Sorry to say it, but there are quite a few people who claim to make music that is better categorized as audio pollution. Some border on assault. There is a reason I don't have a radio or TV anymore.
GDPR didn't accomplish jack shit. The ones it wanted to target have simply dumped a gigabyte of legalese on their products with a "click here to accept" button attached to it, knowing that nobody will read it, while smaller webpages now have the looming Damocletian sword of shysters trying to extort money hanging above their heads (running along the lines of "we noticed you forgot some bullshit nitpick in your GDPR declaration, and we could ruin you, of course we can simply forget that we saw it if you pay us a few hundred bucks").
If I went back 20 years and told people that there will be a game where you can spend real, hard earned cash so your figure on the screen dances in a different way, and that the game makes millions, people would probably take it as a cue that I cannot really travel through time and are just making completely and utterly nonsensical bullshit up.
The dems are about to save you a shitload of money, by not allowing a goofball with delusions of grandeur to blow it on something that won't ever stop a single illegal immigrant.
That amount of money would be more than sufficient to actually DO something against illegal immigration. But since when did the Reps ever want to do that? Cheap labor that can't organize isn't easy to find inside the US, ya know...
I never thought I'd live in a time when a US prez needs a spanking. That's at least the usual cure for a sullen kid in the terrible two that throws a tantrum for not getting the toy he wants.
Whether the PRC having access to your surfing habits is a problem depends mostly on why you use their VPN to access something. If your reason to use it is that you don't want the US or Europe to know where you're surfing, you should be doing ok.
The story wasn't exactly bad, but it was hardly new. It is the staple of fantasy stories where the hero rescues the princess, gets trained by the old mystical master in an even older mystical kind of magic and uses it all to fight his father who has become evil for some reason and save the day in the end.
Umm... not really. Let's be honest here, The story of Episode 4 is basically a combination of stories that are the staple of hero stories through the ages. It's a bit of "hero rescues princess", a dash of "old sensei teaches young student who eventually uses that training to triumph in the end", along with the ancient fight of Good vs. Evil. With Evil of course building the doomsday device (which we also get showcased with Alderaan as the redshirt to prove that it's really, really dangerous and that they have no qualms of using it).
Ep5 was basically setting the stage for 6 (after they knew that there would be a 5 or 6, Ep4 could easily stand as a single movie, Ep5 certainly could not without a RotJ to resolve it). Episode 5 basically established that despite the destruction of the Death Star the Empire is far from fallen, it shows that Vader isn't the all-powerful top evil overlord that Ep4 made him look like and that he's just the henchmen of someone even bigger and more evil and of course the pivotal element of establishing Vader als Luke's father.
Ep6 is, basically, only the resolution of Ep5. What we get to see is a recreation of the space battle of Ep4 (just with WAY more budget), the resolution of the Vader/Luke theme (with a really well done laser sword fight) and the eventual "good" ending.
Yes, epic. But hardly new. That story has been told in fantasy stories long before Star Wars. What made Star Wars unique was to take it from medieval times into space and add a lot of special effects, but let's face it, what we have here is a fantasy story told between the stars instead of between castles.
Maybe because it's a different superhero with every movie. Sure, they all kinda look the same to me, but I'm fairly sure the initiated will find the important differences between them and thus be able to enjoy them.
Maybe if they made Star Wars movies with the focus on different characters every time?
1) Rey is the worst Mary Sue in a sci fi setting since Wesley Crusher. Now, Star Wars had its share of powerful characters. Luke, Anakin/Vader, Palpatine, Dooku, Grievous... Some force sensitive, some not, but all of them very powerful in their own way. Rey is no exception to the power question. She, too, is a powerful character, strong with the force and all that, but with one critical flaw: Not having one. This character has no, absolutely no flaws. She pretty much trips over every plot device and can just so do whatever is necessary to succeed. Sorry, but how the fuck is this supposed to be interesting? Moreover, how am I supposed to be interested in this character or its survival? Storytelling is about conflict, external or internal, but neither exists with her. No external conflict, because whatever conflict there could be or could be built up is instantly resolved. And for an internal conflict, she'd first of all have to have some sort of internal dilemma. She doesn't. She's basically as blank as Anakin was in Ep1, with the difference that she's already at Jedi master levels with her force powers. How? Why?
What you have here is a Luke with Jedi powers akin to what he had in Ep6 but at the stage of Ep4. Which takes away one crucial problem he faced in Ep6, the internal struggle to not wanting to fight his father and turn to the dark side, but at the same time having to aid his friends on the moon below. All that doesn't exist for Rey. No struggle, no problem, no dilemma. What you have here is superman without kryptonite that could harm him and without a Louis Lane he needs to protect. There is literally nothing that makes this character remotely interesting or serves as any kind of story element she could be played off of.
