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Off Topic / Re: uuuu uwu need opinion

« on: October 30, 2017, 06:46:06 AM »

OP really lured pie crust out from under the bridge here. Birds of a feather flock together, except those birds are catfish and the feathers are metaphorical.

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Off Topic / Re: real talk: is rey a mary sue

« on: October 30, 2017, 06:38:47 AM »

Also also, why aren't more people talking about Captain Phasma being handicapped? Why focus so much on a character that gets literally thrown in the garbage can unceremoniously? Are they alluding to Boba Fett and his hilariously short screen time and demise, or did the writers and director just not know what to do with the character?

I get that the first order is brainwashing kids into being soldiers setting her up to be this big baddie, but it kinda feels like a lotta of 'splainins was cut out because it was just so mind-bogglingly boring or something, sorta like why the weird character that gets so much emotional screentime during the planet-blowing-up-scene was originally supposed to have their own plotline before that got canned for being boring.

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Off Topic / Re: real talk: is rey a mary sue

« on: October 30, 2017, 06:31:08 AM »

Mary Sue is a stuffty way to categorize exactly what kind of stuffty character she is. She's not powerful to be ham-fisted into the plot, she's powerful because the plot is stupid.

I'm going out on a limb here to assume that the next movie is going to 'explore' the idea that Rey is an extreme anomaly in the force and is so powerful that Luke doesn't want to train her because she's such a powerful force or whatever the forget. The reason she gets her powers really quickly is for two reasons:

1. The writers didn't want to spend the whole movie be about her training and honing her skills, probably because they assumed that would bore their target audience (it probably would have, because the writers couldn't make that a compelling hook)
2. They probably have the entire trilogy storyboarded already and are trying to have questions like "why did her force powers show up so quickly" be floating about to hype up the next release. THERE'S SO MANY QUESTIONS! BE EXCITED!

But honestly, the scenes of her becoming powerful didn't seem that forced or weird. Completely ignoring the prequels, the original trilogy took extreme liberty in force logic. It's not unreasonable to think that this character in this universe just happens to have superpowers for no deserved reason so long as the story moves the forget along and stays engaging without offending me by being too stupid/bad.

All the complaining about the Mary Sue-ness of her character comes off as disingenuous. It's a shameless soft-reboot half made to sell hasbro toys to kids who don't give a forget about the original trilogy or whatever fandom you will literally die for. The movie was actually fun, despite low expectations. Live a little!

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Off Topic / Re: uuuu uwu need opinion

« on: October 29, 2017, 04:10:04 PM »

ive never hit no harder in my life

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Off Topic / Re: Catalonia declares independence as Spain moves in [ITT Deus Ex hates minorities]

« on: October 28, 2017, 04:34:13 PM »

But you're an actual communist tho. You used to read me the communist manifesto every night before bed.

Did you just happen to forget the second half of the bedtime stories when I satirically recreated the communist manifesto in a vaudeville-style playwright, or are you purposely leaving that out to make me look bad?

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Off Topic / Re: Catalonia declares independence as Spain moves in [ITT Deus Ex hates minorities]

« on: October 28, 2017, 04:26:50 PM »

commie commie commie commie commie commie

The angry fascist sprouts from the woodwork to shout profanities and imply anyone that isn't as hard right as him must be a hard-left communist because that's how it works

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Off Topic / Re: political compass thread v.2

« on: October 28, 2017, 04:22:51 PM »

i expect nothing

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Off Topic / Re: political compass thread v.2

« on: October 28, 2017, 04:21:18 PM »

itt peanut gallery results to make them feel better about themselves

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Off Topic / Re: Catalonia declares independence as Spain moves in [ITT Deus Ex hates minorities]

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:58:50 PM »

On this blessed day we are all national socialists

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Off Topic / Re: ITT: Autistic things you've done

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:51:22 PM »

I was in a library watching something on my phone to pass time and a stoner-lookin dude walked up and asked if he could borrow my phone. I looked him in the eyes and without thinking said "Sorry, I don't have my phone on me"

he looked at my phone, and then walked off

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Off Topic / political compass thread v.2

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:46:34 PM »

https://www.politicalcompass.org
https://8values.github.io

pick your poison

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Off Topic / Re: Catalonia declares independence as Spain moves in [ITT Deus Ex hates minorities]

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:13:01 PM »

No you are literally telling me that my OWN loving experience dealing with minorities is wrong and I'm a fascist, white supremacist for pointing out pitfalls in our bullstuff community
You don't even understand what I'm saying because you're too autistically hellbent on trying to get GOTCHA moments on me so you look like a loving idiot half the time

You can't get on my case for supposedly not understanding your point when you're not even reading my posts lol

I didn't say stuff about your experiences, I said you're out of touch with reality (in short, forgetin delusional) and that you're pathetically dragging race into an irrelevant argument because you have literally nothing else to attack other than slinging fairly weak personal jabs. The fact that you're trying to reframe this says a lot.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:09:51 PM »

aaaaHAHA

This is what people do when they truly have nothing else to respond with.

Get to the point or don't bother responding.

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Off Topic / Re: Catalonia declares independence as Spain moves in [ITT Deus Ex hates minorities]

« on: October 28, 2017, 03:07:08 PM »

ITT: White dude tells me I'm looking at my own people the wrong way

"My people" my ass, you speak for yourself like the rest of us. Trying to drag race into this is just pathetic.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: October 28, 2017, 02:56:40 PM »

And the Republicans aren't accomplishing anything because they're still an establishment party and fighting Annoying Orange over everything anti-establishment

The republicans aren't accomplishing anything because they have an incompetent executive branch and are wasting too many of their resources making sure things don't go tits up while trying to run the forgetin' country

It doesn't matter what the color of the banner is, the only person fooling themselves here is you.