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27 minutes ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

As a side, people may hate Michael Bay for those movies, but the Transformers franchise would not be a pop-culture force without his fiendish machinations. 

 

Bay and Beast Wars are the two things that kept Transformers alive in the space. 

I actually like the first one. Like it's not amazing but it's fun enough. I even like this movies Megatron, he's imosing every second he's on screen. 

 

The sequels...............eh...

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54 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

I actually like the first one. Like it's not amazing but it's fun enough. I even like this movies Megatron, he's imosing every second he's on screen. 

 

The sequels...............eh...

1st and 3rd Bayformers are decent.  2nd one is YEEEESH...and the 4th 5th ones are just lower quality overall with some interesting ideas sprinkled throughout.  Pretty glad that Bumblebee gave the movie franchise a much needed refresh and course correction with Bay not in the driver's seat.

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2 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

1st and 3rd Bayformers are decent.  2nd one is YEEEESH...and the 4th 5th ones are just lower quality overall with some interesting ideas sprinkled throughout.  Pretty glad that Bumblebee gave the movie franchise a much needed refresh and course correction with Bay not in the driver's seat.

I still haven't seen Bumblebee. It's worth watching? I liked the first Transformers, and watched them all up until the one with Wahlberg. After that I was done lol. The first three were fun though. 

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I got the gym's monthly report on the numbers---this has been the best month for me there; my total calories burned was nearly 20k (19,700+), from 23 workouts; there's a leaderboard there so yeah I got the #1 spot on the board for the month.  That last workout on the last day of the year was goddamn amazing... I still had so much hyped energy to keep going after the end of it.

 

Man, a good gym membership is an incredible positive thing in life and people should always do it if they can and have the spare time....there's really no downsides other than it costing money.  At this point, any time I have a day off from work, I'm always tempted to go there for a class or 2... there's some days where I just stayed in the area for 2 or 3 classes in the same day. (of course with one of my portable systems there for the downtime)

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11 hours ago, RSG3 said:

I actually like the first one. Like it's not amazing but it's fun enough. I even like this movies Megatron, he's imosing every second he's on screen. 

 

The sequels...............eh...

For me 1 and 3 are the standouts. The second movie has only one scene worth going to the theater for . . . The Forest Battle

 

 

TF4 was a movie with potential, but it got really lazy at the cutting room floor. The Last Knight is the only movie I have apologized for taking someone to see. 

 

10 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

1st and 3rd Bayformers are decent.  2nd one is YEEEESH...and the 4th 5th ones are just lower quality overall with some interesting ideas sprinkled throughout.  Pretty glad that Bumblebee gave the movie franchise a much needed refresh and course correction with Bay not in the driver's seat.

Agreed. 

7 hours ago, Chadouken said:

I still haven't seen Bumblebee. It's worth watching? I liked the first Transformers, and watched them all up until the one with Wahlberg. After that I was done lol. The first three were fun though. 

It is . . . however It's like a reverse Rogue One with the nostalgia bomb. The first 5 minutes are GOD TIER! The remainder of the movie is good, but doesn't hold a candle to what's seen at the beginning. 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Chadouken said:

I still haven't seen Bumblebee. It's worth watching? I liked the first Transformers, and watched them all up until the one with Wahlberg. After that I was done lol. The first three were fun though. 

Bumblebee is really good.  If you love Bumblebee you are gonna get all of that you can handle with a heavy dose of human bonding and a sprinkling of other bots.  Rise of the Beasts puts more focus on the bots in general overall. 

 

 

I keep forgetting the forest sequence is in the 2nd movie and I have to agree its the best part of that movie...that and Optimus performing his face fatality on the Fallen.

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1 hour ago, misterBee said:

I actually didn't know it was him when I approved the account registration.

 

It looks like Sonero shot him already though.  🤷

his mistake was he came back picking up where he left off.

meaning he came back immediately with the fat gf jokes and such.

what he needed to do was slink in quietly. under the radar. ninja style.

its how i came back to srk with like, at least 7 bannings.

always slink back.

Ninja Spy GIF by Walk Off The Earth

always.

 

 

tho sometimes i would do crazy shit like use the red banned icon youd see after banning as my avatar and post up and peeps would say "how're you able to keep posting up while banned?!?"

i had people thinkin i was a warlock lmao.

then preppy would yell at me.

good times. good times.

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3 hours ago, VirginDefiler said:

hmmm.

 

 

This is old news, but Buckingham told ABC that due to Prince Andrew's involvement with Epstein, if they did a story on it, they'd lose access to the royals and they backed down.

