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Wow, his crew got the promotions that best fit their appearances: the rugged girl with the bandanna became the ranger, the guy hidden in the half face mask became the sharpshooter, and the nerd in glasses became the specialist.

German is really a harsh, unpleasant sounding language.

Otherwise Islam apologists and regressive leftists are going to claim, it is just one, two or few isolated incidents. The problem is systemic. It is an epidemic. The scale is like mass shootings in America - except in Europe, the media has tried to cover up the Muslim rape epidemic/jihad for a very long time and pretended the problem did not exist. Now, for whatever reasons, suddenly all hell has broken loose. Have to say, have to hand it to the German women. Whereas in the female rape victims in the UK and Sweden have stayed silence, German women have taken to the street to protest and scream and yell when the government, media and police tried to hush up everything. That is what has sounded the alarm on the rapepidemic in Europe. Hopefully everything else will start tumbling down like a house of cards. I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I am hoping he will call out the "Rape Jihad" to bring attention to it - because right now the European media and politicians are praying the matter will quickly go away, and the last thing they want is for the showman to bring attention to what they have been trying to sweep under the rug.

In a warped sort of way, Muslim rapes in Europe has become somewhat like mass shooting in the US. In both cases, the respective governments are paralyzed by deeply-held ideology and therefore incapable of doing anything to fix the problem.

via The UK Telegraph, a venerated news source that is actually liberal and left-leaning, and not just some tabloid or right-wing blog: Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12086473/Suspects-in-Cologne-sex-attacks-claimed-to-be-Syrian-refugees.html Seems to me that, the **** has hit the fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFkVrpABR0g

Surprised that the media has finally to address the problem after many years of sweeping the Muslim rapepidemic under the rug. I have been reading about the rape gangs in Sweden and the UK, but it seems like their governments and media are either unwilling to or incapable of dealing with the problem. Now the media has finally turned around. Why? Why now? What is so different about Cologne that set it apart from Sweden or the UK (Birmingham and Rotterham)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgz9dT6cZBk

I have been trying to find her album or single, but it is not available anywhere in the US - not even on Amazon or eBay. YouTube has been the only way I have been listening to her song, but YouTube has been removing all her songs for copyright or regional reason. So now I am looking for and downloading all her music videos from YouTube.

Songs I found on YouTube, which do not seem to be available anywhere else in the US...

CNN: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' makes $1 billion in a record 12 days (beats Jurassic World's record by one day.)

People should NOT give money to any of Tim Schafer's crowdfunding projects. He has proven himself to be untrustworthy with other people's money when he knew he did not have to be held accountable for it: As "creative" as Schafer is, there are some "artists" who lack the skill to properly manage - and respect - other people's money. Those "creative types" or artists needs to be kept on a tight leash by either a corporation and management, and Tim Schafer seems to be of those creative types/artists. When his customers/fans were fooled once, shame on him. When his customers/fans were repeatedly fooled, then... well, the people who gave him their money are the morons.

Saw three movies yesterday: Brooklyn: It was okay and charming, the best of the three I saw yesterday. Creed: Overrated, it is the same old formula all over again, (i.e., it is a semi-sequal to the Rocky movies, with a new boxer - Adonis Creed - being trained by Rocky, who will likely have his own series.) I was frequently bored. The Peanuts Movies: I do not get Peanuts or comic strips in general, and the movie did not change my mind. I was frequently bored. I saw the three movie with the same ticket. I am glad I paid for Brooklyn.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bernie-sanders-would-hammer-donald-trump-in-a-headtohead-race-for-the-white-house-20151223-gluj3l.html http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/poll-against-bernie-sanders-donald-trump-would-get-schlonged-20151223

60 minutes of XCOM 2 gameplay (with commentary from the developer) - include 30 minutes in the base: Another 50 minutes of XCOM 2 gameplay (ADVENT Blacksite mission)

Preview of the same demo by a different YouTuber (Angry Joe) - has different footage:

Three parts:

Holy ****... what if the Luke's apprentice who killed all his other students at the Jedi Temple was actually Rey and not Kylo Ren! That would explain why her memory was erased. That will certainly be a shocker when it is revealed at the end of the second movie.

Okay, I just saw the movie again. I caught a very important clue about Rey, which is hidden in a very early dialogue scene in the movie, (or is it a monologue?) Rey: "Where do you come from?" BB-8: "Boop, Boop." Rey: "Classified, really?" BB-8: "Beep." Rey: "Me too." IMO, that is a foreshadowing subtext. It is heavily implied in Rey's flashback sequence that her memory of her past had been altered and tampered with... probably by master-level Jedi mind trick. Her command of the Force and a lightsabre also suggests that she must have had prior training in using the Force and a lightsabre. So, who had erased and altered her memory? And why? Where did she really come from? Well.... as Rey herself unknowingly revealed and foreshadowed, her origin is classified information, which we will find out in the sequels, most likely at the end of the second movie or in the final movie of the new trilogy. When the entire trilogy is completed and released in four or five years, we will look back and realize, wow, the clue was in one of the very first scenes in the first movie!

