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chyron8472

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#1245610
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The "101 Ways to Kill Off-Topic For Good" Thread
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Warbler, when multiple people say they feel you have a persecution complex, for you to effectively say “citation please” is to deny the accusation as patently false. I’ve already told you that you need to purpose to stop holding grudges, to which your response was not much more than a *shrug*.

People aren’t just saying you need to lighten up like it’s a thing to gang on Warbler or whatever. You genuinely honestly need to work on not taking things people say so seriously. Coming from me, speaking for myself, I am very much not picking on you when I say that.

Warbler said:

that hurts.

The bottom line is, people don’t want to have to outline, ad nauseam, each and every instance by each and every user from whom you have ever felt picked on, nor discuss why each of those individually are or are not warranted. Calling us to do so will not get the response you seek because such a request, to be frank, is unreasonable. We have neither the time nor the inclination to pore over individual examples of what hurts your feelings, especially if it appears you are unwilling to take advice given into consideration.

You are responsible for your own life. You get to decide how you respond to those around you. Yes, they ought to be civil and polite, but when they aren’t that doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing on your part, nor does the community at large want to listen to the ensuing back and forth.

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#1245564
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The "101 Ways to Kill Off-Topic For Good" Thread
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dahmage said:

dahmage said:

we notice everything.

i got that it was done on purpose

Not so much on purpose as was a train of thought. For the record, I’m not sore. If I ever bring it up, it is entirely in jest, because like you guys say it’s better to not take things too seriously. Especially learning to not take taking-things-too-seriously too seriously.

…and now I’ve had to explain my joke, which by definition ruins it. Oh well.

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#1245551
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The "101 Ways to Kill Off-Topic For Good" Thread
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dahmage said:

chyron8472 said:

dahmage said:

42 - post in the politics thread every day

Create My Little Pony threads in each subforum. Repeatedly link posts in threads elsewhere on the forums to those threads.

i can’t help but point out that you posted this right after posting that you hope you have lost your perceived persecution complex.

I’m not feeling persecuted. It’s just a bad idea to talk about that because [reasons irrelevant to this conversation]. Also, it was a joke.

When I was feeling persecuted was when the conversation wouldn’t drop. At this point it’s in the past, and the threat of starting something again is all just a joke. I was just thinking about it because it riled up the mods, not because I’m sore.

also, this should be a numbered item if you are adding it to the list.

Done.

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#1245545
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The "101 Ways to Kill Off-Topic For Good" Thread
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ChainsawAsh said:

You see that, right? How you can see someone making a joke at someone else’s expense and you play along and find it amusing with no problem, but as soon as it involves you in even the slightest or mildest of ways, you cry harassment and bullying and tell the nearest authority figure how everyone’s out to get you and they deserve to be punished for it?

I hope, for myself, that I have shed this same perception some people have had of me.

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#1245212
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Going away? Post so here!
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ChainsawAsh said:

If you own the 2006 GOUT DVD, though, you’re for sure in the clear to get GOUT-based projects like Dark_Jedi’s anamorphic cleanups and HD upscales.

Assuming he has the GOUT, but he’d have to buy the 2006 SEs to get the 2006 GOUT that comes with it.

Can confirm though, that GOUT upscales really are pretty good experiences.

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#1245127
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Going away? Post so here!
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Warbler said:

If you say so.

Nevermind.

If you like the OOT, you should get the OOT in HD. Disney is not going to release it, so your only choice is from fan preservations or edits—which you can only get if you have the best source they use. It’s your choice to not do that, but your only other option is VHS, laserdisc, or the 2006 SE DVD bonus discs (the GOUT), which are sourced from the laserdisc transfer (hence the mention earlier).

And that’s it. You can bitch about not having the Star Wars you want; or you can get the Star Wars you want by using the means available to you, learn to be content with it, and thus stop bitching. We’re lucky the HD preservations of the OOT exist at all. Being on a high horse about not paying for SEs doesn’t help you obtain versions that are not the SEs. Versions that are available now, today.

…you could also just not like Star Wars, not watch Star Wars, and not care. Then you don’t have to bother with what people do or don’t say about why people do or don’t like it.

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#1245036
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Going away? Post so here!
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Warbler said:

chyron8472 said:

If Star Wars is ruined, then just watch the OOT and be done with it.

I can’t unless I want to watch my old vhs copies (and my copy of ESB was stone when it was accidentally left in a vcr sent out for repairs), a copy that it technically illegal, or the non-anamorphic.

If I want to say that the PT or ST or both did damage to Star Wars I should be able to say so.

