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#1223463
Topic
The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
Time

Just watched, with your commentary. Quite interesting to hear your grappling with this film. I didn’t have the same initial response that you did, and I think you ended up a a few different places than I did, but I found it very useful to hear you talk it through, while watching a movie like that in the background. 😋

For example, your description of the quick succession of subverted expectations around Luke’s death we’re not something I experienced or even could quite fathom why someone would experience, so your explanation was insightful.

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#1223449
Topic
Taking a stand against toxic fandom (and other )
Time

Ronster said:

it’s alright. So your memory is not that good then.

I just feel that when these groups shout. they use excuses that have no real meaning. It will be the are to many men in the film not enough women or vice versa The cast is not ethnically diverse enough and so on.

But if I watch a film, the last thing I about these sorts of questions.

I like films from all over the world and they do not have to be in English. I watch a film to follow the story. But injecting these sorts of view points like it does not have enough of this or it has too much of that and people yelling about stuff that does not even enter my mind. This makes me want to distance myself from anything like this because i hate it and it’s really horrid.

i don’t recall hearing about any groups shouting those things? maybe you are misremembering… I recall hearing of fringe groups complaining about the exact opposite (that there was an agenda to insert women and racial diversity at the expense of making sense).

I too like to watch my movies and not try to complain about the diversity of the cast.

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#1223360
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

I must be blessed to not suffer any white male guilt.

These are the kinds of posts I’m referring to when I say I have no idea what the hell you’re trying to say most of the time, although I usually know that at a minimum I’m going to roll my eyes, if not be outright hostile.

That would be unlike you.

I think the meaning is abundantly obvious. I don’t spend time or energy worrying about diversity. I recognize the historical reality where certain people didn’t have the same opportunities and it’s good to be aware of potential bias. But these quotas enforced by well-meaning mostly white males makes me roll my eyes. I expect that in an increasingly egalitarian society diversity occurs naturally.

it wasn’t abundantly obvious (hasn’t this forum taught us anything about misunderstandings? hehe).

I am still a bit confused if you are just saying you are glad you are non-white, or you are mocking what you perceive as white-guilt in the rest of us (as if that is the only reason to be inclusive?)

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#1223350
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

chyron8472 said:

dahmage said:

oojason said:

dahmage said:

damn work laptop decides to not boot when i bring it home for a late night upgrade project tomorrow… (i have had this laptop for over 7 years, this is the first time it has done this to me)

damn zalman vcd enclosure won’t load my win 7 iso (I/O error??), it loads my win 10 iso’s just fine, but i don’t want to reinstall, i just need to attempt a repair…

sometimes i really hate technology…

Just before you attempt that mate… and it’s just a suggestion that you may have already tried… turn the
laptop off, remove the battery from the laptop, unplug the power. Now hold down the power button for 30 seconds. Put the battery back in, plug in the power and turn it on - hopefully it may now work (or be of use if ever happen again in the future).

Good luck with it.

Yes, that is good advice, it has helped me and others in the past.

Thankfully this fixed it, or I would have been really grumpy today.

😋

http://fakeupdate.net/win7/

😉

OMG YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER AGAIN!!!

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#1223314
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

oojason said:

dahmage said:

damn work laptop decides to not boot when i bring it home for a late night upgrade project tomorrow… (i have had this laptop for over 7 years, this is the first time it has done this to me)

damn zalman vcd enclosure won’t load my win 7 iso (I/O error??), it loads my win 10 iso’s just fine, but i don’t want to reinstall, i just need to attempt a repair…

sometimes i really hate technology…

Just before you attempt that mate… and it’s just a suggestion that you may have already tried… turn the
laptop off, remove the battery from the laptop, unplug the power. Now hold down the power button for 30 seconds. Put the battery back in, plug in the power and turn it on - hopefully it may now work (or be of use if ever happen again in the future).

Good luck with it.

Yes, that is good advice, it has helped me and others in the past.

Thankfully this fixed it, or I would have been really grumpy today.

😋

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#1223260
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

damn work laptop decides to not boot when i bring it home for a late night upgrade project tomorrow… (i have had this laptop for over 7 years, this is the first time it has done this to me)

damn zalman vcd enclosure won’t load my win 7 iso (I/O error??), it loads my win 10 iso’s just fine, but i don’t want to reinstall, i just need to attempt a repair…

sometimes i really hate technology…

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#1223258
Topic
The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
Time

on linux, the only thing that would extract this was 7z. Dunno what is up with this zip file, but at least 7zip reads it.

JEDIT: spoke too soon, 7z spent forever acting like it would extract, only to fail saying “can not open the file as archive”.

unzip extracts it, but complains, and the file doesn’t hash to the torrent on myslpeen…

Archive: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p.zip
warning [The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p.zip]: 34359738368 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
file #1: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 34359738368
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/.DS_Store
creating: __MACOSX/
creating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/
inflating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/._.DS_Store
creating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/TLJ_Legendary BR.JPG
creating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/
inflating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/._TLJ_Legendary BR.JPG
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/TLJ_Legendary DVD.jpg
inflating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/._TLJ_Legendary DVD.jpg
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/TLJ_Legendary iTunes.JPG
inflating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Cover Artwork/._TLJ_Legendary iTunes.JPG
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/Star.Wars.The.Last.Jedi.Legendary.1080p.mkv
error: invalid compressed data to inflate
bad CRC 2b8b1d1d (should be 3f9bc49f)
file #15: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 171346425
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/TheLastJediLegendaryPressRelease1080p.rtf
inflating: __MACOSX/The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p/._TheLastJediLegendaryPressRelease1080p.rtf
inflating: __MACOSX/._The Last Jedi - Legendary 1080p

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#1223025
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

moviefreakedmind said:

dahmage said:

so, i guess my attempt to avoid pages of this by agreeing that sometimes i find mean things funny, did not work.

i’ll take that into consideration in the future. MFM, please, continue to vent.

I’ll not be taking your inability to scroll past some posts into consideration in the future.

you have to admit that i am able to scroll past posts, because i got to this post, did i not?

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#1222981
Topic
Satanic Panic! - (A Thread For All Things Satanic)
Time

suspiciouscoffee said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Off the top of my head, here’s a list of things my parents have told me is satanic over the years (some of which they eventually reneged on).
-Pokémon
-Harry Potter
-D&D
-All non-conservative-protestant-evangelical-Christian religions
-Darwin’s theories, but only some of them
-“emogoth” music
-any music with bad words
-“the world”
-Monster energy drink
-most R-rated movies
-Gays (whoops)
-Anime (because the eyes are dark and creepy-lookin’)
-Foreign policy that isn’t neocon zionism
-“Imperfect” Jews (aka every Jew other than Jews for Jesus)

Something else I just remembered: when I was a little kid, my dad told me that I was never to use the word “awesome” unless I was referring specifically to God, as any other use of that word was basically blasphemy. He eventually relaxed on that, but it took several years.

incredible.