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#1047349
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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harryhenry said:

Also, that Movie Mezzanine article mentions that “A promotional reel from the digital restoration company features cleaned-up footage from Star Wars that looks nothing like the official Blu-ray release”. Does anyone have a link to this video?

UPDATE: Found it! https://vimeo.com/95919913

Then you’ll have fun reading this thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K-restoration-on-Star-Wars/id/16857

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#1047275
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Tyrphanax said:

Obviously states aren’t a hive mind, but there are plenty of clear divisions between states and regions of the US; it’s why the interior of the country usually swings red while the coasts swing blue. You don’t really solve Texas being a red state or California being a blue state if you remove the electoral college.

I said pretty much the same thing, here was Dom’s response.

DominicCobb said:

Handman said:

DominicCobb said:

We don’t live in a country anymore where different states have wildly different make ups and concerns.

Texas, California, and Florida would like a word.

That’s simultaneously not what I meant and exactly what I meant, if you know what I mean.

Tyrphanax said:
Majorities are things to be wary of in my opinion, regardless if it’s today or 1850. It’s not a hive mind, sure, but people follow packs and that can lead to bad things and in my opinion, it’s better to plan for the possibility that two thirds of the country might indeed eat the other third; after all, people didn’t expect the revolution or the civil war or Trump’s presidency. We’re always simultaneously not as homogeneous as we think and more homogeneous than we think.

Whole heartily agreed, this is something the Founding Fathers feared themselves, human nature has not changed as much as we might like since then. I said something similar earlier and Dom blew it off.

DominicCobb said:

Handman said:

I don’t think we’re one continuous country. I think living in different states has a great deal to do with that, and it’s only getting worse as people move to ideologically similar areas. So your assertion doesn’t really make sense to me.

A liberal in Texas is more likely to move to Austin than Boston.

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#1047056
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OT.com Chess Federation©®™(OTCF©®™)(was: How about a game of chess?)
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Warb is just giving a recap of every move made and adding in his next move. I’m only posting the move I’m making. I’m pretty sure you were joking but that’s the explanation if you were genuinely confused. I’m lazy because I don’t feel like copying and pasting a recap of everything since it’s redundant when Warb is doing it. Writing this post took more effort than that, so I guess I break even on the amount of effort used.