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The Puzzler
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The most important part of growing up is learning that not all sex leads to orgasm, or saving the world from killer robots.

B-Movie (n)
A low-budget film of inferior quality made for use as a supporting feature in a cinema programme.

If that's what your soap tastes like, you're eating the wrong type of soap.

The children mostly acted like children - they thought it was cheating to get laughs by having children act like adults.

Ugh. The "non-sequel non-reboot non-animated non-superhero non-horror" genre is so played out. Let it die already!

Deriving 'pasta', a word that already means something else, from 'copy-paste' seems very [flips through list of pretentious words to find something that sounds better than 'annoying to me personally'] jejeune.

It's become accepted that you should hire competent people for the civil service, but it's not surprising that a lot of people didn't see it that way. Would you rather have a competent person with a despicable ideology running the government, or someone who's less competent, but who agrees with you on all issues?

My parents insisted I watch all the world's major cinematic works before I could watch cartoons that might parody them, to make sure I understood all the references, and so I didn't have the movies spoiled for me. I thought Goodfellas was better than The Godfather… but what does a five-year-old really know about art?

Because it took this long for Hollywood to give up on Shia La Beouf?

"even false allegations could hurt a candidate’s chances, a lesson that lying liar Donald Trump could probably stand to learn"
Surely he has learned this, and takes advantage of it whenever he can?

I suspect Luke Skywalker is an objectively ridiculous name. In a distant galaxy where other characters have what feel like exotic ethnic names (Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett…) here's someone with a standard earth-name, followed by two English words stuck together?

Unintentional?

Most CGI fractals are extremely cheap. You just set up an algorithm and leave the computer to render it. Much cheaper than hiring actual artists.

Unlike a lot of Star Wars stories, it will (I imagine) be fairly unpredictable who will live and who will die. It's not like the endings of the earlier films were particularly surprising. Will the giant evil space thing be destroyed just in time? Yes, of course it will.

Which is a reasonable attitude to take. Jackson wasn't faithful to the material in lots of other ways (Bombadil, etc.) So, even assuming Tolkien said at some point, "all the hobbits and elves and wizards and non-evil humans and dwarves were definitely caucasian," that doesn't mean we can't have a more inclusive cast

Just because people get angry about it doesn't mean it happens any less.

So the High Sparrow was a hypocrite all along, not just an obnoxious puritan! I knew it!

My money is on the wall falling down due for reasons of ancient magic.

Pathfinder is a ruleset based on D&D 3.5 edition - some people call it D&D 3.75. It's compatible with old D&D 3.5 adventures.
It became popular among people that didn't like the D&D 4e rules (which isn't compatible with old material) and is still going today.

That's not a problem for me, as I used the same password as I use for everything else! This is a very secure system, in terms of not forgetting things.