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I had a party last week and bought a bunch of booze but the person who I knew drinks Malibu had to cancel, so now I'm drinking it. It's not bad for rum watered down with cononut water. Seriously easy going indeed.

Is it just me or is Arrow just getting worse and worse? At least thye had the brains to remove the get-out-of-death-free-card before overusing it because obviously bye-bye tension if you can just bring everyone back to life.

Yes. And some of them are lesbians. Also, all the male characters in the show die. All of them.[/i] Also I just read this post by you and I realized how my view of you with your obsession with manly stuff (guns, muscles, lego) is now somewhat damaged because no manly man talks about how perfect their hair is.

I dunno, Leia was th only competent hero in the original movie, more willing to get her hands dirty (literally) than the dudes, and makes a point of making a point about how she wasn't in distress and didn't want these ****ers and their lame failure of a rescue attempt. Plus I'm sure that golden bikini was all about empowerment against patriarchal standards of decency or whatever at the time. I dunno, leave me alone.

This is such a bizarre statement to me. It seems like you are looking for political correctness, just so you can point at it and dislike it. Wouldn't you rather just enjoy stuff? There was no blatant political correctness in the trailer, but you've clearly already made up your mind as to what the movie will be. That seems like a shame. Lol, if you dont see the obvious female and minority empowerment in the choice of actors then you must not have been watching the same trailer as I have. [sic] But I hate how obvious it is in ticking marketing and political boxes. A lot of false assumptions there. There's box ticking there, but the goal isn't "political correctness" or "minority empowerment", Mr Tinfoil. Since the old cast is back and it's Star Wars, they knew the white nerd dude butts are already in the theatre seats. Because of that, they went to work to get everyone else's butts there too. Let's get real, Hollywood does not give a flying **** about political correctness. It's smaller productions that can't stand up against the tumblr hate mobs, but big tentpoles do these things get money. Just like how both Terminator Genisys and Age of Ultron both added Asians to the cast to pander to Chinese audiences. Big movies are simply not affected by this tumblr warriors vs white nerds bull****. Mad Max is all over the internet in equal parts for supposedly being so politically correct and for being so awesome it's the movie equivelant of the pan-galactic gargle blaster, but it still made jack **** at the box office. Why would they care? Whatever people on the internet care about, that's not a factor in how much a movie makes and therefore not a factor in what Hollywood cares about. Did Jurassic World suffer either for having a female lead, or a white American military guy as a villain, or for having been condemned as being sexist by one of the former top feminist illuminati members? No, it became the third highest grossing movie of all time. And said deposed king of feminists got a taste of his own medicine when the illuminati came after him for making Black Widow a motherhood martyr or some **** (or whatever the **** their irrelevant problems with that movie were) did that actually do anything? Whether its sexist or progressive at this point in time is completely irrelevant to big movies - money, my dear boy, is what matters here. I wonder what the response to Rush Hour would have been if it came out now. An action duo with zero white guys? TO THE INTERNET TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW PERSECUTED I AM!

I doubt you would use Twitter and then use comments from Twitter to base your opinion No, I wouldn't. Sadly, I am a very, very tiny minority in this. 90% of my Facebook feed is idiots who posts pictures with captions on it like they're political arguments. I'm pretty sure 99% of the idiocy in the world such as anti-vaxxers have been able to thrive due to social media giving them a platform.

What's reliable and what's used ain't exactly ever been similar, Bruce.

Mostly because it felt the need to dump in every single bit of narration from the trailers.

That's 141 characters. #TRENCH FAIL

I was without existence. Do I win?

No, it was technobabble in a fantasy film disguised as space opera. Pointing out how that doesn't make sense is like pointing at a white wall and going "gosh, this wall is white".

I assume the part of the player base that is too lazy too read won't be bothered to listen either. I foresee lots of dialogue skipping.

Why would you do this to me?

Since half of the dialogue contains descriptions, you're going to be reading it anyway. Even full VA won't change that.

Well, supposedly Andy Serkis plays a villain (and it is in fact his voice narrating the original teaser) and as far as I know we still have no idea who Max von Sydow is playing...

