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Jondekk Vrockdir: ..... The main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. Oh, Huttfather, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do... Jabba the Hutt: Uba seel ctaka keel hutta . Choy'z bu mattah uba? Beet choy uba've beome, Vid ninocchiooh whooh crees keel cheeka ? "Oh, choy bal jee bal? Choy bal jee bal?" Choy bettap flarvah? Keshoy! ... Tedd jeesh, bal uba sendah tee-tock uta-sha namily? Jondekk: Sure I do. Jabba: Gooddé. Causa hutta whooh ooesn't sendah tee-tock pej namilee seel sha shulu oom-al hutta. Uba look laa.Jee huujah uba aweat, jee huujah uba oom-st wedd. Anah mottah nrom ateema beet Vid weyda shot'z gonnah vigah uba haku uba huujah Jondekk: Too late. They start shooting in a week. Jabba: Jee 'sh gonnah make shash offah jab oom-fuse. Eniki? Jee huujah uba vealah lo add jeesh. Boll nop, boll bata bu partee

Dr. Evazan or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Became wanted in 12 Systems Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru: The Early Years The Strange Case of Slacious B. Crumb Waterworld Kamino Mad Max Rebo: Beyond Thunderdome Quatermass and the Sarlacc Pit Monster

As someone who liked the Star Wars universe, I am not crazy about stories built around what appear to be points of continuity. Rogue One gets a semi pass as it was the first spin-off film, but I don't care about young han or obi-wan either before Phantom Menace or between Revenge of the Sith/A New Hope. I might still see them if their trailers and reviews convince me to. However I can't help but wonder if enough people feel the same as me to the extent that the box office is weak for the films, will TPTB think that people aren't going to the theater because they want to see something setting forth new stories with Star Wars' setting (what I'd like to see) or will they just think "Oh people don't want to see Star Wars if its not one of the main episodes"...?

Good dumb or bad dumb or indifferent dumb?

The Solo thing is a teaser trailer - its hard to really say a lot about how the film will feel from a teaser, IMO. I can't say it piqued my interest like some teasers have, as it doesn't really have a lot to grab onto other than some nostalgia, IMO.

In my defense, I've not seen GUNS in a decade.

Guns of Navarone is another good one - right now other than Peck and David Niven, I can't remember any of that team.

Saving Private Ryan was mentioned earlier. I offered an earlier parallel film. Arguably much of The Dirty Dozen's characters are stock. Right now I couldn't really tell them apart except three. But that's my position; others may remember them vividly.

Wasn't saying it was.

Dirty Dozen is a good parallel (IMO) with Rogue One. A bunch of prisoners who aren't very likeable for the most part are sent on a suicide mission.

I have a lot of fun with Skyrim, but I don't really see it as a RPG. The Bethesda ES and FALLOUTS are almost a genre to themselves.

It irritated me that when the Destiny Ascension is first seen, a comment is made about how big its main gun was and they spend the rest of the series studiously not having it fired in action. Has no one at Bioware heard of Chekov's gun? Because they literally introduced a gun in the first act that they never fired. Frankly, if I was rewriting Mass Effect, I'd throw out the entirety of the third game and start over.

I wonder if what you see as 'americanized' is the result of the movie being an adaption of a UK children's novel? I haven't seen Howl yet, but expect it to feel different being an adaption from an English language story.

What I read at the time (and have seen repeated since then) is that NBC had lost their NFL rights, so the jumped at the chance to broadcast the XFL. They broadcast XFL games primetime on Saturday (Sunday games were aired by TNN and UPN) necessitating the removal of those shows NBC had on Saturday as they had no where else in their schedule to put the additional hours (and they needed to cut shows as they were staking 50% in the XFL). Here's a variation on the same story, from James Longworth's TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama:

Creation of the XFL killed NBC's Saturday night line-up at the time - I don't think I can forgive that. That cliffhanger on The Others was brutal and deserved resolution. ... Anyhow, Lawrence Brooks, an 108 year old WWII veteran and Saints fan was given Superbowl tickets by the Saints' Cam Jordan: https://www.facebook.com/neworleanssaints/videos/1607606329286926/ http://wgno.com/2018/01/24/108-year-old-wwii-veteran-gets-super-bowl-tickets-thanks-to-cam-jordan/

The Braves have been at times Red Stockings, Red Caps, Beaneaters, Doves, Bees with two separate stints as the Braves. While they've only been the Braves while they've been in Georgia, I wouldn't be against them changing the name. Particularly if it'd help them create a mascot that wasn't seemingly based on Mr. Met (Homer) or the Phillie Phanatic (Blooper). Sheesh.

Meanwhile, in Cobb County...

Lustmord used to have an interview section on his site with this in it (you can still see it through a WebCite citation or the Internet Archive)

Hooked me too. Then I was disappointed by the lack of a green giant walking through woods in the game. I really enjoyed the Gamescon trailer for the upcoming WiLD game (although I don't know if the finished game will be any good, the trailer definitely piqued my interest.

ObTopic: Been playing Skyrim on the Switch.

To tell the truth I've never not played games. When I was little my mom taught me how to play Rummy; my dad taught me chess and checkers. My brothers and I also played a brutal form of SlapJack that left our hands stinging for the remainder of the day. War was another card game we like. We played some other board games (I liked Sorry! a lot, Monopoly less so; later we played things like Awful Green Things from Outer Space and WIzard's Quest). One of my older brothers got into Dungeons and Dragons and we started doing pen and paper RPGs first between us and then with friends adding role playing games to board games and video games. I don't think I was 10 yet when I played Space Invaders and a home version of Pong. Through the years I played Arcade games, PC games and console games. I think I've been around for almost all of the console generations (I did miss a period of PC gaming in the 90s; only getting back on board with Baldur's Gate and then having to backtrack to play the Fallouts) I still play board games when I can get together enough people willing to give a game a try (Betrayal at the House on the Hill always being a good go to game if nothing else appeals). I enjoy reading pen and paper RPG manuals for fun (don't really know anyone who wants to commit to campaigning). And I enjoy playing video games. Its one of several things I enjoy for recreation.