moviefreakedmind

Warbler said:
d4

You sunk my battleship!

ray_afraid said:

The X-Wing/TIE Fighter series for PC were the best Star Wars games ever.
They could easily be remade and outdone now. Why nobody’s doin’ it is beyond me.

I wonder if EA would see enough profit in making a game that was as flight-based as those were.

Infinite Jest.

yhwx said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Even if he had, he wasn’t a foaming-at-the-mouth neo-Nazi preaching intolerance and hatred.

That’s not an excuse.

He was also 100 years old. I know to a lot of people that’s not an excuse, but ancient and archaic people tend to tacitly hold some archaic views. It’s a fact of life. Abe Lincoln was a racist by today’s standards.

yhwx said:

Not sure why we’re celebrating such a morose statement.

It’s not morose; I’m encouraging all to not live based on irrational fear.

LordZerome1080 said:

As a college student I fear that I could get killed in a university shooting any day now.

You’re far more likely to choke to death or fall down the stairs or have a cerebral hemorrhage.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

DominicCobb said:

darthrush said:

TV’s Frink said:

I dislike Nolbatman.

I find Batman 89 incredibly overrated.

Same.

It’s so boring.

Nah.

What about it is exciting?

DominicCobb said:

darthrush said:

TV’s Frink said:

I dislike Nolbatman.

I find Batman 89 incredibly overrated.

Same.

It’s so boring.

I see no reason to watch any state of the union address because it’s all horseshit and the only thing it accomplishes is wasting my precious time that I could’ve spent watching better television.

I love dreamless sleep.

Handman said:

moviefreakedmind said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

There’s nothing quite like seeing water leak from a ceiling light.

Goddammit, how I want a job and money and to MOVE OUT OF THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE.

You have internet access so there’s nothing stopping you from applying for jobs.

But getting responses, that’s the trick…

Apply for fifty jobs or something. It’s all a numbers game.

CatBus said:

Warbler said:

I didn’t know that his wife had a half-sister

Yes, Sally Hemings was originally the slave (and daughter via slave rape) of Jefferson’s father-in-law. She was then transferred to Jefferson.

The more you learn about Jefferson/Hemings, the more ick.

The Churchill bit makes a good trivia question. “Which WWII leader’s diary featured long diatribes about Jewish conspiracies?” Very few will guess Churchill, but there it is.

They did enough good for me to forgive their antiquated bullshit.

DuracellEnergizer said:

There’s nothing quite like seeing water leak from a ceiling light.

Goddammit, how I want a job and money and to MOVE OUT OF THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE.

You have internet access so there’s nothing stopping you from applying for jobs.

chyron8472 said:

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.

Why are you playing the blame game? You shared your opinion. People thought that your reasoning made no sense and they clearly explained why. Then you get pissed off because people responded fairly cordially to something that you posted for us to read. And who are you to police tone? No one wrote anything even mildly offensive in their responses to you. Handman was right on in his assessment. Why post if you’ll just get angry when someone responds to you? If I posted that I hated Stand by Me because it had a narrator, a bully character that didn’t obey the traffic laws, and an ending that wasn’t entirely happy, then people would have reacted in the same way because I said I hated a beloved movie for reasons that make no sense.

yhwx said:

Lately, yes.

Nope.

A stupid pun that a five year-old came up with is unbecoming of the evil villain in the dour war movie that Rogue One is trying to be. I don’t understand why anyone likes that joke. It seems like a lot of people have the idea that in order to enjoy a movie they have to like, defend, and justify every single aspect of it.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’ve never once heard of anyone reading pdfs for non academic reasons.

Do you know anyone who works?

Not with pdfs

I’ve never once heard of anyone reading pdfs for non academic reasons.

I guess that’s it. I was comparing it in my head to the fight on the Death Star wear similar blows didn’t even always cut through the bars on the railings.

Lightsabers couldn’t cut through as much in the OT, and when they did it took a heavy swing just to get through the gun barrel of a speederbike.

dahmage said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I can think of no other reason why someone would be reading scanned pdfs and irritated by their inability to select text.

fair enough. I can think of a few

• education level other than college
• scientific research
• non-scientific research
• technical research

These are all academic reasons that are close enough to my speculation.

• reading those books that google scanned (i don’t think they are OCR’d but maybe i am wrong)

Perhaps for a college assignment? Why else would you need to select the text?

• reading a page you scanned yourself, or that someone else scanned.

Like for a college assignment.

I’m one of the few people on here that hasn’t shied away from slamming both parties and all of our last three presidents (including Obama) over their fraudulent implementation of espionage and spying on American citizens under the “keeping us safe” excuse.

I don’t understand all this misguided appreciation for the Holiday Special.

Ranking the CGI Grand Moff Tarkin Scenes.

I can think of no other reason why someone would be reading scanned pdfs and irritated by their inability to select text.