ThuperThumpin

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No. My parents wanted to be parents, not my buddy.

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My father worked 6 days week with the family business and never took vacation so unfortunately he didnt have much time to be a parent. Same with his father. Going to the movies or the arcade for a few hours on Sat night or on Sunday was about all the time we got together. We would talk for hours after about the stories, characters and the scenes. I guess he felt I was mature enough to handle the violence. He is almost 85 and a doting grandfather. We still go to the movies together.

In another thread I mentioned growing up in the 80's and myself and pretty much everyone I knew went and saw R rated movies with our dads when we were like 8-13.Another poster said he didnt know anyone who's parents took them to see rated R movies. All the big summer action movies like Aliens, Predator , Robocop, Total Recall, Die Hard, Van Damme's greatest hits T2 were rated R and everyone in my class had gone to see them especially by middle school.. I can remember a birthday party in 7th grade where like 15 of us of went to theater and my buddy's dad bought half of us tickets for Misery and the other half went to see Predator 2. And we werent trailer trash..All middle class Catholic school kids. Was this yall's experience as well growing up in the 80's 90's too or was this something rare with our crew.

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eah, kids saw them but not likely at the actual movie theaters for most.

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Just an FYI, things were different in the 80's . I watched Aliens, Robocop. T2, Total Recall, Predator, Die Hard pretty much all the big R rated action movies in the theater starting with Aliens at 8 years old. We all did. The kids who's parents wouldnt let them watch rated R movies were actually the minority.

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It was idiotic.

Why not attack banking as well?

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They hit a back up generator unit at the power plant. Not the plant itself. It was a threat with a demonstration of capacity....though Im not sure if they can actually destroy a reactor building..... they have threatened banking too with threats to cut the underwater internet cables in the SOH.

the whole point of this conflict is we cant let these loonies get a nuclear weapon bc they will definitely use it on Israel or the west(or so we are told)...which would be idiotic. so yea ..attacking the gulf states is idiotic....they are idiots but as aI said they in the context of trying to keep their idiotic asses in charge and not be bombed anymore. threatening the destruction of our allies is the best move they can make right now,

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We don't know that. We, as in you and I and anyone on this board. The media doesn't know it either.

I don't discount the possibility for sure. But we don't know that it's true

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Well you can trust the leaked CIA report or not that says 70% of their arsenal is intact. It does jibe with pre war estimates of Iran's capabilities and what we know they have fired so far. Also Trump and others in the administration never miss an opportunity to say the sunk their navy and destroyed their air force, whcih was never the threat, but never say they have eliminated their drone and missile arsenal....which was always the main threat. Folks keep asking why arent we finishing the job and this is what makes sense to me.

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This war has proven that Iran absolutely had to be dealt with.

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Yea we sure are dealing with them alright.....

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ll look at those- I’ve been at a loss as how to dig in and enjoy it, this is a great list!

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Sorry OP for the de-rail....one more tip you can cast the headset to your smart TV which makes it bit more of family or group activity as others can watch. Fun for games like Beat Saber.

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. I wanted to play a cute bubble gun alien catching game.

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Try First Encounters. Literally a cute bubble gun alien catching game in mixed reality and a cool demo of the tech for newbies.

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Just watched this and it sucked. I didn't even feel like there was much revenge to it.

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Yea some folks dont connect with it but considering its got a 96% Fresh tomato score with critics and 80% with audience I'd say your opinion that it sucks is in the minority.

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Iran is so ridiculously overmatched that they have to entice kooky Americans to do what they can't do. Meanwhile, someone pushes a button from the safety of tens of thousands of feet away and their leaders are taken out within milliseconds.

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Its the guys buried 1600 feet under ground with fingers on the buttons of their ballistic missiles that is the problem. Or at least one of the bigger problems that we havent been able to solve.