You can, but you’re not doing yourself (or your credibility) any favors posting incorrect information.

Was. You keep saying he “is” a soldier but he’s in that “was” stage of being a soldier. He says he’s retired. If you have all that gear and you’re retired... yeah, you’re off your nut.

Ever talk to a cosplayer? They’re typically pretty happy! 

Also for sad people: standing around a school sweating in full military gear, surrounded by children you obliquely resent and don’t understand, shooting the biology teacher when she tries to teach the students about evolution.

I’ve never done it, but I don’t think it’s sad. It’s a hobby and a way for people to express themselves. <shrug>

Men need to be taught the difference between fantasy and reality. We have several generations of men who have been spoon fed ridiculous macho man fantasies of one man taking out hundreds of anonymous ninjas/storm troopers/orcs and it’s so pervasive they believe it. It’s pathetic, but it’s what both Hollywood and the…

I’m okay with it being inspired by the book rather then based on it because the book is so internal, so attempting a straight adaptation would almost wouldn’t work. But it looks like Garland is taking it into a different direction than I was expecting, which I have a hard time getting past.

Also, it sounds like they…

I have the same problem. I thought this was an awesome trilogy. I am very concerned that the movie is more or less just “inspired by” the book rather than an actual adaptation.

Annihilation is one of my favorite books, but I’m also usually the type of person who can separate movies from the book they’re based on. But I really don’t know if I can do that here. The book was such an amazing experience, one that will stick with me for a very long time, one that I want to hold on to. The movie…

“Children should be seen and not heard” has always been a conservative viewpoint. That’s one stark difference between conservatives and liberals; one feels that young people should be empowered, the other will always be dismissive and contemptuous of youth.

If I had a kid who was smart enough to hold their own in a debate with a US senator I’d be pretty damn proud. It really takes an authoritarian mindset to not see any circumstance under which that might be a good thing.

It might be theater - at least in part - but that’s a lot of what politics has become. Trump won* in part because of the way he played emotional theater, and for better or worse many of the key political debates in the US revolve around theatrics.

Ok

Hehehehe. Uppity childrens?

The fact that we’re applauding teenagers for asking hard questions goes to show that the adult journalists have not been asking hard questions for years.

All of that may be true, but it barely affects my enjoyment of this article, which was an interesting dive into a subject I didn’t know about. If you had focused more on the facts and less on attacks, your comment could have been enjoyable, too!

Agreed. My favorite guitar is a Squier Strat with dual humbuckers that I bought new for 200 bucks when I was 19. I upgraded the pickups for about 120$. I have friends with Gibson’s that ask to borrow it for gigs.

You can buy a Squier Telecaster that’s cheap enough to learn with, and good enough to actually play in a band. I’ve never seen Gibson sell anything even remotely comparable.

1) American culture and “white” are not synonymous.

Well, for example Poland’s diversity was eradicated from 1/3 ethnic minorities to almost none as a result of WW2. Places occupied by Nazi Germany (and later Stalin Soviet Union) didn’t fare so well in this regard.