2) Luke as a hermit on some godforsaken planet. Less dramatic, but about as cliche as it gets. The ultimate hero retreats into obscurity after his failure to train another Jedi (does this sound familiar? I mean, that was already cliche when Obi Wan refused to train Luke), rejects any attempt to get him to train her until he sees the old holo of Leia. Aside of the question why the hell this should convince him to train Rey (oh, right, she's the Mary Sue who gets whatever she wants, forgot that bit), did we really need to be any MORE reminded of how this whole movie smells like it's trying to reboot of the original trilogy?
3) Finn Why? Just why? Here we had a character that was built up to be interesting in the past movie. He was actually an interesting character, a nondescript soldier who was just a number that dared to defy orders and you could watch him grow and struggle through Ep7. In Ep8, he's basically turned into the comic relief character, some sort of Jar Jar, just less annoying. And I refuse to comment on that ridiculous code breaker side quest, what happened there, did the script grow too thin that they had to attach some sort of spy movie wannabe?
4) Holdo She actually got my piss to a boil. No commander on a ship acting like this is commander for long. You DO NOT keep crucial plans from your officers. For good reason. Stuff that pink haired weirdo in an airlock and... shit, that made me remember
5) Leia's space trip Not gonna comment on it. No later than here we left this reality and went... god knows where.
There's more. But that's already way more than enough to simply walk out of it.
If that derails you, I guess I better not repeat the replies I got to a review I did on Ghostbusters 2016. Could I get some hollow death threats instead?
Any authoritarian regime can only survive with censorship. One way or another. Smarter regimes simply replace it with spewing so much bullshit that it's no longer possible to distinguish between reality and fake news.
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Lifetime + 70 years sounds good.
Sorry to say it, but there are quite a few people who claim to make music that is better categorized as audio pollution. Some border on assault. There is a reason I don't have a radio or TV anymore.
GDPR didn't accomplish jack shit. The ones it wanted to target have simply dumped a gigabyte of legalese on their products with a "click here to accept" button attached to it, knowing that nobody will read it, while smaller webpages now have the looming Damocletian sword of shysters trying to extort money hanging above their heads (running along the lines of "we noticed you forgot some bullshit nitpick in your GDPR declaration, and we could ruin you, of course we can simply forget that we saw it if you pay us a few hundred bucks").
If I went back 20 years and told people that there will be a game where you can spend real, hard earned cash so your figure on the screen dances in a different way, and that the game makes millions, people would probably take it as a cue that I cannot really travel through time and are just making completely and utterly nonsensical bullshit up.
Been the staple of a couple MMOs already for years. Or is it a story because Fortnite?
Too early, there's still hope that he learns. Besides, the rope is used on another body part.
So, essentially, it's like the Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere all over again.
Sorry, but as long as you produce the same bland, nondescript songs it won't matter. You can't polish a turd.
Up the ante, use paddles.
Then stones.
The dems are about to save you a shitload of money, by not allowing a goofball with delusions of grandeur to blow it on something that won't ever stop a single illegal immigrant.
That amount of money would be more than sufficient to actually DO something against illegal immigration. But since when did the Reps ever want to do that? Cheap labor that can't organize isn't easy to find inside the US, ya know...
By ... making it essentially unable to function.
Hell, this guy is better than ISIS ever could be! I mean, even blowing up two skyscrapers only shut down the country for a day, not for a full month!
When has this ever impressed financial institutes?
I never thought I'd live in a time when a US prez needs a spanking. That's at least the usual cure for a sullen kid in the terrible two that throws a tantrum for not getting the toy he wants.
Whether the PRC having access to your surfing habits is a problem depends mostly on why you use their VPN to access something. If your reason to use it is that you don't want the US or Europe to know where you're surfing, you should be doing ok.
If anything, the more recent history taught us that the formula is rather "It's new, it must suck"
Well, he's pretty used to playing va banque...
Why would one think the Punch was smart? Because he outsmarts Judy?
The story wasn't exactly bad, but it was hardly new. It is the staple of fantasy stories where the hero rescues the princess, gets trained by the old mystical master in an even older mystical kind of magic and uses it all to fight his father who has become evil for some reason and save the day in the end.
