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  1. Aldarion

    Weed Culture

    The last time I did edibles was literally a Grateful Dead show in high school. This tells you a few things. It was absolute dogshit weed (probably 5%). I'm an old mother fucker. And I havent had any urge to do edibles for >25 years despite living in Oregon where candy with THC costs about the...
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    Joker (2019)

    What an amazing campaign. Whatever marketing executive dreamed up the idea to spread rumors of incel violence around this movie was a damn genius. Can you imagine any better publicity for a movie than tactical police squads everywhere? "What are those cops there for?" "Joker" "Oh, want to see it?"
  3. Aldarion

    Weed Culture

    I'm not talking about a learning curve. I agree with you, there isnt a lot of skill or training required here lol. Puff puff give, pass to the left. No, I'm talking about potency. I've been smoking for a long time and even I dont want this 30% high end weed. And I'm talking about buds here, not...
  4. Aldarion

    Weed Culture

    I'm not saying no one should ever eat it (although subjectively I think youre nuts; the smell is one of the great things about pot) I'm saying advising a new user to start with edibles is like advising a virgin to start with triple anal penetration.
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    Weed Culture

    Good lord there is a lot of bad advice in this thread. 1. If you are newish to weed, don't smoke fucking chemicals and don't eat it. Get a glass bowl, get whatever weed smells best to you (look in the low end of the price range, because you don't *want* 30+% THC!), and smoke a little bit of it...
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    Fixed that for you! This raises a point worth adding to the mix. Assuming humanity continues to allow the Tlielaxu to develop (and we will because humanity is dumb), by the time Earthlings make a serious effort at space travel there will be not one but two competing sentient species trying to...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    There is a fundamental difference between a force that prevents an infinite number of different hypothetical species from coming into existence , vs a force that drives an actual species to extinction. The former affects hypothetical species. The latter affects actual species It's a semantic...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    It sounds like you're suggesting that postponing your elderly existence by a couple extra years is worth denying yourself French fries. Denied
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I agree. I just find it an important semantic distinction. The filter metaphor only makes sense for factors that end species. But no disagreement about its impact.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I didnt explicitly say it in my post, but when I propose "we're the first" I am really proposing "life is exceptionally rare in the universe, bordering on unique". If the emergence of life, or the emergence of intelligent life, are sufficiently rare that would explain the observed state without...
  11. Aldarion

    Better Jeans and Where to Find Them

    What in the actual fuck, indeed. Is this a discussion about not washing your jeans for 3 years and doing some weird shit in the bathtub with them, in order to make them look broken in? And then describing the specific patterns as "honeycombs" and "whisker fades", implying that somewhere there is...
  12. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    So shall I assume you prefer your spaghetti without marinara, your salad without dressing, your gyros without tzatziki? And if the server handed you plain noodles after you ordered spaghetti you'd be completely OK with that? I realize there are some people who don't eat fries properly, with...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Why cant it be "We're the first" and "there is no great filter"? Not saying thats my position, but wouldnt that also explain the observed state?
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Cause I've also had ketchup out of a bottle, so I know what it tastes like. Eating fries without ketchup is like eating Buffalo Wings with goddam ranch dressing. Its like deliberately cooking non-crispy bacon. Its like eating pizza with a knife and fork, or cooking a filet minon well done and...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Lol, wait til you see how I apply that ketchup while driving! /immune system
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    My fast food jimmy rustles: Would you like a straw? (after handing me a cup with a hole in the lid for a straw) Why are you fucking asking me this? I am not gonna answer, I am gonna sit here til you figure it out. Did you ever ask that question and somebody said "Ya know what? I'm just gonna...
  17. Aldarion

    Titans

    Why, is Bruce Wayne a black chick now too?
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    Dune: Prophecy

    On the plus side, they can get as woke as they want in casting without any problems. All women, any race, lesbians, no problem. I really liked a lot of things about the Bene Gesserit philosophy, and many of them are relevant for today, but I'm 100% confident theyll fuck all of those up based...
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    The I-Land

    I think you nailed it exactly. They genuinely think they need to make it better. A good screenwriter gets the fuck out of the way and just translates the story from book to film. A good screenwriter is invisible. A bad screenwriter "has something to say" and wants to "update the story for 2019...
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    The I-Land

