moviefreakedmind

Isn’t it hilarious how Adam Sandler constantly violates proper golf etiquette in Happy Gilmore? It’s so funny…

I hate getting phone calls from unknown numbers. That’s pretty much all I get in terms of calls though.

They’ve done this before. When a remake tanks, they remake it again immediately. They did it with Hulk, Spiderman, and Wolverine to name a few. They also did another Frankenstein redo almost immediately. Whenever a big name thing flops, they immediately start over, regardless of who’s in it.

nvm.

Will the recent bans on certain types of conversations be lifted and will certain previously banned users like TV’s Frink be allowed to return?

I love making fun of all these thin-skinned little bitches that are so sensitive that they can’t even handle a fucking Gillette commercial.

They must’ve thought there was an overlap in Sims and Katy Perry fans.

ray_afraid said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The easy solution is just to not watch lazy remakes. That’s what I do.

This is wisdom, friends.

Absolutely. I don’t even get mad at the remakes. I used to, especially regarding Star Wars prequels and the like, but there’s just no need. Just don’t go see them and then everyone will forget about them in three months and there’ll be something new to hate.

I have immense respect for authors. It’s been my seemingly unattainable goal for years. Congratulations on your success.

Nothing’s being stolen, and Doctor Who works canonically. The gender swaps actually aren’t to make women more equal to men, they’re almost all just attempts to make money on an existing property rather than come up with a new idea. The easy solution is just to not watch lazy remakes. That’s what I do.

Wouldn’t 4K be more or less pointless for TFA and RO? Movies like that are always mastered in 2K to begin with.

screams in the void said:

so I like to go to youtube and watch videos so I can unwind and tune out the news , politics etc , you know , escape from it all for a bit and then I get greeted by a message from cadet bonespurs loudly denouncing the entire Democratic party and a paid political ad saying text ( whatever number it is , I ain’t doing it )for the wall . .There is the option to close the ad but it is still there . Before this , every other ad always gave me the option to say not interested .Youtube was great when it was new , but has become a cesspool in the past few years , which is sad , because there is still some quality content there but a lot of it gets shoved down because of a lot of no talent hacks throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks . beyond that …fuck politics …all of it …don’t care what side of it anymore …it seems to have devolved into school yard antics and juvenile name calling across the board …the adults have left the building folks …I just wanted to unwind and now I just want a ticket off planet .

But, but, but… Youtube is part of the liberal, communist, leftist, social-justice warrior cabal that wants to silence conservatives!

chyron8472 said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

Ok, thanks for pointing out the clarification, and sorry for directing my comment specifically to you. I’ll change my “YOU” to point towards a larger swath of zealous missionaries, you specifically not necessarily included. (although some of your other posts do seem to fit the 2nd sentence - that is, being the lucky bearer of ultimate truth).

Thanks, and apologies, as I realize some of my posts were unclear. And I do in fact believe I am the (very) fortunate bearer of ultimate truth…I wouldn’t be Christian if I didn’t.

BTW, this is exactly why science is not a religion. Scientists do not claim to know the truth; they only argue what they believe to be the current best explanations for things, given the limitations of available measurement technology. Being proven wrong is how science advances. By contrast, religion claims absolutely to know the truth (sometimes in spite of measurements and scientific reasoning), and those truths are immutable - like axioms in a mathematical system.

Correction: Science does not claim to know the truth. Scientists, however, do make claims regarding truth all the time, while backing those claims with what they offer as logical scientific evidence when it’s really just supposition and hypothesis. NDT does this a lot and it annoys the crap out of me.

This is not true. Supposition and hypothesis based on the limited data and evidence that we do have is a starting point, and scientific theories require rock-solid evidence for them to be accepted and if they’re proven to be inaccurate or inconsistent with reality then they are rejected. Comparing science and religion simply isn’t a fair or honest comparison.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

Ok, thanks for pointing out the clarification, and sorry for directing my comment specifically to you. I’ll change my “YOU” to point towards a larger swath of zealous missionaries, you specifically not necessarily included. (although some of your other posts do seem to fit the 2nd sentence - that is, being the lucky bearer of ultimate truth).

Thanks, and apologies, as I realize some of my posts were unclear. And I do in fact believe I am the (very) fortunate bearer of ultimate truth…I wouldn’t be Christian if I didn’t.

BTW, this is exactly why science is not a religion. Scientists do not claim to know the truth; they only argue what they believe to be the current best explanations for things, given the limitations of available measurement technology. Being proven wrong is how science advances. By contrast, religion claims absolutely to know the truth (sometimes in spite of measurements and scientific reasoning), and those truths are immutable - like axioms in a mathematical system.

Certainly, but we don’t claim to know the truth about absolutely everything either. Out of curiosity, what scientific reasoning and measurements do you think contradict Christianity (and specifically Catholicism)?

Well, for one, the power of prayer. Scientific studies have repeatedly failed to find any evidence that prayer has any effect whatsoever, while Christianity (and other religions) insist that it does.

You really think God would submit to scientific experiments so humans can measure, when His children ask him to jump, how high His jump will be?

If he existed then he should.

You might as well assume lab animals could use other lab animals to conduct experiments, in order to measure how their human observers react, without humans realizing what they are doing.

Lab animals are not as sophisticated as humans are. If lab rats had the same level of intelligence and ability to communicate and build things as we do then it would actually be completely reasonable to assume that they’d be capable of doing such a thing.

