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    "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to." is only spoken by Kylo Ren. And it's intentionally ironic, because he's the one following most closely in his forebears' footsteps. He starts the trilogy out trying so hard to be just like Darth Vader, and by the end of this movie, he's choking and screaming at everyone same as the grandfather whom he wants nothing to do with anymore.
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    Considering the movie's pretty overt political undertones... but yes, maybe best not to wade into that territory. I do think it's interesting and important, though, to contrast "kill the past" - espoused by a single character - against what else the movie has to say about generational dissonance, legacies, and inheritance. It's kind of telling that the only one who waxes poetic about killing the past is the one who clung most strongly to it. The movie never sympathizes with Kylo Ren in this regard; explores it as a foil to Rey, sure, but never embraces it. Contrast that with Yoda and Luke, and Luke and Rey, and Leia and Holdo and Poe, and so on and so forth: "Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters." Little bit of column A, little bit of column B, maybe? I wouldn't go so far as to say that everything sucks, but the movie definitely doesn't shy away from turning RotJ's happily ever after on its head. Force ghosts operate on the rule of dramatic tension. That's why Obi-Wan never spoke to Darth Vader, why Yoda didn't lightning bolt Palpatine... They're dramatic devices. It's really unhealthy, then, to dwell on it like this. You really should avoid talking about it for a while if it's eliciting such strong negative emotions.
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    1950X or 1920X? No Core i9 7980XE build? I'm really interested in seeing AMD's APUs next year, both desktop and laptop varieties. The gaming reviews of the mobile Ryzen 5 2500u in the HP Envy X360 are really impressive given the minuscule thermal profile it has to work with. I foresee some small ITX builds over the course of this year for the kids, and maybe some affordable light gaming laptops as well. This is definitely an exciting time.
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    Magical Force tomfoolery. The strength of Sidious's hatred or evilness or control of the Force or what-have-you prevents them from manipulating the Force around him or some such. The same reason Gandalf didn't just summon the eagles.
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    In fairness, IBO had its share of "War is hell" fetishization as well, but that was mostly kept to the first half-dozen episodes or so, and after that it started to really hone in on how fraked up the characters are for not thinking anything of the things they do and how screwed up the world is for letting things be that way. Untz, untz, untz, untz.
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    Just as I saw this post, I also came across this video from Gamers Nexus:
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    What is different about Spectre as compared to Meltdown? I thought Meltdown and Spectre both were referencing the same Intel-specific memory leak issue. Apparently ARM CPUs also suffer from the Spectre vulnerability?
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    Checking in to see if any updates?
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    A lone BBC article said that the issue also plagued AMD chips, but I'm 99% sure it's a misunderstanding on a probably non-techy journo's part. That said, maybe wait a couple months if you can for at least the refresh lineup before switching. The Ryzen refresh will almost assuredly offer slightly better performance, maybe better IPC/clocks as well. I'm debating whether to switch on that "Ryzen+" or wait for Ryzen 2 next year.
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    ^ That gif gets a Like. Operation Yashima, ho!
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    Yeah, it comes off more as that than anything else. Or not even have the laser fire, have the walkers fire at him, each one not killing but seriously hindering his progress. Something so that it's more obvious that he's in a no-win scenario. Maybe even have someone reach the laser before him and fail.
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    Saw it again. My predictions was... mostly correct. I can see why people had a problem with the military strategy, but the emotional arcs of the key characters are still really well-told and well-paced. It made me interested in them in a way that TFA failed to do. Some observations from this second go:
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    Did the update happen automatically? What happens during the repair loop? Do you see anything on-screen? Is it a repair loop or an update loop? Former = problematic, latter = maybe not. Updates sometimes cause my PC to restart several times. Since you're going from 7 to 10, it might just be going through a whoooooole bunch of these. A couple things you might try to do: 1 - Go straight to the BIOS and change the boot hierarchy, put USB or CD-Rom as first (whichever you're using to boot externally from). (Maybe you already did this, but the post didn't specifically mention it so I'm going to assume otherwise). Assuming you can boot to the external medium, you might be able to repair Windows that way. Or if it's a Linux distro, you can use that to at least transfer your files to an external drive before... 2 - Fresh install Windows 10. Move the hard drive to a different computer/external enclosure/use Live USB distros to get any important data off of it, then format the drive and insert it back into the system and install a fresh copy of Windows 10. Searching up all the drivers to install afterwards will be a pain, but Dell's site SHOULD provide a comprehensive set of drivers for the main hardware. EDIT: adding quote so people don't have to skip back a page
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    Further performance analysis of PUBG, this time after the second and latest performance patch:
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    As dizman says, it starts and ends a hot mess. It's being made into a compilation movie with more scenes and showing in theaters alongside the Thunderbolt... movie? I think, yes. The movie poster had the Tristan getting real close to French kissing the Atlas Gundam, I remember... I think the final runtime for it is something like 20 minutes? If you want a good Gundam story in less than an hour's time, just watch Gundam Seed: Stargazer instead. For my part, I think UC in general is a bit too in love with its "war is hell" theme. Some shows work with the theme better than others, but a lot of the new UC stuff is so self-serious. Thunderbolt reminds me of Yukikaze, where literally every character is a morose, cynical douchebag and/or is literally framed in a morose, cynical douchebag light in pursuit of the coveted "Best 'War is Hell' Treatise" Award. IBO has its faults, and I did lose touch with it midway through season 1, but the bit I saw (and from what I've gleaned about the rest of the show) did a more... honest? job of exploring its thematic pillars (ie child soldiers and the unique traumas inflicted upon and by them) than Thunderbolt did with its. But I mean, really, I disliked Thunderbolt because its music was terrible, and didn't dislike IBO because its music wasn't terrible.
