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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:27 am

My family watched the movie Wonder Woman 1984 last night, and it's awful. I like super hero movies generally, and I was disappointed. The acting was okay, and the images were beautiful, but the story and action is so contrived, it's silly. There were a few redeeming scenes and lines, but they were far apart and not that redeeming. AND, it's 2 1/2 hours long, so it's bad for a loooong time. It's not even that great a movie for kids as there are scenes when kids are in danger of being killed.

Perhaps the only redeeming feature of the movie is that it showcases a fascinating hypothetical, can someone take a wish item and wish to be imbued with the ability to grant wishes? According to the article in Dragon Magazine issue #49, Best Wishes, General Principle #1 states, "Wishes are 9th-level magic spells and are limited in power accordingly; Limited Wishes are 7th-level spells which are even more limited." In other words, a wish can only go so far. Also, Principle #8 states, "Wishes will rarely achieve more than one end, and never more than two." Finally, my son liked the music in the movie, so if you appreciate good movie music, maybe you'll enjoy that. The whole things feels like, and is, a money grab. :evil:

There's a bonus scene at the end of the movie I recommend watching.

Truth is worth finding and life is too short to work for money.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:24 am

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
I would rather a child had a desire to help and was hated for succeeding at it, than driven by a hatred of people in order to feel accepted by their piers.

That is the course taken by today's activists (and anti-activists). Particular to my time, we knew the failures of depending on a majority (May '68 forefront) and would work directly with whomever could influence. Like say Bono of U2 does, working with Orgs and Governments to distribute money (including taxpayer's) to Causes with little public intervention. Kids today know they'll be under a microscope if they end up in the public eye from being successful or infamous. You can't be a rock star and beat underaged groupies any more, they'll crucify you. I think they have a different way of looking at it though. It's not what we think, it's what they think. They see more screwed up stuff in the world than we did, you'd have to think they see the world differently.
Going for money though. For most people, the money is easier to work with buying influence than being a great "talker" or organizer. You can't legally buy votes, but you can hire people to sign up voters and many other things to cause or force change.
Like if Small Businesses want better representation, they need to get together, hammer out some things they agree would help them and hire lobbyists if that what it takes. It's not much different for people, just easier to do nothing and deal with the day's mess.

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:My family watched the movie Wonder Woman 1984 last night, and it's awful.

I've come to the point personally where I'm just not getting that much entertainment value from seeing movies (since Mad Max and not much for a while before it). When the first Wonder Woman came out, heard such good things I held off all the way until my Library picked it for Movie Night (with discussion after lol ). Packed house, food, drinks provided. You can sneak booze in if you want, it's Missouri we have fun here.
Obviously it's a good movie but I really didn't care. Until we got to the discussion AND THAT WAS GREAT! They went around the room and discussed in full the Feminism of the film. I tried to help being the only guy there besides the Librarian. Oh yeah

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread: Too late. CANCELLED!!!!!!!!

Yeah, definitely got cancelled that night, whew. Those women were young and they could talk very fast. Needless to say I quickly moved on to my goto annoying nerd quality watching action movies (historical & weapon inaccuracies plus I knew the comics lmao). Hey, I'm there to contribute too.

Long way to get there but I really feel like I'm trying to support something that not worth it even when it isn't lame. Shoot Gal Godot is an amazing WW but it's not enough compared to what else is available in other formats about more current and interesting things.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:55 am

Mister Yuk wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:That is the course taken by today's activists (and anti-activists). Particular to my time, we knew the failures of depending on a majority (May '68 forefront) and would work directly with whomever could influence. Like say Bono of U2 does, working with Orgs and Governments to distribute money (including taxpayer's) to Causes with little public intervention. Kids today know they'll be under a microscope if they end up in the public eye from being successful or infamous. You can't be a rock star and beat underaged groupies any more, they'll crucify you. I think they have a different way of looking at it though. It's not what we think, it's what they think. They see more screwed up stuff in the world than we did, you'd have to think they see the world differently.
Going for money though. For most people, the money is easier to work with buying influence than being a great "talker" or organizer. You can't legally buy votes, but you can hire people to sign up voters and many other things to cause or force change.
Like if Small Businesses want better representation, they need to get together, hammer out some things they agree would help them and hire lobbyists if that what it takes. It's not much different for people, just easier to do nothing and deal with the day's mess.

