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not even 1 day. Antonio Brown accused of sexual assault in suit not gonna rush to judge. regardless, ab is a lightning rod for trouble. not funny.
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mojo's cheesesteak with provolone and sauteed mushrooms would be our recommendation... unless you are one o' the many people who understandably has an aversion to adding fungus to their food. HA! Good Fun!
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is good reason not to negotiate with terrorists as doing so functional legitimizes terrorism. the thing is, while we were indeed taking a jaundiced view to arafat at camp david, given the decades worth o' bloodshed resulting from that conflict, we tried to keep an open mind. to say 2000 camp david didn't work out is understatement, but even so, given the interminable situation in afghanistan, am not opposed to idea o' negotiations. the taliban at camp david bit, unfortunate, appeared doomed to fail before it ever got started and am not seeing the positives o' a photo op o' failure. wrong people. wrong place. is admitted no right time. HA! Good Fun!
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dunno. am not really a burbs guy, and rare make it out o' cook county when we visit, but mojo east would not be far from glendale? am recalling there is a place in naperville which sells "cheesesteaks" w/o specific mentioning philly... though they do use rocky (the boxer and not the squirrel) as their mascot. as such the philly is sorta implied. whiz, provolone, white cheddar and white american. perhaps you found a singular food freak show in the burbs west o' chicago? regardless, doesn't appear to be a chicago thing to do cheesesteaks with mozzarella so much as one place in glendale. heck, there is no doubt a jersey mikes not too far from you and am willing to bet their standard cheesesteak is sans mozzarella. HA! Good Fun!
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clinton brought arafat to camp david, and destroyed barak in the process. historical precedent is not favorable, but it does exist. the thing is, even if you paint the most rosy and optimistic portrait o' welcoming the taliban to camp david, you ignore fact that the taliban is a terrorist organization with only a kinda/sorta leadership, which shouldn't be a surprise as is based on cell "organization" as is most terrorists. what possible concessions could trump get from the taliban? even if he managed promises, what would such promises mean from a practical perspective? is not as if trump could impose meaningful sanctions on the taliban and a military option requires far more troops than anybody, no matter how hawkish, would be willing to invest. am generally not favoring diplomacy with terrorists, though "terrorist" likely gets thrown around far too often to make such a position actionable. if everybody you disagree with is a terrorist, and there is no negotiating with terrorists, then diplomacy is pointless save with allies, which is problematic in our estimation. 'course, am thinking terrorist label clear applies to the taliban. even so, am generally not favoring, but if there were signs o' real and possible peace... 2000 camp david were a mistake on multiple levels and with trump being such a student o' history, he would no doubt avoid repeating such mistakes? *groan* a 2019 version with a far more tribal and purposeful disorganized taliban than were the plo is hardly a starting point we would want. maybe trump would be satisfied if he got a very nice letter from... ... is likely the real reason the talks were called off. trump were predictable more interested in the show than in any substantial peace talks, and the taliban doesn't have anybody with enough Star Power to make all the effort worthwhile. HA! Good Fun!
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looks might be deceiving? http://www.mojoseastcoasteats.com/cheesesteak-menu.html http://ilovemontis.com/documents/montis_menu.html http://phillysbest.com/ three places am recollecting. the melted white american or white cheddar and/or provolone might look like mozzarella, but we lived in chicago for years and make a trip back once or twice a year. cannot recall mozzarella being offered at any place we frequented save on weird "pizza cheesesteaks" and the like. 'course, nowadays as am returning to chicago as 'posed to living there, am far more likely to get an italian beef sandwich than a cheesesteak. HA! Good Fun!
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have considered trying a bleu and gruyere or fontina, 'cause am a kinda a fan o' bleu compound butters for steak, but have never quite gotten 'round to making a decent bleu sauce appropriate for a sandwich. gotta go easy on the bleu, but how much is enough w/o being too much? gruyere melts nice and complements bleu, which is why am thinking gruyere as a partner cheese. lots o' sauteed mushrooms and caramelized onions. bit o' parsley? ... probable ghastly, but... HA! Good Fun!
