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  1. Ah, the ol' Server Burp. Not a problem. Let me get out the Forum Dustpan ... Topic surreptitiously swept under a nearby rug.
  2. Out comes Black Six. In go some assorted Krana.
  3. That's like ... less than two hours for me. Definitely doable depending on my schedule around that time next year!
  4. I'd like to see someone try to read this entry to a Yukon trapper and live to tell it
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    Calendar

    Can we make midnight and noon 1:00? It makes no sense to restart the one-through-twelve count the hour after those.
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    AMA

    how often do you dream about farm animals
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    2018

    Dang it, where are our teleporters?
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    Professor Akano

    Give extra credit for obscure Bionicle references
  9. Not to repeat the content from my own TLJ review, but I found the story lackluster in plot coherence. A lot of rehashed themes cropped up, which I didn't mind (the battle music from ROTJ comes to mind as a welcome return to the big screen), but there was nothing uniquely identifying in the score for the characters of Rose and DJ, who I thought were the two most interesting and complex of the characters introduced in the film. The leitmotifs can also extend to locations, and while there was a pseudo-Cantina score, it wasn't particularly memorable, and the mineral planet also was too Hoth-y to be unique in that sense. I love the First Order motif, Rey's theme, the March of the Resistance, Jedi Steps, and a lot of the other scores from TFA, when these were new things and locations. TLJ lacks grist for this mill.
  10. The music in TLJ is by far the weakest of any entry, Rogue One included. I blame the subject matter. I went in thinking that Rian Johnson was going to do really wild and wacky moves with the editing, but I remember coming out of TFA much more attuned to the directorial tricks than I did with TLJ. Perhaps I'm not cinematically educated enough to pick up on them, but I wasn't blown away by any of it.
  11. *peers around corner nervously* Hi, y'all. It's been a hot minute. Life's been bananas, but the semester is drawing to a conclusion and though I have much left on my plate to finish before January, I fulfilled my obligations and saw The Last Jedi. Going into it, I was somewhat nervous for where the series was headed. I really enjoyed The Force Awakens, though perhaps my enthusiasm was amplified by the fact that I was seeing a Star Wars film on the big screen when I thought for years that Revenge of the Sith was the final say in the saga. With the passage of time, I realized that TFA wasn't quite the cinematic masterpiece, but it was an enjoyable addition that attempted to assure and assuage the viewing public that the franchise was safe in Disney's hands. It rectified some of the glaring holes of the prequels, yet there was definitely a sense of playing it safe. What I disliked most about TFA was exactly what everyone else disliked—the "playing it safe" bit. I also thought that the plot, in its pitting of a retrofitted Empire against a retrofitted Rebellion, was one that negated the original trilogy in good overcoming evil. If the evil just came back, with the same outfits and the same weapons ... then what was the point? I will give George Lucas the credit he deserves in making the prequels something fresh and different, not just a series of callbacks (or would they have been call-forewards?) to the OT. With Rogue One interleaved between actual episodes, I saw a different side. I really enjoyed Rogue One—more than TFA—but with it came an overwhelming sense of just how J.J. Abrams treated familiar characters in TFA. CGI!Tarkin and Darth Vader figure prominently in Rogue One, but the film doesn't feel weighted down by their presence. I wrote about the problems with creating good prequels a long time ago on Blogarithm, and I applauded Rogue One for telling the story in an exciting (and shocking!) way. We knew how it ended up, but that didn't stop it. Now onto The Last Jedi. In short: I didn't like it. Its holes were glaring. In an attempt to break itself free from being a rehashed mashup of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, we instead got a jumble of underutilized actors, unutilized plot points, and familiar faces acting well out of character, in addition to continued use of past themes from the OT as TFA had. I'll be clear: TLJ is not The Phantom Menace, but if the dialogue were worse, it might be a contender for Star Wars bottom-feeder. If you've seen the film, my more exact qualms are Spoiler-fied. And I have many issues.
  12. Felix natalis! Topic deemed inappropriate for human consumption and responsibly recycled.
  13. I made the name up in 2004 and I thought it sounded cool
  14. Please don't post in topics that have been inactive for over 60 days. Right you are. Topic thrown into the alligator pit.
  15. are there strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold?
  16. this image cleared my skin and made my crops flourish
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    Brickfair

    there were still hats, right TELL ME THERE WERE S̶̫̦͎̥̬̫T̸̙̖I̢L̥͈͘L͔̩̭̻̱ ̬͇ͅͅH̴͈͖̪̲̙̣A̳̖̝͚̖T̴͍͓̳S̸̰͈
  18. Boat ownership is widely regarded as extremely uneconomical investment. Personally, I'd look for a Matoran who's putting their hard-earned widgets behind something that's going somewhere, like Le-Wahi beachfront property, Madu Cabolo futures, or whatever company was contracted to make those Matoran sleeping sphere things. b-but his waifu is Hapori Dume
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    Final MakutaFest

    I remember the first! I won a Disk of Time. Or ... wait, was that the second? We're all getting old.
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    Doctor #13

    Absolutely—and this is why Peter Davison's comments got so many people riled up. It shouldn't have to matter, but factors extraneous to the show mean that people will be looking at Series 11 with different lenses. If Chibnall doesn't knock it out of the park on his first season, I can only imagine that those who decried Whittaker's casting will be the first in line to blame her for its shortcomings.
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