Posts posted by Macanudo
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21 minutes ago, Deej said:
Years later, we found out he wasn't having to act in that scene.
Yep. Go watch him in pretty much all of his early action roles. He plays psycho a little too well.
Another one that stands out is in The Patriot when he and his younger sons free Heath Ledger. He's goes all French and Indian Wars on the redcoats. And I think he really enjoyed it even if was movie magic.
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20 hours ago, Captainant said:I'd be interested in querying that data sometime... Really interesting dataset that you've got right at your fingertips for tracking the dissemenation of disinformation and talking points/etc. Would be interesting to quantify some of the rhetoric and "such and such board is soooo biased" shitposting we enjoy so much
How big is the SurlyIndex™?
edit - I'm doing a bunch of intelligent document processing and natural language processing stuff for my customers right now... Got my head in that space right now lol. It'd be interesting to run sentiment analysis against a user's corpus of posts and examine some of the accusations thrown around
Imagine the data that would seep out of Texags database.
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1 hour ago, C-Man said:
I guess an AR-15 would be good home defense weapons against a zombie invasion or maybe 15,000 Haitian refugees. Other than that, seems like there might be much better options as pointed out by Pescado.
An AR-15 might be the weapon of choice if you're barricaded in an Alamo like place with wide open sight lines and plenty of space. Inside the confines of the normal American home/apartment, at night, against a home invade. Yeah, not so much.
But don't let the mouth breathing, knuckle draggers know that. We can thin the herd during a zombie apocalypse if those dumbasses try and hole up inside their homes with limited mobility and visibility.
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12 minutes ago, C-Man said:
Nope, I don't think Mitch would. He's amassed so much power (and wealth) because of the path the Republican party has gone down. Trump accelerated that trajectory in ways Mitch could have never imagined 5 years ago.
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On 9/18/2021 at 2:57 PM, threesheets said:
Say what you want about their music, but Seven Mary Three is an amazing band name.
I saw a HPD motorcycle cop a few weeks ago whose license plate was 7mary3. I couldn't overtake him but if I could have I would have blared the C*H*I*P*S theme song I had queued up on my phone.
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Since we've delved into the world of older movies... I nominate The Guns of Navarone. All star cast with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn. The pacing is a little slow by today's standards and it runs at something like 2 Hours and 35 minutes. But the characters are developed on excellent arcs and the plot, while simple and perhaps cheesy by today's standards is solid. The sublot with Maria and the Peck/Niven exchange on "getting the job done" toward the end is worth it in itself as they jaw at each other over what to do with her.

The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
in Cloak Room
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Back to a prior post and someone saying Disneyland should just expand..... Have you been to Anaheim? There's nowhere to expand. Disney World and all of the various parks/hotels take up thousands and thousands of acres of land. It's why Walt picked Orlando 50 years ago because there was a shit ton of open swampland to build on.
So unless Disney wants to completely pick up and move, they're kind of screwed. And where would they go? Any other state with decent weather 75-80% of the year is pretty red right now. Even going to a blue-ish area of a state like Virginia (outside DC) isn't going to work very well because there's not a great place to build unless you go farther south toward Richmond (with a crappy airport) or in the Shenandoah Valley where there is no airport of size anywhere close unless you want to fly into Reagan/Dulles and drive forever in DC area traffic.
Disney has hitched their wagon to Florida and now they are fucked and finding out.