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1. Can't answer that - I didn't know anything about the movie except that some famously hot cartoon character was in it (lol). For some reason, I just had the impression that it wasn't necessarily directed towards children, which it clearly was upon actually watching it. 2. Exactly the problem I had, . 3. Yep, I got that, but I didn't think he had a license to kill for no reason. He straight up murders the little shoe guy even though he hadn't done anything, and it seems like nobody even batted an eye at that.

@Hurlshot: I hope they watched the original trilogy before that, otherwise I imagine it might've been a little lacking in impact, given the movie. Oh yeah, I actually just watched Jaws for the first time, too. It was solid. Yeah, probably would've had more impact if I had watched it as a kid. What a shame, .

The children's movies with dark elements tend to be the ones that stick with you as a kid, so that's probably a good thing. Having terrible things happen to make the good things feel more real and deserved and such - that's just a part of movie-making, children's movie or not. That's actually something I don't really like about movies nominally marketed towards children these days - I think of scenes like in Disney's Pinocchio where kids were permanently and horrifically convulsing and turning into...donkeys, I think it was, and then being enslaved and sold. I watched that movie when I was like 3-4 and not again until nearly two decades later, and I had terrible memories of that sequence for years after I originally watched it (though more hazily recalled as the years went on - which is why I sat down to watch it again). Will kids viscerally remember the stuff they see today in 15-20 years like we used to? But the criticism with the Christopher Lloyd character was not that it wasn't too dark, but rather that it seemed clearly written for children in its ultra simplistic and over the top way. He straight up murdered one of the toons in front of the police before he had even attempted to seize control...just to make it clear how over the top evil he was RIGHT as he was introduced. And also, for some reason, the police had no problem with that, even though the toon had done nothing wrong? Uh, okay. You didn't need to know anything else about the story past that point to know where it was going - he's the main villain, it's super obvious, we know it's going to end up with some type of showdown with him. Everything was so hammed up, too - he ironically felt like the most cartoonish character in the movie! Well, not so ironically, as it turned out... I guess I would've liked just a little more nuanced and subtle character...but that's why it's a children's movie.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). I did not realize this was supposed to be for children...sort of. Had some fun stuff even so, but some of the writing was a little...simple. Christopher Lloyd's bits especially screamed "children's movie", which was rather unfortunate. Like I said, though, I still had some fun, and watched it all the way through. It's no Willow, thankfully. Ghost in the Shell (1995). This movie suffered a lot from a poor (although not full on terrible) English dub...and an even worse Japanese dub that was even more distracting than the English. Neat-looking world/setting, some nice music, and I thought the action bits were decent, but the film really struggled to effectively convey its ideas, which is really a shame, because it was about something that I'm interested in and have personally spent time thinking about in regards to the future of AI and what exactly constitutes consciousness/awareness and intelligence and how will we ever know for sure whether a machine might be "alive" (in the sense of being a unique individual like us) or not and all that...so that was a bit of a shame. Oh well, it was still decent.

every post is like its own little unique trainwreck

Shaub, who has since left the government and now works for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said Tuesday that Trump needs to act on the OSC report about Conway. "The White House cannot continue to have one standard for the federal workforce generally and a lower standard for appointees who are close to this President." Ah, yes, that seems like Trump's general MO. Accountability, as it were.

There are definitely cheaper amplifiers with better specs on Amazon, though - $200 is still crazy.

I bought a 1070 for someone for about $340 about a year ago. Now let's see how much they are...oh, only $715 for the very cheapest. By Grabthar's hammer...what a savings.

Sounds right to me. And I definitely would say a $200 splitter seems insane, and the Amazon one seems fine.

Delta was founded in Lousiana in the 1920s. They moved to Atlanta in the 1940s. Yeah, I actually specifically looked it up...and I meant to flip those two around - founded in Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta. @Gfted: companies move headquarters for tax purposes more frequently than one might think. Given that Delta dared them to do it (and those tax credits were previously given specifically to convince Delta to stay), I really wouldn't be terribly surprised if it happened.

