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Thanks: a very late reply, but I'm continuing my driving lessons and improved a lot (but I'm still nowhere near good enough to pass my exams). I'm also sad to read about two regulars on SD.Net and SB unfortunately dying from cancer at shockingly young ages a couple of months ago. The Venezuela threa...

I've finally gotten round to learning to drive.

Eh, I thought Poe, Hux, and Holdo were fighting over the idiot ball in a slightly ponderous space chase/siege.

The casino world, Canto Bight, I like coming back to with concept art book.

Snoke was a jumped up Palpatine wannabe who refreshingly got what was coming to him.

The Walker brothers and Co. were Ok in their day, but it seemed like in their eagerness to get on with making video reviews and mini-movies they made the grave error of entrusting too much of the paper work side of things at Channel Awesome to Mike Michaud and Mike Ellis (the former a blazing bag of...

I've no idea what you're talking about. Can you give me the Cliff Notes? You're not familiar with Channel Awesome and the Nostalgia Critic, I take it? Sorry about that, I'll provided a link to the Google document in my first post and I'll give you a list videos about the entire rolling train crash....

Caught up on the ongoing online holocaust with the #ChangeTheChannelMovement? A lot of grubby rumours of incidents and malpractice surrounding Channel Awesome for some years have finally been confirmed as largely true in damning Google document and the CA management kept issuing insincere apologies,...

My mum saw the blu rays of the relatively recent SW films - she loved the shit out of TFA (Rogue, however, bored the shit out of her).

I didn't find The Last Jedi, despite its faults, quite as dull as longish stretches of TPM and the opening stretch of Rogue One, with even Planet Monte Carlo being OK on first viewing.

Rian Johnson was OK with the Rey/Luke/Kylo/Snoke segments, but essentially fucks up with the First Order's conquest of the galaxy - we could've had Leia' s fleet be chased by the FO Imperial fleet but then join forces with other warships from the remaining New Republic worlds (or even less extreme I...

Well Rogue One had the stable framework of the PT and OT to work, while The Last Jedi pulling the carpet out from beneath the audience and subverting the formula doesn't have that. I still liked it.

Over on Questionable Questing, it has a pretty accurate assessment on the rise and fall of SD.Net (with its main points of failure being mini-cults of personality and over zealous, inconsistent moderating or/and angry debating). EDIT - also as time rolled on, with 2003 being a fucking long time ago ...

I'm on Discord.

I've enjoyed all of your assorted companies for the shockingly many years I have known/known of you all, regardless. Being a part of this group and its thesis of becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with "the intellectual crucible" helped make me a better person. Yes, making yourself f...

does nobody on this site have any good luck hope your dad is ok big o. He was more lucky than unlucky (look at celebs like Bill Paxton and Carrie Fisher dying very young from maltreated heart conditions fairly recently) but I appreciate the condolences. So the plan is we're hopping over to SV or/an...

Sigh, it was OK while it lasted, but this place was more like a tiny break room than a convention centre or shopping mall, to use a loose metaphor.

Also I was distracted in the past year by my dad recovering from a dangerous operation.

Very, very strange and I nearly forgot about this; sounded like a tragic accident or suicide, with his body never found.

I think the large minority of the Left have lost all perspective and control in the face of Trump's triumph, with their outlook becoming stagnant, too wedded to self-destructing capitalism, and arguably driving unnecessary wedges between different groups.

I developed a fanon theory that Tarkin was the best Imperial Grand Moff the Rebellion ever had. Because all his actions in Rogue One and ANH in the long run only helped the Rebellion. By blowing up Scarif Base he must have set back Imperial covert operations and R&D by a fuck ton, all because h...

Overall I enjoyed TFA more. But a huge part of that is because it was a STAR WARS film whereas this was a Star Wars EU film. Ditto, but I loved the final battle more overall. Also when we had... Grand Moff Tarkin rain on everybody's parade, nuking Scarif, Rebels, Imperials, and all with the Death S...

First Contact felt a bit cheap and closed in after the Borg space battle concluded? But most Star Trek films are very medium budget.

I also think the Neoliberal Globalisation Crapatalism has long ago reached the tipping point of diminishing returns for most increasingly frustrated people (outside of cheaper, nicer electronics) and a dangerous guy like Trump is tapping into that as well, even if he's part of that problem.

I feel moderately better again in of myself today thank you, I suspect a gut virus, but I want to rule stuff out and now permanently change my lifestyle and vaguely recall suffering similar symptoms a few years back (you're only given one set of digestive organs, I'm fearful of chronic problems in m...

My gut and back problems have subsided, after a proper full night's sleep, but I'm feeling more oddly weak in the limbs in recent days and I can't fully attest to a busy day, disrupted sleep, and anxiety. I'm worrying my parents the physical warning signs my body is giving me for many days (but I ha...

Thanks. My stomach pains mostly vanished after drinking nothing but water since the Friday before, my No. 2s quickly went back to normal from light yellow after a couple of days (first flag), with the odd sensations in my back causing the most worry currently - not pain as such, but like human finge...

I'm going to see a doctor next Monday, because of IBS symptoms that are slow to disappear after a week and weird, firm "pressing" back sensations. May have to fork over money for a body scan. I feel better than I did l, but a bit drowsy at the minute. My urine is clear and I haven't lost a...