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's been going on here as well. The government wants to push people who would otherwise get long-term benefits into the needs based minimum income system, which at the moment is a seperate thing. Not that it would be a bad idea to streamline and consolidate systems if it weren't that the minimum income system has a 4200€ upper limit on assets per person. Or in other words, unless you literally own nothing you can't get minimum income. It wasn't designed to accomodate people who worked for 30 years and lost their job over being too old (read: expensive), it was meant as a last resort to keep people who already have nothing off the streets. If you needed the benefits you'd have to sell everything you own - including any real estate - and move to an appropriately sized appartment. The idea behind replacing long term benefits with the minimum income system seems to be to force cheap real estate and labor on the market, and that's after Dumbo suggested buying real estate as provision for one's old age to young people who aren't too optimistic regarding the future. Needless to say that the ECB's zero interest policy has jacked up real estate prices something fierce. But hey, that's right wing logic for you. An inheritance tax would be the government getting its greedy fingers on money they don't deserve, but forcing people who lost their jobs to sell off all assets and taxing those sales is perfectly fine. I mean... someone's getting cheap estate out of it.

In a movie series that has ships flying by with screeching sound experiencing the doppler effect as they go by...do you have to ask? That said, I'm pretty sure the director and producers have said the bombs were designed to propel themselves via a magnetic lock onto their target... EDIT: NINJA'D! The sound in space is emulated for the benefit of the pilot. It's as good an explanation as magnetic lock bombs. Except bombers in Star Wars in the past could launch self-propelled bombs. No need for launch bays.

In a movie series where starfighters (well and a modified light freighter) destroyed two Death Stars, the Starkiller Base and the Executor no less. Oh and Poe took out a dreadnaught's entire defensive weaponry with a single X-Wing. All without capital ship support. The whole chase scene falls apart considering that within well established series canon the First Order would have just launched every TIE available and easily intercepted a single cruiser with a frigate and a corvette for support. Especially since the movie actually shows Ren's Silencer and its escort having heavy missiles. The ragtag rebels had B-Wings capable of destroying Star Destroyers 25 years before this movie happened.

We've had these dolls available in brothels for a while now, just not one that is exclusively a puppet show. But I'm also not German. And Ben is something like 17, unless I'm mistaken that's too young for brothels.

And he didn't. He just had the one moment of weakness, of hesitation, which makes him human—unlike a certain other protagonist. ROTJ Luke showed that he can be one angry mofo, all because pops teased him about his sister a little. That's the only part of the movie I actually liked, tbh. Other than that, it's trash, and I'm feeling pretty smug right now that I saw it coming after TFA and avoided giving Disney money. And of course I'm 100% certain that nobody connected to no entertainment giants whatsoever called Mark Hamill and suggested he reconsider his somewhat less-than-rapturous public feelings about these steaming turds. No siree. See, I can understand where it is coming from, I don't really agree with it - sames goes for Amentep's argument. I'm also not suggesting that Luke wouldn't have failed training Ben, or anyone else. He would have. Because failure is a part of life, unless one is a young Jedi hopeful from Jakku. Yoda even calls him out on it. This is the guy who refused to destroy his father, the most evil and reviled man in the galaxy because he was family. He wouldn't contemplate killing Ben in a moment of weakness. Luke would have went directly to confront Snoke and prevent him from corrupting Ben or end his influence over him. Ben could have felt abandoned over this, imagine your master leaving over night without any real explaination. Luke would fail, come back and realize that he just made things worse. Proceed to exile from there. Oh boy, does anyone else feel the Star Wars nerdness level rising? edit: In the Legends books (formerly Expanded Universe) Luke all but ignored the fall of his nephew until such a time it threw the galaxy into another costly civil war. Yeah, I know the EU should not be used to argue the movies but it's really hard to untangle everything. The originals aren't at all meandering like The Last Jedi is. They do feature a very simple premise and character archetypes but that doesn't mean the narrative can't be tight and compelling and structually the original trilogy are good movies, and TLJ just... isn't. That's also a part. Star Wars always had a little comic relief but it was used appropriately. It's all over The Last Jedi and falls flat most of the time.

The original statement and Hamill's reneging on it (and regretting) were half a year apart. Mark Hamill sees The Last Jedi in the theatre and suddenly becomes a fan of the new trilogy after disagreeing on his part in TFA and TLJ, saying he regrets voicing his insecurities in public. While he is of course free to change his opinion after seeing the movie the cynic in me simply assumes that the change of mind was external, not internal. I mean, if he were just another benevolent Jedi training a Padawan we'd have seen it. Because the old hermit shtick is completely original and wasn't at all used in movies like... uhm, The Empire Strikes Back.

The armor and elemental shattering enchants state that they don't stack. It's a safe bet to assume that abilities don't either.

I'd agree if that was the only issue with the movie. I'd still disagree with Rian Johnson's choices for Luke (and so does Mark Hamill) because Luke would never attempt to murder his sleeping nephew but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker. As it is it's just one more piece of the puzzle. It also doesn't help that the movie is an overlong mess. The little things just kept piling up. It also doesn't help that the only good scenes in the film are essentially taken verbatim from an The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi mashup. Everything that didn't rely on copying what came before fell flat.

