Yes, the Disney film was entirely an homage (read: flat-out-copy) of the first film. It took no risks, but what it did do is retell the first film for an entirely new generation. "Rebooting" is such a popular way to say "copy" today, if they'd just said "we're rebooting it because 2/3 of the source work from the original author we have as a foundation was utter crap" people would be arguing about that.
Also, I think there is something between him and Rey... he could have killed her when she was young, but didn't, and he seemed reluctant to really want to hurt her in the last battle scene.
You mean like how they're cousins? I'll eat my hat if she doesn't end up being Luke's daughter. Whether he knew about her or not, is up for debate.
Why did it take so long for this comment to be made? This should be at the top of the thread. Fanboys be treatin Star Wars like its a literal Opera, and not a cheesy Space Opera with Western elements.
No, you see the characters are paper-thin because the writers didn't devote half an hour to each of their origin stories. How are you supposed to know the character's motivations for doing what they do unless the writers beat you over the head with it?
Further up, someone was complaining about Finn's motivation for running away from the First Order. It was his first deployment, he was watching his comrades massacre a bunch of civilians and he said, "Nope. I'm out." What the hell else do you need? Oh, I know, lets do it Lucas style:
First, we need an establishing scene where young Finn is abducted from his parents and taken away to a scary Nazi-like Stormtrooper School. We need the emotional impact of a child being taken away from his mother.
---
Next, a scene with teenaged Finn having a conversation with his best friend at Stormtrooper School, Sven.
Finn: But why do we have to kill everyone all the time? Sven: Because we're Stormtroopers, it's what we're made for. Finn: But it's evil! Sven: From our perspective anyone who gets in the way of the First Order is evil!
Finn turns from the camera, a look of consternation on his face.
Finn: One day I'll stop you from hurting innocents! I PROMISE! Sven: Don't talk like that, you'll get decommissioned!
---
Now we're ready for the scene on Jakku, and Finn's motivations sufficiently explained, we can happily understand why he decides to quit being one of the First Order's murderous thugs.
I wasn't alive in the 70's so I don't know if the original trilogy had this kind of saturation, but I am SO fucking sick of seeing and hearing about fucking star wars.
It did, to the extent possible back then. We've got so many more advertising channels these days it's nearly ubiquitous.
Because Lucas only ever made fine art and only marketed Star Wars to the snobbiest of snobs. He also only did it for artistic integrity and never for the money which is why he's so poor and starving.
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These retards are going to bitch about anything that isn't the actual episodes 4-6. You just don't understand, those movies were PERFECT. Anything that tries to live up to those literal pinnacles of cinema is doomed to fail.
Can you please just cut to the chase and admit that you would have hated anything that dared call itself a Star Wars movie that wasn't part of your precious nostalgia? We get it, you're one of the True Star Wars fans, you've memorized every single line in episodes 4-6, you've got a room in your house converted to a shrine to Star Wars.
Nothing is ever going to live up to the perfection you've ascribed to the original trilogy in your nostalgia fueled fervor. Nothing will ever recapture the wonder and joy of your seeing the original trilogy as a child. But you're delusional if you expect the rest of us to believe in your little fantasy that the original movies were anything more than cheesy fun movies.
You can wallpaper over the flaws in the original movies all you want, just don't go spreading bullshit about the new ones.
Honestly, what the fuck did people expect from a god damned Star Wars movie? Was it a "safe" movie? Of course it was! Were you expecting some experimental art piece? GTFO with that shit. Jesus.
But in the true capitalistic fashion, there would be an app for every taxi company. Some might band together and unite under a single one, as long as they each only serviced a certain area. The general quality of the apps would range from "truly abysmal" to "kind of works." To top it off, while it might be OK for locals to have a favorite cab company and get their app, how is a visitor supposed to choose from the sundry list of possible apps? If I'm traveling often, do I now have to have a half dozen taxi apps for every city I find myself in?
here's a Visual Studio plugin for Minecraft mods now, and I'm pretty sure the port for XBox isn't java. It's at rev 1.8 and 2.0 probably isn't far off.
