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Interesting, we have a transsexual forum member.
Would you like it if I said “Interesting, we have a Warbler?”
I think having a Warbler is interesting.
Well sure but we don’t have to act like he’s a cage so we can study him.
Unless he wants that.
Do you want that Warb?
Sorry.
Warbler, would you like it if I said, “Interesting, we have a Warbgender?”
Interesting, we have a transsexual forum member.
Would you like it if I said “Interesting, we have a Warbler?”
I jammy floor
If you insist on a “correct” answer go start your own thread. No, start three of them.
flag bucket tom
“More recent” applied to the early 2000s may be accurate but it’s certainly misleading.
I thought he voiced Baby Groot or something.
First the first, then the second?
Not really how this thread works but ok.
Judd Nelson is still performing in things?
Opponent Accuses Virginia GOP Candidate of Being a ‘Bigfoot Erotica’ Devotee
I’d just like to point out that the name of the accuser is Cockburn.
A congressional race in Virginia’s Fifth District has taken a bizarre twist as Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn accused her Republican opponent, Denver Riggleman, of being a devotee of “Bigfoot erotica” over the weekend.
Not to mention the name of the accused is Denver Riggleman. That race has all the names.
‘There’s more to me than being a denier of the Holocaust,’ says GOP nominee for Congress
I assumed this shitbag was running for the nomination, but nope, he won.
I’d shake my head at that if I knew what it meant.
They can take our vowels, but they will never take our freedom!
I disrespectfully abstain.
I don’t trust Mrebo’s summaries of articles.
NeverarGreat is bringing up some great points. I think the very fact that so many people (at least that I have talked to) thought that Rose crashing into Finn made no sense proves this. Because they felt (as well as I) that the movie set them up for Finn making a successful sacrifice.
That’s just how they interpreted the scene, as well as how I did. Doesn’t make it more right than an alternate interpretation, but that is kind of how movies work. They are meant to provoke different opinions from people and readings of the same material.
The Last Jedi in my opinion, for that scene, presented it in a manner that set us up to be angry and puzzled with Rose’s decision. Just my reading of the scene.
I think most disagreements over TLJ originate from people presenting their interpretations of certain scenes as the only valid—and therefore obvious—interpretations, with any interpretations running counter to theirs being completely wrongheaded.
I’m not trying to say every scene has only one proper interpretation, but rather that your preconceptions of how the story should go color how you interpret a scene. Knowing this is Star Wars and the heroes don’t die, Finn’s life is never at risk and there is not chance of him destroying the weapon because he has to live for the next film. That is a Star Wars Trope. So watching that scene and expecting to see Finn die is not a reasonable expectation of the scene. The purpose of that scene was to show that during the course of this film, Finn went from trying to save Rey to trying to save the Resistance. He has gone from a runaway Stormtrooper to a full on Rebel. That was his character arc. Rose helped him on the arc and then rescued him when the arc was complete. The details in the movie back this up. A speeder needs speed to do damage. One of the things to notice is that his speeder is moving slower in the growing force of the beam. Finn is on a pointless suicide mission because he wants to save the day. When you look at all the things in the movie that indicate it is pointless, Rose saving him becomes very natural. It isn’t the only interpretation, but it is the one that fits what we see, his story arc, and what is normal for Star Wars.
Others have already explained why the opposite interpretation is also valid, so I won’t rehash that. If it were as clear as you suggest, viewers would be more uniform in their interpretation.
As far as Star Wars tropes and “what is normal for Star Wars”, the director doesn’t get to subvert expectations in one scene and then fall back on tropes in the next. In New Star Wars, vessels can hyperjump into other vessels to destroy them and characters can develop Force sensitivity into Yoda powers within weeks. Why should I expect anything I’ve seen before to hold up in this new universe?
These two complaints are ridiculous. First, a vessel hyperjumping into another vessel (or planet) was established in ANH. “That will end your trip real quick”.
Using a lightspeed jump as a weapon forces all kinds of questions about why it wasn’t done sooner and how such a weapon could have transformed previous battles we’ve seen play out using conventional Star Wars weaponry. Apparently now anybody can find a junker with a functional jump drive, put a droid in the cockpit, and destroy entire fleets. There are good reasons for writers to avoid doing stuff like this, like consistency within the universe. This is one of those tropes we could rely upon previously, but not anymore.
Second, Rey’s force powers were developed in TFA. Every single one she picked up after “seeing” Kylo Ren do it. She really didn’t pick up anything new in TLJ. So neither complaint is accurate for TLJ.
Rey’s Force powers were never “developed”. They just emerged. And unless I’m mistaken, she wasn’t lifting multiple massive boulders in TFA. Rey is a Jedi Master in all but title—mind tricks, saber fighting, telekinesis, etc. I was under the impression developing these powers required guidance and meditation, but apparently it’s as simple as seeing someone else do it, mimicking them, and achieving instant success.
Anakin required training. Luke required training. Kylo required training. Rey lifted boulders because anything you can do, she can do better.
It is laughable to think Rey a Jedi master in all but title. She does almost none of those things with the finesse that you would expect of a master, and it is hard to picture her mentoring another at this point.
She is a natural with the force, not a master.
Eh, give her another couple weeks. She’ll get there. Probably just needs to watch a few YouTube videos.
Come on Jay, this is Frink-level counter-arguing right there.
Can ideas be immoral?
ONLY ONCE THEY’RE PUT INTO PRACTICE
First they came for the punctuation, and I did not speak out—
Because I was lazy.Then they came for the capital letters, and I did not speak out—
Because I was lazy.Then they came for the consonants, and I am speaking out—
Because if I don’t, they will come for me next.Rprtd fr bng dmb
Said the guy who spells it “dahmage.”
Y hv flntd the rls fr th lst tm Frnk!
I will flnt the rls whenever I choose. This country was founded on consonants.
First they came for the punctuation, and I did not speak out—
Because I was lazy.Then they came for the capital letters, and I did not speak out—
Because I was lazy.Then they came for the consonants, and I am speaking out—
Because if I don’t, they will come for me next.Rprtd fr bng dmb
Said the guy who spells it “dahmage.”
But I generally dislike tit
I’m ashamed of this one.
I’m pretty sure sex
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I don’t think it’s shocking for me to say that I am a total dumbass when it comes to this kind of thing, but since I have the opportunity, I’ll ask. Why is requiring surgery to declare yourself a male or female a bad thing? From my perspective, it seems like the logical thing to do, if a man is defined as being, you know, biologically a man, and a woman the same. I don’t mean to be provocative, I’m just genuinely curious.
Curiosity killed the cow in the clouds and it rained hamburgers and people said they were delicious so they petitioned for more cows to be sent up notwithstanding protesters.
Is this your elevator pitch for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3?
Yes, is it a winner?
Let’s call it direct-to-streaming quality.