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#263683
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why does vader say obi wan has trained u well ?
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I've always imagined that Vader assumed that if Yoda was still alive, he would be on Alderaan with Bail Organa, as he helped Yoda escape - so he would consider him dead. Palpatine clearly saw that Yoda escaped alive, and made no further attempts to hunt him down and destroy him... Maybe he knew that as a CGI character he could fight back, but as a Frank Oz puppet he could only speak and use the force to levitate things!

Regarding the "Obi Wan has taught you well", I always thought "well he didn't say much to Luke", but he didn't know about Luke's trainning with Yoda. Not much of a plot hole, but a gross missasumption by Vader, even considering Obi Wan was killed by himlself years before ESB.
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#263103
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Did Anyone go shopping today?
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I also disagree. Nintendo is going through a path of true inovation here, and has the best system for this new generation. You can see how Sony rushed a (somewhat poor) gyroscope on it's controller in order to try to move a little bit towards this new path - Nintendo pretty much dictates the video game industry standarts since the early 80s, and things won't change now.

Good games are coming for the system, which I belive will be the #1 worldwide, not only in Japan, for years to come.
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#262907
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Did Anyone go shopping today?
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I got a Wii at the local release date, November 30th (yay for early pre-selling), but the second wiimote and nunchaku only came last week... It's quite fun to play it with two people. Right now Zelda is taken my sleep out, I did not finish it yet due to being a bad player and not having much time to play, one or two hours a day at most - but it won't take long I presume. Next month WarioWare Smooth Moves is being released on the western markets and that is a must-have, along of course with Mario Galaxy in March...
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#262905
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President Gerald Ford RIP
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
At least he had the satisfaction of knowing that he was the longest-lived President in history.


Which might bring some aprehension to mr. Jimmy Carter, being 82 years old, odds are he'll live 10 more years tops (unless he breaks the record himself).

Oh, RIP btw. He's the post-Kennedy US president I know the least about.
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#262504
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Dominoes or Pizza Hut?
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: JediSage
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Pizza Hut is by far my favorite american fast food franchise, but it has been a while since I last had one, I'd say a full year... I'm trying to control my eating habits so it might be a while since I have another one...


Are there any in Brazil, Ric? What other franchises are there? I always love hearing the differences between the American and "foreign" (to me) versions of fast food, ever since the conversation about the Le Big Mac and the Royale with Cheese in Pulp Fiction.


Ha! Are you kidding? The commercial empire of America invades all boarders. No where is safe from the banner of the Golden Arches of Triumph! Ever heard the song "Amerika" by Rammstein? I love that song for how very true the commercialization part is, which is the only part in English. Very wisely they switch over to German when complaining about America being world police. That way it had the chance to become a popular radio song and at the same time not offend unilingual patriotic Americans. But I still like the song.


While I oppose north america's politics in almost every way, and I've clearly pointed out what and why, I do enjoy the "commercial" part of america and I'm not against a "cultural invasion". I belive north america's role in the world is to save us from bad movies and bad food (and the British, music and comedy).
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#262456
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Dominoes or Pizza Hut?
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I'm trying to cut the burgers from my diet, but if I had to chose between BK and McDs, I'd pick BK. Way better.

McDs also had a quick decline on their populatity. While still quite popular and easy to find around here, it's not like it used to be in the 80s - maybe because I was a kid back then. Now they offer water (they didnt back then!), fruit juice (although artificial), salads and stuff like that, and even apples. They started serving breakfast here a couple of years ago, but I cannot imagine eating breakfast at a McDonalds. Yuck.

The best burger and the worst burger I've ever eaten were both in the USA...
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#262430
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Dominoes or Pizza Hut?
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Are there any in Brazil, Ric? What other franchises are there? I always love hearing the differences between the American and "foreign" (to me) versions of fast food, ever since the conversation about the Le Big Mac and the Royale with Cheese in Pulp Fiction.


There's Pizza Hut in Brazil for about 15 years and it's quite popular, although they closed a lot of stores about 5 years ago. I used to work close to a Pizza Hut and I would bring one home every thursday. My favorite is the Super Supreme, but besides that one and pepperoni, all the other flavors are local ones, including a local cheese called catupity.

There's McDonalds since the late 70s... Although some of the hamburgers are not the same... Big Mac is called a Big Mac, but a Quarter Pound with Cheese is called a "Quarteirão com Queijo". The word quarteirão means "street block", so it's a nonsensical name ("com queijo" meaning with cheese). McDonalds is huge here, almost as popular as in America... The small differences are: you can order fruit juice or Guaraná soda with your burger

There's Burger King since 2004, they started small but they are opening a lot of new stores, and putting ads on the TV. The burgers are called the same...

What else... We used to have Arbys here in the mid 90s but they closed. Same for KFC, there aren't any anymore. I've seen only one Dominoes store, in my home town, I don't know if there are any others...

We have local franchises as well, such as Bobs (burgers) and Habibs, which is a popular fast food franchise with an arab-food theme - although they serve burgers and pizza as well. Habibs is spreading into other countries as well, they would open a store in America, but picture this... an arab themes fast food chain store... set to be open on September 12th, 2001. Needless to say, they gave up and closed the location, moving the store's logistic and plans to Argentina.
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#262224
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The Persecution Season is Heating Up
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Today's example:

A fourth-grader from St. Louis, MO was disciplined 3 times for praying quietly over their food during lunch time. The student's mother filed suit and a religious rights public interest law firm handled their case. When the issue came to light the school district insisted the child was disciplined for other issues not related to the prayers, however the law firm testified with four sworn statements from witnesses that the student was not disciplined for any other reason. The case was settled out of court.


I simply cannot belive this... Unbelivable...