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  1. It was sort of presented as a defense of Stephanie, but if you think about it, it's really not.
  2. So, a couple things you might already know but in case you don't I'll mention: Traveling long distance by train in the US pretty much anywhere not on the Acela (Boston to Washington DC) or New York to Chicago corridors is going to be very time consuming. Distances are long, and our train system is horrible compared to yours. Most Americans will drive or fly medium distances, and fly long distances. In and around cities and towns, Uber and Lyft (as well as traditional taxi services) are not hard to find. Public transport will vary wildly from ubiquitous and commonly-used to largely useless and best avoided. Ask a local about a given city's. As far as "Amazon Locker, but more generic", pretty much every US Post Office in the country rents Post Office Boxes. They aren't very big (largest are generally 12″ x 22 1/2″ x 14 3/4″) but post offices are EVERYWHERE. Pretty much any town in the country bigger than the Hardy compound is gonna have one. If you have larger size requirements, UPS and FedEx stores usually offer mail services as well, although you'll need to be in or near at least a small city for those. Daypasses won't be a thing at most gyms since they make their money by signing you up for annual memberships, 90% of which end up completely unused by the people who signed up for them. We have a fuckton of space. The US has 1/5th the overall population density of the UK. Once you get away from big cities, it won't be too hard, if you inquire around, to find outdoorsy areas you don't have to travel hours and hours to find. National parks are great, but states and municipalities will generally have smaller parks that are lovely places to hike, jog, or swim, often entirely free of charge as well. People you are expected to tip: Servers at sit-down restaurants, taxi/limo drivers, barbers/hairstylists, food deliverers, bartenders, hotel concierge special services (Handing you a brochure or answering a question doesn't merit a tip, getting you tickets to something does), hotel baggage hauling services, hotel housekeeping,
  3. "Ok, fine, we took the name off. You'll watch anyway. Happy now?" Steph is simultaneously really good at playing a heel caricature of a corporate shill who long ago sold her soul for money and power and really bad at actually BEING a corporate shill who sounds like she HASN'T long ago sold her soul for money and power.
  4. Ok Jesus people, settle down. WWE backing off, getting rid of the name and pretending they never did the dumb thing is a WIN. Like, if you want ACTUAL remorse, overthrow capitalism. Until then take the W.
  5. Stopped reading here. That's not a commentary on the rest of the post, I just thought that it couldn't get any better than this.
  6. Because he's put all his effort into throwing them quickly, it means he widens the range. Most wrestlers will make a show of lining their punches up, which sells it to the crowd and also lets them keep that range narrow. A normal wrestler's punch is gonna have a range of a few inches, from "very close but no contact" to "snug", which'll have some impact, but won't be a full shoot punch. When they miss outside that range, it'll either miss semi-noticeably or "Oops. Well shit, I got a receipt coming." Shane, because he tries to emulate Muhammad Ali with about 0.1% of the training and athletic ability, has a range of "basically inside your face" to this:
  7. A friend and I got into a debate about the bump Shane took, with my friend claiming it was reckless and unnecessary (which would be par for the course with Shane tbf) and me saying it wasn't nearly as dangerous as he was saying. I went all Cristobalumbo on him, taking pictures of paused moments to illustrate my case (he only fell a couple feet, and that crossbar thingy looked to have padding on it) but basically the debate ended when I showed this picture (spoilered for size) cuz now it just looks like Kevin was eating Shane's ass.
  8. I look forward to your impending "José out, Bruce Arena in" campaign.
  9. Everyone's a product of their environment. I don't think Benoit kills people if he didn't have a ridiculous amount of head trauma, but he did, so he is persona non grata on WWE TV, and rightly so. I mean if your point is that she gets a pass from people like Vince because he knows damn well that forcing wrestlers into indentured servitude was something promoters did and he doesn't really see anything wrong with it, ok.