I don't see that here in the UK, and I don't think its got anything to do with the MSM, because the media if anything leans distinctly left. I know we have one or two weird papers like the Daily Mail which I think is right and full of hate stories, but most of the press leans left here in the UK also.

What I see is a lot of naïve young kids that are just discovering that they can think for themselves, and in good old fashioned camaraderie, get together with their peers and hammer out their groupthink. They like to be 'woke', believe gender is decided over the course of a child's experiences in life, consider marriage to oppressive, believe men should be permitted to be women and go to the toilet with them, or go into hospital with them, but god forbid they should be allowed to run beside them because then they offend the feminists, and they detest the idea that all lives matter because that is racist and white supremacy speaking, and in some way demeaning to race. We suppress all discussion about any ethnicity being more inclined to be involved in the grooming of children for sex, and any discussion about ethnicity in respect of our increasing knife and gun crime, to the point where newspapers and news programming are either not permitted to mention the ethnicity of shooter or a victim and not permitted to mention either party's know affiliations or criminal histories etc, just in case people become aware that crime is tied to ethnicity.

I don't suppose you have those issues in the US. If the left are to be believed the majority of crime in the US is perpetrated by the controlling class upon the minority classes, forcing them into crime and retaliation. Apparently they are even forcing them to be obese.

Until 'woke' people wake up and develop honesty and integrity in their characters, they will continue to follow their comrades blindly towards national socialism, and that is something Europe very much does not want to see again. I hope that 'woke' and 'socialism' mean different things in the US, cos you guys have guns.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:11 am

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Apparently they are even forcing them to be obese.

If all you have to eat is low-quality food, then you've got to eat a lot of it. The more generous that welfare benefits are in various regions of the US, the harder they are to get. This was a fact easy to ignore before the pandemic, but now the news is filled with the stories of people caught in a bureaucracy designed to trip them up. The alternative is to wait hours in line at charity food banks, something not always possible if you have a demanding work schedule, lack of transportation, or your time is devoted to childcare. Neither is it always possible for a single working parent to have the time to prepare meals from fresh food in any event. So buying cheap junk food is not always easy to avoid, & poverty might make regular exercise difficult as well.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:30 am

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
If all you have to eat is low-quality food, then you've got to eat a lot of it. The more generous that welfare benefits are in various regions of the US, the harder they are to get. This was a fact easy to ignore before the pandemic, but now the news is filled with the stories of people caught in a bureaucracy designed to trip them up. The alternative is to wait hours in line at charity food banks, something not always possible if you have a demanding work schedule, lack of transportation, or your time is devoted to childcare. Neither is it always possible for a single working parent to have the time to prepare meals from fresh food in any event. So buying cheap junk food is not always easy to avoid, & poverty might make regular exercise difficult as well.

I don't dispute that if you eat sh!t and sit on your arze all day you get fat. I dispute the fact that it is a racial issue. A person gets to choose whether or not he eats sh!t. He gets to choose how much he sits around on his arze. I lost the use of my legs at the beginning of lockdown and there was no medical care in Scotland's socialist utopia at that time due to fears of Covid in the NHS. I put on weigh because I wasn't walking around building sites and playing in parks with my 5yo, and at the same time didn't alter my diet to compensate. One thing I do know is that it didn't happen because rich white people are oppressing me, it happened because I'm a lazy f"ck and made bad decisions about what I was eating when I couldn't take the exercise I should have been taking. Yes, if you're only enjoyment in life is beer and Cheetos, and you can afford them and have no other reason to live or change your diet, then freedom means you should be allowed to do as you please. More power to you if being obese and living on welfare is what you want and others are willing to pay for you to do it. Likewise if you have six kids and Joe Schmuck is going to make sure you can put food on the table, watch TV and have your phone bill covered so you can call your friends, go for it. That's what being free is all about. But I don't think that make them oppressed. That makes them bone idle, and gives them a victimhood mentality for wokers to hang their banners of convenience on.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:53 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread: He gets to choose how much he sits around on his arze.

