[quote=Dani8][quote=cat_sidhe]

Let's just say I no longer get ring sting, and frankly, I miss it. (aka BOTH)[/quote]

lol TMI for this time of the morning. I was on an extreme chili forum for a bit years ago. These chili fans were gearing up for a chili festival up north. One came up with the brilliant idea of iced yoghurt wipes and sold out the first day.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Whatcha think about frosties? I like the vanilla ones. I buy them and mix up my own candy stuff. You can actually buy crushed up Butterfinger and stuff.[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]yeah, they are supposed to have new machines this summer.  the micky d's near my work didn't have a working one all winter but it's been working since the weather got hot which is the only time i like eating mcflurries anyway[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=ash_is_the_gal]I was just sitting in the drive thru for McDonald's for agges and no one was responding. I was gonna just pull away but I was like no **** them and I called them on the phone and was like "did you guys close your drive thru or what??" and magically... the drive thru lady comes on the speaker asking what I want to order. slackers! give me my mother ****in McFlurry :D[/quote]
I'm amazed the machine worked. Around here there's been, like, a 90% chance whichever place you go doesn't have a working McFlurry machine. My wife and I joke about it and she sent me an article the other day about how it was a problem across the country and they were bringing in new machines.[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe][quote=The Rodent][quote=cat_sidhe][quote=ash_is_the_gal]what goes good with chili?  hashtag meal planning[/quote]

When you say chili do ypu mean the pepper or the dish? I'm an extreme chili pepper eater.[/quote]


Do you mean you eat extreme chilli peppers or you eat a lot of chillis?[/quote]

Let's just say I no longer get ring sting, and frankly, I miss it. (aka BOTH)[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]I was just sitting in the drive thru for McDonald's for agges and no one was responding. I was gonna just pull away but I was like no **** them and I called them on the phone and was like "did you guys close your drive thru or what??" and magically... the drive thru lady comes on the speaker asking what I want to order. slackers! give me my mother ****in McFlurry :D[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe][quote=The Rodent]I gotta throw this out right now...

I re-watched the remake of RoboCop yesterday, and I've twigged on something about the original that I never noticed before.

 It's a very, very subtle character device that puts the viewer into the mind of RoboCop himself that was totally overlooked in the remake.




In the remake, there are a number of problems with RoboCop himself.

He's a regular guy, in a robotic suit. He knows who he is, what has happened... and has to deal with it. RoboCop himself, always referred to as "Alex", being a regular guy in a suit is a bland character played blandly by Kinnaman.

The main thing though...

You meet Alex Murphy's family. You see their struggle against the corporate big-wigs and their lawyers.







In the original, RoboCop is completely mind-wiped and has to figure out what has happened and why, and he has an internal struggle piecing together what he has been turned into... and... most importantly... you never meet his wife and son.

All you see are flash memories of them. A quick memory here, a vague memory there... allowing RoboCop to piece together that he once had a life, he was once alive.

This disconnection between the viewer and Alex's family...

... puts the viewer bang on par of the mind-set of (what is left of) Alex Murphy.

In his own words, he even says "Murphy had a wife and son, what happened to them?".

He has accepted he is no longer Alex Murphy... but that he once was Alex Murphy and he has that loss to deal with.

He then says "I can feel them, but I can't remember them".

This, is the major overlooked point of RoboCop in the remake... the viewer not ever meeting his family, means the viewer [I]understands[/I] RoboCop's viewpoint... and is connected emotionally to his plight.[/quote]

Damn, son... Don't you know to post this in threads so people can rep it?[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=John McClane]@Yoda: Speaking of code, did you see [url=https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/]THIS[/url] yesterday? :D[/quote]
I did not. Ha.[/quote]

[quote=Joel]You have license, and besides, your point is clear on what the shoutbox is.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]@Yoda: Speaking of code, did you see [url=https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/]THIS[/url] yesterday? :D[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]That's what I tell people, at least. But maybe secretly I just don't want to write the code. Never discount laziness as the real reason for anything I say.[/quote]