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Now that Keyser and I saved the thread, we'll accept Paypal.
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1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:
Crappy movies can be well made too.
Then they're not crappy. A movie's not crappy because you didn't like the characters. I loved them, and on a critical level, both can't be true. What we do know is that this:
is one of the most powerful moments in any of the movies because it's earned, and everything was put into place for that moment to matter.
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3 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:
I understand the arcs, but I don't like any of the characters. The music is always going to be good, the music was good in Episode 1, the worst star wars movie.
It was "good," and Duel of the Fates is a wonderful piece, but it didn't have enough music that really hit those high points like, say, The Last Jedi or The Spark. What I mean by that is DOTF is fantastic but is clearly standalone and could be put anywhere. It doesn't have a ton of music that really goes exactly with the scene and ebbs and flows with what's happening on screen.
Liking the characters is subjective. The fact that multiple characters have clear arcs in one movie is an achievement; we don't have to pretend the movie isn't anything other than well made.
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16 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:
Good advice for you to adhere to.
That's why I take the route of the light side and recognize TLJ as the seminal achievement it is.
But I don't even think you can quantify it as, "Only the cinematography is good." Then we're clearly not understanding the basics of character arcs, never mind some of the performances in the film or the music or being able to have actual payoffs instead of big moments that don't feel big.
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9 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:
I saw The Last Jedi once in theaters with my friends. I was the only one who came out enjoying it. Perhaps it was because The Force Awakens was so disappointing that my enjoyment was heightened. But it was certainly a movie I enjoyed less the more I didn't see it and think about it. Sayswho is right, it is beautiful to look at which I think heightens the enjoyment and perhaps distract you from the fact nothing else about the movie is good.
It’s okay to be completely wrong and not see obvious successes in setups/payoffs and ability to construct arcs with multiple characters.
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This goes into the McCarthy/ Trump thing.
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16 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:
Naww, its a great movie, but its not a great Star Wars movie.
See? I saved @Kal-El814 from more talk about what's his face by talking TLJ. It's a golden oldie that never fails!
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5 minutes ago, CayceG said:
I loved TLJ when it came out. Now I merely like it. It's been dragged down by the weaknesses of the films on either side of it though.
A great Episode 9 would have really done wonders, and it's a pity that nobody could build on some of the good ideas Trevorrow had.
But individually, it's a fine film, and I can watch 4 - 8 easy and think that's a great series on its own since TLJ has an ending that works as something new for the series.
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Dat cinematography
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3 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:
The worst part of this is that we had a thread talking about Star Wars that was interrupted by BEN SHAPIRO. Can we PLEASE rehash Rogue One not being necessary or Holdo or ANYTHING FUCKING ELSE. I’ll be your Extended Universe simp, daddy please, just make no him go away.
The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie.
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I really enjoy shopping at Best Buy and do most of my electronics shopping there. I actually read years ago -- maybe two or three -- that they were doing pretty well in this Amazon world where online shopping has gotten so much bigger. So I don't know if they're doing badly, or if it's just the realities of less in-foot traffic plus the pandemic.
The Best Buy credit card has also been hugely beneficial as it's so easy to rack up gift certificates.
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Also, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is selling REALLY well. It's one of the top 20 best-selling games in the US ever.
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State of the market
- January 2021 consumer spending across video game hardware, content and accessories achieved a January record $4.7B, 42% higher when compared to a year ago. Gains were achieved across all spending categories.
Content
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was January's best-selling game. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been the best-selling game in the U.S. each month since its November launch, and it now ranks as the 20th best-selling video game in U.S. tracked history.
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla was the 2nd best-selling game of January. When comparing each title's first 3 months of sales, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla is now the 2nd fastest selling Assassin's Creed franchise release in U.S. history, trailing only Assassin's Creed III.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons ranked as January's 5th best-selling title, the first time it has ranked among the top 5 since ranking 5th in July 2020. Animal Crossing: New Horizons repeated as the month's best-selling title on Nintendo Switch.
All platforms:
Playstation 4 and 5:
Xbox Series and One:
Switch:
Hardware
- Sales of video game hardware were 144% higher than January 2020, reaching $319 million. This is the highest total for a January month since the $323 million achieved in January 2011
- Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform in units sold for the month of January. Unit sales of Nintendo Switch were the highest of any platform in a January month since the Nintendo Wii in January 2010.