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did you use whiz, provolone, or something else? at geno and pat's, whiz is still the standard for cheesesteak. personal preference is provolone if am aiming for acceptable alternatives to whiz which is nevertheless considered traditional. provolone and a smidge o' parmesan is where we go most often even if the parmigiano reggiano takes us beyond borders o' traditional. roux + milk (or sour cream works) + cheese = sauce. can add almost any kinda cheese, but have rare experimented with cheesesteak. HA! Good Fun!
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Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities ... what? ... perhaps another national emergency? can't think o' a legal mechanic for fed going into CA, or another state, and rounding up US citizens with intention o' placing 'em in internment camps. gd is apoplectic at the thought o' government takings, which is Constitutional as long as the taking is compensated, and has him running for his firearms to defend his stuff. can only imagine how he would react to this. gonna finally snap and have his gandalf moment? this is the kinda thing 'bout which people should be afraid. not gd running for firearms to protect a chainsaw, but rather the fed government going into states and rounding up undesirables. HA! Good Fun!
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quick aside: bolton were fired. another national security advisor gone. is the advice bad or is the advice wrong? if trump is firing 'cause advice is wrong, then he is a fool. if advice is bad, well that is different. in any event, bolton is gone. as to straws, am only ever using when we order a drink from a fast food place, which ain't often. the thing is, straws do make easier when drinking a beverage while driving. am s'posing we could keep a environmental friendly straw in our car(s) jic we order a double-double and a dr. pepper. probably should, but happens infrequent. HA! Good Fun! ps this might be the thing which finally ends sharpie-gate, but the problem is there is already questions regarding lies and honesty insofar as the announcement o' bolton leaving. bolton says he offered to resign last night. trump says he asked bolton to resign. timing is weird considering hours ago the wh announced bolton and pompeo and others would be at a 1:30pm news conference today. sure, could be trump playing fast and loose with language rather than overt lie, but will be interesting if trump insists he demanded resignation before bolton offered. another unnecessary double-down?
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hmmm. sooper long and replying not just to gd, so apologies in advance. anybody Gromnir's age or older (and maybe a few years younger) lived during cold war when MAD and a thin sliver o' common sense were the only things protecting a fragile peace. find somebody from our generation who did not literal have the nuclear holocaust nightmare wake us in dead o' night more than a few times. were a constant fear for decades. has always been something, albeit less singular than nuclear apocalypse, and am expecting 2019 has less such fears than any generation o' Americans we care to name. technology and culture has changed (not always advanced) and far fewer o' us live in daily fear than at any other time in history. most o' us in the US is no longer afraid o' having enough food to get through winter, which were a real thing for much o' history, and while the zombie apocalypse is no doubt frightening a few boardies, modern medicine has diminished many more reasonable disease related concerns. GD is still in tennessee, yes? as a catholic with a bit more melanin than the typical european, is all kinda fears we woulda' need endure living in tennessee through almost all o' its history... and fears we kinda thought were in the rear-view mirror culturally are making a comeback. watch film o' any group o' primates in the wild for any length o' time. they is skittish. fight or flight is a constant. from an evolution pov, we ain't far removed from any o' our primate cousins. we still have fight or flight instincts, which is perhaps why long-term dangers such as global warming fail to cause us the fear they should-- not immediate enough. regardless, we are always afraid o' something, because we has always been afraid and that is how we is hardwired. fears may be big or small, but the myth o' the brave frontiersman or pioneer is hogwash and hoccum. pioneer with his family woulda' been having deal with constant fear o' weather and disease and attacks from other humans and insects and a dozen other threats real and imagined. perhaps is more striking 'cause indeed there is less to be afraid o' today than yesteryear and yet we still collectively quake and shiver in the darkness. regardless, americans has always been afraid. trump has, as numerous President's before him, weaponized such fear. is not new. be afraid o' immigrants 'cause they take jobs and commit crime. 1920s nativism were worse than today. even so, automation is the main reason manufacturing jobs is disappearing and no amount o' immigration control is gonna change that. and how many folks born in the US is angry they can't get a job picking oranges or cleaning hotel rooms 'cause immigrants will work for less money? is no doubt a large voting bloc. *snort* heck, immigrants commit crime at lower rates than native born americans. 