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#1651 Management » Banned my IP by mistake » 374 weeks ago
- Randall Flagg
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You banned my ip by mistake
#1652 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 374 weeks ago
Man, if I was a Russian Truther I'd be doing some serious soul searching after Manafort's sentencing. Not one charge related to 2016 or Trump or anything to do with Russia. I guess all the judges were in the bag for Trump too.
Weren't Manafort and Cohen the linchpins of the truther conspiracies?
#1653 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 374 weeks ago
Says everything to me
#1654 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 374 weeks ago
I agree with her, and have. People like Tlaib saying "Impeach the MF" are just being non-sensical. The ONLY reason he should be impeached is due to crimes of the Mueller or SDNY reports. Otherwise, move along & just let it go.
The SDNY still reports up to the AG and lacks the jurisdiction to prosecute a sitting president. If all they have are hush payments, they’ll be laughed out of court and probably replaced.
Pelosi’s smart. If they impeach, she loses. Then the base is defeated and angry because Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff said there was real evidence of collusion.
Print media is already turning on the Dems. Subpoenaing 81 people to find anything to justify the Russian Truthers is a bridge too far for most folks.
Hopefully Biden survives the primary and beats Trump. But anyone else, and Trump gets 4 more years.
#1655 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 374 weeks ago
#1656 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 375 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Anyone else find it hypocritical of Alabama to now be asking for FEMA money but be so anti-socialism and anti-government?
Just another instance of ‘its ok for me when i need it but nobody else should receive this.’
23 people died, some of them children, and you bring up this horse shit? Get Fucked. This ws the strongest Tornado in the us since 2017.
Dude, he posts just to shit post. There’s nothing intellligent behind his nonsense. No position he’s arguing. He just posts to bitch and call others names. Ignore him. There’s nothing you’ll ever gain from engaging besides a headache.
#1657 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 375 weeks ago
I'm holding off on reading the books until the series is over just to keep things straight for me. It will be interesting to see how the stories and themes differ.
I guess to me the unrealistic nature of some of the events doesn't really bother me. I notice some/most of them, but I try to just enjoy the story for what it is. I do the same thing with Star Wars. I mean sure, you can get all upset about things that aren't the way you wish they were done or you can just enjoy it for what it is. It's not perfect. Some of the writing is bad. Almost all of it is unrealistic. It's just a story to distract you from real life for a little bit. I prefer that to much of what's going on in the real world these days. I've watched the whole series start to finish 3 times now. I may watch it all again before the new season starts...at the very least I'll rewatch the last season. It's an interesting story with interesting characters. I don't understand the need to drill down to every minute detail, but I'm not sure I like anything enough to dig into that level of detail.
Edit: now when I say I've watched it 3 times, I've had it on 3 times, but I am always doing something else at the same time...usually playing PS4 on the other TV. I can't sit there and watch anything for that long without doing something else...way too ADD for that even though I've never been diagnosed.
But attention to detail and realism are core parts of the story. Sure, dragons and ice zombies. But outside of those fantastical elements, it strives for logic and realism. The dragons don’t have 4 legs and wings because Martin wanted to make them adhere to real animals and all mammals/reptiles with wings use them as an appendage.
And because the first 3 seasons are very faithful adaptations of the first 2 3/4 books, it’s reasonable to expect that same continiuity. It took Sam an entire season to go from the wall to old town, but a raven was able to alert Dany and she could travel that same distance in the span of a day. Jamie almost dies from infection, but Arya can have sewage introduced into her wounds and run like a terminator hours later. If any of us were stabbed and exposed to that much bacteria, even with 21st century medicine we’d probably still die even if we were given intravenous antibiotics immediately.
That’s my gripe. The lack of consistency and Hollywood bullshit they adopted once they ran out of material. Bronn shooting the scorpion at point blank range into a Dothraki is straight from a Schwarzenegger movie. Nothing like that happened until they ran out of book material.
Season 7 was visually stunning. Who couldn’t like that? But when you realize a raven flew 2k miles and Dany flew 2k miles in less than a day, how can you not be taken out of it.
This show was supposed to be intelligent. That was one of the reasons so many people fell in love with it. And the last season was anything but intelligent writing.
#1658 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 375 weeks ago
I thought season 1 was about as faithful a recreation of book 1 as you could have really hoped for.
Yea, the first 3 seasons I felt were pretty faithful. It’s when they ran out of book material, their inability to write became clear. I still can’t get passed Arya being stabbed in the guts, falling into raw sewage, and living to talk about it. And last season was completely ruined for me with Gendry sending a raven 2000 miles and not only Dany getting it, but flying on a dragon all the way there in the span of 12 hours or so. Whole thing could have been done if they had Bran send a raven to Dany in advance.
#1659 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 375 weeks ago
I’m just starting the books but have seen all the seasons so far. Book 1 is much better than Season 1. Randall, I know you’re pretty high on the books. I’m looking forward to getting through them. It’s both a blessing and a curse the damn things are so long!
Enjoy! I highly recommend you read the Dunk and Egg stories too.
#1660 Re: Management » Where's James » 375 weeks ago
I’m hoping both he and ID return. They were good posters.
