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Theyre descendants of muslim slaves. Their culture is directly modeled in some ways after Arabian Muslim culture. They start a galaxy-wide Jihad that kills billions. Theyre the good guys of the book. I do not see how you faithfully capture the book Fremen and avoid muslim apologist or...

This movie was always going to be a challenge, as evidenced by the Lynch abomination and the accurate but boring Sci Fi channel miniseries. In 2017 America, it is not possible to make this movie. The Fremen are literally and explicitly descended from Muslim slaves in the far future. Their...

The source material clearly describes a white family with hair colors ranging from red to "auburn". I'll leave it to the reader to deduce their race. But surprisingly, in the trailer half of the kids appear to be black. (The race of Mrs Who et al is unimportant since they arent human, so I give...

Sugar soda is like drinking maple syrup. I'd drink diet if they had equal calories. Considering its zero versus several zillion, its no contest.

FWIW I generally dislike 3D but saw this in 3D and it didnt bother me at all. Not sure I think it added anything but maybe I'm just not into 3D. Not a problem in any case, IMO.

Important and damn near universally true advice there. The mirror is a dangerous thing on shrooms.

LOL 20% down. This is the financial equivalent of how all FOH posters (except me) are married to women who look like supermodels and love giving blowjobs. In real life I know exactly zero people who had 20% to put down on their house. I put precisely zero down on mine. Guess I'd be better off...

Lets not get crazy here. Thats a rather extreme solution, dont you think? Thanks spronk.

LOL stolen supreme court

I thought I was clear but I guess not. I was not saying the black dude broke the movie. I was saying that casting a black man in a part designed for Clint Eastwood showed a complete disregard for the source material, and that would break the movie. Out of curiousity, how far did they take it...

Its not terribly important what you label this weakness. Its a weakness to be overcome, not an identity to be embraced as "who you are". Spending a couple hours with a stranger is no big deal, and if something in you makes it feel like a big deal, that is a problem to be solved. Regardless of...

Palum, I agree with that too. Like I said, both positions were understandable, just not the notion that being exposed to a stranger for 2 hours was some kind of hardship. I hate people, but I wouldnt be "uncomfortable" picking up a stranger for my mom. I might say no, but I wouldnt be all...

I hear ya to some extent, Debra's annoying but I have to confess I find her kind of hot. Her character sucks but if she just STFU she wouldnt be abrasive. Skyler on the other hand, no.

I dunno, I'm torn on this one. On the one hand, making someone take a taxi or shuttle from the airport is a huge dick move. Thats what people who dont know anyone in the city they just landed in have to do. If a friend or family member lands at your airport and you make them take a taxi, youre...

WTF, that makes no sense. She is one of my most hated TV characters of all time, but I genuinely thought that was intentional. She's right up there with Joffrey on GOT, did an a really excellent job of being hateworthy. If the show runners genuinely intended her to be sympathetic they failed...

I explained it several times. Its a flawed system because two drivers approach the roundabout at the same time, there is no set system for right of way. Its whoever enters the roundabout first. So its a giant fucking game of chicken. This means no one waits their turn like civilized human...

lol how did I miss this. Hoss won the thread on page 2 but we missed it and kept going :(

So in response to my post, which you quoted, in which I stated that the problem with roundabouts is caused by the fact that no one stops. And in response you say roundabouts are better because in some scenario they mean fewer cars have to stop. Truly, a dizzying intellect.

Boy youre doing a really great job of disproving the argument that 4 way stops take less time. An argument no one ever made. But you are defeating it handily. Good show sir. Roundabouts are an inferior design because no one stops. Please tell me more about how people get through a roundabout...

You are right that sometimes people are dumb at 4 way stops. How to approach 4 way stops? 1. Come to a complete stop 2. Whoever stops first goes first 3. when in doubt, the car on the right has right of way Simple, civilized, only delays you for a matter of seconds. People are idiots but I'd...

