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SpiralOut

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  1. Hey, man. If you're just running out the clock, run out the clock. I'd argue they've been doing that since Season 5, but they've gotten extremely good at it the past two seasons. Ain't nobody got time for making sure coffee cups and hands are where they're supposed to be. We've gotta wrap this shit up and get on to further ruining another franchise!
  2. And it served literally no point whatsoever. If Finn and Rose never went to the casino planet and tried infiltrating Snoke's ship, the story doesn't change a bit. They don't accomplish anything. Their characters don't grow/change because of their experiences there. It has zero impact on any of the other characters. The only thing it does is put Finn on Snoke's ship so he can have his 1v1 with Phasma. Which was also just pointless and disappointing.
  3. Eh, when it's my time I just hope I get to go out on my own terms. Last year my grandfather, who was my mentor and friend and was just an all around awesome guy, died. He'd been living with diabetes for years, but what did him in was falling over from all the medication he was on. Normally he'd fall and be fine, but he was outside by himself working on some project of his and broke his collarbone and a rib after tipping over. Then he caught pneumonia. Made it through all of that, only to have his digestive system start shutting down. In the hospital he looked like he was on death's door. He asked to just be allowed to go in peace. Nope. Doctors and other family members wouldn't have it. So he ended up getting operated on. Then they did another operation to take out his gallbladder. Except the real doc was on vacation so some stand-in, shit-tier doc did the procedure. And he fucked it up. So they had to go back in to fix it. Three operations in the span of a week on an 82 year old. He ended up being in there about a month. He made it out of the hospital and to a recovery/hospice place. I went and visited him a few times each week and he hated it there. The ladies running the show were always on him about everything. The place is full up of cranky old people about to die. Just not somewhere you'd want to be. Oh, and all of this is costing a fortune, by the way, even with insurance. So he gets out of the recovery center. Makes it through all that bullshit folks forced him to go through. Dies two days later at home from heart failure. But hey, the doctors got theirs. The recovery place got their pound of flesh, too. And my other family members, who couldn't just let this wonderful man pass in peace, got a few extra weeks to watch him lie in a hospital bed in constant pain and discomfort. Fuck all of that. This keeping people who are going to die alive for a few more weeks just to milk them and their family for all you can is a fucking racket. And it's morally reprehensible.
  4. I knew it was going to be bad. I knew it was going to be dumb. I just didn't realize exactly how bad and dumb it actually was going to be. This shit is even more frustrating when you realize HBO was going to give these assholes as much time and money as they wanted to finish the story, but they said "Nah. We only want to do one more season with six episodes." Absolutely can't wait for these two to fuck up Star Wars even further. Should be a barrel of fucking laughs. I feel bad for Dinklage, Clarke, Harrington, and the rest. The acting has always been on point. Having to sit down, read the script before the season started, realize it's a flaming pile of dog shit, and then soldier through anyway? And all those people who tirelessly worked on the costumes, sets, VFX, etc.? Tip of the hat to them for continuing to give a fuck even while the two idiots running the show clearly checked out a long time ago.
  5. What you want is a guy with the attitude, leadership, and hustle of Ship in Roy's body. Roy legitimately could have been one of the greatest WRs in NFL history. Like Jerry Rice levels of greatness. He was that naturally gifted. He just never got the whole humble, work ethic, lead by example part down to go with it.
  6. Can't wait to see some big, gaping tunnels get penetrated with this thing.
  7. Fair enough. I don't know anyone that expects Shakespeare from Star Wars, though. I certainly don't. I just expect some level of competency beyond absolutely fucking retarded. The movie was actively insulting in how lazily/poorly it was written. And honestly? I can forgive a lot. A lot. But then they have to go and take a dump on one of the most iconic characters in movie history. That's just mean, man.
  8. What's nuts is that as bad as this was, it could have been so much worse if the meltdown had hit all that water below it and caused another, even bigger, explosion. We're talking the whole of Europe being highly irradiated. And to solve that problem they just marched a bunch of dudes to their death.
  9. Honest question, since I don't care if people like things I don't and if you're a fan of the new trilogy that's fine, but were those really your only quibbles with the movie? All of the humor fell flat for me. The "Your Mama" joke being the worst offender. And of course, it neutered any menace Hux had right out of the gate. He was clearly a brown-nosing, over-the-top weasel in the first film, but he's still supposed to be somewhat intimidating. After that odd as fuck scene he's just a complete joke. You can't take him even slightly seriously anytime he's on screen after that. You didn't have any issue with the slowest and most retarded chase scene in movie history? I can suspend my disbelief with the best of them, but that had me shaking my head in confusion and frustration. All the ships (except Tie fighters) go the exact same speed? The Resistance ships can't use their hyperdrives, but surely the First Order can, right? So nobody is going to suggest jumping ahead of them and setting up a kill box? And you have a ginormous fleet chasing these folks with probably hundreds of TIE fighters in them. But instead of just swarming them you send Kylo out with a small escort? And then you call him on the radio and tell him to get back since you "can't cover him" from that distance. As if the bad guys in Star Wars have ever given a single solitary fuck about the lives of the common grunt in their armies. That's literally the job of TIE fighters and Stormtroopers. To get wasted at every opportunity. Then we're trapped in a literal idiot plot. The purple haired "Boys are stupid!" lady doesn't bother telling her plan to anyone, which incites a mutiny, and there was absolutely no reason to withhold the plan. And in the end, the plan gets damn near everyone killed anyway. Whoops! And our ending was a small handful of Resistance members (enough to all fit on the Falcon) surviving, with no one coming to help them, having just watched all their friends get annihilated, and they're all fucking smiles. The tone of this movie was just all over the fucking place. I'm leaving out a horde of minor stuff too, like Phasma being worthless again, "Chrome Dome!", BB-8 driving a goddamn AT-ST, them needing to find one specific dude to do the hack but getting arrested and then just happening to get locked up with another guy who can do the hack, bad fight choreography, Snoke being a joke, drinking green alien titty milk, etc.