'course illegal immigration had been steadily declining for decades until trump fostered instability in central america while simultaneous threatening to shut down immigration complete. big shock a sudden influx o' immigrants head toward the US. solution: a wall. HA! yeah, we need immigration reform, which is why we has been talking immigration reform since a time when it were the Democrats who were the party which were trying to limit immigration... which is why an old dog like Gromnir has a bit o' perspective. immigration is a decades old debate and is serious, but is not an emergency and should not be a source o' fear. oh, and making immigrants (as 'posed to immigration) a source o' fear is arguable evil. 'course what we really need is a muslim ban... *insert eye roll* antifa sucks, (have hopefully disabused gd that bernie somehow has given even tacit support to antifa) but somehow trump has flipped the script. he is defender o' speech? trump has attempted to censor voices in the executive branch on issues from climate to hud and he even lies 'bout the weather (weather and climate is not same btw, but try and explain that to trump.) the noaa tries to censor its own experts who would correct the President? the entire "fake news" and enemy of the people" insanity is an attempt to gaslight a generation and undermine those who would speak truth to power. ff to ~36:15. coulda' done short clip, but folks mighta' accused us o' taking outta context, so watch entire if you wish. and yeah, on college campuses, where far right is a minority, there is has been attempts to censor speakers with the "wrong" viewpoint. is ugly, stoopid and unamerican the way the spirit o' the First Amendment has been abandoned by so many... which includes the clowns and their fears o' the press. have tried to help inform on this point, but ny times v. sullivan is Not a free press case. as an American you may share opinions 'bout public figures and you need not fear litigation or criminalization 'less you knowing lie. all of us may speak 'bout public events and people with the Constitution protecting us as we do so. those batcrap crazy folks who refuse to recognize that the same Constitutional protections which make it possible for talking heads on fox or msnbc to be speaking 'bout public figures or events o' public interest w/o fear o' government interference is same protections which protect folks on street corners and parks and on internet message boards. 1) those dirty lefties trying to muzzle milo yiannopoulos is the real problem. and 2) somebody needs to stop the press cabal (HA!) and their constant attacks of trump. ... mental gymnastics or ignorance capable o' expressing both views simultaneous leaves us disappointed and a little afraid 'cause is so common, and is the horse p00p the current administration is shoveling. for chrissakes, read or signature. afraid and ignorant. the current administration depends on fear and ignorance. as an aside, am thinking the internet and the 21st century speed o' communication in general makes fear seem worse today. in the past, folks didn't have a way to share their fears with anybody beyond a small circle o' acquaintances, and they wouldn't even if they could. twitter and social media and boards like this where folks share their every thought on everything? is new. am not embracing the need to share every personal thought on twitter, accompanied by selfies, but it is a thing, and is far too common for a guy who still carries around a flip phone and who refuses to even text. 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SW: The Old Republic - Episode VIII (May RNG Be With You)
Gromnir replied to Blarghagh's topic in Computer and Console
took us a little over 2 weeks to get our guardian through near all story content-- skipped ilum save for the flashpoints. also skipped more than a few recruitment missions. finished ossus this eve. am likely to level-up three more characters before 6.0, albeit at a slightly reduced pace seeing as how such characters is already at 65. a few o' the eternal throne chapters, and the umbara stuff, were a kinda slow death and am not looking forward to repeating any time soon. got another house to paint before the rains start, but temps will be back ~100F by the weekend. maybe try the dantooine event and then get started on painting next week. umbara and the mecha stuff from eternal throne kinda makes us look forward to painting. HA! Good Fun! -
still irrelevant as a response to posts 'bout trump's dorian behavior. keep repeating won't make more valid. am honest baffled by the almost obligatory media bias response to trump mendacity. is as if trump supporters literal cannot help but focus on media bias when issue is Presidential behaviors accurate reported by press, and thus complete insular and discreet from questions o' press balance. tell us trump's russian collusion were a hoax. tell us how man-made climate change is fantasy. both such observations will have relevance in a thread 'bout politics in 2019. neither is meaningful as a response to posts 'bout trump's dorian behavior. as for spontaneous sharing qualifications we cannot guess motivations. we observed we would not do likewise. we explained a bit o' the why behind why we won't. if such makes you think o' pens, then so be it. HA! Good Fun!
