Alpha1Cowboy

Plot holes or Fortunate Coicidences galore...but a fun movie.  Say what you want about the kiss (still on the fence myself) but they sold their sexual tension almost but not quite as good as Han and Leia.....and like 100X better than Portman and Christianson.  

Really like that they added the young  Luke and Leia training sequence.   So many people went into the new trilogy confused about that and probably would have been better if JJ had done that in TFA.

I do wish Chewie had died.....it was like the whole Marion Ravenwood psyche out in Raiders unfortunately but would have played into their vision of Rey having to deal with her relation to the force and I wish C3PO had lost his memories for good.  

But I get it....just like the OT they weren't into killing off characters because it's a family film.

On 12/19/2019 at 3:21 PM, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Saying you don't know who she is is like saying you don't know who George Lucas is. I didn't watch Star Wars until my mid 20s and I still was well aware of the guy all my life. 

 

Being outraged all the time can get really exhausting. There's so much to be angry about, I have to try to put things in perspective. 

He's just trying to be extra..of course he knows who she is in general.  She's the woman who cribbed a lot of stuff from Diana Wynne Jones....lol

caught up on The Connors...  especially liking the Katey Sagal, John Goodman Laurie Metcalf interactions.

some really good television...spoilers, but one of the better scenes I've seen on television this year

5 hours ago, sblfilms said:

Good, I’ve wanted to play it but I just can’t bring myself to play games on that PS4 controller.

I got the Astro C40 and immediatly started attacking my backlog ....my hands just don't like symmetrical sticks. 

The Show on Switch would be awesome.

I think hands down the winner for me is No Mans Sky updates.....like 2 entirely new games 

Playing it in VR is just a blast

So...Egon's Grandkids?

21 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

 

I graduated with no debt and wouldn't feel insulted at all. Heck, if there was a national forgiveness program in my 20s, more of my friends could have done shit with me since they wouldn't have been buried in student loan payments. And with the candidates proposing student loan forgiveness being more apt to want to make college more affordable in general, perhaps more people who are worried about future debt would see more avenues to afford college.

 

Many who don't graduate with debt are rich, anyway. I knew all too many of them. Me, I was just lucky that my parents wanted me to set up a savings account in 4th grade.

 

One of the biggest things we need to change is the conversation around these issues. It's the same as the #FightFor15. "Why do they deserve $15 an hour when I don't get paid that much?!" The conversation shouldn't revolve around more people suffering with us. The conversation should be, "Why is everyone getting paid so little while there's a political party fighting to death so that rich fuckers get more and more and more with massive, towering tax cuts?"

Exactly....I graduated right as they rolled out the new MGIBill which straight up pays for a 4 year degree and also gives a stipend of around 1200 a month.   My MGIBill barely covered any of it and I had to take out loans......but that's why I gave testimony to change the MGIBill because even though it wouldn't neccessarily help me I knew it would help tens of thousands of future veterans getting out of the service avoid piling on huge debt.

Even with my degree I earn more and pay much higher taxes than I would have without it versus many of my relatives back home in Minnesota who basically work jobs like asphalting and road construction and get most of what they pay in back.  

I suggested to my kids they start a business.....take a 60K loan...and if it fails...at least you can walk away with little damage done.

On 11/19/2019 at 2:00 AM, sblfilms said:

I’m pretty sure they didn’t want to spoil the Baby Yoda thing with merchandising leaks. They didn’t even screen the first episode for critics to avoid that leaking.

This is exactly it.   A lot of leaks occurred around the toy lines for the mainline star wars films and Disney higher ups were asked not to produce advanced toy lines to keep the spoiler from leaking and they complied and it worked

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Pittsburgh Steelers (+3.5) at Cleveland Browns
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Steelers FG

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Browns

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Bears/Rams

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100-149

5) Call the winners:
 

NY Jets

Jacksonville

Philadelphia

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Tampa Bay

7) Escape Velocity - Name the player that will record the highest top speed for a scoring play in Week 11 ($3,000 for the right player)

Dalvin Cook

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Dalvin Cook   Michael Thomas

Week 10 Feature Game
San Diego  $3000

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Chargers TD

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Chargers

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Tyler Lockett Seattle

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NY Giants at NY Jets
Kansas City at Tennessee
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Cleveland

NY Giants

KC

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1

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Brett Kern

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Dalvin Cook     Min      Michael Thomas NO

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New England Patriots (-3.5) at Baltimore Ravens
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Ravens FG

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2

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Over

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Arizona

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Detroit at Oakland
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh
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Houston

Detroit

Indianapolis

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Yes

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Dallas

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Dalvin Cook   Kenny Golliday

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

That was the point.

