Topic: "Reboots" and "Sequels"
started by: GORDON
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:39
Lately it seems to me that more and more I am seeing sequels... even after many years... referred to as "reboots." Has anyone else seen this? Because I find it to be unacceptable. < Star Wars is NOT a fucking reboot > the fucking sequel number is right there in the title.
And I've seen several other examples over the last year that I didn't note and now I can't remember.
I mean, are younger people today seriously confused about the difference between rebooting a franchise, and reviving it with previous canon intact?
This shit needs to stop. If you see someone refer to SW7 as a reboot, attack them physically.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,19:40
This just in: people are dumb! Full story at 11.EDIT: More realistic response; I find it too hard to blame them given that so much of what Hollywood produces these days actually are reboots. If we'd do a little bit less cannibalising of nostalgia and make more original properties this mistake probably wouldn't happen as often.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:41
(TPRJones @ Feb. 16 2016,22:40)
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This just in: people are dumb! Full story at 11.
A little physical violence then can be seen as negative reinforcement... bitch slapping them would actually be helping them to learn.
Get video.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:43
Also, when did Americans start pronouncing < "biopic" > with the stress on the first syllable? Growing up that word was always pronounced correctly... suddenly all these fucking millennials come along and start saying it wrong, and they'd probably lie if confronted and claim to be using the british pronunciation.America used to be great. We used to build things.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:47
And you know these dumb fuckers probably think the word is just a mashup of "biographical picture" so they pronounce it that way.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,19:48
Wait, do you say the second one at that link, like bi-opic? I've never heard that before, my whole like it's been pronounced bio-pic by everyone I've known. As in BIOgraphic PICture (show). That makes a lot more sense to me than the other one, which sounds like something related to some sort of cyborg.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:48
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Wait, do you say the second one at that link, like bi-opic? I've never heard that before, my whole like it's been pronounced bio-pic by everyone I've known. As in BIOgraphic PICture (show). That makes a lot more sense to me than the other one, which sounds like something related to sort of cyborg.
EXACTLY.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:49
You've never heard it pronounced correctly? Like in that link I linked? Because that's how we correct midwesterners always said it.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,19:49
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EXACTLY.
Wait, what? So you do agree the stress should be on the first syllable (BIo-pic) rather than the second (bi-OPic)?
If so then I completely agree. I thought you were complaining the other way around.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:53
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EXACTLY.
Wait, what? So you do agree the stress should be on the first syllable (BIo-pic) rather than the second (bi-OPic)?
If so then I completely agree. I thought you were complaining the other way around.
No it was that I called people dumb fuckers who probably had that reason then literally a minute later you thought that was the reason and I was fucking with you.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,19:54
It's correctly pronounced the US way in that link. Everything else is stupid millennial bullshit.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,19:59
If by "millennial bullshit" you mean "the way it's always been pronounced since forever" then I agree.The "BIohpic" pronunciation has some sense to it for the reason previously stated. Can you give a sensible reason why "biAWpic" is better?
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Because that's how we correct midwesterners always said it.
Ohio ain't midwest, not way over there near the eastern seaboard. I'd accept the term mideast.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,20:21
Honestly, it's probably down to < regional > < differences >.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 16 2016,20:43
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It's correctly pronounced the US way in that link. Everything else is stupid millennial bullshit.
I'll buy you a rocking chair if you post YouTube vids of yourself shooting at whippersnappers on your lawn.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,20:54
Let me see the chair first.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 16 2016,21:12
(TPRJones @ Feb. 16 2016,22:59)
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Ohio ain't midwest, not way over there near the eastern seaboard. I'd accept the term mideast.
< Suck it! >
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 16 2016,21:16
It ain't 1800 anymore. That's clearly "mid", not "midwest".Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 17 2016,04:54
I'll concede the 'yankees' part.But in NW ohio I may be farther from a body of salt water than either you or Malcolm are.
