logo Sign In

Bingowings

User Group
Members
Join date
18-Jul-2008
Last activity
21-Jul-2025
Posts
22,820

Post History

Post
#950985
Topic
Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Time

Darth Lucas said:

ray_afraid said:

Bingowings said:

  1. Leia remembers Padme…but how? One easy fix could be that when she refers to “images” she produces a locket with a picture of her mother and gives it Luke, something regal that Bail Organa may have given her when she was a little girl.

I really like this.
I’m usually against putting ANYTHING from the PT into the OT, but this really works without you having to have even seen the PT. You’ll know who the lady is via the current conversation.
I think Mark and Carrie look down enough times in the scene to make the locket inserts work.

Just spitballing here but maybe instead of a locket it could be the necklace thing anakin gave padme?

In the long form of this quote I also suggest this.

Post
#950819
Topic
Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Time

Going back to the two Death Stars idea for ROTJ if the incomplete clone of the original Death Star was the lure the completed Death Star could resemble Starkiller Base the weapon could be badly damaged and it could jump to hyperspace just as the second Death Star exploded.
That way it could be repaired by the First Order or the Base seen in the next film could be based on it. It would take a long time because the First Order wouldn’t have the same resources as the Empire.
Maybe using the star as a power source is a work around for the reactor being impossible to fix.

Post
#950501
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
Time

Your anxiety doesn’t seem to be from your quest so much as your self conscious awareness of it. The amount of times you complain about looking up things trumps the number of times you express a worry about what you find. Don’t berate yourself for finding or reading these things. But try to make a concerted to explore other things too. Maybe you could start a thread listing links to things you discovered today that aren’t directly linked to theology. That is a subject that already interests you tell us about other things in a new thread.

Post
#950327
Topic
Last movie seen
Time

suspiciouscoffee said:

TV’s Frink said:

Gravity (2013)

Almost as good on Blu as it was in the theaters. Simple yet so effective.

9/10

I really should give it another chance. Saw it once with some friends and, although it all looked great, I didn’t care much for any of the characters or the story. It’s been a couple years and my tastes have changed, so maybe it deserves another watch.

I’m waiting for the sequel, Weak Nuclear Force.

Post
#950323
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
Time

Not to deny any God you see but there are other nice things to see in sunsets or babies. If I were responsible for something as fabulous as the universe I’d rather you noticed it, not me. Sunsets are their own reward.
Does Van Gogh’s signature define his paintings. Is his biography essential or just an informative extra? The beauty is in the work surely? If you found out all those sunflowers were Gauguin instead the pictures wouldn’t change.

Post
#950249
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

I was just about to leave for a very important assignation. I had to dress up a bit because the person I was meeting doesn’t respond well to my usually relaxed wardrobe decisions. My elbow catches the shaving device of him indoors and it falls to the ground and into dozens of tiny pieces. So I try to fit them back together but it’s like the current Doctor Whom titles and I’m flustered. On the way to my meeting I text him apologetically and offer to buy him a new one but get no reply. I find a nice new one with two thirds of the price knocked off which loads £5 onto his store loyalty card. The meeting goes on forever and I miss the bus home so I have to get the train which is cancelled and a taxi. I get in and he’s shimmying around the floor to Private Dancer. Pished as a poodle. I needn’t have bothered about the shaver as he only used the beard trimmer to get rid of those weird middle age hairs that grow anywhere that hair shouldn’t… a good day. 😃

Post
#950091
Topic
Darth Vader's suit
Time

I thought the original suit looked very plausible, like something someone could have changed but hadn’t for years. The second suit was the most stylish version. It looks great in silhouette because of the added illumination. The third one looked off. It seemed to fit less well than the original one and the mask was too uniformly black gloss. There seemed to be a more metallic look to the first two helmets but the third one looked more like plastic covered in thick gloss paint. The worst one was the ROTS mask. Too symmetrical too uniformly surfaced. I would have used an earlier Macquarrie design to underline how the suit will evolve over time yet to pass. I like the melted on in TFA The jagged teeth are a particularly pleasing feature.

Post
#950087
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
Time

I’m going to park the advice car for a minute and just remark on how articulate and courageous Mike O has been typing about what must be a very emotionally frustrating and confusing situation. There are plenty of people who have feelings like this and experience difficult to explain obsessions and don’t talk to anyone about it. Many of which sadly find no other escape than suicide. That you have been so frank and open to advice may help someone else wandering onto your words. Thanks for doing that and to all those in distress on the ocean of the web may you all avoid the rocks and find a safe harbour.

Post
#950086
Topic
Religion
Time

Warbler said:

theist😒omeone who believes in God

agnostic: someone who neither believes in God or the existence of God

Atheist: someone who believes God doesn’t exist

That is how I understand the three to be.

There is also ignostic meaning someone who refuses to enter the debate without a clear definition of what they are asked to believe, not believe or be unsure about.

Post
#949843
Topic
Religion
Time

When people enter these sorts of discussions there is usually an assumption that by God we all mean the same thing. There might be something like a God but that’s not the same as saying the hilarious monster in the Old Testament might have done all the things attributed to it or that it deserves worship.