Except...in the context of a glactic war.....that shit don't make sense.  Especially one where the government literally got destroyed the previous couple days prior.   Look at the hit to the US Stock market when something small like 9/11 happened.    Anticipating market chaos, panic selling and a disastrous loss of value in the wake of the attacks, the NYSE and the Nasdaq remained closed until September 17, the longest shutdown since 1933

You have a freaking war going on where the First Order just obliterated several planets....the entire galaxy should have been reeling wondering who or whats next.  Sure you're got a wealth...because you own a planet full of of coaxium......but do you?   Maybe the First Order owns it now.....you're not rich anymore. In times of war...especially at the beginning....uncertainty causes the wealthy to withdraw and batten down the hatches....not go all Kardashian.

 When Lando was running the tibanna gas operation in Cloud City....that was a far more realistic approach to how successful business operated under the empire.  I'm not saying you have to go deep into the nuts and bolts of how war works...but it made no sense.  

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

I love Ackbar, but he’s a meme. That’s it. Holdo is an actual character. Like her, don’t like her, whatever. But let’s not kid ourselves about what Ackbar was.

 

This is nonsense. The only context we needed in ANH was an opening crawl and some lines from Tarkin. That’s it. At the end of that movie, a space station the size of a moon that had been under construction for almost 20 years gets blown up... and the Empire doesn’t miss a fucking beat.

 

The context you want has never been in the movies. Never. The ST is no different in this regard.

I disagree....that's what undermined Episode 1-3...they pulled the camera too far out on the Space Opera of the politics and war form afar and we lost the more intimate connections we had come to be used to in the Original Trilogy.....

And yet when ESB starts we get this

It is a dark time for the
Rebellion. Although the Death
Star has been destroyed,
Imperial troops have driven the
Rebel forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded Imperial
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Luke Skywalker
has established a new secret
base on the remote ice world
of Hoth.

The evil lord Darth Vader,
obsessed with finding young
Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space....

That crawl shows that time has passed and a much better desriptor of where we are at....the Rebels have moved operations off planet to an entirely new place and 3 years have passed.    3 years is missing a beat......because at the end of TFA its mere days before TLJ.  

The whole thing very much felt like the fight between the Resistance and New Order was happening in a vacuum where they were the only ones affected.   No one on Canto Bight seemed to even care. or be affected in any way which seems kinda weird considering theNew Republic Govement had just been completely destroyed....which should have some effect 

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Philadelphia

Green Bay

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Aaron Rodgers (Packers)

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Leonard Fournette (JAX)     Michael Thomas (NO)

14 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

Attachment to a character should not be based on the amount of times you have watched a movie. Ackbar has all of 4 minutes of screen time in RotJ. Any onscreen reason you have to be attached to Ackbar is multiplied tenfold by Holdo because she actually serves a purpose in the development of one of the main characters. A claim Ackbar cannot make.

To be fair..my attatchment to Ackbar is because I went as him in one of those boxed store bought  Haloween costumes when I was a kid in the fall of 83..... (he was an important enough character to get a  mainline Halloween costume.)     I mean....look at Bobba Fett for a character with little screen time and huge popularity....hell...just based on Bobba and his background we've got out first live action Star Wars TV series. 

Holdo meanwhile is brought in as this tactical military leader...and she makes a huge military blunder at the end.  When you're fighting  a war..you don't sacrifice you're most indispensable leaders unnecessarily when a much lower ranking human or robot will do.  (But that's more of an argument about how certain directors have no idea how a military works) 

As for fan service....so is Spiderman in Civil War....but people loved that shit.   I'd argue that its also not fan service when there is continuity......Ackbar was the Admiral that oversaw and ran the space naval engagement against the 2nd Death star.    It makes sense for him to be leading the resistance.  As much as I love the smaller intimate story within Star Wars.....I also love the bigger War movie.....thats what made Saving Private Ryan so great.....you had this smaller story going on against the backdrop of a larger war which you get to see as in the opening D-Day invasion.  It's also an element that made people really like Rogue One

As for the  Alien representation thing.....  In the OT it is represented.....Ackbar and the Mon Cal were represented as this brilliant tactical race of aliens and Bothans were critical in running Covert Ops and wookies were considered non sentient by the Emperor and allowed to become slaves within the inner core systems. 

Probably the biggest mistake  I feel that might have been best avoided by Johnson was setting the 2nd movie so close to the first timeline wise.   It really hurt not fully understanding the context of this war within the galaxy it's set in.  

1 hour ago, TwinIon said:

Having Holdo do it is kinda super important to the whole story. If you have Ackbar, there's immediately a sense of authority that comes along with him, and the confrontations between Holdo and Poe would no longer feel nearly as ambiguous. It's also an emotional moment, and I'd much rather have Laura Dern in that role than a fish man that can hardly emote.

