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#1185919
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

Unfortunately Trump either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the consequences of anything he does, and it seems neither do you.

Pot, meet kettle? 😉

That doesn’t even make any sense.

Sure it does.

no, it doesn’t. (i mean, maybe it does, but it’s an obnoxious phrase, especially with the heavy use you give it)

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#1185880
Topic
<strong>Star Wars: Forces Of Destiny</strong> (animated shorts series) - general discussion thread
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dahmage said:

S2 • E6 - Bounty Hunted


Seeking help to free Han from Jabba, Leia, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 travel to Ord Mantell to meet with Han’s old friend Maz Kanata. Maz lures bounty hunter Boushh into a firefight so Leia can obtain his helmet and armor for a perfect disguise.

SilverWook, how good are your eyes? You might like what you see in this one… 😎

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#1185870
Topic
<strong>Star Wars: Forces Of Destiny</strong> (animated shorts series) - general discussion thread
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77FN said:

DominicCobb said:

Seems like Mark Hamill is voicing Luke.

Surprisingly an enjoyable watch. Mark voices ESB Luke very well considering the passage of time.

yeah, Mark was great. it wasn’t possible to completely disguise the fact that his voice has aged, but i am glad they didn’t choose a different voice actor.

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#1185861
Topic
<strong>Star Wars: Forces Of Destiny</strong> (animated shorts series) - general discussion thread
Time

S2 • E1 - Hasty Departure


Hera and Sabine liberate an Imperial shuttle, but because Sabine was rushing, they board the wrong ship and it’s full of troopers! Chopper flies the correct shuttle and rescues his friends mid-air.

S2 • E2 - Unexpected Company


Ahsoka joins Anakin on a mission planned for just he and Padme. Anakin, upset at the intrusion, sets a quicker flight path that puts them in the path of a Separatist blockade. The three must put differences aside to get past the blockade.

S2 • E3 - Shuttle Shock


On their approach to Canto Bight, Finn and Rose encounter a pod of creatures in the atmosphere. When a tentacle hits the shuttle and shorts out BB-8, Finn and Rose must work together to fix BB-8 and land the shuttle safely.

S2 • E4 - Jyn’s Trade


A Chadra-Fan child snatches Jyn’s kyber crystal necklace away and Jyn gives chase. When she finally catches the kid and retrieves her necklace, she realizes the child is just hungry and gives him her piece of fruit.

S2 • E5 - Run Rey Run


While scavenging inside a Star Destroyer, Rey is cornered by Teedo who is on the hunt for a valuable part. Rey tries to warn Teedo the removal of the part will trigger the vessel’s collapse, but he does it anyway and she must help them both escape after Teedo is knocked out by falling debris.

S2 • E6 - Bounty Hunted


Seeking help to free Han from Jabba, Leia, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 travel to Ord Mantell to meet with Han’s old friend Maz Kanata. Maz lures bounty hunter Boushh into a firefight so Leia can obtain his helmet and armor for a perfect disguise.

S2 • E7 - The Path Ahead


Struggling with his Jedi training, Luke is grateful for master Yoda’s offer to join him on a sojourn through the trees and swamps of Dagobah, until he learns that Yoda will be riding in his backpack! Minding Yoda, Luke learns to trust what he feels instead of what he thinks he sees.

S2 • E8 - Porg Problems


As Rey struggles to force lift stones, a curious porg snatches her lightsaber! Rey gives chase and force lifts the porg before it can dive into the water with her saber. Rey thanks the porg for the unexpected help in her training.

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#1185718
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

My wife and I have learned that it takes us about 20 minutes to get out of work clothes, make a salad, pour some wine, set up a movie, and kick back. If I pick up a Papa Murphy’s on the way home, it’s fresh out of the oven right about when we’re ready to eat, and tastes homemade. If I pick up from Round Table (across the street from Murph’s), we’re talking 45 minutes of congealing before we ever sit down for a bite.

Murphy’s also keeps costs down (and thus prices) by having small takeout stores - no ovens, no waiters, no tables, no drinks or liquor license, all they do is make dough and assemble the pizza you want. The hard part about making a pizza is kneeding the dough and slicing the ingredients, not the cooking - that part’s easy.

Ok, I get your point. I do disagree that a home oven can produce the same result as a commercial pizza oven (or wood fired pizza oven), but if it is a 25 minute drive to a pizza place, maybe cooking at home makes sense.

Me, I live in a city, so the variables are different.