It's not. But apparently the Windows 10 version is based of the current Minecraft PE version, which is written in C++. The Xbox version would be a bad base since it can't do infinite worlds and probably has huge swaths of it written specifically for controllers, etc.
They haven't been too specific about any of it, but I would imagine that this Windows 10 edition is going to be the only edition before too long. Maybe they'll have a Mac version. Linux is probably fucked.
The fanboys don't want to admit it, but as far as I'm concerned the writing is on the wall for the existing Java version.
I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7, and it left Grub untouched. Of course, it still says "Boot Windows 7," but that's not very important.
I would imagine, however, that doing a full install might mess with the existing boot loader configuration. There are probably other variables at work as well, such as which drive has the MBR, which drive is being used for Windows, etc.
Keeping covering for them you fascist goon. It's obvious that these sites are shifting back to the old media propaganda model, but they can always rely on cult memebers like yourself to shit on us who call them out on it. Go eat a fucking subway.
Hear hear! Fellow patriot, it's quality comments like yours that are the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bath water. Without well informed comments like this, how does society expect the sheeple to ever get a clue? Please, I beg of you, don't ever give up the good fight!
Don't worry, the automakers are taking care of that problem by... tracking you every where you go and when you do so, so they can sell it to marketers.
If you thought "owning" a car somehow got you out of the ubiquitous tracking and data collection that is coming to define this century, you're a fool.
They only did the version numbers like that because stupid developers write crap like
// Make sure we're not running XP... if (WINVER_MAJOR != 6) {... }
and other assorted dumb-fuckery that'd break if Windows 7 were actually Windows 7.0. Add in the Java way of determining OS that returns strings like "Windows 95" with which morons write
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startswith("Windows 9")) {... }
because they wanted to handle both Win95 and Win98 at once.
The actual version number of Windows 10 is... 10.0, so they get to start from a nice round number and increment sanely (maybe, too many windows devs are still too dumb to live).
You can still buy keyboards with a DIP switch to swap the CTRL and Caps Lock keys.
That sounds expensive and unnecessary. It's pretty simple to remap (or swap) the keys with software, even Windows will let you do it, albeit with a registry change. I typically just remap caps to control. Can't say that I've missed caps lock, it isn't that hard to hold down shift and type. The only problem is being used to having a control key instead of caps is using computers where it isn't remapped. I'm forever turning on caps lock when I have to use other peoples computers. Grrr
I'm trying to figure out how exactly he knows when to jump in with his verbal diarrhea. I suspect he's got some web searches for "adblock" and "apk", among other things. He clearly takes this all very seriously, keeping tabs on his various anonymous posts so he can jump in with his super clever "you still can't prove me wrong" and if you really rustle his jimmies he'll stalk you and post about how you're a troll and shit. Which is pretty amusing, since his constant crapfloods and shit posts are classic trolling. Guess it takes one to know one, eh APK?
P.s. inb4 "Show me your medical license 'Doc' Honcho, blah blah blah."
The "evil bad guys" are a subset of the "general public", so the collection of information on "the evil bad guys" necessitates the collection of information on the general public.
It's all just a matter of definition. "We have to collect data from Everyone because the bad guys are a part of Everyone." It's simple logistics, we can't just collect the data from the bad guys if we don't know who the bad guys are, and even when we do, the bad guys pretend to be part of the General Public and so we need to spy on the General Public in order to catch the bad guys.
Look, it's all really complicated and we can't expect just anyone to understand our motivations. We're really only looking for "the bad guys," we promise. We totally ignore all the rest of the data we get from the "good guys" and we certainly don't build dossiers in the event that "good guys" suddenly become "bad guys".
Listen, just chill the fuck out about all our surveillance, we're totally not looking at you, unless we are, in which case you deserve to be spied upon because we said you're bad. And our accusation of your badness will require a secret court to clear your name, but you can't know what that secret court has determined because it's secret and your a goddamned terrorist if you think otherwise.
