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ShrimperDan
| Favorite team: | Florida  |
| Location: | Fernandina |
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| Number of Posts: | 353 |
| Registered on: | 7/2/2026 |
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re: Blunt, Brolin, Del Toro are all back for 'Sicario 3'
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/5/26 at 3:48 pm to wildtigercat93
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He didn’t direct the original one, which honestly is probably why it’s such a classic. Denis gave it a huge visual style bump that I don’t think he can really bring to the table and according to the production into, he spent a lot of time cutting out the fat of the original Sicario script. The original script was a lot more tell than show and included a lot of voice over monologues
I feel like Sheridan's stuff gets worse the more leash you give him. And by 'leash' I don't necessarily mean creative control. He is incredible on the initial ideas for stories, characters, settings, etc but when it comes to expanding those with any depth the results are very mixed.
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re: Jurassic Park or Shawshank Redemption
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/5/26 at 3:39 pm to RoosterCogburn585
I would guess Jurassic Park by a healthy margin.
Maybe a hot take, Shawshank is an incredible movie but its a bit overrated. It certainly shouldn't be the top rated movie on IMDB.
Maybe a hot take, Shawshank is an incredible movie but its a bit overrated. It certainly shouldn't be the top rated movie on IMDB.
re: Gonna have to wait a little longer for Batman 2
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/5/26 at 2:16 pm to Burt Macklin
The Bats of Winter
re: The "downfall of EV's" appears to be propaganda and overhyped
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/2/26 at 9:26 am to Joshjrn
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He said for driving around town. If you never drive beyond the range of a single charge, ICE has functionally zero advantages over an EV and tons of drawbacks.
Yeah I think we are at the point with EVs where if you are in a 2 vehicle household it is financially inefficient for one of them not to be an EV that is used for your local trips.
re: Talarico now up to 62% odds in Polymarket
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/2/26 at 9:24 am to La Place Mike
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There has always been a lot of progressive types in Texas.
Texas has never been as conservative as people want to beleive and its not because of hispanics.
Don't read this as an argument for illegal immigration because I think it should be at 0 permanently, but if you're going to have a huge influx of people coming into your country we are lucky that the vast majority come from a population that is overwhelmingly Christian/Catholic and who value the institution of the family. If we had a bunch of Muslim countries to the south of us we would be completed fricked.
As far as Texas goes, Austin and other large cities have been getting an influx of people for years now and they aren't what you think of when we imagine a typical Texan. Would not surprise me at all if these polls turn out to be accurate and Talarico wins.
re: "Producer Jesse"
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/1/26 at 12:55 pm to GAT BoilerPickle Doc
You know you can just not listen to him, right?
re: China's embrace of electric trucks shifts oil market
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/1/26 at 11:57 am to Hobie101
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If true, 21$ instead of 101$ is too substantial to ignore. I know Tesla is starting to crank out electric big rigs
And the cost will likely go down.
They have added the equivalent of Germany's entire powergrid to their generation capabilities every year for several years now, and the share of renewables of total power generation continues to climb.
re: Kathleen Kennedy Admits to “A Bit of Relief” in Stepping Down from Lucasfilm
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/1/26 at 11:55 am to RLDSC FAN
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Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm saw its moments of fan outrage in certain corners (the response to The Acolyte was particularly vicious) and praise (Andor), with Kennedy the face of the brand during both its peaks and valleys.
Even though I have genuinely enjoyed some of the new SW content, I don't think the peaks were all that high personally, and certainly not worth the lows :lol:
re: The ATL Thread - 10/1 - October Night to Stay Alive
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/1/26 at 11:48 am to dhuck20
Hope he doesn't have a brother named Nick
re: Spinoff thread: legal abortion if death penalty was enforced within 24 hours of verdict?
Posted by ShrimperDan on 10/1/26 at 11:46 am to DustyDinkleman
I'm taking this as a "would you allow legal abortion if the death penalty were enforced within 24 hours" hypothetical.
No, abortion is a moral stain on our current era and should be eradicated. We should execute way more criminals than we do now, but its not a moral stain on society if they receive life in prison vs death.
No, abortion is a moral stain on our current era and should be eradicated. We should execute way more criminals than we do now, but its not a moral stain on society if they receive life in prison vs death.
re: Milton Friedman, neoliberalism & modern conservatives
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 3:03 pm to wackatimesthree
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That's it. Everything above that you are attempting to be patronizing about is something I said to you first.
I don't think I'm attempting, I'm pretty good at it when people don't know what they are talking about.
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We only differ in that Trump is (quite obviously) not a conservative, yet you insist that he is.
Another weird comment since my "in theory and marketing material" comment (which you didn't understand, shocker there) strongly implies that I don't think he is all that conservative, much less 'insist that he is".
re: Game Thread #5 at Missouri Tigers 10/3/26 @ 3:30pm ET
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 2:50 pm to Gatorbait2008
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Their defense vs Baugh..he may get 12 ypc and 250 yards.