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#1185641
Topic
Last movie seen
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TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

ray_afraid said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

I watched both when they were in theaters. I enjoyed both, but expected Boyhood to swamp all the awards, so rooted for Birdman because I felt it was the underdog and more entertaining. Boyhood was an experience, but one I wouldn’t really want to revisit.

Dek Rollins said:

Handman said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Everything is a product of its time.

But some more than others. I once again point to how Superman, although made 10 years earlier, ends up being much more timeless.

I mean, you may not be wrong, but you can’t tell me that Superman doesn’t ooze the seventies at some moments as well.


Fair enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is Batman feels like a movie of its time rather than a Batman movie, while Superman feels more faithful to the character. Superman is the first thing I’d point to if someone wanted me to explain the character, while Batman isn’t. It’s still a solid movie and I really enjoy it to this day.

Well as I’ve said multiple times already, it’s a Burton movie. And by extension it’s not a Batman movie.

Batman isn’t a Batman movie? I don’t quite follow what you’re saying here.

Have you seen it?

It’s not a Batman movie, it’s a Burton movie that happens to have Batman and happens to star The Joker.

It’s technically a Batman movie but presumably you get my point now.

Which (live action) Batman movies then are actually Batman movies and not just Martinson/Burton/Schumacher/Nolan films that happen to have Batman?

You might as well say Superman: The Movie was not a Superman movie but a Donner movie that happened to have Superman. Every director flavors their movies with their own style, so I’m not sure what the point is of Burton’s Batman not really being Batman.

If anything, you should say that about Shumacher’s films and not Burton’s.

I was going to answer but since you only gave me 19 minutes before you bitched that I hadn’t answered, now I’m not going to.

Chryon’s rules of posting: either post within 10 minutes, or else wait 24-48 hours. 😋

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#1185624
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

chyron8472 said:

dahmage said:

chyron8472 said:

DominicCobb said:

I’m trying to understand this Papa Murphy’s pizza, at first I thought it was a pizza chain restaurant, but now it sounds more like a Digiorno frozen pizza at the supermarket kinda deal?

It’s not frozen. And the ingredients are better. And there are more of them.

And them preparing the pizza takes less time, so you’re in and out of the store in no time even if you don’t call ahead.

Wait, it’s not frozen? First time I’m hearing that.

https://hub.papamurphys.com/

We don’t have freezers. We don’t pour cheese pellets from a bag. Instead, we make dough from scratch, shred cheese from blocks, and chop veggies by hand. It’s how you’d want to make a pizza if you had all day to do it.

Is this the part where I said it was a joke and you say you know but you responded literally anyway?

You know what would make that blurb even better? If they also cooked it for you. I really don’t understand what’s so great about having all the benefits of a pizzeria but just not cooking it.

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#1185623
Topic
Last movie seen
Time

chyron8472 said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

ray_afraid said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

I watched both when they were in theaters. I enjoyed both, but expected Boyhood to swamp all the awards, so rooted for Birdman because I felt it was the underdog and more entertaining. Boyhood was an experience, but one I wouldn’t really want to revisit.

Dek Rollins said:

Handman said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Everything is a product of its time.

But some more than others. I once again point to how Superman, although made 10 years earlier, ends up being much more timeless.

I mean, you may not be wrong, but you can’t tell me that Superman doesn’t ooze the seventies at some moments as well.


Fair enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is Batman feels like a movie of its time rather than a Batman movie, while Superman feels more faithful to the character. Superman is the first thing I’d point to if someone wanted me to explain the character, while Batman isn’t. It’s still a solid movie and I really enjoy it to this day.

Well as I’ve said multiple times already, it’s a Burton movie. And by extension it’s not a Batman movie.

Batman isn’t a Batman movie? I don’t quite follow what you’re saying here.

Have you seen it?

It’s not a Batman movie, it’s a Burton movie that happens to have Batman and happens to star The Joker.

It’s technically a Batman movie but presumably you get my point now.

Which (live action) Batman movies then are actually Batman movies and not just Martinson/Burton/Schumacher/Nolan films that happen to have Batman?

Unless you are a team account, there’s only one person waiting.

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#1185618
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

chyron8472 said:

DominicCobb said:

I’m trying to understand this Papa Murphy’s pizza, at first I thought it was a pizza chain restaurant, but now it sounds more like a Digiorno frozen pizza at the supermarket kinda deal?

It’s not frozen. And the ingredients are better. And there are more of them.

And them preparing the pizza takes less time, so you’re in and out of the store in no time even if you don’t call ahead.

Wait, it’s not frozen? First time I’m hearing that.

