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Soldier Boy was great, wish he was still around.
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17 hours ago, Beer Drinker said:
The tables I have sat at in Louisiana (Nugget and L'Auberge) had 6 deck shoes with an auto shuffle machine. Where are 2 deck tables?
I was in Lake Charles last month and the GN had 2-deck tables paying 3:2. You just have to look/ask for them. They were $25/hand.
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9 minutes ago, bolverk said:
I'm not the one who brought culture war shit to this thread. If you don't like gay people or prominent women characters on screen, keep it to your fucking self.
lol bolverk'd again!
And don't put fucking words in my mouth, I've said nothing about teh gheys or the broads in this shitty show. Go suck yourself off somewhere else, where bullshit posturing is the norm, like the CR.
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I like it. ATJ and Hemsworth were very good, as was the guy (Tom Burke) playing Praetorian Jack. Wasn't as good as Fury Road, but was right up there.
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5 hours ago, bolverk said:
This dumb show's got 99 problems, and a fat Jedi, a dead white Jedi, women singing, and lesbians ain't none of 'em.
If we're talking about REALISM, here's how I see it:
- On the real Earth, 4 out of every 10 people is overweight/obese.
- On the real Earth, 1 out of every 12 people is a white male.
- On the real Earth, 1 out of every 2 is female, and a helluva lot of them like to sing.
- On the real Earth, 1 out of every 32 people is gay.
On the real Earth, that all translates to only about 1 out of every 20 people being a fit straight white human male.
Yet, we, the 5 percent, somehow expect the majority of lead characters in a space opera sold to a diverse global audience to all look and act like us.
Get REAL.
None of that even takes into account that in this Star Wars galaxy, we've been introduced to a multitude of species from hundreds, if not thousands, of planets, each with its own sex parts, biology, cultures, and whatnot.
In that fantasy universe where humanoids are pretty well represented, what's the REALISTIC percentage that should be expected to be a fit, straight white human male? Two, maybe three percent, if that.
Of course, in the real world, I don't expect the composition of characters of an American-based show to reflect all that diversity or for a small percentage of them to be fit, straight white human males.
I only point all this out to show what utterly fucking stupid these whiny crybabies are who complain about lame "identity" shit in a sci-fi fantasy world, expecting it to match their own imaginary (and false) "reality" of the world.
Grow the fuck up. The galaxy doesn't revolve around your pathetic, stingy little fragile ego and its petty grievances unless, of course, you're the Emporer and can shoot blue lightning out of your fingertips.
3 hours ago, bolverk said:Their "agenda" is to make money from a diverse, global audience. Most people like to see themselves represented on the screen. You'll likely make less money if your primary characters represent only five percent of the total audience. Hell, even in America, less than a third of the population is made up of white males of all ages, and the majority of the kids don't give a shit about these identity grievances.
The smarter play is to diversify your cast, even if it hurts the feelings of a few butthurt middle-aged white guys (and at least one stupid Persian) who want to go back to a time when they called all the shots and didn't have to share their
toysaction figures.These people need to grow the fuck up and stop whinging like little tittybabies because, SHOCKING, there are now lesbians and fat dudes in space. Of the hundreds and hundreds of characters in all the Star Wars shows, how many of them have ever been represented? Hell, one of the witchy lesbians isn't even human, but no one seems to have a problem with interspecies procreation or consider that her lady parts might work differently in this fantasy galaxy.
As a straight middle-aged white male myself, this is all I give a shit about. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
On the other hand, they seem to have failed at this part of making the show so far. Let's see if the overall story comes along. Hopefully, it gets better, but I'm not optimistic.
3 hours ago, bolverk said:Just the opposite. I enjoy the entertainment for what it is: a sci-fi fantasy story.
However, I do take bigotry (open or veiled) rather seriously.
1 hour ago, bolverk said:I mostly agree, but your message should be directed at the asshats in this thread who've made identity bullshit grievances as their chief complaint instead of the lackluster (at best) writing.
1 hour ago, bolverk said:Why would an attempt at some degree of balance alienate the core audience (let's state it plainly: white guys)? Are we so fragile that we can't stand to see other groups in lead roles also on the screen? By and large, no one can say with a straight face that we haven't always been, and likely always will be, overrepresented.