God already said to not put Him to the test, so I don’t think He’d appreciate that.

This is easily my most loathed religious concept, the idea that the gods’ wrath is directed towards those that dare to question them. As a character trait, it’s villainous and disgusting, and in a practical sense this is what turns so many religious people off to science and education. A lot of the rightwing and religious anti-academic sentiment stems from this kind of thinking.

Would Patreon be an option? Given the amount of projects happening here, I don’t doubt that at least 15 people would be willing to donate $5 a month. I might be willing to donate some money each month.

Sorry to hear that. Few things make life worse than being in a miserable job. I’ve worked about a million of those and I hated them all.

Smithers said:

greenpenguino said:

Smithers said:

RicOlie_2 said:

I’m with you on that one. This place is pretty depressing sometimes. It’s not nearly as fun as it used to be, and now that my love for Star Wars has waned a bit, I imagine it’s only a matter of time before I take off.

Damn dude

SilverWook said:

It’s been a rough year around here.

😦

DuracellEnergizer said:

For years now, I’ve been losing interest in all things Star Wars, and this year was the year I officially became an ex-Star Wars fan. The only reason I stick around’s because of the community, but ever since darth_ender jumped ship, more-and-more of the most interesting posters have disappeared, so the community’s barely a factor anymore.

General Star Wars Discussion is a borefest, Off-Topic (and the Sub-Forums Formerly Known as Off-Topic) are graveyards, and Script Writing/Rewriting’s a ghost town; with no large gravitational bodies to keep me in place, it’s only a matter of time before I leave orbit.

Fuck man, that’s rough, I miss the interesting discussions and creative ideas that circulated the fan-edit and script writing pages too. I only joined in 2014 but man it feels like so long ago when this place was pretty damn fun, I didn’t mind the force awakens take over, but once rogue one rolled around, we had the sock epidemic where trolls joined and proceeded to make dozens of accounts, then TLJ came out and many members became completely hostile, this started a wave of a bunch of members leaving, and that did a number on some of the greatest threads on here man, it kills me. Anyway I think I’m gonna stick around as long as I have people to bounce creative ideas off of but yeah, it’s been rough.

Yeesh, I come back and apparently things have taken a real downturn. It’s sad that this place has become so toxic. Last time I left was more to do with life getting in the way (not in a bad way, just things like work, relationships and some political activism got in the way of posting on a Star Wars Forum) but the fact that it’s gotten so bad that people are thinking of bailing and are growing to hate something they previously loved is depressing. I wouldn’t consider myself an ex-star wars fan just yet, but the fact that there’s so much vitriol coming from fans (often a particular type of white dudes) is pushing me away pretty damn fast. I wonder sometimes if Redlettermedia had anything to do with some of this vitriol, but it’s probably broader than just one youtube channel and maybe far more of a systemic thing. Also, what the hell happened to TV’s Frink? He got banned?! Why?

Whoa dude good to see ya around too, long story short Frink has been banned after a series of temp bans but it all came down to, roughly speaking, some political garbage which evolved into personal attacks going on between him and Jay. I’m not gonna speak for either of them though, it’s some petty shit though for sure, you can read the politics 2 page and skim their last posts to kinda figure it out

I’d just like to point out that Frink made no personal attacks when he was permanently banned and, from what I can tell, didn’t actually break any forum rules. The last posts he made were regarding the hypocrisy of the site’s administration, not personal attacks.

Of course he thinks that. I want to make clear that these religious fundamentalists have changed very little over the millennia. They often can get away with a lot less atrocity than they could get away with in the past, but their motives and values are as backwards as they’ve ever been. Of course the lives of people who hold different religions are worth less to them than spreading the master faith is. There’s nothing new in this line of thinking.

The Westboro Baptist Church thinks they’re doing the Lord’s work, so did Al Qaeda, so did Jim Jones, etc. etc. And no, I’m not saying you’re like them, but I’m pointing out that it doesn’t matter just how fucking much you believe you’re right. You’re still wrong.

RicOlie_2 said:

Because eternal salvation is a lot more important than 80-or-so years on earth. And now that we’ve minimized the spread of so many diseases, the risk of spreading disease is a lot less than it once was.

I see no reason to respond to the first nasty, rotten, disgusting sentence of your nasty, rotten, disgusting post because I think it’s obvious bullshit to any rational person and I think that everyone, including the Christians on this site would say that it’s disgusting to disregard the lives of these people just so that you can potentially spread your ideology to them. As for your second nasty, rotten, disgusting sentence, these people don’t have immunity to the diseases that we all have immunity to. A simple case of the flu could potentially kill every man, woman, and child on that island. Of course, as you said, who gives a shit about that though when we’re dealing with eternal salvation?! Fuck your eternal salvation. Cool people rot in hell.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/john-allen-chau-man-killed-by-tribe-north-sentinel-island-declare-jesus

American christian potentially spreads pathogens capable of killing an entire tribe of pre-contact indigenous people, all in the name of Jesus.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6044-new-independent-criterion-channel-to-launch-spring-2019

Criterion will be attempting their own streaming channel after TCM cancelled Filmstruck.

Not really.

The entirety of human history has left me cynical.

oojason said:

Though am I missing something between this and the thwarted far-right march in Liverpool today?
 

No, he’s just trying–and failing–to say that the leftwing is more anti-Semetic than the rightwing.

There’s a big career opportunity up for grabs for me and I’m nervous I’ll fuck it up. I have no idea if I’ll get the offer but I’ll know soon.