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again, irrelevant. whether or not you believe the source o' news is biased or hostile is complete immaterial insofar as the President's behavior and whether or not a news source accurate and factual reported Presidential and executive branch actions. keep coming back to media bias is red herring fodder in the present context although is complete according to our earlier and more recent predictions. this is what trump and trump supporters invariably do when confronted with trump lies and the President's indefensible double-down on such lies. and if all you got from first paper is channel placement, am suspecting you didn't read beyond the abstract and conclusion. channel placement were what were new in the study and so there is a particular focus 'pon such. also, the channel placement findings were somewhat surprising given just how much such affected viewership. regardless, is a study specific o' changes to voter patterns during decade when fox news became something other than regional. fox started in 1996, but weren't available in major markets such as ny and los angeles for a number o' years. "We compare a base case where Fox was available to cable subscribers in the 1997-2000 period according to the observed rollout pattern to a scenario where Fox was available exclusively to satellite subscribers and not on any local cable system." channel placement were one aspect o' study, though admitted the only original aspect o' the work. but again, am not gonna fall for obvious and transparent deflection. you wanna discuss media bias? knock yourself out. is indeed relevant to 2019 US politics, but is utter immaterial insofar as the President's dorian tweets and sharpie nonsense. President's behaviour is indefensible, so deflect, deflect, deflect. HA! Good Fun! ps am also not gonna get into personal qualifications and expertise. via a pm, back in 2000, we mentioned our occupation and university background to a fellow poster who promptly shared such info with seeming anybody who would listen. regardless, much o' our resume is a known quantity and multi-year absences from the boards has not resulted in any kinda functional reset. single pm were one o' our few board regrets, so am not gonna get into a battle o' duelling degrees and resume comparisons. gauche.
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"actors" are puppets. many puppets. cgi is relative limited as the vast majority o' sets is real with a bit o' green-screen stuff. https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-08-31/dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-puppets-or-cgi/ HA! Good Fun!
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which is complete irrelevant 'cause the issue at hand is honesty and factual accuracy. the press (discuss as if the press is a monolithic singularity is pushing past suspect into ridicule-worthy territory, no?) has always exhibited bias and spin to various degrees. admitted, particular post ww2 to pre-2000, mass media news sources at least attempted to keep overt bias to a minimum. this were especially true for radio and tv news 'cause radio and tv were/are technical public utilities and as access to such utilities were limited, different standards were imposed on tv and radio in the interest o' safeguarding the public trust. we can discuss that issue in another post or thread if you wish. however, such is not relevant to present issue. red herring. is the press accurate reporting trump's foible? is they being factual accurate? which parties in the present kerfuffle is mendacious and dishonest? balance is not relevant to a question o' whether trump altered a map and what the forecasts for dorian were at the time trump made his alabama tweets. press bias doesn't have any impact 'pon what the sharpie incident says 'bout the President's honesty and/or his shortcomings. the only reason so many is conflating the issue o' bias with accuracy is 'cause o' the disturbingly pervasive and insidious success o' the mind boggling stoopidity which is the alternative facts efforts from within the wh and supported by breitbart and other news *insert eye roll* organizations. regardless, is comical how the press bias thing gets predictable play every time trump lies. just as we predicted earlier in this thread, trump and supporters retreat to the enemy of the people attacks on the press every time trump lies and such gets accurate reports by press... which is disturbing and weird when you think 'bout it. complain the press ain't accurate reporting both trump mistake and the trump follow-up efforts to defend? no. complain the press ain't balanced. ... uh, so what? that said, the following is suggested reading for otherwise irrelevant: https://web.stanford.edu/~ayurukog/cable_news.pdf https://pcl.stanford.edu/research/2009/iyengar-redmedia-bluemedia.pdf second link is relative brief and covers similar territory. HA! Good Fun! ps orwellian 2+2=5 is the only reason the story still has legs. sure, trump campaign selling trump markers for $15 is gonna get a reaction from a number o' news organizations, but how much more can be said 'bout trump's most recent attempt at gaslighting? the thing is, find out the noaa were directing employees not to contradict the President as o' september 1st is gonna keep story alive a bit longer than one might have expected. executive branch efforts to censor nws scientists is news even if trump were to abandon the fight over his mistake. am nevertheless not seeing the larger story last much past the weekend. as improbable and disturbing as the sharpie bit would be if any other President in living memory attempted, this is ordinary in 2019.
