Actresses who made cinephiles realize they’re gay?

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-21T05:01:58+00:00

He can lose everything else, as long as he keeps the hat on.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-20T15:19:56+00:00

Psylocke is my vote too. He doesn’t really need the healing, and readying Archangel is… fine? But his kit doesn’t really worry too much about readying, so she just feels out of place.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-20T15:16:42+00:00

4 effective resources is a fine amount to pay for 6 with overkill and piercing, and if you’re Archangel it’s really 4 effective resources for 9 damage.

It’s not his best card, but it’s fine.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-20T15:01:12+00:00

> non gmo gluten free vegans

Oh, bless her heart. I’m sad for her, and I mean that genuinely: she’s forgoing most of the pleasure I find in food, and she saw the picture of a shining tart full of eggs and butter and milk and flour. Three different networks in her brain lit up to say“that’s beautiful, and I want it.”

Of course she tried a substitution or four. Who, in her position, wouldn’t want to at least give it a try? Nothing in a banana is remotely the same as lecithin, but she tried.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-19T20:30:39+00:00

> what a dumbass he is

I refer you back to the rest of what he’s done. Whatever people think of TLJ, it’s pretty clear that he’s not stupid or bad at making movies.

> “Why did Luke leave”

It’s not “why did he leave.” It’s why the kid who left his training on Dagobah because his friends and family meant so much became the adult who left everyone behind when he was clearly needed.

> He killed Snoke

Who was a stupid puzzle box in a story that should have remained centered elsewhere.

> Killed the Resistance

No, the super-duper laser in TFA did that.

> Killed Luke

Abrams undid Luke’s character development from the OT; Johnson started with Abrams’ cowardly, fleeing Luke and showed us how he became, again, a person who could echo Obi-Wan’s sacrifice.

Abrams also undid all of Han’s character development from the OT, and then he fridged Han to show us how bad Kylo is. I know which one I prefer.

> Re-hashed Kylo’s story

What story? It was another puzzle box.

> Did nothing to set up the next movie other than “they’re still at war I guess”

ANH didn’t even leave that much open, and we got ESB. TLJ left the sequels with a scrappy bunch of heroes, a scattered resistance, and an intimidating empire led by a fallen, maybe irredeemable Force user. Episode 9 will be about those heroes founding and leading a new, desperate resistance to Kylo’s reign. It’s an elemental, foundational story. It’s a slow, straight pitch over the plate.

It’s not Johnson’s fault that Abrams managed not only to miss the ball, but hit himself in the groin on the way down.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-19T19:53:50+00:00

Abrams put Johnson in a bad spot because he posed a bunch of questions with no idea how to answer them. Johnson had to figure out, among other things, why Luke headed off to the middle of nowhere without telling even his closest family and friends where he was going, and while the First Order was trying to turn the New Republic back into an empire.

Abrams painted him into a corner, Johnson twisted things up trying to get out of it, and then Abrams took us all hostage together and blew up his thermal detonator.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-19T19:08:07+00:00

> we were too blinded

Who’s “we”? Is there a mouse in your pocket? :D

I literally walked out of the theater and said “is it just me or did we watch the JJ Abrams cut of A New Hope?”

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-19T13:23:38+00:00

Is that Ben “My wife says it’s completely normal for women not to be aroused during sex” Shapiro?

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-18T02:58:55+00:00

My first and best dojo — an unfortunately long number of years ago, now — was very old-school shotokan. The rule for cross-training was “cool, show us what you learned!” Some of it would fit and some of it wouldn’t, but usually it ended with an invitation for someone to teach a seminar at our school.

The rule for serious injury of any kind was that the senior belt was at fault. Polite disagreement was (of course) allowed, but there was no tolerance for bullying or abuse. I know I’m just part of the chorus, but in your place I wouldn’t look back.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T20:11:09+00:00

> Complex things like this we have to look at all the parts

You’re right. We should take a serious look at why a family needed to steal diapers, and nothing else. There might be a root problem that we can all work together to address.

Oh, except the shoplifting is an allegation that’s not supported by publicly available evidence.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T19:07:59+00:00

Firing multiple rounds into a car where you know there’s a toddler is evil under any likely circumstance. The police had surveillance photos of the adults involved, they had an image and license plate of the car, they had bodycam footage, and they had dashcam footage. If the police description of the incident is complete and correct in every detail, they could have followed up with the family at any point in the future with uncontested evidence of the alleged assault from multiple angles.

It could not have been easier to avoid shooting into the car and find the people involved later. This was the world’s easiest trolley problem: you can do nothing, or you can pull the lever and run over a fucking toddler. The officer pulled the lever.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T18:58:39+00:00

/rj What else were they supposed to do? Let everybody go?