A Warrant, in modern nomenclature is a License. You were presented with something akin to a EULA upon birth, and by agreeing to being born you agreed to grand an exclusive, unlimited license to the state to do whatever they want to you, whenever they feel like.
Welcome to Democracy 2.0. Please click Agree to the Constitution 2.0 EULA.
Not unless you include secret courts, in which you will have an impossible time proving that you have standing to sue. If the order to collect information about you is secret and you don't have clearance, good luck trying to prove that anything illegal is happening to you because you cannot access information which proves you're being harmed.
It's perfect: We obtain a secret order to spy on Bob, who cannot defend himself because he doesn't have clearance to prove that we're secretly spying on him. We'll just let him spin his wheels with the tin-foil and black helicopter crowd. LOL.
meant warrant. Unfortunately as is often the case with the Tories, they use words differently to how ordinary people do. By warrant he means a ministerial rubber-stamp.
Let's just agree to call it what it is: License.
The government claims License to any and all communication that occurs within its jurisdiction, and as such has the right to do whatever it wants with said communication. You, as a "citizen" of a given state are owned by the government, and by virtue of being born in said state have given your implicit agreement to the collection of whatever data you may create within the duration of your citizenship. If you for any reason decline to allow such surveillance, you thereby agree to give up citizenship in said jurisdiction and thus are subject to the collection of surveillance pursuant to all legislative orders necessitating the collection of intelligence from non-state actors.
Indeed, the concept of a warrant has been changed to mean License. That is, the surveillance state has an unlimited license to snoop on anything and everything, warranted by the fact that scary bad guys might possibly maybe do something bad eventually. You have nothing to fear, citizen, because you are not currently exhibiting behavior which matches against whatever specious criteria we currently define as terrorism. However, this license should not be understood to provide defense in the event that your behavior, at some future point, coincides with what is defined by the secret courts as terrorism.
TL;DR: You have nothing to fear, citizen. Unless you do. In which case, you should be tortured and jailed.
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Yes, the Disney film was entirely an homage (read: flat-out-copy) of the first film. It took no risks, but what it did do is retell the first film for an entirely new generation. "Rebooting" is such a popular way to say "copy" today, if they'd just said "we're rebooting it because 2/3 of the source work from the original author we have as a foundation was utter crap" people would be arguing about that.
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Also, I think there is something between him and Rey... he could have killed her when she was young, but didn't, and he seemed reluctant to really want to hurt her in the last battle scene.
You mean like how they're cousins? I'll eat my hat if she doesn't end up being Luke's daughter. Whether he knew about her or not, is up for debate.
A-fucking-men!
Why did it take so long for this comment to be made? This should be at the top of the thread. Fanboys be treatin Star Wars like its a literal Opera, and not a cheesy Space Opera with Western elements.
No, you see the characters are paper-thin because the writers didn't devote half an hour to each of their origin stories. How are you supposed to know the character's motivations for doing what they do unless the writers beat you over the head with it?
Further up, someone was complaining about Finn's motivation for running away from the First Order. It was his first deployment, he was watching his comrades massacre a bunch of civilians and he said, "Nope. I'm out." What the hell else do you need? Oh, I know, lets do it Lucas style:
First, we need an establishing scene where young Finn is abducted from his parents and taken away to a scary Nazi-like Stormtrooper School. We need the emotional impact of a child being taken away from his mother.
---
Next, a scene with teenaged Finn having a conversation with his best friend at Stormtrooper School, Sven.
Finn: But why do we have to kill everyone all the time?
Sven: Because we're Stormtroopers, it's what we're made for.
Finn: But it's evil!
Sven: From our perspective anyone who gets in the way of the First Order is evil!
Finn turns from the camera, a look of consternation on his face.
Finn: One day I'll stop you from hurting innocents! I PROMISE!
Sven: Don't talk like that, you'll get decommissioned!
---
Now we're ready for the scene on Jakku, and Finn's motivations sufficiently explained, we can happily understand why he decides to quit being one of the First Order's murderous thugs.
I wasn't alive in the 70's so I don't know if the original trilogy had this kind of saturation, but I am SO fucking sick of seeing and hearing about fucking star wars.
