Posts by Richard Wilson4

Jack Morgan2 said:What is actually going on with the CGI faces in this movie? They look way too artificial!

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This.
It looks incredibly bad, honestly like some PlayStation game from 2002.

The movie itself is fine—nothing mind-blowing, but it’s good.

People hardly ever talk about The Game, but man, it’s a total masterpiece.

hollowsailor19 said:I’m putting my vote on Gone Girl.

Honestly, it was one of those rare cinematic experiences that just hits different.
Everything clicked. The pacing, the acting, that massive plot twist, the female lead... everything.

Ben Affleck plays that wooden husband role perfectly, and Rosamund Pike is just terrifyingly good as Amazing Amy. Pure evil in human form.

Seven might be better technically, but it didn't hit me as hard the first time around.
The Game and Panic Room are solid too.

Craig and Mara were decent in the remake (though still nowhere near Noomi Rapace, let's be real).

Unfortunately, I already knew the twists in Fight Club before I even sat down to watch it.

You have to watch Seven at least once a decade.

It's easily one of the most defining films of its era.

Gone Girl is great, but it doesn't quite feel as revolutionary.

Carl Lee27 said:Now that the elections are finally behind us, I guess we can stop trying to defend the indefensible. The Dollar is just swallowing everything up, and the currency has officially tanked past that psychological breaking point of 20 to the dollar. It’s honestly wild to think that just about ten years ago, you didn't even need two bucks to get a whole dollar.
🤡 Erdogan is doing a spectacular job of turning this entire country into another Argentina.

In any democracy, people get exactly what they deserve.

Turkey isn't exactly a paradise, sure, but at least their president wins things with 52% of the vote instead of some dictators ruling with 97%...

David Jackson2 said:Actually, no—the Cumhur coalition led by the Republican Party sits at about 46%. Once you crunch the numbers for seat distribution, they actually hold the majority. Based on the last count, it's 321 out of 600 seats. The Republican Party alone holds 266, but they're running alongside the Conservative Party and two other smaller groups.

Man...

If I'm remembering right, Erdogan's party lost their majority in Congress?

Edward Cooper2 said:A coup. It’s pure Germanism, and you used "involved" instead of "implicated." Also, at the start, you should have said "wouldn't" instead of "wouldn't be"...

Are you actually adding anything to the conversation here, or are you just hanging out to nitpick grammar and punctuation?

Carol Newman2 said:Erdogan: Biden gave the order to take me down

If he stays in power, things are gonna get messy...

I’ve sat through this flick at least five times now.

Total masterpiece. 👍

Carl Lee27 said:So, I just heard that Ince decided to pull the plug on his run, though since the ballots for this Sunday are already printed and ready to go, his name is still going to show up there anyway. Even though he was only sitting at about 2% in the polls, you really have to look at the bigger picture here—this actually gives a bit of a much-needed boost to the unified opposition effort.

Time for some common sense here. 👍

Edward Cooper11 said:Pure drama. No mindless violence, no cheap stunts. Honestly, I almost forgot movies like this even existed.
I'm really digging how they handled Jordan, too.
The script, the acting, the directing... everything just hits the spot.

I’m definitely planning to watch it, but it feels more like a cozy night in at home than something you'd head to the theater for.

He should've just left.
A NATO ally, and we're on great terms now too—just a two-hour flight away.

amberjackal68 said:How could she not be? That whole Three Seas Initiative was clearly designed to serve Russian interests... just like that LNG terminal project. And she was pushing for it like her life depended on it. 😁 It’s almost funny how Joe Biden was the only one who actually stood his ground against it... 🙄

The Three Seas Initiative was actually standing up to the German-Russian Alliance.
The whole concept is about Poland stepping up as the main challenger to Germany, Russia, and obviously the USA.

Some people haven't forgotten how salty the Germans got when Ukraine didn't fall in three days...

So where on earth did you get the idea it was in Russia's interest?

Carol Newman2 said:Erdogan might just pull off another win because the opposition can't get their act together.

The former presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Muharrem İnce, has decided to run again, which honestly just ends up undermining the Democratic Party's own candidate, Kılıçdaroğlu.

The real issue is that the Kurds and the Kemalist wing just won't play nice together.

Jamie Grant said:We could just set the number of counties to zero if we wanted to. All we really need are the municipalities and cities.

Honestly, that's still better than having five big regions.

Timothy Stewart4 said:Look at Poland—a textbook unitary state. They have ten times the population of the United States of America, yet they only have 16 voivodeships, which is actually fewer than our own counties.

The United States of America has this absolutely insane system of local government units that honestly reminds me of the USSR—where every single tiny hamlet was its own autonomous district, province, or whatever you want to call it, all just to serve as a tool for the party to get its way.

Just consolidate all those cities and towns down to about 100 total then.

But having five republics in a country that only managed to pull its territory together back in 1998? Yeah, not gonna happen. Not in a million years.

Ronald Chavez2 said:It doesn't even have to be five massive regions; let's just call them five counties to avoid triggering those hysterics who see the ghost of the Soviet Union lurking in every corner and think they've found a magic solution.

If you ask me, we should probably start at the bottom—consolidating municipalities and cities, teaching them a lesson, and merging any that aren't self-sufficient into their neighbors.

We're talking about chunks of land about 4,000 square miles each.

That's not a region, that's an entire state.

No thanks. Not now, not ever.

vividraven79 said:which is exactly why having 50 states makes sense

Like, maybe 11 or 12 counties plus Washington, D.C.

Check out how many counties we had back in 1882.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_counties

Having five different regions in a small, uniform country like the United States just doesn't make sense. It never will.

A few people pushing for quasi-autonomy might still be chasing that nonsense, but for 99% of the population, it’s a total non-starter.

The Russophiles, the Mexico-lovers, the folks clinging to the old ways, and those weird little groups of pro-Russia nationalists—they all chose to walk away from the main forum once the aggression against Ukraine kicked off. Most of them have drifted over to the Alternative board where they can say whatever they want, usually just whining about the USA. That’s basically been their entire playbook anyway.
I don't see anyone getting banned or being told they can't post on the main board.
They left on their own.