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Tulsi Gabbard to make a formal announcement for a 2020 Presidential Run this week. Good, very good. It's not often I see political news that makes me happy. In some ways I was hoping she would hold off till 2024 and try to run on a ticket (maybe Sanders) or serve as SoS for a term first. But I guess now is as good a time as any to strike.

A lot of the trash-tier Christian films are either works meant to evangelize, or they are fantasies that Christians wish to tell about themselves in relation to their faith. Often taken on a narrative of modern persecution culminating in a form of redemption that is most salient to the modern ego. While not a Christian file per se, I think Lady Bird is one of the most accurate depictions of how many actually experience modern Christianity growing up today. It's sort of "insider-outsider" take on Christianity (which itself is only a small portion of the films focus) is totally different from what a Christian might want to say about themselves. What I mean by this is that it's director writer was telling an impression of herself growing up so the perspective was from the inside, but the film was directed as a neutral capturing from the outside. Without the film having an agenda on any larger more profound claim on Christianity you are left mostly with a very human depictions of life, family, and church. Very few Christians want this image to be the face of what Christianity is, even though it's what is most often experienced. The best Christian works that really try to capturing the message of Christ / Christianity (which in many ways was the message of Paul) they capture a conception on what a morally infallible martyr looks like in a climate of political persecution. In Christianity's case, Jews in the Roman empire. In this ordeal Christ model was that which was seen as truly immaculate and divine. A manner of living in which you bring about heaven on earth, but when confronted or challenged upon it, breaking from such a mode of being only corrupted one's own soul. It was through promise of retribution in the afterlife through which all of faith could lay their earthly squabbles down, and sacrifice not themselves but their lives to something productive and self-less. I think this is really emblematic of an older conception of the Christian faith, one that lived on in the puritans and Amish. One that was divorced of ruling power structures based on faith. Even Constantine largely converted as a means to keeping power against the backdrop of the times. Today many Christian films seem like a way of impressing upon a flock a certain modality of living that is focused on a rather isolated social realm centered upon a Church, which I remind you is free of tax and heavy on tithe requests. So it's no wonder so many of these films stray from harder theology.

I know they are working on improving aspect of map generation, they have to with the new features. No clue if it will be enough though. One issue is that as you "solve" for how maps should be organized to both be feature rich, diverse, and fair. You run into the issue of basically generating the same maps over and over. To keep things varied, then you might sacrifice on that tuning. Since Civ VI has the must map rich features, it makes the generation ever more constrained by the games unique systems. Very much a double edged sword.

Day 1

Is that supposed to be the History Channels big new show to replace Vikings as it wraps up this season?

Weezer is a paradox to me. They've never really managed to offend my music tastes, they've never really found their way into my heart either. They just are there, as the background music to every day mundane life that makes things a bit better than if there was no music playing at all. Usually taking influences from music I do like, but mellowing it out and bringing it into the coffee shops. It's sort of like music from my generation that I can play around my dad that he'll enjoy. (He likes classic Rock too but neither of us are exactly getting amped up on that in each other's presence.) It's like music neither of would really choose to put on, but it's a place we'd enjoy compromising at. Coldplay is the same, except I actually return to Coldplay music when I think about my dad. I've known quite a few people though that had Weezer as their favorite band. Or if it wasn't it was the band the played and talked about the most.

"...writers should tailor their worlds to fit the times, so it could resonate with the actual audience reading them." - Writers should do what they want. - Audiences extends beyond just your times, and there are timeless values and lessons worth conveying. - Everyone benefits to learn lessons from History. "...we're not afraid of Hitler..." - Cause he's dead? - No that can't be the point. A Hitler modeled villain would be alive in context of the story. - So you must mean in what he embodies? - The hell? Then why not? "...we're afraid of the 25-year-old malcontented white boy who fondles Hitler memorabilia while sulking in his room." - Oh dear... - You're afraid of a basement dweller more than someone with the same views with centralized power over a nation? - Kylo Ren is megalomaniac despot, commanding legions of followers ready to kill/act in the name of what his empire. - If you wanted a Villain based on the times how is the basement cheetoh muncher worse than the cheetoh skinned US head of state? "...which is worse, because these are people who looked at horrific historical atrocities with the benefit of hindsight and went, 'Yes thats exactly what we should do again, but this time more'" - The Nazis had a lot of historical reference for hindsight, or do you think History started with WW2 (You must watch the History Channel...) "People complaining that Starkiller Base is a rip-off of the Death Star and that Kylo Ren is a whiny emo fanboy don't realize that this is exactly the point" - The people who complain realize the point, and thus complain. - It's not that they don't realize it and you need to inform them, thus they'll stop complaining. ==== Just in case it wasn't clear just how incredibly thoughtless these two were.

