oojason

^ PM sent mate.

Croatia edged it for me - we stopped playing, dropped too deep - which gave Croatia space to play - and then couldn’t get back into the game - nor could we form an effective counter-attack.

Superb cross for their 1st goal, and nice bit of movement/anticipation from Mandzukic for the 2nd.
 

We’ll have the 3rd/4th Place Play-Off to look forward to ZigZig. Doh!

TM2YC sums it up well (I knew it’d be that scene before clicking on the link 😃).
 

Good luck to Croatia on Sunday.

Where’s my diary…
 

Edit - 26.5 million (40% of the UK population) tune in to watch England’s World Cup 2018 semi-final heartbreak on ITV - with many more watching at public venues etc

dahmage said:

You can only demote me if you can catch me

Dammit - I’m still blowing up this…

You pesky kids!

dahmage said:

anyone have that as a kid?

Sadly not mate - looks cool though 😃

I still want one of these for the spare room…

but nooooooo, the missus think it’s too childish. She’s too childish.

One day. One day…

screams in the void said:

Shira’s Story…https://www.deviantart.com/screamsinthevoid/art/Shira-s-Story-753921668?ga_submit_new=10%3A1531271998&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1

Was the picture of Shira based on anyone in particular mate? She resembles an actress I just can’t quite recall for some reason…

Love the cover by the way 😃

Handman said:

oojason said:

A monowheel, also known as the Dynasphere spherical car, in the UK in 1930…

Looks a lot of fun - not sure how good the forward vision would be on a busy modern road though 😉

Wussy side-car, I see… 😉

dahmage said:

A thread with only one page? cute.

Demoted for lack of nostalgia 😉

Stupid boring plastic lunchboxes of today - can hold a candle to these:-

Snoopy knows…
 

^ quality 😃

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

Unlucky ZigZig - I thought Belgium deserved to take that to extra-time or penalties, and created enough chances to do so. Wasn’t a big fan of France’s somewhat negative outlook/tactics at times (though unfortunately many teams seem to do it to ‘manage’ or ‘break-up’ the game), though that’s just me.

(I still naively pine for players like Socrates, and teams playing like Brazil in '82 - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eeb4p)

Some build-up for the England vs Croatia game tonight:-

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2018/jul/11/world-cup-2018-france-into-the-final-plus-croatia-v-england-buildup-live

(I think this may well go to extra-time and likely penalties…)

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^ PM sent mate

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

dahmage said:

Frank your Majesty said:

Because talking here about topics that have their own sub-forums would make the split even more pointless.

every subforum needs its own bitching thread.

and then we can have one bitching thread related to the multiple bitching threads.

Or should we just have a bitching sub forum ?

We don’t have enough of those already? 😉

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Mrebo said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

Is it for the season though?

old bay is for the season

Your posts should have commercial sponsors.

technically they do

Hi dahmaged. You’re doing a good job and I’ll be sure to note it on your next performance review.

I’m not surprised. dahmage deserves a promotion.

Major dahmage?

Anakin Starkiller said:

I’m seriously lost as to why there are now three off-topic categories.

From the ‘Forum category reorganization’ thread in the Announcements Section…

Jay said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Jay said:

TV’s Frink said:

Here’s my complaint (and with the caveat that I recognize this is an extreme first world problem)…I now have to click in even more locations to read all the topics I want to read.

Here’s my solution…create a global unread posts link. This exists on every other forum I’ve ever used, a request for one was the very first post I made here, and it’s been on the list (I believe) for nearly that long.

Please push it to the top of the list. Please.

There are other things that take priority right now, sorry.

You could always subscribe to the topics you want to read and see them sorted in order of latest reply on your subscription page.

Mainly, it’s really just the bifurcation of off topic that I find unnecessary.

Splitting Off Topic has been requested for a long time. Not everyone wants to wade through pages of junk topics filled with pages of junk posts. As I mentioned elsewhere, expect the typical stuff that went on in the old Off Topic to get moderated fairly heavily in the Media forum.

The tradeoff is that we’ll probably go a little lighter in The Cantina.

& also earlier in this thread too.
 

And so… Jay created a Media section. And it was good. 😉

This has worked out pretty well, and threads can be more easily found and discussed along with more relevant Media threads. A number of people didn’t want to go through what is now ‘The Cantina’ to find topics they wished to discuss.

The same for issues pertaining to news & current affairs, history, some general theory/ponderings, politics, religion and sport etc. So a new sub-forum - Culture - was created for those topics too.

As with the Media section, people may wish to discuss a certain issue in a specific thread. For example - if someone wanted to start a debate specifically on Socialism vs Libertarianism they could do outside of the unwieldy overlarge Politics thread - and hopefully it would stay on focused on the topic at hand, possibly (and hopefully) lifting the quality of conversation too.
 

