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Neil Jordan's latest film now has a trailer:

Arlington Cemetery innit?

Hahah, yeah there has been a perception that MLS was a "retirement league" - a place for the international stars to wind down their career with good paychecks after they stopped being able to compete on the international stage. I think having Premier League on tv can help as well; as good as the MLS players can be, the top Premier League clubs are at a different level and it shows in a good competitive match.

I read that and my first thought was "...but who cares?" If you're obsessed with people knowing the real you (enough to go crazy for the character in the book!) then you're probably doing life wrong. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my time with my friends and family but I actually don't care if they know the "true" me or not just like I don't care if I know the "true" them. I'm content to let us be the people we are and perceive when we are together.

Obsidian doesn't have a D&D license so unless they or Microsoft license the IWD setting from Hasbro/WotC they are not going to be able to make a game in the setting (even if they want to, which we also don't know that they do).

I love IWD, but unless Microsoft gets the D&D license, I doubt Obs will have anything to do with an IWD3 if it happens. But since we're reminiscing, the thing that comes back to me from IWD at times is when someone says "promise", I hear in the back of my mind Kresselack saying "Promise? I made you no promise..." RIP Tony Jay.

I think prequels, in general, are a bad idea although it also depends on the prequel too. I still enjoyed Solo, but it doesn't feel like an essential story either that we needed to see.

RE: Textbooks - there's only I think two college textbook producers in the US, each with several divisions to hide the fact that there's only two. They do revisions not because the information is wrong or bad (although science textbooks need revisions as new discoveries are made), but is more done to minimize the power of the used book market. A number of colleges have been researching open sourcing course materials (ie creating the course content themselves and making it free to students), and some schools are trying to use mass market paperbacks (I've seen this in philosophy or history) rather than textbooks to lower prices.

Catwoman (2004) and Han**** (2008) I didn't think of because I was thinking of earlier than Blade even though they fit the criteria, and spot on for me missing Spawn (1997) which should have been on my list.

I think the expression was intended to convey that the film was the first stand alone film with a "black super hero" from Marvel Studios in their cinematic universe. Besides the three Blade films, off the top of my head, Steel (1998), Blankman (1994) and Meteor Man (1993) predates Black Panther as superhero films with a 'black super hero' lead. I'd have to research if there were earlier films than that.

Popular film shows up in Oscars nominations. News at 11. Seriously if you look at the Oscars history, it goes through periods of nominating popular films - arguably since 1929 when top grossers THE BROADWAY MELODY (winner) and HOLLYWOOD REVUE were nominations. I suspect rather strongly that for Black Panther, the honor is in the nomination and it won't win (joining films like STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, E. T., Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, BABE, AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, TOY STORY 3, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, etc.). That said, if it does win it won't be a bad thing (and whether you agree with it or not, Oscars history is littered with noms that "shouldn't" have won, "shouldn't" have been nominated, and examples of great films, directors and actors who never received a nom).

You took Psychology, etc because that's what a Liberal Arts program does. The goal is to expose you to a variety of subjects to make you a 'well rounded' individual with a broad and basic knowledge of a lot of things. We can debate whether the liberal arts model works for the modern day, but you weren't taught things for no reason. It is completely fair to feel these classes had no bearing on what you wanted to do certainly one of the biggest debates in higher ed is the utility of the liberal arts model in the modern day. Designed centuries ago so graduates would have a broad base of knowledge to make them flexible and well rounded; able to converse or make informed decisions on a large number of topics followed by a lot of specific knowledge on their preferred subject of expertise which would be applicable to a particular career. However college degrees were never intended to be a 'gate keeper' to employment like modern society has made them, thus leading to the natural debate as to whether colleges and universities should change their focus to one more in line with what business and industries expect their employees to do rather than the well-rounded individual approach. Colleges weren't originally supposed to act like a business, although a lot of decisions through the years have forced them to act more and more as one creating its own level of problems. Every liberal arts college will do this. Its what a liberal arts degree means. Even engineering schools, although most of them that I'm familiar with will make the liberal arts portion as small as their governing and accrediting bodies will let them get away with.

There's also a deficit of skills trade workers across the nation at the moment. Unfortunately I think schools and colleges are doing a poor job of actually advising students before they ever enroll in a college about their options to meet their goals. Unfortunately, the general incentives from state funding to college and universities is still enrollment. One thing that frustrated me when I worked in advising was seeing students on their way out of college, having struggled for some reason or another, and in talking with them finding out their goal was to get two years of classes and a degree and get a job. The school was 90% two year transfer programs to complete a bs/ba, not 2 year terminal degree programs leading to a job. The vast majority of students in this situation should have been in a trade school, got the trade degree, got a job and then once their financial situation was stable, decide whether pursuing a further degree was worth it. But instead they're looking at no longer being eligible for financial aid to go to the trade school and some are looking at paying back pricey loans with no way to do it (and often times, it'll take whatever housing they're at with them).

I thought I was the only user here who didn't like UP or WALL-E... Anyhow, saw Glass. I got parts of where it was veering off to from clues in the movie, but not every piece. I liked it a lot even though it wasn't what I initially thought it'd be. I also liked how it addresses one of the lingering questions from UNBREAKABLE

It happens. I was trying be funny, hence the

I assume its a reference to the ad that Proctor and Gamble did (who now own's Gillette) regarding "toxic masculinity". https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685976624/backlash-erupts-after-gillette-launches-a-new-metoo-inspired-ad-campaign

It looked more interesting when I posted it literally three posts above yours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkP4bZKCHE8

Personally I thought The Gifted squandered it's potential. And hopefully we'll get The New Mutants movie they shot (supposed to come out Aug 2, iirc)

Yeah, the lesson is don't shell out a bunch of money to use works that are still within copyright. I like how hiring a composer to make music off of John William's score is somehow seen as not infringing on the copyright to John Williams score. Basic misunderstanding of copyright, as that'd be a derivative work.

Anyway, he also appear in Washington in the first movie. So his colleagues should figure it out easily. Spider-Man also appeared at the Leipzig/Halle Airport while Peter Parker was allegedly hanging out with Tony Stark in New York after winning a grant from a Stark Foundation.