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Post by RSCTom on Mar 12, 2018 8:48:20 GMT -5
This just keeps getting better and better! I love the idea that they're reversing roles and making Daniel kind of a smug a$$hole. A different direction that there's no way a major studio would have otherwise bought into as a continuation. I'm going to rewatch all these before this gets started!
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 8, 2018 9:05:39 GMT -5
Spice Girls. There I said it. I'm like the soccer mom in Small Soldiers. I don't want to like them but when one of their songs comes on I have to admit that I like it. This is me as well. Most of the universally 'hated' pop music I'm normally pretty into. No doubt there is garbage in the genre but there are also pretty easy/likeable melodies and sounds.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 7, 2018 13:11:41 GMT -5
I was really disappointed she wasn't in the reboot. Although, I thought the reboot was an absolute travesty anyway (but that's a conversation for another day). This is not a conversation for another day. This is a conversation for immediately. Also your points make sense! Cool to see your perspective.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 6, 2018 12:47:02 GMT -5
I feel lost & alone without this now How's Annie? Let's talk about that for a minute. Can someone explain the appeal of that character to me? I see why Lynch behaves the way he does since he didn't make her up and he sees it as kind of a nuisance but he still plays with it (my interpretation anyway). But people seem to LOVE her, LOVE Audrey, etc. Where does this come from? Is it just because we never got an answer to her wrapped up? What's the appeal of Annie who is basically just a smiley diner waitress? I 'kind of' see the appeal of Audrey but she was always more of a sleaze/brat to me. I wasn't shocked at all in how she was behaving in season 3 and people seemed to have been blown away by it.
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 26, 2018 12:35:20 GMT -5
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 21, 2018 12:06:24 GMT -5
So pumped. Hope we see Chewie with a clone helmet that he took after order 66. That would sell me on the movie
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 20, 2018 10:27:47 GMT -5
I rip music from cd's, convert to aac's and still load up an iPod with as much as I can. Other than that I'd purchase/download an mp3 album for sure and then convert that. Never have been able to get into Spotify and probably never will.
My gf has Alexa though and I will say it's pretty sweet to just ask for something and for it to start playing.
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 20, 2018 9:44:07 GMT -5
This looks awesome and I'm not even really a Karate Kid fan
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 16, 2018 13:05:31 GMT -5
As a mixed-race/half-black member of the forum I can speak to this, but maybe only with half the validity ![:D](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/grin.gif) . You can call out the Blade movies and you can call out the other supporting heroes but no one black character has headlined a movie with this level of exposure and projected popularity before in 'mainstream' box office cinema, ever. While I feel like this makes people predisposed to enjoy this movie maybe more than they should I understand it because up until this point it's obviously been Batman/Superman/Spider-Man that rule the world and they all have one thing in common for certain. Personally skin color has never made anyone less/more relatable to me. I love Luke Skywalker but I also love Prince Akeem in Coming to America on almost the same level but with a different emotion. I straight up grew up idolizing both men and never once thought about black or white so as an adult when that comes up it kind of makes me laugh because at 6 I really didn't care. To I think answer your question a character with this type of accessibility in the mainstream has never before been black. You can name Shaft or Django or just go up and down the line but Black Panther puts it on another level and the fact of the matter is studios STILL in this day and age have concerns putting money behind movies with an all black cast and this kind of transcends that so people have reason to be excited. That having been said most anyone here who has spoken to me knows I pretty much despise most of the Marvel movies but they're getting more and more bearable for me as time goes on and they worry less about back-story and more about just giving the main character an experience. In my opinion they still lack director's vision because of over-the-top necessities and studio input and that's my fear with Black Panther despite my minimal interest. So you are allowed to have other reasons for not being interested in the movie again because nothing other than 'we have a mostly black cast' makes this movie look like it's anything other than the same old Marvel song-and-dance, but I digress. If you were excited for Black Panther, go see the movie and enjoy it. I promise it may seem like people's excitement and overhyping (you're right in that it's a fictional movie and Cool Runnings is an empowering black film because it's based on a true story, but this isn't the world we live in. People like fictional superheroes and we all have to deal, begrudgingly) is going to last forever but it won't. There are silly/ignorant/exhaustingly stereotypical thoughts anytime something like this happens in the modern world and people like to consume those types of discussions. But you have made clear that you like the character and can enjoy it regardless of specifics that may matter to others, so you should do just that. You don't have to be a part of the conversation and if someone forces you to be, your thoughts are fair as long as you maintain that you are a colorblind human being which it sounds like you are. Let us all know how it is! ![:)](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/smiley.gif)
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 7, 2018 14:50:18 GMT -5
www.polygon.com/2018/2/7/16985512/disney-star-wars-marvel-netflix-streamingThoughts on more television (and ultimately a GoT creator trilogy since it doesn't look like anyone has mentioned that yet)? For me it is definitely way beyond anything that would carry my interest. I am super into the Skywalker core episodes and that story arc but I can't imagine there will be anything beyond this that will catch my attention (other than if the Obi-Wan/Cast Away ever gets made). That article pretty much sums up what I think a lot of us have felt and spoken about (or at least I have over the years) with oversaturation and bloat/fatigue or whatever you want to call it. Weird because you never think it would happen with Star Wars. Ultimately I think there might be a gem here and there over the years but I will be moving on after 1-9 are complete and I'm good with just enjoying those only. I know it isn't really of the same mind but I've been basically only enjoying the first Turtles movie for like 20 years haha. So this isn't too much more difficult. What do y'all think?