 

Let that sink in for a moment.

 

One of the biggest news outlets in the US decided NOT to go to print with a story about one of the biggest sex trafficking rings ever just so they wouldn't lose access to a family that feeds the gossip rag parts of the company.

 

The FBI also had quite a bit of Intel on Epstein but declined to investigate for whatever reason. 😑

 

Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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9 hours ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

That is smoke that they DO NOT WANT!

Rage IS a GREAT band, but I don't think most of their audience cares about the political side of their music which kind of defeats his point a bit imo. Hell, they're Paul Ryan's favorite band, I think that says something that they aren't as dangerous as they think they are and their politics easy to ignore in the context of their music.

 

Imo a great protest song:

 

 

Lyrics for those who would rather read:

 

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Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing, both hands free
No one's paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget's stretched so thin
And there's more comin' home from the Mideast war
We can't make it here anymore

That big ol' building was the textile mill
It fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can't make it here anymore
 
See all those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They're just gonna set there till they rot

Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don't come down here 'less you're looking to score
We can't make it here anymore

The bar's still open but man it's slow
The tip jar's light and the register's low
The bartender don't have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day
Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO
See how far $5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one of your stores
Bet you can't make it here anymore

High school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromat
A woman with kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant what'll she do
Forget the career, forget about school
Can she live on faith? live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it's way too late to just say no
You can't make it here anymore
 
 
Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
'Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore
 
 
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in?
Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today?
No I hate the men who sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their shit don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in the damn little war
And we can't make it here anymore

Will work for food
Will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
Let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake
Let 'em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore
 
 
And that's how it is
That's what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you're listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why

In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That's done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There's rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can't make it here anymore

 

 

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1 hour ago, DoctaMario said:

Rage IS a GREAT band, but I don't think most of their audience cares about the political side of their music which kind of defeats his point a bit imo. Hell, they're Paul Ryan's favorite band, I think that says something that they aren't as dangerous as they think they are and their politics easy to ignore in the context of their music.

 

Imo a great protest song:

 

 

Lyrics for those who would rather read:

 

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Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing, both hands free
No one's paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget's stretched so thin
And there's more comin' home from the Mideast war
We can't make it here anymore

That big ol' building was the textile mill
It fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can't make it here anymore
 
See all those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They're just gonna set there till they rot

Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don't come down here 'less you're looking to score
We can't make it here anymore

The bar's still open but man it's slow
The tip jar's light and the register's low
The bartender don't have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day
Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO
See how far $5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one of your stores
Bet you can't make it here anymore

High school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromat
A woman with kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant what'll she do
Forget the career, forget about school
Can she live on faith? live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it's way too late to just say no
You can't make it here anymore
 
 
Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
'Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore
 
 
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in?
Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today?
No I hate the men who sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their shit don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in the damn little war
And we can't make it here anymore

Will work for food
Will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
Let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake
Let 'em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore
 
 
And that's how it is
That's what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you're listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why

In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That's done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There's rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can't make it here anymore

 

 

I don't think it defeats the purpose at all cause they are saying "we are tired or rock bands talking about politics" when Rage is really just one of many that will put political messages in their music obviously.  It's not even just tied to Rock either as your video proves but they're talking as if this is brand new for a pretty obvious reason.

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It's probably more likely that Paul Ryan and those like him consume music (And probably all media honestly) the same way they consume a fast food cheese burger, with little thought about the content of the product. 

 

It's just popular and catchy and sounds cool so they like it. That's not a criticism of the music, it's just a side effect of vapid people consuming with 0 thought beyond feels good. 

 

These are the same people who listen to Pumped Up Kicks and then are shocked to find out it's about school shootings. They never listened to the lyrics, processed them, understood them. It was just a catchy tune and everyone like it so they did to. Band wagoners honestly, Paul Ryan probably knows dick and squat about Rage, he was just like "Yea you can't tell me what to do!!!" And never thought any harder about it. 

 

He belongs to the party that plays Springstein songs at their rallies in complete adject misunderstanding. These dudes have Dee Snider telling them "We're not gonna take it" isn't about them lol, their abilities to process media are shockingly bad. 

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17 minutes ago, Lantis said:

I also thought Pumped Up Kicks sounded pretty catchy until I actually started listening to the lyrics and started to realize how fucked up they were. I actually pointed this out to my wife and she claims that now I perpetually ruined the song for her LOL

Why am I imagining you with this facial expression when you told her about the lyrics?

 

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