Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

[Civil War Man]

Sasha

[Aaron]

Lol

[Darksi4190]

Saw Star Trek: Into Darkness with my dad yesterday. I was entertained but kind of disappointed with the film. Seeing the trailer made me think we'd get to see a real knock-down drag out fight between the Enterprise and the big black Federation Starship but it never happened. It seems like it's been forever since i've seen a good big-budget space battle on the big screen.

Also the theater we went to was blaring the sound so loud that we had to tear up napkins and wedge them in our ears to avoid auditory damage. I'm never going back there again.

[RogueIce]

It seems like it's been forever since i've seen a good big-budget space battle on the big screen.

Clearly our last hope resides with Episode 7.

[joviwan]

Saw Star Trek: Into Darkness with my dad yesterday. I was entertained but kind of disappointed with the film. Seeing the trailer made me think we'd get to see a real knock-down drag out fight between the Enterprise and the big black Federation Starship but it never happened. It seems like it's been forever since i've seen a good big-budget space battle on the big screen.

Also the theater we went to was blaring the sound so loud that we had to tear up napkins and wedge them in our ears to avoid auditory damage. I'm never going back there again.

aren't you the self-destroying lunatic who listens to headphones so loud you actually blow them out?

[Darksi4190]

Yes. What does that tell you about how loud it was?

[Oxymoron]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe



(discovered London Elektricity a week or two ago, currently hooked on the stuff)

[Oxymoron]

Seriously, "Syncopated City" is a really good album.

Atmospheric, with strong melodic parts, just like I love it.

[adr]

so i just heard in the new star trek movie, they cast a white guy as khan

lol

[Flagg]

so i just heard in the new star trek movie, they cast a white guy as khan

lol

I heard plastic surgery is total easy in Star Trek. Hey they also cast a non- Jew as Kirk!

[Jung]

so i just heard in the new star trek movie, they cast a white guy as khan

lol

To be fair, given the movie's attempts at being vaguely topical wrt the War On Terror and having Khan be a FUGITIVE TERRORIST who BLOWS UP A BUILDING and shoots up a Starfleet conference and is being SHOT WITHOUT TRIAL BY PREDATOR DRONE SUPER TORPEDO, I can see how they might have thought making him a vaguely South Asian brown person was a can of worms better left unopened.

[evilsoup]

they could have just not used Khan

[Jung]

Yeah, but as the film is, I can see why they might have thought it was better not to go there.

Imagine the "they needed my savagery!" line in the context of the movie being the same except now Khan is this vaguely South Asian, vaguely terroristic figure, speaking to a white guy and talking about an establishment that seems to be heavily represented in the film by white people (look at the demographics of the movie's main characters).

Unfortunate implications at twelve o'clock!

[Oxymoron]

I have to admit, that's quite interesting.

Especially the point about how the US' policy has always been, since its creation, to push for an hegemonic position and ruthlessy crush any and all competition, even its nominal allies.

Only reinforce me in my idea that Europe shouldn't rely on NATO for its defense and that we should stay in good terms with Russia.

[Losonti Tokash]

Subject: Age Gaps

Learned a few more things about her, first is she's closer to 17 than 18- on the sheet we use to sign in we write our DOBs and I noticed hers was Jan 1996. I was all set to ask her if she was single and then if she was, to ask her out after the session ended... but her parents were waiting for her outside- something tells me it wouldn't have been wise to ask her out with her mum and dad looking on

I can't really fathom how goddamn creepy this is.

[evilsoup]

when you write 'age gaps'
how large a gap are we talking here?

[Losonti Tokash]

Hes 28 and wants to date a 17 year old in his therapy group.

[Flagg]

Hes 28 and wants to date a 17 year old in his therapy group.

[Darksi4190]

I'll just leave this here


http://youtube.com/watch?v=bJLhQoxenB8

[Flagg]

I'll just leave this here


http://youtube.com/watch?v=bJLhQoxenB8

Man remember that episode of the Boondocks where Chris Hanson got raped? Good stuff. We need to make that happen. I'm looking at you Mike Tyson.

[Flagg]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f_wWdTryqLY

[Jung]

Hes 28 and wants to date a 17 year old in his therapy group.

Even leaving aside the creepy factor the idea of being with someone as (im)mature as my 18 year old self doesn't sound very appealing

Let's see, 18 year old me was ... an antisocial homophobic Christian conservative Iraq War supporter with hilarious psychosexual hang-ups. Sounds like a blast to have as a girlfriend.

Does it say bad things about me as a person that the above was one of the first thoughts to pop into my head here?

[Darksi4190]

Wait. They're making a Halo Television series?

[Jung]

Another thought of mine from SB, re: Star Trek:

Less cynically, I suppose it might present the vaguely communism-ish utopianism we got, but critically examine it more and present it as a society that is radically different and better than ours but still has serious issues.

One idea I kind of like is the Federation's society works because their highly advanced neurosciences and psychological science allows them to manipulate human behavior very effectively. The entire culture is scientifically engineered to instill Federation values into people via extremely sophisticated, pervasive, and subtle propaganda and incentive systems. Their doctors are very good at treating mental illness, and over the centuries the classification of mental illness has expanded into stuff we'd consider well within the normal range of human temperament; there are very few lazy, selfish, cruel, violent, antisocial, or congenitally unhappy people, because they mostly get diagnosed and treated back into being good and happy Federation citizens, the way we'd try to treat somebody with paranoid schizophrenia or clinical depression. They get a genuinely prosperous society full of genuinely happy people out of this, and most of them would think of it as doing for public mental health what modern sanitation and medicine did for public physical health, but it would also be easy to make a critique that it's a culture that stifles individuality, and you could have an interesting debate about whether the huge improvements in quantifiable quality of life this program has created is worth the sacrifice of human diversity and freedom.

Interesting idea y/n?

[Glass Fort MacLeod]

Hes 28 and wants to date a 17 year old in his therapy group.

I think the 'creepy' factor comes mainly from the fact he's pretending he's asking for input/advice, when he actually wants people to vindicate his clear intentions in the situation. Quite bluntly, I don't think he's approaching it from a perspective of 'what would be best for the people involved' and more 'she suits my purposes how can I snag her', which is infinitely more selfish, predatory, and as a result. Creepy.

What's more I suspect it would be creepy even if she were older.