He's also tall and thin. I dunno if any of you have seen Mark Hamill lately, but he was never the first and now is neither.

Ditto. The trailers have my interest but have not yet created excitement because honestly I've got no idea what I'm looking at. I hate trailers that spoil the entire movie, but I think this one may have swung the pendulum too far to the other side. Eh, from all accounts and backstage stories, he was ruined by his parents and was a really, really annoying little **** to everyone because "I've been picked to play the hero!" Haha, fair enough. Still, he's a kid picked to play the hero in the Star Wars movie. Is there a kid alive that wouldn't let that go to his head? My guess is that it is Luke, who in this time continuum didn't from new jedi council (like in quashed extended universe), but instead just fall to dark side because he regrets his actions that lead death of his father. I'm kind of assuming both Darth Revan in the trailer there and the main girl are somehow related to or spawned by either Luke or Leia. They could be siblings. That's pure speculation from the vague "vibe" I get from the trailer, though.

Again, to be fair, children require far more directing than adults and I feel like that was lacking. Star Wars ruined his life because George Lucas is bad.

While I used to make a lot of fun Hayden's sweaty Mannequin Skywalker, I recently watched some silly YouTube video that was like "10 Things the Prequels Did Right" and it mentioned that you should pay attention to Hayden when he's not having to speak George Lucas' awful dialogue. He acts the hell out of it when he doesn't have to talk. Dude's got the presence to pull it off - and since I've seen him in other movies, I know he can act. I'm not going to say he's an amazing actor - he was mediocre in Jumper and that silly movie with Nick Cage, but he was pretty great in Shattered Glass - but since these movies also managed to get terrible or boring performances out of Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson and freaking Samuel L Jackson out of all people, and had Ewan McGregor visibly holding back laughter because of some of the awful lines he had to say (I better cover my mouth quickly because I cannot say "He killed YOUNGLINGS" without smirking!) I'm starting to lean towards George Lucas ruining that performance more than Hayden did.

There was no way Avengers 2 was going to be anything else but disappointing and I think it did pretty well considering the expectations and requirements the filmmakers had to juggle.

Please don't mistake the length of my posts with how much I care.

Also a big factor. I started most RPGs the first time with a basic fighter class because they are the easiest to understand, thus learn the mechanics with (and although I understood most of the mechanics from playing KotOR, KotOR II took everything a step further). While I didn't minmax myself entirely out of Intelligence and such, I also didn't get any dialogue options out of it nor did I have skill points to get those options out of. KotOR II is an example that I would say goes too far, since the end game requires at least a basic understanding of the plot. My first playthrough got so little exposition throughout that by the end my character was doing plot things railroaded by the endgame that the character should not have been doing due to lack of information or reasonable motivation. EDIT: Alternatively, didn't go far enough as it didn't provide options that my dumb, unskilled and uninfluential Jedi Weapons Master would reasonably be doing.