It’s not the saying so that bothers me. It’s the constantly saying so. Not from you specifically but from the “fanbase”.

Also, buy the OT Blurays and then download Harmy’s Despecialized Trilogy. It’s basically the OOT in HD. Then, shatter the OT blurays with a hammer. IMO, problem solved.

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#1244965
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Going away? Post so here!
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I take huge issue with the idea that Disney ruined (or is ruining) Star Wars, or that they have ruined people’s childhoods, considering that people said the same damn thing about Lucas when the prequels—especially Episode II–came out.

If Star Wars is ruined, then just watch the OOT and be done with it. You don’t see me whining up and down anymore about how Paramount is shitting on Star Trek with Discovery. I already voiced my complaint and then move on down the road. I understand that people have a right to be upset when the story they want isn’t the story they get, but being so endlessly melodramatic about it just ruins the fun that might be had from enjoying what one does like.

Life is already hard enough without repeatedly taking a dump all over what amounts to escapist fiction.

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#1244957
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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Mocata said:

Well it’s the Falcon’s theme though… right?

The original track is called “TIE Fighter Attack.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfAgqrNCsM&t=92s

The ROTJ track is sometimes referred to as “Superstructure Chase.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpoN9_8Jj-A

And here it’s used in TLJ during “The Battle of Crait.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIIvAoHIsPQ&t=214s

 
(To illustrate my previous point, here it is as the background music for a space battle in Rebel Assault II.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPeHb_ZeQx0&t=38s

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#1244919
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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canofhumdingers said:

I just realized that both The Last Jedi and Solo use the same music from the original TIE Fighter attack on the Falcon scene in ANH during exciting scenes of the Falcon flying. I realize this is not the first time that music has been reused (Im quite sure it plays at some point during the space battle in ROTJ), but it still kinda feels like a cheat.

I mean, I’ll be the first to admit that it totally works for me. I don’t think it’s possible for me to not get a spike of adrenaline when that music cues up. But I can’t help but feel like it’s a bit of a cheap move playing on my nostalgia when we know that Williams and Powell are both capable of writing new material that elicits similar feelings (just listen to the music that plays during the Falcon’s escape from Jakku during TFA).

That music also plays in a lot of Star Wars video games. It hadn’t only been used twice before TLJ used it.

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#1243840
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Trident said:

So that’s where I’ve gotten to be a bit of a Jordan Peterson watcher. I mean that guy’s videos are sometimes pretty good. I connect with the way he lays things out most of the time. I mean I’m hardly a disciple? But that guy has a way of talking that’s usually a class act. At least in the ones I’ve watched anyway. I mean sometimes he comes across a bit angry or maybe stubborn in places? But usually he’ll admit when he’s wrong in an argument. So that scores points with me.

I can’t get past that Cathy Newman interview where she kept saying “So what you’re saying is [not at all what he just said].” Peterson might even be crazy, but to strawman his words in such a comically farcical way makes it hard for me to take opposition to him seriously.

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#1243815
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Jay said:

chyron8472 said:

Jay said:

All I know is that activism is slowly replacing reason on the left

While that may be true, activism has already replaced reason on the right. Both sides demonizing each other and glorifying themselves, as though either side has a monopoly on reason, to the detriment of reason itself.

Consider that Rush and Hannity cater exclusively to the right and have done so for a long time; and how many on the right are quick to defame Obama or Hillary, but are extremely hesitant, or flat out refuse, to oppose Trump’s views or actions (except in secret) now that he’s the president.

To be clear, and I’ve mentioned this before, one should not infer that I approve of or don’t see actions on the right that I’m currently criticizing on the left. I’ve seen this in a lot of political discourse, and not just here. It’s almost like some kind of reverse whataboutism, where if you criticize one side for something, people point out that you’re not criticizing the opposite side at the same time, which means you must condone the same actions on the opposite side. It’s bizarre.

Speaking for myself, I’m not a leftist nor a liberal. I’m a moderate devout-Christian Democrat from Oklahoma who is increasingly disenfranchised with the whole political scene in general. To be sure, my intellectual beliefs line up a lot with those on the left side of the aisle, but my faith purportedly not as much.

And that’s a big beef I have with either side. The left often belittles faith in God, and Christianity in particular, as archaic superstitious nonsense; and the right uses (pretend?) “faith” as a political tool to garner votes. Though I find the latter much, MUCH more irritating than the former, since they bizarrely cite faith while doing things wholly contrary to what their faith teaches them were they actually familiar with it (which amounts to them being Pharisees).