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 7, 2018 12:32:01 GMT -5
I feel lost & alone without this now
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Post by RSCTom on Feb 5, 2018 10:05:12 GMT -5
That teaser did absolutely nothing for me. Doesn't look even remotely close to a young Harrison Ford. I think that's the hardest thing to swallow about it is it's just hard to make a connection without some remote resemblance other than "he likes to say different versions of the 'we're all fine here, how are you' line". Even beyond this, Han Solo is goofy and mostly full of crap to those around him. This made him look like some dashing swashbuckler and it's just hard to accept. But really you can get over most of that if you are straight up looking at the guy and he looks more like Harrison Ford. Any movie that's made outside of the core episodes should be going out of its way to have a painstaking consistency in reference to those characters or it's just too difficult to eat. Then again I couldn't handle the CG Tarkin and Leia, either, so who knows. I feel like Rian Johnson did something to this effect in Looper (which I have not seen)? Anyone see this? Couldn't they have at least tried an approach like that?
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 29, 2018 21:54:21 GMT -5
Meh, it won't be like that forever. And you go because you, I don't know, care? I can't speak for candidates but were it me (as a normal person running and not a politician) I'd probably go out of my way to go to as many places as possible to see the entire breadth of it all. People in those locations are more connected than they ever have been. You can say that their votes won't matter in that respect but they have access to information and the ability to keep themselves from being disconnected, in the dark and uninformed, not just about the country but about things in life. People choose to live their pretend lifestyles and stay hidden. My issue with it is them trying to dictate the way the rest of the world works so they can live in a bubble. Stepping out of their bubble, their 'popular vote' would matter just as much. Really it gets down to belief systems and I hate to say it but I don't really think it'll ever be improved until people are more aware and less concerned with religions and weird, old school existences. For the record I wouldn't vote for someone that I saw blatantly only campaigning in certain areas, essentially stating that those are the only areas that matter. I think it's naïve and pessimistic to assume that someone running for office wouldn't visit areas with lower populations because they really only need to win NY or LA, but it's pretty naïve of me and overly optimistic to assume they would. Just so it's out in the open and because I'm not really ashamed of it I'm pretty liberal with political leanings and did not vote in the last election. Why would you not? If you told me I only had to get 75 million votes to become President, why should I spend any time in Podunk Alabama or Backwoods Vermont? Ill hit the biggest cities with the largest populations. You could spend months traveling the state of Tennessee and get every 6mil vote. While your opponent spends their time in the City of Los Angeles and gets all 8mil votes. Honestly, because you're a decent human being, bro. I feel like were you in that position (which obviously would be unprecedented) I'd hope that you would care a lot more to show that type of humility instead of heading straight to the 'safe zones'. I'd really hope that anyone in that position would but to your point I don't think it's a given. And I guess if you really want to look at the math of it, Podunk, Alabama and Backwoods, Vermont both would likely have similar ideals so their groupings would be just as important.
