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Which is why whoever wrote the opening for Alien3 deserves to be tortured in writer's hell endlessly and mercilessly for totally Missing the Reason Why Aliens Was Such a Great Movie... *grrrrrr* Essentially it grounds the movie and provides an emotional impetus for why Ripley is even bothering...

I think Eowyn's story was sadder overall. It's been years since I reread LotR, but basically she was a woman in a man's world, always feeling shoved on the sidelines and forced into certain expectations for women that she just could not abide by -- it made her miserable. She always seemed to...

well, like it or not that approach will be pretty intrinsic to original D&D derived from European chivalric attitudes. Other RPS have been breaking away from the basic alignment things for years, it's nothing new. The game I was involved with in the mid-90's used a more Giver/Taker approach...

There are different kinds of strengths as well. Not every female hero has to assume a role that resembles the male characters. Like Ree from Winter's Bone -- she's young, she's not necessarily a "warrior," she always feels like she's on the ropes and desperate... but boy does she have a hero's...

I think evil people get shafted. Everyone assumes the evil person is bad, has always been bad, and actively thinks about how bad he is. No, sometimes they have their own hero's quest to pursue (e.g., Thanos in "Infinity War" or another character from "Unbreakable") where they make their own...

Aside from the pure mechanics ("You cannot use this sword unless you are Chaotic Good!") it's more of a general summary of the character's overall aims rather than a specific litmus test. I mean, it's just like real life, as far as personality goes -- maybe you can summarize someone as one of...

Perhaps you’re okay with your “thoughs” being wrong, but certainly it would complicate your life further and maybe you’d be happier if your “thoughs” were correct? I mean, if we break this down, basically this means that your main ideas are correct, but any time you try to add some kind of...

I've had a love/hate relationship with aquariums ever since I went to Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World and had to face off with one of these spindly face huggers.... F that, I almost turned around and walked out. Then again, I got to see the sharks within arms reach via the underwater tunnel. I...

What's the point in explaining, if you're not an American? It won't fix anything. At this point, people just need to vote to remove the bullshitters and get some professionals back in office regardless of what party.

I read this thread and had no idea what the flow of conversation was in places. Like wtf are people even responding to? Then I remembered to click on "show ignored members" and everything became clear. :D There's a problem at both extremes -- folks who don't give reasonable ideas a fair...

I resonate somewhat with what you're both saying, Puffy and Blarraun. And people do change, or at least their needs change. The forum here was what I needed at the time I joined. Eventually it became something that wasn't what I needed per se, or maybe my needs changed (or both). That coupled...

https://letterboxd.com/totenkindly/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp/ Basic gist -- light fun, enjoyable, not a ton of substance or long-term impact on the MCU. Enjoyable but not resonant or thought-provoking. Some of the critics really hated Bright. I thought it was pretty nice. I mean, yeah, it's...

All those poor little bot-a-loots... in their bot-a-loot suits... *sniffles* And the spamm-ee spams. They used to frolic so free, singing their song of commercialist clickbait, but now their homes have been taken from them.. And all the tough-a-luck threads. We brought them with us but they...

We transferred to Xenforo 6-8 weeks back.

I'm shore their our.

Hereditary (June 8) Incredibles 2 (June 15) I already have my tickets for both (I usually go Sat mornings to the movies).

Yeah, we can have a subfolder for this (our own Mystery Machine), and one thread per mystery, and we all dump crap into it to come up with the answers. The Dyatlov Pass incident has always been pretty interesting, I just don't remember all the details anymore. But pretty much solving this kind...

were you kinda drunk when watching them? lol I gotta say, out of all the stuff they screwed up in those two movies, blowing up an alien head was at least amusing and not the most-dumb thing.... just a bit more like something you'd see in a "Harold and Kumar Travel to the Stars" film or something...

It doesn't matter what I think here, either way. Up to the staff to decide.

What, the permabanned Mustafa? https://intpforum.com/threads/bans.3277/post-563513 @Auburn

^^ that's possible. it's just kind of frustrating when we don't see it. (Although I guess it is also "afterthought" problems, because during the actual flow of events no one cared how Thor got there, it was just important he WAS there. Like, "Thor, logically you are not supposed to be here yet...

Game Night -- Not "heavy viewing" or substantial food, but damn it made me a laugh with some witty dialogue + actors who could play off each other well. There's also a few nice twists that leave you unsure what is "really" going on. Still pretty much like eating at McDonald's, if you want a...

^^ it comes out on bluray/4K this coming Tues. the 4K transfer is supposed to be a huge step up from the bluray. I was annoyed they dumped it on Netflix immediately outside the USA (in terms of their "lack of faith") instead of giving it an actual run in theater, but yeah it was a sign that it...

Without reading much of the thread: - I like thinking/exploring more than doing/producing. - Translating ideas into real life is messy and I have to live with imperfect results for something that was once beautiful while in my head. Everything I produce feels like a miscarriage in some way. -...

Pure speculation, as the movie doesn't say... but Thor basically becomes the All-Father when Odin dies/leaves. (Thor even loses an eye, just like Odin himself gave up an eye in order to acquire wisdom...) So the speculation is that this role he is now playing (the wise All-Father with knowledge...

