Mercy doesn't apply to sexual deliquency!

obvy

oh, well all right then, i take that back

I'm great at writing, but I have absolutely no interest in giving you any help at... anything.

Typing is easy, dark or not. If you're looking at your hands when you type, at all, you need to learn how to type.

"He come to me with money in his hand. He offered me. I didn't ask him. I wasn't knocking someone's door down. I was running from that. When I got out, I was in that. I was already through that. I had that. I had the studio. I went to the studio--went to Fox Studios. I had it all, and I looked at it, and I said, 'This is a bigger jail than I just got out of.' I don't wanna take my time going to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag, and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off into and s--and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man! I run the underworld, guy! I decide who does what, and where they do it at! What am I gonna run around and act like I'm some teenybopper somewhere for somebody else's money? I make the money, man. I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards."

Beware.

I close my eyes and seize it.
I clench my fists and beat it.
I light my torch and burn it.
I am the beast I worship.

I close my eyes and seize it.
I clench my fists and beat it.
I light my torch and burn it.
I am the beast I worship.

And I know soon come my time,
for in mine void, a pale horse burns,
but I fear not the time I've taken
past the point of no return.
Wage war like no tomorrow,
'cause no hell, there won't be one.
For all who the deny the struggle,
the triumphant overcome.

---

Shit but shanked by my disrespect.
Dismiss this life. Worship death.
Cold blood night of serpent's breath
exhaled like spells from the endlessness
in the bottomless well of emptiness,
channeled to invoke what we represent.

---

In the time before time eyes 'bove which horns
curve like psychotropic scythes,
and smell of torn flesh bled dry
by hell swarms of pestis flies,
vomiting forth flames lit by
an older than ancient force
that slays this life with no remorse.

---

Worship is not on bended knee.
Nature knows not of mercy.
To pray is to accept defeat.

---

Harsh winds flay my flesh to bone.
In splintered skeleton, I roam
wastelands with not to call my own,
but the path. I walk alone.
The hunger burns within my gut
as my bones turn into dust.

yes

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Quote from: RC on January 06, 2015, 07:37:36 PM

Quote from: Officer Nasty on January 06, 2015, 07:37:20 PM

Rampant shitposting

at least you're aware that it's a problem

I hate it when people post a reply before you finish an edit, and it's an embarrassing typo or something like that.

that's the worst

part of why i sometimes type shitty like i'm doing now

is so that it won't matter

i have this thing where whenever i post something

i can't stop editing it

even if i put a lot of thought into the post, i always feel like it isn't perfectly worded or phrased, so i constantly edit it to make it better, never to be satisfied

i only stop when i get a reply

The relationship between Luke and Leia, the thread we had a while back about the celebrations following the Death Star's destruction, the sheer incompetence in the design of the Empire's technology if ropes and spears can destroy their tanks, and so on. It's not a BAD movie, not by a long shot, but it was a bit underwhelming.

i liked return of the jedi more for its emotional impact and symbolism--namely when luke meets the emperor before he fights his dad. that scene is so cool, the image of it is like, permanently engraved in my mind. it's just one of those super memorable scenes. i mean, i didn't care much for the characters, but i knew i was supposed to, and i'm good at displacing... care, i guess, when i have to. it was just overall a lot more exciting than... anything that happened in the last two movies.

all the stuff you mentioned seems nitpicky, except the spears vs. tanks thing, i guess

but yeah, fuck empire.
a new hope just wasn't at all memorable to me.

the first two of the original trilogy, i have trouble not falling asleep in the middle of

Empire Strikes Back is overrated and Return of the Jedi was disappointing, yes, but A New Hope will always hold a place in my heart for being one of a few well done sci-fi/fantasy films.

return of the jedi was actually the best imo
no real problems with it

how was it disappointing? i know it's often cited to be the worst of the original trilogy, but like... why

is it the ewoks
are people really that petty

For the sake of brevity, a sci-fi/fantasy movie series like Star Wars cannot include every little piece of information like an encyclopedia. That's one of the good things about having a solid core with extended material: you can simply stop with the movies, or if something about them interest you, it's easy enough to find more about or like it in the hundreds of books and games available.