Considering the confrontations between Poe and Holdo were entirely contrived in the first place as merely a means to develop his character at her expense....I'd be fine with that.   They just neededa way to show Poe growing into a leader and then when that was done disposing of her character. 

Also...it would have fit better with Ackbar since the Empire was the one that had a thing against non humanoid Officers......and that's what made the Rebellion/Resistance distinctive.   Johnson never understood that aspect of Star Wars at all.

22 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

I've seen this complaint consistently... "why didn't they use a droid to suicide run the Starship into The First Order's fleet?" I have a question about that... How many times in the history of these films have we seen a droid fly ANYTHING without a humanoid partner? Not talking about the Droid pilots in Phantom Menace (they were controlled by that big station Anakin destroyed anyway) Has it been established that Droids can fly ships alone in The Star War?

Count Dooku's ship the Solar Sailer was flown by a droid in the series.   IG-88 flew the IG 2000.   (We don't see him fly it in ESB, but he's at the meeting with Vader and we know the other bounty hunters flew there in their own ships ala Bobba Fett abd Slave One)     

Also..Obi Wan is quoted as saying 

I mean....even having Ackbar do it would have been better rather than introducing Holdo

9 hours ago, Bacon said:

I hope that C-3PO line isn't in the movie. I didn't like it, and can't recall him having anything to do with this new cast. The power of friendship is fuckin lame. That shit only works in Kid's cartoons. I hope C-3PO dies. 
 

He could have had they replaced Admiral Holdo with him in the last film (which would have made far more sense).....now that would have been a great send off to his character.  

I literally turned Horizon Zero Dawn down to Easy and I'm still only a quarter way thorugh it...played for like 7 hours last weekend.....I'm just really slow at these game

On 10/4/2019 at 10:34 AM, Emblazon said:

Being able to view content at a 4K resolution on a 6” screen is comparable to going from a 1” penis to a 2” penis... doubling in size you’d think it makes a difference, but it doesn’t. 

I don't need 4K.... I just want to at least be able to get to 1440P on a 6.8 inch screen.  I definitely noticed the increased sharpness and broader color gamut while testing side by side. The Youtube 4K Costa Rica video is perfect for doing the test btw  For the same price..why not get more lol.....that's like saying you don't want a 90hz display over a 60hz display in your phone at the same price point.  

On 9/21/2019 at 9:33 PM, Remarkableriots said:

@Alpha1Cowboy How do you like the Galaxy Note10+ so far? I'm thinking about getting one next month.

I love it.   The fast USB-C charger in the box takes it form 0 to full in an hour and 10 minutes.  I can go to 60% in a half hour.  The screen is pure sex....it would have been 11 out of 10 if it had 90hz refresh though..but it's nice to watch Youtube video at higher quality than on iPhone.  Pixel 4 looks like it's shaping up to be a winner too.

Double Posting....Story Time

Wow...so still torn and on the fence I showed up at Verizon at 9:45 Am this morning 15 minutes before it opened.....there were 2 guys in line....thats it.  Last year same location about 30 people and the year before over 100.    

So anyway..we go in and I start looking at my options and they don't have the Midnight Green in stock at all......so I was like..this is a sign....told the guy tell ya what....get me the Samsung Note10+.  Apple can fuck off for the year. I've got an iPad that I like so I'm not leaving the park....just the Wild iPhone Ride.

The last non Apple phone I had was the Galaxy S3.  

Anyway....I was just feeling super pissed at Apple today

No USB-C Charging

Still can't view higher than 1080P video on Youtube

No attempt to shrink the Notch

Kudos on WiMax6 in device, but the radios still suck and reception in buildings is a pain. 

Apple Needs to get its shit together and stop beefing with Qualcom, Samsung, and all their other vendors.

Next Year I'll go back to Apple if I see things like

USB-C Charging

No Notch

App Support for Google Stadia or MS XCloud  

5G

90hz display

And now I have to watch some Youtube to figure out how to set this phone up right.  

Last year there were 5 iPhone users on my plan..  now there's only 1 and obce the pixel 4 comes out....0.   Apple you got some work to do.

PS :Apple Arcade is awesome on my iPad

Did you get it? I e got the Alienware because it looked better at MicroCenter when I did head to head. I had to manually set it to 120hz though but that was just a one time thing

I'm suprising my wife with this one.....did it last year with Game Night..and that was a fantatstic funny movie that came out of nowhere

what i really want to know.....is if XCloud gonna work with Apple phones.....clearly google is gonna drop stadia on Pixels first..and then rollout to other Android phones...but will it or XCloud work with iPhone or iPad....i use Moonlight right now and PS4 can stream games from anywhere to my iPAD, but Steam was cut off.