The Pitters' Place

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I would think there are more people who liked S8 than you would imagine. Our voices get drowned out by all of the negativity. Thing is, because I had been binging the show for the last week, the actions of a certain dragon riding character, which pissed everyone else off, had been foretold and warne...

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Raxivace wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:57 pm BTW should I just make a 2020 thread at this point?

Oh, of course, I see this after making my post.

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(Which reminds me, I need to harass him with some more e-mails to get him back here again). As long as he's back when the new Taylor Swift album is released I'll be happy. :) To help me sift through what I missed out on during the last 2(?) years, I searched for 'Taylor Swift' and this is the post ...

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Rax, I can't view that video due to a location restriction. But I trust Jimbo's judgment. Coincidence that Jimbo talked about going to a concert because I was just dropping by here to talk about a concert experience of mine too. I went to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris yesterday and saw Auror...

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I just want to say that I LOVE Lana del Ray's new record. It's as if she's finally gone back to her roots -- I like how you've put it, as she has indeed found the perfect sweet spot for her seductive voice in these slow paced, semi-meditative songs. I'm going to come back with impressions after givi...

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Parts of it just kinda blew me away. He took the same concept of using cinema to rewrite history in Inglourious Basterds and elevated it here. I wonder if I loved it so much because I saw it in the cinema - it's been so long since I'd been in one. Curious to see how it holds up when I see it at home.

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Hey guys! I see that there is just way too much here for me to comment on, so I'll just jump to my question: what did you guys make of Tarantino's latest "love letter" to Hollywood? I'm still processing the experience... my gut feeling is that it is one of Tarantino's best. I sure enjoyed ...

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Saw Jinjer last night at a small club just up the street from me. I probably wouldn't have bothered but tickets were only $20 and the place was only a 6-minute drive away. As with most shows like this, there's a really cool intimacy with the audience and the bands. I actually met/talked to a lot of...

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Eva Yojimbo wrote:And this seems strangely appropriate given that both artists just released new albums:

More confirmation that this song works better as a rock song.

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BTW, if I'm ranking the album tracks, this is my (rather tentative) ranking as of now: 1. Cornelia Street 2. The Man 3. The Archer 4. You Need to Calm Down 5. It's Nice to Have a Friend 6. I Think He Knows 7. Lover 8. Soon You'll Get Better 9. Paper Rings 10. Cruel Summer 11. Death by a Thousand Cu...

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Nothing about Swift's new album? Boo! I've gone through the tracks and I have to say... I love most of them! They definitely have a more different, colorful, cheery kind of vibe and it seems different from what she's done before. Will come back when I have more to say about it (because priorities......

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Thank you all for the kind words. It's been three months since he passed away. I've observed that I'll go days without thinking of him but other times, I'll suddenly think of him and get choked up. I've had some time to through our recent conversations and can't help but feel I had been selfish towa...

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Thanks Rax. <3 <3

Sorry for being so absent lately. Classes have started and I haven't had time to myself at all. It's gonna be that way for a while. :(

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Everyone, I'm afraid I have some terrible news for those who knew him from IMDB. Franzkabuki passed away on 31st May in his sleep. His heart was not in good condition. He died very young, a month shy of his 42nd birthday. I will miss him terribly, having known him for almost a decade, one of my clos...

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I've been sitting on the ending of THE FINAL SEASON for a few days and am a bit torn on it. While the fakeout with Clementine dying got me and I think it wouldn't really fit the story to have her pointlessly die anyways...AJ ending up with more or less the same ending no matter what doesn't really ...

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Eh I don't really think you can say its biting off more than it can chew- stealth, shooting, and even vehicles have all been featured in Metal Gear before and worked fine, and the stuff with the platforming looks like the only really new addition to what Kojima has done before. The latter stuff wit...

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Raxivace wrote:Maz, go finish The Walking Dead.

I'll finish this weekend. I've played some more, but want to finish playing the entire thing and consolidate my thoughts before I post here.

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Yeah I think that twitter post is the only thing that made a lick of sense to me, because the trailer was... gibberish... I mean, it looks like the kind of thing that could go off the rails if not handled properly, as much as I liked its visual design and overall creepiness. I remember liking the ca...

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Finished the first episode, and I liked it. Thematically in line with the typical themes of the series - there is dark human cost to peaceful and stable governance. The ending was brutal with AJ's fucked up sense of right and wrong blowing up in Clem's face. The scene in the basement was well done -...

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Yeah, I thought the people who were still ignoring all the signs that Dany had always been evil and she didn't just become evil in 2 1/2 episodes would hear Tyrion's explanation and come around, but that was asking too much apparently. Yeah, the signs were all there of her potential to go down that...

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I liked the ending too. Bittersweet, as GRRM promised. And yeah, it did seem as though Tyrion and Jon dissected what Dany did the same way we did. It felt a bit obvious to me at first (I thought much of emotional power of episode 5 lied in the unsaid) but I suppose it wasn't obvious to Jon, who func...

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BruceSmith78 wrote:I don't think I ever cheered much for Walter White, and I don't remember ever feeling like I was supposed to cheer for him or like him, so Breaking Bad didn't do that for me.

Exactly, the ending was really just kind of "meh" for me.

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@DA, I will say there was definitely nuance, and there was hope. I, along with many others, always held out hope that Dany would be able to draw the line when she was really, truly tested (as we knew she would be, going against Cersei). That she would show mercy and patience at the point when she he...

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Hmm, I don't know, the more I think about it at a macro level (without getting into little details etc), the more I think that it holds. For eg, if consuming less electricity and protecting forests are examples of real-world actions that can only result from changing ourselves, the equivalent actio...

