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2023.03.25 04:54 WreckageHothHead Flaws/insufficiencies in RLM's spacewar commentary: thread 2
The previous thread revolved around Plinkett's logic/realism comparison between the Death Star's interior and the "Theed power room", and the much more reasonable Bespin comparison that was left out of the picture and compromised the point.
https://old.reddit.com/RedLetterMedia/comments/11yn4jh/flawsinsufficiencies_in_rlms_spacewar_commentary/
This post is going to be about the high/low stakes of the Ep1/Ep4 plotlines and the way those are analyzed by RLM:
In one quote, he says "they save the day (at the end of Ep1), and then in another he says they don't save the day - in contrast to the heroes at the end of EP4 who do save the day.
This is of course a direct self-contradiction;
and between two excerpts that are both talking about Anakin on Tatooine, in the context of the podrace, no less.
quickly and easily fixing his pod in an undramatic low-stakes fashion, reflecting the undramatic low-stakes nature of said tax dispute where they don't save the day, that is contrasted with the dramatic high-stakes Ep4 ending where they do save the day, and then forgets to return to pick his mom up after saving the day with the tax dispute?
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep4
invasion tax dispute again?
the fact that it isn't shown is presented as a reason for doubting that it's happening (although it could also be referring to presentation - implying that not showing it leads to indifference:
"why" is literally inquiring about the reasons and causes behind it, but really it also kinda means "why am I supposed to believe that it's happening".
Clearly along with lines like this:
A more proper look at this, one that the review probably should've taken, potentially reveals the source of this uncertainty and confusion:
of course Panaka already thinks they're capable of murder - and seconds earlier, Qui-Gon's retort was probably meant to be understood as "they tried to kills us instead":
The stakes of fending these invaders off vs. succumbing to them already seem quite high - and Plinkett is obviously going out of his way to downplay it (if he's remembering it at all, at that moment):
a) "Forcing her to sign the treaty right then and there" - this is of course in the very scene where they're expressing the threat against her population if she doesn't sign it.
While it's possible to speculate about what other more direct forms of force or coercion they could've applied there to accomplish it "right then and there", these pseudo-euphemistic threats against the population are the method of coercion they're going with here, and it's not clear whether Plinkett is even aware of this at all.
b) "Keeping her locked up in the Palace instead of sending them away, where the 2 Jedi could jump in."
This is correct - however his focus on just this one aspect of this scene causes him to talk over the part where Gunray is verbalizing his threat, and only turn on the sound right after, when Nute moves to the "Camp 4" part:
And, this of course also facilitates the massive downplaying of this situation later in the review:
Now they escape the planet instead of "cooperating", so the possibility arises that the Trade Federation might repeat their threats a bit more emphatically, or even start making them real in order to exact pressure:
Going a step further however, instead of merely exacting that pressure, they're also trying to trace them in case they merely decide to just reply at first - even if they refused to "bow to their wishes" at first, they'd already betray their location.
The "bait" conclusion is stated with a high level of certainty here - and is in fact immediately confirmed to be real, even if the details of it seem inconsistent and confusing (since the ship didn't reply, but Darth Maul still has a trace?):
That is until they've left Tatooine for Coruscant, where it's then also confirmed as true:
1) Technically the only thing that's confirmed here is that Bibble hadn't been made to lie, and in fact does believe that "the people are starving" (or at least isn't shown doubting it)- however he's shown to be alone with Gunray and some of his droids in what looks like an empty part of the palace; if this is representative of his general situation, and he's being kept here isolated while being told about mass starvation, how is it a certainty that he's not being lied to as well?
Perhaps the movie isn't thinking that far, and considers the confirmation that he was being honest and hadn't been performing under pressure or threats, as an automatic confirmation that it's all true - however it's not clear.
2) "The people have decided"? This makes it sound as if the pressure is being applied to the population itself, to presumably accept the Trade Federation as their new rulers - as opposed to the Queen or even him or any of the other remaining officials to "sign the treaty".
So some kind of different thing seems to be going on here, and this casts doubts on whether this scene even takes place in the same continuity, or might be from a different script version.
However, the very next scene it cuts back to the ship, and Padme is replaying a recording of his message (not having seen it herself while on Tatooine) - and, with no thoughts given to it having been a confirmed trick, and possibly untrue, seems to believe it without question:
could the Jedi have been used as witnesses, given how they had been sent in "secret" to begin with?
Then, after all the preceding interruptions, Amidala finally brings up the deathtolls - stating it as fact (even though she has no reason to be certain, unlike the invasion and "attack on sovereignty" itself):
where the Neimoidians haven't yet started claiming to be already causing death tolls, but are rather threatening that they'll genocide them all if their demands aren't met - and that Amidala doesn't really know if that's gonna happen or not, if they'll manage to prevent it or not.
Apparently the talk is about them threatening her directly, which she responds with "my fate won't be different than the people's.
However this line here:
Before that it was all about drastic life-and-death issues - however these lines, esp. in a vacuum, rather make it sound like the Federation is just eroding their culture/projects/values/sovereignty/spirit/etc. which is worth fighting for, but isn't blotted out by the even a lot worse CATASTROPHIC DEATH TOLLS.
Back here on Naboo, however, things seemingly undergo another shift - after the somber tone of the Coruscant stay, where one might say depressing notions about death tolls matched the general mood, here in this new chapter the tone is upbeat and optimistic, and perhaps for this reason nothing more about any deaths is brought up again:
No one cares to find out whether
However at the very least, at this point they're already firmly planning to end this occupation, and now have the means to do it (more on the confused unclarities regarding this aspect at some later point) - they're no longer faced with the decision to either contact Sio Bibble and potentially expose themselves, or accept further death tolls; and no longer powerlessly stuck on Coruscant hoping the government does something; now there's just one way forward.
So does that somewhat account for all of this? Well, somewhat, sure, appears so.
Earlier, they checked on the Gungan city - and there, Panaka did voice speculations about what might've happened to them:
Ultimately, between its different "chapter", this movie has a noticeable cognitive dissonance about how high these particular stakes are:
at first a threat is made;
then the villains claim to have started making the threat real, however they're using that as a trap in order to trace them - creating a sense of creeping uncertainty about it all, as Darth Maul is closing in on them;
then once "the audience is shown", everyone starts treating it as a fact, in the context of the somber tone of the Coruscant stay;
and finally it all gives way to an upbeat tone during which this notion softly disappears from the narrative, and the lines that are used to refer to the nature of the occupation are now much more compatible with the notion that this is a:
The selective memory of these lines seems to be the basis for this "non-violent invasion" comment - without the realization that they are effectively refuted by all the other (much more emphasized and explicit) parts that indicate a violent one (or, at the very least, one in which a mass starvation is induced);
an equivalent, albeit a very disproportionate one, would be if someone selectively remembered these lines from Ep4's black roundtable here:
"fear of this battle station" or "attacks" or "
obviously the answer to the first question is that "she's believing the governor's hologram message", and the answer to the second question is "because Gunray is trying to pressure her into agreeing to that treaty".
His uncertainty seems to primarily stem from ignoring and forgetting the information in the movie instead of going through it properly - however if he had gone through it, he would've also found a degree of uncertainty surrounding this: first as a direct part of the plot,
later in the form of residual doubts about how much of a "confirmation" the Bibble/Gunray scene is supposed to be (followed by Padme's sudden acceptance of his claims without learning anything new since it had been determined as dubious),
and eventually by the seeming dissonance created by lines that convey a milder version of the events and cast doubts on this plotline's internal continuity.
It's possible that this actual uncertainty created by the film subconsciously contributed to his uncertainty in some ways as well, in addition to him just not remembering stuff.
and, once again, may have been subconsciously influenced by that angle, but isn't directly based on any precise analysis or recollection of those elements.
Aside from all this, his indifferent and semi-dismissive tone is also incongruent with, and unrepresentative of the dramatic intensity that those scenes are presented with - even if going farther with it (say, for starters, by showing any "Naboo citizens" before the very last scene) could have increased this intensity further.
Jumping to the preceding step of the Neimoidian's master plan -
While seemingly intent on downplaying/doubting/denying the "death tolls" and high stakes of the invasion (or, more specifically, Gunray's methods of trying to force the treaty agreement) way beyond the residual amount of uncertainty left by the information in the film,
the effects of the blockade are instead being vastly overblown here not based on anything in the script.
