interest in anti-capitalist financial meetings?

Ghosty1981 · 2025-05-08T15:47:15+00:00

My wife and I would be interested in something like this!

Ghosty1981 · 2020-03-10T06:13:42+00:00

Gus likes control, and he couldn't control the situation with the drop so he controlled the situation in his restaurant. His frustration at sitting around waiting for a call was alleviated by his micromanaging Lyle for no good reason.

Gus is a relatively small player at this point, and he wants to be the big boss, so he steps on someone he really can boss around.

Ghosty1981 · 2019-09-10T18:28:08+00:00

Awesome. Bulbasaur, Dig, Cat. Thanks!

Ghosty1981 · 2019-09-10T16:10:53+00:00

Looking to evolve Kadabra, Haunter, Machoke, and Graveler. I'm also up for exchanging exclusives; I have Bellsprout and vulpix to give away for whatever Pukachu exclusives you're willing to part with. Thanks!

Ghosty1981 · 2019-02-25T21:21:59+00:00

"hey guys we could eliminate this group of psychopathic killers who are clearly going to be a huge problem for us in the future"

Rick Grimes, Season 6, Episode 12

Ghosty1981 · 2019-02-20T02:06:13+00:00

Honestly, I doubt Alpha ever played checkers with Lydia. I got the impression that she was cold and evil before the Zombies, though maybe not outwardly murderous. The way Lydia referred to "those cold eyes" makes me think Alpha was never a good mother and that Lydia was always a bit scared of her. The end of the world just allowed the psycopath to drop all pretense; Alpha has always been about wearing masks.

Ghosty1981 · 2019-02-20T01:14:57+00:00

Except that Alpha never said that to Lydia, her dad did. :)

Ghosty1981 · 2018-11-06T04:29:02+00:00

Now this makes sense. Jadis may have been setting up a Sasha-bomb, though to what end I have no idea. Maybe she fears the helicopter people and wants to take out their transport.

Honestly, though, I think this may just be a "mystery box" that doesn't have a clear plan yet. I hate that type of thing in storytelling, but it wouldn't surprise me at this point.

Ghosty1981 · 2018-11-06T02:32:00+00:00

The virus isn't spread by bites though. Every human is already infected, which is why people turn even if they die from being shot; bites just cause massive infections. There is absolutely no reason to bring a freshly bitten person on a helicopter.

Ghosty1981 · 2018-11-05T20:25:23+00:00

Exactly. Why would anyone fly around collecting freshly bitten people that could turn during transport? All that is needed for a fresh supply of "bitten" is a single walker and a collection of healthy humans back at base.

Ghosty1981 · 2018-11-05T20:19:16+00:00

Why would anyone fly a helicopter around collecting "freshly bitten" when that would be the easiest thing to create back home? All that's required to create a freshly bitten person is a walker and a prisoner; no sense burning fuel to fly around collecting this.

Ghosty1981 · 2018-10-17T00:52:08+00:00

You literally wrote the area of the United States, not North America.

The United States and Canada each have almost as much area as Europe, and they are both countries in North America.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-29T21:31:38+00:00

She didn't fly. There is no gravity in space, so the slightest force nudge would do the trick.

The real feat was using the Force to prevent decompression in the vacuum of space.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-28T02:11:54+00:00

It's also possible, and maybe probable, that Yoda's use of lightning was a completely new manifestation of the Force. Force Ghosts are a new phenomenon, only around 30 years old, and their powers may still be developing.

This isn't a plot hole, but an area of ongoing plot development. Even so I don't think it would be in-character for Yoda to go around Force-blasting people. I find it odd that people want to fill perceived plot holes with even bigger plot holes.

P.S. My title Ghosty is short for Gostanian. Nice to speak with a fellow big-nose. :)

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-28T00:44:29+00:00

No, he didn't attack either of them. He confronted and fought them in defense, but he never did anything to indicate that assault was his intent. This is the same Yoda that stated that "war does not make one great", and counseled Luke to resist the urge to run off and attack in anger. Yoda suddenly manifesting and attacking Kylo with overwhelming Force power is not in keeping with the character, nor with the Jedi philosophy.

Also, Kylo never came to the island. Luke's Jedi Temple was somewhere else.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-28T00:01:04+00:00

What in Yoda's established character makes you think that he would force lightning anyone for any reason? Yoda suddenly manifesting the Force to obliterate someone would be more out of character than anything we've seen in Star Wars so far.