I hope its a bunch of house calls. We really should tone his carry numbers down some, especially with Duke playing like he is.
re: You're welcome Florida
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 2:49 pm to Faurot fodder
I have to give flowers to Mizzou fans. I read a story where some of y'all recently visited some terminally ill kids at a children's hospital.
"I'll never forget the sad, defeated look in their eyes" said the kids of the Mizzou fans.
"I'll never forget the sad, defeated look in their eyes" said the kids of the Mizzou fans.
re: Milton Friedman, neoliberalism & modern conservatives
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 2:46 pm to 4cubbies
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Conservatives believe the government should protect the environment, but subsequently fight against every attempt by the government to protect the environment while refusing to offer any alternatives. Is that the claim?
Ron DeSantis has allocated about $9B toward Everglades restoration and water quality efforts. The state has tried to do a lot more in terms of things like aquifer recharge projects that voters didn't want.
Liberals see things like Trump reclassifying certain federal lands so they would be eligible for drilling but have no clue in terms of just how much land the BLM controls and how dogshit a lot of that land is. They portray conservatives as cartoonishly evil robber barons who are going to blow up Yosemite to mine for rare earths or something and that's just not the case.
America has more trees today than we had 100 years ago and most of the forested land in the US is controlled by conservative governance, often at the city, county, and state level.
The issue on the environmental rhetoric isn't that conservatives are lining up with bulldozers to clear off any beautiful spaces that remain in the country, its that liberals can't handle not getting their way and whining that environmental law isn't exactly the way they envision it because they aren't serious actors.
re: Milton Friedman, neoliberalism & modern conservatives
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 2:36 pm to wackatimesthree
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That's because you're fixated on speaking for people instead of speaking for conservatism itself.
Weird since my point was clearly and specifically that no one can speak for the group we were discussing :rotflmao:
The OP asked a question about why you don't hear about X from conservatives. I said its because its not like we have some spokesperson.
Hope that can get you caught up with what was actually going on here before you come back with another incoherent rant. What an extremely simplistic and outright ignorant view on conservatism.
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I guess you're kind of a moron, then. What does being president have to do with speaking for conservatives? Jimmy Carter was a "literal president." Joe Biden. Obama. Anybody who thinks any of those guys needs to be speaking for all conservatives because they were "literal presidents" is stupid.
:rotflmao:
None of those guys you laid out were conservatives. Trump, at least in theory and marketing material, is.
I guess I'll have to baby step you through any point I make since you seem to lack much, if any, cognitive function to deduce that being a president alone doesn't make you qualified to speak for conservatives, but being a conservative president in theory would be the spokesman for the ideology in terms of anyone with any actual power. And again, I said I don't think even a conservative president can do that.
re: Werwulf (2026) - First Trailer - In Theaters Christmas
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 12:51 pm to tWildcat
I've seen some clips of who I assume are film influencers who got to see like 20 minutes of the movie. They were saying it looks like it will be very scary and seemed pumped about it. They saw some kind of transformation but not like THE transformation scene, and said even the one they saw was intense.
re: God of War: Laufey Game Play Trailer
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 12:46 pm to MississippiLebowski
I want to like it because she seems like a really cool person with a passion for stuff like this, but unfortunately it just looks very bad.
re: WSJ Piece: Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political Labels
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 8:52 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Around election time, the WSJ likes to pretend that the Democrats aren't really that crazy. See? They want common sense policies, too. Wink, wink.
They do, but I also think its fair (and accurate) to point out how some issues really do back up the horseshoe theory and at the most base level of at least some issues we believe the same things are a problem, the variance on how to fix it and the root cause is where the difference lies.
re: Milton Friedman, neoliberalism & modern conservatives
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 8:05 am to wackatimesthree
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I think—like the vast, vast majority of populists—you think that anyone who is not a Democrat or who doesn't want Democrats elected is automatically a "conservative." That's the way it read to me, anyway.
Actually I think that "conservative" thought is so varied that the concept one person could speak for them is silly.
I also think its silly to suggest that if there were one person who could speak to them, that it wouldn't be the literal president :lol:
re: Deadline's review of "Digger" just oozes with fart-sniffing arrogance
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 7:08 am to Cosmo
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One Battle After Another
One of the most appropriate titles for a film in years, if not ever.
Getting through each additional minute of that "film" was precisely One Battle After Another.
re: Milton Friedman, neoliberalism & modern conservatives
Posted by ShrimperDan on 9/30/26 at 7:02 am to wackatimesthree
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Why?
Ideologically he's basically a Carter-era Southern Democrat.
Because as the president he is the leader of by far the largest conservative group in the country?
I also think you're missing that I also laid out later in the very same comment why he shouldn't be the voice.
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