The Left, apparently. Because we all have seen how the USA Right has gutted health care (which will kill people) and put about 85% of the profits from the taxcuts in the hands of the 1% (-> poverty -> kills people), and now will be gearing up for a war (killing people), among other things (just...

... yeah, and if you want to bitch about extremists, the rights in USA are great at shutting down lines of scientific inquiry based on their political/religious views, so... whatever, let's at least pick on extremists on both sides if you want to go that route. (aside from it seems a lot of the...

as far as some superior creator goes, maybe it's good to take a little remedial study of how natural selection actually works. Maybe the world looks intricately designed only if you assume that the current state of the world was the outcome all along (so then it would seem like design, in terms...

"Not sure if I should post this because <dont wanna create drama cuz new>, but <then takes a crazy aggressive stance towards long-term members>" Look, I was involved in conservative Christianity for 35 years so yeah, I know I've read the Bible and there was a time when I even believed it. The...

Didn't your parents keep you bundled up completely until you were 18? ...negligence. Wow.

You're such a traditional guy! (like in Bizarro Pakistan or something) I did pony up to see Ragnarok in the theater. I think it was overhyped. It was my favorite Thor film of the three, easily, but... I'm not sure why it gets ranked so high -- some of the Hela stuff was kinda clumsy. It's fun...

If you haven't seen Homecoming, I recommend it. It's got a more fleshed-out reasonable villain, Peter Parker actually feels like he's in high school, it has some decent laughs, and that Parker/Stark relationship is fully fleshed out there -- Stark's like the kid/playboy suddenly trying to be a...

maybe "still fresh/aromatic" is the better phrase here....

terminology is always a bear, people use the same word to mean different things or don't agree on what it means. I try to distinguish between "grasping" and "feeling" with empathy vs sympathy but that's just a makeshift difference to bootstrap communication. Also, I kind of don't give a shit...

Well, I was avoiding responding to your last list because I think a lot of the movies you were raving about were crap. But hell, if you want to get into it? Shyamalan made two good movies originally -- The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. I think his most two recent flicks, The Visit and Split...

eh, Michael Bay is shit. They actually do character development in MCU, most of the time. That being said, this film is pretty much "hit the ground running, run for 2.5 hours, then KAPOW." I really liked it, it's just there weren't lull periods where you could "rest" and I felt exhausted by the...

!!!! U da best !!!! I will have to look for some daemons, which of course will be a totally inadequate contribution on my part I am sure, and probably Cog will beat me to it and embarrass me. But wth.

huh. Where is that? Generally in the USA BAC cutoff seems to be at .08 (two drinks) before being considered legally drunk. You would be considered well past the boundary here.

Can you just shame me without me needing to do all the work to fail? (I don't like to work to be socially humiliated, I am a prima donna who expects to be ridiculed for free. )

I'm kind of busy with work and life related matters, and nothing much is of interest right now. It also sometimes seems like a few folks will just kind of take over a thread, and others get shut out of the discussion. But hey, shite happens, and I guess that is typical. And I know my own...

Better. Duh.

Well, one thing is that strangers usually don't want to be talked at about someone else's ideas. If they are getting together, it's usually to have fun and make small talk and hang out -- casual stuff, not theorizing or issue debate or impromptu creative symposiums. It's just how it is. So if...

Yeah. What everyone else said + note the fact you wrote two unsolicited lengthy posts in this thread that's supposed to be about us telling you what we think (by your request), where you talk about yourself in a lot of random ways in an attempt to validate yourself and feel understood, etc. It's...

Yeah, I think most people have commented on that, especially Gopher. *snicker*

welcome to the asylum. Wow, so AOL still exists? I remember when AOL CDs would proliferate like bunnies in my workplace lunchroom, and when Times-Warner made that rather disastrous merger.... Fond memories of the various topic rooms, but its time kind of came and went as far as I knew... I...

It's unfortunate, but yeah. It's all been done better in the past in some ways, it's just Lucas is not a great scripter / nuanced storywriter, so better writers could do more justice to the ideas. Overall, despite its failings, I felt like TFA was setting stuff up to pursue in later movies if...

...it's true. I have held a long-seated obsession with Parisian baked goods ever since Rose demanded that Jack draw her like one of his exquisite French girls. If only others could experience that secret joy for themselves! Oooh la la.

I think the issue (for me, anyway -- any objection I might have) is that on what basis do any of us have to even MAKE a detailed character analysis of someone with hopes of it being right? I think we can capture some of the broad traits well via someone's posting history, but as far as DETAILS...

Regarding sexual attraction at work... I've been in the work force for 30 years now. It seems more like a social cliche to me (I mean, my social networking feeds are always bombarded by articles about why men and women can't be just friends, and others why they can be... it's a popular...

hey, awesome -- if it's just idiocy you need, I got that in spades. ;) -- more srsly, I just was never really into the witchhunt thread (mainly i have had my fill of hearing armchair type diagnoses by people w/ questionable perception of other Internet strangers over the years, to the degree...