Been watching old WWE PLE’s and all the time they put into the storylines, the promo packages, behind the scenes skits, and unique sets is all lost in the modern product.
The modern product feels like a soulless cash grab. It’s a shame, honestly.
The final goal of AI companies is to end personal computing which in simple terms means to remove all access to digital devices from genral public. You can already see how prices of laptops, phones and PCs are being artificially inflated so no one can afford them anymore.
This is the largest endeavour to move digital assets from people to the technocrats. They recognise the monetary value which internet affords to common people and want to take it away. After they've taken away all your phones & PCs they will sell you a rectangle box which would run on a cloud and would require a constant subscription, this is their long game.
@Callihan_@SI_WVU@EugeneNapoleon2 What happened to Vincent Smith? Maybe I missed his status. Preseason there was a lot of buzz, but he’s nowhere to be found with all of the screaming needs in the secondary.
for like 25 years, college football had a perfect system where the entire country spent 12 weeks watching to ses which two teams would end up 12-0 and play for a title while 20-30 other programs still could also find a way to feel good about their season
then decided to kill it
You people forget they made three Narnia movies that were pretty good adaptations. No one watched them. They cancelled the rest.
This movie looks cool. It looks fun. People will go see it.
So far the criticism I've seen just make you all sound insane and precious in the most annoying ways:
- The jungle should be a forest
- The magician is too hot
- The boy is too fat
- The girl is too cute
- Aslan is too cosmic
I'm open to giving this thing a chance. It has to have a vibe if people are going to care care about The Magician's Nephew, a story no one knows anything about.
It's fine to be critical and I wouldn't be shocked if this series abandons Christianity for some pagan occult slop. But It's also okay to make the story visually appealing enough to attract an audience who will then go and read the books.
Stop being weird!
“Mary Mama, the angel offered her a choice.”
So runs the third line of U2’s new single “Silencio.” The lyric frames the Annunciation as an offer. However, in Luke’s Gospel, the angel Gabriel does not ask Mary whether she will accept. He announces what will take place: she will conceive by the Holy Spirit and bear the Son of God. Mary’s first reply is not refusal but a question of how?—“How will this be, since I am a virgin?” After the explanation she answers, “I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:31–38 NIV)
Bono has used Mary as a model of devotion before. Of “Magnificent,” he said the song was inspired by the Magnificat. There he sings, “I didn’t have a choice but to lift you up.” “Silencio” reverses the wording. The angel now offers a choice.
The next line is “My son is listening if you got no voice.” The offer is not merely to bear the Son, but to believe that the Son still hears the silenced.
This is all getting so tiresome. I’ve read East of Eden twice; the whole point is to exercise your agency and decide NOT to be the evil Cathy Ames. The grace theme isn’t about embracing her. It’s about choosing to be AWAY from her and choosing virtue. She’s cruel, manipulative, and malicious. Steinbeck himself referred to her as a “psychic monster with a malformed soul.”
The story is about discerning good from evil and exercising your free will to break the generational sin cycle and choose differently. It radically changed my life. I’m free. I can choose. Timshel!
But instead we’re supposed to sympathize with the villain and fall in love with her, which simply dilutes the good/evil distinction and flattens the moral freedom and imperative to choose the good.
The book illustrates the Fall and its consequences. Newsflash: women are fallen too, and we can be cruel villains.
Rich Rodriguez deserves a major shout-out. An innovator of the spread offense who won almost everywhere except Michigan, came within a few plays of reaching a national championship at West Virginia, took Arizona to a New Year’s Six bowl, rebuilt his career at Jacksonville State, then returned home to West Virginia. Now, after beating Pitt in Year 1 and upsetting Virginia this weekend, the Mountaineers are 3–0. What a coaching journey for Rich Rod.