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Jamie Stewart's avatar

Judge Cal.

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fuflans's avatar

speaking as an LOTR nerd child from the 70s, these movies were perfect.

also this, bernard hill.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Jimh's avatar

Fuck Peter Thiel.

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Jimh's avatar

Mine too! I actually work it into conversation as much as possible. It really throws people off.

Jay's line reading is especially good.What.. the fuck... ... ...is the internet?

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Jimh's avatar

That's just one of the tubes tho. There are others.

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Jimh's avatar

Sure Rudy is crazy! And loose with the truth! But he passes Trump's loyalty test, would never quit, and will take orders like a good dog. He may even be up to his ass in Russian moneys also. Adding him to the legal team brain trust is spelled desperation f-u-c-k-e-d.

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Jimh's avatar

Well, the good ones do. Don't trust the ones on craigslist. Lesson learned.

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ahughes798's avatar

I wish I could still find GE vacuum tubes for my old amplifier. They sound sooo much nicer than transistor amps.

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ahughes798's avatar

God?

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gedjcj's avatar

And if you don't want to commit to a novel, the short stories "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic" are pretty representative of the style and substance of Sprawl stories.

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Jamie Stewart's avatar

I'm relatively new here, but I did read the sign on the door when I came in, so I won't share my unvarnished opinion of Uncle Glenn and his Choir of Artisinal Bromides.

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Jamie Stewart's avatar

Everyone says that. Usually while at a coffee shop in Prague.

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Carpe Vagenda's avatar

He sent his flying monkeys after Rebecca. You're good.

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Jamie Stewart's avatar

They were narrowly defeated at an enormous cost leaving the survivors scarred and traumatised? Ultimately by people who resorted to unorthodox methods to strike at the root of the evil power?

The paralell to the current US landscape is pretty exact.

Nit sure who Denethor would be in this situation though.

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Jamie Stewart's avatar

Is it a rich white guy with predelictions to psuedoscientific lunacy and social malajustment issues?

If you answered yes, then you have the solution to this puzzle.

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Dominic Gwinn's avatar

follow the Ayn Rand link, watch the video, and somewhere within the 30 minute mark (IIRC) he discusses his fondness for the Nazi Germany policy of killing autistic people.

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