To your point regarding tokenism, it only feels that way because representation remains unbalanced. Adding a character here or there that represents another group still doesn't achieve it. And, to state explicitly, that isn't on the "agenda". If it were, you'd see far fewer white guys in lead roles than we do now. Again, in the US, less than a third of the audience are white guys. As to the interspecies lesbian couple that had the twins, that may have well been in service to the story. We don't know yet, as their conception story hasn't been fully revealed. If it eventually isn't, then poor writing storytelling is the problem.
And, yes, I am quite familiar with Campbell. Star Wars borrows from a long and ancient, near-universal storytelling tradition.
As far as the box office goes, when the original film was released in 1977 (I saw it as a five-year-old in the theater), global movie distribution was a far different business when film was shipped in cans months after American release compared to today when movies/shows are digitedly distributed worldwide all at once. As such, Hollywood is much more dependent today on the global market where US audiences now commonly comprise only about a third of sales. To that extent, I'm perfectly comfortable with the business case.
Finally, I'll make the case as a dad on Father's Day. It's my duty as the father of a gay kid (I'm certainly not the only on this site) to advocate that my child can see on occasion, no matter how rare, someone like that can also be seen in the Star Wars universe.
bolverk'd!
So stunningly brave! Your compassion, virtue, and bravery, should be remembered by all culture warriors!
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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
they have previously stuck them on a Boxer hulls.
I have no idea why they consider one hull/chassis a better choice for the turret then the other. This vehicle has a specific mission in air defense and should not be engaging any other vehicles, so I assume cheaper and fast would be the optimal hull characteristics. And I don’t see how a leopard 1 hull would add much to the stated mission.
Edit: it just occurred to me they may have some leftover leopard one bodies laying around that they probably can’t sell to anyone, but they can marry them to sky ranger turrets and make a profit on the complete package - one that is a needed asset to knock down drones and low-flying fixed, wing or attack chopper targets.
Tracked and better off-road?
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6 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:
All of McCarthy’s characters are insecure so he’s just playing himself in real life. Aside from maybe Mannequin, which I like. Come at me.Mannequin was great.
4 hours ago, Genco said:I caught about 30 minutes of Mannequin on one of the HBOs a few months back. It's an unwatchable piece of shit but I was intrigued by the bitchy girlfriend Roxie.
Her name is Carole Davis. Her IMDb resume is unremarkable but she's had steady work throughout the years. She was also Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1980. I'll post those pics in the old school fap thread.
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1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:
Great thread. I am not posting all of it here, but in essence, the Ukrainians are now targeting the fixed wing drones that Russia is using for recon. They have built high kamikaze drones that can be piloted by 2 dudes from a motorcycle.
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10 hours ago, blacklab said:
Louisiana can no longer boot you for counting,
Seriously? When did this start? Expand please? Thanks
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33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Well, not that bunk.
edit: the Galaxy cruiser resort shit is probably more emblematic of the problems with Star Wars than the Acolyte show
Extremely long history, review, and explanation of the Star Wars hotel failure. Very damning.
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36 minutes ago, RPM said:17 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:
I think she looked much cuter with some baby fat on her cheeks. Her cheeks remind me of heroine chic now, like an Olsen Twin. It's also kind of distracting to have a whole "women's power" character on screen who looks like someone succumbing to Hollywood's method of objectifying women and boiling their worth down to looks. It's as weird as in Always Sunny where Rob McElhenney famously put on 50 lbs in one season because he thought it was always ridiculous how as actors aged and got more money on TV, their character would get ridiculously more in shape and look better as they aged... and then he went and got plastic surgery and got ripped with a personal trainer a few seasons later in the exact same way.
like damn, this poor girl is unrecognizable here:
So much hotter when she was cute, natural, and didn't look plastic. Sigh...
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3 hours ago, bschoolprof said:
Everyone on this show appears to be on a coke diet weight loss plan. Frenchie, the black dude, and omg starlight. She looks like she has aids now. Wtf.