- PlayStation 5 was the best-selling hardware platform in dollars sold in January, with the highest dollar sales total for a January month since the Nintendo Wii in January 2009.
Accessories
- Spending on video game accessories reached a January record $222 million in the month, 73 percent higher when compared to a year ago. The Gamepad, Headset/Headphone and Steering Wheel segments all achieved new January dollar sales records.
- The PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller White was the best-selling accessory of January, while the PlayStation Pulse 3D Wireless Headset White was the best-selling Headset/Headphone.
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Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79
WWW.ROLLINGSTONE.COMChick Corea, the groundbreaking jazz pianist, has died of cancer at the age of 79.QuoteChick Corea, the virtuosic keyboardist who broadened the scope of jazz during a career spanning more than five decades, died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. A post on his Facebook page confirmed the news. Corea was 79.
“Throughout his life and career, Chick relished in the freedom and the fun to be had in creating something new, and in playing the games that artists do,” his family wrote in a statement. “Through his body of work and the decades he spent touring the world, he touched and inspired the lives of millions.”
“Chick Corea was the single greatest improvisational musician I have ever played with,” John Mayer, who had appeared with Corea onstage, wrote on Instagram. “Nobody was more open, more finely tuned to the moment, changing his approach with every new offering by the musicians around him. If you hit a wrong note, he’d immediately pick it up and play it as a motif so as to say ‘all of this has value, whether you see it or not.’ What an immeasurable loss in so many ways.”
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7 minutes ago, stepee said:
GOW2 ISNT THERE?!
I'm also thinking it's slipping to 2022.
But if I were assured that, hell yes, it's coming this year, then it would top the list easily.
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2 minutes ago, stepee said:
PHEW. I feel you though fam, this is my most looked forward to game right now since I don’t believe 2021 for GOW2.
Right now, it's Returnal for me, but between that, Ratchet, and Horizon Forbidden West (hope it makes 2021), they're all up there. We haven't really had a full-blown new Ratchet since the PS3, as fun as the PS4 remake was.
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1 hour ago, stepee said:
Worth it.
Just found out the trip isn't until June 20. I'M SAFE
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Fuck I think I'm taking a year delayed vacation at that time, FUCK, this sucks, what shit, I should just cancel everything so I can play
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17 minutes ago, SoberChef said:
George would NEVER sign up for this day & age's ideals, beliefs, or methods of exacting their pound of flesh at any length, no matter what. That, in & of itself, is tyranny.
No, the "bad take" is putting forth ones own personal interpretation & twisting that specific tweet. She wasn't wrong in the analogy. I, again, do not care about her mask/COVID beliefs, or who she supports politically, etc. She was rather astute in articulating the how & why things began to spiral out of control in Germany & with so many just over how the status quo was in Germany, in that time, the way things got turned about via a few who gained power & pushed their agenda forward & outward only in turn for the masses to just cow tail to it & allow it to happen. Sounds fairly familiar in the last decade on this side of the Ocean & then the masses on social media just further proved her point.
Wholly original...in like 2003. Just boil shit down to a failed attempt of a non-sequitur.
There’s nothing tyrannical about getting fired for making a bad Holocaust comparison.George 100% would sign up for thinking she’s a dumbass. The people who are fired for being racist, anti Semitic, anti immigrant, are the same people he explicitly said he doesn’t go after because they’re the underdogs. He believed in punching up, not down. Anyone who doesn’t understand this does not know about him.
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If people spent half as much energy defending, as George Carlin called them, the underdogs -- LGBT, minorities, women, immigrants, Jews -- as they did defending people who vote for people to fuck with their rights to vote or to be, things would be way better.
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The facial expressions of that cat...
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1 minute ago, Remarkableriots said:
Are we supposed to list the games we own we aren't playing today?
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Twitter to uphold permanent ban against Trump, even if he were to run for office again
WWW.NBCNEWS.COM“When you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform,” the company said.Quote“When you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform,” Twitter CFO Ned Segal told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday morning.
“Our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence,” Segal said. “He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.”
QuoteSegal also pushed back against claims that users may have fled to other social media platforms in response to Trump’s removal.
“We added 40 million people to our DAU [daily active user count] last year, and 5 million last quarter,” Segal said. “In January, we added more DAU than the average of the last four Januarys, so hopefully that gives people a sense for the momentum we’ve got from all the hard work we’ve done on the service.”
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~*The Capitol Hill Beer Belly Putsch Official Thread*~
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