It did, to the extent possible back then. We've got so many more advertising channels these days it's nearly ubiquitous.
Because Lucas only ever made fine art and only marketed Star Wars to the snobbiest of snobs. He also only did it for artistic integrity and never for the money which is why he's so poor and starving.
Rekt.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to sign up for your newsletter.
These retards are going to bitch about anything that isn't the actual episodes 4-6. You just don't understand, those movies were PERFECT. Anything that tries to live up to those literal pinnacles of cinema is doomed to fail.
Can you please just cut to the chase and admit that you would have hated anything that dared call itself a Star Wars movie that wasn't part of your precious nostalgia? We get it, you're one of the True Star Wars fans, you've memorized every single line in episodes 4-6, you've got a room in your house converted to a shrine to Star Wars.
Nothing is ever going to live up to the perfection you've ascribed to the original trilogy in your nostalgia fueled fervor. Nothing will ever recapture the wonder and joy of your seeing the original trilogy as a child. But you're delusional if you expect the rest of us to believe in your little fantasy that the original movies were anything more than cheesy fun movies.
You can wallpaper over the flaws in the original movies all you want, just don't go spreading bullshit about the new ones.
Honestly, what the fuck did people expect from a god damned Star Wars movie? Was it a "safe" movie? Of course it was! Were you expecting some experimental art piece? GTFO with that shit. Jesus.
No.
http://imgur.com/J16eFWa
But in the true capitalistic fashion, there would be an app for every taxi company. Some might band together and unite under a single one, as long as they each only serviced a certain area. The general quality of the apps would range from "truly abysmal" to "kind of works." To top it off, while it might be OK for locals to have a favorite cab company and get their app, how is a visitor supposed to choose from the sundry list of possible apps? If I'm traveling often, do I now have to have a half dozen taxi apps for every city I find myself in?
here's a Visual Studio plugin for Minecraft mods now, and I'm pretty sure the port for XBox isn't java. It's at rev 1.8 and 2.0 probably isn't far off.
It's not. But apparently the Windows 10 version is based of the current Minecraft PE version, which is written in C++. The Xbox version would be a bad base since it can't do infinite worlds and probably has huge swaths of it written specifically for controllers, etc.
They haven't been too specific about any of it, but I would imagine that this Windows 10 edition is going to be the only edition before too long. Maybe they'll have a Mac version. Linux is probably fucked.
The fanboys don't want to admit it, but as far as I'm concerned the writing is on the wall for the existing Java version.
I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7, and it left Grub untouched. Of course, it still says "Boot Windows 7," but that's not very important.
I would imagine, however, that doing a full install might mess with the existing boot loader configuration. There are probably other variables at work as well, such as which drive has the MBR, which drive is being used for Windows, etc.
Keeping covering for them you fascist goon. It's obvious that these sites are shifting back to the old media propaganda model, but they can always rely on cult memebers like yourself to shit on us who call them out on it. Go eat a fucking subway.
Hear hear! Fellow patriot, it's quality comments like yours that are the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bath water. Without well informed comments like this, how does society expect the sheeple to ever get a clue? Please, I beg of you, don't ever give up the good fight!
But the Master wants us to play with you!
Don't worry, the automakers are taking care of that problem by... tracking you every where you go and when you do so, so they can sell it to marketers.
If you thought "owning" a car somehow got you out of the ubiquitous tracking and data collection that is coming to define this century, you're a fool.
They only did the version numbers like that because stupid developers write crap like
if (WINVER_MAJOR != 6) {
and other assorted dumb-fuckery that'd break if Windows 7 were actually Windows 7.0. Add in the Java way of determining OS that returns strings like "Windows 95" with which morons write
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startswith("Windows 9")) { ... }
because they wanted to handle both Win95 and Win98 at once.
The actual version number of Windows 10 is... 10.0, so they get to start from a nice round number and increment sanely (maybe, too many windows devs are still too dumb to live).
You can still buy keyboards with a DIP switch to swap the CTRL and Caps Lock keys.