That's not exactly what I meant. I'm not trying to say that the entire Star Wars universe should've been jampacked into only the six core films... Merely, the question that a lot of prequel haters tend to ask. "Was this a story that needed to be told?"

and that's up to you, but for me, the answer is a giant "no"

the EU, for me, just created headaches and eye-rolls whenever someone says, "oh, that's explored more in the EU" whenever i point out something stupid in the original trilogy (like the light/dark dichotomy)

Some things are better off left in the dark. Instead, we know literally more than we ever needed to know about every single person who ever spent one second of screen time in the films. But the stuff that actually matters? The stuff that doesn't make sense? It's not explained in the movies. That's the important stuff that SHOULD be in the movies, but... isn't.

so, idk
it's always going to be a clusterfuck franchise to me

not a bad franchise, but
not a good one either
certainly not something i'd personally spend much time on

It's more of an incredibly slight undertone of the movies that's expanded upon more in Legends material, but the Jedi Order is incredibly strict in their code. If a Jedi isn't held to an inhuman (figuratively, given that many Jedi aren't human) level of knowledge, understanding, and a blind, unwavering support of the Council then they are banned from the order or are stuck under a glass ceiling. Another fault is that the Jedi Order is generally indecisive lend themselves to intentional ignorance of things to remain pure of mind. They are essentially zealots with telekinesis and laser swords.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Sith are ruthless, untrustworthy, and eternally power-hungry. It was shown quite clearly in the movies that they are the "bad" guys and that they are simply the opposite of everything righteous.

That's why the Gray Jedi is the best position to take; it admits that you can't simply hide from reality and thus you must understand it while at the same time shunning the use of the Force as a tool for evil. But as in real life, very few reach a truly balanced position intentionally or not. That's why the Force can only exist balanced in two circumstances:

1) All true Jedi and Sith (individuals who subscribe totally, or nearly so, to the doctrines) are eradicated. This only works for a short term, as the knowledge cannot be completely destroyed and the ideals will always be rediscovered by force-sensitives.

2) Jedi and Sith exist on equal standing in terms of power and control.

i mean, it's great that you know all this, it's nice that the EU has made efforts to make the universe more graspable for people like me who find the silly light/dark dichotomy to be trite and uncreative, and i find your dedication to the franchise admirable, but

that's just another problem i see with it
the fact that so much of the films' logic was sort of dependent on outside sources within the EU to make sense?...well, not dependent, but... supplemented by and made more sense from

fight club
requiem for a dream
chronicle
gone girl

some of my favorite film stories of all time
they... don't need an EU to help make sense of all its stuff

i realize that's not what the EU is originally intended for--it's originally intended to make money, because star wars is the biggest cash cow franchise of all time--but i'm just saying, because of it, whenever i think about star wars, i get an intense wave of i-don't-give-a-shit syndrome due to just the staggering amount of shit that i have to endure just to justify every idiosyncrasy in the films that wouldn't really add up if you didn't play a video game or read a book

if there weren't people like you to condense all of this stuff for me, i would never, ever know

I'm not sure if we actually know the allegiance of Episode 7's villain, but I'm holding out hope that it doesn't retcon ROTJ's conclusion. >.>

the narrator clearly said "THE DARK SIDE" as soon as he appeared

i mean, i think that's pretty definitive, but maybe he'll pull a heel-face turn or something

In America, cannibalism is morally wrong

In parts of India and various indigenous tribes around the world, cannibalism is seen as acceptable

I wouldn't really call that an example of subjectivity. Let alone a moral issue.

It's a cultural difference of values. Most people would agree, I'd wager, that if someone consented to be eaten, it's okay to eat that person. I don't think you're going to find too many people who disagree with that, even in America. If you're suggesting that nonconsensual cannibalism is rife within Indian communities... This is news to me.

yeah, yeah
it still makes me giddy to know it's not canon anymore

About the jedi/sith thing though, that's just what I don't like about Star Wars. It's just arbitrary. It would feel less silly if the sith weren't card-carrying villains. Their side is literally called "the dark side". That's what makes lines like, "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" so stupid and laughable. Like, your side is NAMED after evil! You're evil! Duh!

It's not like red and blue, or democrat/republican, where it's kinda ambiguous. You know who to root for right away. If it were a better franchise, they'd have ways to sort of sympathize with the sith in some form or another. The movies did a piss-poor job of that. I just chalk it up to it being for... you know, kids. A lot of people get all emotional if I say that, though.