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Happy Belated Birthday Posi.

I was really hoping for Ninjitsu scrappers but there are plenty of intriguing possibilities with what's here.

Also: lol @ DA tanks being meh.

Whatever man.

*nods*

I agree completely.




Just out of curiousity what exactly was that number to your workplace again? I'm only asking so I can make sure my own grandmother never calls you accidently. Technically she's not Canadian but it sounds to me like the absolute last thing you need at this point is yet another old codger calling you up who isn't even Canadian to begin with. So just to be safe PM me that number and I'll save you the headache.

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Sigworthy.

Thanks gang. It's been a busy day already (after a long weekend of partying. BTW if you ever have the opportunity to see the play version of Fight Club performed live in a parking lot with a real train go by during the middle of Act II, I recommend it. This was only part of the festivities my friends put me thru.)

So far my day has already included some of this and this.

I'd love to stay and chat but I've gotta get cleaned up and ready to go back out for some of this and this and of course a few of these.

I wouldn't wait up for me. It's prolly gonna be a long night and hopefully I'll get to put (Warning! this link not work friendly) my favorite toy to good use. I love my birthday but I just wish I didn't have to share it with the effing Frogs.

Oh well, c'est la vie.

I've been following both this thread and some of the others about this guy and I have to say he strikes me as the sorriest excuse for an academic I've seen in a long time. As someone who has studied sociology and finds it fascinating; Dr. Myers and his dubious methods combined with underwhelming conclusions and lazy, shoddy reporting of the whole affair leave me feeling like a sad panda.

...my computer fall down go boom. Problem not yet identified. Between this issue and hectic rl events lately I have been offline most of the past week and will continue to be so for an indefinate period of time. For anyone bored enough to wonder why I hadn't posted any response in my own Terminator:Salvation thread, this is a large part of why I haven't....yet. I hope everyone is enjoying I15 and I'll be back to check it out as soon as I can.

Carry on.

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I really want to come down, but I have to worm at 6am on Sunday.

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*Does not want to know....*

Count me in. I'd prefer to bring Kaiser, who actually still needs a level or two to hit 50 merc/dark, but if needed I can bring my thermal, marvin meltdown. I've done the RSF plenty of times with Marvin, just not lately.

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The Desktop was cool, thats just awesome

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First post after Ogre.

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I will happily delete a Hecatomb: Chance for Negative Energy Damage IO, just as easily as I once tore apart a Mox Ruby and an Ancestral Recall in front of a group of other Magic players.

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Fail.

Your analogy falls apart when the issue of value comes into question. As already mentioned the cards you destroyed have a real dollar value attached to them that is not insignificant and there is an active and ready secondary market for magic cards in which to liquidate them. Because of this they are not comparable to your Hecatomb proc. Try again.

Let's have a big round of applause for TJ folks, he'll be here all week, and remember to tip your waiter or waitress, they earn it.

Screw it. *WARNING SPOILER ALERT. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE SPOILERS*

Here is my main beef. Just the main one mind you. This movie had 3 predecessors of varying quality, but they all had one critical unifying plot element on which the series was built, starting right from the beginning.

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Kyle Reese: ...Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies into dumpsters and incinerators. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal [censored] into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah, your unborn son.

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This and other lines of dialogue, nay arguably the entire plot of the first movie make it clear that in the world the series is set in, Connor is the savior of humanity. Without him, mankind is doomed to extinction. He is such a lynchpin that skynet attempts multiple times to prevent his existence. However, in the latest movie, set at least a handful of years before Reese is sent back in time but after the nuclear holocaust, mankind is not on the brink of destruction. In fact it has enough resources to equip, fuel and fly helicopters and warplanes, to say nothing of keeping submarines operational. The best advantage Skynet was ever going to have, and when humanity would be closest to it's nadir, is in the period immediately after the nuclear attack. There would be no organized resistance and survivors would be wholly concerned with survival, let alone fighting against the machines. What we see in the first movie, with it's limited future scenes is consistent with this idea, humanity reduced to foragers and scavengers, driven underground by the machines to eke out an existence in hiding, not flying well equiped helicopters around Southern California in broad daylight.

Is John Connor behind this? Does the knowledge and forewarning passed on to him by his mother allow him to alter things by having humanity better prepared. No. Why? Because in this film he is no longer the savior. Cripes he's not even the singular leader Reese clearly indicates him to be in the first film, he's merely a captain or lt. or other field rank officer within the resistance who must follow orders handed down from a leadership of commanders who are removed from the field of battle. This is flat out contradictory and inconsistent with what we know from the first film.

Then there is the problem of Reese. In Salvation, Reese replaces Connor as the lynchpin that needs to be saved, oddly, however, only so that he can father Connor, who according to the circumstances of the film itself, no longer seems critical or even necessary to humanity's future. Does anyone really think nobody but John Connor can get on the radio and give a decent pep talk? Surely at least one Pop Warner football coach survived. But wait, we haven't gotten to my favorite paradox yet. Skynet captures Reese, recognizes him as important, and uses him for bait to lure Connor. In first movie we are told Skynet didn't have very good records about Connor's origins because records were destroyed in the war. But if Skynet knows that Reese is important, there are only two plausible reasons for him to be so from it's point of view. Either Skynet has deduced that he is Connor's father or it knows he will become the soldier that stops it's first Terminator. Without either of these, there is nothing special or significant about Reese that makes him worthy bait. But if Skynet knew either of these things, it makes more sense to simply kill Reese outright rather than use him as bait for Connor.

I'd say more but my limited time to address things is up and I must go for now.

Psst. Desi. You might want to link to the first page of the thread, rather than the most recent, especially with it being 300 plus pages in.

Just saying.

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I didn't see anything that directly contradicted the first movie, (clearly there is more yet that could come) and there were hints that the timeline might have shifted some due to the earlier Terminator interference.

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I'm not going to lay out the things I saw that were direct contradictions so as to avoid spoiling the movie for anyone, but quite frankly either we weren't watching the same movie or you don't remember the early ones too well because I saw plenty of contradictions, some of which went to the core of the entire series.

Just went to see last night with friends and after giving it some thought I've decided taken on it's own it's a pretty decent action flick with quality effects, but the people who wrote it really should have watched the original.


Just saying.

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*sigh*

There's more folks than fake tears on the Glenn Beck show, isn't there??

*tears*

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Fix'd

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I never said salmonella was bad...

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Ah the things one finds on the Justice forums on any given day...

For all the beggars in WW and AP

"And you can New Jack swiiinng on my nuts!"

For Philly

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all the cool kids are masochists!

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Noted.

For Positron from Philly

(a little bird told me)

For Red

For all the pvper's

Sorry your part of the game got wrecked.