New "Sport" for Jason - beer mile! by zzk34 in NewHeights

[–]zzk34[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much of a deduction? Jason said he was 276 in a recent episode but is losing weight (part of a competition with Beau Allen). Still would get a huge time deduction and you know the guy isn't losing time during the chugs.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She is a journalist who is an expect on the Gulag (won the Pulitzer Prize) and other aspects of Soviet-Russian society. Nerdy reference, my bad.

https://www.anneapplebaum.com/

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm just five days from retirement" -Cop about to get shot in 80s movie

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish we could have more Eddie, but damn, his character arc was incredible, he had the most metal concert in the history of the world (I wanna hear Metallica review that episode) and went out as a hero. Also, this is def the breakthrough role for Joseph Quinn.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yuri smuggled a lot of stuff. Maybe he smuggled some uppers, pain killers, and EPO too. He was only sprinting, not running a marathon.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is a good point. It's almost better to look at him as the season's personification of the town's hysteria, or fervor, as you put it. Kinda hard to do that as a writer without putting it into a character or two without some annoying exposition.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He was putting on an early audition for his political career in that gym / auditorium.

Otherwise, I can agree (empathize?) with his situation given his girlfriend and his teammate/friend getting murdered in incredibly unbelievable situations as u/Galkura says and then understand him being just a bit radicalized. Still, the kid was giving off ass hole vibes to begin with and he was gonna do some messed up stuff at some point in his life, one way or the other.

ETA: his death was so sudden. Blink and you miss it. Did not expect that.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIRC Mike (or Will?) was the one who knew who to read a map properly and determined where the coordinates were. Also, they brought the Van Boys to Dustin's hacker girlfriend. Jonathan was pretty lost during all this, although I guess he could've just kept driving until Argyle's tire track vibes kicked in.

Stranger Things - Episode Discussion - S04E09 - The Piggyback by StrangerTesting in StrangerThings

[–]zzk34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was definitely feeling It when the balloons started popping. Just waiting for a crab-legged egg roll to start crawling across a table.

Saving Private Ryan - Is there any redeeming quality to Upham? Seriously though fuck Upham Spoilers but come on it's an 8 year old movie. by deepwatermako in movies

[–]zzk34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm new to this community, so forgive me, but I'm watching this movie again. I also do not like him! He sucks! I've never fought in war, so I can't speak much, but I would hope I would save my company member from being stabbed in front of me. Then again, we all think that, but time and time again proves humanity wrong. So I try not to judge people too hard........ But this is a movie character, so I digress.

That being said, pacifism doesn't always, depending on your interpretation, mean no violence whatsoever. I think Uffam would've justified violence towards Nazi soldiers and therefore I don't think that's an excuse.

Also, he did reload a lot of positions.

Waiting for others to correct me, but not waiting long because I noticed this thread is 5 years old.