Everything posted by Gorgon
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The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
Biden's approval of his handling of the Gaza conflict among the 18-25 demographic is at 22% or thereabouts, which is completely terrible. They won't forget being dismissed as antisemitic on little to no evidence, or that that they were dubbed "outside agitators" when this was not true. They are absolutely going to hold a grudge against the Democratic party that Trump can exploit. Trump is no different on Israel, he is even plausibly worse, but Trump is an enemy, he's not a friend who stabbed you in the back, that's always worse. He tried to walk the tightrope by steadily walking up his critique of Israel, but it was so obviously dishonest that he managed to lose ground with both the pro Israelis and the pro Palestineans. You can't be all things to all people. Also, way to piss away the clout he got from pushing student debt relief. That should have been a huge winner for him with anyone in a similar situation.
- Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
- What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
A movie doesn't run on the same clock as a book though. It seemed comical the way the fremen won the battle and ran straight into the emperors ships and flew off on the great Jihad all in the space of a few minuites.
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
I watched season 1 of Frieren over the last two days. not bad. Very anime ending We have to go into the demon kings territory, and to prepare..... we go to mage school and take an exam. because of course we do.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
Yeah they were built up like crazy and then they were just knocked aside like they were nothing. It's a symptom of the same thing I think, clearly the final confrontation with the emperor and the Harkonen should have been the main mountain to climb, but for some reason the wanted to be done with it in 15 minutes.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
I went to see Dune 2, and I thought it nearly perfect. My main gripe is that it needed an epilogue, instead it powered through for pacing reasons, and it felt too rushed. Like what seemed like barely a minute after the fremen have won, they run straight into the emperors ships and fly off on a crusade. It was comical, especially since the rest of the movie wasn't afraid to take a minute. I mean you have Criss Walken as the emperor, and you barely give him a minute of screen time. Other than that it was a giant step up from part 1.
- Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
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The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
I rotate streaming services and grab a month about once every quarter. There is no enough decent programming on to justify a month on month subscription to anything imho.
- Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
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The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
the Shogun remake. The original had Toshiro Mifune, which is hard to beat, it it's ... good. It's actually pretty good. It's like a better than average samurai movie. Big fight scene at the end of episode 2 and I was disappointed to see CGI splatter. Would rather have squibs for that Shogun assassin look.
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Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
- Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
- What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments
- Gaza - conflict, war, land, water rights, bad colonional legacies...
It's a pretty one sided affair isn't it. The only thing he said I agree with, is that the peace itself would have been worth infinitely more than the struggle, it takes two to tango though.- In Space No One Can Hear You Scream a Funny Thread Title - The Starfield Thread
- BG3 - Butt kicking for goodness!
I too struggled to care about any of the characters. The whole thing is just a bit too "cute" somehow. Chapter 2 was good though.- Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
Godzilla minus one. A relief to watch something that doesn't suffer from the tempo problems that plauge most newer American movies. That said, it was a pretty average.- Random video game news... Games are the most elevated form of investigation
- Gaza - conflict, war, land, water rights, bad colonional legacies...
the witnesses are both tiptoeing around a beartrap, that's why they appear so suspiciously non comitant. They want to maintain their ability to judge these things for themselves. The game is to say nothing of substance while appearing to answer. These "gocha" moments are the whole point. It's a setup from the moment you take your seat.- Gaza - conflict, war, land, water rights, bad colonional legacies...
Also, a house hearing is more a chance for politicians to gain visibility than a serious treatment of an issue. It rarely comes without some outrage or another. that's kind of the point.- Gaza - conflict, war, land, water rights, bad colonional legacies...
to be fair, if there was some sort of mandate on free speech the first thing that would happen is that Palestinean and Israli students both would start accusing eachother of promoting genocide and blaming the university for taking sides. What constitutes "calling for genocide of Jews" is not something everyone agrees on. It's a leading question too isn't it. They aren't asking whether you should be allowed to support mass civilian Palestinean casualties. Insisting on a case by case evaluation is a better idea.- Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
- What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments