DominicCobb

Hate soda.

Regardless, I don’t see anyone fighting for the right to own and operate a car as one of our inalienable rights as humans.

ChainsawAsh said:

I enjoyed Sausage Party for what it was especially the giant orgy at the end.

FTFM

Ah, Father Skywalker. Remember him well.

Well there are more Legends books than canon ones.

I think I might have actually liked Life Debt less than the first, overall, though it’s better in some ways. Just started Empire’s End.

Heir to the Jedi was maybe the most forgettable Star Wars book I’ve yet read.

Catalyst is really good, but perhaps a little too long in places.

If 2049 isn’t deliberately paced I’m going to be disappointed.

moviefreakedmind said:

I normally hate this argument, but in this case it works. Cars are extremely deadly, yet people deemed fit (low standards here) to operate them have a right to them.

Few things… First, cars are not weapons. Second, cars are heavily regulated. Third, I’d gladly not have a car if I didn’t need one.

The idea that owning a deadly weapon is part of one’s “rights as a human being” is an idea that is so strange to me - there’s such a big, fundamental difference of belief here. We can debate this all day but I don’t think we can ever really get past that rift.

TV’s Frink said:

The Daily (NY Times podcast) talked bump stocks today, and they asked a gun store owner why they are sold. “Because they’re fun to use,” he said.

That’s not a good enough reason.

Going over the speed limit is fun too.

I just don’t think the need to defend against the government is a realistic hypothetical (for a lot of reasons). To be honest, it seems (to me anyway) like a fantasy that gun enthusiasts like to float out to justify their enthusiasm.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with gun enthusiasm. I just don’t think the right to bear arms is all that important a right.

dahmage said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

yhwx said:

Slavery is in the DNA of the country. We got rid of that eventually.

Slavery is intrinsically wrong. You are infringing on another person’s rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Owning a gun is not intrinsically wrong. Owning a knife or sword or machine gun or rocket launcher or nuclear bomb is not intrinsically wrong, for that matter. You can commit an action with them that is intrinsically wrong (or intrinsically right!), but ownership in and of itself does not register on that scale.

Guns are people too, Tyr.

Jesus I hope they never rebel then because we’re fucked. How do you fight an army of guns with no guns?

I think this might be a potential movie idea, Frink. PM sent.

Thanks for the PM. To answer the question you asked in that PM, I think the best way to end our movie is to have humans turn to robots in order to defeat the guns. But then the robots turn on the humans, and the humans turn to…SEQUEL!!!

I love it. Thanks for the PM detailing the sequel where the robots overpower both and the humans and guns have to form an uneasy alliance in order to take down the real threat, which leads to the next sequel.

Thanks for adding me to the PM. i don’t have anything to add, i just love being included.

Waiting to be added… I don’t like to be left out of private convos.

The hope would be to get to a place down the line where people don’t really care about whether they have the right or not.

I know that brings about thoughts like “the government is going to trick you into getting rid of your guns then they’re going to fuck you over!” But I don’t think protecting yourself from the government is really feasible at this point, arsenal or not.

Isn’t it like the last one where you could play as any hero anywhere? I’d prefer that to locale-specific heroes.

I’m also hoping that the different era soldier types aren’t locked to specific locations.

It’s a cultural problem, and there isn’t one big solution, there’s a bunch of little ones. I say we need to try them all.

Wow, all this time I thought this was a George Lucas movie, I guess it was actually a Disney movie all along.

Thanks for the facts!

Jani-wan said:

DominicCobb said:

Jani-wan said:

darth_ender said:

Can we elect Jani-wan as the new emperor of the site? He’s always right…someone wise, who makes us all agree! I know he’d be welcomed with thunderous applause!

Im the bad guy, huh?
“Always right”, huh?
Feel free to prove me wrong on anything I said. No one stops you. On the contrary. I would even welcome that, since these arguments are what make projects benefit the most. These are the ones that clear things up, so when it comes to decisions, all the best information is available.
I don’t care if Im right or wrong. I only care about the product. Unlike you.

People who resort to irrelevant personal attacks without actually debating the content of an argument, are either unable to argue, because they are wrong, or not smart enough to argue, and unable to accept what they are.
Seems like you decided you are one of those people, instead of trying to help the project. Too bad.

Or maybe some of us don’t want to muck up ady’s thread with an off topic debate that we’ve already had a million times before?

I see. You don’t wanna do what you just did. I guess it is logical to you.
Instead of debating the content of any project related argument.
Could you just get back to the project, and add something to that, instead of this.

Reported.

While sex scenes rarely “take me out of a film,” they sure as shit would if they were in a Star Wars movie.

I’ve seen Blade Runner a number of times over the past decade (since I first saw it), but it’s always been the Final Cut. I’d heard the theatrical cut sucked, so I stayed away. I knew it had its fans though, and I always wanted to check it out. Last night I finally did, and it’s still a great film, really the only thing that sucks about it is the voiceover which feels very out of place. And I wanted to like the voiceover, I think it’s a nice idea for this film. But it just didn’t work.

Oddly enough though I just discovered this morning that most of the film’s deleted scenes are unused bits of voiceover that are both written and performed much better than what was used in the TC. Why didn’t anyone tell me? Now I’m going to have to see if there’s a fan edit that incorporates them (or if I need to make one myself).

Jani-wan said:

darth_ender said:

Can we elect Jani-wan as the new emperor of the site? He’s always right…someone wise, who makes us all agree! I know he’d be welcomed with thunderous applause!

Im the bad guy, huh?
“Always right”, huh?
Feel free to prove me wrong on anything I said. No one stops you. On the contrary. I would even welcome that, since these arguments are what make projects benefit the most. These are the ones that clear things up, so when it comes to decisions, all the best information is available.
I don’t care if Im right or wrong. I only care about the product. Unlike you.

People who resort to irrelevant personal attacks without actually debating the content of an argument, are either unable to argue, because they are wrong, or not smart enough to argue, and unable to accept what they are.
Seems like you decided you are one of those people, instead of trying to help the project. Too bad.

Or maybe some of us don’t want to muck up ady’s thread with an off topic debate that we’ve already had a million times before?

Reporting in.

flametitan said:

It probably is, but I’m not a big movie buff to begin with, so my pool of movies to pull from is small.

That doesn’t mean much. I’ve seen all the classics but Star Wars is still it for me. Like what you like.

“Master Switch” is probably the one that I come back to the most.

YodaFan67 said:

(Post transplant)
I just read “Rebel Rising” about Jyn Erso. Not horrible, it kind of helped make some of the characterizations in R1 make sense.
The first half was much better than the second half. It wasn’t much of a YA book except for the fact that Jyn is a young adult.
Also–was Jyn supposed to be 18 in rogue one? She looked older than that.

Based on Catalyst, I think I remember she’s supposed to be around 22 (which is still a little young I think).

doubleofive said:

I got the Certain Point of View audiobook, I’m enjoying it so far.

I’ve been looking forward to reading that. Might do the audiobook if you recommend.