  10. One of the best nights of my life started on some weed and three different research chemicals and ended with eating out of a literal jar of shrooms. It was fucking magical.
  11. Except most authors keep their nose to the grindstone and figure that shit out. If it doesn't come out perfect, well, that's life. Meanwhile, George has just completely abdicated any responsibility on finishing ASOIAF. He's managed to write two different books, write scripts for the show, show up to a zillion different book signings and interviews and fan get-togethers, and is helping HBO with about four different spinoffs. He got stuck, had excuses to not keep working on it, and now the stress of actually getting it done has become so overwhelming he's probably just given up. Easier just to ignore it and count your money, I suppose. Plenty of no-name authors find themselves in the same situation, but they have to put food on the table so they work their way through it.
  12. Hey man, do you even fucking know how much the nose candy costs these days? If he doesn't get the entire shipment to Boris, the Russian mob boss, he's gonna be short a few things that won't grow back.
  13. That one radiation engineer that they forced to go up to the roof? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that. I'd be telling them to feed me a bullet because that's a hell of a lot better than spending the next several days melting into goo in agonizing pain.
  14. IIRC, the only other credits Dumb and Dumber have is X-Men: Wolverine (complete and utter shit-show) and Troy (beyond mediocre). I think the reason HBO gave them the reins is because they probably figured those two hacks would never have to write anything original for the entire run of the series. George already had four giant books out. The fifth was just about to be published. They must have figured it was a lock for the books to be done well ahead of the show. Plus, if you think back to 2010 or w/e this whole thing got pitched, what was the biggest recent money-maker around in film? Harry Potter/Twilight. So I'm sure those HBO execs were looking to cash in on that wave, just with adults instead of kids.
  15. Yep. It's clear that Dumb & Dumber have no idea what to do with Bronn, but they know he's a crowd favorite and they've given him such a prominent role in past seasons that he just has to be in there somewhere. And as if the episode was pants-on-head-retarded enough, just remember that literally every single thing in that episode after the feast could have been avoided going by what Dumb & Dumber established in episode three. Bran could easily have told Dany/Jon "Uh, yeah. Maybe don't fly near Dragonstone. Pirate Fuckboi is hanging out there with a bunch of heat-seeking harpoons." And, of course, why should Dany and Jon go south to deal with Cersei at all? They've got a goddamn nuke in the form of Arya Stark. She just murked an 8000 year old ice demon who could raise the dead. It would be child's play for her to waltz into King's Landing and murder Cersei, Qyburn, the Mountain, and every other fucking person without breaking a sweat.
  16. Yeah, this was just egregiously stupid by Benioff considering we just had our characters discussing Cersei and her forces not two scenes earlier. So Dany forgot about the magically teleporting Pirate Fuckboi who has already wiped out her ships, killed off her Dornish allies, previously captured her other Ironborn allies, and who is the right hand man of Cersei? Right after discussing attacking Cersei and how they were going to move their troops into position? I mean, Dany clearly isn't the best commander around and I wouldn't be putting her up for a Nobel Prize anytime soon, but even she isn't that fucking dumb.
  17. Scorpions? What show were ya'll watching? Those are motherfucking rail guns. Even the US Navy is jealous of Euron.
  18. Could they at least have bothered to give Gendry the correct last name? Dude was born in King's Landing. He specifically tells Davos he was born in Flea Bottom. There was the entire scene where all of Robert's bastards are getting killed in King's Landing and that's why he has to bail with Yoren and Arya for the Wall. His bastard name would be Waters, not Rivers. At best it would be Storm since his pops was King Baratheon. But fucking Rivers? As if we needed more evidence they aren't even fucking trying at this point.
  19. Show should be changed to How to Paint Yourself Into a Corner Through Bad Writing. It's honestly kind of amazing to watch. It hasn't just been one bad decision here or there. It has been a chain of them since Season 5 that has led us to this. One domino knocking down another until the WWs and the NK ain't shit and Queen Crazy Eyes and her Fuckboi Pirate are the end boss. And we're really gonna go with the whole "Dany turns evil!" shit. George, buddy. For fucks sake please finish Winds of Winter.
  20. You get to keep the money even if you don't win, right? Seems fairly practical to walk away with a nice chunk of change rather than risking it all for some small chance to beat out the leader.
  21. Yep. He could have easily broken the single game rushing record that night, but decided to be a class act instead.
  22. https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/bjjjjj/actual_footage_of_the_writers_after_episode_3/
  23. Government has a mountain of evidence that you knew what you were doing was wrong and they offer you a rather sweetheart deal. You turn it down and your defense is "But we're dumb!"
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