Ignore, replied to wrong post *amused* was referring to the x-wings in atmo, not TIEs

So how did they take off/land on the moon of Yavin again, to face the first deathstar?

I suppose it makes sense, with laws painting us all as virtually terrorists.

That said, I like Punji stake pits as an idea. Or high-tension trampolines that snap-release and launch plumetters back into the air. Hook it to a live web-stream.

https://twitter.com/ellypriZeM... Of course, she's just clearly internalised her misogyny.

You know, there is a really bad irony joke about that conflation.

Sundays? Even Saturday was a crapshot..opening at lunch for a few hours. And weekdays? Good luck if you get off work at 1700h, 'cuz they might as well rolled up the streets while they were at it...things were closed. Go find a 7-11 or something if you need groceries. Not that you had money because, you know, 'banking hours'.

Yes. You have any clue how many weird looks I get at the range when I shoot to the side of me to reload?

Her patron McIntosh is on twitter stating Violent Games begets Violent Gamers.

I'd hope not. I'd hate to have to start buying bras.

Been to a dozen countries, and I'll agree that outlook and behaviour is different. Amusingly,most had common shows. More amusing, the one with the MOST violent shows at the time (Japan) was the least violent socially. Culture impacts children heavily, and while entertainment is part of culture, it's not the entirety of culture, and being cognizent that entertainment is simply entertainment, diminishes that impact.

If you want fun, read the long Talk page on that wiki article. It's popcorn worthy the antics of the actors. Even Whales chimes in and gets told to back off by the vested interests in presenting a NNPOV while claiming it's a NPOV, while trying to get the other sides banned as wither single-purpose-accounts, zombies, sockpuppets or simply behaving poorly. If were ever an article to display the ugly politics behind the supposedly 'noble' wikipedia, this would be it.

My parents hit 62 gig last month on theirs, and it's facebook, skype, youtube and online chess.

Personally I top 100G with online games, online videos, and some torrenting.

Hellfires, I'd top 1 Gig a month easy on dial-up back in the day. Gogo USENET binaries and IRC

It's only starting out. Wait until they come to your house and kidnap your children to help them 'realise their potential'.

Then the next thing you know they are assassinating political leaders in their chambers all because one of the neophytes 'had an uneasy feeling'.

As on of their prophets said: 'Not afraid? You will be. You *will* be'

This. So very much this.

Formula is formula because it's proven to work. If audiences truly were wanting something different, they'd be in the indie festivals, at the small off-beat theaters, or happily watching things with subtitles and so forth. Instead (it seems) they just want fast hard simple plots with lots of explosions and beautiful people. Or infantile fart jokes. Hollywood just sees 'everyone is wanting Super Heroes, we'll make Variation #245 on SuperHero Plotmachine'. "This year is fairy tales. What can we remake/reimage next?'

I just get annoyed when they remake a movie or such that isn't even 5 years old.

Depending on your definition of original. Frozen has strong elements from The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. I wouldn't go as far as some and claim it's a ripoff, but the inspiration is clearly there (it robbed me of a lot of outrage, I had been planning to lambast them for another 'theft we will claim is original then copyright for eternity'... but was pleasantly surprised).