DuracellEnergizer

Only direct action will accomplish anything.

ray_afraid said:

Woah… I’ve been here for a decade now.

Not quite. You’ve less than three months to go. 😛

I’m thinking about officially retiring from ot.com on 30 May. That’ll make my time here exactly ten years to the day I joined. Not the worst way to bow out.

FLANNERY O’CONNOR

CourtlyHades296 said:

Added the Magnetic Video VHS releases of Day the Earth Stood Still, Desert Fox and The Longest Day to my collection. Day the Earth Stood Still is a copy from 1977, one of the first 50 VHS tapes released.

Cool.

ChainsawAsh said:

Digital copies are always a license to access the content. That’s it. You don’t own a digital copy. Ever.

The studios can replace the digital copy with an updated version, a censored version, or even revoke the license altogether at any time, without refunding you a dime, and they’re well within their legal rights to do all of those things.

Is it right? Nope. But that’s how it is.

Until dual power structures are erected, anyway.

Is it alright to talk about influences which’ve shaped our writing?

ADDED

Back when I was in high school, I was unofficially diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive subtype). I suspected there was validity to that conclusion, and time has only made me more certain it’s the case. I don’t read as many books I used to before getting Internet access in 2007, and paradoxically, I can’t read any documents over a couple pages long on a computer screen.

tl;dr: I want to read more, and I want the money/means to buy all the books I’d like to read but can’t.

HAH!

StarkillerAG said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

“Sheev” doesn’t sound any better or worse to me than any other made up Star Wars name, to be totally honest.

Something about it really bugs me. Not just how silly it is, but the fact that it’s not in any of the films and was added so much later. Just feels fundamentally wrong to me.

I mean, Palpatine has to have some sort of first name, right? Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t like it if they kept calling him “Palpatine,” without even identifying his full name. It’s just a silly made-up name, it isn’t something important like Yoda’s origins.

“Palpatine” could’ve been his first name. After all, in the real world, we don’t tend to address monarchs by their surnames.

Long live the new flesh.

Morgan the Boost said:

So, the same three movies. Same plots.

It’d be cool to see the Neimoidians replaced with Mandalorians.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Lucas: Nerd.

^Another minor reason why capitalism needs to die.

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you…"

Used to be alright with it, have since come to hate it. The episode numbers are needlessly restrictive, and have since been made pointless with the Anthology films.

Link to thread with TROS spoilers.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Here’s proof of con

Anakin Starkiller said:

It’s honestly kinda hilarious how, had this film been made, every film in the trilogy would’ve given Rey a different love interest.

If Disney had so much as a single testicle, they would’ve made Rey polyamorous and given her all the boy toys.

ray_afraid said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Fated-Dualist said:

What did you think you were before?

Cisman with a feminine side.

But everybody has a feminine side.
Masculine & Feminine aren’t gender or sexuality tags, but the two sides of everyone.
I don’t say that to be combative, I just think it’s a healthy thing for us all to remember.
We’re all a masculine & feminine. The amount of which that covers most of yer personal pie-chart has nothin’ to do with your sexual preferences or identity.

Don’t tell that to the toxic masculinists & radical feminists.

Oh, wait. Actually do.

darklordoftech said:

Tobar said:

Highly doubtful you’ll ever see lightsiders wielding red sabers in the new canon given the new canon’s explanation for how they’re created.

Just because “bleeding” them turns them red doesn’t mean they can’t also “naturally” be red.

True, but it still won’t happen.

Whenever I come across “Sheev”, I automatically think “shiv”, which instinctively brings to mind an image of Palps in prison, stabbing another inmate with a mini-lightsaber he made from a toothbrush.

"These men are consummate snowball artists. They use sensitive nerve gasses to induce hallucinations. People think they’re seeing ghosts, and they call these bozos, who conveniently show up to deal with the problem with a fake electronic light show."

"Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here."

"They caused an explosion!"

"Is this true?"

"Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick."

Depression and stress have killed my ability to write.