Drowsy Emperor

IMO this obsession with pets being equated with people is unhealthy. Most people today are too divorced from country life to remember that dogs (which I love) are primarily tools. Villagers mostly regard them as no different from other farm animals, because a life in which you raise animals and then cut their throat or break their neck and eat them teaches you to stay detached and firmly separate them from us. That juicy steak was once a gentle cow. Of course, this is not some hard and fast rule, and to many people in the country their dogs/cats are dear to them - but I think they have a much more sensible attitude than city dwellers who often use pets to substitute human interaction and idolize them (cat pictures anyone?) because of boredom or loneliness. PS: an obsession with the well-being of animals is a form of mental disease in a world where people starve and kill each other. Until people learn to be nice to one another things will never be good for man, let alone any other animal.

Overall, that's not possible. At least for a few decades. It already has busted for a lot of people, myself included (for me, the series ended with dancing Ewoks, and Luke looking over to a smiling Obi-Wan, Yoda, and an old Anakin on Endor). But there's no shortage of fanbois and gals out there who will slobber up anything and everything Star Wars. It's a franchise that arguably has the largest fan base in the world. Busting the franchise for all those people would be hard to do even if you tried. The profit margin may go down (I'd wager a lot it will) from J.J. Abrams movie, but it will still be there for a very long time to come. I don't know what it is that makes people so enamored with Star Wars thirty years after its release. Granted they were fun films, but for a grown man to be a "fan", wear a shirt with a stormtrooper on it etc. in 2016 is downright embarrassing. Its like someone saying their favorite films are Snow White and their favorite film character is Grumpy. Sure, everyone can admire a nice fairy tale... but they're made for children, not adults. Hell, even George Lucas said so, many times, and you can see on his face that even he doesn't understand the idiotic fan obsession with the films (or regard them as highly as they do) - but the show just keeps on lurching on 20+ years past its prime. am not sure o' the point being made. beowulf & gilgamesh is stories 'bout heroes killing monsters and btw, snow white and the seven dwarves is top ten all-time for box office receipts. (insert the same old Gromnir rant 'bout art o' the narrative... include ye' olde' standbys wherein we draw parallels 'tween tdkr and beowulf, lament how underappreciated is great young fiction such as , the phantom tollbooth, a swiftly tilting planet, and multiple gaiman and pullman works. observe that youth fiction often gets at core storytelling w/o pretension, and observe that popularity o' myth has been a true constant likely going back before written history.) am gonna posit that the actual peculiarity is that writers and directors is in a constant cycle o' denial regarding the origins o' storytelling. yeah, Gromnir's favorite movies is not star wars, but lament or disparage the storytelling that went into lucas' mythology is a mistake. the most popular stories, the stories that touch the most folks, will always be star wars, and beowulf and... whatever. HA! Good Fun! I never said Lucas's storytelling was poor, merely that the story was made for children and that the franchise is 30 years past its prime. The marketing machine has resurrected it for these films and now its literally everywhere. The other day I logged onto ebay only to have a who STAR WARS SHOPPING EXPERIENCE with a stormtrooper in a bathtub plastered all over the front page. Its suffocating. At least if the new film brought something genuinely new instead of being a lazy and mediocre mish-mash of previous films it would have a justification for all this popularity. But its just another of those incessantly pushed pieces of garbage film-making like Hunger Games, Divergent, Avengers xzy, Transformers that scoot through on a carefully calculated mix of absolute mediocrity designed by committee to appeal to everyone and supported by incessant media bombardment to convince you that what you're eating is not in fact, a burger made of ****.

Overall, that's not possible. At least for a few decades. It already has busted for a lot of people, myself included (for me, the series ended with dancing Ewoks, and Luke looking over to a smiling Obi-Wan, Yoda, and an old Anakin on Endor). But there's no shortage of fanbois and gals out there who will slobber up anything and everything Star Wars. It's a franchise that arguably has the largest fan base in the world. Busting the franchise for all those people would be hard to do even if you tried. The profit margin may go down (I'd wager a lot it will) from J.J. Abrams movie, but it will still be there for a very long time to come. I don't know what it is that makes people so enamored with Star Wars thirty years after its release. Granted they were fun films, but for a grown man to be a "fan", wear a shirt with a stormtrooper on it etc. in 2016 is downright embarrassing. Its like someone saying their favorite films are Snow White and their favorite film character is Grumpy. Sure, everyone can admire a nice fairy tale... but they're made for children, not adults. Hell, even George Lucas said so, many times, and you can see on his face that even he doesn't understand the idiotic fan obsession with the films (or regard them as highly as they do) - but the show just keeps on lurching on 20+ years past its prime.

84% 81% 650 million Hunger Games Your point?

Disney is going to milk this cow beyond undeath A large part of me hopes they push it so far that the franchise finally busts

1307'th hour of Team Fortress 2. Dayum, I wish I got paid for this

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Two games to look out for: Stellaris - Paradox 4x/grand strategy inspired by Master of Orion. Has a lot of nice touches, such as a sophisticated race creation, a lot of random exploration related events that influence things like leaders, the game's tech tree (opening unique tech), decent visuals (most games of the type are horrible to look at), interesting social engineering choices. No Man's Sky - Procedural generated space exploration/trading/fighing game with an infinite universe. Stunning visuals.

Comission the Longevity Vaccine secret project, rush build it with supply crawlers, hit end turn and laugh in the face of death I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I’d settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice. —CEO Nwabudike Morgan,

I don't see what the end goal for Russia is here. They're not committing enough for a total victory and at this rate the war could drag on for years to come. On the other hand, they can't really leave it like this now that they have invested so much.

You guys are taking this far too seriously

If correct, it just reinforces my argument that the deal with Turkey was tantamount to admitting defeat. It turns out that Erdogan is not only controlling the flow of people but also shuffling terrorists around (arresting them when he feels like it, letting them go when he doesn't) while 28 countries in EU run around like headless chickens. Unless the EU political elite is finding all this insecurity useful to deflect public attention.

Guardian:

Well I recently watched Ant Man and it was tolerable

Deadpool - God what a juvenile piece of **** Watching: Forsaken (the new one)

Found it

Surprisingly well stocked on explosives. There was one vest at the airport that wasn't used, at least 2 bombs that went off and now this. I wonder how they got so many components and how the bombs were made.

Pinocchio has been a naughty boy

And that is why we cannot have nice things. If irony was a thing, it would be a 100 ton locomotive in this case.

Unless there was a celebrity involved, no. He's not talking about the US.

Same here. Well, technically I'm in the Netherlands now, but the same would apply to Serbia. We don't have terrorist attacks (nowadays) but there's more criminality than there used to be.

It isn't, Bruce derailed the thread and people bit. Kropotkin, 's dat you I though u was dead man

How's this related to the election

Well, i do not trust the Turks, so why should this info bear any merit. But there it is anyway. Well that's ****ing embarrassing. Belgium...

All the Albanians are economic migrants from Kosovo. Local newspapers reported a sudden surge in their movement, usually crossing Serbia to get to Hungary. From what I saw it was very coordinated and sort of started "overnight", not as a trickle. I don't even know why this is still argued primarily as a "refugee" issue when a significant portion aren't refugees at all.