    2 ep in. I strongly suspect the story ends up being shallow and dumb. But that ass. I'm still watching.
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/09/17/nyts-already-crappy-reputation-takes-another-hit-with-analysis-of-working-womens-pooping-habits-and-wtf-worthy-graphic/ Not a serious country. But that graphic is funny shit.
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    Carnival Row

    It never stopped being funny for me. How many millions did they spend on effects, sets, costumes, etc. But I guess finishing Dany's makeup so she looked like an actual blonde person would have been too much. Perhaps the makeup people have never met a blonde before? I mean, they're super rare in...
  23. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Fuck touch screens. An increasing number of devices use this fucking interface. Literally 9 times out of ten when I touch a touch screen, nothing happens. Whether its a smartphone or a self checkout screen or video screen on an airplane seat. Touch screen, no response whatsoever. Touch it...
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    Epic. Made me hungrier than probably half the posts in the cooking thread. That must smell amazing.
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    Better Jeans and Where to Find Them

    Pro-tip: if your jeans are tight enough they need to be stretchy, OR if your jeans are made partly of spandex, those are ladies jeans. In case a picture helps, this is what Mens jeans look like
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    Carnival Row

    Thats my wifes argument but we haven't spotted any convincing shots showing this. It appears to me the effects people just assumed penises are strong enough to support the weight of a full grown man. Whatever, still hot
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    Carnival Row

    This is the conversation my wife and I have every time they show this. "That would rip your dick off!"
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Youre defending the casting of a black dude as a Viking god? Not a serious person. There are borderline, "grey area" kind of cases, and there are LMFAO obvious in-your-face kind of cases. This is the latter.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    A single episode of Happy Days was immortalized when the world coined the phrase "jump the shark" to describe that moment when a TV series reaches the end of a good run and turns to shit. After this is released, the phrase "A-Force" will be immortalized as meaning that moment when a movie...
  30. Aldarion

    Carnival Row

    I'm pretty sensitive to SJW bullshit and havent felt like this was SJW, at least so far (ep 2 or 3). Khane is right: depicting the plight of underclass migrants isnt somehow inherently SJW. Plus, floating fairy sex. We were just trying to figure out why most fairy whores dye their hair blue...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I have a hobby I'm obsessed with, saltwater aquariums. Trading and selling in this hobby is very decentralized; you can buy from individual hobbyists, wholesalers, retailers, or directly from aquaculture or collectors. So a part of the fun and challenge is finding new sources for fish and...
  32. Aldarion

    Dune (2020)

    There is no suggestion anywhere in the books that the Fremen are African or partially African in origin. The descriptions fall somewhere between dark-skinned European and Middle Eastern. Look at the choice for Stilgar. Pretty much perfect. But I will say I'm encouraged by the Stilgar casting...
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    Dune (2020)

    Fuck. I forgot about that. You are absolutely 110% correct. Blackchani alone isn't proof of SJW casting fuckery, but gender swapping Liet Kynes plus raceswapping Chani... thats SJW casting fuckery. This will go the way of the Gunslinger and A Wrinkle in Time.
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    Dune (2020)

    ... this actually looks really good. I bitched a lot abut Chani but apparently it wasnt part of a broad race swapping in this case. As a diehard Dune fan and stickler for casting... I am pleasantly surprised. A couple people have mentioned Paul being scrawny. I dont get it; he wasnt some big...
  35. Aldarion

    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    Besides, randomly selecting across the universe instead of randomly selecting within each world would do nothing about resource consumption. Some worlds would get wiped out entirely and others barely affected. Movie-Thanos was retarded but not that retarded.
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    The carrying capacity of Earth is closer to 14 billion. Movie-Thanos was an idiot. Comic book Thanos in contrast was just doing something dumb to get laid, which is more understandable.
  37. Aldarion

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I mean, I feel the same way in a dating or socializing context. But when its your wife and the mother of your children spouting political bullshit?
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    Wheel of Time

    LMFAO Egwene and Nynaeve (sp) are fugly black chicks. Of course they are. Of course they are. And theyve shoehorned in yet another black female - white male relationship. And theyve cast yet another redhead (which are more f a minority than blacks with a history of oppression) with a black...