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weird part from our pov is how far down the list the us ranks insofar as "of total population (%)." germany sweden and austria, among others, is having a higher %, according to a wiki post which am always suspicious o' until we check sources btw. HA! Good Fun!
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one word: windmills of course trump won't let it go. his base, inexplicable and beyond reason, don't care 'bout trump lies, but they love seeing him fight, 'cause y'know, trump is a fighter and... am not sure where to go with this 'cause am complete perplexed by his base and the entertainment value they enjoy seeing trump vigorous defend the indefensible. we never watched his tv show, so am s'posing we is self-inoculated 'gainst his antics. dunno. also, the fight allows trump to bang the "enemy of the people" drum. the real villains is the press. see how they mischaracterize the President's tweets? see how the press fakes news? is complete and utter malarkey, but his base doesn't care 'bout facts and as we has seen, any kinda maths is gonna utter discombobulate a large % o' 'em. and then there is the more moderate conservatives who is mild emberassed by trump and who private have concerns 'bout the mendacity and the corruption and the illegal, but at the end o' the day, is either trump or a democrat alternative, and the republicans is willing to overlook trump if it means mitch is able to continue packing courts for a few more years. the quiet enablers who will come out o' the woodwork after trump is no longer in office and admit they didn't approve o' trump, but they had a duty to defend the US from socialism and big government and... whatever. after +2 years o' o' insanity such as cancer causing windmills, only educated women voters has been leaving the trump base in noteworthy numbers, but such folks were never a huge % o' the base. trump cannot let go. is part o' the character he has concocted that he is a fighter who will always respond to attacks both real and perceived. doesn't matter if the fight is hornswoggle. Americans voted this guy into office. in spite o' daily displays o' incompetence and a record o' near total failure after +2 years in office, is possible he may get a second term. reality in 2019. windmills. HA! Good Fun!
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pretend as if the trump administration is normal or no worse than ________ is requiring a level o' willful indifference am incapable o' mustering. making you and others believe that trump is no worse than ________ is how he got elected in the first place and is what makes the possibility o' reelecting an amoral and narcissistic huckster a very real threat. when trump were elected, we were at least sympathetic to your view. we posted the kodos and kang stuff and opined how the universe were clear mocking previous decades worth o' complaints 'bout lack o' Presidential candidates worthy o' a vote. but we have been here already, yes? am a fiscal conservative/libertarian who complained endless 'bout obama's misguided foreign policy. we vote republican more often than not, in part 'cause the libertarian candidates have been a trainwreck. name a world leader question or "who is harriet tubman?" no thanks mr. johnson. am not some kinda far-left hippie. heck, yang annoys us 'cause he is a one-trick pony who seeming hasn't considered practical problems for his $1000/month plan while simultaneous ignoring existing data 'bout how such monthly offerings change employment. *shrug* we got criticisms for all the candidates, but trump is different and something we ain't seen in the oval office for a long time. have seen misguided. have seen relative inept. trump is different. don't kid self. we could see trump metaphorical fiddle as the world burns 'round him, but nero succeeded in implementing a major infrastructure overhaul, so such would be an unfair comparison to the roman emperor. HA! Good Fun!