It may a take a short while to get used to - but seems to make sense. Few people like change - yet despite a few quips, moans and grumbles, it seems to have gone fine so far. The Index threads for each of the 3 sections will hopefully be of some use too.

As far as I know, there are no plans for a 4th sub-forum (unless you include the long-running invisible ‘Members’ Invite-Only’ forum).

Jedit - there are no plans for a 4th sub-forum, I meant no plans. Doh! (unless you’re in the ‘Members’ Invite Only’ forum).
 

If you post that request in MagnoliaFan’s thread on his Edits, here:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Magnoliafan-Edits-Balance-and-Clone-War/id/987/page/33

I am sure someone will be able to help you out, mate 😃
 

Good luck to the Red Devils! 😃

^ enjoyed that, nice one!

In fact I enjoyed that too much - instead of doing the lawn - I’ll now be playing Jedi Outcast, likely followed by Lego Star Wars 😃

I thought it had just read one of paja’s posts and looked a little confused!

Just kidding paja - your dog looks like it has some character about it mate 😃

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

We have a forum for such things.
https://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Feedback-Forum/id/5

I’m pretty sure, based on past responses, it would be a waste of time.

Because there have been no updates & improvements of late, right?

Though I seem to recall Jay has seemingly addressed a lot of issues in there, yes?
 

It still doesn’t mean this is the new Feedback thread - take any suggestions, grumblings, and erm… feedback to where SilverWook linked to.

Stay on topic please folks - thank you 😃

DominicCobb said:

NFBisms said:

In a movie where Luke Skywalker of all people is presented as a jaded cynic - I don’t think Holdo is supposed to be perceived as in the right over Poe, fwiw.

Poe is a brash hotshot, sure, but don’t overthink it - Holdo as a leader definitely made huge mistakes. Everyone is at fault for what happens, but that’s partly why TLJ is so good to me. It’s been said to death, but the movie proposes this question specifically about what defines a hero, and Holdo isn’t exempt from that scrutiny imo.

Exactly. This is a film about failure. At no point are we supposed to believe that Holdo is a perfect, immaculate leader - in fact we purposefully spend most of the movie being lead to believe the opposite. What’s important when they flip the script is that Holdo’s heart was in the right place in regards to “saving” not “fighting.”

Seems pretty much spot on to me.

‘2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
 

& this wasn’t bad ether - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMTPHiDcIyU - seems they’ve done quite a wide range of music 😃
 

Mrebo said:

Ah, man - that’s now the voice and style of delivery when I’ll be reading your posts in the future 😃

(with an ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at the end of every post. Word to your mother.)

https://twitter.com/WeLoveDogsUSA/status/1016407864720674816

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1004834885519806464 (with a 2 minute video)

‘Studies show dogs prevent more burglaries than guns — so this campaign wants you to swap your gun for a shelter dog’

^ from the ever-brilliant Mark Hamill’s twitter page - https://twitter.com/HamillHimself

Collipso said:

i’m only one minute in and he’s already bashing everyone that doesn’t like the movie and saying that we don’t like it simply because our theories were wrong. that’s simply not true, i liked rey being a nobody, but i wish we had more information on Snoke to help bridge the 30 year gap and how we went from ‘RIP the empire’ to ‘RIP the rebels’ with a new extremely powerful emperor. we’re two movies in already and we have no idea why the galaxy is in the state it’s in, and Snoke’s “backstory” could help with that.

Yeah, you’re not going to get an explanation and info you seek from a video like that above, or likely many other fan opinion videos.

Even for more in-depth info for the Original Trilogy we had to wait years until the Prequels - or read books and comics sometime after the release of the OT. The same will likely happen for Snoke too - book and comics filling his backstory - though may be the new animated series or perhaps the new live action action tv series will give you the answers / more info.

I think HelloGreedo made some good points about that, in this video, here (3 and bit mins long):-

‘Missing Links, Star Wars Minutiae, and the Sequel Trilogy - [MORNING COFFEE]’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZzyOejH34

As to ‘i’m only one minute in and he’s already bashing everyone that doesn’t like the movie’… I did say the title of the video was likely referring to those those (somewhat over-emotionally) criticising it - mainly vloggers & youtubers etc, and contains a guy’s opinion in addressing some of their complaints.

‘The Best of the Quarter-Finals!’ video, from FIFA…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXuP661DSCo

I’d like to compliment the camera operators at the World Cup so far - some great shots of the crowd enjoying themselves - thankfully usually shown when the ball is not in play! 😃

Not just of erm… attractive women, but also images like this…