Somehow during those segments of the audio commentary, Plinkett seems to have forgotten all about this, and apparently thinks that the "tax dispute" is still the full extent of what's at stake at any point after the 1st paragraph of the opening crawl:
However while leaving out all the most dramatic scenes revolving around this, he also imagines a mass death crisis on Naboo caused by the pre-invasion blockade;
it's possible that this is him misattributing Padme's "people are dying" lines to the blockade and the resulting lack of space supplies - perhaps even forgetting that a subsequent invasion occurred at all, in those excerpts that is.
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This post is going to be about the high/low stakes of the Ep1/Ep4 plotlines and the way those are analyzed by RLM:
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep1
And he has one last chance, and he puts that part in the pod - and finally, the pod starts working, and he can enter the big race - you know, to win the big prize at the end which will save.. the whole.. family.
And then he says "it's woorrrkiiing.." and you know, then you swell the dramatic music... - and that's when that scene works?
That scene doesn't work.. 20 minutes into a movie that's not about podracing.
I'm sorry to get all bitchy on you, but-.. but-... d'you ever watch this movie and, and be like... why did that happen, or, or-.. "I don't feel anything inside".... you know, I'm- like "I'm dead inside"?
Well.. - I'm.. just trying to explain why you feel dead inside when you watch this movie, or you don't feel excited - even at the end when they have the, big.. celebration? You know, [impression]- [...]
But even at the end when they have the big, like, festival - like-... you're just like.. "So?" So what, there's a midget there now with an eyepatch on, and-... some boring-ass bitch.. gives a frog a glowing ball. Wwhy the fuck do I care?
It's not like the end of the original Star Wars when Luke, Han, and.. Chewbacca, get medals from Princess Leia - it's like, those guys saved the fucking day; what did these guys do? Oh, they resolved a tax dispute...
Plinkett: Ep1So - what's going on here?
Number 10: Anakin Skywalker
[...]
Oh we're still on this planet are we?
So Qui-Gon manages to pull off the most convoluted bet ever, and somehow wins everything except for Anakin's mother.
Even at the end of the movie when they save the day and probably could get the cash to buy the mom from Watto - they don't go back for ten years.
In one quote, he says "they save the day (at the end of Ep1), and then in another he says they don't save the day - in contrast to the heroes at the end of EP4 who do save the day.
This is of course a direct self-contradiction;
and between two excerpts that are both talking about Anakin on Tatooine, in the context of the podrace, no less.
Plinkett audio commentary: Ep1So instead of joining the dramatic high-stakes cause of freeing the slaves, Anakin instead joins the undramatic low-stakes cause of settling a tax dispute,
Oh.. - that's a good question, are you here to free the slaves Qui-Gon? No, actually we're.. we're in the process of settling a tax dispute... ohhh.
Yeah I guess freeing slaves would've made a better movie...
it's good we went with something boring, we wouldn't want to excite the audience too much...
quickly and easily fixing his pod in an undramatic low-stakes fashion, reflecting the undramatic low-stakes nature of said tax dispute where they don't save the day, that is contrasted with the dramatic high-stakes Ep4 ending where they do save the day, and then forgets to return to pick his mom up after saving the day with the tax dispute?
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep4
But the real thrust of this scene is, this is when the stakes are really raised - insteada just a giant floating ball in space, we are now shown that the Death Star is capable of blowing up whole planets; and our ragtag group o' heroes are the only ones that can stop it...Now it's an "invasion" instead of a "tax dispute", however a "non-violent" one - hence still low-stakes.
Tension, stakes, a ticking clock!; heroism, and adventure - it's what makes Star Wars great.
Much like the Phantom Menace - when the Gungans fight the Robots to help Queen Amidala find the Viceroy, so that she doesn't have to sign a treaty to make the non-violent invasion legal in the courts...
[crickets...] Uhmm.. [..........]
Number 6: Invasion! Of Boring…Now there's talk of "people dying" all of a sudden - how "non-violent" was this
Plinkett: Ep1
Number 10: On to Planet Number 3. Is it time for death yet?
Welcome to Coruscant - home of the mid-air collision; and BORING SCENES.
So the Queen waits around for some kind of approval, o-.. for something, to stop her people from dying- Why are they dying? I guess they're dying though...
But I didn't see anyone die?
In fact I haven't even seen any Naboo citizen at all - as far as I know it's a city with 20 or so pilots, a couple of bureaucrats and officials.
Why are they dying? I guess they're dying though... But I didn't see anyone die?"I guess x is happening" = treating it as an uncertainty (although arguably also some indifference);
the fact that it isn't shown is presented as a reason for doubting that it's happening (although it could also be referring to presentation - implying that not showing it leads to indifference:
Plinkett: ST Generations*);
"He was trying to save a pre-industrial civilization that we never see... - or care anything about.
"why" is literally inquiring about the reasons and causes behind it, but really it also kinda means "why am I supposed to believe that it's happening".
Clearly along with lines like this:
So the Queen waits around for some kind of approval, o-.. for something,, Plinkett isn't making any moves to go through the movie and analyze the information - instead he's just comically trying to piece together his foggy memories of the plot, while channeling confusion and indifference.
A more proper look at this, one that the review probably should've taken, potentially reveals the source of this uncertainty and confusion:
"How will you explain this invasion to the Senate?"Makes what can be called a "credible threat" about doing something to the people.
"The Queen and I will sign a treaty that will legitimize our occupation here - I have assurances it will be ratified by the Senate."
"I will not cooperate."
"Now, now, Your Highness - in time, the suffering of your people will persuade you to see our point of view.
Commander." "Yes, sir." "Process them." "Captain - take them to Camp 4."
"Your Highness, under the circumstances, I suggest you come to Coruscant with us."Here the psychic Jedi senses some lethal intentions on their part, probably making the earlier threats even more credible;
"Thank you, Ambassador - but my place is with my people."
"They will kill you if you stay."
Sio Bibble: "They wouldn't dare!"
Panaka: "They need her to sign a treaty to make this invasion of theirs legal, they can't afford to kill her!"
"There is something else behind all this, your Highness - there's no logic in the Federation's move here. My feelings tell me they will destroy you."
of course Panaka already thinks they're capable of murder - and seconds earlier, Qui-Gon's retort was probably meant to be understood as "they tried to kills us instead":
"Your negotiations seem to have failed, Ambassador."Either way, now there's a credible threat of "suffering" against the population, and a credible danger of them killing the Queen.
"The negotiations never took place. It's urgent that we make contact with the Republic."
Number 8: I'm gonna slit my wristsWhat is the treaty supposed to do again?
[Sigh...] It's hard to stomach any more of this shit - I still don't know who the main character is and why we should care about any of this.
At around this point in the original Star Wars movie, we've been with Luke almost the whole time getting to know him.
We see his plight;
his hopes and dreams...
we feel his frustration...
and then his sadness...
The slow build-up added depth, and emotion; and anticipation for the story to expand.
In the Phantom Menace we have nothing - we've a monotone queen, who's hiding from signing a treaty that's supposed to do something.
Why in fuck's name should we care at all.. I don't care about any of these characters?
Number 6: Invasion! Of Boring…The guys that want this treaty signed (whatever it's about) threaten her with making the people "suffer" - and the content of this treaty is that this faction that threatens the population with suffering while invading, arresting and keeping them as hostages, will get to "legally" stay there with no one doing anything about it.
So what exactly is the purpose of this invasion?
It's almost like after Lucas wrote the invasion scenes, he didn't.. really know what to do next? - so he thought he'd make the Queen have to sign a treaty, to make the invasion legal; I mean, why not?
The stakes of fending these invaders off vs. succumbing to them already seem quite high - and Plinkett is obviously going out of his way to downplay it (if he's remembering it at all, at that moment):
In the Phantom Menace we have nothing - we've a monotone queen, who's hiding from signing a treaty that's supposed to do something.One might wonder how he managed to miss or forget this; a look at the part where he covers the threat scene, reveals a few things:
Invasion! Of Boring...So there are 2 alternative options that Plinkett is suggesting the green guys should've gone with, instead of "sending them to Camp 4":
Inside the city, Queen Aminalan has been captured by the green guys; but instead of forcing her to sign the treaty right then and there - or keeping her locked up inside the big capital building under heavy guard - they inexplicably send her away from them. ["I will not cooperate." "Now, now, Your Highness - in time, the suffering of your people will persuade you to see our point of view."]
"Commander." "Yes, sir?" "Process them..."
Remember - this is the most important person in their whole plan - and they send her to be... "processed"?, in some place called "Camp 4".