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#1185617
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

Dom didn’t nail it though. You have to go to the supermarket to buy a frozen pizza and then you have to take it home and cook it. The same applies at Murphy’s. The biggest difference is that you have to wait 60 seconds for them to build your pizza in front of you. It’s like they’re almost the same, but one actually tastes good.

No one goes to the supermarket when they want pizza, they go to an actual pizza place. Frozen pizza is a convenience because presumably you’ve already bought it when you were doing your grocery shopping, in which case if you want pizza you don’t have to leave your house at all.

The other advantage of frozen pizza is that it is much cheaper. I’m guessing Papa Murphy’s doesn’t sell at frozen pizza prices but I’m willing to be wrong.

Absolutely I don’t understand certain posters here. Frozen pizza you buy ahead to keep on hand there for Frozen is a requirement. If you decide you want pizza for dinner, then we are comparing Murphy’s to a regular pizza joint. And frankly I don’t Se the allure of Murphy’s unless it’s the only thing in your area.

Why doesn’t Papa Murphy’s also offered to bake the pizza for you? That would be even more convenient, fresh toppings, but bakrs to perfection.

It’s like going to get your haircut at a barber shop that just loans you scissors that you have to take home. You store cutting the hair yourself you just have to run an errand before hand.

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#1185533
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

TV’s Frink said:

Papa Murphy’s is a scam. If I want to make my own pizza, I’ll get one at the grocery store.

Hey look, we already had this conversation in 2016!

Except Papa Murphy’s is not frozen. The ingredients are fresh, and they pile a ton of them on. I also find the flavor to be superior.

Is the quality of a pizza related to the number of ingredients on it?

How terrific. That is flan!

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#1185532
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
Time

DominicCobb said:

Interesting speculations. In my mind this all goes back to the mindset of whether you’re open to new possibilities or not. Hyperspace has been ill-defined enough in this franchise for there to be a sort of gap in possibilities where this can happen. The fact that it’s never happened before doesn’t mean that makes this impossible, it just tells you what is possible with this power and what isn’t. So while before we had no idea if hyperspace could be weaponized, now we know it can be effective is specific situations, but presumably not a course of action worth exploring in other situations.

From my perspective, it’s not hard to see how the logic of this works. Honestly, it seems to me like you have to bend over backwards to try to be bothered be it, but if people want to, that’s up to them I suppose.

(as for Holdo’s fate, as I’ve said I’m pretty sure what happened here was the Raddus impacted with the Supremacy before it enter hyperspace.)

i think this is a good post.

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#1185509
Topic
Ranking Pizza
Time

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

ray_afraid said:

dahmage said:

What terrible pizza places are giving you guys burnt pizza?

I said they don’t cook it long enough, not too long.

ok, but the post right before mine (Dek) said it is half burnt.

Therefore not cooked long enough because Ray wants it all burnt. This is all about what he wants out of an oven and how no one else can give it to him.

Or rather it’s about letting people like what they like and not telling them they’re wrong.

Maybe you could spend less time bashing other peoples’ pizza choices and instead say what pizza you do like?

Just a thought.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

So what pizza do you like?

This isn’t the “What pizza do you like?” thread.

This is the “Ranking Pizza” thread. Pizza you like would then be ranked at the top.

So what pizza would you rank at the top?

You’ve assumed quite a bit there.

No. You just don’t care. You’d rather waste your effort mocking and baiting other people.

effort? you think Frink puts effort into this?

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#1185506
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
Time

flametitan said:

DominicCobb said:

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Makes sense to me that a ship would need to accelerate to the proverbial 88mph to punch a hole through realspace in order to enter hyperspace. *shrug*

This, especially when the visuals of going to hyperspace imply as much.

Also, people seem to think that this means TLJ is portraying hyperspeed is some kinda superpowerful attack method. But the way I saw it, the hyperspeed was just the fastest and most effective way to get the Raddus in contact with the Supremacy.

As long you don’t care about real life physics, which I 1000% don’t (and neither does Star Wars, nor has it ever, unless you’re referring to some EU hard sci-fi mumbo that has no place in this franchise), I’m honestly not sure why it’s an issue. I get if you’re super into science or whatever and you know that going to lightspeed can do all sorts of wacky stuff and that bothers you, but I don’t think it’s that hard to leave that at the door when you go to a fantasy film. As to this breaking established rules of the franchise, I still have yet to see anyone explain how this is the case, when they’ve literally explained next to nothing about how hyperspace works in the films.

But again, if you want to be bothered by something that shouldn’t reasonably be bothersome, go ahead.

