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DanRydell

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  1. 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    But like so many elections in America, that it was this close is so goddamn fucking disturbing.  Representative Democracy led by intelligent people of integrity isn't held together by duct tape and string.  It's together by mutually agreed upon illusions and amphetamines.  

    That's an extremely bizarre takeaway from a race where both candidates were high quality.

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  2. Haven’t watched this season live even though I’m a fan of the show. How is it?  I don’t want to scroll the thread for reviews for spoiler reasons. 

    I’ve mostly enjoyed it but the editors and Jeff have been really focusing on trying to force sappy “inspirational” moments which has been pretty cringey.
  3. 27 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Kagan drags her balls across Alito, et al, faces.

     

    Affirmative action might the best example of the difference between textualism and originalism. I think reasonable minds can disagree on what exactly "equal protection" means from a textualism perspective but there is absolutely no honest originalist argument that the equal protection clause prohibits corrective race-based programs when the same Congress that enacted the 14th Amendment also created the Freedman's Bureau. 

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  4. The one downside to being such a fan of this show is that the second they showed the "Actually, I'm even better at this game than I thought I would be!" confessional, I knew she would be going home last night.

    I thought they were setting her up too much with the edit and that Jeanine was going to play the idol for her.
  5. 21 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    China has to be shocked at how easy this was.  “Wait, you mean the app you designed to lure every American into giving you their data was an app that … just did what 100 other apps already did? And they knew all along that the Chinese government was behind it?”

    There really weren't any apps that did what it did (Vine had been the closest but had gone defunct), which is why it became so popular (a pandemic keeping people home and bored also helped).

  6. ??? i'm responding to other peoples posts, if you can't handle it then put me on ignore. also, i make one post for every five that clostohumping, mrs.whiggums, and augustus do, so don't tell me i'm cluttering the thread because i respond to them once or twice a page. get out of your feelings and get over the fact that i'm criticizing the show, jesus. 

    Yeah, there’s the off-screen battle at the end of season one where Tyrion gets knocked out just as it’s starting and we wake up with him after it’s over.
  7. 4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    It's entertainment and I find it amusing. Random thought: if you were given a ticket to sit in a Dallas stadium on a beautiful Saturday in October and all you knew was that there were players dressed in burnt orange and white uniforms facing off against players in crimson and cream uniforms and knew nothing of them--not who was a five star recruit, who was the star running back or QB. Ignorant of who had a gimpy shoulder or how stout was the D-line. Didn't know the over/under or the win/loss records, or any of the past grievances or horns down or the great Sooner Schooner collapse. No coaching records, none of it. You might enjoy the game--it is often a packed emotional crowd in attendance, but knowing some of the lead-up, the history of the institutions involved, the great Thujone illustrations, really adds to the experience when one is watching. I suppose one could discover all of this as you go, the way a random student with no family connections to either institution would do. But a little 'table setting' ahead of time and ahead of the action helps those who may not have the background that other 'fans' have.

    So you think season one of GoT suffered from a lack of sufficient table setting?

  8. This is such a silly comparison, GOT was not about Robert's rebellion. You're essentially asking for Ned to be killed in episode 1.

    I’m literally asking for the opposite. What the fuck are you talking about?
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  9. I wish this weren't an issue.  I wish people didn't vote this way and I wish people didn't care. 
    To me, it's like the old joke: "What do you call the guy who graduates last in his med school class?"
    But as long as a voter's ballot is limited to 10 names, there are perfectly good reasons for someone to not vote for a guy like Pujols.

    This. Trying to avoid unanimity because Ruth, Mays, whatever weren’t unanimous is dumb, but if I think 11 guys are worthy, I’m gonna leave of the guy who doesn’t need my vote to get over the top.
  10. This has been the longest prologue ever. I guess we’ll find out if it’s been worth it once the show starts in earnest, but I doubt it.

    If GoT had been set up like this, we would have had a first season just rushing through Robert/Lyanna/Rhaegar, the Ned/Cat and Jon/Lysa courtships, Littlefinger’s history with Cat/Lysa, Robert’s Rebellion, Jaime’s king slaying, the Robert/Cersei wedding, Ned taking in Jon Snow, and Jon Arryn’s poisoning.

    Instead we started out in media res, spent some real time with people and let the story breathe, and just learned these things as needed as we went.

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  11. a)this is just flat out wrong, and b)then what the fuck is the point of all of the competitions if they literally have no bearing on the game in the end?

    The competitions play a significant role in who makes the final two. They mean power, they mean safety, they can lead to and/or destroy alliances, etc.

    If competition performance is important to the jurors, it can also play a significant role in who wins the jury vote. But there’s certainly no requirement that the jurors care about competition performance.
  12. 17 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    if what you say is true then it makes BB a show that i probably don't want to watch going forward. why did i just spend my entire summer watching Monte dominate the comps while Taylor did nothing, all so that on finale night we could just throw away everything we saw and say, "none of that matters, all that matters is who the 9 most recent losers like the most between the final two"? i spent three nights a week watching a game being played that in the end didn't even matter.

    again, it was like a football game where monte won 45-14 over taylor, only after the final whistle we said, "ok but what does this panel of judges who are heavily slanted in favor of taylor think of the game?" to which they all said, "we like taylor better, and we like her story better, so forget the scoreboard, Taylor wins the game."

    Of course it's true, and it always has been true. Fortunately there are literally countless other TV shows you can watch that don't involve a winner being declared by the judgment of their competitors.

  13. if the resumes were even close, then it would absolutely, 100% matter that she smoked him in Q&A and the speech...but the resume's were not anywhere close.
    at the end of the day the question is, what matters more to you? the Q&A or the other 99.9% of the season?
    for me personally, i am going with the much larger part (the resume) vs the Q&A. that is what frustrated me with the result.

    there was nothing gameplay wise that said it should have been an 8-1 vote.
    Resume:
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    TH:

    • nominated 6 times for eviction
    • 0/6 in POVs
    • 2 HOH (Indy and Britt)
    MT:
    • 2 HOH (Nicole and Alyssa)
    • 2 POV victories (directly led to Michael getting evicted + Brittany)
    • Won Part 2 and Part 3 of final HOH
    • First BBUSA houseguest to have a 4 week winning streak to reach f2 - immune from Final 6 onwards
    MT:
    • 2 HOH (Ameerah blindside, Kyle*)
    Taylor set some records that will not be beaten in the near future I bet, TH was the winner with the most nominations ever to win with 6 (BBUSA+BBCAN), 2nd BBUSA house guest to ever win without ever winning a POV (after Derrick L), 2nd BBUSA house guest ever to win while losing both parts of the final HOH competition (Maggie A)

     


    Where do you have “building relationships with the jurors” on their resumes?

    The point of Big Brother is not to win comps or even to avoid the block. The point is to get to the final two and to then get a majority of the jury to vote for you. Winning comps can certainly be a tool for getting to the end, and they can be a tool for winning votes to the degree jurors think they should matter, but they don’t have to be.
  14. 1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:


    Comparing this show to early GOT is like comparing a rookie to Jordan.

    The first 6 episodes could have been pared down pretty easily

    The pacing of this show so far is all sorts of fucked IMO.

    They're throwing a lot of plot at viewers but then not really giving the show room to breathe or doing the work that's necessary to let people really get to know and love/hate the characters. If these characters aren't really important and we just need to some major plot points for later, this is pure prologue and probably should have just been done through interspersed flashbacks or something. If they're intending to convey something other than prologue, then the first five episodes should have been drawn out for a full season.

    This show feels like it would have chopped Ned's head off halfway through episode two, which doesn't land remotely the same as doing so in episode 9. 

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