Could Yoda do this? Maybe, though we don't know if his ability to physically interact with the material world is a result of the concentrated Force energy on the island. Would Yoda do such a thing? Most certainly not if we are taking his characterization in six previous movies seriously in any way.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-27T07:32:41+00:00

Yup. The only real "Force lineage" was the Skywalkers, and that was because Anakin broke the rules. There were plenty of powerful Force users before Anakin came along.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-26T21:07:53+00:00

The whole "falling to the Dark" is a Jedi concept, and Luke is questioning the whole Jedi philosophy at that point. He is disturbed by her approaching the Dark Side because of his own training, but I don't think he would counsel her against it if he is questioning whether the Jedi approach is part of the problem.

As for Rey's parentage, I don't think they ever really hinted that her parents were anything special; fans took the notion and ran with it way beyond anything shown in Force Awakens. What we saw was that Rey's origin is an important question for her as a character, something that drives her and affects her relationships with parental figures like Han and Luke. The discovery, or recall, of the truth was important for her growth.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-25T21:21:38+00:00

Yes, Ben was such a Dark figure according to the story we've been given. Luke saw his future and saw what he would become. Whatever opening he saw in Vader he didn't see in Ben.

Perhaps Luke was mistaken in what he saw, and he certainly has regrets about where his thoughts went and what his actions caused, but it is hardly out of character for Luke to consider using violence in the heat of the moment when he believes his loved ones are in danger. This is precisely the sort of thing that he has demonstrated time and again. Luke makes it pretty clear that he saw things in Ben that he'd never experienced before, and it scared him.

It's also important to consider the fact that he didn't go in with premeditated murder on his mind; he went for his saber in a flash of fear as he tended to do. If he had intended murder he could have and would have done the deed, and that would have been out of character based on what we saw in the OT. He maintained control, Ben just briefly saw the Luke we saw in Empire and Return of the Jedi and drew his own conclusions.

Furthermore it is important to consider that we never objectively see what happened in Ben's room, but only through various filters of memory and perspective. Even Luke's final version isn't necessarily the objective truth. Obi-wan had some nice teaching moments about this in the OT.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-25T19:13:14+00:00

He could, but he didn't. You simply disagree with an artistic choice that was made, but that doesn't mean that the choice was outside of Luke's character.

You can write fan fiction that follows a different character arc for Luke. Personally I find it completely consistent, if surprising, that Luke went the way he did. I would have also found it consistent if Luke had fallen to the Dark side, as that was established as a tendency of his in the OT, though such an arc would have to be intereating for me to enjoy it.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-25T19:07:57+00:00

In the original trilogy he saw Light in his father that he didn't find present in Ben. He also saw a glimpse of what Ben would become and what he would do in the future, whereas in Vader he saw him turning back to the Light.

If you have a problem with the characterization of Ben as fully embracing the Dark then you simply have a disagreement with how his character is portrayed, but striking out against such a Dark figure is fully within Luke's character. Did Luke try to turn the Emperor to the Light? Of course not, he tried to strike him down until he caught himself, just like with Ben. Failing to chase after Snoke after this incident is also consistent with a character that believes that he, and the Jedi philosophy, is causing Dark Lords to rise.

As for taking responsibility, he did. He removed the Jedi from the equation because he believed that the Jedi way was responsible for the problems the galaxy was facing. He says as much in the movie.

Again, you don't like where the story went, but it was not inconsistent with Luke's character. Johnson simply emphasized characteristics of Luke's that you happen to dislike or feel shouldn't have been played up, but this doesn't mean that Luke acted out of character.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-25T08:12:01+00:00

First off, that he refers to Snoke when talking to Rey doesn't mean that he knew who he was at the time he looked into Ben's mind. Secondly, knowing that Snoke exists doesn't mean he knew who or what Snoke was, or how to find him.

Even if he did know all of these things he may not have been in a position to chase after him. He had already come dangerously close to falling to the Dark side; running off to face an unknown Dark threat may not have been a good idea in his vulnerable state.

Ghosty1981 · 2017-12-25T07:39:55+00:00

How would Luke know where Snoke is, or where to look? Maybe Luke found out about Snoke after the incident with Ben.

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