Azdeus Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 If I recall correctly, it was his species. 3 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB4I68XVPzQ Star Wars is rad. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Finally. Jedi and Sith were always dumb philosophies. Grey ftw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Stop being wishy-washy. Pick a side, TN. Finally. Jedi and Sith were always dumb philosophies. Grey ftw. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Finally. Jedi and Sith were always dumb philosophies. Grey ftw. Easy to say for us, when we don't have an universal Force that is our black/white watchdog. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) Finally. Jedi and Sith were always dumb philosophies. Grey ftw.Apathy is death Oh look, it's Luke playing Yoda in an The Empire Strikes Back remake. /cynicism I am hoping Rey loses a foot to Kylo Ren as she finds out he's her cousin. Edited April 14, 2017 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 You know, had I been Luke, the last trained Force user at the end of Ep 6, I don't think I'd have trained anyone. Ever. Perhaps the people of a long time ago in a galaxy far away would have been better off if all knowledge of using the force passed into legend. Seems to me the people who used it caused more problems than they ever solved. Just sayin'. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I dunno GD. Not having to get up to get something would be pretty damn useful. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) You know, had I been Luke, the last trained Force user at the end of Ep 6, I don't think I'd have trained anyone. Ever. Perhaps the people of a long time ago in a galaxy far away would have been better off if all knowledge of using the force passed into legend. Seems to me the people who used it caused more problems than they ever solved. Just sayin'. Problem with that is that you'd probably have more darkside users walking about, since it's easier to fall for that temptation than to maintain the dicipline and selfcontrol not to abuse your powers. I dunno GD. Not having to get up to get something would be pretty damn useful. See what I mean? :D Edited April 14, 2017 by Azdeus Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hehe, the force is just telekineses with "jazz hands". But you are right, I probably would start abusing it. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 "No officer, I was doing 60" Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hehe, the force is just telekineses with "jazz hands". But you are right, I probably would start abusing it.Not quite, the hands aren't that needed as seen with Ozzel. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Is it "dark side" to use the force for creature comforts? Say I wanted to hover instead of walk or I left my beer downstairs so I make it fly up to my hand...is that dark side? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Is it "dark side" to use the force for creature comforts? Say I wanted to hover instead of walk or I left my beer downstairs so I make it fly up to my hand...is that dark side? I'd say that's either PT or charge the Force usage as a training expense. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Hehe, the force is just telekineses with "jazz hands". But you are right, I probably would start abusing it. 4 My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Its like a window to my soul. 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 THE DAY HAS ARRIVED https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker I am so. ****ing. Hyped. Now craving. 2 My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Dang, I need to get that too. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxc-3WpMbg 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 With 4/26 upon us and the release of Alien: Covenant to follow soon after, it's probably worth reminding ourselves in spite of the myriad of shortcomings of Prometheus, Scott's next effort couldn't possible be worse than Resurrection: Note that I checked the comments section and am astounded by the number of people who will passionately defend that film. I suppose that's the crowd that thought Salvation and Genysis was the right direction for the Terminator franchise. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I liked Alien Resurrection even if I think it's a mess of a film. A comparison to Terminator Salvation isn't inappropriate, as it is another film with a few interesting ideas that make a jumble sale of a film. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 If you look at it, in a certain sense Alien Resurrection is kind of like a rough draft for Firefly. Joss Whedon's take is interesting on the whole "I wrote a script. they used large chunks of my script, but they shot them in ways that made the scenes almost the complete reverse of the things I intended, and I have no idea how they did that." "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 (edited) I don't know. I could imagine that "Who do I have to **** ..." line being all Whedon, and remembering that is enough for something to rise in my esophagus, good direction and cinematography or no. In addition: I would have thought that Shaw would know better than to leave the robit unsupervised given the events of Prometheus, but someone pointed out to me that it wasn't as if good judgement was in abundance for the Prometheus crew. Edited April 27, 2017 by Agiel 1 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 The Dark Tower The Defenders (series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h3m7B4v6Zc I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 The Dark Tower The Defenders (series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h3m7B4v6Zc Looking forward to both, but neither of these trailers convinced me. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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