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there is folks who complain 'bout how the fake news is out to get trump and that various media organizations is fixated 'pon the President beyond reason. perhaps there is a few individual reporters who don't care 'bout the facts as it relates to trump, but such is hardly the norm. the disconnect arises 'cause is some in the media trying to report on this President same as they did for past Presidents. however, the black sharpie alteration o' a weather map shows how trump has complete changed the way news is reported. all through his campaign, and from day 1 o' his presidency with the ridiculous crowd size claims, trump has lied so consistent and so indiscriminate that the media no longer bothers to report as they would have for any other President in memory. past Presidents need not even lie and they would be raked over the coals by media for months (years) for arguable mistruths. trump lies. he lies small and he lies big and he lies so unreasonable it is impossible to even use self-interest to divine if a Presidential untruth were intentional or the result o' mistake. the irony is that this President, more than any other in recent memory, has been allowed by the media to functional get away with lies. the country, the news media included, has become utter numb to constant, willful and bizarre mendacity from the wh. yeah, fox changed the game by being so successful. the folks in the business o' news recognized it is more lucrative to sell news their audience wants to read as 'posed to trying to let folks make up their own minds 'bout an event or issue. such isn't particular new, but how effective the media has been at accelerating polarization surprises us. even so... how does this happen? a black sharpie to try and make trump's alabama comments legit? nevertheless, in a day or two, this moment from the madhouse on pennsylvania avenue will be largely forgotten... just another entry on the improbable ledger o' Presidential lies. is the kinda brain freeze stoopid moment which would dog any other President for months or years, but not trump. compared to shutting down the government for a wall and muslim bans and pu$$y grab, this is small timey, no? the media has never been unbiased and impartial. am not certain why folks pretend as if such were ever the standard. am not certain why we need repeat this obvious point each time the evil press is message board fodder, but so it goes. you got a President who cannot tell the truth and then claims the press is the "enemy o' the people." gosh, one wonders why the press would be concerned 'bout such, eh? and yeah, 'cause somebody will mention or reflect 'pon it, during the first two years o' his administration, obama got the benefit of the doubt more often than not from much o' the popular news organizations. 'course after two years the honeymoon were over and obama went after journalists such that the fed attempted to criminalize journalists more frequent than any President since Lincoln. "The Obama administration used the 1917 Espionage Act with unprecedented vigor, prosecuting more people under that law for leaking sensitive information to the public than all previous administrations combined. Obama’s Justice Department dug into confidential communications between news organizations and their sources as part of that effort. "In 2013 the Obama administration obtained the records of 20 Associated Press office phone lines and reporters’ home and cell phones, seizing them without notice, as part of an investigation into the disclosure of information about a foiled al-Qaida terrorist plot. "AP was not the target of the investigation. But it called the seizure a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into its news-gathering activities, betraying information about its operations “that the government has no conceivable right to know.” "Obama’s Justice Department also secretly dogged Fox News journalist James Rosen, getting his phone records, tracking his arrivals and departures at the State Department through his security-badge use, obtaining a search warrant to see his personal emails and naming him as a possible criminal conspirator in the investigation of a news leak." https://www.apnews.com/ffc60235c26c470c9047e0da6ff19f95 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/barack-obama-press-freedom-strong-media-stop-donald-trump obama complained 'bout press almost constant from end of second year to end of second term, and that is 'cause the press were bending over backwards for him? no. all it took were one Presidential election and the "enemy of the people" bit to make folks forget obama's adversarial relationship with the press. regardless, the truth is that all too often trump gets a free pass from the press. is too much lies and crazy and even arguable illegal (need remind folks mueller report clear found considerable evidence o' both obstruction and collusive behaviour) for the press to pretend this administration may be covered as others. the public is too polarized for the press to pretend as if they are able to do their jobs same as in previous years. every time the press reveals facts o' a new trump lie or misdeed, trump supporters see as evidence the press is out to get trump and one new lie or misdeed ain't gonna make a difference to those who already distrust trump. a black sharpie alteration to a map showing hurricane progress, to cover for a twitter misstatement? this is wh reality in 2019. black sharpie moment will be largely abandoned by press as o' next week. this is also reality in 2019. 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too many marvels. we actual intended to reference mcu carol danvers and had a brain fart. HA! Good Fun! ps captain marvel, for marvel, will for Gromnir always be the guy who died o' cancer.