Droid: "Captain - take them to Camp 4."
Ohh; but at least they remember to send her with a whopping 8 battle droids to protect her from the 2 Jedis that they just discussed they had not found yet.
"You didn't tell him about the missing Jedi..." "No need to report that to him, until we have something to report."
But don't worry - these battle droids have proven very effective against Jedi Knights.
a) "Forcing her to sign the treaty right then and there" - this is of course in the very scene where they're expressing the threat against her population if she doesn't sign it.
While it's possible to speculate about what other more direct forms of force or coercion they could've applied there to accomplish it "right then and there", these pseudo-euphemistic threats against the population are the method of coercion they're going with here, and it's not clear whether Plinkett is even aware of this at all.
b) "Keeping her locked up in the Palace instead of sending them away, where the 2 Jedi could jump in."
This is correct - however his focus on just this one aspect of this scene causes him to talk over the part where Gunray is verbalizing his threat, and only turn on the sound right after, when Nute moves to the "Camp 4" part:
they inexplicably send her away from them. ["I will not cooperate." "Now, now, Your Highness - in time, the suffering of your people will persuade you to see our point of view."]So now as a result, Plinkett is talking over the part where Nute is issuing his threat to the Queen, saying how they should force the Queen to sign the treaty "right then and there"...
"Commander." "Yes, sir?" "Process them..."
And, this of course also facilitates the massive downplaying of this situation later in the review:
Number 8: I'm gonna slit my wristsIn the Phantom Menace we have nothing - we've a monotone queen, who's hiding from signing a treaty that's supposed to do something.
Why in fuck's name should we care at all..
"The death toll is catastrophic... We must bow to their wishes! You must contact me!"So now it sounds like they're making it real - "catastrophic death tolls".
"It's a trick. Send no reply - send no transmissions of any kind."
"It sounds like bait to establish a connection trace."
"What if it is true - and the people are dying?"
"Either way, we're running out of time."
Going a step further however, instead of merely exacting that pressure, they're also trying to trace them in case they merely decide to just reply at first - even if they refused to "bow to their wishes" at first, they'd already betray their location.
The "bait" conclusion is stated with a high level of certainty here - and is in fact immediately confirmed to be real, even if the details of it seem inconsistent and confusing (since the ship didn't reply, but Darth Maul still has a trace?):
"Tatooine is sparsely populated - if the trace was correct, I will find them quickly, Master."However the possibility that the assertion about the "death tolls" might still be true, is left up in the air - the Jedi / Queen don't know, and the audience isn't clued in either.
That is until they've left Tatooine for Coruscant, where it's then also confirmed as true:
"Your Queen is lost, your people are starving... and you, Governor, are going to die much sooner than your people I'm afraid..."However upon a closer look, 2 factors still cause a certain amount of doubt, or uncertainty:
"This invasion will gain you nothing! We're a democracy - the people have decided!"
"Take him away."
1) Technically the only thing that's confirmed here is that Bibble hadn't been made to lie, and in fact does believe that "the people are starving" (or at least isn't shown doubting it)- however he's shown to be alone with Gunray and some of his droids in what looks like an empty part of the palace; if this is representative of his general situation, and he's being kept here isolated while being told about mass starvation, how is it a certainty that he's not being lied to as well?
Perhaps the movie isn't thinking that far, and considers the confirmation that he was being honest and hadn't been performing under pressure or threats, as an automatic confirmation that it's all true - however it's not clear.
2) "The people have decided"? This makes it sound as if the pressure is being applied to the population itself, to presumably accept the Trade Federation as their new rulers - as opposed to the Queen or even him or any of the other remaining officials to "sign the treaty".
So some kind of different thing seems to be going on here, and this casts doubts on whether this scene even takes place in the same continuity, or might be from a different script version.
"The death toll is catastrophic! We must bow to their wishes! You must contact me!"It seems like the moment it's "confimed" to the audience via a villain cut-away, the protagonists now automatically start treating it as true as well.
"You all right?"
"It's very cold."
"You come from a warm planet, Ani - a little too warm for my taste. Space is cold."
"You seem sad..."
"The Queen is worried - her people are suffering, dying...
She must convince the Senate to intervene, or... I'm not sure what'll happen."
Plinkett audio commentary: Ep1This continues into this later scene:
the audience knows - but he doesn't know.
"The Courts take even longer to decide things than the Senate! Our people are dying, Senator - we must do something quickly to stop the Federation!"Later in the Senate session, even before anyone mentions anything about death tolls, the very notion of the invasion is already placed under doubt:
"To be realistic, Your Majesty... I think we're going to have to accept Federation control for the time being."
"That is something I cannot do."
"Honourable representatives of the Republic - I come to you under the gravest of circumstances. The Naboo system has been invaded by the droid armies of the Trade-"Initially by bad actors, of course - and Valorum seems to be under pressure to act like he's sharing or at least respecting these doubts:
"I object! There is no proof! This is incredible... We recommend a commission be sent to Naboo to ascertain the truth!"
"The Congress of Malastare concurs with the honourable delegate from the Trade Federation - a commission must be appointed!"
"The point..."
Mas Amedda: "Excuse me, Chancellor."
"Enter the bureaucrats - the true rulers of the Republic; and on the payroll of the Trade Federation, I might add. This is where Chancellor Valorum's strength will disappear."
"The point is conceded. Will you defer your motion to allow a commission to explore the validity of your accusations?"
Number 3: Death and Space TaxesHowever the Malastare speaker may or may not be genuine, and generally the Senate is not presented with any additional proof for these allegations;
At the end of the movie, Amidalen goes back to the planet to solve the problem herself - cause the Senate wanted to send an independent team to investigate whether or not the invasion was real.
"Will you defer your motion to allow a commission to explore the validity of your accusations?"
I guess the testimony of two Jedi Knights wasn't good enough; [Qui-Gon talking to Valorum on the Coruscant platform] those were the guys that Valorum trusted enough to settle the whole dispute in the first place? That don't make sense?..
could the Jedi have been used as witnesses, given how they had been sent in "secret" to begin with?
"the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...."Given how backed into the corner the Valorum is,
"Chancellor Valorum seems to think there is hope?" "If I may say so, Your Majesty, the Chancellor has little real power - he is mired by baseless accusations of corruption; the bureaucrats are in charge now."probably not.
Then, after all the preceding interruptions, Amidala finally brings up the deathtolls - stating it as fact (even though she has no reason to be certain, unlike the invasion and "attack on sovereignty" itself):
"I will not defer - I've come before you to resolve this attack on our sovereignty NOW. I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die, while you discuss this invasion in a committee!"Proof or reason aside, the room is instantly won over and apparently has no doubts left.
"Yousa tinking yousa people ganna die?"In this scene it's not clear whether Jar Jar is just getting things wrong and she's merely humoring him, or whether this talk about "gonna die" (as opposed to already dying in the present - does this mean he's asking if they're all gonna eventually die?) and her uncertain response ("don't know whether they'll all die before they can intervene"?) are rather, again, from yet another alternate continuity / script version,
"I don't know..."
"Gungans get pasted too, eh?"
"I hope not."
where the Neimoidians haven't yet started claiming to be already causing death tolls, but are rather threatening that they'll genocide them all if their demands aren't met - and that Amidala doesn't really know if that's gonna happen or not, if they'll manage to prevent it or not.
"I fear by the time you have control of the bureaucrats, Senator - there'll be nothing left of our people, our way of life."Apparently Palpatine agrees with Plinkett that they could potentially apply some more direct and successful form of "force" here - since otherwise the pressure they're applying now (causing those "death tolls") isn't going to fundamentally change if she returns.
"I understand your concern, Your Majesty - unfortunately, the Federation has possession of our planet."
"Senator - this is your arena; I feel I must return to mine.
I've decided to go back to Naboo."
"Go back? But your Majesty, be realistic, th-they'll force you to sign the treaty!"
"I will sign no treaty, Senator. My fate will be no different than that of our people."
Apparently the talk is about them threatening her directly, which she responds with "my fate won't be different than the people's.
However this line here:
"I fear by the time you have control of the bureaucrats, Senator - there'll be nothing left of our people, our way of life."once again casts doubts on what is being referred to, or which script version continuity is currently on display - especially if compared to this:
"The Trade Federation has destroyed all that we have worked so hard to build - if we do not act quickly, all will be lost forever."What have they "worked hard to build"? And what "way of life"?
