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I'm not going to keep repeating myself.

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This?

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I just think it's a throwaway explanation. Also the entire premise of the "Project Blue Beam" "'conspiracy theory" is that they're going to tie the UFOnauts to religion and use it to usurp the religious institutions of the world at the same time they hoax an alien invasion.

Nah, give me the damn truth. Don't tell me these things operating advanced aircraft are actually ethereal spiritual beings. It makes no sense. Demons aren't flesh and blood creatures.

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So again, you don't think it's a viable opinion?

You definitely know that these are "aircraft," and not just some sort of entity in the air. And second, you know demon biology as well, and how it might represent in the material world. Noted.

It's a solid album actually.

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Not gay shite from what I’ve seen

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Half Man (created by and starring Richard Gadd), the protagonist, Niall (played by Jamie Bell/Mitchell Robertson), is a gay man struggling intensely with his sexuality, internalized homophobia, and a toxic, codependent relationship with his half-brother Ruben.

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Never change VOR.


Not sure how you can watch that trailer and not see it being gay.

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Searching The Odyssey on AI isn't going to bring up anything about Achilles, because he's barely in The Odyssey. You're bloviating.

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Acktually...

Dude, ignore the specifics of this, that's not the point.

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And adapting The Iliad and depicting Achilles as all manner of different races and genders (to the extent that this dozens of times, which, come on) doesn't dilute the character, because what makes Achilles important is his freaking heel, and that he is a petulant bitch who spends most of the story actively refusing to fight. Everyone has heels, even trans people, and everyone is capable of being a petulant bitch who refuses to fight.

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Oh look, you missed the point. And I'm going to disagree that is only importance is his heel.

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This board is yelling about Achilles as though the Brad Pitt version in Troy is the "classic" version of that character. That version has almost nothing to do with the Achilles in The Iliad. Our modern ideal of heroism has nothing to do with and is not present in the Homer poems. Achilles is a character in an ancient myth that you have now romanticized based on a rumored casting in a movie; he does not carry inherent cultural value.

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Oh look you missed the point - again. And to be clear things like an "Achilles heel" and the "Achilles tendon," etc. all pre-date Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt has little to do with the character, the heel, how culture has viewed and use the Achilles myth.

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Also, there is no stretch whatsoever with gay.

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Except that modern "gay," and ancient forms of what you might call "gay," are like two different things. So yeah, there is a stretch. Ancient Greek soldiers weren't gay because they were "in love," or wanted to marry a man, or wanted to be women, or any of the stuff that we want to impose on it. It was a part of their process and culture. Now, we can argue about whether or not those reasons were valid, but culturally it had NOTHING to do with being in a monogamous relationship with another man. That wasn't the point.

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If your “Western culture” sensibility is threatened by Nolan’s casting in this movie, then it maybe wasn’t a very strong culture to begin with.

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Let's say after a few dozen more remakes of the Odyssey over the next few decades - comic books, books, movies, maybe a TV version, etc. - everybody decides, per usual, to cast Achilles as a girl, as "trans," (again trans do not exist, but whatever), as an Asian dude, as Gay, as a Black disabled trans gay man with ADHD, and on and on and on - and western culture loses the identity of who Achilles was. That the copious amounts of versions of Achilles just dilute him, his story, his innate value to culture, etc.


Does culture win or lose? Does Achilles still exist as as a cultural representation of anything at all? Or has he disappeared. If searching "The Odyssey" on AI brings up that Achilles is "a figure of myth who has has many faces depending on what story you are reading."

What's the end goal?

What is the value of any character if we disconnect them from SOME version of a centralized idea constantly. Over and over and over again?

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Is there any reason to use Plex over jellyfin except app on more devices?

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If you have a music collection, Plexamp, Plexamp and Plexamp.

You can save both on maybe 1 video streaming and on a music streaming platform and actually own your music.

Like I said, well worth the cost.

People flipping out - math?

Would you buy lifetime Netflix for $750? I probably would just because they don't want you to have that option.

I've already got my lifetime, but man - Plexamp is probably my most used streaming app of all time. Still a no brainer. But they need better onramps to that pricing.

It feels like a lot, but 4 years of any $14.99/Month streaming service and you are there.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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RIP South Park. You were good for a couple of decades, great for at least a decade.

But they've chosen to abandon true comedy, and have just turned into the thing they hate - a mouthpiece.

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Wrong

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In a very rational, philosophical sense, she has no control over how I view the world. She's a a she, and there's no changing that. She can call herself whatever she wants but since my particular view of the world relies on fact, reason and biological reality, she hasn't really proved that she has good reason to be called man.

Sorry bud.

This isn't hard.

Ronald D. Moore wasn't trying to check a quota or anything.

He had, at least, a full idea of what the character should be in his reboot. It did not ring false.