Perhaps for sci-fi franchises, but not for sci-fi movies in general. There was only one notable film that wasn't part of a franchise, Martian, and it was thoroughly average (or poor, considering who was making it). Remakes of decades old films and superhero drivel is what sci-fi has been reduced to in the last, how many (?) years. Even more disturbing than that, the other highly regarded sci-fi film of 2015 is "Ex Machina" (7.7 IMDB rating??!) , a film that would have been considered passe twenty years ago. I say its more disturbing because you can expect a franchise film to get a high rating even when its mediocre because of all the fans, but a no-name effort getting so high up tells me that either the audience has lost its compass as to what makes a good sci fi film, or they artificially inflated the rating. I have yet to watch The Lobster, its supposedly good. FYI, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 also has sci-fi elements. A lot of sci-fi elements. Particularly this last one is way more sci-fi than the last one because it involves futuristic battle scenes. Ant-man also has heavy sci-fi elements even though it was based on a superhero comic books. Jurassic World is also sci-fi. The whole "recreate and splice dinosaurs with DNA" is very sci-fi. While all three are indisputably sci-fi, are we seriously considering the hunger games, ant-man and jurassic world in a best of anything discussion? The original discussion was "It's been a good year for sci-fi franchises," not if The Hunger games, Ant-man or Jurassic World is the best of anything. FYI, based on the aggregate review scores on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB and the consensus of YouTube reviewers, all three were good movies. So, given that this year we have a large number of good sci-fi movies that are based on franchises, Leferd was correct in his original assertion, (i.e., that it has been a good year for sci-fi franchises.) I would say it is a good year for sci-fi movies in general. BTW, actually this year has had a lot of sci-fi movies, franchises or not. It is just that the franchise ones are just much better than the ones that were not based on a franchise. Like it or not, the quality of big-budget studio franchise movies have improved greatly during the past decade - and have surpassed independent film-making whose quality has stagnant for the past decade or so. I know you want to be one of the "cool kids" who whine about "oh, studio movies suck and indie flicks are the best," but in actuality that is rarely the case any more. The quality of indie films has stagnant and even declined in the past decade, while big studios like Marvel have perfected the formulas for making franchise movies over the years. That the quality of big franchise movies have become fairly consistent and, quite good. They may not be always "creative" but they are almost always entertaining, enjoyable and fun. And, frankly, when pay $16 to $25 to see a movie, that is what we want: we want to be entertained and have fun. I am honestly not interesting in paying some $20 and spending three hours to see some self-absorbed artist whine about his pathetic life in his pathetic "art". If I wanted to see art, I would go to a f-cking art gallery. When I spend the $20 and three hours, I want to enjoy some good time. I want to have fun. I want to be entertained. And this forum's way of handling quotes SUCKS. It keeps nesting more and more quotes and has no way of letting us getting rid of the unnecessary ones without messing up the formatting.

Perhaps for sci-fi franchises, but not for sci-fi movies in general. There was only one notable film that wasn't part of a franchise, Martian, and it was thoroughly average (or poor, considering who was making it). Remakes of decades old films and superhero drivel is what sci-fi has been reduced to in the last, how many (?) years. Even more disturbing than that, the other highly regarded sci-fi film of 2015 is "Ex Machina" (7.7 IMDB rating??!) , a film that would have been considered passe twenty years ago. I say its more disturbing because you can expect a franchise film to get a high rating even when its mediocre because of all the fans, but a no-name effort getting so high up tells me that either the audience has lost its compass as to what makes a good sci fi film, or they artificially inflated the rating. I have yet to watch The Lobster, its supposedly good. FYI, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 also has sci-fi elements. A lot of sci-fi elements. Particularly this last one is way more sci-fi than the last one because it involves futuristic battle scenes. Ant-man also has heavy sci-fi elements even though it was based on a superhero comic books. Jurassic World is also sci-fi. The whole "recreate and splice dinosaurs with DNA" is very sci-fi.

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I have just had an interesting thought... It was heavily implied in Rey's flashback that her memory had been altered and tampered with. I suspect she had prior training in the Force, but her memory of it had been lost and wiped. Hm... maybe Luke trained Snoke, (i.e., the Supreme Leader of the First Order and the Master of Kylo Ren.) Snoke was Luke's first apprentice, and he turned to the Dark Side. Then Luke trained another apprentice. His second apprentice also turned to the Dark Side - and, atop of that, she seduced Luke and had his daughter, and ran away, trained and hid the daughter. After awhile, Luke chased down his second apprentice, and killed her in a moment of passion. Which would explain Luke's remorse and withdrawal. Luke may or may not know where her daughter was hidden. And that baby turned out to be... Rey. Far-fetch, I know. Of course, having two of his apprentices ended up turning to the Dark Side also convinced Luke that he had failed, that he needed to find the ancient Jedi temple and learn how to train Jedi properly before he take on any more apprentice.

If you look at the entire story, it is actually Finn's moment of conscience and his betrayal of the First Order that set everything in motion. Finn was clearly smitten with Rey, and he repeatedly risked his life to save Rey - even though he admitted that he was afraid of the First Order and just wanted to run away from them as far as possible and as soon as possible. If Finn and Rey develop a romantic in the sequels - and it seems that the story is moving towards towards that direction - then Star Wars will be the very first big budget major franchise to feature a black man-white woman romantic relationship, which is still more or less a taboo in mainstream Hollywood movies. Of course, ultimately it is Rey who has the Force and is the "Luke Skywalker" in this new trilogy, but Finn is clearly the main male lead (or one of the main leads) in this movie and the main romantic interest of Rey. I would say Finn is the male lead because he has way more screen time than Han Solo, who did not even appear until after Finn and Rey had escaped from the desert planet Jakku. Finn actually had more screen time than Rey because: (1) the story started with his Stormtrooper unit attacking the village on Jakku, so he was right there from the beginning until the end; and (2) when Rey was captured, Finn and Rey split screen time but Finn seems to have a bit more screen time than Rey, (i.e., because right after Rey was captured, Finn met and introduced us to the Resistance and General Leia, which took up quite a bit of screen time without Rey. That scene of Finn in the Resistance HQ was longer than the scene of Rey in the First Order's prison.) So overall, Finn has the most screen time.

Did anyone else think Rey's past memory had been tampered with? It's heavily implied in her flashback sequence.