy doesn't seem to drop THAT much when he gets flustered. Just enough that the balls are really hard to catch but everyone blames the receiver. This INT to end the game is a perfect example of that. I think that's why he gets more slack for his play than if he were just heaving it straight into the ground or DB's hands.
  9. Ain’t no probably about it. Dublin is a cool city. Take your “fired college football coach money” and hit the town.
  10. Oh the way back from a trip to Turkey we had a connection at a German airport (Frankfurt maybe). I ended up talking to a couple Kiwis who were motorcycle sidecar racers who had flown to Germany for a race. I rode at the time so we talked about bikes. I asked them why they were flying to LAX from Germany. They said that was the fastest flight home. Blew my mind frankly.
  11. To be fair, when they’re good it fills up. I moved to LA in ‘96 and became very close friends with a UCLA season ticket holder in FB and BB. The Rose Bowl was per full back in those days when they were good to nearly great. I’ve been to a lot of near-capacity regular season games at the Rose Bowl. Sure they’re more fair weathered fans than Bama but I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to take an hour+ bus ride to watch their team suck.
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    The Boys

    I don’t think it was out of nowhere. They’ve always implied that she was very, very strong. She just doesn’t have Homelander’s other powers. It’s obviously a parallel to Superman and WW. WW is pretty strong but just a notch weaker than Supes.
  13. Evidently Cooper is pretty loaded on his own, not to even mention the rest of the family money.
  14. Wasn’t there some explanation that the radar jamming tech the “enemy” would render new jets blind in this mission?
  15. The Baylor Safety at the end even looks confused as to how it wasn’t a TD.
  16. I’m around. What’s up?
  17. He throws with both hands? Never seen that before.
  18. Is he done with it yet? That place has the biggest sandwiches I’ve ever seen. I ordered a Turkey Sandwich and I swear it had about two pounds of meat on a slice of bread.
  19. I think the casting off Fett is one of the main issues. He’s just a bad actor. They also wrote his whole story weirdly. This version of Fett has none of the presence or mystery of what we imagine of three original character. Plus he’s generally inept. Basically Fennec Shand tells him what to do at every point and he just grimaces at her and then agrees. In my head, Fett was ruthlessly competent. He should have been battling demons of his past as he tries to go more legit but it feels like the character is just bouncing around without a plan and then waiting for Shand or Mando to tell him the plan. His character didn’t really develop or change at all once he left there Tuskens.
  20. Rodriguez is terrible. His action directing is just laughably bad. Seriously. It's awful and stilted and lacking any emotion. Give Bryce Dallas Howard more episodes. I literally can't understand how people think Rodriguez is good at this point. I'm no military strategist, but when you have two people who can fly and an armored personel carrier, I don't think the best strategy is to all be huddled together on the ground in a 10 foot radius. The huge strategic maneuver they accomplished was "someone should be on the roofs to snipe." Also, when there are tanks roaming the streets and people being gunned down by automatic weapon fire, you decide to cut to three street merchants selling yams? Like, did they think they were going to sell yams to the spider tank?
  21. The technology is moving fast too. In another year that tech will be better than it is now. Together with the better deep fake work on this last episode foretells some interesting times for actors ahead. We could conceivably add onto stories where the actors have aged out of the roles. We're already doing it to a degree with movies like The Irishman and some of the other youthing technology in Marvel movies and such. I think what they should do with that respeech technology is do a similar Deep Fake type implementation where it "translates" a current actor's voice acting and overlays the synthesized voice on top of it to pick up intonation and pace. I'm interested in the legal aspect of it.
  22. They didn’t give Boba one line in the whole episode, which is fine by me. Mando is awesome.
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