Posted by TheCatt on Feb. 17 2016,05:57
< According to this, yall are still under the thumb of British Imperialists. >I have literally never heard the BIO (long O) PIC version before today. I've always heard BI ahp ick
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 25 2016,13:55
Also THOSE AREN'T FUCKING HOVERBOARDS.
Posted by Leisher on Feb. 26 2016,06:01
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Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,07:49
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Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
And after the next disaster they'll then be referred to as "resources to be used."
Because most yankees will get eaten because they are soft.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,08:11
Right. Until the first 2-inch snowfall brings all your southern transit and traffic to a grinding halt.
Posted by TheCatt on Feb. 26 2016,10:45
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Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "whiners".
Fixed.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,10:54
(TheCatt @ Feb. 26 2016,12:45)
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Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "whiners".
Fixed.
At least the Union didn't kill off the best general they had with friendly fire. Furthermore, at no time did any Union commander-in-chief say, "Hey, you know what'll swing this war our way? < A balls out charge uphill into a position fortified with artilley >."
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,11:24
Yeah, losing Jackson may have lost the war.That and wrapping your cigars in your battle plans, then losing your cigars.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,11:34
Eh, it hurt most definitely but was only one nail in a well-sealed coffin.1) The South had better generals. It also had the fewer miles of railroad track and less industrial capacity.
2) The Confederacy could charitably be called "inefficient" when it came to matters between their members.
3) < This >.
I'd say #3 had the the largest effect, followed by #2.
Posted by Leisher on Feb. 26 2016,12:29
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(Leisher @ Feb. 26 2016,09:01)
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(TPRJones @ Feb. 17 2016,00:16)
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Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
And after the next disaster they'll then be referred to as "resources to be used."
Because most yankees will get eaten because they are soft.
Says the guy posting pictures of himself and his kitty in bed.
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Right. Until the first 2-inch snowfall brings all your southern transit and traffic to a grinding halt.
Exactly.
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Fixed.
When the Onion posts stories mocking Northerners for always talking about how someday "we'll rise again", then your "correction" will make sense.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,14:48
(Malcolm @ Feb. 26 2016,14:34)
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Eh, it hurt most definitely but was only one nail in a well-sealed coffin.
1) The South had better generals. It also had the fewer miles of railroad track and less industrial capacity.
2) The Confederacy could charitably be called "inefficient" when it came to matters between their members.
3) < This >.
I'd say #3 had the the largest effect, followed by #2.
1) The South had better generals. It also had the fewer miles of railroad track and less industrial capacity.
2) The Confederacy could charitably be called "inefficient" when it came to matters between their members.
3) < This >.
I'd say #3 had the the largest effect, followed by #2.
Lee only managed two forays into the north, and both of them were fucked by bad luck. It could be argued that if an entire battle plan could be unraveled by pulling on two different strings you're already fucked, but whatev. If the Confederacy had some time to really rampage around the North, Sherman-style, who knows how things may have been different.
The South was morally correct, though.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,15:23
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Lee only managed two forays into the north, and both of them were fucked by bad luck.
If "bad luck" is how southerners say "stubborn, short-sighted, and only skilled in a certain style of defensive warfare as opposed to, you know, going on the offensive and taking goddamned enemy territory" then I agree. The longer than war went on, the worse off he was going to get. He neglected to press his advantage during the crucial early parts of the war when the Union was throwing overrated, primadonna, diva pussies like McClellan in charge. They eventually found an alcoholic who, while not being a military genius, was at least competent enough in practice to play to his advantages.
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If the Confederacy had some time to really rampage around the North, Sherman-style
If I had a magic carpet, I wouldn't spend so much time in traffic. That's still better odds than the CSA had at making a serious incursion into the Union after July 3, 1863, when Lee pulled a Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels and decided to help the north not just inflict more casualties upon his ranks, but utterly annihilate any hope for a result other than Confederate capitulation.
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The South was morally correct, though.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,15:25
On the other hand, Iced Earth's Gettysburg Trilogy kicks all manner of ass.Give yourself the full 30 minutes with a surround sound system and enjoy.