Collipso

suspiciouscoffee said:

Hey everyone, life is shitty, so it’s time for a rant!

For nearly ten years, my parents forced me to compete in local swim teams. I always hated it, and was always vocal about it, but they didn’t care. Not too long ago, they finally let me quit. All it took was the threat of suicide, which I was seriously considering at the time for several reasons. Today, I was guilted back into swimming by my sobbing mother who just wanted to see her little boy finish his senior swim season.

In other news, I’ve suddenly fallen pretty hard for a guy. He’s probably straight, but even if he isn’t, any relationship I pursue with him would result in my execution and subsequent trip to hell. I continue to daydream nonetheless, and hope God has mercy on my soul whenever I do die.

I also need to apply for college scholarships, because I still haven’t done that.

I can relate to the college stuff, but I’m clueless as to how you’re feeling going through the rest. I believe we’ve argued and disagreed in the TLJ thread, but know that even though we’ve never talked before, you have a friend in me, if you need. I’m sending you all my best wishes, and I sincerely hope things get better for you coffee. Really.

Bingowings said:

Hi fellas. Progress update. Last Wednesday I came back from the South of Englandshire. I hadn’t slept much for days worried how things would turn out. It’s quite a long journey back on the train 7ish hours so very tired. My now ex partner pressed me for details so I told him about the mental health problems and that I had to leave him if I were to get better. He was sober to start with was very apologetic. Got progressively drunk and tearful and asked me to stay and talked about leaving me his money in his will and feeling suicidal. I managed to steer him to his bedroom to sleep it off. The next day was my first day at work. When I got home my now ex was spending the night in Edinburgh with someone else. So I tried to cheer myself up by using social media.The silence got to me and the magnitude of what I had just done had got to me and I noticed something. The people I know on Twitter with a mental health background or training all had me on mute. Including people I considered friends. Real friends responded and a few random strangers but not these particular people who know what’s been going on. I felt very let down and humiliated. And I found myself looking at a packet of sedatives and thinking I could take half of one and sleep or take all of them and sleep. Thankfully those that did answer helped me decide the right course. But despite sedation I only got a couple of hours sleep. Next morning I had to go to work. I felt like a zombie. I had to take long bus journey and on the way I had a complete meltdown. Uncontrollable tears on a mostly full bus and nobody asked if I was okay. Just ignored. When the ex got home he decided that it would be for the best if he got an extension built to the house so I could have space. I reminded him that I was leaving. The next day I checked a couple of flats in Glasgow. I picked one and paid the holding fee. Letting a flat is much more complicated than it was so I need to get credit checks and references together. So I had to go through the weekend in the same house as my ex and the drinking resumed as did the shouting and the muttering of obscenities as he passed my bedroom door. As before help came not from the people I expected to help but from others. Fast forward to today. I called one of our volunteers at work to try and get some forms filled. She has bipolar disorder and I discovered she has been detained in hospital over Christmas and New year. So my first thought is to visit her. Then I think a card from everyone at the office would be a nice touch and might lift her spirits. So I get one and circulate it. And there is this one chap and he is umming and arring about signing the card because he doesn’t know her well. Bear in mind this is for a lady who gave the office a huge box of chocolates for Christmas with no stipulation as to who should or shouldn’t eat them. She’s got a known mental health problem and she’s in a mental health ward and the guy is our mental first aider and one of the people muting me knowing my problems. So I just felt really let down there. I got him to sign the thing under duress and went to visit her. She loved the card regardless she looked withdrawn and distant when I arrived and really perked up by the time I left. When I got home my ex was very helpful and supportive so that was better. TLDR I am single, I have a flat sorted. And I’m a bit wiser about who my friends are.

Hello bingo. I’m unaware of who you are or what you’re really going through (besides of what you said in the post) because I’m new here. However I can see you’re a really nice person, and that alone would make me wish all and only the best for you. Given that you’re also going through hard times, those feelings that you should only get the best intensify. I’m not religious, but I’ll pray for you. I truly hope things get better for you, and they will. Really.
Hope you, and everything, get better to you.

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Ok, so then what is the problem with Rose? I am confused what remaining complaints there might be.

Here’s a helpful post from the other forum.

You’re the only one. Rose is the worst Star Wars character ever. Yes…even worse than Jar Jar. At least he has good theories about him being a Sith Lord. Rose served zero purpose the entire movienother than trying to save her crush’s life while sacrificing the entire universe to the FO.

Where’s that post from? I remember reading it somewhere…

Let’s not go down the path of saying those who don’t like Rose are stupid, Dom…

Well, I thought Han only decided to go there because he knew Lando. I’d say that makes it pretty crucial. One could argue that Rose’s sole contribution to TLJ’s plot was stopping Finn from leaving, but I think she was extremely important for Finn’s character development.

dahmage said:

Rose is a better character than Lando was. Barely. But still.

That’s an interesting point of view. I hadn’t seen or read anything comparing those two. Could you expand on that?

dahmage said:

Collipso said:

Handman said:

IsanRido said:

I don’t know if this has been brought up in previous pages. Doesn’t anyone else find it bothersome that Rose doesn’t utter a word of complaint to Poe for getting her sister killed?

Huh. Good point. I guess what’s done is done and she’s more concerned with keeping everybody else alive.

If so, why would she stop Finn from saving everyone?

You know, she saved him from killing himself in a move that wouldn’t have saved anyone if he went through with it… It was too late to destroy the cannon. But Finn was stuck in hero mode and was about to die trying anyway.

None of us know if it was too late; what we know is that Finn was about to sacrifice himself believing he would save everyone (you can’t know if he’d succeed or not, and you’ll never know because…) and she was willing to doom everyone in order to save Finn. I guess she’s Yang to her sister’s Yin.

