chyron8472

HerekittykittyX said:

chyron8472 said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

Who the hell is Ian Skrry?

Lol.

 
But seriously Herekittykittyx why do you write like this is confusing when you write like this makes it more difficult to read. I really have a hard time reading walls of text, we also don’t generally like the absence of spaces or line breaks or punctuation or capitalization.

So please, please level up your language stats. You don’t need to apologize (in code). Just learn to use capital letters, commas, periods, and paragraph breaks on occasion.

Ironic plot twist time to fix your punctuation

It’s not an ironic twist, but rather deliberate irony to make a point.

But seriously? That’s the only punctuation you add? Clearly the reason you don’t use punctuation is because you don’t really know how. That paragraph needed far more than two periods, two capitals and a comma. I know it’s mean to keep digging at you about it, but come on now. You can’t still be in elementary school.

TV’s Frink said:

Punctuation and capitalization is not exclusive to a desktop computer though.

Nor is it unavailable on phone keyboards. Usually on a phone keyboard, if you use a period it automatically capitalizes your next word.

JEDIT: And autocorrects a lone-letter i to the word I.

dahmage said:

chyron8472 said:

KILLOFFPOE was banned apparently. Haven’t figured out why yet.

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/KILLOFFPOE/id/35924

you haven’t figured out why?

Wummary, I guess?

He was complaining about TLJ, and said Disney’s new films are as bad at world building as the Prequels were at storytelling, but I didn’t notice the specifically bannable offense.

Maybe he just needed to cool off? But that wasn’t made clear.

KILLOFFPOE was banned apparently. Haven’t figured out why yet.

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/KILLOFFPOE/id/35924

darth_ender said:

conservatism has done a lot of good for the country.

I’m not attacking you for saying this, but from my perspective conservatism has many misguided ideas like using supply-side economics (which historically doesn’t work), or removing regulations that protect businesses from hurting or taking advantage of people (a recent example of which is Net Neutrality).

I am genuinely interested in having examples of how conservatism has helped this country, and as a Democrat I’d like to hear it from someone who isn’t full of Fox News talking points. (Also I’m not saying that liberalism is somehow superior.)

darth_ender said:

Well, it’s hard to sound intelligent in your arguments when one ignorantly makes insulting comments, but I hope the substance of my previous posts will be taken into account more than my error.

Yes, and I agree with your sentiment, seemingly on all fronts—from Frink’s responses, to conflating the bad apples with the whole bunch, to liberals thinking themselves or their arguments intellectually superior.

For myself though, I really wonder how often Republicans (or perhaps mainly those with power or influence?) use “defending the life and liberty of the child” as a banner of supposed morality when really that’s not their endgame at all. For example, it was people on the Republican side that conflated Starbucks removing winter depictions from their cups as a moral attack on Christmas. Certainly there is an argument to be made about when life starts or how abortion should be regulated. But many Republicans seem to be as intransigently firm from feeling morally superior as Democrats are at feeling intellectually superior, and they both aren’t interested in furthering actual debate.

As a Democrat myself—A Christian Democrat—it irks me all around.

Yes, Democrats prefer to call their party the Democratic Party. It is reportedly understood by Democrats that to use the term “Democrat Party” is a minor epithet as per CatBus’ explanation of disrespect. NPR mentioned it in a segment a few years ago.

JEDIT: I found an even older article than what I was looking for: https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2010/03/since_when_did_it_become_the_d.html

That’s a bit of an unfortunate url, though.

I recently finished listening to the first 3.5 (three novels and a novella) of the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson. I noticed somewhere that its genre was listed as “space opera”, which supposedly also includes Star Wars. But here’s the thing: The Star Wars films are space opera; the books are not. The last two Star Wars books I’ve tried to read, Darth Plagueis and Battlefront: Twilight Company, are sci-fi drivel with boring plots and uninteresting characters. It’s starting to sour my interest in Star Wars books. I just hope The Last Jedi novelization is good because I’ve already preordered it.

I stopped listening to Twilight Company at about Chapter 7 because I just didn’t feel interested, and now I’m listening to Chaos Seeds Book 1: The Land: Founding, which is a “LitRPG”, or a novel about a character who is literally trapped in an MMORPG game world complete with stats, EXP points, and respawn on death. People apparently compare it to Ready Player One in some fashion, and since I’m really liking this story so far it’s made me question my haste in giving up on that book, but for now I’m still telling myself that it’s okay to not like things.

KILLOFFPOE said:

So in almost every scene of the movie I had a knife twisting in my side about how bad this was and didn’t make sense. Makes it really hard to appreciate the good aspects.

You are seeing the movie as awful because you expect to see it that way. You have preconceived ideas about how the Star Wars Universe is supposed to work, whether you decided them on your own or were given them by EU. You feel the movie twisting a knife when that knife belongs to you.

You do not let the movies tell you a story on their own terms. You want it to be on your terms and are angry and frustrated that it doesn’t work that way. If you were willing to let the films tell their own stories and expand your understanding of the universe as you acquire more information about it, you would be able to accept and enjoy it.

 
But it doesn’t make sense that we could have sent people to walk on the moon because planes don’t crash into the ground when they fly in straight lines, so the Apollo missions must have been faked since we know the Earth to be flat.

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

Who the hell is Ian Skrry?

Lol.

 
but seriously herekittykittyx why do you write like this it is confusing when you write like this it makes it more difficult to read it i really have a hard time reading walls of text we also don’t generally like the absence of spaces or line breaks or punctuation or capitalization

So please, please level up your language stats. You don’t need to apologize (in code). Just learn to use capital letters, commas, periods, and paragraph breaks on occasion.

dahmage said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

The only televised sports I never hated growing up were wrestling and figure skating, and I’m not sure they even count as sports.