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Exactly, Dany has been flexible with those who worship her. She has no mercy for those who refuse to bend the knee. I'm just so surprised that people didn't see this coming and are blaming poor writing. The show has definitely struggled with time compression stuff, but Dany's disillusionment and rea...

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But in the first few seasons, when anything came in her way, she DID use murder to get what she wanted. It's just that we were okay with her playing judge, jury and executioner because, like you said, those guys she killed were usually asshole slavers and they deserved it. Sure, she 'tried' to make ...

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Hmm, I don't know, the more I think about it at a macro level (without getting into little details etc), the more I think that it holds. For eg, if consuming less electricity and protecting forests are examples of real-world actions that can only result from changing ourselves, the equivalent action...

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It still doesn't seem to right to me on a meta level that they/he were dispatched in an episode while barely making it past Winterfell, if they did. "Winter is coming" was this threatening, malevolent phrase hanging over everyone for the entire series. I always thought the entire continen...

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Plus one to everything Bruce astutely said. I'll take a stab as well. I've not been watching this season, obviously, but I've been hearing about what's happening, and you two are the only people online who don't want to burn the scriptwriters alive, so I'll ask a few questions: 1) Apparently all the...

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No I don't mean giving up on theorizing itself or whatever (Though yeah much of it probably isn't fruitful), I mean more the online culture around it where people get mad and pissed and decide that its bad writing if their theory doesn't come true or if what they want to happen doesn't pan out. Soo...

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Honestly its the version of Game of Thrones I wish we had been getting more of from the beginning. I think Arya vs. Jon would make some amount of sense. It would parallel what we just saw in Cleganebowl, and the idea of Arya killing Jon with Needle, the sword he gave her at the beginning of the sho...

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Yeah I see a lot of people that say Jaime should have redeemed himself by killing Cersei. I'll admit to thinking that was going to happen too, but thinking about it...Jaime showing he's a good person by killing a pregnant woman doesn't actually make much thematic sense. Like I straight up see peopl...

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Yeah I thought it was a pretty good episode, though apparently it is the lowest rated episode in the entirety of Game of Thrones on Metacritc or Rotten Tomatoes or one of those other silly, bad sites. Even Cleganebowl I think ended up being pretty decent, if only because I thought the bit with Sand...

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BruceSmith78 wrote:It seems like the people who are upset by Dany being a ruthless killer are also upset that Cersei didn't get killed more... ruthlessly.

Lol yeah - that review that was unhappy about Jamie's death was critical of how "easy" Cersei's death was. People are just blood thirsty.

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Yeah for real. That's why I can't really accept these notions that her arc was somehow rushed. It's been there from the beginning. Dany's whole character very much reminds me of Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, where people/audience members accepted her violence for the longest time, and even celebr...

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Thought it was a very fitting, satisfying episode.

I'm just glad Arya survived. An accidental death by dragon fire is not how I wanted my Queen to go.

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I don't have a strong opinion either way on either of these topics, btw. But that's my understanding of the controversy from 30 seconds of googling each of them. Yeah, me neither. Simplifying the Sansa thing down to some kind of generalization is silly (its fits with her character to believe what s...

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If Dany had listened to Sansa, she'd still have her child. I've seen people calling Brienne's crying out of character for her. Why? Also, a lot of people seem to have taken offense at what Sansa says to the Hound, and by the killing of Dany's colored confidante. Not sure I follow... isn't Sansa's re...

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Bruce? Faustus?

Man we didn't put any spoiler tags and probably ruined the whole thing for Derived.

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Yeah it probably should still be somewhat present. And there could still be Walkers up north somewhere I guess. Well technically no because all of them were brought to life by the Night King and he's gone now... Idk, he already has somewhat "human" character traits as it is that were pres...

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While idiots online may be complaining about Arya "teleporting" to kill the Night King (Seriously who gives a shit), Woulda been nice to see her scurrying silently through the trees, or donning a mask of the undead (might have been funny though) but that would have spoiled the surprise. T...

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Now that I've had a chance to catch my breath, I have to say that I agree that the show could have dove further into the Night King lore and kept the threat of the undead alive somehow. This does not mean they had to make the Night King a full-blown character. I mean, he has always functioned well a...

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I think I'll come back to analyse it a bit later. Right now, I'm kinda just recovering from the visceral thrill of the episode and the fanboy in me squealing in delight at Arya's masterful assassination (which I can tell you - makes totally perfect sense for her arc).

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I'm glad you enjoyed them. Yeah, I recall there were more dice rolls and battles in the second one too, and maybe a goofier ending. One thing I remember liking about how the episodes rendered the D&D universe was the usage of audio cues. It's a simple, obvious device but it effectively sold the ...

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Lol, this was hilarious, even if I disagree with some of her criticisms.

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Oh man, it's like she took the "bubblegum" from bubblegum pop and just went un-apologetically wild with it! In the end, the thick colorful rain is just sickly and looks like... jizz! Lol, I guess that's appropriate since it does tie in with this over the top, ecstatic, masturbatory celebra...

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Close enough.

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^ahem, spoilers. [laugh] But yeah, Derived - Can a show end up being defined by just one misstep? I don't think it's fair to generalize the quality of eight seasons of writing and filming based on one brief, grief-ridden, murky, incestuous sex scene that looks like rape. Still maintain the "+1 ...

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The fact they annoyed you as much as they did. As far as I remember, that Jaime-Cersei scene was just poorly executed; it wasn't meant to depict rape even if that's what it ultimately ended up implying. It was supposed to carry a kind of devastating, sad sex vibe, not too unrealistic for two mournin...

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