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 29, 2018 21:50:53 GMT -5
I'm sick of Florida, New Hampshire and Ohio deciding the election. I am in Massachusetts and my vote doesn't matter so I don't vote. The EC is outdated, unnecessary and from another time. 1.) Your vote does count. 2.) Do you know how the electoral college works? I ask because I have found that the only people who say this are the ones who don't understand it. I explained as simply as I could why the U.S. uses the electoral college, and how it works. If you could, read the first post on the first page and tell me exactly and specifically where you disagree. Why exactly do you think the Electoral College is outdated and unnecessary, and what do you think it should be replaced with? And please do not come back and say the popular vote. I've already explained why the popular vote is terrible. If you don't agree, please explain why. I'll bite I guess. I'm into your layout and I appreciate you explaining democracy but I am in agreement that Constitutional Republic is probably the best way to describe it. Either way Scenario 1, broken down 'mathematically' I guess like you have, what's our statistical likelihood of such a thing happening? You're breaking down the numbers but you haven't said anything in relation to the thought process and personal interests. All these people (let's say selfishly) want to be president of the company but only one is goofy enough to follow the lead of the most boastful option (I don't think that's what you were trying to lay out but I'm going off their real life personalities because why not). If we're going to consider voting to be 'president of a company' the same way we have children vote as to who is president of the treehouse, then sure, let's go for it and it won't turn out like we're hoping. I'm still feeling the same pull from scenario 2. Personal interests are more involved but they are based upon ideals and aspects that I don't think match up directly with our needs and wants as real life human beings. It's a good analogy but I just have to say that I feel things are more complicated than saying on a very basic level 'sales, protection and moving forward'. Your second scenario also assumes that there are pieces/parts/groups of the country who contribute to the overall being and foundation of what it takes to move forward solely based on the fact that they vote. There's no geographical portion of the country or even idealistic portion of the country that effects how and where the country moves forward in the way you're saying in my opinion. Again I like the explanation but too much weakness for me to take the math of it as gospel, sorry. I appreciate you laying it out, though. To answer your question I do know how it works but I don't think the popular vote completely disintegrates the voice of those outside of hub locations like you say it does. My vote doesn't matter because I live in a blue state where I would vote blue. A red vote matters in my state, a blue vote does not. 5 blue votes matter and 10 blue votes matter (I'd even say 3 matter) but my one is not going to affect the outcome of an election as long as I live in Massachusetts and the majority voice stays the same under any circumstance, ever. The only way my vote will have an affect is if I move to a red state or a swing state. The electoral college may have more diverse voices now but it used to represent people with very specific interests in mind which I don't need to detail and represent people at a time when the country could barely stay connected and it used to speed things up because we needed to deliver votes on f*cking horseback and patience in that scenario obviously could have gotten the country hurt, 100 years removed from a time when 30,000 people sneaking into a location on boats with knives could have made a significant impact in taking over someone else's land. Everyone has their reasoning for why they vote. I have lived in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Massachusetts and New York and been cognizant enough, at different stages of life to really hear and listen people's reasoning for voting and that for me is where the issue lies. To be honest I would be fine with the system if there hasn't been an election stolen by people with old world, outdated ideals, twice. I really can't think anything else other than the idea that until (R) voters have an election 'stolen' in the same way from them they won't wise up to it. You stated in your original post you didn't want to suggest who is good, right or better but that's really what it is, I hate to say. I can't seriously be in favor of a system where someone who not just thinks, but thinks it's ok to legitimately argue that the Earth is only 5000 years old, and THEN thinks it's seriously ok to let that influence their vote to affect the well being, lifestyle and existence of law-abiding, good people (including their own neighbors!) gets an enhancement to their voice and their bizarre dictations of how they think others should be living their lives and that's just what the electoral college does in its current state. Just like, if it were in the state of your first or second scenario, it would cater to those specific thoughts as well. To that point, I am in agreement that I should not be dictating the lives of those who live in Alabama or wherever but this is where the popular vote is even more important. If we stick to the two party system as a decent representation of our ideals (which I think we can despite the fact that Hillary Clinton was not my preferred candidate - I would have easily voted for her) there are roughly 729,000 people who at least tried to vote in Alabama basically held down by the 1.3 million people who voted against what I consider more worthwhile ideals. They are basically completely silenced as those 1.3 million people keep teaching their children that their God is more important, that the military are the end all be all of existence and that 20-35 people should be the richest people on the planet and dictate the capitalist market to favor themselves only and that with enough hard work and determination, they will be #36 (I am a huge capitalist and don't want to give my money to anyone, ever, for the record and I still can see the imbalance). Again I'm generalizing but you get the idea. It's funny because I heard some liberal woman say one time that if I wanted to truly 'make an impact' I should move to Arkansas