Yeah, I guess he kind of is a young Snape. I just felt he had the most potential, because he's obviously a shitty bad guy in this movie. He keeps having temper tantrums and destroying stuff, continually doubts his abilities in secret while acting tough to everyone else, etc. I think his potential character growth over future movies holds the most promise. And in the end where Snoke says something like, "Find him and bring him to me. It's time to complete his training" that implies that we are going to see some character growth. I hope. Every other character just seemed kind of cliche to me, I guess.
After watching it, I took a look at few reviews (I was trying to avoid spoilers before); many pointed out that it's difficult to rate the film on its own. It's clearly there to provide a transition from the old to the new. As such it could be forgiven for its heavy use of nostalgia, but only if Star Wars VIII really is something new and amazing.
This. I'm giving them a pass on this one as long as the next one breaks some new ground. I'm hoping that's the plan; bring everyone back into the fold with a nostalgic re-make of the original movie, then start branching off in new directions from there.
If the next one opens with the Rebels on some remote planet hiding from the First Order who are frantically searching for them, I'm done...
I thought it was a good movie. Wasn't perfect, but was really good. Kylo Ren was my favorite character. I think he's an interesting bad guy, and just looks creepy and twisted. And when Snoke first appeared I turned to my son and said, "Oh look, it's Gollum". That was before I knew Snoke was voiced by Andy Serkis...
Anyone who torrents without a VPN is clearly doing it wrong. Being a responsible IT-minded parent, in addition to teaching my son to be safe on the internet, I've also taught him how to use a VPN and when and why he might want to do that. He's almost 18, though.
It's like giving teenagers condoms - you may not want them out there screwing everything that moves, but if they do you at least want them protected...
This. I'm very much a free market supporter, but in the cable internet areana it's anything but a free market in the US right now. Competition is great. We don't have that now, though.
It is done by tracking the speed and size of the shockwave captured in the films, which was originally done by hand. There was up to 20% variation in the results of the measurements made by hand. They are now using computer software to perform the optical per-frame analysis of the shockwaves, and the result is more accurate measurements of the weapons' yield.
Fun fact: The vertical smoke trails present in many nuclear test films are there so they can "see" the shockwave on film as it propogates and affects the smoke trails. Right before detonation a row of rockets are launched vertically to create the smoke trails. I only mention it as for the longest time I wondered what these weird lines were from, and thought they might be some weird effect of the bomb or something. So I looked it up and learned the above.
Exactly this. It's too late to realistically stop it. You going to get China and the rest of the developing world on board with not emitting as much carbon? Good luck. Our best bet right now is to study the effects and learn to mitigate them or adapt to them. THAT is a good use of our time and money in addressing the issue.
I know you're just trolling, but I'll bite. I'm 45 and have been gaming actually since I was 12. You can have my games when you pry them from my cold dead fingers. I also live about 3,000 miles away from my mom's basement.
I mostly agree. My wife and I were never ones to look for someone or something to "blame" for our son's condition. We accepted it as a fact of life that needed to be dealt with, and just tried to ignore all the fluff and give him the best chance to be and do everything he's capable of. We didn't chase after every "miracle cure" that fell flat.
Nobody knows what causes moderate to severe autism. Obviously I've followed the whole vaccine debate closely, but I don't buy that that's it. I personally think there can be more than one cause. However I will say it's highly unusual for someone to develop strong autism-like symptoms after a child learns to talk well. It has happened, but it's rare. So I'm pretty suspect of people later in life suddenly "developing autism". I think there are other things going on there...
Anyone who says that autism isn't a disease has never spent time around people with moderate to severe autism. I've fought this thing for over 25 years now and HAVE been around these people. What IS a problem is trying to lump just about everything into the autism spectrum. This just started happening in the last 5-10 years, and I've watched it progress. It's frustrating because it causes people who haven't been exposed to real autism to write it off as the "mental disease du jour" that I previously mentioned.
Somebody sees a list of symptoms and thinks, "Hey, socially withdrawn? Dislikes change? Savant characteristics? That describes Bob!" Then other people come along and say, "Are you nuts? There's nothing really wrong with Bob." Meanwhile nobody has really been exposed to the real thing and so they think everything can be fixed by really challenging these people or finding the right job for their characteristics.
I'd challenge anyone to watch my son sit and rock back and forth while flipping the same toy back and forth from hand to hand for hours on end, say yes when he means no and no when he means yes (not always, just enough to confuse things) and tell me we just haven't found the right ways to use his talents. He's a grocery bagger, and we're very proud he's gotten to that level, thank you very much...
Do you think we've not tried everything we can over the course of 25 years including everything you suggest? Every situation is different, but in this case you are completely incorrect. He has actually come quite a ways, but if you ever met him you'd understand. Bagging groceries is a hell of an achievement considering where we started...
I've seen lots of people claim to be "a little bit autistic" as a way of excusing and enabling their own anti-social behaviours. But there's a big difference between "I don't get along well with others" and "full-blown autism".