Yes I know you battle to empathize with some events but feeling you have to empathize now because some nameless anti-GG rabble have insulted TB because they think he is a **** seems like a waste of empathy energy ? And ISIS is much worse...much worse. Its actually silly to even compare the two as ISIS acts on there hatred and people die because of it You misunderstand, I don't empathize with TB because some internet rabble attacked him because I know that doesn't phase him. My empathy for TB and his disease, and my condemnation of their lack of empathy are seperate things. As for ISIS being worse or not, I'd say a lack of education and empathy are the sick festering core of ISIS as they are the sick festering core of these people (and to be fair, this applies just the same to those who hurled death threats at Quinn and Sarkeesian). The only difference is how far the society they live in has enabled them to go. You overstate the difference. Hatred is hatred. "Militant" is a word applied to some of these people for a reason - and sooner or later every militant organization dreams of their own Kristalnacht, whether they realize that is what it is or they pretend it's "liberation". Do you think ISIS believe themselves to be evil? How do you judge a young man who by his upbringing, environment and indoctrination truly believes he is doing the right thing, sacrificing his life because he has no choice but to destroy evil for the good of the world, as he straps a bomb to his chest? I would condemn that man's ignorance and hatred and that of those around him... but I would respect him more than someone from a civilized country who celebrates the painful death of a human being they dislike because he said some bad words on the internet. To be so ignorant and hateful in the civilized world seems worse to me than anything ISIS does, even if the effects are not worse. Okay yes I did misunderstand you, my bad But TN we still shouldn't try to compare ISIS with any online group similar to anti-GG. You are doing a real disservice to the thousands of victims and all the real misery and horror ISIS has inflicted on people and countries There are many educated people from Western countries who have joined ISIS due to the real ideological sympathies so we can't play the old " well ISIS recruits uneducated people ". Its known they have an effective Internet presence and active in social media....all this requires intelligence I don't care what ISIS thinks of themselves, they are a barbaric and reprehensible organisation that justifies complete religious intolerance, beheadings, mass killings, crucifixions and systemic rape. ISIS does use some suicide bombers but there real danger has always been they have a force of men that are prepared to engage in combat ..they also have a known " ISIS controlled region " so they are like a country of hatred for anything that isn't Sunni Muslim Anti-GG is nothing like this. They are just a presence on some parts of the Internet , I understand you are trying to make a comparison as you appalled by the comments but this analogy is a bad one ...and not accurate in almost any way To be fair, my ISIS comment was just a jab at those who early on said #GamerGate supporters were worse than ISIS. It wasn't a true comparison but an ironic statement. Either way, I totally agree that they are a barbaric and reprehensible organisation. I'm saying that I'm able to see how they could justify that sort of behaviour to themselves, not that I think their actions are in any way good. The world will be a better place when ISIS is removed from it, even if it is done violently. Doesn't make the loss of human life that could have been better any less of a shame. There is a difference between realizing and stating that the world would be better off with some people dead, and reveling in such statements and realizations. As for whether you think the comparison is not accurate, that's your opinion. I would say you are wrong. The core of statements such as what was made about TotalBiscuit is the same as the core that formed ISIS. The effects of ISIS on a global scale are, indeed, much worse. But there is more to hatred than just "how many people feel it". If I were to take a single ISIS supporter and ask him why he does the things he does, I'm sure he'll say very similar things as the person who claimed TB should die. "They offended something important to my ideology, so they deserve to die." I've seen militant SJWs claiming such things before, but it's also what sparked the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. The core is the same, the level of extremism is just less. But I recognize we are probably in different opinions on this, as I have enough empathy to say no matter what I believe I would never revel in somebody's pain and disease, whereas you stated: "I would also be saying " I am glad he is dying ' if I was a committed anti-GG." (It's odd that you of all people questioned my ability to feel empathy before since your statements show a complete lack of it.) I do find it interesting that a lot of hardcore free speech proponents who feel online trolling is harmless and people should be allowed to do that find these comments over the line. Not saying I disagree with either sentiment. Just find it interesting. I think cyber-bullying is a problem that should be adressed, it's just that currently nobody has produced viable solutions least of all SJWs (whose solutions often just result in more problems, like the call to remove internet anonymity to remove anonymous cyber-bullying while simultaneously removing every anonymous avenue needed by people struggling with their identities or mental problems to come to terms with things). EDIT: Whenever I have free time, I seem to insit on wasting it writing massive responses on forum threads. I really should stop that.

An interesting thing about KotOR II is that I didn't understand the story at all until I played it through with an influence guide. My first impression of Kreia was "annoying old hag" so I never took her along, which meant I never heard the interesting things she had to say and all of her exposition was locked behind the influence gate. I was completely lost by the time I got to the end game. I had no clue what planet I was on, what happened to it, why I was fighting Kreia, or what her plan was. The entire thing was lost on me. I wonder how many other people had a similar first experience. It's only because I liked the original so much that I really wanted to like the sequel and pushed on with a second go at the game with an influence walkthrough. Of course, it could be that I was still pretty young when KotOR II came out. I wasn't the smartest 16 year old.