Before that it was all about drastic life-and-death issues - however these lines, esp. in a vacuum, rather make it sound like the Federation is just eroding their culture/projects/values/sovereignty/spirit/etc. which is worth fighting for, but isn't blotted out by the even a lot worse CATASTROPHIC DEATH TOLLS.
Back here on Naboo, however, things seemingly undergo another shift - after the somber tone of the Coruscant stay, where one might say depressing notions about death tolls matched the general mood, here in this new chapter the tone is upbeat and optimistic, and perhaps for this reason nothing more about any deaths is brought up again:
"What is the situation?""Almost everyone's in camps", but that's all he says.
Panaka: "Almost everyone's in camps.
A few hundred police and guards formed an underground resistance movement. I brought back as many of the leaders as I could.
The Federation army's also much larger than we thought - and much stronger. Your Highness, this is a battle I do not think that we can win."
No one cares to find out whether
"What if it is true - and the people are dying?"It's never confirmed, nor refuted, nor ruled out - just no longer mentioned.
However at the very least, at this point they're already firmly planning to end this occupation, and now have the means to do it (more on the confused unclarities regarding this aspect at some later point) - they're no longer faced with the decision to either contact Sio Bibble and potentially expose themselves, or accept further death tolls; and no longer powerlessly stuck on Coruscant hoping the government does something; now there's just one way forward.
So does that somewhat account for all of this? Well, somewhat, sure, appears so.
Obi-Wan: "Do you think they have been taken to the camps?"However that was of course instantly resolved.
Panaka: "More likely they were wiped out."
"Mesa no tink so."
Qui-Gon: "Do you know where they are, Jar Jar?"
at first a threat is made;
then the villains claim to have started making the threat real, however they're using that as a trap in order to trace them - creating a sense of creeping uncertainty about it all, as Darth Maul is closing in on them;
then once "the audience is shown", everyone starts treating it as a fact, in the context of the somber tone of the Coruscant stay;
and finally it all gives way to an upbeat tone during which this notion softly disappears from the narrative, and the lines that are used to refer to the nature of the occupation are now much more compatible with the notion that this is a:
Tension, stakes, a ticking clock!; heroism, and adventure - it's what makes Star Wars great.However while it's possible to view this all as a fragmented combination of several mutually continuities, it also remains true that Gunray had expressed a violent threat, the protagonists were shortly after given the impression that he may very well have started putting it into practice, this was then "all but confirmed" by the cut to Sio Bibble on Naboo (though only to the viewers, not the protagonists), and then none of this was ever explicitly contradicted, or ruled out - even not by all the lines that, in isolation, would make a very different impression.
Much like the Phantom Menace - when the Gungans fight the Robots to help Queen Amidala find the Viceroy, so that she doesn't have to sign a treaty to make the non-violent invasion legal in the courts...
The selective memory of these lines seems to be the basis for this "non-violent invasion" comment - without the realization that they are effectively refuted by all the other (much more emphasized and explicit) parts that indicate a violent one (or, at the very least, one in which a mass starvation is induced);
an equivalent, albeit a very disproportionate one, would be if someone selectively remembered these lines from Ep4's black roundtable here:
"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us; I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the old Republic have been swept away."Never mind the
"That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?"
"The regional governors now have direct control over their territories.Fear will keep the local systems in line - fear of this battle station."
"And what of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical readout of this station, it is possible, however unlikely, that they might find a weakness and exploit it."
"The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands."
"Any attack made by the rebels against this station"
This scene is pretty important to the plot, but it's really just there to engage an element they call the "ticking clock" - it's a basic function used to create tension in a story. They almost have the Death Star ready; it's ready to shoot giant lasers, and they plan to use it to crush the Rebellion - by destroying their hidden base.; the plot of this movie is about governors non-violently controlling their local territories while non-violent rebels want to exploit the technical readouts of a station.
So the Queen waits around for some kind of approval, o-.. for something, to stop her people from dying- Why are they dying? I guess they're dying though...While obviously some "citizens" are eventually shown in the celebration at the end, the closest the movie ever gets to "showing anyone die", or confirming that it's taking place, is by showing Nute Gunray bringing it up to Sio Bibble who's acting like he accepts it as true (with the possibility that he's seen it not ruled out, but not confirmed either), and otherwise by having Padme believe his hologram transmission after that palace scene (although before that, the very same message was explicitly doubted).
But I didn't see anyone die?
In fact I haven't even seen any Naboo citizen at all - as far as I know it's a city with 20 or so pilots, a couple of bureaucrats and officials.
Why are they dying? I guess they're dying though...It looks like Plinkett is remembering the Padme lines, but not why she believes it's taking place, or what the cause of it is supposed to be in the first place;
obviously the answer to the first question is that "she's believing the governor's hologram message", and the answer to the second question is "because Gunray is trying to pressure her into agreeing to that treaty".
His uncertainty seems to primarily stem from ignoring and forgetting the information in the movie instead of going through it properly - however if he had gone through it, he would've also found a degree of uncertainty surrounding this: first as a direct part of the plot,
later in the form of residual doubts about how much of a "confirmation" the Bibble/Gunray scene is supposed to be (followed by Padme's sudden acceptance of his claims without learning anything new since it had been determined as dubious),
and eventually by the seeming dissonance created by lines that convey a milder version of the events and cast doubts on this plotline's internal continuity.
It's possible that this actual uncertainty created by the film subconsciously contributed to his uncertainty in some ways as well, in addition to him just not remembering stuff.
I guess they're dying though...This seems like a casual acceptance of her claims - which coincides both with Padme's (unjustified, by rational metrics) acceptance of Sio's "death tolls" claim in the message, and the film's largely overwhelming (but not full) confirmation that it it was in fact true,
and, once again, may have been subconsciously influenced by that angle, but isn't directly based on any precise analysis or recollection of those elements.
Aside from all this, his indifferent and semi-dismissive tone is also incongruent with, and unrepresentative of the dramatic intensity that those scenes are presented with - even if going farther with it (say, for starters, by showing any "Naboo citizens" before the very last scene) could have increased this intensity further.
But the conflict from the blockade and the subsequent invasion:
Number 11: Please, God - make it stop. Make it end.Both when discussing the invasion as well as the preceding blockade, Plinkett consistently doesn't bother with going through the available information (while already not remembering it properly to begin with, naturally) - however for some reason the two instances are given the polar opposite treatment:
I mean I know George wanted the Jedis to fight in a cool place that's really Star Warsy? - so.. so what this is like a power generator? What does it power, the Universe??
So you're expecting me to believe that the people that built this technological wonder were dying without space supplies for 2 days??
Number 3: Death and Space Taxes
So the Trade Federation have set up a blockade around... Naboo, in order to stop them from getting space supplies - which instantly causes some kinda... crisis? - that we never see.
[...]
Anyways, so I realize that Senator Palpatine was using the Trade Federation to create a crisis to advance himself politically; like that was the plot I think? But the conflict from the blockade and the subsequent invasion is the entire movie! Understanding what role the Trade Federation played in this, is important...
You know what the blockade was about, who was getting taxed, what kinda supplies were so crucial to the Naboo - what was it, like medical supplies? Just some kinda plague? Did they not have the capacity to survive on such a lush planet with a huge power reactor for one day without space trade?
You see I would've accepted the idea of some kinda mystery villain if the basics were at least clear...
While seemingly intent on downplaying/doubting/denying the "death tolls" and high stakes of the invasion (or, more specifically, Gunray's methods of trying to force the treaty agreement) way beyond the residual amount of uncertainty left by the information in the film,
the effects of the blockade are instead being vastly overblown here not based on anything in the script.
"Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo."Deadly battleships" implies potential danger, and "alarming" just means that everyone is "alarmed" by this (easily explainable by it being perceived as a "bold move", or something people hadn't been sure was legal to begin with - judging by Gunray's emphatic insistence that it is "perfectly legal", and Sidious' ability to "make things legal" that weren't so before) - no resulting high-stakes crisis is implied by this at all; let alone one emerging after just a few days.
While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events,"
So the Trade Federation have set up a blockade around... Naboo, in order to stop them from getting space supplies - which instantly causes some kinda... crisis? - that we never see.The bolded part is invented; "we never see it", nor does anyone imply it's taking place at all, or behave as if it does.
"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."The "trade/taxation dispute" has long escalated into the blockade before the movie even begins - which then escalates into the invasion a few minutes into said movie; the threats against the population start shortly after, eventually followed by the Governor's distress message.
"Supreme Chancellor, delegates of the Senate - a tragedy has occurred, which started right here with the taxation of trade routes, and has now engulfed our entire planet in the oppression of the Trade Federation."
