dahmage

NeverarGreat said:

Handman said:

I started watching Return of the Jedi at about 6am, and its issues outweighed the good for the first time. Honestly, it gets worse each time I watch it.

I had this experience the last time I marathoned the trilogy. In isolation, I can appreciate the charm of Jedi, but as the capstone of the trilogy it really drags.

Exactly!

i was thrilled with it when i watched it as a kid in isolation (during the 97se theatrical releases) when you had to watch one at a time. and we didn’t really do ‘sit down all day and watch movies’ in my house so marathons weren’t a thing. I found Jedi to be mostly pointless when i watch all three back to back now. it wraps up some things, but it feels so pointless at the same time. (although your description is pretty spot on: it drags)

^ HAH

snoke is padme? ultimate plot twist!

SilverWook said:

darthrush said:

SilverWook said:

There was an exchange between them in the sandstorm scene that was cut?

That sounds interesting. I’m curious what their conversation was.

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/swcs/episode6/sandstorm.html
Not sure if the exchange was actually shot, as Lando is busy helping Chewie limp into the Falcon in the footage that’s been seen on the Blu Ray set.

very interesting! this is why i like this site, i keep learning new tidbits about star wars.

SilverWook said:

All I ever get from wiki pages are those annoying survey pop ups, but I’m not on a mobile device either.

it was probably a bad ad put on the page by the advertising network… it hasn’t happened again.

SilverWook said:

That was Koo Stark, who was almost cast as Princess Leia, and was romantically involved with a prince in real life.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Koo_Stark

Man, soon many hijack popups visiting that site on mobile, not cool. (Not blaming you SilverWook)

Jeebus said:

doubleKO said:

Lord Haseo said:

Think of LBJ as many people can compare him to Kobe and Jordan but the widespread conversation of “is he” and a consensus that he’s one of the greatest hasn’t arisen yet.

That took me longer than it should have. LBJ means somebody else to old people.

lol

I’m not really into basketball so I thought he meant Lyndon B Johnson at first.

I see I wasn’t the only one 😃

TV’s Frink said:

If the lax attitude towards enforcement supposedly encourages more illegal immigration, why has it been on the decline in recent years?

i’ll take ‘numbers that lie’ for 800

I was thinking about immigration and the complaint that some people have voiced that allowing those who have come here illegally, but have families, to somehow gain citizenship, ‘encourages’ people to cross the border illegally.

Contrast that with stand your ground laws. See http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/10/519664502/judge-rejects-stand-your-ground-defense-in-florida-theater-shooting-case

There probably is a valid argument that both encourage behavior, however I think it is clear that one of them has a worse outcome than the other.

Ryan McAvoy said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jobs report has basically the same numbers as it has had going back any number of months, and all those times it was fake. But now it’s real. Ok.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/?utm_term=.712ae3fe92b7

Wow, he can still surprise. Does he have any conception how high 42% is? You have to wonder if he has a grasp on basic maths.

Well, we all know he has a grasp on at least one thing. (Where’s the “ashamed of my own joke” emoticon when I need it)

althor1138 said:

Resilio sync seems like an option. Especially if you are behind a vpn. Once a couple people snag the file, bandwidth shouldn’t be too big of a problem even in our small crowd.

Resilio sync doesn’t work for me behind a double NAT (I can’t port forward), so for that reason I am not a fan.

Warbler said:

dahmage said:

This is near me: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/03/immigration_raids_allison_hill.html

Some parents are reluctant to drop their children off at school for fear of getting stopped, said Daniels, who is an immigration attorney. Instead, the children are missing classes.

“It’s really bad,” Daniels said. “They don’t just stop the person they’re looking for. They hassle everyone who’s around.”

My biggest issue with how illegal immigration is treated in this country is how we treat those who have already been here for more than a year. Once someone is settled in a place, it really is inhumane to deport them. you are ruining many lives, and that has a ripple effect in making this world a worse place. worse because: more poverty, more crime, less education, on and on.

I don’t know, but somehow it doesn’t make sense to me to write the our immigration laws saying “If you illegally sneak into our country and remain here illegally and manage to evade deportation long enough, Congratulations! You win! You can stay!” Sorry, but that is not how this works unfortunately. Besides doesn’t doing that encourage others to attempt to try to come into the country illegally? Also exactly how do we determine who is and is not “settled”? I don’t know what should be done with such people, but I am pretty sure the solution isn’t to just ignore the law and ignore the fact that they illegally came into to the country and are still here illegally and ignore that they have neither citizenship or visa.

It also doesn’t work very well to punish a settled illegal immigrant, because more than just the illegal immigrant gets punished. that is why this is a tough issue. I think the policy that made the most sense is providing a path to citizenship. it doesn’t have to be easy, but it should be possible.

CatBus had some good points too.

I would be interested in links for those as well.

This is near me: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/03/immigration_raids_allison_hill.html

Some parents are reluctant to drop their children off at school for fear of getting stopped, said Daniels, who is an immigration attorney. Instead, the children are missing classes.

“It’s really bad,” Daniels said. “They don’t just stop the person they’re looking for. They hassle everyone who’s around.”

My biggest issue with how illegal immigration is treated in this country is how we treat those who have already been here for more than a year. Once someone is settled in a place, it really is inhumane to deport them. you are ruining many lives, and that has a ripple effect in making this world a worse place. worse because: more poverty, more crime, less education, on and on.

hm. interesting thoughts. so Jedi are like the nerds of the galaxy. they think they are smart and great and all that. meanwhile everyone else just ignores them and gets shit done without any need of the Jedi. hm. 😃

doubleofive said:

dahmage said:

I finally caught up on this last night, man that made my heart warm to see the rebel fleet show up! hard to believe they can fit in another whole season… 😃

Still plenty to do before Scarif. I’m just interested to see how the Jedi are dispatched. It’s going to be hard to explain how Luke is special if there’s a grown-up Padawan & his Padawan who just left.

“You’re strong with the Force? That sucks, you just missed a couple of Jedi, one around your age*. They could probably teach you a thing or two.”

*two or three days older

Yes, that will certainly be interesting to see how they handle it. having cool Jedi around that the Rebels are aware of (and even Princess Leia to some extent - she did meet them in Season 2 right?) certainly make some behavior in the OT seem like they suffered from mass amnesia.

they get watched

^ that is a neat take on the poster, i like it

^ how did i miss that? too much of what i read i auto-correct in my head. or else i just don’t pay enough attention.

poita said:

I am re-rendering reel1 with a bunch of changes fixed, and will upload it in the morning when it is done, so you all might want to hold off on feedback until it is up as I have re-done about 800 frames or so.

don’t worry about the dead link, new file coming.

moviefreakedmind said:

I was looking though the Fan Preservation forum and noticed that Jetrell Fo’s picture has changed even though he’s banned. Can users change their avatars when banned?

it didn’t change. but odds are you had an old profile pic cached. he changed his quite often recently.

perhaps this: http://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/86783-florida-texas-and-california-most-at-risk-states

or maybe just the fact that they are the most populated states, but then where is New York on that list?

People are the worst. I get that there is demand for this, and that is why it happens, but still. People are the worst.

I finally caught up on this last night, man that made my heart warm to see the rebel fleet show up! hard to believe they can fit in another whole season… 😃

and now you can buy a star wars limited edition Nissan… not sure what exactly makes this a tie in other than the words rogue one in a few places… they could have done much better i think.

https://www.nissanusa.com/crossovers/rogue/2017-rogue-one-star-wars-limited-edition/