Why do you hate countdown?

Good morning. That’s a nice tnetennba.

HerekittykittyX said:

TV’s Frink said:

HerekittykittyX said:

TV’s Frink said:

ZigZig said:

I feel a little betrayed by Disney who killed, in a way, my own childhood. Yes.

Can you please explain how Disney could have possibly killed your childhood?

I think the only bad fans here are ones who completely overreact to what is, at the end of the day, nothing more than a movie. It only “kills your childhood” if you choose to believe that.

It’s nonsense. Hate TLJ all you want. I have no problem with that. But stop being so dramatic and get a sense of perspective.

Thank you tv frink for proving my point of this thread

Ironic given the lack of a point after the word “thread.”

Also if you could spell my name right it would be appreciated.

How? I spelled it right. Oh, wait… I forgot an “s”.

😐

FTFY.

You really need to work on those language skills.

dahmage said:

MusicallyInspired said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

I am reminded of a frequent point they used to make on the Cracked Podcast about suspension of disbelief. In The Dark Knight Rises, there’s a chase scene where Batman goes into a tunnel in broad daylight and exits at night. This is absolutely a textbook hole in the movie, but when the movie came out almost everyone didn’t notice it until it was pointed out to them. The Cracked folks considered this a mark of effective movie-making rather than an egregious mistake, because audiences were swept up in the movie enough not to notice that flaw in the logic. That’s how I felt about all of these nitpicks about the in-universe rules of space travel in TLJ. I was engaged enough in the story that was in front of me that I was not giving any thought at all to whether or not it was 100% consistent with the last eight films (which, it’s worth noting, are not entirely consistent with each other either). I get that that’s not enough for everyone, but it’s enough for me.

Exactly. A perfect example is the T Rex cage in Jurassic park going from level with the road to a pit. But no one notices or cares, because it works. Well no one used to care, until this current CinemaSins-esque nitpick circle jerk “movie criticism” culture said that all “plot holes” are bad and lazy filmmaking. So apparently Steven fucking Spielberg is a lazy filmmaker.

Holy cow I never noticed that!! I just watched it with my kids last week too. Crazy what gets by you!

isn’t it a different side of the street or something? I know what you are talking about and it often bugged me, but i thought i reviewed it in detail once and it actually made sense… (now i need to pull out the DVD and check again)

http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_Park_Film_Goofs

Often incorrectly regarded as a goof is the fact that when the Tyrannosaurus exits her paddock from ground level with the road, there’s the sudden appearance of a cliff when she pushes the car over it. In reality, there is in fact a cliff that acts as a natural barrier for the Tyrannosaurus, otherwise she would be able to exit her paddock through the gap between the fencing and the tunnel with ease. The diagram on the right illustrates what happens.

MusicallyInspired said:

chyron8472 said:

HomokHarcos said:

Edit: Nevermind, it looks like the Amazon Video versions are only available in the USA and I live in Canada.

Have you tried Google?

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Star_Wars_The_Digital_Six_Film_Collection?id=sxvuhqcICJg

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=star war&c=movies

It’s $114.99!

In Canada, maybe. Says $99.99 for me.

The Bluray pack for all 6 movies blue 3 bonus discs are $75 at Walmart!

Sure. Or cheaper on eBay, maybe. He just seemed interested in getting it digitally.

And I doubt you get all those extra bonus features from Google Play.

I suppose so. In my opinion though, the bluray featurettes are decent but there’s a whole lot of meh as far as behind the scenes stuff. I guess I’m just spoiled by the fan-made content like Jamie Benning’s OT filmumentaries.

HomokHarcos said:

Edit: Nevermind, it looks like the Amazon Video versions are only available in the USA and I live in Canada.

Have you tried Google?

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Star_Wars_The_Digital_Six_Film_Collection?id=sxvuhqcICJg

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=star war&c=movies

My bologna has a first name.

It’s O-S-C-A-R.

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

Lately, yes.

Nope.

You hate everyone though.

dahmage said:

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Meh. Better than the other Spider-Man movies, but only a little bit. I only watched it to catch up on the marvel movies before the next few movies.

4/10 I think. Maybe 5/10. Not terrible, just certainly not for me.

I didn’t think the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man film was altogether horrible. But I haven’t seen a Spider-Man film since those three, since the third one turned me off of watching any more of them.

How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2 back to back.

At the top of the list for my favorite 3D animated films

SilverWook said:

The only way to make Spock Meyers more disturbing is add the Spock’s Brain headset and have someone remote controlling his empty husk to kill. 😉

Handman said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

I still am under no obligation to like it.

You’re also under no obligation to steal Ric Olie’s thunder, and yet here you are.

If art is subjective, and I already said my opinion of the film was subjective, why then do you guys feel obligated to contradict me or say my preferences are in bad taste? Apparently having to defend my position is not a Captain Obvious move if people are telling me my initial reasoning is flawed.

But you gave nonsense reasons as to why you didn’t like it. Saying the movie is bad because you don’t know the name of a character for 20-something minutes is absurd.

They’re not nonsense to me, and you don’t have to agree, but I feel the reaction to my talking about it, (eg. saying my opinion is nonsense or absurd) is stronger in tone than is warranted. Maybe I did too easily take offense, I’ll admit that. But I don’t feel blame falls solely on my own shoulders.

Hadn’t read the NFL thread because I don’t care about the NFL.
But yes, Frink, you do bully, bait, belittle and condescend.

In seriousness and not myself trying to flamebait. If someone is upset, and they tell you so, you really need to learn to back off and apologize.

TV’s Frink said:

But holy shit get over yourself already.

Pot, meet kettle.