If we were talking about a religious shopkeeper who refused to serve **** the freedom brigade would be here to defend his right to not serve potential customers at his own leisure, but of course that freedom isn't extended to everyone else - especially not if the opportunity arises to paint themselves as victims. So of course now it's censorship. If some convention doesn't want Kevin Sorbo or poor, discriminated against Ringo (who, according to this article, is wildly successful in the face of extreme hardship) then that is their prerogative. As Guard Dog would say, they're free to found their own ConservaCon. *shrug* Well, not that a quick googling in this case wouldn't reveal most of this story as the typical (alt-)right hysteria. Sorbo isn't banned at all from attending any convention, East Coast Comic Con just passed on an offer from some agent to have Sorbo appear that he apparently didn't even know about. Jon Del Arroz believes himself banned from Worldcon for his political views while it was because he announced to break their code of conduct on Twatter by filming private events and Ringo got uninvited doesn't appear at ConCarolinas due to threats the Con takes seriously and they can't provide enough security (well it's a really tiny convention). I think I remember a certain "lefist" called Anita Sarkeesian who had to cancel an appearance at the Utah State for safety reasons, so that really isn't a one way street. So yeah, one ace case of the pot calling the kettle black coming up. Poor convservatives, just give in. The safe space awaits. Have some trigger warnings on the house. The guys are awfully salty for not being allowed to attend "irrelevant" conventions. So sad...

Reached the fourth floor in Tower of Time. I'm kind of hoping that the floors get a bit smaller now. All the running around and backtracking is beginning to be a bit bothersome (and yeah, no, leaving a floor at less than 100% is not an option unless it is an encounter clearly meant for later).

Written after the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots. Ben should like this, assuming the comrades in China didn't get him. Translated lyrics:

Oh yeah, let's build safe spaces for conservatives. Poor Ringo sure could use one. Socialist Doctrine something something lefists something something fighting back. The poor right, the eternal victims of leftist conspiracies in the western world that is mostly ruled by conservative governments. Sure, in reality the deep state rules. Whatevs. Man, who needs to toughen up now? On a more serious note I don't take people who go "leftist something something socialist something marxist" any more serious than I do the loony bin brigade at twatter. They're both fringe nutjobs.

The only thing better than cheesy 80ies style pop songs? Cheesy metal covers of cheesy 80ies style pop songs. Heh.

I just noticed someone was bored enough to create english subs for Bernd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGSza3iTFcI Bernd is pretty hilarious if one likes that sort of humor, I'm just not sure how well that translates. If at all. Give it a spin.

Comic book / superhero movie saturation* to be honest. I find myself caring less and less for every new MCU film, I even skipped some in the theatre, which I wouldn't have done five years ago. The new Ant Man is definitely going to be one that I'll catch on a stream or home release at some point. Also, there's only so much one can do when your protagonist barely has any flaw and is sometimes quite literally invincible. That's what made Iron Man so interesting. Tony is a flawed character and has no innate powers except banging sluts and being filthy rich. From an objective point of view, as much as that is possible at least, the MCU is very well crafted. There's barely ever anything wrong with direction, sound effects, special effects, music, set design, etc. The worst MCU film so far for me was Iron Man 2, and that one's essentially a 6 or 7/10 movie, which is still above average. *Assuming one likes the genre. Can't blame anyone for not liking superhero films. edit: Pointless action and special effects fatigue, I guess. There's one thing that is definitely going on: Special effects that in the past could have carried a movie are now par for the course. I doubt Avatar would be as much of a hit as it was 10 years ago if it came out now. I saw it several times in the theatre and just because I enjoyed looking at the pretty scenery - certainly not for Sam Worthington's vapid mimicry or the Pocahontas story. PS: Thor: Ragnarök > Black Panther. So there!

Finished the 10 episodes of ReBoot on Netflix. The final episode of season one is specifically made to make fun of the fans of the original. There's one positive thing I can think of - Megabyte's new voice actor does a fairly good job considering he had to replace Tony Jay. The new show is also almost exclusively for kids. The showrunner and the writers aren't nearly clever or creative enough to pull off a show that's fun and entertaining for both kids and adults. The sad part is even if this wasn't at all connected to ReBoot it would remain a somewhat soulless and average kid's show. Bleh.

Sure, you can freely move around or you can click on the first level when leaving the village.

The first level has a mausoleum near the exit that you can interact with. Looting it causes an ambush by four rather angry elite guardians. They're massive HP sponges at that point in the game and are almost impossible to kite.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others. My main is Hacker, and I run around with Prototype, Smuggler and Engineer. To be honest, my biggest issues are still with gear drops. Mobs are sometimes ahead of my equipment, even if I backtrack some side missions. My Smuggler died in last two missions because of that. Prototype and Engineer are pretty bad. My advice would be to grab a Soldier to tank. Get him an 80% heavy shield, a legionnaire heavy armor and the accessory from early in the storyline (from the fight with the robot dogs) and go for Flare + Bouncing Betty early on, then Meat Shield. Bouncing Betty and your hacker viruses have great synergy. Just watch the world burn. Errr, eh, or rather the enemies.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others.

I don't get it. Check the center of the pizza against the center of this embeded video: Try to triangulate the confusion.

The show's main villain, a hooded black hat hacker called the Sourcerer, steals a computer prototype. The Power Rangers New Guardians discuss how awesome it is: The episode revolved around a cat video spamming virus set to quote "clog up the internet" with "super cute" cat videos. I thought about not watching this steam pile of manure but I'm kind of glad I continued. It's quickly vectoring off into the so bad it's hilarious territory.

Does that include the mausoleum fight?

I sing that all the time. I mean, who doesn't?

I watched the first episode. It's pretty much what the reviews suggested, perfectly average and not very exciting. Something that struck me halfway through was how much of an immersion-breaker The Forests of British Columbia have become. It's hard to believe they're on an alien planet when one's been seeing them trees on TV for two and a half decades. But yeah, that's not really the show's fault.