Well, I didn’t really mind Rose until she stopped Finn from killing himself, then I started thinking she’s annoying. Lucky me she had no more lines after that. But oh god, how someone even comparea her to that thing from TPM is beyond me.

Double Post

Handman said:

IsanRido said:

I don’t know if this has been brought up in previous pages. Doesn’t anyone else find it bothersome that Rose doesn’t utter a word of complaint to Poe for getting her sister killed?

Huh. Good point. I guess what’s done is done and she’s more concerned with keeping everybody else alive.

If so, why would she stop Finn from saving everyone?

a_o said:

Mocata said:

Okay here’s something I am not sure has been asked before, but in TLJ does young Ben Solo use Anakin’s saber to block Luke? Is this ever mentioned elsewhere?

nah. for a moment i thought it’d make sense for it to be the same saber because of Rey’s experience touching Anakin’s lightsaber in Maz’s castle in TFA but taking a second look…

https://imgur.com/a/mc3Ul

looks like kylo’s saber but not black/red with the guards.

I’m pretty sure he uses Anakin’s saber. That’s why he says “it belongs to me” in TFA.

I think that most people who thought Rey’s character was unbelievable in TFA wouldn’t be satisfied if the explanation for her unrealistic powers was “she’s a Skywalker” or “she’s a Kenobi”. I love the idea Rey Nobody from Nowhere, but she’s way too overpowered for me to care.

And to be fair I don’t remember anyone in this thread complaining about Rey being a nobody.

Jeebus said:

Snoke&mirrors said:

that he considered murdering and thus set off a chain of events that created a evil that is responsible for the killing hundreds of innocent lives.

That isn’t what happened.

Yes it is. Luke considered murdering Kylo which caused Kylo to go full dark side. Doesn’t matter if Snoke had already corrupted him, Luke showed us in RotJ that no one’s ever truly lost, so if he acted different he would’ve possibly saved Ben. However, he considered murdering him, which caused him to go full dark side, and that indirectly killed countless innocent lives.

With The Beatles grew on me recently, but I think the covers more so than the originals. Till There Was You, Roll Over Beethoven, You Really Got A Hold On Me… but the album I’ve listened to the most recently, out of their earlier work. is definitely Please Please Me.
In other topic, I love everything they came out with in 1967. Probably my favorite year. The singles, Magical Mystery Tour, and of course Lonely Hearts…
And yet my most listened album of all time should be “Help!” though - summer of 2009 I literally only listened to that. I also have a soft spot for Let It Be, even though nowadays my favorite version of that is Let It Be… Naked.
So hard to talk about the Beatles, only album (out of the ones considered “official” nowadays) that I haven’t listened to in a while is Beatles For Sale. I don’t know, it’s just never been a favorite of mine.

Yeah but no one said that.

I think that if Solo was to be released in December it’d have the potential to be bigger than Rogue One. But because it’s in May I think it probably won’t.

But I must address something: I don’t think just ignoring things that I dislike is good or healthy at all. I don’t think I should just ignore whatever I don’t like in the Star Wars franchise because it’s too big of a franchise to please everyone. I see just ignoring what’s happening as some sort of denial. If I did that, I’d look at me the same way I look at someone who’s in an abusive relationship and whenever someone tells them that they’re in an abusive relationship they just don’t want to talk about it and don’t want to believe in it.

I don’t see that as healthy or good and it’s not something I’m willing to do. I’m sorry if I passionately criticize and because I’m passionate about it I won’t give up my negative points of view and what I think of it and how I wish it was better because it’s something I love and it’s important to me to the point where I’m in a website talking about it. And if that’s bothering other people from the forum, more specifically people reading through this thread full of negative thoughts, I’m really sorry.

Darth Apostrophe said:

Collipso said:

just ignore this.

My post or Frink’s?

My own post.

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

+1 one69chev

So…two69chev? 1169chev?

Maybe one70chev.

TV’s Frink said:

Collipso said:

Ok so apparently I was considerably toxic in my last 2 or so posts, accusing other people of something that I’m also guilty. I’m sorry.

The thing is I’m not sure if defending your opinion on the movie passionately is something to be considered wrong. I thought that was the whole purpose of the thread. Oh well.

We said “don’t do that” at some point?

I guess not. I overreacted with fear of censorship. Sorry.

Ok so apparently I was considerably toxic in my last 2 or so posts, accusing other people of something that I’m also guilty. I’m sorry.

The thing is I’m not sure if defending your opinion on the movie passionately is something to be considered wrong. I thought that was the whole purpose of the thread. Oh well.

Yeah, but for example, RossDaBoss didn’t come back to argue about how he didn’t like the movie and how it was a 2/5 instead of a 5/5. He just shared his opinion and basically left the thread. Much like g-force, xhonzi, etc.

Yeah, that somewhat bothered me. Why would you cut away from his reaction? I can only speak for myself, but I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing how Luke would react to finding out Ben killed Han.

I’d suggest you could try to implement something like Octorox’s edit’s version of the first time we see the pod race/first time Anakin turns it on, instead of removing it entirely and using the “Dawn Before The Race” scene. I just think the effects and the quality of the “Dawn Before The Race” one are so different from the rest of the movie that it usually takes me out of the movie completely.

Yeah, I’d argue that the people who started this 150+ page discussion were those who loved the movie. Or at least they were louder during the first 3-5 days of the movie’s release, making those who didn’t like want to “fight back” and explain their dislikes and be vocal too. It could’ve been the opposite though, I don’t really remember.