Somehow during those segments of the audio commentary, Plinkett seems to have forgotten all about this, and apparently thinks that the "tax dispute" is still the full extent of what's at stake at any point after the 1st paragraph of the opening crawl:
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep1All in all, on a general dementia--accuracy spectrum, Plinkett's commentary on this aspect of the plot keeps oscillating between these cases of sincere amnesia on the one side, and this bit on the other side:
And he has one last chance, and he puts that part in the pod - and finally, the pod starts working, and he can enter the big race - you know, to win the big prize at the end which will save.. the whole.. family.
And then he says "it's woorrrkiiing.." and you know, then you swell the dramatic music... - and that's when that scene works?
That scene doesn't work.. 20 minutes into a movie that's not about podracing.
I'm sorry to get all bitchy on you, but-.. but-... d'you ever watch this movie and, and be like... why did that happen, or, or-.. "I don't feel anything inside".... you know, I'm- like "I'm dead inside"?
Well.. - I'm.. just trying to explain why you feel dead inside when you watch this movie, or you don't feel excited - even at the end when they have the, big.. celebration? You know, []- [...]
But even at the end when they have the big, like, festival - like-... you're just like.. "So?" So what, there's a midget there now with an eyepatch on, and-... some boring-ass bitch.. gives a frog a glowing ball. Wwhy the fuck do I care?
It's not like the end of the original Star Wars when Luke, Han, and.. Chewbacca, get medals from Princess Leia - it's like, those guys saved the fucking day; what did these guys do? Oh, they resolved a tax dispute...
Oh.. - that's a good question, are you here to free the slaves Qui-Gon? No, actually we're.. we're in the process of settling a tax dispute... ohhh.
Yeah I guess freeing slaves would've made a better movie...
it's good we went with something boring, we wouldn't want to excite the audience too much...
So the Queen waits around for some kind of approval, o-.. for something, to stop her people from dying- Why are they dying? I guess they're dying though...This is the closest he ever comes to being "accurate", and it's still very far.
But I didn't see anyone die?
In fact I haven't even seen any Naboo citizen at all - as far as I know it's a city with 20 or so pilots, a couple of bureaucrats and officials.
However while leaving out all the most dramatic scenes revolving around this, he also imagines a mass death crisis on Naboo caused by the pre-invasion blockade;
it's possible that this is him misattributing Padme's "people are dying" lines to the blockade and the resulting lack of space supplies - perhaps even forgetting that a subsequent invasion occurred at all, in those excerpts that is.
Number 8: I'm gonna slit my wristsPlinkett audio commentary: Ep4
[Sigh...] It's hard to stomach any more of this shit - I still don't know who the main character is and why we should care about any of this.
At around this point in the original Star Wars movie, we've been with Luke almost the whole time getting to know him.
We see his plight;
his hopes and dreams...
we feel his frustration...
and then his sadness...
The slow build-up added depth, and emotion; and anticipation for the story to expand.
In the Phantom Menace we have nothing - we've a monotone queen, who's hiding from signing a treaty that's supposed to do something.
Why in fuck's name should we care at all.. I don't care about any of these characters?
Plinkett audio commentary: Ep1
But even at the end when they have the big, like, festival - like-... you're just like.. "So?" So what, there's a midget there now with an eyepatch on, and-... some boring-ass bitch.. gives a frog a glowing ball. Wwhy the fuck do I care?
It's not like the end of the original Star Wars when Luke, Han, and.. Chewbacca, get medals from Princess Leia - it's like, those guys saved the fucking day; what did these guys do? Oh, they resolved a tax dispute...
But the real thrust of this scene is, this is when the stakes are really raised - insteada just a giant floating ball in space, we are now shown that the Death Star is capable of blowing up whole planets; and our ragtag group o' heroes are the only ones that can stop it...Since all the segments with the direct Ep4 comparisons happen to be the amnesia ones, this causes the Ep1-Ep4 stakes comparisons to completely fall apart - as opposed to partially/overwhelmingly fall apart, if the less amnesia segments had been used instead.
Tension, stakes, a ticking clock!; heroism, and adventure - it's what makes Star Wars great.
Much like the Phantom Menace - when the Gungans fight the Robots to help Queen Amidala find the Viceroy, so that she doesn't have to sign a treaty to make the non-violent invasion legal in the courts...
[crickets...] Uhmm.. [..........]
2023.03.25 04:53 jibberdidee So crypto is a huge innovation that in fact can not be stopped in any way. Innovation will always winn..! Within some month the economic recovery end of tunnel in sight wil start.
Crypto and fiat are here to stay and both impove on their way. And respect each other.
So far only crypto is innovating and also in a surprisingly very fast way...
And let the world innovate!
Bitcoin became a peer to peer (person to person) way to pay each other world wide completely without any profit to a bank/ organisation ever since the internet started after the 2008 world wide banking crises. The banks had become greedy and wasted our money and we had to pay bigtime for their misbhaviour whilst in a fully regulated environment.
Eth became the coin for smart contracts for businesses internet projects.
Xrp became the project where a bank could send money with the aid of XRP in just a second and not in 3/4 days anymore. Banks could save billions of dollars with this.
People expected to be able to pay with all these coins worldwide in the end if it took from the ground.
So crypto is a huge innovation that in fact can not be stopped in any way.
Many more projects followed; in gaming, storage name it etc.
The governments had been printing money for many years. They did not improve and kept on spending by printing..... There had never been any form of self critic if this was ok and safe. The people had to pay for this behaviour in the end time and time again.
So; the banks cost money an the governments cost the people a lot of their hard working money and savings.
People did not like this printing for like years/decades and greedy bank bonus chasing guys and not giving you a silly loan.
And......they Banks and governments did not listen to the signals........but worse; they did not have any form of self critic in themselves on this; while there were so many concerns and red flags and critics on them.
But good people have inner voices and act!
So.....that always is not very good.
So Covid came and thats hard for all governments and we will get over it soon.
Within some month the economic recovery end of tunnel in sight wil start.
But now crypto innovation with a small number of projects failed is the bad guy? Crypto is here 10 years and these are some last year / two year greedy projects.
There are 440 million crypto users over the world.
Changes in history have always turned out for the better. Holding on to old stuff always has lost.
Commos sense wil direct us to the good in fiat and crypto.
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So far only crypto is innovating and also in a surprisingly very fast way...
And let the world innovate!
Bitcoin became a peer to peer (person to person) way to pay each other world wide completely without any profit to a bank/ organisation ever since the internet started after the 2008 world wide banking crises. The banks had become greedy and wasted our money and we had to pay bigtime for their misbhaviour whilst in a fully regulated environment.
Eth became the coin for smart contracts for businesses internet projects.
Xrp became the project where a bank could send money with the aid of XRP in just a second and not in 3/4 days anymore. Banks could save billions of dollars with this.
People expected to be able to pay with all these coins worldwide in the end if it took from the ground.
So crypto is a huge innovation that in fact can not be stopped in any way.
Many more projects followed; in gaming, storage name it etc.
The governments had been printing money for many years. They did not improve and kept on spending by printing..... There had never been any form of self critic if this was ok and safe. The people had to pay for this behaviour in the end time and time again.
So; the banks cost money an the governments cost the people a lot of their hard working money and savings.
People did not like this printing for like years/decades and greedy bank bonus chasing guys and not giving you a silly loan.
And......they Banks and governments did not listen to the signals........but worse; they did not have any form of self critic in themselves on this; while there were so many concerns and red flags and critics on them.
But good people have inner voices and act!
So.....that always is not very good.
So Covid came and thats hard for all governments and we will get over it soon.
Within some month the economic recovery end of tunnel in sight wil start.
But now crypto innovation with a small number of projects failed is the bad guy? Crypto is here 10 years and these are some last year / two year greedy projects.
There are 440 million crypto users over the world.
Changes in history have always turned out for the better. Holding on to old stuff always has lost.
Commos sense wil direct us to the good in fiat and crypto.
2023.03.25 04:53 AcanthopterygiiIll22 baliplus tsunami seems to be back in stock with the live blade too
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2023.03.25 04:52 Own-Web-657 Has anyone used panacur c for worms in their aquarium? (I’m in the us) I read a bunch of articles and watched videos but no one mentions if it’s safe for tanks with fish,only snails and shrimp tanks.
