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I rest my cheese, point proven 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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 At first I failed to notice that the second code block had a scroll bar.
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Yeah, when I was done writing it, I sat back to gaze upon my brilliance, and I realized I'd written a dozen classes with about 1500 lines just so I could write a one-liner in the view. 
When my wife asked me what I was doing, and I explained it to her, she said, "And why did you do this?"
I replied, "Because 'MURRICA!"
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And isn't that the best reason?
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This isn't over-engineering. This is keeping your job interesting for yourself. 
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The new Star Wars movie came out at midnight - 17 hours ago - and not one post about it.
No "as bad as The Force Awakens".
No "best thing since sliced Jedi".
Total silence.
Surely, the Disney company can't have put all the die-hard Jedi off watching it?
I admit, I'll wait for it on DVD - I kept expecting Rey to sing a duet with bluebirds in TFA...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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After Holly Willoughby gave spoilers on This Morning there's no need to actually go and see it.
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There is only one "Star Wars" and it was released in 1977.
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People that like the story/series all say it's the best star wars movie made to date.
People that are ho-hum about the story/series give mixed reviews.
People that don't like the story/series will all say that it's just more of the same garbage.
It's the same with any franchise. I learned a long time ago not to rely on other people's opinions of things, and prefer to go through the act of discovery on my own.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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100% with you. Too many self righteous tw*ts online.
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Most excellent approach. 
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I find your lack of posts....disturbing.
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OriginalGriff wrote: not one post about it.
The dark web is down ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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OriginalGriff wrote: and not one post about it.
Maybe they just got a late start and they are still wandering around in a euphoric fog?
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OriginalGriff wrote: No "as bad as The Force Awakens".
What about "as bad as Phantom Menace"? Or is that bar too low? 
(and no, I haven't seen it myself...just saying what if...)
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I watched it two days ago, a few hours after it was released... and without the horrible and almost unavoidable italian dub, to boot.
For me it's one of the best SW movies ever produced and one of the best movies ever produced at all - it has so many layers of reading that it's mind boggling, the characters are extremely well developed and actually manage to grow during the movie. The storytelling level is sky-high and the acting perfect.
I loved it... that's why I don't discuss it on the Internet. Too many a*****es, not enough patience.
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I hope so, I have found every star wars film since the first three dull, childish, thin, badly acted, and silly.
Has he really finally produced a sequel that is worthy of the title? I hope you arr right.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: three dull, childish, thin,
That's George Lucas for you. He actually wanted the first trilogy like the second but was constrained by money and technology.
Munchies_Matt wrote: badly acted
Lucas again - he pushed (especially in Ep II) for a massive use of CGI without any kind of prop, so the actors were mostly staring at points on a 2D blue screen while acting. As Ian McKellen testified (in the making of The hobbit) that is destructive to the performance of even the most capable actors since there is no reaction from the other side... and Peter Jackson used a lot of physical stand-ins, which at least corrected the "character staring behind the person he's talking to" problem.
Sillyness was always a part of SW and in this movie it is welcome because it's extremely fast paced and very dramatic - things go spectacularly downhill and it's absolutely the darkest movie of the entire saga.
That being said, I enjoy Ep I because it's almost dreamlike (and I *love* Qui Gon Jinn), while Ep II was horrible (the acting, the "romance", the CGI, everything). Ep III is saved only by a majestic ending.
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Ep1 was probably the best of the three, if you can get over the ridiculous ja ja binks. But yeah, 2 and 3 sucked.
What I was really disappointed about was the complete lack of depth in, and simplistic treatment of, darth vaders descent into evil and madness. It is probably the single most important aspect of the entire story, and yet it was glossed over in a completely unconvincing and quite frankly wasteful way.
SO where does the last film places itself in time, is it after the first three or before them still?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: simplistic treatment of, darth vaders descent into evil and madness.
Well his descent into evil is basically Jedi Council fault since they were so full of themselves and their own political correctness that they failed to treat Anakin like a person - and conveniently threw their own ideals into the garbage bin. Add a lot of scheming and the very same fault Kylo Ren, his grandson, has... Vader is a Well-Intentioned Extremist[^] that starts following a mad man and doesn't eralize the depth of what he did until he sees his own son tortured and almost killed (sounds like the end of Romeo and Juliet).
Munchies_Matt wrote: the ridiculous ja ja binks
Ridiculous but useful to explain the PoV of Qui Gon Jinn... which is extremely important. For 800 years Yoda believed in the Universal Force and looked ahead in the future and far and wide in the Galaxy while Qui Gon lives "in the here and now". Guess what Yoda teaches Luke in Ep V, after his greatest failure and exile? Precisely what Qui Gon believed... also, Qui Gon taught Yoda how to become a Force Ghost. So for me Jar Jar is condoned... even if insufferable.
Munchies_Matt wrote: SO where does the last film places itself in time, is it after the first three or before them still?
30 years later than Ep VI 
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den2k88 wrote: 30 years later than Ep VI
About the same as Harrison Ford then!
But the descent of darth vader into evil was still trite. The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil. It needed more. It needed some real darkness to it, some real understanding of the human state. If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
Only the ending where the two families (Darth Vader) recognize the darkness and the error of their warfare (Vader's service under Palpatine) only when they see the corpses of their son and daughter (Luke dying at the hand of the Emperor).
Munchies_Matt wrote: The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil.
He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother. He became "evil" for fear of seeing his wife and kids die during childbirth (thank you very much, Force visions) and due to years of endless warfare (Clone Wars) that left him mentally exhausted and pushed by the same "pacifist" council to increasing violent acts of war for "the greater good".
Take a person, make him commit atrocities, add disillusion in those who bring forth his ideals, add a deep fear for his loved ones and some frustration for flavor... no wonder he wants to destroy or conquer everything.
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den2k88 wrote: He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother.
I guess I missed that. Which film was that in?
Perhaps it was just badly acted then, the process of his descent into evil was unconvincing for me.
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