They could steal Xbox's lunch. Sony always had the better first-party titles, Microsoft held on with the better online services and momentum in the console FPS market. Plus Xbox always did well with multiplat sales. Well now that Microsoft is coming in hot with first-party investment, the surest way to steal some of the golden goose FPS crowd would be to launch the newest hotness. A brand new FPS IP with a heady name like Bungie behind it. Maybe even focused on a return to their from after Destiny. As long as Guerilla is pursuing a well earned reprieve from Killzone, Sony is in need of an FPS. Allegedly Santa Monica was basically making a sci-fi FPS which was almost identical to Destiny, and after Destiny was revealed Sony canned it. So they lost their major replacement for Killzone. Course Microsoft might want Bungie back, but they already have 343. Sony's probably in a better position to strike one of their "3 games exclusive" contracts like they did with Ninja Theory and Quantic Dreams.

What if Bungie makes a new IP for Sony?

I could have sworn there was mention that character progression happens based on the manner in which you play. So it would be classless from that perspective. Source, my foggy memory.

Oh, I guess that's of a direction corollary though. I'm looking at cinematography more strictly as the photographic tone that these movies achieve mostly through lighting and color gamuts. Of which ZDT really borrows from that "washed out photos documenting WW2" feel that is now used to convey the "war is hell" feeling when looking back on bleak times. But... I also think the content of a film often dictates what is attempted with the photographic tone. So those two films I suggested are heavy on the messianic archetype, of which Dune I feel should follow from the classic biblical epics of cinema. Hell, a little Evangelion's "disgust at one's messianic role" could be thrown in their as Paul's diet transitions to heavily malange-laced foods. Dune exists so much inside Paul's head, the film's need a strong way of communicating Paul's inner turmoil without alienating the audience and without betraying to core character motivations. I really hope they nail the conversation Paul has with Jessica throughout the book, I think that relationship is going to be the most important to get right.

Well they certainly don't want to launch in the same quarter. Reception wise it would be great if they get recommended off of each other.

Rogue One and Zero Dark Thirty were both striking in their own ways. I don't think either really captures the visuals I imagine for Dune, though I'm sure it will be given it's own considerations. Rogue One probably has the cleanest use of lights and darks that I can think of as of late. Way too pristine overall for what I imagine for Dune, from an old heirloom castle to a harsh desert planet, this is a much lower sci-fi despite the almost grander world building that envelops the world of Dune. I'd like the high-contrast lighting to return, but maybe so clean. I don't want the scenes to feel like sets, I want the natural world that will be teeming into every sense of Paul's being to be raw and accentuated. Something more akin to Emmanuel Lubezki's The Last Days In The Desert or John Mathieson's The Kingdom of Heaven. I think Sicario probably drew more on previous works in Jar Head, which itself drew on Band of Brothers / Saving Private Ryan. Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker just continued that aesthetic language. I also need to watch Foxcatcher, that one slipped by me.

I love literally every one of the casting decisions made so far. Only thing I wish was Roger Deakins was attached to this. The current cinematographer isn't bad himself, but he's no Deakins.

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I'm not privy to the nature of memory foundries, but as they invest in newer larger memory offerings I'd expect those to first trickle in on the high-priced cards. Hopefully it's a sign of what's around the bend.

$.02 has also lost it's value

If they are asking you to do a self-assessment between two internal groups which may be out of unison. Probably using the word correctly. If the person is selling it to you as a feature. It's 100% bull****.

Brie is a cheese columbo

Bree is just a charismatic alpha-female. Don't shy.

I'm guessing this is the last expansion (could be wrong though since Rise & Fall was sort of small...) but I really want to see the following. The Celts, Venice or some Italian Renaissance (not Rome) Civ. Venice could suffice, but I want to see the idea of Venice expanded further to a united Italy. The Huns Mexico Tibetan Empire (or maybe Nepal for a tall mountain Civ.) Ethiopia Plus alt leaders for US & China would be nice.

That sounds like an anime that would already exist, and that terrifies me.