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Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by jonathankoren »

busterarm wrote: post #46
jonathankoren wrote: post #38

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Well, Harrison Ford is literally 80 years old. I think Indiana Jones is about 80 in the latest movie as well. Complaining that a *gasp* woman could beat up an octogenarian is more of a commentary about you than the inevitable march of time.

> Complaining that a gasp woman could beat up an octogenarian is more of a commentary about you than the inevitable march of time. I think it's more about how anyone _would_ beat up an octogenarian, rather than their ability to do so and it being a woman.

No. It's specifically the "Mary Sue" part that he's annoyed by. That term is never used online to refer to male character.

Of course, a dude that can not only be athletic, can read every inscription in every ancient language, is an expert in every ancient civilization, and use a bull whip as a grappling hook at will gets a pass.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by pavelstoev »

jvanderbot wrote: post #16
robertlagrant wrote: post #12

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Having watched them murder Star Wars, Willow, and now Indiana Jones, this seems relatively tame.

Andor is quite good. But still a bit too much Disney in some scenes.

I actually very much appreciate how adult it is.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

pavelstoev wrote: post #62
jvanderbot wrote: post #16

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Andor is quite good. But still a bit too much Disney in some scenes.

I actually very much appreciate how adult it is.

Mandelorian was good on Season1 too.

It seems shows have a chance of skating by, but if they are well reviewed they’ll get Disney Fingers all over them starting in their second season.

Andor was great. Give me one reason to think they won’t screw it up.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by [deleted] »

busterarm wrote: post #46
jonathankoren wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, Harrison Ford is literally 80 years old. I think Indiana Jones is about 80 in the latest movie as well. Complaining that a *gasp* woman could beat up an octogenarian is more of a commentary about you than the inevitable march of time.

> Complaining that a gasp woman could beat up an octogenarian is more of a commentary about you than the inevitable march of time. I think it's more about how anyone _would_ beat up an octogenarian, rather than their ability to do so and it being a woman.

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Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by hospitalJail »

busterarm wrote: post #41
pseudo0 wrote: post #36

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It's remarkable that they still exist as a functioning company. I would have thought that the lawsuits over the hack, the alleged fake accounts, and the general loss of customer trust would have been enough to push them into insolvency.

Advertising to horny people is hilariously effective.

Its one of the primal needs.

Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers.

When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products.

Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling.

As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do the same thing.

People desperate for social acceptance, which leads to girls, will pay anything. I get it, I used to spend half my time looking for girls before I got married. (other half of my time school, presumably so I could always get a gold digger if need be.)

Can you tell I was ugly growing up? (Lift weights my pals, it changed everything)

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by bakugo »

majormajor wrote: post #39
mrleinad wrote: post #33

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The Indiana Jones franchise exists because of the Indiana Jones character. People that go to one of those movies want to see him. If you setup a Mary Sue that treats him like an useless geriatric waste of a man, and finish the movie by having this Mary Sue knock him out, you're basically pissing in your own franchise. And since Harrison Ford won't be able to do another one, this is how the franchise ended, with a sou…

And yet the audience reaction to that has been largely positive - both in aggregate and in the theater I was in - it's the critics that have been more sour compared to how they reacted to Crystal Skull (while the audience disliked that one much more). If you wanna say "don't make a movie about an old version of that character," fine. But give it a fucking break with the idea that the filmmakers are attacking you by s…

> And yet the audience reaction to that has been largely positive

Because audiences with good taste aren't watching the movie at all, hence the box office bomb.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by sfink »

fardo wrote: post #31
andrepd wrote: post #19

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I wonder how releasing new films (good or bad) is supposed to "murder" an existing franchise.

Each new entry in a franchise is contagious against old entries in two ways 1. It typically carves out new canon about its universe, and 2. Closes old loose ends Canon when added haphazardly can: A. retroactively create in-universe plot-holes (if X existed in the universe, then Y happening in the originals made no sense, they would have known about it), B. remove magic and mystery from an existing universe (famously…

Well said.

I enjoyed watching the best show of all time. (Of course I did!) Up until Firefly got canceled, anyway, which was enormously frustrating. But at least I got to keep the sense of mystery and the potential of big reveals.

Then they made Serenity. Which I enjoyed, don't get me wrong. But I had to do some mental gymnastics to treat it as something other than a continuation. I had to think of it as its own thing, and then I could be okay with treating it as a good movie.

But it wrapped up several loose ends up a wholly unsatisfying way. If that was what the original series was leading up to, then I could no longer care when re-watching or just thinking about the series. It wasn't so much wrapping up loose ends as snipping them off. It was a 90° turn into a different story. So I treated it that way, and it was really nice when my kids were old enough that we could watch the series together and accept that it terminated abruptly at the last created episode.

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