2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:Yea she went and LA-d herself and looks like shit. Also you have to know the black dudes name 4 seasons in
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15 hours ago, mdmost said:
I find it funny that people are memeing the campfire in space when that's been a fairly common occurrence in Star Wars. Star Wars does in fact have fires in space. This is where I think people criticize something just to have something to be critical about. Criticize the writing and the acting, sure but this is just a dumb one to get worked up and SEE A WOMAN DID THIS! about.
The fire was burning the oxygen from the atmosphere inside the ships, not from a crackling campfire in deep space.
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6 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
Sendero and MRTA were nice.
Define "nice"
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8 minutes ago, DixonHur said:
I don't know what "compassion signaling" is, but I'm definitely signaling that some of you need a history lesson.
Quick question, is Palestine allowed to have a military?
If not, (spoiler, no was the correct answer), how do you propose they defend themselves against Israel?
I'll also answer that for you...asymmetrical warfare is their only option, so don't be surprised when they use it.
"asymmetrical warfare is their only option" Guess instead of "compassion signaling" i should have said "Terrorist sympathizing". And I'm not surprised they use it, I'm surprised by the amount of naive, Western, "progressive", rationalizing defense of it.
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5 hours ago, bolverk said:
So you're just going to completely ignore what I said about Hamas needing to be out of the picture. Nice rage rant against an argument I did not make, though.
Oh, and a hearty "fuck you" for implying I've made any excuses for or rationalized their heinous terrorist attack. You know what is a bad look is publicly lying about what other people say when you've got 88 pages of posts and won't find a single post from me or others supporting Hamas's horrendous actions targeted against Jewish people and the few bedouins and foreign guest workers who got in the way.
If you can't tell the difference between someone making an economic argument that Palestine could be a viable state under the right conditions and thinking they support terrorists, then you're too stupid and/or too emotional to post about the topic.
I wasn't referencing you specifically. Sorry you took it that way.
48 minutes ago, DixonHur said:Cool. Cool.
But just to be clear, since 1993, the US has provided $7.6b in humanitarian aid to Palestine.
In comparison, since October of last year, the US has provided Israel with $12.5b in military aid.
And in the 20 years preceding the Oct. 7th attacks we gave them, on average, over $3b per year in military aid.
Hmm, I wonder why the Palestinians needed humanitarian aid?
Because they keep stealing, wasting, and misusing the aid they are given? Regardless, your "whataboutism" falls on deaf ears, though you compassion signaling is noted.
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5 hours ago, bolverk said:
They'll absolutely need help, especially in rebuilding a completely demolished Gaza. I think the typical foreign aid you see going to developing countries would probably be enough in the West Bank.
If attacked, Israel should, of course, defend itself within the bounds of international law.
Just in the last twenty years Hamas has been given Billions by the US, Europe, the UN, Arab countries, and Iran, to do just that. And what did they do with it? Spent it on tunnels and bunkers built under schools and hospitals, training terrorists to commit bombings and killings, and terrorizing and killing any Palestinian who didn't toe their militant line in Gaza. They were given millions worth of water pipes for infrastructure, and they turned them into missiles. Hamas was given millions of gallons of diesel for generators, and food for their people, and they seized it all, either selling it, or using it for their own forces. They were elected once in 2006, then proceeded to kill their Palestinian political enemies in Gaza, and have refused any attempt at elections since. There is a reason even their fellow Sunni Arab countries are fed up and sick of their shit.
Any attempt to explain away their behavior, or "what about" with antisemitic dogma, is the kind of naive, idealistic, buffoonery the "progressive" West (and the CR) excels at. If you find yourself making excuses for, and rationalizing away, the acts of a fucking terrorist organization that just willfully raped, tortured, kidnapped, and killed civilians, and fucking filmed themselves bragging about doing it, you are a piece of shit. Publicly sucking terrorist dick on the internet is a bad look.
1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:Not the way we have completely fucked then for decades
Who is "we" exactly? Whether the PA, or Hamas, the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity, to miss an opportunity. Arafat could have gotten far more than anyone thought possible in 94, and he shit all over it. Since then the Palestinians, the PA, and Hamas, have been given Billions, and have either stolen it, or used it to fund terrorists. Fuck them, and fuck this bullshit line of bumper sticker "thinking".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_Palestinians
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by MagicSoccerSpray
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/russian-arms-trade/