One last thing.

I think I noticed something that no one else in this thread did.

At the very start of the movie Rose's sister is the pilot for one of the bombers that were trying to destroy the Dreadnought. Correct me if I'm wrong but the bay doors open out into space so the bombs can drop onto the ship. How exactly was Rose's sister in that area and not suffocating? She even fell and got knocked out for a bit. She should have been dead BEFORE dropping the bombs. Makes no sense.

Oh I guess I liked that hacker guy.

When he took the deal with the Order and Finn was like "you're wrong about the Resistance" or whatever.

I liked his line. "Maybe." *shrug*

He was just like yeah well I got paid so I'm not bothered about your struggle for control of the Galaxy. Later.

Just made me laugh when I would have otherwise been annoyed because again that whole plot was pointless and stupid.

I mean was it forced so that Finn could have a showdown with Phasma? Was that it?

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The problem I had with TLJ is how they introduce all these force powers and offer no understanding to the viewers.  They just plop it in the lap and say "deal with it."  The average viewer can't make that leap, it's not believable.  I'm speaking specifically about Leia Spacewalker and Luke Mindtosser. 

What Luke did I am kind of sort of ok with. I imagine it as something that basically killed him. He went overboard and he paid for it. Leia is still human so not only was she on the bridge that exploded and that alone should have killed her or made her unconscious (it did) but she was in space and shouldn't have been able to breathe (she couldn't). It's not so much that she flew to the ship that bothers me as the fact that she should have been dead before she could even do that.

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But now every person must ask themselves, "if this was always an option, why in the everloving hell didn't someone do this to the death star or any other ship ever?"  If they want to debut it as "new tech" then again, they need to offer an explanation

Maybe only big ships can do it? Yeah I dunno it was kind of dumb to do.

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Not a believable character.  I don't care how few people are left in the rebellion, if someone acts like this dude then he is either shot, exiled, or put in the brig.  Yes he's a great pilot but when someone commits treason they commit treason.  And not only that but he keeps making poor decisions that bite everyone in the ass.

I think what you mean to say is that peoples reactions to him are not believable. I believe someone could commit mutiny. I don't believe he's allowed to stay with his rebellion after doing so. He can never be trusted again.

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That whole storyline was lame, the moral lesson was...unctuous.

It was made all the more pointless by the fact that they didn't actually save the Resistance fleet. They failed. Twice. It literally just made me annoyed that I was having to sit through them riding camel horse things while being shot at when I wanted to know wtf Rey and Kylo were doing.

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Finn offered nothing to the story and should have died long ago.  Or been written a helluva lot better.  Either one would have been fine with me.  I'm not okay with him killing Phasma.  She better not be dead.

It's like they hinted at him being force sensitive in TFA and then...dropped that completely. I'm ok with him being a character I guess but I wish there was more...focus? I don't know if he's Rey's love interest or like a buddycop thing with Poe or what. What's his story? Why is he here? He just wants to run away.

As for Phasma I am pretty sure she's confirmed dead but I can't remember for sure.

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'm not one who thinks Star Wars needs another strong, iconic villain like Vader or Sidious to make this trilogy great.  I don't love that Snoke had a weak back story but it's not something I'm harping on.  The same goes for his death.  

No no it's not about him not being a strong iconic villain (obviously Kylo is supposed to take center stage) it's that he has no story whatsoever. If they just said he was one of the Emporer's minions and coveted his power or something I would be like oh ok that's where he came from. Or idk say he's mysterious and came from the outer edges of the galaxy sure whatever. But just...nothing? That's so lame and boring.

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Well this just makes me sad.  Just like how Lucas completely missed on his Anakin character and all the great possibilities, here Johnson (and by extension Abrams) completely miss on what could have been a fresh new take on the series.  Instead they just rehash territory already trod by literally every other star wars movie.  Lines are never truly blurred and it's just so terribly boring.  So so so boring.

