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I remember setting aside a day each for those when we would watch them, watching them with the kids, because we were watching the extended edition DVDs with all of the extra features on top of the films themselves.
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"Annoyed about the Droids" was a classic.
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I have not watched the Amateur, but everything I've seen about it gives be strong, "what if we made something that makes you as uncomfortable as 24, but then made it even worse."
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Barda should get to slap the shit out of someone that looks like John Byrne. Sorry, somewhat misplaced uncharibable sniping today.
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If you aren't rich, white, cis, straight, and male, those layers are going to keep peeling away. And once you relax because you are rich, white, cis, straight, and male, just wait until all the other people around you realize you aren't evangelical Christian.
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You're right, I'm the asshole, not Jefferies telling donors that he'll handle the radicals or Schumer worrying about his book tour.
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I don't have the energy to show all the places where Democrats have failed to support trans people. Or immigrants. Or any number of people that need someone to stand up to them. Because all of my energy is gone from watching this administration march into a US city and occupy it.
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Names and details. Its not the fringe running away from trans people. Its the people promising the donors that they'll keep them quiet. How many of them were in a uproar on day one of this administration when Trump tried to define gender for everyone?
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Democrats are addicted to compromise where the other side never actually gives anything up. They're living in the 1990s where they successfully "outmanuver" Republicans by doing exactly what the Republicans want, but first.
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Why force people to ask the question, "just how evil are we talking here?" Why be more worried about the campaign donors than you are the actual voters? Because that's what got Harris to back off Netenyahu, and saying anything about trans people, and calling the poor folks on the other side "weird."
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Just wait until next election got us an election where people had to decide between facilitating genocide a lot, or completely. That doesn't really energize the base, if the base isn't okay with genocide. Should you vote for the lesser of two evils? Sure, I guess, but why do we fucking have to?
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Just wait until next election got us people not holding impeachement hearings right after January 6th, so when they finally did, the Republicans that would have voted for it weren't scared shitless that he almost got them killed, and he was still elligible to run again.
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You think people of color are going to want to get out the vote when they see that the federal government are literally sending troops out to target them? You think even if we have elections, they aren't going to use these tactics to turn away legitimate voters in likely non-Republican areas?
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They are fucking occupying Los Angeles, and drawing up plans to do the same to multiple US cities. That's an awfully long bet to assume there will be elections. How long do we have to keep pretending that we can ride out the storm?
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Just waiting for the next wave to roll up and annex Chicago now that the dam has broken.
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Pelosi is more worried about throwing blame for minimal incidents on anarchists, and Schumer is worried that we won't go to war with Iran because that's what Netenyahu wants. Really, its totally fine if peopel want to tell Democrats they suck and should be doing better.
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Just because individual democrats are doing things doesn't mean the overall party or the leadership has been doing anything. They've been too worried telling us that we have to throw trans people under the bus so we look "moderate" and assuring the donors that they won't get too radical.
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Why are you so invested in defending a party that's more worried about making sure they don't get rid of some hypothetical future president's ability to violate the constitution on their side than they are with what this president is doing to violate it right now?
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I was really enjoying WarTales until I got distracted and played like three or four other games in between. I need to go back eventually, because I was getting into managing a mercenary company.
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I don't know, though, Mileena always looks pretty happy.
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Are you saying an assassin CAN'T be cute? That sounds like a challenge.
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I know apparently I'm weird, but I would love to be able to realistically ride trains to get more places than driving. I'm really not a huge fan of driving. I could be reading.
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I've only read a few of the books, but that's not an indication of how much I liked them, it's an indication of how easily I get distracted. I have to admit, I'm not familiar with the Chivalry & Sorcery rules, even though that's another name I'm familiar with from the periphery for a long time.
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The what now!?! I didn't know this was a thing.
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But the garlic twist does mean that you can't "solve the mystery" of who the vampire is with something simple like putting garlic on their food. Plus this gives me a chance to tell you to watch The Lost Boys and/or Fright Night.
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You can still honor what players would know, and still introduce enough of a tweak to a monster that will create a surprise. PCs trying to detect a vampire by feeding them garlic isn't going to negate knowing they burn in sunlight or are hurt by holy water.
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Another thing I like about those movies is that there are little moments where you find out that maybe 90% of the vampire lore that the people think is true is actually true, and that 10% comes up and creates some tension.
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There are two great examples of what modern knowledge of vampires can work that came out of the 80s, the absolutely great movies The Lost Boys and the original Fright Night. There are people that know about vampire legends in those stories. The trick is thinking that vampires actually exist.
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Six months from now I really don't want to see how discussions of ADHD meds have aged.
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I guess when the only successful aspect of your business is having exclusive government contracts for things the government should be doing, and not needing to actually be very good at it, you may not want to have them toss all your exclusive contracts.
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Someone with 0% introspection consuming media they can't internalize . . . the recurring theme of everything for way too long.
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Absolutely agree with everything in this.
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"Government official consults Magic 8-Ball to make daily decisions."