Dr. MID-Nite
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3 hours ago, unclevlad said:
Not lost the will. Multiple factors in play:
--any change is in a zero-sum game...so if you win, I lose.
--"If you're not first, you're last." Ricky Bobby. Or I suspect, the inspiration: Dale Earnhardt and "Second place is first loser." How about "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." That's Vince Lombardi...still THE Coaching God, with all due respect to Belichick or even Wooden.
NOT a good combination. It devolves to "I'm for any change that helps me!" But it's impossible to have a meaningful change that doesn't have some downsides. So, real change is extremely difficult to manifest until it's clear that without that change, EVERYONE loses. Even then, there will be objectors...c.f. the current pandemic...where some view a greater opportunity by denying the situation. It's particularly ugly in that Fox has proven just how successful that approach can be.
So we're just going to sit around and wait for everything to collapse because Americans are unwilling to work for the common good....got it. Sigh...
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Unless we address our societal issues, things will only continue to get worse. Sadly, the country appears to have lost the will for meaningful change.
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2 hours ago, death tribble said:
Godzilla vs the Smog Monster is the worst of all the Godzilla films from Japan.
Closely followed by Godzilla vs Ebirah, Terror of Mechagodzilla, Son of Godzilla, All Monsters Attack and Godzilla vs SpaceGodzillla
The worst Godzilla film is the 1998 Hollywood one. I like Jean Reno and he is the only reason to watch the film. No nuclear fire breath ? No Godzilla.
Final Wars had a great scene where Godzilla knocked 98 Zilla into the Sydney Opera House and killed it. That film tried to do too much with too many monsters and the alien subplot.
I have seen most of the series except the two most recent Hollywood and the Shin version. And I like the 2014 film.
My Gold Standard is Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974) and Destroy All Monsters.
That's my input.
The worst Godzilla film is the 98 Deanzilla. The worst Japanese Godzilla film is Final Wars IMO. As there are as many reasons to like or dislike theses films as there are Godzilla films...I'll leave it there for now.
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Ultra Galaxy....think Pokemon...but with Ultra kaiju.
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In general, humans in general and Americans especially only understand catastrophe. Things have to be monumentally bad before we take action as a general rule. We don't prepare....we react. It's maddening.
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1 hour ago, Psybolt said:
Sniped.
I can't believe someone else drafted the Grandmaster?
Great minds and all that...
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I guess I'll take Sensor Girl for my remaining pick...
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12 minutes ago, Psybolt said:
I believe Tribble already chose Emma.
Well...darn. Hmmm....Daredevil then....
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4 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:
I would say it's already that way, and has been for a long time. It's just getting more egregious.
With systemic bias against the poor, many of them will never have access to the means to advance their position within society, effectively creating a permanent underclass.
Capitalism desires...and dare I say...requires...a permanent underclass.
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I haven't seen too many picks today, but I believe we can continue. I will take Phoenix...and as it is unspecified...I will clarify by saying this is the Rachel Summers version.
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Fine then....the fact that humanity thinks it's "fashionable" again less than 100 years later is still pretty depressing. We learn....nothing. Sigh...
- Lord Liaden and Lee
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The fact that humanity wants to do the fascism thing all over again...less than a 100 years later...just depresses me beyond belief.
- Lee, BarretWallace and TrickstaPriest
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Might as well continue the theme with...The White Violin!
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Goofy lyrics, but I like the general vibe of this song.
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On 6/7/2021 at 2:22 PM, Lord Liaden said:
As an element in that fan service, it's also a callback to a concept that ran in Marvel Comics, A-Force.
I mentioned this before...the "girl power" scene was set up like a comic book splash page. If that isn't in genre....I don't know what is. A similar scene occurs in the first Avengers movie and nobody complains about how "forced" that is.
- Hugh Neilson, Lee and Lord Liaden
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I've given up on American politics and society. Nothing ever changes. They want oppression and fascism. I'll probably be forced to leave the country. Never thought I'd ever have to say that in my lifetime.
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1 hour ago, Christopher R Taylor said:
So..STR, DEX, CON, PRE, EGO, and INT?
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11 minutes ago, Pariah said:
Another consideration with Reagan was that Jimmy Carter was profoundly unpopular when the 1980 election rolled around. Not as unpopular as Gerald Ford had been in 1976, of course; Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, while probably necessary for the country to move on, pretty much doomed his chances of getting re-elected. But Carter, a genuinely good and decent man (and perhaps the only such Chief Executive in my lifetime) was not an effective political leader. That he would lose to the fiery, charismatic former Hollywood star was pretty much a foregone conclusion as soon as Reagan won the GOP nomination.
And did the country pay a heavy price for it...
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
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To each their own. I hated almost everything about it.