Oh you found a website that agrees with you I am totally convinced, despite all logic and experience to the contrary this is my I am totally convinced face

This is a bad argument and youd have to do some kind of statistical gymnastics to find support for it. At a stop sign, accidents happen while traveling 0-10 mph as you start back up. At a roundabout, if an accident happens, it happens while accelerating at full speed because the most aggressive...

Yeah, thats a good way of putting it. I value fairness over moving maximum cars per hour. Any solution will be a tradeoff between those goals and I favor fairness. Interestingly I have heard the same argument about shitty asian cultural practices of refusing to wait in line and instead using...

Naw man I'm a steely eyed killer like everyone else on the internet, I'm just asking for a friend who isnt quite as aggressive. If you think relying on variation in aggressiveness among drivers is a good and reasonable method for determining who has right of way in an intersection we'll just...

When the cars are traveling in intersecting paths? Yes, the solution that has the cars stopping is preferable to the solution that has the cars not stopping. Whoever is in the roundabout has right of way over whoever is entering the roundabout, so whoever gets in first has right of way. It...

Is this a trick question? In a 4 way stop everyone is equal, and civilized behavior is required. Everyone stops briefly and takes their turn. In a roundabout whichever motherfucker guns it and gets into the roundabout first has right of way and doesnt have to wait his turn in line. Every...

LOL this discussion is cracking me up. I have a relatively low n compared to most of you cassanovas. But even my n has been sufficient to clarify this issue. Chicks who use tampons get stinky pussies, chicks who dont use tampons dont have stinky pussies. I havent seen any correlation with weight...

Lets be clear that resistance to flat earth denial of objective reality is a pretty different thing that resistance to anything about God.

I like how he includes "forming a perfectly round object" as if that was some kind of mystery. The rest is the usual boring anthropic principle nonsense, but the idea that formation of round objects is some kind of mystery just cracks me up for some reason.

100% of people I know who dont use social media call it one of the best decisions they've made. Myself included. 100% of people I know who do use social media complain about stuff they deal with on social media.

Probably not a real concern at this point but to clarify, you are quoting the rate for a white infant. They practically pay you to adopt black infants. (its different in every state but some are so cheap the tax breaks literally approach the costs of adoption)

Just checking in to point and laugh. Oh, the movie where they had such blatant disregard for the source material they decided to cast a black dude as the gunslinger... it flopped? This is my surprised face. I'm only trying to figure out -- from now on, when ass backwards casting decisions make...

This is awesome. Your post reads exactly like someone making a parody of what a SJW would say. "Its <current year>!" I'm gonna deduct 1 VSP for failing to use the phrase "you're a white male", and 1 VSP for failing to use racist/sexist/homophobic/cisnormative. But otherwise this was a really...

first you advocate spaces over tabs (cause multiple invisible characters instead of a single invisible character totally makes sense) Now vi instead of nano? Yall just enjoy pain. Its the only explanation.

/brofist putty is right next to Chrome and R in my my frequently used shortcuts. Putty for life

So's my dad. Wish we could sign up for experimental treatments like this; this sounds like a really great concept with low risks and promising early results in clinical trials.

I'm constantly surprised by the number of coworkers I encounter who have never been shocked by household current and think its some kind of instant death. I mean, every house is wired with this stuff. How you get to age 20+ and never experience a taste of household current? I guess I'm a little...

An eyebrow model? WTF Do the brits just have a thing for oddly large, dark, and shaggy eyebrows? I am genuinely confused here. She's otherwise fairly average for an actress and I obviously wouldnt kick her out of bed but her eyebrows are freakish.

So when they cast a white superhero, they're all "lets just pick a good actor regardless of whether they look like the character". "Its all about the acting chops". Then when they cast a black superhero, theyre all "lets get a black actor". OK, got it.

This is correct advice from someone who actually seems to know what spanking is and how its supposed to be used. Like your parents, I've only spanked my kids a very small number of times. A few spankings early in life teach lessons that let the kid avoid much greater pain later in life. Which...