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luke was annoying for the first couple movies. he were whiny, flawed and refused to take advice o' those with more experience, to his detriment. yeah, luke has moments o' competence in the first two movies, but those exist as a way to setup and magnify his failures. rey, in spite o' being a junk scavenger on a remote world who ekes out a subsistence existence, is instantly competent/superior at everything. ignore advice o' merlin figure not matter 'cause whereas luke loses a hand and has world shattered, rey frees her boyfriend from snoke, the seeming biggest bad in the galaxy at the time. the comical wide-eyed stares and f'ing threatening luke with a f'ing lightsabre 'cause he won't answer her questions? is a horrible character on many levels, but y'know, 'cause she is cute, she gets a different standard. and is apparent both rey and luke sold their soul to the robot devil blame on the direction, but there is nothing subtle 'bout the luke or rey performances. there were a time when growth were kinda the key to heroic character development, so is not shocking luke takes a long and difficult journey to become more than the whiny youth from episode iv. the problem for rey as a character is she started competent and were intuitive smarter than everybody else around her. in the third movie rey ain't gonna overcome fears or prejudices or failures o' the past, 'cause she don't have any such flaws. kylo has obvious room for growth, but rey? no doubt she will come to terms with her past in the upcoming flick, but becoming even more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is kinda lame. is the new norm o' lame. ... am gonna offend a few folks with the following observation, but am thinking one unfortunate aspect o' our current culture which has artists and entertainers conscious o' the need to make female characters in all kinds o' mass media more capable, is that too many female characters is being cheated o' a chance for growth. is ok to start weak. is ok to begin a story with a female character who is flawed and ignorant and in need o' help. so cautious o' avoiding damsel-in-distress and double-standard that we end up with rey and wonder woman and ms. marvel being the expected and defensible norm. lame. is ok to have a few super women characters in pop culture and entertainment as we have had many supermen over the years. unfortunate, is a terrible sameness to the predictable competence o' female protagonists nowadays. seeing as Gromnir has complained 'bout the male characters who is instagood at everything and have no real growth, would be unfair o' us to hold back on criticizing the new trend o' 2-d and soulless uberfrau. HA! Good Fun!
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SW: The Old Republic - Episode VIII (May RNG Be With You)
Gromnir replied to Blarghagh's topic in Computer and Console
managed to get to 50 command xp with our guardian. speaking o' soul crushing, have been doing dailies and heroics for command xp. the weekly xp grant for cz-198, ziost, black hole and oricon is nice. yavin and section x take a bit more time, but they is nice too. kinda wish we were doing a stealth character as stuff such as the heroic-4 in section x take more time than we would like when soloing. the solo heroics is repeatable ad nauseum as well as providing crates and credits, but am nevertheless getting burned out already. heck, we might even try pvp as an an alternative. was gonna try and reach tier 2 for command xp before doing kotfe. dunno 'bout that plan. has gotten to the point am looking forward to pruning shrubs/trees and cleaning gutters. have done pretty much all the critical path story stuff although we did skip the level 50 ilum content. ilum does not appear to have a weekly/daily option for command xp, but will check on that to make certain. am suspecting there is a better way to go 'bout gaining command xp as a solo player. maybe not. HA! Good Fun! -
Could a Rusty Bridge Generate Electricity? "The team has a grant from DARPA to develop the technology, and has filed a provisional patent application." HA! Good Fun!
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as soon as andy garcia and denver were mentioned, our brain started loading up scenes from things to do in denver when you're dead. not a good movie, but it had a few fun scenes and more than one quotable moment. but yeah, clint eastwood is old. he were old in gran torino and that were 2008. is so old that he and ruth bader ginsburg look like twins, save for the height difference. 'course betty white is 96 or 97, yes? apologies for the brobdingnagian proportions o' the video. HA! Good Fun!