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    Finished up the Shantae: 1/2-Genie Hero DLCs. I heard a lot of complaining from fans that Pirate Queen's Quest was just a second trip through the base game as a different character, and while they're not wrong... I don't get why that fact elicits a negative response. People love that same feature in other games. Maybe the fact that you have to pay for it here? I dunno, maybe. I certainly had fun with it, and I certainly think it was worth the money. The Friends to the End DLC is pretty much just that as well, this time featuring the Bolo/Sky/Rottytops trio, and I had just as much fun with that. Some of the new mechanics weren't particularly well-implemented, but it was still a lot of fun. Eh... /shrug Also I just played through Journey. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkkkkkkk yeeeeeeeessssssssssssss EDIT: Oh duh, also the reason why I came here in the first place. Anyone here played this game? Looks neat but not sure how much coding I'd need to know.
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    He's the source of a lot of the problems of the source Norse mythology, too. So you're not wrong to say he's the true "villain," but boiling him down to that simple dichotomy misses out on a lot of what makes him a good character. How did it "promulgate" which "agendas"? The only thing I remember is maybe there being some income inequality subtext mainly because of the nature of where the story took place. The movie also maybe, MAYBE hints at Valkyrie's non-heterosexuality, but the hints if they were there were super subtle and the movie didn't do anything substantive with it anyway.
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    Hm... Let me see now... In the back I have 2x USB 2.0, 4x 3.0. Both USB 2.0s are used by keyboard/mouse, one USB 3.0 to external hard drive, another to a 4-port hub to augment the front set of 2x USB 3.0s, and the others... have been unused since I built this computer. Maybe I should get a Bluetooth adapter and throw it in back there, I dunno...
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    Wait what? It hasn't been released in China? What's the reasoning there? But also this is a way better movie than Rogue One, so... color me not disappointed. EDIT: Gonna go see it a second time today. I feel like my likes and dislikes will probably be magnified this time around. Looking forward to seeing what my ultimate impressions are.
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    Reviving this thread just to say, once again, FUUUUUUUUUUUCK APPLE PRODUCTS. Even the simplest things like transferring media to a PC they turn into a two-hour headache. Every time I touch my mom's iPad I feel myself die a little inside.
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    Thanks. Aren't all of these recently-revealed designs general release items? Or are some of them P-Bandai? EDIT: Nvm. Seems the Efreet Nacht has been confirmed to be P-Bandai exclusive, so... Well, then again, the regular Byarlant IS a bit more mainstream than the other Byarlant variants and the Efreet variants, so perhaps it will see a general release.
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    - Deep Striker I'm not a big fan, so it's a wash. The most insightful commentary I've seen was when @electric indigo noted its phallic design. - MG F91 2.0 People seem to have mixed reaction to this. Me, I don't care too much for the design, so it's a wash. - RE/100 Vigna-Ghina More interesting design-wise than the F91, but still meh to me because the movie(?) it's in never caught my interest. - HGUC Gouf Flight Type Definitely looks to be based on Gouf Custom instead of a brand new mold. Not a bad decision at all; the newer kits have all had some really terrible design choices, whereas the older kits all hold up really well. Leading to... - HGUC Revive Ground Gundam Copy-pasta my response at GE: It's almost definitely reusing Blue Destiny parts, which itself used Ground GM parts... which ITSELF used parts from the HGBF Leopard Da Vinci (from what I hear, anyway; haven't looked at any of those kits myself). - The chest triangle appears to be molded on. I don't think that was present on the original HGUC. - I wonder if it'll include alternate shoulder parts similar to the MG. The ones in the pic appears to be the same as the Ground GM's which have rounded corners on the tie-down bar; the alternate depiction (used on the earlier HGUC) have more trapezoidal sides. - Elbow joints are probably Leopard parts. - Hands look like hot garbage. Old HGUC easily wins in this department. - Shield seems to have the same prop-up gimmick as the old HGUC, dunno if its design/parts has changed since 2007. - Gets rid of the old ball-joint thigh-to-crotch joint of the old HGUC, probably uses the same swiveling peg as the Ground GM. - Feet likely reuse Ground GM parts. A shame, too; the older HGUC is a major step up from this (though this is itself a major step up from the Ez8. Shudder.) - It better come with the machine gun, rocket launcher, and missile launcher as well to make it at all worthwhile. - HGUC Efreet Nacht Looks good. I really enjoyed the RE/100 Custom, and this looks just as good if not a little better. Shame it's only HGUC, though. (EDIT: Confirmed to be P-Bandai.) - HGUC Byarlant Looks good. I still don't know what the differences are because I don't pay enough attention; will need a side by side comparison and/or someone's detailed observations. - HG Pixy Gundam - I know nothing about it, but it looks like a decent, no fuss no muss Gundam design and kit. I'm reminded of the 0 Gundam. I dug that, and I'm almost certain I'll dig this, too. EDIT: Invision really needs to fix their tagging software or whatever it is. Its convenience features screw up my posts as often as they help them.
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    Thanks for the links.
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    There's also - MG F91 2.0 - HGUC Gouf Flight Type (probably based on Gouf Custom?) - HGUC Revive Ground Gundam (unexpected but unsurprising, but also dubious that they'll be able to one-up the original release) - HG Pixy Gundam - and of course the Deep Striker (will get pics later, on phone now)
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    Speaking of Rose's interest in Finn, I like to think that her kiss is a chaste one, not necessarily one depicting romantic interest. I think it fits more in line with her character arc; she inherits the older sister role from her sister. Of course, it could just be wishful thinking. I don't particularly dig the idea of the romance, but I don't dislike it enough to muster up a strong reaction.
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