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Not as good as the original, but I enjoyed it
The Obsolete Man
I always found it funny that David's parents didn't come to London.
Has anybody here read a real book about vampires...
Post-apocalypse people shouldn't have needed dogs to spot terminators
So how did St. Olaf massacre the trolls?
Possibly the most definitively American movie ever made
What is your favorite episode?
An interesting omission from the movie
Steve's '80s fashion scenes.
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Not if L. Frank Baum didn't intend her to be. People can do whatever they like with their own characters, that they created for themselves. They don't get to redefine other authors' work.
Well, she had interesting taste in entertainment. She once skipped a private Paul McCartney performance to catch an episode of Twin Peaks.
The cynicism inherent in this question really is something else. What is his endgame? Why is he doing what he’s doing? What does he <i>get</i> out of it?
As if there can be no other reason for doing something than naked, unadulterated self-interest. As if his every action is intended purely to satiate some appetite of his, rather than because he has a deep conviction that some things must be done, even if that requires personal sacrifice.
I grant you, everyone is motivated by self-interest, but here’s the thing the confirmed cynics are missing: that can be <i>enlighted</i> self-interest, and that is something that goes beyond the purely selfish. Musk is incurring a lot of hate and criticism, and taken financial and personal risks (if the Democrats had won the election), but consider that he may sincerely believe that the course in which the current administration and its party have been taking the country will be ruinous in the long term (and I would agree), and that since he is in a position to do something about it, he has a certain moral obligation to do so, for the sake of a country he loves, and more directly, for the sake of his children and eventual grandchildren who have to live in that country.
A frail sickly kid without much physical strength, sure. To save himself, the kid would have to use his abdominal muscles to lift his upper body out of the water and hold it there, and this kid probably wasn't strong enough.
Again... have to have the last word. "No one gives a shit."
But you can't walk away without having the last word. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Sure. That's why you keep replying. Because it doesn't bother you.
Who do I think I am? I think I am a man as worthy of courtesy and respect as anyone. So, if you are going to debate me, <i>have the decency</i> to be serious and honest, and not disingenuous, willfully obtuse, and intellectually dishonest.
As Shakespeare put it "Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant... peradventure I shall think you do not use me with that affability as, in discretion, you ought to use me, look you, being as good a man as yourself..."
But since you clearly don't feel the need to be bothered using that affability that decency and common courtesy require, I cordially invite you to <i>go <b>fuck</b> yourself</i> with a rusty saw.
Why would you refute all my points? Oh, I don't know... because you think you're right? If you are, you should be able to argue your position logically. If you're resorting to insults, and thowing in smirking emojis, you're not arguing logically, you're engaging in theatrics. Playing to the gallery. That's what someone with a weak case does. As Carl Sandburg said (speaking of lawyers and trials) “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
Now you're pounding the table.
You want to debate, debate on the facts. Use logic, reason, and evidence. Don't waste my time.
Resorting to personal insults because you can't refute any of my points. 😂
Yeah, I have proof: the movie would have ended if Deckard had died; he had to have enough plot armor to survive.
Sorry, but this I have no patience for: people being <i>willfully</i> obtuse. This is just bullshit "I won't ever concede a point, no matter how wrong I am."
Deckard was being strangled to death with his own necktie, and he was not able to stop Zhora <i>and you know it.</i> Leon was about to drive his middle and index fingers through Deckard's eye sockets, <i>and you know it.</i> It's unmistakably obvious in the film; there's nothing remotely ambiguous about it. Deckard hits Batty in the head with a pipe as hard as he possibly can; it would have caved any normal human's skull in, and it didn't even phase Batty. Then he almost plunges to his death because he's not strong enough to jump a distance that a Nexus 6 replicant already in the process of shutting down, and mere moments from death clears <i>effortlessly</i>.
There's <i>no question</i> that Deckard is physically inferior to the replicants.
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