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RicOlie_2

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#741172
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Hobbit - The Battle of Five Armies
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I am rarely emotionally invested in characters (this is not true for books, for some reason), so when a film lacks that I almost never notice it. Bad CGI I can deal with, since I find it no more distracting (in fact, probably less so) than bad practical effects. Thus, I'll probably enjoy the third one as much as I enjoyed the other two.

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#741170
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Who'd like to try a chess variant? Now playing Xiang Qi, a.k.a. Chinese chess
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Why don't we play a game of Chess with Different Armies with the same armies as each other? :D That will allow us to (re)adjust to the unfamiliar pieces so that the following game, which we can play with different armies, will be a fair competition rather than a determination of a person's ability to familiarize themselves with the pieces. That is assuming that one of us plays a familiar army the second game.

You pick the army, or if you'd rather, the armies. I don't believe we've played the Meticulous Mashers yet, though I can't remember for sure.

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#741108
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Last web series/tv show seen
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I just finished watching the 2003 Clone Wars series. Everything except the story sucked, and the story wasn't particularly noteworthy, so it gets a big "meh" overall. Maybe it's just the visual medium I dislike. But then again, there are plenty of animated shows that are consistent from shot to shot (the Clone Wars goes from showing a huge army to showing nothing in the same spot from shot to shot), that have good voice acting, etc. Also, it always bugs me when Jedi can fly (since when can Jedi fly!?) and destroy hundreds of droids with ease in one shot, and in the next they're fighting for their life with a single droid, which they effortlessly destroy when they decide to use force powers instead of their lightsabre. Now, I think the story is better than that of the prequels, but I'm not sure why people prefer this one to the more recent series.

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#741099
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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It's been very enjoyable. I was never really into chess, but I find shogi far more interesting and enjoyable, so I'm glad you introduced me to it.

Do you want to play a chess variant in the other thread? A three-player game can be a little slow sometimes...(wink, wink, nudge, nudge to a certain relative of mine). I'll remind my dad to move in case he's forgotten.

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#740400
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The thread for the serious discussion that started in the "Am I a Bully?" thread.
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DrCrowTStarwars said:

Now requiring parents to stay home with their kids or have them watched by another adult and sending both the kid and the adult who was supposed to be watching them to prison if the kid acts out, that would work. Do you really think parents would let their kids bully other kids if they could be sent to prison for five years if their kid did it?  I don't.

 Do you really think parents have that much control over their kids, especially into high school? Some kids are bullies despite being brought up by good parents, who drilled into them that they should show kindness to other people and shouldn't harm anyone for any reason. And if you mean by the first part of that paragraph that bullies should be under supervision 24/7, then that's just insane.