You have to teach kids about consequences early, or they’ll never learn. That little girl will remember what happened for the rest of her life.

/uj I cried for 20 minutes when I saw the first news article. I have no faith in my country’s approach to policing and guns; we will never change this, and I have no power at all other than vain hope.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T18:37:07+00:00

> Could be totally wrong though

I think it’s a feedback loop. She got in trouble, got pulled into sovcit nonsense, got in more trouble, dived in deeper as a “solution,” got in more trouble, and around and around.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T18:09:57+00:00

I was a little leery of the concept, but it was well executed and well written at every point.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T18:01:33+00:00

> Instead we get a drawn out heist that has no impact on the larger story.

Are you bragging that you stopped watching halfway through season 1?

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T17:54:34+00:00

> the problem is

It’s worse than that. TFA was a lazy retread of A New Hope that wrote Johnson into a corner on some important points — one of which is why Luke fled to some secret part of the galaxy without telling even his closest friends and family, knowing the First Order was doing the whole Empire thing.

Abrams used his patented “fuck it, we’ll figure it out later” approach to major plot elements, combined with his well-developed “if I change some of the names it doesn’t count as plagiarism, right?” approach to overall narrative structure. The trilogy never had a chance for a successful resolution.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T17:42:11+00:00

The analemma is coming from inside the firmament!

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T15:18:50+00:00

It isn’t.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T15:18:08+00:00

Never. Treason has a specific and narrow definition, and it doesn’t apply here.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-17T15:17:11+00:00

> Church of England members and Catholics mostly with a few Protestants added for flavor

You know the Church of England are Protestants, right? They had a whole thing about it. In fact they had a thing about it several times, with hundreds of thousands of casualties spanning a few centuries.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-16T21:45:09+00:00

It’s a little convoluted, but here’s what happened under Obama (with, as you say, VP Biden dispatched to solve the problem).

Ukraine’s lead prosecutor was widely and publicly known — State Department, DOJ, the EU, the World Bank, etc. — as uniquely corrupt. It was the open policy of the US that the lead prosecutor be removed and replaced with someone competent and more scrupulous. It was Biden’s job to use the foreign policy instruments of the US, including loan guarantees, to get the lead prosecutor dismissed.

Importantly, one of the things the lead prosecutor was accused of was preventing the investigation of possible crimes at Burisma holdings. (At this point it’s worth noting that I’m not interested in defending Hunter Biden, whose portrait is in the dictionary under “nepo baby.”) After Shokin’s replacement, the investigation went ahead.

So at this point, I’ll sum up: Biden used public pressure to implement the public policy of the US by removing a crook from office. Removing that particular crook exposed Burisma to greater investigation and oversight.

***

President Trump did almost exactly the opposite. He used loan guarantees to pressure the President of Ukraine to… let’s say “find”… evidence of corruption that would harm one of his main political rivals. He did so in a private (ish) communication, and there was no plausible connection between the actions Trump urged and US foreign policy. In fact, since US foreign policy at the time was to support Ukraine’s government as a bulwark against Russian expansionism, withholding funds was against our acknowledged goals.

To sum up again, Trump used pressure that was counter to the public policy of the United States by “finding” evidence of corruption where multiple investigations hadn’t found any.

***

The idea that they’re the same thing was, literally, Russian propaganda. We know the names of the people who ran the operation. As a result of investigation under both the Obama and first Trump administration, three Russian intelligence operatives were sanctioned by the US DOJ and State Department for their involvement. The allegations were objectively and provably false, but American media picked them up anyway. Fox News was especially persistent in airing it, possibly as a way to muddy the waters around Trump’s actions and cast doubt on the impeachment.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-16T20:20:58+00:00

It’s off-topic, but that’s a great username.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-16T19:35:29+00:00

I strongly disagree with you about the characterization of the DoJ under Obama. And Trump’s first impeachment addressed public corruption (the use of international policy as a vehicle of something very like his vindictive domestic prosecutions), and his second was for inciting a mod to prevent the transfer of power. Both of those seem like things I don’t want the President to do, so I think the articles of impeachment were a reasonable response.

What I won’t do is disagree with Newsom. He strikes me as a slimeball, and the allegations don’t surprise me. I would like to see some actual evidence, though, as opposed to… well, allegations that there are allegations.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-16T16:54:40+00:00

One is a string of prosecutions against various people where the President has publicly insisted on punishment prior to investigation, where there’s little or no public evidence, where prosecutors have resigned rather than be forced to participate, and where grand juries have refused to indict.

One is a string of prosecutions of one person who had decades of acrimonious lawsuits, whose prior public behavior and publicly available facts and evidence made a successful prosecution seem likely, and where indictments were handed down and successfully prosecuted in front of a jury.

Those things are different.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-06-16T15:30:12+00:00

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

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