I disagree. To me that’s a philosophy, where in fiction anything goes. So, it doesn’t matter, because fantasy doesn’t adhere to the real physics. However, imo to suspend disbelief fiction has to adhere to some set of rules, and be internally consistent. This is where I have a problem with TLJ on many fronts. In this instance, apart from the fact, that accelerating to lightspeed doesn’t make much physical sense,

By your own definition this shouldn’t be an issue. If Star Wars is fantasy, there should be no reason to not roll with the fact that ships need to accelerate into lightspeed, just like the Delorean (note that every time we see a ship go into lightspeed it looks like they are doing exactly this).

the hyperspace kamikaze proofs a hyperspace projectile is a much more powerful weapon than a torpedo, which begs the question why they are not widely used in the GFFA? The fact that any space battle in the GFFA would have been over in minutes with such weaponary, is bothersome to me, since the technology has been available for decades, and then I’ve not even mentioned the fact, that a kamikaze attack is pretty nonsensical in a universe with such advanced AI as the GFFA.

Like I said, I don’t think the hyperspace is the most important part of this equation. Colliding a ship the size of the Raddus would do a lot of damage no matter what, accelerating to hyperspeed was just the fastest and most efficient way to get it in contact with the Supremacy.

When you consider this, there’s not a single other time in these films where this would have been an effective strategy. Not only does the Raddus look like the biggest ship the Rebellion/Resistance has ever had, there was no point where completely wasting a capitol ship that size would have made any significant difference. The Death Star is pretty much the only time(s) they were trying to take down something big like the Supremacy, but the Death Stars were so big that ramming a ship through them at lightspeed wouldn’t do close to the damage shown done to the Supremacy, and I’d imagine the station would probably be back up and running in a week.

You don’t need a ship like the Raddus. An object the size of a football would have the same impact as detonating a nuclear bomb. An unmanned ship or torpedo the size of an X-wing would to tremendous damage equivalent to dropping a thousand nukes. I think the Death Star would be out of commission permanently, especially if such an attack would be directed at the disk.

Weird that apparently like RJ, you’re trying to have your cake and eat it too. So do you care about real life physics in Star Wars, or not? If you actually only care about consistent in-universe logic as you claim, then this is not an issue. Never before have we seen an object collide via hyperspeed in Star Wars.

In my opinion, it is not reasonable to expect Star Wars to follow the actual laws of physics in every regard, so therefore it is not reasonable to expect Star Wars to follow the laws of physics in regard to lightspeed collision (why this and not the other things it gets wrong?).

Considering TLJ is the first instance of a lightspeed collision, this is where Star Wars is establishing its physics for a lightspeed collision. And in its version, a lightspeed collision clearly does not have the power of “a thousand nukes” or maybe even one nuke.

It clearly has the power of conventional GFFA weapons many times over. The Raddus cut through the Supremacy like butter, which is a ship the size of width of 20 km or 1/6 the size of the Death Star. So, the film itself depicts the energy released as equivalent to the power of many conventional weapons, which in themselves seem quite a bit more powerful than the weapons on planet earth. Hence, the only logical conclusion is, that a hyperspace collision in the GFFA as depicted by TLJ has the power of many nukes.

We see it slice through the wing of the Supremacy, but the majority of the ship is left more or less in tact (though probably out of commission). Considering, as you say, the Supremacy is 1/6 the size of the Death Star, it is not unreasonable to suppose that it might not cause a significant enough damage to be viable method of attack on that station.

As for having the greatest power of any GFFA weapon, sure, but again this is a massive ship we’re talking about, the biggest that’s ever been shown in the Rebel fleet. It is not unreasonable to assume that an X-wing kamikaze-ing at lightspeed into the Supremacy wouldn’t have done nearly the same damage.

If we’re going to do the Physics of Light speed collisions based on what we see on screen, it seems like these collisions are high damage, but super precise. Shooting an X-wing sized craft would likely be even more precise, but we can’t say anything about its force. Likely though I assume it’s like comparing a handgun to a rifle. It all depends on how thick our target is, and where we hit.

How deep we can get into the death star? I actually think we can get to the reactor core to start the chain reaction, but the issue then becomes aiming for it. Likely the navi-computer isn’t designed to hit the reactor, but to get near your destination without hitting a star. Anything smaller than a planet is too unlikely to be targettable. Is the targetting computer precise enough? Maybe, but I don’t feel like it is.

Another wrinkle in this discussion though: We assume she was killed in the attack, but was she actually? I assume the novel says yes, she was, but what Ramifications are there if she wasn’t?

(I’m not for one side or the other of the debate, I just love extrapolating physics)

she would be traveling at relativistic speed, so maybe we can have a ‘the search for Holdo’ episode where we find and save her before she had time to die?