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Apep

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  1. It's better than nothing. If you can get into a Young Adult, non-canon Star Trek style series, it's fine.
  2. I have a $72 toilet seat. Not a bidet. It's a special fat man toilet seat that allegedly won't break.
  3. I, for one, actually enjoyed Dune Messiah's more evocative approach to worldbuilding. It should be seen as a coda to Dune and not a standalone novel, unlike Children of Dune. It also could be dropped from the series without much loss.
  4. The tit-lasering was underwhelming.
  5. I’m a middle aged fat man with extremely limited survival skills, some fluency in modern Spanish and the barest of smatterings of German and Latin. So 1820 in Baltimore or another large US city.
  6. If you want to watch the 1984 version, watch it before reading the books. It has really great imagery, but it takes liberties with the source material. Then read the first three books. The fourth book is alright and the fifth and sixth book kinda suck, so feel free to skip those. Then watch the SyFy version. Or watch the SyFy series before reading the books. It doesn't matter much.
  7. Momoa seems like a great Idaho for book 1. Don't see a problem with him in book 2, since standing around machinelike for most of the book seems within his range. Since this will be the third version of Dune, we are probably at the point where most people have either read the book(s) or seen one of the prior versions. Having two threads would almost be like having two threads when Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ sequel comes out.
  8. No. I think I showed her Hope Solo once so that she'd understand something, maybe about sarlacs, maybe about gaping vaginas, I'm not sure.
  9. Apep

    Nintendo Switch

    Just look for a local video game repair shop. For some controllers, it is really easy to change the joysticks out. (Even I did that a few times with my Wii U.) Some require soldering. And knowing where to get the right replacement parts can be a crap shoot, especially since they pretty much all come from China.
  10. I got my wife to watch the trailer, thinking Jason Momoa's presence might get her to watch it. It didn't. When she saw the sandworm, she asked why a giant butthole is chasing them?
  11. Preface: I don't sell them. I've only helped one client, and only once, with this issue. To a certain extent, it depends on what business she is in. It doesn't have to be super specific, but retail is quite different from manufacturing v. brewing v. O&G v. professional services v. software. Ideally, her accountant would have deep experience in her industry and would have input, but you can't always count on that. If that's the case, it doesn't mean she isn't getting good tax/accounting services, just that they don't have experience with many businesses in that field.
  12. Speaking of Uhura, I re-watched Star Trek 6 the other day and watching her translate Klingon was painful. Literally winced. Really made me appreciate the Saldana version. (It wasn't Nichols. The whole cast was agonizing in that scene.)
  13. I don't understand this first stuff. Trills move between male and female hosts. We've had androgynous and three-sex species on TNG. This seems like much ado about nothing.
  14. He's at DR Horton, I guess.
  15. I guess my idea of PG is classic Ghostbusters. Not exactly a whole lot of actual adult humor, like we might see in Archer or Rick & Morty. I don't see people dropping acid before ST:LD. That's the big difference. If they went for a more Superjail style, I could get behind it.
  16. So I'm continuing to watch Lower Decks. It's getting slightly more serious, but less funny. Like they burned through all the best bits already. It's also seems to be turning into a PG ST YA fanfic.
  17. It looks like yet another WW film where the DCAU did it better.
  18. Cumbie is a great QB recruiter. It's every other aspect of his coaching that is questioned by our fan base.
  19. He was good in the first Jumanji remake, (I haven't seen the second), and he has a lot of decent voice roles.
  20. I hoarded boxes for around four or five years. After every Amazon (or other) purchase, I'd collapse the box and toss it up in the attic. Then I got rid of them over a couple of years while recycling new, incoming boxes. Now I only keep boxes until the next recycling day. Since Amazon has gone to Kohl's drop-off for returns, no box needed, the lack of diverse boxes on hand hasn't bit me in the ass once.
  21. I watched the third Lower Decks episode last night. There are some funny bits. I like the voice cast and the animation. The problem is that it lacks subtlety and feels more like a ham-handed deconstruction of the ST:TNG universe than a comedy set in that universe. "The Problem with Edward" is an excellent example of how to make comedy work while staying true to the feel of Star Trek.
  22. I'm going to admit something: I have never seen Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. I didn't even know it was a John Hughes film until this thread. It came out when I was 8, an age at which I had no interest in adult buddy movies, especially comedies. More importantly, I've never been a big Steve Martin fan, though I liked John Candy's work. I was shocked to discover that it grossed more than all but two of the films he directed (Ferris Bueller and Uncle Buck both made more).
  23. Lots of reasons it can be remade. It's been 33 years. A sufficiently large mass of people have never seen the original, often because they had not yet been born. John Hughes isn't getting any deader. It's not like we're talking about the Godfather, Star Wars, or Citizen Kane. But what it really comes down to is that John Hughes had a huge string of good movies. With a little updating, they could all be made to work well in the present.
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