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2023.03.25 04:51 Full-Cat5118 What Causes Basement to Leak in Middle
I bought a new house 8 days ago. For the first time, it has rained all day, which it seems it will be doing for several more days. The basement is almost entirely finished. After 12 or so hours of rain, we noticed water coming up through the vinyl floor in an area in the size range between 2×2 and 3×3. The wet area is about 5 feet from the closest exterior wall and 2 feet from the closest interior wall. There is a window well in the nearest exterior wall. The floor does not seem wet in between the window and this area. None of the walls of the room show signs of water damage, but I have noticed since we first toured months ago that some floor in this room is not stuck down like it is everywhere else. Water comes up when you step on those same non-stuck areas, so I assume it's been an ongoing problem. The wet area is directly below a bedroom. There is plumbing for a bathroom about 10 ft away from the water area on the floor above; the nearest basement plumbing is 20 ft away. There is a gutter system that runs into the ground. The gutters need to be cleaned (was my plan for the weekend until the rain) and do overflow in some places. I do not see an overflow particularly close to this area.
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- What could be causing this to happen in the middle of a room and without wall damage?
- How do I go about fixing it? I've started by just trying to keep drying the area with towels every few hours.
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2023.03.25 04:51 Asad_Farooqui PSA: Mario Golf World Tour is absolutely worth picking up for those in need of a quality 3DS game!
This is a PSA to anyone looking for a 3DS hidden gem to check out: Mario Golf World Tour gets an easy recommendation from me, even if you don’t personally care for sports games. It’s easily the best Mario sports game to come out within the past 10 years in my opinion, and here’s why:
It’s got loads of content to play around with right out of the box. This includes 21 playable characters, 16 golf courses (the most of any Mario Golf game to date), lovely visuals and character animations for 3DS standards, loads of Mario-themed courses and items to play around with, solid online play including with friends, and most importantly it didn’t dumb down the core gameplay like the Mario Tennis games around that time or even the latest Mario Golf game on Switch.
But if you’re more of the solitary type, this game’s got tons to do for the solo player. These include a career mode with several progressively more difficult tournaments, an asspile of unlockable Mii outfits, and a massive challenge mode with over 200 golfing challenges to take on for each course. You get all the standard game modes from previous Mario Golf games too, from stroke play to speed golf to club slots, with more options to customize your matches than ever before.
And all of that for a super cheap price tag of only $30 bucks! And if you wanted more, there’s paid DLC in the form of a $15 dollar season pass that significantly increased the number of characters, courses, and challenges for the challenge mode. All I’m saying is this is your one and only chance to play as Rosalina on a Mario Galaxy-themed golf course.
So if you found yourself disappointed by the recent sleight of Mario sports titles on the Switch, and are currently aching for something on par (heh heh) with the N64 and GameCube glory days, I cannot recommend Mario Golf World Tour enough. Pick it up before the eShop closes in a few days!
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It’s got loads of content to play around with right out of the box. This includes 21 playable characters, 16 golf courses (the most of any Mario Golf game to date), lovely visuals and character animations for 3DS standards, loads of Mario-themed courses and items to play around with, solid online play including with friends, and most importantly it didn’t dumb down the core gameplay like the Mario Tennis games around that time or even the latest Mario Golf game on Switch.
But if you’re more of the solitary type, this game’s got tons to do for the solo player. These include a career mode with several progressively more difficult tournaments, an asspile of unlockable Mii outfits, and a massive challenge mode with over 200 golfing challenges to take on for each course. You get all the standard game modes from previous Mario Golf games too, from stroke play to speed golf to club slots, with more options to customize your matches than ever before.
And all of that for a super cheap price tag of only $30 bucks! And if you wanted more, there’s paid DLC in the form of a $15 dollar season pass that significantly increased the number of characters, courses, and challenges for the challenge mode. All I’m saying is this is your one and only chance to play as Rosalina on a Mario Galaxy-themed golf course.
So if you found yourself disappointed by the recent sleight of Mario sports titles on the Switch, and are currently aching for something on par (heh heh) with the N64 and GameCube glory days, I cannot recommend Mario Golf World Tour enough. Pick it up before the eShop closes in a few days!
2023.03.25 04:48 blissormsby BLISSY'S SURVIVOR IS BACK FOR A SEASON 5
After a hiatus from hosting, Blissy and the team are back for another season. In the previous season, 18 mutants took on the dangers of the sewers in New York. In this new season, It is now time for 18 new Survivors to take a leap into a uncertain future where the world is corrupted by multiple *dangerous* and *deadly* viruses. Say hello to the twisted world of **RESIDENT EVIL**.
*Resident Evil*, created in 1989 by Capcom, is an on-going, popular single-player, survival horror game franchise with 10 currently in the books! From the the midwestern town of Racoon City, to Spain, to Africa, To China, back to the states (specifically Louisiana), and all the way back to Romania in Europe. Fans have followed the franchise and has met a series of fun characters and have helped save many innocent lives across the globe.
The 18 *SURVIVORS* of this season, will have a more brutal mission... they will be fighting tooth and nail against their peers and in the end only one will emerge on top as the savior of the world and earn their title as **Sole Survivor**. Do YOU have what it takes to outwit, outlast, and outplay the rest?
__What can we offer you?__
☛ A single-themed ORG season with episode themed challenges!!
☛ Spec activities such as edgic, draft, host predictions, exit interviews, and episode recaps to help encapsulate the season!
☛ A new and growing fanbase to help create a fun and supportive environment.
☛ A friendly fun hosting team that also makes sure to take great care in creating the best experience possible for both spectators and players.
☛ A competitive gameplay season with advanced pre-planned 2 day cycles!
☛ Custom Mangas (Face Your Manga) created by the hosts with the ability to customize!
SERVER LINK: https://discord.gg/QTEgaRGJdp
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After a hiatus from hosting, Blissy and the team are back for another season. In the previous season, 18 mutants took on the dangers of the sewers in New York. In this new season, It is now time for 18 new Survivors to take a leap into a uncertain future where the world is corrupted by multiple *dangerous* and *deadly* viruses. Say hello to the twisted world of **RESIDENT EVIL**.
*Resident Evil*, created in 1989 by Capcom, is an on-going, popular single-player, survival horror game franchise with 10 currently in the books! From the the midwestern town of Racoon City, to Spain, to Africa, To China, back to the states (specifically Louisiana), and all the way back to Romania in Europe. Fans have followed the franchise and has met a series of fun characters and have helped save many innocent lives across the globe.
The 18 *SURVIVORS* of this season, will have a more brutal mission... they will be fighting tooth and nail against their peers and in the end only one will emerge on top as the savior of the world and earn their title as **Sole Survivor**. Do YOU have what it takes to outwit, outlast, and outplay the rest?
__What can we offer you?__
☛ A single-themed ORG season with episode themed challenges!!
☛ Spec activities such as edgic, draft, host predictions, exit interviews, and episode recaps to help encapsulate the season!
☛ A new and growing fanbase to help create a fun and supportive environment.
☛ A friendly fun hosting team that also makes sure to take great care in creating the best experience possible for both spectators and players.
☛ A competitive gameplay season with advanced pre-planned 2 day cycles!
☛ Custom Mangas (Face Your Manga) created by the hosts with the ability to customize!
SERVER LINK: https://discord.gg/QTEgaRGJdp
2023.03.25 04:48 Fit-Philosopher-3721 Sigma Male
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2023.03.25 04:48 ContentMix4130 exposure?