That sounds expensive and unnecessary. It's pretty simple to remap (or swap) the keys with software, even Windows will let you do it, albeit with a registry change. I typically just remap caps to control. Can't say that I've missed caps lock, it isn't that hard to hold down shift and type. The only problem is being used to having a control key instead of caps is using computers where it isn't remapped. I'm forever turning on caps lock when I have to use other peoples computers. Grrr
He thinks we're sock puppets.
Hello fellow puppet! My name is DocHoncho. I am puppet #3242, and my dream date is a quiet night at home tormenting apk!
I'm trying to figure out how exactly he knows when to jump in with his verbal diarrhea. I suspect he's got some web searches for "adblock" and "apk", among other things. He clearly takes this all very seriously, keeping tabs on his various anonymous posts so he can jump in with his super clever "you still can't prove me wrong" and if you really rustle his jimmies he'll stalk you and post about how you're a troll and shit. Which is pretty amusing, since his constant crapfloods and shit posts are classic trolling. Guess it takes one to know one, eh APK?
P.s. inb4 "Show me your medical license 'Doc' Honcho, blah blah blah."
The "evil bad guys" are a subset of the "general public", so the collection of information on "the evil bad guys" necessitates the collection of information on the general public.
It's all just a matter of definition. "We have to collect data from Everyone because the bad guys are a part of Everyone." It's simple logistics, we can't just collect the data from the bad guys if we don't know who the bad guys are, and even when we do, the bad guys pretend to be part of the General Public and so we need to spy on the General Public in order to catch the bad guys.
Look, it's all really complicated and we can't expect just anyone to understand our motivations. We're really only looking for "the bad guys," we promise. We totally ignore all the rest of the data we get from the "good guys" and we certainly don't build dossiers in the event that "good guys" suddenly become "bad guys".
Listen, just chill the fuck out about all our surveillance, we're totally not looking at you, unless we are, in which case you deserve to be spied upon because we said you're bad. And our accusation of your badness will require a secret court to clear your name, but you can't know what that secret court has determined because it's secret and your a goddamned terrorist if you think otherwise.
A Warrant, in modern nomenclature is a License. You were presented with something akin to a EULA upon birth, and by agreeing to being born you agreed to grand an exclusive, unlimited license to the state to do whatever they want to you, whenever they feel like.
Welcome to Democracy 2.0. Please click Agree to the Constitution 2.0 EULA.
Not unless you include secret courts, in which you will have an impossible time proving that you have standing to sue. If the order to collect information about you is secret and you don't have clearance, good luck trying to prove that anything illegal is happening to you because you cannot access information which proves you're being harmed.
It's perfect: We obtain a secret order to spy on Bob, who cannot defend himself because he doesn't have clearance to prove that we're secretly spying on him. We'll just let him spin his wheels with the tin-foil and black helicopter crowd. LOL.
meant warrant. Unfortunately as is often the case with the Tories, they use words differently to how ordinary people do. By warrant he means a ministerial rubber-stamp.
Let's just agree to call it what it is: License.
The government claims License to any and all communication that occurs within its jurisdiction, and as such has the right to do whatever it wants with said communication. You, as a "citizen" of a given state are owned by the government, and by virtue of being born in said state have given your implicit agreement to the collection of whatever data you may create within the duration of your citizenship. If you for any reason decline to allow such surveillance, you thereby agree to give up citizenship in said jurisdiction and thus are subject to the collection of surveillance pursuant to all legislative orders necessitating the collection of intelligence from non-state actors.
You literally cannot win.
Indeed, the concept of a warrant has been changed to mean License. That is, the surveillance state has an unlimited license to snoop on anything and everything, warranted by the fact that scary bad guys might possibly maybe do something bad eventually. You have nothing to fear, citizen, because you are not currently exhibiting behavior which matches against whatever specious criteria we currently define as terrorism. However, this license should not be understood to provide defense in the event that your behavior, at some future point, coincides with what is defined by the secret courts as terrorism.
TL;DR: You have nothing to fear, citizen. Unless you do. In which case, you should be tortured and jailed.
Let freedom ring!