and teach in the public school system and I find that honestly obnoxious and insulting because it's not my responsibility to teach other people's kids basic common sense in relation to the world around them. That's not what making it in the country is founded on. Selfish of me but whatever. November 2016 -to- Now has only made me happy to be on the right side of history when the insane things that not only people are ok with lying about, but ok with brainwashing others and taking advantage of the, I don't want to say less intelligent, but more easily influenced voter are more prominent and more accepted than ever. It has always been around but it's being accepted and sometimes I wonder if people just feel more comfortable pretending that others don't think the same way they do. The key is that if those same people would RELAX for 10 minutes and get to know someone different they'd probably be able to have a quick conversation and realize that no one is trying to take their mind bubble from them, they just want to be able to create their own bubble and live in their own world with no one forcing them into any sort of direct thought. But when it comes to the things they think are 'right' and 'good', they need to take a good look in the mirror and really ask themselves whether or not those things are true and I think that is difficult for a lot of people. This may make me an A$$h0le but just like the filter is off for conservative leaning folk, the filter is off for me as well. I do not want any semblance of anyone's religion, no matter how right or 'good' they think it is, to dictate my life. It is not one nation under God. I'd be ok with one nation under faith but I'm more okay with just 'one nation', emphasis on the one. This is very hard for certain people to understand as they continue to fight for and advocate treasonous statues and then have the audacity to point at me, the great, great grandson of a slave and tell me it's tradition. These people do not vote the same way I do and I'd honestly die for their right to a voice and I'm a major freedom of speech advocate (way beyond most conservatives and liberals) but anyone who votes alongside them that may not agree with them baffle me as to how they can stand shoulder to shoulder with such thoughts. (The rebuttal here is usually that there are 'left wing' extremists who are just as bad but my ideals are much, MUCH more disconnected from them than most conservatives I've discussed this with are disconnected from conservative extremists.) No, I do not want people that think like that to have a representative voice as a group to compete with people who have fair, modern ideals (many Republicans, Democrats, all kinds of people) and are moving the world forward instead of backwards. Until those ideals are dead. So no, I don't feel like the system is defensible and I'd rather my single vote counted just as much as the single vote of someone in Alabama who thinks if I get my girlfriend pregnant and decide to discuss not keeping the baby with her in a healthy, realistic timeframe that it's anything other than a medical procedure and anything other than mine and her business. The truth is we are not a math equation and even with 'less informed' and 'super intelligent' people in the same place, human beings have complex thoughts and I don't have a good answer to a solution. I know the answer is not the system in place right now. I know that was a lot so thanks for taking the time to read, whoever does.
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 29, 2018 20:50:30 GMT -5
I'm sick of Florida, New Hampshire and Ohio deciding the election. I am in Massachusetts and my vote doesn't matter so I don't vote. The EC is outdated, unnecessary and from another time. If you go by the popular vote then your vote doesnt matter. Why should I as a presidential candidate go to your city in Mass that has say 50k people when I can just push myself in LA, NY and Chicago and get 30 million votes. Meh, it won't be like that forever. And you go because you, I don't know, care? I can't speak for candidates but were it me (as a normal person running and not a politician) I'd probably go out of my way to go to as many places as possible to see the entire breadth of it all. People in those locations are more connected than they ever have been. You can say that their votes won't matter in that respect but they have access to information and the ability to keep themselves from being disconnected, in the dark and uninformed, not just about the country but about things in life. People choose to live their pretend lifestyles and stay hidden. My issue with it is them trying to dictate the way the rest of the world works so they can live in a bubble. Stepping out of their bubble, their 'popular vote' would matter just as much. Really it gets down to belief systems and I hate to say it but I don't really think it'll ever be improved until people are more aware and less concerned with religions and weird, old school existences. For the record I wouldn't vote for someone that I saw blatantly only campaigning in certain areas, essentially stating that those are the only areas that matter. I think it's naïve and pessimistic to assume that someone running for office wouldn't visit areas with lower populations because they really only need to win NY or LA, but it's pretty naïve of me and overly optimistic to assume they would. Just so it's out in the open and because I'm not really ashamed of it I'm pretty liberal with political leanings and did not vote in the last election.
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 29, 2018 17:02:56 GMT -5
I'm sick of Florida, New Hampshire and Ohio deciding the election. I am in Massachusetts and my vote doesn't matter so I don't vote. The EC is outdated, unnecessary and from another time.
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 26, 2018 10:09:23 GMT -5
Looks like I'm moving back to New York!
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 26, 2018 9:45:48 GMT -5
Hahah
Ugh.
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 24, 2018 12:43:26 GMT -5
Dammmnnnn ittttttt ![:(](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/sad.gif)
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Post by RSCTom on Jan 18, 2018 12:39:02 GMT -5
I love the Cranberries and this for sure sucked. I was planning on seeing them last fall but the show was canceled.
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