Indeed. It's called tha autism spectrum for a reason. My 25 year old son is moderate to severely autistic. When he was first diagnosed it was at a time when autism wasn't the "mental disease du jour". Having lived with him for this long, I can clearly see behaviors in anyone that I would consider on the spectrum, myself included. And yes, some of those characteristics would be beneficial in a STEM career. But it bothers me when people who obviously don't say, "I have autism" or "that's my autism kicking in".
True, diagnosed, full autism isn't an evolutionary advantage because 95% (guessing, but it feels right) of those people will not reproduce, my son included. My son has a good life and even has his own apartment now (heavily supervised by case workers and us), but likely the only type of job he will ever be able to hold down is grocery bagger, which he does now. To me it feels like the disease of autism grossly over-amplifies a certain set of characteristics that are present in all people - to the point where it's debilitating.
You are not autistic because you like math or because you are socially awkward...
Thanks - now I'm having a major fit of nostalgia... I watched the hell out of that show when I was 9 or 10 and loved it. It all just seemed so simple - we'll just build a rocket out of scrap! That's it!
Oh boy, can it. I had a really bad one 5-10 years ago that included an ear ache. My hearing didn't return to normal for probably 6 months... It did eventually get there, though, but I was starting to wonder.
Please tell me about these exciting problems you think you'll solve floating around in a deadly vacuum towards empty hostile rocks.
99% sure you're just a troll, but whatever. How about getting us off this rock before we're wiped out by an asteroid? Or getting us off this rock before our population expands to the point where it can no longer sustain us?
In the early days of exploration, you'd be the guy sitting in his cottage railing against explorers and their new-fangled "new world" when we have a "perfectly good" cow pasture right here.
Me too. I hate Facebook and won't use it. But for many people, they're stuck because the people they want to communicate with won't use e-mail or other systems.
In theory, yes. However in reality women would just be pissed because we no longer find them attractive. They want us to find them attractive when, and only when they want us to.
If you picture it as sunlight coming from left to right (as if the sun was on the left side of the picture) it looks like a mound. If you picture it as sunlight coming from right to left it looks like a crater.
I'm not using an app right now. It's extremely easy for me to just go to a competing site if you don't want donations or paywalls.
There are very few sites that will publish content out of the goodness of their hearts. If they can't get paid through advertising, then it's apps or paywalls or something but not free.
Don't get me wrong; I use adblock and never see ads. So I guess I'm a hyopcrite. But if online advertising can't unltimately make money somehow we're gonna have a very different web on our hands.
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Yeah, I guess he kind of is a young Snape. I just felt he had the most potential, because he's obviously a shitty bad guy in this movie. He keeps having temper tantrums and destroying stuff, continually doubts his abilities in secret while acting tough to everyone else, etc. I think his potential character growth over future movies holds the most promise. And in the end where Snoke says something like, "Find him and bring him to me. It's time to complete his training" that implies that we are going to see some character growth. I hope. Every other character just seemed kind of cliche to me, I guess.
After watching it, I took a look at few reviews (I was trying to avoid spoilers before); many pointed out that it's difficult to rate the film on its own. It's clearly there to provide a transition from the old to the new. As such it could be forgiven for its heavy use of nostalgia, but only if Star Wars VIII really is something new and amazing.
This. I'm giving them a pass on this one as long as the next one breaks some new ground. I'm hoping that's the plan; bring everyone back into the fold with a nostalgic re-make of the original movie, then start branching off in new directions from there.
If the next one opens with the Rebels on some remote planet hiding from the First Order who are frantically searching for them, I'm done...
I thought it was a good movie. Wasn't perfect, but was really good. Kylo Ren was my favorite character. I think he's an interesting bad guy, and just looks creepy and twisted. And when Snoke first appeared I turned to my son and said, "Oh look, it's Gollum". That was before I knew Snoke was voiced by Andy Serkis...
Anyone who torrents without a VPN is clearly doing it wrong. Being a responsible IT-minded parent, in addition to teaching my son to be safe on the internet, I've also taught him how to use a VPN and when and why he might want to do that. He's almost 18, though.
It's like giving teenagers condoms - you may not want them out there screwing everything that moves, but if they do you at least want them protected...
This. I'm very much a free market supporter, but in the cable internet areana it's anything but a free market in the US right now. Competition is great. We don't have that now, though.
It is done by tracking the speed and size of the shockwave captured in the films, which was originally done by hand. There was up to 20% variation in the results of the measurements made by hand. They are now using computer software to perform the optical per-frame analysis of the shockwaves, and the result is more accurate measurements of the weapons' yield.
Fun fact: The vertical smoke trails present in many nuclear test films are there so they can "see" the shockwave on film as it propogates and affects the smoke trails. Right before detonation a row of rockets are launched vertically to create the smoke trails. I only mention it as for the longest time I wondered what these weird lines were from, and thought they might be some weird effect of the bomb or something. So I looked it up and learned the above.
Exactly this. It's too late to realistically stop it. You going to get China and the rest of the developing world on board with not emitting as much carbon? Good luck. Our best bet right now is to study the effects and learn to mitigate them or adapt to them. THAT is a good use of our time and money in addressing the issue.
Great Grand Parent - 3 posts above mine. It was a reach, yes.
There are stupid posts in this thread for sure, but the GGP isn't one of them...