Umm... not really. Let's be honest here, The story of Episode 4 is basically a combination of stories that are the staple of hero stories through the ages. It's a bit of "hero rescues princess", a dash of "old sensei teaches young student who eventually uses that training to triumph in the end", along with the ancient fight of Good vs. Evil. With Evil of course building the doomsday device (which we also get showcased with Alderaan as the redshirt to prove that it's really, really dangerous and that they have no qualms of using it).
Ep5 was basically setting the stage for 6 (after they knew that there would be a 5 or 6, Ep4 could easily stand as a single movie, Ep5 certainly could not without a RotJ to resolve it). Episode 5 basically established that despite the destruction of the Death Star the Empire is far from fallen, it shows that Vader isn't the all-powerful top evil overlord that Ep4 made him look like and that he's just the henchmen of someone even bigger and more evil and of course the pivotal element of establishing Vader als Luke's father.
Ep6 is, basically, only the resolution of Ep5. What we get to see is a recreation of the space battle of Ep4 (just with WAY more budget), the resolution of the Vader/Luke theme (with a really well done laser sword fight) and the eventual "good" ending.
Yes, epic. But hardly new. That story has been told in fantasy stories long before Star Wars. What made Star Wars unique was to take it from medieval times into space and add a lot of special effects, but let's face it, what we have here is a fantasy story told between the stars instead of between castles.
Maybe because it's a different superhero with every movie. Sure, they all kinda look the same to me, but I'm fairly sure the initiated will find the important differences between them and thus be able to enjoy them.
Maybe if they made Star Wars movies with the focus on different characters every time?
Let's see...
1) Rey is the worst Mary Sue in a sci fi setting since Wesley Crusher.
Now, Star Wars had its share of powerful characters. Luke, Anakin/Vader, Palpatine, Dooku, Grievous... Some force sensitive, some not, but all of them very powerful in their own way. Rey is no exception to the power question. She, too, is a powerful character, strong with the force and all that, but with one critical flaw: Not having one. This character has no, absolutely no flaws. She pretty much trips over every plot device and can just so do whatever is necessary to succeed. Sorry, but how the fuck is this supposed to be interesting? Moreover, how am I supposed to be interested in this character or its survival? Storytelling is about conflict, external or internal, but neither exists with her. No external conflict, because whatever conflict there could be or could be built up is instantly resolved. And for an internal conflict, she'd first of all have to have some sort of internal dilemma. She doesn't. She's basically as blank as Anakin was in Ep1, with the difference that she's already at Jedi master levels with her force powers. How? Why?
What you have here is a Luke with Jedi powers akin to what he had in Ep6 but at the stage of Ep4. Which takes away one crucial problem he faced in Ep6, the internal struggle to not wanting to fight his father and turn to the dark side, but at the same time having to aid his friends on the moon below. All that doesn't exist for Rey. No struggle, no problem, no dilemma. What you have here is superman without kryptonite that could harm him and without a Louis Lane he needs to protect. There is literally nothing that makes this character remotely interesting or serves as any kind of story element she could be played off of.
2) Luke as a hermit on some godforsaken planet.
Less dramatic, but about as cliche as it gets. The ultimate hero retreats into obscurity after his failure to train another Jedi (does this sound familiar? I mean, that was already cliche when Obi Wan refused to train Luke), rejects any attempt to get him to train her until he sees the old holo of Leia. Aside of the question why the hell this should convince him to train Rey (oh, right, she's the Mary Sue who gets whatever she wants, forgot that bit), did we really need to be any MORE reminded of how this whole movie smells like it's trying to reboot of the original trilogy?
3) Finn
Why? Just why? Here we had a character that was built up to be interesting in the past movie. He was actually an interesting character, a nondescript soldier who was just a number that dared to defy orders and you could watch him grow and struggle through Ep7. In Ep8, he's basically turned into the comic relief character, some sort of Jar Jar, just less annoying. And I refuse to comment on that ridiculous code breaker side quest, what happened there, did the script grow too thin that they had to attach some sort of spy movie wannabe?
4) Holdo ... shit, that made me remember
She actually got my piss to a boil. No commander on a ship acting like this is commander for long. You DO NOT keep crucial plans from your officers. For good reason. Stuff that pink haired weirdo in an airlock and
5) Leia's space trip ... god knows where.
Not gonna comment on it. No later than here we left this reality and went
There's more. But that's already way more than enough to simply walk out of it.
Well, Aquaman sucks!
If that derails you, I guess I better not repeat the replies I got to a review I did on Ghostbusters 2016. Could I get some hollow death threats instead?
From ... socialism? Right?
Any authoritarian regime can only survive with censorship. One way or another. Smarter regimes simply replace it with spewing so much bullshit that it's no longer possible to distinguish between reality and fake news.