That is often the decision of one's boss. These days, employers are pushing more & more to keep us firmly planted in our home offices, where we will go further out of shape.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 6:58 pm

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
That is often the decision of one's boss. These days, employers are pushing more & more to keep us firmly planted in our home offices, where we will go further out of shape.

Tell me about it. I’m meant to be getting up an trying to walk every half hour, but one has work to do and I have to be in front of a laptop with my mobile if it rings. Nonetheless, my boss does not control the calories I consume, nor what I do after the working day is done. So if I’m a bone idle F and end up obese, then that’s not oppression from a boss, or endemic racism in society. It’s my own F’ing fault.

It’s just trendy for ‘wokers’ to claim that obesity is a sign of oppression. That everything is a sign of oppRession it would seem. 20 years ago they’d have claimed it was people having ‘big bones’ and sexism was driving people to over eat. Fragile whining victims are always gonna refuse to grow up and take responsibility for themselves, and there will always he hero snowflakes reaching out to them trying to get some kudos for championing these poor blighted individuals. Drink, drugs, gun violence, fatherless children, prison time, all someone else’s fault. Funny how ‘woke’ means the exact opposite of the word they’ve adopted.

I have no doubt that my dedication to my job has hampered my recovery. I had a machine I was supposed to stand in for ten minutes every half hour, or until the pain was too much. But it took me a goof few minutes to get into it, and a good few minutes to get back out, and I was looking at a lot of pain and the loss of 50% of my working time, not to mention the constant break in concentration. So the strengthening of my legs back to the point at which I could stand with crutches took a lot longer than it should have. I am hoping to be able to walk again unaided. If I don’t, I only have myself to blame.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:40 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Fragile whining victims are always gonna refuse to grow up and take responsibility for themselves, ...If I don’t, I only have myself to blame.

Then perhaps the way to resolve all of our problems is in a compromise solution: You blame you for your own shortcomings, & the rest of us will blame you for all of our shortcomings as well.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 5:14 am

Always happy to take the blame for my own f"ck ups and failings.
In fact, isn't that how people hold down a job? They have a word for it. Integrity.
Maybe that's why they can't get a job in the first place.
God bless the left for providing them with emotional support humans to argue away their responsibility and shovelling other people's money at them. Cos we all know, if there's one thing money does do, it's help the bone idle and ignorant into work and education.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:35 am

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Tell me about it. I’m meant to be getting up an trying to walk every half hour, but one has work to do and I have to be in front of a laptop with my mobile if it rings. Nonetheless, my boss does not control the calories I consume, nor what I do after the working day is done. So if I’m a bone idle F and end up obese, then that’s not oppression from a boss, or endemic racism in society. It’s my own F’ing fault.

Now you've convinced me. When I finish work, I step over to the mind-body teleport machine, where my consciousness is made incarnate within my after-work body. This particular meat suit is not tired or creaky from a day sitting at a desk, & so is ready for hours of exercise & healthy cooking. Of course, my work suit needs to be replaced regularly, but my boss says I can go all-virtual soon. The downside is that I'll have to give up bathroom breaks & lunches, as I will exist only digitally for each shift. It takes a few stretches of logic to agree with you when you seem to change sides every few sentences, but the insights are deeply rewarding.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:04 am

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
Now you've convinced me. When I finish work, I step over to the mind-body teleport machine, where my consciousness is made incarnate within my after-work body. This particular meat suit is not tired or creaky from a day sitting at a desk, & so is ready for hours of exercise & healthy cooking. It takes a few stretches of logic to agree with you when you seem to change sides every few sentences, but the insights are deeply rewarding.

You must have mis-read what I said. I lost the use of my legs at the beginning of Covid in the UK when my wife got Covid. Not assuming its linked and no medical diagnosis because all services were stopped in the UK. But, I still need to work and provide for my family, and we're in lockdown anyway, so I work at home. Standing isn't possible, I shuffle around on a pair of dining room chairs. Four months later they begin to open up medical services and I get assessed and given a walking machine, and I'm meant to stand in it 10 minutes every half hour. Great if it fits through a door and can sit beside you, but you have to shuffle on chairs to get to the machine, and shuffle on chars to get back again afterwards, and if I get a call from site I can't take it, and don't want a work crew standing around waiting for a call back. So I stay at my desk between 8 and 5 to deal with work. At night I'm too tired and too bone idle to spend much time in the machine, so phase between having zero mobility to having some mobility on crutches took a lot longer than is should have taken if I'd tanked up on the pain killer I'd been given and pushed through the pain and done the work to rebuild muscles, posture, balance etc. No-one's fault by mine. Not 'woe is me, this is too hard, please help me someone', just my own fault for not getting off my arse and doing what needed to be done. My own decision and no-one else's.