  10. I don't so much see a disagreement between us about Peter as I do a cross-conversation. "Peter is a hero who brings people together for a common cause." "Peter is an immature manchild drowning in daddy issues who has no control over his own ego (*cough*) and can't relate to other people on an adult level." "He's better than Tony." None of these statements are wrong. It's the fact that Peter has had a growth arc more complex and realized in two movies than Tony has had in essentially six that's why I'm so high on GotG, especially the second.
  11. This is what happens when we don't have March Madness as an outlet.
  12. I think there's some conflation going on between the ethical choices made by these characters with regards to fighting bad guys and saving the world/galaxy/whatever and their emotional development as human beings (or sentient beings as the case may be.) You can be ethical, heroic even, and still be a total asshole to people around you. Howard Stark was a workaholic, emotionally distant father who wasn't able to figure out how to show his love to his son before he died. Tony knew his father valued Tony's intellectual gifts, but he never knew he was valued as a son. As an adult, Tony used his genius as a crutch, and because he WAS a world class genius, was able to get away with it well into adulthood. Throughout the films he is repeatedly confronted with his mistakes, and repeatedly he tries to invent his way around the problem, often making things worse in the process. At the end of Civil War he has to be forced to accept a decision T'Challa comes to on his own: to subsume his own guilt and pain for the greater good. Tony is a hero and is driven to make the world better and safer but he will continue to fuck things up because he isn't willing to grow himself. And at the end of the day he really doesn't have a vehicle for that growth. The Avengers aren't a family. Pepper would like him to grow but she doesn't seem able to make him do so while also running his company and keeping him relatively sane. I don't think his movies have portrayed this as effectively as Gunn portrays Peter Quill's struggles. Peter isn't the genius Tony is so things fall apart in ways he can't fix but he gets lucky and does find that family Tony doesn't. But he still needs to choose to grow and change. And only when he starts casting out his illusions, like that he's entitled to be a jerk cuz his mom died and he was stolen from his world, and he's entitled to a relationship he's not remotely mature enough to handle because he's occasionally less of a jerk to Gamora, and that yes, Yondu was a jerk but he was also the only father Peter will have ever had, that Peter can start to become the man he thinks he should be.
  13. It's great that they found a family but what kind of growth did any of them (aside from Drax) actually make in the first film? Peter finishes the movie the same immature dick he starts out as, Rocket makes next to no progress in relating to non-plant people, and Groot dies and is literally reborn. Gamora is also almost wholly unchanged. Drax, as the one character who seemed to have come out of a stable family, and thus with some degree of emotional maturity, (albeit it had been blown to hell by his family's murder), is the exception, as he is better equipped than the rest of them to recognize how he is failing and what he needs to do to change. They're all people coming out of fucked up situations and it's great that they found each other, but it's really not until the second film that they start really addressing the consequences of those fucked up situations and the impacts they had upon them.
  14. Now obviously being a teenager amongst a bunch of space pirates with a captain-slash-surrogate-father who never addressed let alone resolved his OWN parental issues is not the best place to gain emotional maturity but that's the point. Peter was an immature dick raised by an immature dick and it's only when he gets in with the Guardians that this is finally something he can start to work on but he's not good at it yet, at all.
  15. Srsly. I mean she said herself that emotional takeaways will by nature be individual, but theme and character development are kinda right out there to be examined, so I dunno how much subjectivity there can be to account for these different takes.
  16. He got his surrogate father to help him. Yondu was always on Peter's side. It was him that brought his Ravagers into the fight.
  17. ...what the fuck movie are y'all talking about? Who "regressed so they could show growth"? "Star Lord's leadership?" Peter is an arrested adolescent who didn't even start to deal with his mother's death until the end of the first film. It's not until the end of the second that he's got even an inkling of how broken he is and how much growing he needs to do.
  18. However progressive it might be technologically, you would expect an isolated nation, especially one with a relatively stable society/government to change slowly if at all culturally. Forms of government would change very little without some impetus to do so.
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