Blarghagh

Saw it last night and the Star Wars remake was perfectly servicable. It was good, I had a lot of fun, but I don't think it ever approached true blockbuster greatness. It's my third favourite remake pretending to be a sequel this year, preceded by Jurassic Park and Mad Max Road Warrior. Those listings are not a mark of quality mind you, but a mark of how much I enjoyed them. But anyone expecting a bad remake like Terminator was can rest easy, because this one was good. I think you missed a step there because Poe completely calls him out on that bull**** line. He needed a pilot because he wanted to run himself. And in fact he keeps getting scared and trying to run, and consistently seems to be cursing his conscience. EDIT: So was anyone else bothered by the fact that we pretty much know as much about Max von Sydow's character and Supreme Leader Snoke as we did before the movie? I never bought into the First Order having someone truly powerful in the Force at their back because Snoke did nothing but react to stuff going bad for his side, he was not a driving factor. And Max von Sydow was barely a cameo and I don't even know his character's name.

You can make a new one, I closed it for length. I hope you won't though.

Jimmy Carr is somehow classy and ruthless at the same time.

Don't ask me why, but this one always speaks to me. Antigonish by Hughes Mearns Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away... When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall, I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

The plot feels a lot like the plot to X2, what with a mind controlling mutant forcing Xavier to use Cerebro to affect all Mutants? It's control and not kill this time, but still...

Something about him got under my skin. Coulson totally crushed it this episode, though.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/05/europe/london-tube-stabbings/index.html 3 people stabbed, nobody died, in what police are treating as a terrorist incident in the London underground. If only there had been a good guy with a gun to prevent this atrocity - this is why gun laws are bad.

Judging by our roster I'm not entirely convinced of that.

I don't get this obsession with alts this board has, but in my experience almost every single time they end up telling the truth. Unless people are going through a lot of technical trouble to troll, they're unlikely to be alts of each other because we have access to IPs and do check if we suspect there are alts trolling. That being said, pretty sure that's not what this thread is about - discussing other posters will continue to be frowned upon here and I'm getting a bit irritated at how many threads devolve into who is or isn't a troll. We always say "tackle the ball, not the player" and if you don't like the other children playing the game there's no obligation to keep playing it, but if you try to kick them in the shins we'll give you a paddlin'. With that derailment, this thread is closed.

I'd argue that the west didn't become as prosperous and scientifically advanced as it is until it started entirely ignoring stupid fairytales, but that's just me.

How is the west responsible for the insane bull**** your get taught about English by your own people? The west doesn't even care you exist, let alone what you're taught. These views come from the east.

So you've based your entire view of the west on the lies you've been fed and you complain about western education?

But don't tell PETA, because they'll break in and name all the cows.

Yeah, we're all for joking around but this is just trolling for attention.

Maybe it is time for some self-reflection... or maybe it's time to get back on ****ing topic?

Some people in the west still think Canada is nothing but snowy cabins, lumberjacks and polar bears. How do you think even less educated people from poor, war-torn nations perceive it?

If you're referring to the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Trailer, it appears that Lex took Zod's body and made Doomsday out of it. What? That Cave Troll from Fellowship of the Ring is supposed to be Doomsday!? I thought they just turned Zod's corpse into a random monster!

Did you try yelling "it's a trap" at it?

Well, a friend of mine has the BB-8 toy and I saw that even when it stands still it can still look around and make noises. It doesn't require that much space to enjoy its personality, which it somehow has more of than most people despite being a tiny ball that makes noises. Nothing is really wrong, just recovering from surgery to correct my deviated septum and getting a little frustrated from the after effects.

If you think it's that sad that it won't get used, I can give it a loving home. On a side note, it sucks to bend over and pet your cat out of habit and your nose starts bleeding. I'm not allowed to bend over, I'm not allowed to run or lift anything heavier than a few pounds. It sucks!

For someone who is supposed to be the lead villain of Legends of Tomorrow, that villain is the quality of a bad villain of the week role so far. Bad vibes. He seems less arch-nemesis and more Kraven the Hunter shows up to find his prey in a filler episode.

Really enjoying Jessica Jones. It barely feels like a Marvel show - much darker.

See? It's just a case of all human beings screwing over all other human beings. Before the pope grabbed his slaves it was the pharaohs. I was going to say something like "does Egypt need to pay reparations" but... I'm now too depressed and sad for humanity to do it.

Couple of things: What do you mean, get pay back? Because the Netherlands has often paid much in reparations for things done in our history. Did you study "Western" history? Because I didn't. I studied the parts that were relevant to my country because that's what they put in the history books in school. I studied part of Indonesian history because that's intertwined with dutch history. I studied part of US history because they affected WWII, which in turn affected dutch history. You mentioned the crusaders, but do you know that those crazy catholics killed the dutch for religious reasons as much as they killed muslims? Why are muslims and "the east" more deserving of recognition and reparation for that when the same thing happened to us? Your countries were seperated? My country used to be the Hasburg Netherlands until those same catholics went to war with us and now my country has become Belgium, Luxemborough, parts of Austria, parts of Germany, France. Because of religious persecution perpetrated by the catholics against the protestants. What you call the west isn't a geographical thing, it's a then-contemporary religious society that screwed us all over too. Like Chilloutman said, they screwed over Poland and the slavs. They screwed over Africa - Apartheid is a much more recent atrocity than anything that happened to your countries. Why do you think East Asia is special in this regard? Here's what I think: You want reparations because right now, the west is top dog and that grinds your and people's gears because they could have been born in a place where they were top dog. It's the same that people consider it unfair that someone is born to rich parents - it's unfair that they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. They didn't deserve it, they just got served a better hand by history. But "someone" has to pay? For what? For life being unfair? Ask whichever God you worship to settle that score. Who has to pay who? Nobody who did or was directly affected by this stuff is even still alive. Even if there was someone who should pay, there's nobody who it should be paid to.

That's not the point. I understand what the past leads to. That doesn't mean I respect anyone who wants to punish today's people for the actions of people who are long dead and they had no effect or control over. I'm Dutch. I don't approve of what the Dutch East India Trading Company did. Doesn't mean I'm responsible for what they did. Blaming today's West for that is just living in the past - a complete delusion.