hi everyone! today i visited my grandparents and my little cousin was over. i knew he was sick last week with a stomach bug but is better now, however his mom has it now and i’m pretty sure he was in contact with her yesterday. i wasn’t around him for more than 10 minutes and i tried not to touch any common surfaces. i also immediately washed my hands/took a shower after i saw him. however it’s just really hard for me to shake the thought of being contaminated. i haven’t eaten anything all day in fear of tu*. i’m just really frustrated with this phobia and my ocd intrusive thoughts aren’t helping :/
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2023.03.25 04:47 Jobshua Heart palpitations
Never posted on Reddit before but I figured I should since I’m on here all the time. I’ll be explaining my situation and just asking for your advice at the end and what you think I should do. I never really had a care in the world about my health or questioned it growing up. Even when I got to about 330 pounds in High school. I smoked weed and nicotine everyday and ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted And was fine, never had any anxiety. I eventually lost almost all of the weight within a couple years from age 17 to about 19 to 20 and went from 330 pounds to 188. Anyway just for a little background during that whole time I still smoked vapes and weed and drank alcohol and funny enough one night in 2021 even after losing that much weight something happened to me that had never happened before. I was outside smoking weed with my girlfriend and Felt very odd. Something felt off but I couldn’t figure it out yet. Then I noticed that my heart was racing incredibly fast. I started to panic and thought I was dying and felt as if I was going to pass out. My girlfriend I’ll call Britney for now was upset and we went inside to try and relax but I never did. 10 minutes went by and I still was panicked and my heart was beating out of my chest. To make a long story short I told my parents and we eventually called an ambulance and when they arrived my heart went back to normal. This was also when Covid started and I was freaked out from all the misinformation and never was vaccinated out of fear.Spent the entire night in the hospital got out the next day and decided to quit everything all at once every drug and alcohol. Which was hard but I did it for about 2 months and relapsed on weed but every time I relapsed I had another panic attack thinking the same thing was happening or going to happen and it made weed not an option for me anymore. But then it started happening when I wasn’t smoking. I was convinced my heart was faulty. Fully quit for a year and and started having heart palpitations every other day noticing my heart beat at all times living in fear of death every single day. It was terrible. Eventually things slowly got better never died and started moving on with my life. Moved from jersey to Florida about 2 years after that happened and started vaping again because I’m very dumb but hadn’t had that bad of an episode since and haven’t really maybe 1 time I might have but that was it. Anyway I know this post is long and I’m not good at typing stories but it’s been 4 years later and I still get palpitations that scare the crap out of me. Became a hypochondriac after my first panic attack btw but the heart thing is the worst every time I feel one I’m dragged back down to that feeling of that first night and assume something’s wrong with me and I’m gonna die when I’m reassured from doctors that everything looks fine. I’m gonna go for my yearly check up again soon because I’m freaked out per usual and I gained a lot of weight back which doesn’t help my health anxiety either.I feel palpitations sometimes multiple times a day and then I’m good for a week or a couple months then maybe I’ll feel them a few times a week different days. I want to know if anyone has experienced anything similar and what they think I should do. Thank you for your time and stay safe and healthy.
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2023.03.25 04:47 yetanotherrredditor Places to visit with kids
My niece(10) and nephew(14) are visiting us in Bangalore for 10 days. Which places do you suggest we take them out
Have the below ones planned
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Have the below ones planned
- Lalbagh
- Cubbon park
- Bannerghatta national park
2023.03.25 04:47 closerthanyouthinkk What are some good 1-two-day trips out of NYC?
I already hike the brigeneck and went to the clearance famous mall. Anything that can be done without a car. just train or bus?
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2023.03.25 04:47 K__le Help finding Obituary
Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get some help from the community.
My mum was raised in Sechelt, and her mother (My grandma) passed away when my mom was around 10 years old. My grandma had many health issues, she had Crohn’s disease throughout most of her life, she was the first person in Vancouver to be diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis (Flesh-Eating-Disease), and passed away mainly due to cancer of the stomach. This would have been around 1980-1987.
My boyfriend’s grandmother passed away recently and today was the funeral. After that, I brought the obituary home and talked with my parents and started learning a lot more about my grandma. I’m consistently told I look and act like her (good things), so I’ve always had interest in learning more about her.
My mom wants to find my grandma’s obituary, but it has proven to be a struggle. We don’t live in SeChelt either, we’re in Kelowna. My mum has found my grandma’s obituary online before, but we could not find it tonight. I really want to find it for her, I’ve been searching for a bit and I figured I could reach out to the community to see if they have any information as to where I could find it. Even if I need to go in person, usually come to the coast during the summer.
She passed away in St. Mary’s around 1980-1986. I’d really appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this!
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My mum was raised in Sechelt, and her mother (My grandma) passed away when my mom was around 10 years old. My grandma had many health issues, she had Crohn’s disease throughout most of her life, she was the first person in Vancouver to be diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis (Flesh-Eating-Disease), and passed away mainly due to cancer of the stomach. This would have been around 1980-1987.
My boyfriend’s grandmother passed away recently and today was the funeral. After that, I brought the obituary home and talked with my parents and started learning a lot more about my grandma. I’m consistently told I look and act like her (good things), so I’ve always had interest in learning more about her.
My mom wants to find my grandma’s obituary, but it has proven to be a struggle. We don’t live in SeChelt either, we’re in Kelowna. My mum has found my grandma’s obituary online before, but we could not find it tonight. I really want to find it for her, I’ve been searching for a bit and I figured I could reach out to the community to see if they have any information as to where I could find it. Even if I need to go in person, usually come to the coast during the summer.
She passed away in St. Mary’s around 1980-1986. I’d really appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this!
2023.03.25 04:47 tbc2008 Not my game anymore
Everything comes to an end...
Playing this game from it´s 95 version (as a teenager with an 386sx pc) up to this years edition (as a grown man in it´s mid 40ties with a PS5), today is the day i thought would never come...i completly lost my love for the game, which has accompanied me for more than half my life.
The fun is gone, there´s nothing more to play for...i´m sick of these shitty glitch goals , the ballerinas, the poke check spammers and players circling behind thier own net with after a one goal lead...
Today i tried Hut champions the last time...8 out of 10 games 86 base gold players flying by my whole team (most of my players are 93 an wheels activated) from the start of the game on...i never could catch up. Furthermore my 92 Weber bounced of player types like Kane or Gaudreau every time i tried to hit them...fun?? Not at all..
I also have to play half of my games on the PK, because EA fucked up the hybrid controls this year. Gunning for a rebound: slashing penalty almost every time. Setting up a one timer: Slashing penalty half of the time, because the passing player hacks his opponent after passing the puck, while I`m hitting the shooting button for the one timer...Annoying, frustrating, and never fixed. And before you ask...after nearly 30 years of playing this game pusing buttons to shoot, hit oder pass, my brain ist ot old (and slow, and dumb) to get used to the skill stick controls...big fail every time i try it...can't get it going...
So the onlie modes are quite fucked up and never really fixed by EA...
So what's left?? The offline modes??
Hut rush - was fun until this year...now they have super-human goalies even at rookie to make it frustrating to reach the objectives...so fun?? Gone
SB - Winnig every game 15:1 isn't really challenging...so it*s a boring grind for new packs every week...fun?? Not really
The contend / events:
Mostly the same as the years before...it feels like EA does a copy and paste job here...nothing more...
After all, this game went from a varied enjoyable hockey game to a boring, grind fest which leaves me in a bad mood most of the time after playing...
So I decided to take a break from it and all my tradable players are on the market at the moment...i step down from this game after all this years, maybe I´ll give it a try next autmn, maybe not...
We´ll see...
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Playing this game from it´s 95 version (as a teenager with an 386sx pc) up to this years edition (as a grown man in it´s mid 40ties with a PS5), today is the day i thought would never come...i completly lost my love for the game, which has accompanied me for more than half my life.
The fun is gone, there´s nothing more to play for...i´m sick of these shitty glitch goals , the ballerinas, the poke check spammers and players circling behind thier own net with after a one goal lead...
Today i tried Hut champions the last time...8 out of 10 games 86 base gold players flying by my whole team (most of my players are 93 an wheels activated) from the start of the game on...i never could catch up. Furthermore my 92 Weber bounced of player types like Kane or Gaudreau every time i tried to hit them...fun?? Not at all..
I also have to play half of my games on the PK, because EA fucked up the hybrid controls this year. Gunning for a rebound: slashing penalty almost every time. Setting up a one timer: Slashing penalty half of the time, because the passing player hacks his opponent after passing the puck, while I`m hitting the shooting button for the one timer...Annoying, frustrating, and never fixed. And before you ask...after nearly 30 years of playing this game pusing buttons to shoot, hit oder pass, my brain ist ot old (and slow, and dumb) to get used to the skill stick controls...big fail every time i try it...can't get it going...
So the onlie modes are quite fucked up and never really fixed by EA...
So what's left?? The offline modes??
Hut rush - was fun until this year...now they have super-human goalies even at rookie to make it frustrating to reach the objectives...so fun?? Gone
SB - Winnig every game 15:1 isn't really challenging...so it*s a boring grind for new packs every week...fun?? Not really
The contend / events:
Mostly the same as the years before...it feels like EA does a copy and paste job here...nothing more...
After all, this game went from a varied enjoyable hockey game to a boring, grind fest which leaves me in a bad mood most of the time after playing...
So I decided to take a break from it and all my tradable players are on the market at the moment...i step down from this game after all this years, maybe I´ll give it a try next autmn, maybe not...
We´ll see...