And also to Capt. William Bassett - the US version of the man who saved the world.
I know you're just trolling, but I'll bite. I'm 45 and have been gaming actually since I was 12. You can have my games when you pry them from my cold dead fingers. I also live about 3,000 miles away from my mom's basement.
I mostly agree. My wife and I were never ones to look for someone or something to "blame" for our son's condition. We accepted it as a fact of life that needed to be dealt with, and just tried to ignore all the fluff and give him the best chance to be and do everything he's capable of. We didn't chase after every "miracle cure" that fell flat.
Nobody knows what causes moderate to severe autism. Obviously I've followed the whole vaccine debate closely, but I don't buy that that's it. I personally think there can be more than one cause. However I will say it's highly unusual for someone to develop strong autism-like symptoms after a child learns to talk well. It has happened, but it's rare. So I'm pretty suspect of people later in life suddenly "developing autism". I think there are other things going on there...
THIS! Yes, that's exactly it - all of it. See my other response below which kind of elaborates on that.
Anyone who says that autism isn't a disease has never spent time around people with moderate to severe autism. I've fought this thing for over 25 years now and HAVE been around these people. What IS a problem is trying to lump just about everything into the autism spectrum. This just started happening in the last 5-10 years, and I've watched it progress. It's frustrating because it causes people who haven't been exposed to real autism to write it off as the "mental disease du jour" that I previously mentioned.
Somebody sees a list of symptoms and thinks, "Hey, socially withdrawn? Dislikes change? Savant characteristics? That describes Bob!" Then other people come along and say, "Are you nuts? There's nothing really wrong with Bob." Meanwhile nobody has really been exposed to the real thing and so they think everything can be fixed by really challenging these people or finding the right job for their characteristics.
I'd challenge anyone to watch my son sit and rock back and forth while flipping the same toy back and forth from hand to hand for hours on end, say yes when he means no and no when he means yes (not always, just enough to confuse things) and tell me we just haven't found the right ways to use his talents. He's a grocery bagger, and we're very proud he's gotten to that level, thank you very much...
Do you think we've not tried everything we can over the course of 25 years including everything you suggest? Every situation is different, but in this case you are completely incorrect. He has actually come quite a ways, but if you ever met him you'd understand. Bagging groceries is a hell of an achievement considering where we started...
I've seen lots of people claim to be "a little bit autistic" as a way of excusing and enabling their own anti-social behaviours. But there's a big difference between "I don't get along well with others" and "full-blown autism".
Indeed. It's called tha autism spectrum for a reason. My 25 year old son is moderate to severely autistic. When he was first diagnosed it was at a time when autism wasn't the "mental disease du jour". Having lived with him for this long, I can clearly see behaviors in anyone that I would consider on the spectrum, myself included. And yes, some of those characteristics would be beneficial in a STEM career. But it bothers me when people who obviously don't say, "I have autism" or "that's my autism kicking in".
True, diagnosed, full autism isn't an evolutionary advantage because 95% (guessing, but it feels right) of those people will not reproduce, my son included. My son has a good life and even has his own apartment now (heavily supervised by case workers and us), but likely the only type of job he will ever be able to hold down is grocery bagger, which he does now. To me it feels like the disease of autism grossly over-amplifies a certain set of characteristics that are present in all people - to the point where it's debilitating.
You are not autistic because you like math or because you are socially awkward...
Thanks - now I'm having a major fit of nostalgia... I watched the hell out of that show when I was 9 or 10 and loved it. It all just seemed so simple - we'll just build a rocket out of scrap! That's it!
Oh boy, can it. I had a really bad one 5-10 years ago that included an ear ache. My hearing didn't return to normal for probably 6 months... It did eventually get there, though, but I was starting to wonder.
Please tell me about these exciting problems you think you'll solve floating around in a deadly vacuum towards empty hostile rocks.
99% sure you're just a troll, but whatever. How about getting us off this rock before we're wiped out by an asteroid? Or getting us off this rock before our population expands to the point where it can no longer sustain us?
In the early days of exploration, you'd be the guy sitting in his cottage railing against explorers and their new-fangled "new world" when we have a "perfectly good" cow pasture right here.
Me too. I hate Facebook and won't use it. But for many people, they're stuck because the people they want to communicate with won't use e-mail or other systems.
Think he was being snarky. Don't know, though, could go either way.
In theory, yes. However in reality women would just be pissed because we no longer find them attractive. They want us to find them attractive when, and only when they want us to.
I do like the way you think, though!
If you picture it as sunlight coming from left to right (as if the sun was on the left side of the picture) it looks like a mound. If you picture it as sunlight coming from right to left it looks like a crater.
Just convenience, I'm sure. Certainly doable though. Would be kind of a mess if every web site rolled their own, though....
I'm not using an app right now. It's extremely easy for me to just go to a competing site if you don't want donations or paywalls.
There are very few sites that will publish content out of the goodness of their hearts. If they can't get paid through advertising, then it's apps or paywalls or something but not free.
Don't get me wrong; I use adblock and never see ads. So I guess I'm a hyopcrite. But if online advertising can't unltimately make money somehow we're gonna have a very different web on our hands.