I don't see that as flip flopping. I also don't buy the 'people are too tired to exercise' bullsh!t. I used to workout five days a week after work, for years. I don't now, but again, I choose not to. There are millions of people who exercise every day, and work. And millions who do it at home or in the park, and don't have gym memberships, expensive trainers, and the latest exercise wear. These are choices people make. I am fat because I am lazy and I eat too much sugar. Not because I am being oppressed by the dark overlord of capitalism, or because I am being hoodwinked into eating things that I think are healthy and can't read the label because I was prevented from learning by the rich people who are trying to control me. I fail to see the 'flip flopping' or the logic in the argument that people's decisions are not their responsibility.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:14 am

Back to an old topic... Anyone know what's supposed to be happening with the new Dune movie, and what they're going to do if cinemas are closed around the world?
I'd pay extra for a one off screening on a streaming service, but I don't think I'd sign up for a years subscription to a satellite package to see it. Maybe Netflix or similar should offer a premium service over and above their regular service on a ticket by ticket basis and start screening new releases. I don't see cinemas returning in the UK for years (not that I can get to one), but its the first film I've looked forward to in a long while.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:32 am

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Back to an old topic... Anyone know what's supposed to be happening with the new Dune movie, and what they're going to do if cinemas are closed around the world?
I'd pay extra for a one off screening on a streaming service, but I don't think I'd sign up for a years subscription to a satellite package to see it. Maybe Netflix or similar should offer a premium service over and above their regular service on a ticket by ticket basis and start screening new releases. I don't see cinemas returning in the UK for years (not that I can get to one), but its the first film I've looked forward to in a long while.

I think they announced that Dune, like all Warner Bros movies in 2021, will have the dual release HBO/Theater like WW84. IIRC, Dennis V the director was one of the more outspoken filmmakers that was not happy with that decision.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:11 am

Grug Greyskin wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:IIRC, Dennis V the director was one of the more outspoken filmmakers that was not happy with that decision.

Time for a Butlerian Jihad against digital media!

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:03 am

I suppose HBO is a US satellite/cable network? I only know the name from GoT, but we get that on Netflix in the UK. I don't imagine they'll be putting it on Netflix, but then they'll also not be releasing it in the Cinemas here either. Cinemas have been dead for nine months and I don't think they'll be back to previous footfall any time in the next few years here in the UK. If it ends up being a US only release, they'll end up with a big loss not matter how good a film it is. Lets hope they sign a deal with Amazon or Netflix for worldwide distribution.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:32 pm

Somewhat recent article with updates

'Dune' producers threaten to sue if film goes straight to streaming

Looking at the preview, I've really been out of the loop on this, looks like the first film with different actors and better effects (yawn).

Personally I'm fine with the first film. Not good enough? OK

I watched the other, more true to the original a few years ago. Not bad but did end up getting some extra naps in on those nights.

If no one has the balls to get past the first book and do something on the next two, why should I even care. Maybe the upcoming TV show will do something interesting blahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaahhha

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:49 pm

The producers won't have to worry about it. By the time the movie is released, most cinemas will be homeless shelters. Theaters have priced themselves into oblivion where taking my two kids to see one would set me back 75+ bucks. For about $1500 I created my own home theater that will rattle my neighbors windows. I will probably never enter into another cinema again.

Edit: the tv was a gift for my 50th b-day. The $$$ amount mentioned above was for surround sound/atmos setup which I think is on the cheap end of the spectrum (my wife thought i was crazy). That stuff gets outrageously expensive very quickly. PDT_Armataz_01_05

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:55 pm

Sound bars and tv's have stupid good quality and low price now. You may be right about movie theaters.

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