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2023.03.25 04:44 RedHeadReviews An Overloaded Supporting Cast Interrupts Lana Del Rey’s Emotional Introspection On Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Album Review
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd isn’t just the title of Lana Del Rey’s latest album, it is also one of her most important lyrics. She uses it to open the title track, querying if she will one day become obsolete just like the now dilapidated landmark, her fascination with it a reflection of her most dire insecurities. On her ninth album, Lana honours the memories, people, and places she holds most dear. Her writing is earnest and zoomed in, focused on the things that influence Elizabeth Grant, the woman behind Lana Del Rey.
It is fitting then that the album begins with The Grants, a breathtaking choral ballad dedicated to Lana’s family members (and the majesty of John Denver). “My sister's first-born child/I'm gonna take that too with me/My grandmother's last smile (Ah)/I'm gonna take that too with me,” Lana sings, immortalizing the arresting details of her loved ones. She elaborates on her familial history on Fingertips through a series of diaristic entries. “Charlie, stop smoking/Caroline, will you be with me?/Will the baby be alright?/Will I have one of mine?” each line is saturated with despair, a sign that Lana has been wrestling with these thoughts for some time.
Lana finds deep catharsis in unveiling these introspective details. It’s on A&W, a two-part psychological odyssey, where this is most obvious. In seven minutes, she vents about her complicated relationship with her mother, the media’s fixation on her appearance, and an addiction to sex. She sounds relieved to get it all off her chest. As the admissions pile up so do the instrumental quirks. At first, the song is dressed only with weepy guitars but as it surges towards its climax the composition becomes grander. A poison-laced, reverb-soaked bass breakdown precedes a glorious sample of Lana’s very own Norman fucking Rockwell.
The stories on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd are Lana’s to tell, which is perhaps why so few of the album’s collaborators are effective. Aside from Father John Misty, who matches the floridity of Lana’s tender voice on Let The Light In, and the choir on The Grants, the guests are a disruptive presence. Jon Batiste’s narration on Jon Batiste Interlude is vacuous, there is no resolution to his rambling, nor does it relate to the album’s central themes. Tommy Genesis’ influence on Peppers is similarly obtrusive. Her jumpy, jarring enunciation is not an obvious fit paired with Lana’s more measured, ghostly singing.
Jack Antonoff appears on Margaret to help Lana tell the story of how he met his fiancé, Margaret Qualley. The heartfelt sentiment is spoiled though when the Bleachers vocalist takes a central role and chimes in with pale murmurs, interrupting the momentum of the song. Antonoff spends most of the album by Lana’s side as a producer, and his beats have a similar effect. He drains the colour from the backdrop, sprinkling these songs with scraps rather than generously decorating them. Lana is often left with only the pitter-patter of a piano or a slinking string to support her, making these songs feel too loose and half-baked. In the past, Antonoff has invested Lana’s work with new beauty by adding layers of sumptuous instrumental detail to her albums. Here, his lack of invention restricts her.
The songs that come closest to replicating the pleasing ostentatious design of Lana’s best music are the ones Antonoff has no input in. Both The Grants and Sweet feature meticulously crafted build-ups that end with sweeping, stadium-sized, violin refrains that bring to mind the theatrical scope of Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana’s angelic tone is particularly potent, too, the breadth of her vocal range is on full display as she frolics with intricate instrumentation. These songs have a crispness to them that is too often absent on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. The album begins with its most ethereal songs but that gracefulness fades the longer it drags on.
“Don’t forget me,” Lana pleads on the outro of The Grants. It’s a command that becomes increasingly difficult to follow the more pronounced the guest appearances are on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. Lana’s goal here was to show the world who she really is. And while the singer is in peak vocal and lyrical form, her most trusted colleagues just get in the way.
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Lana Del Rey - 6/10
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It is fitting then that the album begins with The Grants, a breathtaking choral ballad dedicated to Lana’s family members (and the majesty of John Denver). “My sister's first-born child/I'm gonna take that too with me/My grandmother's last smile (Ah)/I'm gonna take that too with me,” Lana sings, immortalizing the arresting details of her loved ones. She elaborates on her familial history on Fingertips through a series of diaristic entries. “Charlie, stop smoking/Caroline, will you be with me?/Will the baby be alright?/Will I have one of mine?” each line is saturated with despair, a sign that Lana has been wrestling with these thoughts for some time.
Lana finds deep catharsis in unveiling these introspective details. It’s on A&W, a two-part psychological odyssey, where this is most obvious. In seven minutes, she vents about her complicated relationship with her mother, the media’s fixation on her appearance, and an addiction to sex. She sounds relieved to get it all off her chest. As the admissions pile up so do the instrumental quirks. At first, the song is dressed only with weepy guitars but as it surges towards its climax the composition becomes grander. A poison-laced, reverb-soaked bass breakdown precedes a glorious sample of Lana’s very own Norman fucking Rockwell.
The stories on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd are Lana’s to tell, which is perhaps why so few of the album’s collaborators are effective. Aside from Father John Misty, who matches the floridity of Lana’s tender voice on Let The Light In, and the choir on The Grants, the guests are a disruptive presence. Jon Batiste’s narration on Jon Batiste Interlude is vacuous, there is no resolution to his rambling, nor does it relate to the album’s central themes. Tommy Genesis’ influence on Peppers is similarly obtrusive. Her jumpy, jarring enunciation is not an obvious fit paired with Lana’s more measured, ghostly singing.
Jack Antonoff appears on Margaret to help Lana tell the story of how he met his fiancé, Margaret Qualley. The heartfelt sentiment is spoiled though when the Bleachers vocalist takes a central role and chimes in with pale murmurs, interrupting the momentum of the song. Antonoff spends most of the album by Lana’s side as a producer, and his beats have a similar effect. He drains the colour from the backdrop, sprinkling these songs with scraps rather than generously decorating them. Lana is often left with only the pitter-patter of a piano or a slinking string to support her, making these songs feel too loose and half-baked. In the past, Antonoff has invested Lana’s work with new beauty by adding layers of sumptuous instrumental detail to her albums. Here, his lack of invention restricts her.
The songs that come closest to replicating the pleasing ostentatious design of Lana’s best music are the ones Antonoff has no input in. Both The Grants and Sweet feature meticulously crafted build-ups that end with sweeping, stadium-sized, violin refrains that bring to mind the theatrical scope of Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana’s angelic tone is particularly potent, too, the breadth of her vocal range is on full display as she frolics with intricate instrumentation. These songs have a crispness to them that is too often absent on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. The album begins with its most ethereal songs but that gracefulness fades the longer it drags on.
“Don’t forget me,” Lana pleads on the outro of The Grants. It’s a command that becomes increasingly difficult to follow the more pronounced the guest appearances are on Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. Lana’s goal here was to show the world who she really is. And while the singer is in peak vocal and lyrical form, her most trusted colleagues just get in the way.
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Lana Del Rey - 6/10
2023.03.25 04:43 Economy-Fix-6131 Big dog is left outside all day
Neighbors got a new dog, mastiff lab, and it's leashed up all day in the backyard that's more of a really small courtyard so no grass or people to see walking by (it's a Cali backyard). Is this totally okay?
I mean the dog has a crate and bed, it has food and water, and they take it out for 2-3 walks a day, but other than that, it doesn't go inside unless its bad weather, but they also don't really hang out with the dog outside of the walks. It's always a quick hi and rubs for the dog before heading back inside their house.
I know this because I live in a guest house in the backyard. I'm wondering if this is normal for big dogs and their owners? I have 2 dogs back home and they're always by my side OR at least in the house and just be surrounded by people even when they wanna have their alone time.
He just seems so bored all the time laying in his crate and doesn't see anything besides plants in the backyard or when I come in/out to play with him for a bit :( It just sucks that he was a shelter dog and now he doesn't seem to be having that family dog experience..
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I mean the dog has a crate and bed, it has food and water, and they take it out for 2-3 walks a day, but other than that, it doesn't go inside unless its bad weather, but they also don't really hang out with the dog outside of the walks. It's always a quick hi and rubs for the dog before heading back inside their house.
I know this because I live in a guest house in the backyard. I'm wondering if this is normal for big dogs and their owners? I have 2 dogs back home and they're always by my side OR at least in the house and just be surrounded by people even when they wanna have their alone time.
He just seems so bored all the time laying in his crate and doesn't see anything besides plants in the backyard or when I come in/out to play with him for a bit :( It just sucks that he was a shelter dog and now he doesn't seem to be having that family dog experience..