I seriously doubt they would've doubled down on it when being specifically warned that exactly that would happen if that were the case. I understand that they also chased away Amazon from expanding into Atlanta with that little stunt. I hope that in a year from now we hear about Delta moving its headquarters into another state - that'll be a much funnier image. Georgia loses millions of tax dollars and thousands of jobs because their insane legislature thought the 13 people that actually had the discount were worth pissing on the state's 5th largest employer.

I hate those "race to the bottom" type of tax credits (or otherwise taxpayer-supplied funds) given to attract companies to come to your state...so I don't feel too terrible about Delta losing it. However, those credits were given to help convince Delta (a company that was founded in Atlanta) to stay headquartered in Georgia - it will not be terribly surprising if Georgia ends up the eventual loser there with such asinine and punitive action against one of its biggest employers...and so I won't feel too terrible if that comes to pass, either. At least, not until the people actually affected vote their awful politicians out.

Are all of those actually real? That's rather comical.

I mean, you don't even have to go that far. If they roll a 20 against your fighter (5% chance for every attack!), your fighter is almost certainly dead, too. Levels 1-2 in BG1 really sucked.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChaoticStupid there should be a "real life" category of examples on tvtropes

"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day." -Trump on China's Premier (president/prime minister) consolidating power and becoming president for life.

(and there's no way that the issue would be nearly so equally split politically if literally almost the entire adult population had guns)

That's...an odd inference to draw from KaineParker's statement.

When Marnie Was There. I had trouble with this one. Whoever was directing the English voice-acting really screwed up with the titular character - I watched the movie in half Japanese, half English. I'm not sure why they thought having the voice actress constantly simpering was a good idea - it was very grating. Hmm. Anna's character hit much too close to home (painfully so at times), and I think this would've been a bit harder to like if not for that, so it's fortuitous that it did, as I think it helped carry the film for me.

"Trade wars are good, and easy to win." -Trump this morning on waging economic warfare on our European allies.

What do you consider "ok" temperatures?

@RAM: Is there a benefit to doing all 6 channels instead of just 2 or 4? IIRC, first generation i7s work best with 3 channels, but I don't recall if there's any benefit to going to 6 instead of 2 or 4. @New system entirely: I don't quite agree with Humanoid's numbers here, but I agree with the general principle of what he's saying. If you want to stick with an i7, that'll be $300-350 (depending on whether you want the overclockable version), and a good motherboard will probably be within the realm of $150-200 unless you have very specific features in mind. 32GB of DDR4 3000-3200 is around $340, give or take $25; while 16GB is around $180, give or take $20. @SSD: What, the Samsung 860 Pro? That's the only really notable SSD that I see at around that price. If that's the one, then at 1TB, there really isn't enough of a difference between it and the 860 Evo to justify the $200 greater price tag - at lower capacities I could see it, but the gap is bridged greatly when going to higher capacities.

Hey, I represent that! Yeah, I didn't have an alternative story to link instead.

I'm rather confused. Not upgrading to Windows 10 seems to be a sticking point for you...but you seem to be implying that you'd have to if you made a new rig, which you don't (especially as motherboard manufacturers are even conveniently still providing drivers on their websites for Windows 7 for new motherboards). I've built a bunch of new PCs for people in the last couple of years, and most of them have been Windows 7 machines (the biggest problem with Windows 7 for new builds is that it's very difficult to install an OS on SATA M.2 drives - and sometimes impossible for certain models). Further, your price for upgrading your current rig confuses me even more - you can get a very good 1TB SATA3 SSD for ~$300, your RAM for probably around $150, and the cooler...well, that depends on how far you want to go - probably as little as $50, though. @Gizmo: Yep, GPU costs are ridiculously terrible right now, which is making whole systems a much more attractive option than they used to be (because prices haven't affected them...at least as much...yet).

Did you not read his post? He didn't really say that it was difficult. A combat system being bad doesn't necessarily mean hard. I was bored to absolute tears playing out the majority of combat encounters using the same exact sequence of spells/abilities in the same exact way every time for the optimal results. Necessity is the mother of invention and variety is the spice of life and all that, and I think I played until around level 5 or 6 in PoE before I realized that there seemed to be very little of either on the player's side in the game and that I was really, really just tired of the combat system.