I know! At first I was extremely mad about how Luke's character was written and how his entire storyline is basically just f*** the jedi order! Luke really would not have done that and you know why? It's in the story. He claims he went there to die but in reality HE LEFT A FREAKING MAP TO FIND HIM. That is literally what TFA was about. But, you know what? As I watched I calmed down and I was like ok you know we've had Jedi vs Sith since the 70s in movies, books, video games. And it's cool and we can keep doing that. But what if two young upstarts just said f*** it all and went on a rampage against both sides? That could genuinely be interesting. And I got excited for that. The movie kept pushing it and pushing it. Making it seem more and more interesting. Even towards the end you find out Rey is literally a nobody but Kylo says she's important to him. How sweet right? Ok so time to Bonnie and Clyde this shit. 

And then...nah. 

Total freaking letdown.

I'd rather have a full length feature film about Jar Jar's escapades in the Senate then watch Episode 9 at this point.

Just saw Annihilation last night.

Save your time and/or money.

It had literally one cool scene which it showed in the trailer the rest was literally boring dialogue.

Wow what a disappointing movie that was.

Porgs were literally the best thing about it.

Watched this yesterday morning, not a bad shark movie tbh. It's on Netflix.

Dude seriously wtf happened to this TV show?

Cheesy zoom ins? What is this a syfy movie?

On 2/27/2018 at 1:11 PM, SinisterDeath said:

Why does Rick always make Carl do what he can't?

???

Edit: Oh...nevermind I got it.

NSFW

Do you like dungeon crawlers?

They're not graphics heavy but I had a lot of fun playing Grimrock 1 & 2.

I'm not going to lie, some of the puzzles I had to look up but I did solve the majority on my own.

18 minutes ago, SinisterDeath said:

If only they released it?

Oh is it not released yet? Shame but understandable.

Play Skywind.

15 hours ago, jbarlow1 said:

I liked the first season well enough, and while I intend to marathon season 2 and see if I like it better than week-to-week, I stopped watching for the time being. The Shannara books were some of the first real novels that I read, and they were so dear to me that they show just felt wrong, even considering the whole "take artistic liberties for the show" thing. Still, I'll give it a run through and hope!

Definitely better to marathon than wait week to week.

Hey, being a table top gamer you might be interested in checking out the mafia forum. We can always use a fresh face! :)

Hello Michael, welcome to the forums.

How much of the Wheel of Time have you read?

Hello, what songs can you play on piano?

I learned some of Fur Elise and The Entertainer from a piano I had but I never had a formal teacher.

Sure np

On 1/30/2018 at 7:06 PM, Gentled Ben said:

I'll have to dig into season two at some point. I hated the book, as I felt it was a cheap ripoff of tLotR, but I liked Elfstones and Wishsong. I haven't read any of the other Shannara books, but I enjoyed the first two (I assume there are more by now) Magic Kingdom for Sale novels. He's a decent author, his early Tolkien plagiarism notwithstanding.

Three Things.

1) Plagiarism is fine if you do it well enough imo. (not really but you know what I mean)

2) There are...3? 4? more books in the Magic Kingdom for Sale series. All of them were pretty good.

3) If you understand the Shannara world and how it works and came into being and all that then I would recommend skipping a lot of the books and reading the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy. It was excellent. 

Downsizing.

Awful movie.

1 hour ago, SinisterDeath said:

Basically yea.

Yeah looked boring imo.

1 hour ago, SinisterDeath said:

It's also got Shit Pie from the Help in it.

idk what that means.

Is this the movie with the deaf girl and they're running experiments on an alien or w/e?

48 minutes ago, Krakalakachkn said:

I mean, I go to win but I don't care about achievements.

Oh ok, because there are some weird multiplayer co-op achievements that need 4 people and I was wondering whether you care to do them at some point or not. No worries.

14 hours ago, Krakalakachkn said:

I've been fiending for some Halo multiplayer for a while now and I too have MCC.  Unfortunately I can't find anyone to play with and every time I try to join a match there's no one to join.  I wonder if it's because I'm in Korea and no one here plays consoles.

Yeah I think multiplayer only searches for people in your area these days.

Do you achievement hunt or you just got it for nostalgia?

Yes I'm aware this was most likely staged.

1 hour ago, Krakalakachkn said:

I thought there was an overreaction to pickle rick, but what's new?

 

 

@Nolder you ever follow through?

I did not. I got turned off from it.