It defied expectations in a lot of really exciting ways, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it... I'm not excited about the Han Solo film though.

So does this actually change the established lore on how hypersapce works in Star Wars? I always thought they travelled to another dimension or something, but now it's just moving REALLY fast?

Hyperspace has always been effectively moving really fast through real space, just hand-waved with "mass shadows" and other bullshit.



Just saw TLJ,  thought it was pretty good.

hmm

Quote from: Turkey on December 12, 2017, 04:19:21 AM

Bush and Obama said the same, and did nothing.

Jerusalem has been recognized as Israel's capitol by the U.S. since 1995. Neither Bush nor Obama chose to move the embassy there for security and political reasons; however, they both recognized it.

Does the site need more members?

I didn't play many games this year, and while I think BotW was one of the best I played, I find it hard, or disappointing to believe it was the best of 2017. It had a fun sandbox, but the story was almost non-existent and had some significant issues holding back the gameplay. I thought Nier: Automata in particular succeeded in making a uniquely powerful story with solid gameplay mechanics, and for that reason it should've won.

One, Japan has long had a much more competitive ISP market than the US, although it's recently been dwindling and formal net neutrality rules are being proposed.

Most people just go with one of a few mobile carriers for their internet access, even at home. It's a lot like the non-competitive market in the states. I'm not convinced that ending or changing the current laws will plunge the U.S. into a dark age of internet (nor did it prior to 2015). I do support net neutrality.

I also think that the public attitude is probably overstated. When I brought up the issue with my girlfriend's family two weeks ago in the US, none of them had heard about it before. When I explained what might happen, they didn't think that the tiered / laned internet sounded that bad and would shrug at it becoming like a cable box service. The online minority just shouts very loudly while I'm willing to bet a very large chunk of the population doesn't care and wouldn't be too bothered by these practices.

We're kind of talking about two different ramifications, although some might claim they go hand in hand. One is that the internet is divided into tiered service bundles allowing you to add or remove certain high-bandwidth services like streaming video or gaming, and the other is the the potential for competitors to impose restrictions on each other, influence political content, etc. The latter is what really concerns me, whereas the former just seems like an extension of the current subscription plans various services already impose. I think most people like your girlfriend's family see the removal of NN as the chance that Cox might let them pay less since they don't play internet games or stream Netflix, when in could mean much more.

Saw Grave of the Fireflies recently and I have to agree with how great it is. I think you'll enjoy The Wind Rises because of the similar setting and tone. My wife also recommends Barefoot Gen, a similar story, if you want to be even more depressed than when you watched Grave of the Fireflies.

Back in a few months 

Motherfuckers losing their minds over a crappy sauce when here in futureland Nippon we have shaka shaka chicken and the MegaMac.

Quote from: A Cheese Potato on October 09, 2017, 09:49:59 PM

what the hell was that weird penguin thing next to chewbacca

please look forward to the merchandise thank you

Went to Disneyland last month and without exaggerating, 25% of the TLJ merchandise was about him.

RAW

Quote from: Turkey on October 09, 2017, 12:59:45 AM

They're all pretty bad because Disney only makes them to retain the rights to the properties.

How so? Not that big of an expert of US IP law, but copyright doesn't typically require any use to retain the property and you don't need a massive movie to keep a trademark from expiring or becoming generic.

Can't recall the details, but it's something to do with retaining film rights to their stories, because they're based on fairytales rather than being original properties. I believe this is along the same lines of what Sony was doing with Spider-Man.

Quote from: Turkey on October 08, 2017, 08:02:58 AM

Saw 2049 and enjoyed it a lot. Definitely deserves a second viewing.

Agreed, but I have one misgiving;

Spoiler

What happened to the dog?

Doggo didn't need Deckard; Deckard needed Doggo


Really my only gripe with the film is

On one hand you say the movie only examined the themes of sentience and artificiality at surface-level, but on the other seem to have missed the point of Deckard stopping Rachel from leaving, an interaction which is critical to that theme possibly more than any other in the film. Rachel is struggling with attraction towards Deckard, fear of being retired, and conflict about being a replicant -- none of which she should be feeling if she's just a robot as Deckard asserts. Deckard is very much an anti-hero, bordering on the story's villain, and ultimately the scene co-opts a by-the-numbers film-noir trope to examine those themes in an original way.

I'm not going to pretend the movie is one of my favorites, and it took me a few viewings to appreciate it, but I think you missed the mark on this one.

Edit: for context, the scene from the original script was a more generic version in which Deckard coaches Rachel to kiss and presumably, after the scene transitions, have sex. The final product was a lot more complex.